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This is a list of all mayors and lord mayors of London (leaders of the City of London Corporation, and first citizens of the City of London). Until 1354, the title held was mayor of London . The dates are those of being elected to office on 29 September , excepting those years when it fell on the Sabbath ; the office is not actually entered ...
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).
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, ... the City of London is among the 30 that have lord mayors (or, in Scotland, lords provost).
Lord Mayor Nicholas Lyons and Sheriff Alastair King with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh in 2023. Alderman Alastair John Naisbitt King MStJ DL (born 5 November 1968), is a British financier and asset manager, Chairman of Naisbitt King Asset Management Ltd, [1] who serves as the 696th Lord Mayor of the City of London for 2024/25.
James IV of Scotland, whose ambassadors Sir John Shaa entertained as Lord Mayor Catherine of Aragon, whom Sir John Shaa, as Lord Mayor, welcomed to London. Shaa was a London goldsmith. From 1462 until 1483, his uncle, Edmund, also a goldsmith, had been engraver to the Royal Mint.
1834 portrait of Shaw by Mary Martha Pearson. Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet (26 August 1764 – 22 October 1843), became Lord Mayor of London in 1805. [1] From humble beginnings in a farming family in Ayrshire, he became a successful merchant and politician; he was a relation of Robert Burns and used his wealth to support Burns's orphaned children.
In the United Kingdom, the internal divisions of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland each have a different system of local government. Please see below for the most appropriate article relating to mayors or their equivalent: Directly elected mayors in England and Wales; Mayors in England; Mayors in Northern Ireland; Mayors in Wales
John Norman (died 1468) was a 15th-century draper, sheriff, alderman and for a term the Lord Mayor of London. He is known as being the first lord mayor to take a boat to Westminster to pledge his allegiance. Up until that point lord mayors of London had ridden or walked to Westminster in the yearly pageant on Lord Mayor's Day.