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This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the City of Westminster.. The official car of the Lord Mayor of Westminster bearing the registration number WE1. After having elected a mayor since its creation as a Metropolitan Borough in 1900, the City of Westminster was awarded the dignity of a Lord Mayoralty by letters patent dated 11 March 1966.
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.
Porter stood down as Leader of the council in 1991, and served in the ceremonial position of Lord Mayor of Westminster in 1991–1992. She resigned from the council in 1993, and retired to live in Israel with her husband.
The Lord Mayor's water-procession on the Thames, circa 1683 In 1747, the Lord Mayor went to the City of Westminster on a barge via the River Thames. These were the original parade floats . Formerly, the route was varied each year so that the procession could pass through the Lord Mayor's home ward ; since 1952, however, the route has been fixed.
The big day is finally here. For the first British coronation to take place in 70 years, the royal family, politicians, global luminaries, and members of the public will gather at Westminster ...
The London Parade (formerly the London's New Year's Day Parade or LNYDP) is an annual parade through the streets of the West End of London on 1 January. The parade first took place in 1987, [1] as the Lord Mayor of Westminster's Big Parade. The parade was renamed in 1994 and 2025. [2] For the year 2000 only, it was called the Millennium Parade.
Thousands of people have gathered in the City of London to watch the Lord Mayor’s Show, a parade dating back more than 800 years. Alderman Nicholas Lyons marked his election as the 694th Lord ...
No years are given for the cities that had a lord mayor or lord provost before 1863. The six cities where the lord mayor or lord provost has the right to the style The Right Honourable are labelled in ALL CAPS: York, the City of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow (since 1912), Belfast (since 1923), and Cardiff (since 1956).