List of all
mayors and lord mayors of London (leaders of the
City of London Corporation, and
first citizen
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s of the
City of London,
from medieval times). Until 1354, the
title held was Mayor of London. The dates are those of
election to
office (
Michaelmas Day
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on 29 September, excepting those years when it fell on the Sabbath) and office is not actually entered until the second week of November. Therefore, the years 'Elected' below do not represent the main calendar year of service.
In 2006 the title ''Lord Mayor of the City of London'' was devised, for the most part, to avoid confusion with the office of
Mayor of London. However, the
legal and commonly used title and
style remains Lord Mayor of London.
Mayors
before 1300
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14th century
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Lord mayors
14th century
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15th century
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16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
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20th century
21st century
See also
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Timeline of London
The following is a timeline of the History of London, history of London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.
Prehistory
* 120000 BCE – Elephants and hippopotami are roaming on the site of Trafalgar Square.
* 6000 BCE – Hunter-ga ...
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List of sheriffs of London
Notes
References
Lord Mayors of the City of London from 1189* John Noorthouck (1773
'Addenda: The Mayors and Sheriffs of London' ''A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark'', pp. 889–893.
* Caroline M. Barron (n.d.) 'London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People 1200–1500'
* CNL Brooke & G Keir (n.d.) 'London 800–1216:The Shaping of a City', p254
* James Clark Holt (n.d.) "Magna Carta", p56
'Chronicles of the mayors and sheriffs of London, A.D. 1188 to A.D. 1274' translated from the original Latin and Anglo-Norman of the "Liber de antiquis legibus", in the possession of the corporation of the city of London
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External links
A List of the MAYORS and SHERIFFS of London from the earliest Accounts.from
British History Online: Pages 889–893 of ''A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark''. Originally published by R Baldwin, London, 1773.
The Mayors and Sheriffs of London databasefrom
University of Toronto
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