The Mayor of Tower Hamlets was a position first established in 1965 with the creation of the
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London boroughs, London borough covering much of the traditional East End of London, East End. It was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, metropol ...
. It replaced the mayors of
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is an area in the East End of London northeast of Charing Cross. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the common land, Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heat ...
,
Poplar and
Stepney.
The post holder is elected at a
full council meeting in May of each year, and serves for one
municipal year
The municipal year is a period used by local government in the United Kingdom. The municipal year usually begins in May, following any local elections. It is not a fixed date so the number of days in any municipal year varies.
History
The munici ...
. From 1965, the mayor could be a
councillor
A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries.
Canada
Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...
or
alderman
An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many Jurisdiction, jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council membe ...
, until the position of alderman was abolished in 1978. It is customary for the mayor to have served as the deputy mayor in the preceding year.
In 2010, a
directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets
The mayor of Tower Hamlets is the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council in east London, England. The first election for this position occurred on 21 October 2010, taking on the executive function of the borough counci ...
was established. The
civic mayor position was renamed as the Chair of Council in October 2010 and Speaker of Council in November 2011.
Mayor
*1965 T. H. A. Mitchell
*1966 Ald J. Orwell
[Known as John Orwell (Bethnal Green)]
*1967 M. J. Durell
*1968 F. W. Briden
*1969 E. G. Walker
*1970 Ald J. Orwell
[Known as John Orwell (Stepney)]
*1971 W. Harris
*1972 Ald H. F. Rackley
*1973 G. T. Desmond
*1974 G. R. Chaney
*1975 B. Holmes
*1976 D. Kelly
*1977 J. Riley
*1978 A. S. Dorrell
*1979 E. Armsby
*1980 L. Crook
*1981 P. Thompson
*1982 J. C. O'Neill
*1983 E. D. Penner
*1984 R. W. Ashkettle
*1985 P. Beasley
*1986 B. Williams
*1987 B. Williams
*1988 B. C. Duffy
*1989 J. A. Shaw
*1990 J. Ludlow
*1991 B. A. Blandford
*1992 K. B. Appiah
*1993 J. Snooks
*1994 A. Downes
*1995 G. Mortuza
*1996 A. Jacob
*1997 J. Ramanoop
*1998 A. Asad
*1999 D. Jones
*2000 Soyful Alom
*2001 L. Melvin
*2002 S. Ullah
*2003 Abdul Aziz Sardar
*2004 Manir Uddin Ahmed
*2005 Doros Ullah
*2006 Shafiqul Haque
*2007 Ann Jackson
*2008 Mohammed Abdus Salique
*2009 Ahmed Omer
*2010 Motin Uz-Zaman
Chair of Council
*2010 Motin Uz-Zaman
*2011 Mizan Chaudhury
Speaker of Council
*2011 Mizan Chaudhury
*2012 Rajib Ahmed
*2013 Lesley Pavitt
*2014 Mohammed Mukit
*2015 Marc Francis
*2016 Khales Uddin Ahmed
*2017 Sabina Akhtar
*2018 Ayas Miah
*2019 Victoria Obaze
Notes
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:List of mayors of Tower Hamlets
Politics of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets