List of all Mayors and Lord Mayors of London (head of the City of London Corporation and first citizen of the City of London

City of London

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). Until 1354, the title

Title

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 was Mayor of London. The dates are those of Election to Office (Michaelmas Day 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. Since 2006, the formal title has been Lord Mayor of the City of London.

before 1300

	Elected	Name
	1189-1212	Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone was the first Mayor of London . He held office from 1189 until his death in 1212.-History:...  First Mayor of London (24 terms)
	1212-1214	Roger Fitzalan
	1215	Serlo le Mercer (1st term)
	1215	William Hardell
	1216	James Alderman
	1217	Salomon de Basing
	1218-1221	Serlo le Mercer (terms 2-5)
	1222-1226	Richard Renger (terms 1-5)
	1227-1230	Roger le Duke (4 terms)
	1231-1237	Andrew Buckerel (7 terms)
	1238	Richard Renger {6th term)
	1239	William Joynier
	1240	Gerard Bat
	1240	Reginald de Bungheye
	1241-1243	Ralph Ashwy (3 terms)
	1244-1245	Michael Tovy (terms 1-2)
	1246	John Gisors (1st term)
	1246	Peter Fitzalan
	1247-1248	Michael Tovy (terms 3-4)
	1249	Roger Fitzroger
	1250	John Norman

	Elected	Name
| 1251	Adam de Basing
| 1252	John Tulesan
| 1253	Nicholas Bat
| 1254-1257	Ralph Hardel  (4 terms)
	1258	William Fitzrichard (1st term)
	1258	John Gisors (2nd term)
	1259-1260	William Fitzrichard (terms 2-3)
	1261-1264	Thomas Fitzthomas  (4 terms)
	1265	Hugh Fitzotho (1st term)
	1265	John Walerand
	1265	John de La Linde
	1266	William Fitzrichard (4th term)
| 1267	Alan la Zuche
	1268	Thomas de Ippegrave
| 1268	Stephen de Eddeworth
| 1269	Hugh Fitzotho (2nd term)
| 1270	John Adrien
	1271-1272	Walter Hervey (2 terms)
| 1273	Henry le Walleis (1st term)
| 1274-1280	Gregory de Rokesley (terms 1-7)
| 1281-1283	Henry le Walleis (terms 2-4)
| 1284	Gregory de Rokesley (8th term)
	1285-1289	Ralph de Sandwich (terms 1-5)
| 1289	John le Breton  (1st term)
| 1289-1292	Ralph de Sandwich (terms 6-9)
	1293-1298	John le Breton (terms 2-7)
| 1298	Henry le Walleis (5th term)
	1299-1301	Elias Russell

14th century

	Elected	Name
	1301-1307	John le Blund
	1308	Nicholas de Farndone (1st term)
	1309	Thomas Romeyn
	1310	Richer de Refham
	1311-1312	John de Gisors (terms 1-2)
	1313	Nicholas de Farndone (2nd term)
	1314	John de Gisors (3rd term)
	1315	Stephen de Abyndon
	1316-1318	John de Wengrave (2 terms)
	1319	Hamo de Chigwell (1st term)
	1320	Nicholas de Farndone (3rd term)
	1321	Robert de Kendale
	1321-1322	Hamo de Chigwell (terms 2-3)
	1323	Nicholas de Farndone (4th term)
	1323-1325	Hamo de Chigwell (terms 4-6)
	1326	Richard de Betoyne
	1327	Hamo de Chigwell (7th term)
	1328	John de Grantham
	1329	Simon Swanlond

	Elected	Name
	1330-1331	John de Pulteney (terms 1-2)
	1332	John de Prestone
	1333	John de Pulteney (3rd term)
	1334-1335	Reginald de Conduit (2nd term)
	1336	John de Pulteney (4th term)
	1337-1338	Henry Darci (2 terms)
	1339-1340	Andrew Aubrey (terms 1-2)
	1341	John de Oxenford
	1342	Simon Frauncis (1st term)
	1343-1344	John Hamond (2 terms)
	1345	Richard le Lacer Richard le Lacer Richard le Lacer of Bromley, Kent, was an English mercer and Mayor of London.He was appointed Sheriff of the City of London in 1329 and elected Mayor of London in 1345.He was married to Juliana, daughter of Steven de Asshewy and Margaret de Apuldrefield...
	1346	Geoffrey de Wichingham
	1347	Thomas Leggy (1st term)
	1348	John Lovekyn John Lovekyn Sir John Lovekyn was a City of London fishmonger who was three times Lord Mayor of London.He served as Sheriff of the City of London in 1342 and first became Lord Mayor in 1348, and was elected to a second term in 1358. His third term was more unexpected. On 28 October 1365, Adam de Bury was...  (1st term)
	1349	Walter Turke
	1350	Richard de Kislingbury
	1351	Andrew Aubrey (3rd term)
	1352-1353	Adam Fraunceys (2 terms)

14th century

	Elected	Name
	1354	Thomas Leggy (2nd term); First Lord Mayor
	1355	Simon Frauncis (2nd term - 1st term as Lord Mayor)
	1356	Henry Picard Henry Picard (Lord Mayor of London) Sir Henry Picard was Lord Mayor of London in 1356-57.He was made Sheriff of the City of London in 1348 and elected Lord Mayor in 1356.In 1363 he organised the meeting of the king of England Edward III with the kings of Scotland, France, Denmark and Cyprus....
	1357	John de Stodeye
	1358	John Lovekyn (2nd term - 1st term as Lord Mayor)
	1359	Simon Dolseley
	1360	John Wroth
	1361	John Pecche
	1362	Stephen Cavendisshe
	1363	John Nott
	1364-1365	Adam de Bury (terms 1-2)
	1366	John Lovekyn (3rd term - 2nd term as Lord Mayor)
	1367	James Andreu
	1368	Simon de Mordone
	1369	John de Chichester
	1370-1371	John Bernes (2 terms)
	1372	John Pyel
	1373	Adam de Bury (3rd term)
	1374	William Walworth William Walworth Sir William Walworth , was twice Lord Mayor of London . He is best known for killing Wat Tyler.His family came from Durham...  (1st term)
	1375	John Warde
	1376	Adam Stable
	1377	Nicholas Brembre Nicholas Brembre Sir Nicholas Brembre was a wealthy magnate and a chief ally of King Richard II in 14th c-entury England. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1377, and again from 1383-5. Named a "worthie and puissant man of the city" by Richard Grafton he was a son of Sir John Brembre, and, becoming a citizen and...  (1st term)
	1378	John Philipot
	1379	John Hadle (1st term)
	1380	William Walworth (2nd term)

	Elected	Name
	1381-1382	John de Northampton (2 terms)
	1383-1385	Sir Nicholas Brembre (terms 2-4)
	1386-1387	Nicholas Exton (2 terms)
	1388	Sir Nicholas Twyford
	1389	William Venour
	1390	Adam Bamme
	1391	John Heende (1st term)
	1392	Sir Edward Dalyngrigge
	1392	Sir Baldwin Radyngton
	1392	William Staundon (1st term)
	1393	John Hadle (2nd term)
	1394	John Fresshe
	1395	William More
	1396	Adam Bamme Died in office
	1397	Richard Whittington Richard Whittington Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...  Appointed by Richard II
	1397	Richard Whittington Richard Whittington Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...  (2nd term; elected)
	1398	Drugo Barentyn (1st term)
	1399	Thomas Knollys Thomas Knollys Sir Thomas Knollys was Sheriff of London in 1395 and Lord Mayor of London in 1399 and 1410.-Biography:Lord-mayor Knollys was a member of the Grocers' Company. He directed in 1400 the rebuilding of the Guildhall, and he also rebuilt St. Antholin's Church in Watling Street, where he was buried with...  (1st term)
	1400	John Fraunceys

15th century

	Elected	Name
	1401	John Shadworth
	1402	John Walcote
	1403	William Askham William Askham -Career:Askham was an apprentice of the famous City of London fishmonger and Lord Mayor Sir William Walworth. He prospered in his trade and eventually followed in his master's footsteps as Sheriff of London in 1398 and Lord Mayor in 1403.-Coat of arms:...
	1404	John Heende (2nd term)
	1405	John Wodecok
	1406	Richard Whittington Richard Whittington Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...  (3rd term)
	1407	William Staundon (2nd term)
	1408	Drugo Barentyn (2nd term)
	1409	Richard Merlawe (1st term)
	1410	Thomas Knollys Thomas Knollys Sir Thomas Knollys was Sheriff of London in 1395 and Lord Mayor of London in 1399 and 1410.-Biography:Lord-mayor Knollys was a member of the Grocers' Company. He directed in 1400 the rebuilding of the Guildhall, and he also rebuilt St. Antholin's Church in Watling Street, where he was buried with...  (2nd term)
	1411	Robert Chichele (1st term)
	1412	William Walderne (1st term)
	1413	William Crowmere (1st term)
	1414	Thomas Fauconer
	1415	Nicholas Wotton (1st term)
	1416	Henry Barton Henry Barton Henry Barton was appointed Sheriff of London in 1406 and elected Lord Mayor of London in 1416....  (1st term)
	1417	Richard Merlawe (2nd term)
	1418	William Sevenoke
	1419	Richard Whittington Richard Whittington Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...  (4th term)
	1420	William Cauntbrigge
	1421	Robert Chichele (2nd term)
	1422	William Walderne (2nd term)
	1423	William Crowmere (2nd term)
	1424	John Michell (1st term)
	1425	John Coventre
	1426	John Reynwell John Reynwell -Career:Askham was a City of London fishmonger. He prospered in his trade, became a Sheriff of London in 1412, Lord Mayor of London in 1426 - 1427 and was knighted.-Coat of arms:Askham's arms were a chevron between three dolphins embowed...
	1427	John Gedney (1st term)
	1428	Henry Barton Henry Barton Henry Barton was appointed Sheriff of London in 1406 and elected Lord Mayor of London in 1416....  (2nd term)
	1429	William Estfeld (1st term)
	1430	Nicholas Wotton Nicholas Wotton Nicholas Wotton was an English diplomat-Life:He was a son of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, and a descendant of Nicholas Wotton, lord mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, and member of parliament for the city from 1406 to 1429.He early became vicar of Boughton Malherbe and of Sutton...  (2nd term)
	1431	John Welles
	1432	John Perneys
	1433	John Brokley
	1434	Robert Otele
	1435	Henry Frowyk (1st term)
	1436	John Michell (2nd term)
	1437	William Estfeld (2nd term)
	1438	Stephen Broun (1st term)
	1439	Robert Large Robert Large Robert Large was a London merchant and member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. He was served as one of the Mercers' four yearly wardens in 1427, was sheriff of London in 1430-1431. In 1437/8 he was the wealthy master to whom the young William Caxton was apprenticed. Robert Large also served...
	1440	John Paddesle
	1441	Robert Clopton
	1442	John Hatherle
	1443	Thomas Catworth
	1444	Henry Frowyk (2nd term)
	1445	Simon Eyre
	1446	John Olney
	1447	John Gedney (2nd term)
	1448	Stephen Broun (2nd term)
	1449	Thomas Chalton
	1450	Nicholas Wyfold

	Elected	Name
	1451	William Gregory
	1452	Geoffrey Feldynge
	1453	John Norman John Norman, Lord Mayor of London (1453) John Norman 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...
	1454	Stephen Forster
	1455	William Marowe
	1456	Thomas Canynges Thomas Canynges Thomas Canynges was Lord Mayor of London in 1456-7, having been elected Alderman for Aldgate ward in 1445, and was a Grocer.-Background:...
	1457	Geoffrey Boleyn Geoffrey Boleyn Sir Geoffrey Boleyn was a London merchant and Lord Mayor.-Life:Geoffrey Boleyn, the son of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Alice Bracton, was a wealthy London mercer. He served as a Sheriff of London in 1447, as alderman of the City of London in 1452, and Lord Mayor of London in 1457/8, and was knighted by...
	1458	Thomas Scott
	1459	William Hulyn
	1460	Richard Lee (1st term)
	1461	Hugh Wiche
	1462	Thomas Cooke
	1463	Matthew Philip
	1464	Ralph Josselyn (1st term)
	1465	Ralph Verney
	1466	John Young
	1467	Thomas Oulegrave
	1468	William Taillour William Taillour Sir William Taillour sometimes spelt Taylor or Taylour was a wealthy grocer and Alderman who became Lord Mayor of London in 1468 ....
	1469	Richard Lee Richard Lee Richard Lee may refer to:*Richard Lee , herald and Clarenceux King of Arms in the reign of Elizabeth I of England*Sir Richard Lee , British military engineer...  (2nd term)
	1470	John Stockton
	1471	William Edward
	1472	Sir William Hampton
	1473	John Tate
	1474	Robert Drope
	1475	Robert Bassett or Bessett
	1476	Sir Ralph Josselyn (2nd term)
	1477	Humphrey Hayford
	1478	Sir Richard Gardiner Richard Gardiner Sir Richard Gardiner, Knight, was, in 1478, Lord Mayor of London. He was Alderman of Walbrook Ward, and had been Sheriff of the City of London in 1469....
	1479	Sir Bartholomew James
	1480	John Browne
	1481	William Haryot
	1482	Sir Edmund Shaa Edmund Shaa Sir Edmund Shaa was a goldsmith, Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor of London in 1482. Shaa lent money to Edward IV and, as mayor , was extensively involved in the coronation of Edward IV’s brother Richard III...
	1483	Robert Billesden (or Billesdon)
	1484	Thomas Hill (died in office)
	1485	Sir William Stokker (died in office)
	1485	John Warde
	1485	Sir Hugh Bryce
	1486	Henry Colet (1st term)
	1487	William Horne Sir William Whorne Sir William Whorne was Lord Mayor of London in 1487. He is sometimes also reported as William Horne or William Littlebury.He erected a house, Whorne's Place, on the north bank of the River Medway at Cuxton, Kent, between Halling and Strood...  (né Littlebury)
	1488	Robert Tate
	1489	William White
	1490	John Mathewe (first bachelor Mayor)
	1491	Hugh Clopton Hugh Clopton Hugh Clopton was a Lord Mayor of the City of London.He was born at Clopton House, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.He was appointed a Sheriff of London in 1487 and elected Lord Mayor of London for 1491....
	1492	Sir William Martyn
	1493	Ralp Astry
	1494	Richard Chawry
	1495	Sir Henry Colet (2nd term)
	1496	John Tate  (1st term)
	1497	William Purchase
	1498	Sir John Percyvale
	1499	Nicholas Ailwyn
	1500	William Remyngton

