The Mayor of Newham was a position first established in 1965 with the creation of the

London Borough of Newham The London Borough of Newham is a London borough created in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. It covers an area previously administered by the Essex county boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, authorities that were both abolished by the s ...

. It replaced the mayors of

East Ham East Ham is a district of the London Borough of Newham, England, 8 miles (12.8 km) east of Charing Cross. East Ham is identified in the London Plan as a Major Centre. The population is 76,186. It was originally part of the Becontree Hun ...

and

West Ham West Ham is an area in East London, located east of Charing Cross in the west of the modern London Borough of Newham. The area, which lies immediately to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally an ancien ...

. A

directly elected mayor of Newham The Mayor of Newham is a Directly elected mayors in the United Kingdom, directly elected mayor responsible for the executive function of Newham London Borough Council in east London, England. The position is different from the previously existin ...

was established in 2002 and the position was renamed as the civic ambassador. The office of Civic Ambassador was discontinued in 2009.

Mayor

*1965 Terence Charles McMillan *1966 Alice Emma Gannon *1967 Arthur Frank George Edwards *1968 Abraham Wolffe *1969 Leonard John Simons *1970 Michael Davidson *1971 Edward Sylvester Charles Kebbell *1972 James Christopher Carter *1973 Joseph Charles Taylor *1974 Harry Bauckham *1975 Louis Arthur Wood *1976 Herbert Albert Taylor *1977 Constance Louise Bock *1978 Harold Edward Fitzsimons *1979 Marjorie Edith Helps *1980 Edward Daly *1981 Stanley Hopwood *1982 Julia Caroline Isabelle Garfield *1983 Herbert Thomas Philpott *1984 Charles Albert Flemwell *1985 Thomas Nolan *1986 Sir Jack Clow *1987 Fredrick Ernest York *1988 James George Newstead *1989 Raymond Massey *1990 Sarah Louise Murray *1991 Amarjit Singh *1992 William Chapman *1993 Sarah Jean Reeves *1994 Maureen Knight *1995 William Henry Brown *1996 Shama Ahmed *1997 Victor Francis Turner *1998 Abdul Karim Sheikh *1999 Riaz Ahmed Mirza *2000 Bryan Collier *2001 Sukhdev Singh Marway

Civic Ambassador

*2002 Marie Collier *2003 Joy Laguda *2004 Patricia Holland *2005 Maureen Jones *2006 Pearson Shillingford *2007 Omana Gangadharan *2008 Akbar Chaudhary

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:List of mayors of Newham Politics of the London Borough of Newham

Newham The London Borough of Newham is a London borough created in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. It covers an area previously administered by the Essex county boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, authorities that were both abolished by the s ...