16th century

	Elected	Name
	1501	Sir John Shaa
	1502	Bartholomew Rede
	1503	Sir William Capel William Capel William Capel was Lord Mayor of London and an MP.He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, served as Sheriff of the City of London for 1496 and was elected was elected Lord Mayor in 1503. He was elected a member of Parliament for the City of London from 1511 to 1515.His mansion stood...  (1st term)
	1504	John Wynger
	1505	Thomas Kneseworth
	1506	Sir Richard Haddon (1st term)
	1507	William Browne Died in office
	1508	Sir Lawrence Aylmer
	1508	Stephen Jenyns Stephen Jenyns Sir Stephen Jenyns was a wool merchant from Wolverhampton who became Lord Mayor of London.He was a Sheriff of London in 1499, before becoming Lord Mayor in 1509. He founded Wolverhampton Grammar School in 1512.-References:...  Wool merchant
	1509	Sir Thomas Bradbury Thomas Bradbury -Life:Bradbury was born in Yorkshire, and was educated for the congregational ministry Attercliffe Academy; Oliver Heywood gave him books. He preached his first sermon on 14 June 1696, and went to reside as assistant and domestic tutor with Thomas Whitaker, minister of the independent congregation,...
	1510	Sir William Capel (2nd term)
	1510	Henry Kebyll
	1511	Roger Achleley
	1512	William Copynger
	1513	Sir Richard Haddon (2nd term)
	1513	William Browne Died in office
	1514	Sir John Tate (2nd term)
	1514	George Monoux George Monoux Sir George Monoux , born in Walthamstow, Essex, England, was made Sheriff of London in 1509 and became the Lord Mayor of London in 1514.On 15 June 1527 Monoux purchased land for almshouses and a school in Walthamstow...
	1515	William Boteler
	1516	John Rest
	1517	Thomas Exmewe Thomas Exmewe Sir Thomas Exmewe was born in Ruthin, Denbighshire c. 1454 and was elected Sheriff of London in 1509 and Lord Mayor of London in 1517. He became the first Lord Mayor of London whose portrait is known to have been painted. The portrait is now in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery and has...
	1518	Thomas Mirfyn
	1519	James Yarford
	1520	John Brugge
	1521	John Milborne
	1522	John Mundy John Mundy (mayor) Sir John Mundy was a London goldsmith and Lord Mayor of London.He was born in Wycomb, son of William Munday He purchased the manor of Markeaton in 1516 as well as Mackworth and Allestree, which are all now parts of Derby from Lord Audley....  Later knighted
	1523	Thomas Baldry
	1524	William Bayley
	1525	John Aleyn (1st term)
	1526	Sir Thomas Semer
	1527	James Spencer
	1528	John Rudstone
	1529	Ralph Dodmer
	1530	Thomas Pargeter
	1531	Nicholas Lambarde
	1532	Stephen Pecocke
	1533	Christopher Ascue
	1534	Sir John Champneys
	1535	Sir John Aleyn (2nd term)
	1536	Ralph Warren Ralph Warren (Lord Mayor) Sir Ralph Warren was twice Lord Mayor of London, for the first time in 1536 and the second in 1543.Sir Ralph was son of Sir Thomas Warren of Fering, Essex and grandson of William Warren....  (1st term)
	1537	Sir Richard Gresham Richard Gresham Sir Richard Gresham was an English merchant, Lord Mayor of London, and member of parliament. He was the father of Sir Thomas Gresham.-Family:...
	1538	William Forman
	1539	Sir William Hollyes William Hollyes Sir William Holles rose from apprenticeship to a mercer to become master warden of his company and Lord Mayor of London.He was the son of Thomas Holles of Stoke, Coventry....
	1540	William Roche
	1541	Michael Dormer
	1542	John Cotes
	1543	William Bowyer
	1544	Sir Ralph Warren (2nd term)
	1544	William Laxton
	1545	Sir Martin Bowes Martin Bowes Sir Martin Bowes , was a sixteenth-century English politician.Bowes made a career at the Royal Mint, as a master-worker and under-treasurer, and personally contributed to the debasement of English currency. He was a Sheriff of London for 1540 and the Lord Mayor of London for 1545...
	1546	Henry Huberthorn
	1547	Sir John Gresham John Gresham Sir John Gresham was an English merchant, courtier and financier who worked for King Henry VIII of England, Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. He was Lord Mayor of London and founded Gresham's School.-Life:...
	1548	Henry Amcotts
	1549	Sir Rowland Hill Rowland Hill (MP) Sir Rowland Hill, of Soulton was the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. He was a merchant, statesman and philanthropist.-Early Life:...  First Protestant Lord Mayor
	1550	Sir Andrew Judde

	Elected	Name
	1551	Richard Dobbis
	1552	Sir George Barne II George Barne II Sir George Barne II was the Sheriff of London between 1545–1546, Lord Mayor of London in 1552, Alderman of the London wards Portsoken between 1542–1546 and Coleman Street between 1546–1558, a chief proponent of trade with Russia, and son of George Barne, a citizen of London and alderman...
	1553	Thomas Whyte
	1554	John Lyon
	1555	Sir William Garrard William Garrard Sir William Garrard was a merchant of London and a royal financier.-Early life:Garrard was born in 1518, the son of John Garrard, a grocer and descendant of Sir Simon Attegare; Attegare being origin of the surname Garrard. He grew up in the parish of St. Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge...
	1556	Thomas Offley
	1557	Thomas Curtes
	1558	Sir Thomas Leigh
	1559	Sir William Huett
	1560	Sir William Chester Stepson of John Milborne (1521)
	1561	William Harpur William Harpur Sir William Harpur was a merchant from Bedford who moved to London, amassed a large fortune, and became Lord Mayor of London. In 1566 he and his wife Dame Alice gave an endowment to support certain charities including education...
	1562	Thomas Lodge Thomas Lodge (Lord Mayor of London) Sir Thomas Lodge , was lord mayor of London.-Life:Lodge was the son of William Litleton, alias Lodge, of Cresset in Shropshire, born at Cound in Shropshire. He became a member of the Grocers' Company, serving the office of warden in 1548, and of master in 1559...
	1563	John Whyte
	1564	Richard Malorye
	1565	Richard Champyon
	1566	Christopher Draper
	1567	Roger Martyn
	1568	Thomas Rowe
	1569	Alexander Avenon
	1570	Rowland Heyward (1st term)
	1571	William Allen
	1572	Lionel Duckett Lionel Duckett Lionel Duckett was one of the Merchant adventurers of the City of London. He was four times Master of the Mercers' Company, and Lord Mayor of London ....  Mercer
	1573	Sir John Rivers John Rivers Sir John Rivers was born to Richard Rivers, steward of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham's lands. Alternate spelling includes John Ryvers....
	1574	James Hawes
	1575	Ambrose Nicholas
	1576	John Langley
	1577	Thomas Ramsay
	1578	Richard Pype
	1579	Nicholas Woodroffe
	1580	John Branche
	1581	James Harvye
	1582	Thomas Blanke
	1583	Edward Osborne Edward Osborne Sir Edward Osborne , was one of the principal merchants of London in the later sixteenth century, and Lord Mayor of London in 1583.-Early life:Osborne was the eldest son of Richard Osborne of Ashford, Kent, by his wife, Jane Broughton...
	1584	Thomas Pullyson Thomas Pullyson Thomas Pullyson was an English politician and Lord Mayor of London.He was Sheriff of London in 1574 and then Lord Mayor for 1584, during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was succeeded by Wolstan Dixie....
	1585	Wolstan Dixie Wolstan Dixie Sir Wolstan Dixie, , was a merchant and administrator, and Lord Mayor of London in 1585.-Life:He was the son of Thomas Dixie and Anne Jephson, who lived at Catworth in Huntingdonshire. Wolstan was the fourth son of his father, and went into business...
	1586	Sir George Barne III George Barne III Sir George Barne III was a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I, and the son of Sir George Barne II, and Alice Brooke.-Life:...
	1587	Sir George Bonde
	1588	Martin Calthorp
	1589	Richard Martin Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London) Sir Richard Martin was an English goldsmith and Master of the Mint who served as Sheriff and twice as Lord Mayor of the City of London during the reign of Elizabeth I.-Early career:...   (1st term)
	1589	John Harte
	1590	Sir John Allot Died in office
	1591	Sir Rowland Heyward (2nd term)
	1591	William Webbe
	1592	Sir William Rowe
	1593	Cuthbert Buckell
	1594	Sir Richard Martin (2nd term)
	1594	John Spencer
	1595	Stephen Slanye
	1596	Thomas Skinner Thomas Skinner (Lord Mayor of London, 1596) Thomas Skinner was a master of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers and a London Alderman. He was elected Sheriff in 1587 and Lord Mayor of London in 1596...  Died in office
	1596	Henry Billingsley Henry Billingsley Sir Henry Billingsley was Lord Mayor of London and the first translator of Euclid into English.-Early Life:He was a son of William Billingsley, haberdasher and assaymaster of London, and his wife, Elizabeth Harlowe. He entered St...
	1597	Richard Saltonstall
	1598	Stephen Soame Stephen Soame Sir Stephen Soame was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601. He was Lord Mayor of London....  Levant Company charter member
	1599	Nicholas Mosley Nicholas Mosley (mayor) Sir Nicholas Mosley , also spelt Mosly and Moseley, was a manufacturer of woollen cloth, lord of the manor of Manchester, and Lord Mayor of London....
	1600	William Ryder

17th century

	Elected	Name
	1601	Sir John Garrard Haberdasher
	1602	Robert Lee Robert Lee (Lord Mayor) Sir Robert Lee was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1602.Lee was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. On 18 December 1593, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Dowgate ward. He was Sheriff of London from 1594 to...
	1603	Sir Thomas Bennett Thomas Bennett (Lord Mayor) Sir Thomas Bennett was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1603.Bennett was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. On 7 February 1594, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Vintry ward. He was Sheriff of London in 1594 to 1595...
	1604	Sir Thomas Lowe Thomas Lowe (Lord Mayor) Sir Thomas Lowe was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 and 1622. He was an alderman of the City of London and became Lord Mayor of London in 1604....  Haberdasher
	1605	Sir Leonard Holliday Leonard Holliday Sir Leonard Holliday was a founder of the East India Company, and a Lord Mayor of London.-Life:...  Merchant Taylor
	1606	Sir John Watts John Watts (merchant) Sir John Watts was an English merchant and shipowner, active in the East India Company and Virginia Company and Lord Mayor of London in 1606.-Life:...
	1607	Sir Henry Rowe Henry Rowe (Lord Mayor) Sir Henry Rowe was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1607.Rowe was the son of Sir Thomas Rowe who was Lord Mayor from 1568 to 1569 and grandson of Sir John Gresham, Lord Mayor from 1547 to 1548....
	1608	Sir Humphrey Weld Humphrey Weld Humphrey Weld was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1608.Weld was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. On 9 May 1598, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Farringdon Within ward. He was Sheriff of London from 1599 to 1600....
	1609	Sir Thomas Cambell Thomas Cambell Sir Thomas Cambell was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1609.Cambell was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. He was auditor for the city from 1584 to 1586, from 1588 to 1590 and from 1596 to 1598. He was a member of the committee of...
	1610	Sir William Craven William Craven (Lord Mayor of London) Sir William Craven was an English merchant, Lord Mayor of London in 1610 . It has been suggested that the story of Dick Whittington is based on Craven's career, and he is sometime referred to as "Aptrick's Dick Whittington".-Life:He was the second son of William Craven and Beatrix, daughter of...
	1611	Sir James Pemberton James Pemberton Sir James Pemberton was an English goldsmith who was Lord Mayor of London in 1611.Pemberton was born in Wrightington, probably the son of a farmer of Heskin, Eccleston, Lancashire. He went to London in 1567 to take an apprenticeship with Francis Heaton...
	1612	Sir John Swynnerton John Swynnerton Sir John Swynnerton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1611. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1612....
	1613	Sir Thomas Myddelton Thomas Myddelton Sir Thomas Myddelton was the fourth son of Richard Myddelton, Governor of Denbigh, and Jane Dryhurst.As a youth, he was apprenticed to a grocer in London, and made his fortune in trade...
	1614	Sir Thomas Hayes Thomas Hayes (Lord Mayor) Sir Thomas Hayes was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1614.Hayes was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. On 22 December 1603 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Bishopsgate ward. He was knighted on 26 July 1603. He was...
	1615	Sir John Jolles John Jolles Sir John Jolles was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1615. John married Alice the daughter of Richard Wright of London on 1 December 1572 at All Hallows, Lombard Street, London....
	1616	John Leman John Leman Sir John Leman was a tradesman from Beccles, England who became Lord Mayor of London.-Career:Leman's business interests grew across the district of Waveney, which spans the Norfolk-Suffolk border. In the 1580s he moved to London and extended his business interests to trading in dairy products...
	1617	George Bolles George Bolles Sir George Bolles or Bolle was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1617.Bolles was from Gosberton in Lincolnshire. He became a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1602 to 1607,...
	1618	Sir Sebastion Harvey
	1619	Sir William Cockayne William Cockayne Sir William Cockayne , London, England, was a seventeenth-century London merchant, alderman, and, in 1619, Lord Mayor.-Life:...
	1620	Sir Francis Jones Francis Jones (Lord Mayor) Francis Jones was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1620.Jones was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. On 18 July 1610, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Aldgate ward. He was Sheriff of London for the period 1610...
	1621	Edward Barkham Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor) Sir Edward Barkham was and English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1621.Barkham was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. He was Master of the Leathersellers Company for 1605 to 1606, and for 1608 to 1609. On 28 February 1611, he was elected...
	1622	Peter Probie Peter Probie Sir Peter Probie was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at times between 1593 and 1598. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1622....
	1623	Martin Lumley Martin Lumley (Lord Mayor) Sir Martin Lumley was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1623.Lumley was a grandson of a Genoese who settled in England in the time of King Henry VIII. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. On 15 September 1614 he was elected an...
	1624	John Gore John Gore (Lord Mayor) Sir John Gore was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1624.Gore was a son of Gerard Gore, alderman of the City of London. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. He was elected Sheriff of London in 1614 but did not take office...
	1625	Allan Cotton Allan Cotton Sir Allan Cotton was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1625.Cotton was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. On 9 July 1616 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Dowgate ward. He was Sheriff of London and Master of the Drapers...
	1626	Cuthbert Hacket Cuthbert Hacket Sir Cuthbert Hacket was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1626.Hacket was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Dyers. On 26 September 1616 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Portsoken ward. He was Sheriff of London for the year...
	1627	Hugh Hamersley Hugh Hamersley Sir Hugh Hamersley was a 17th century merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1627.-Business interests:...
	1628	Sir Richard Deane Richard Deane (Lord Mayor) Sir Richard Deane was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1628.Deane was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. He was Sheriff of London from 1619 to 1620 and was Master of the Skinners Company in 1619. On 17 February 1620, he was elected an...
	1629	Sir James Cambell
	1630	Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1631. He was banker to King Charles I.Ducie was the eldest surviving son of Henry Ducie, merchant of London and his wife Mary Hardy. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of...
	1631	George Whitmore George Whitmore (Lord Mayor) Sir George Whitmore was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1631. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....
	1632	Nicholas Rainton Nicholas Rainton Sir Nicholas Rainton was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1632.Rainton was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. He was elected Sheriff of London in 1617 but did not serve immediately. On 22 June 1621 he was elected an alderman of...
	1633	Ralph Freeman Ralph Freeman (Lord Mayor) Ralph Freeman was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1633.Freeman was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers. He was on the committee of the East India Company from 1608 to 1611 and from 1612 to 1615...
	1634	Thomas Moulson Thomas Moulson Sir Thomas Moulson , an alderman and member of the Grocers' Company, was a Sheriff of London in 1624 and Lord Mayor of London in 1634....
	1634	Robert Parkhurst Robert Parkhurst (Lord Mayor) Sir Robert Parkhurst was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London.Parkhurst was the son of Henry Parkhurst and his wife Alice Hills. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers and became an Alderman of the City of London. In 1628, he acquired estates at Pyrford...
	1635	Christopher Clitherow Christopher Clitherow Sir Christopher Clitherow was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1635....
	1636	Edward Bromfield Edward Bromfield Sir Edward Bromfield was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1636.Bromfield was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. He was Master of the Leathersellers Company from 1625 to 1626. On 14 March 1626 he was elected an alderman of the...
	1637	Richard Venn Richard Venn Sir Richard Venn or Fenn was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1637.Venn was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1619 to 1626 and Master of the Haberdashers Company from...  (aka Fenn)
	1638	Sir Maurice Abbot Maurice Abbot Sir Maurice Abbot was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1626. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1638....
	1639	Henry Garraway Henry Garraway Sir Henry Garraway was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1639.Garaway was the son of Sir William Garaway, farmer of the customs. Garraway was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers...
	1640	Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet was an English merchant who was elected Lord Mayor of London but never took office.Acton was the son of Richard Acton of London. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. On 12 February 1628 he was elected an...  Elected but displaced by Parliament
	1640	Sir Edmund Wright Edmund Wright (Lord Mayor) Sir Edmund Wright was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London.Wright was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. On 23 June 1629 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Cordwainer ward. He was Sheriff of London in 1629 and 1630...
	1641	Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....
	1642	Isaac Penington
	1643	Sir John Wollaston John Wollaston (Lord Mayor) Sir John Wollaston was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1643.Wollaston was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He was deputy-governor of the Irish Society from 1633 to 1634 and from 1636 to 1637. He was Sheriff of London from 1638 to...
	1644	Thomas Atkins Thomas Atkins (Lord Mayor) Thomas Atkins was Lord Mayor of London and an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1647 to 1653 and was Lord Mayor of London in 1644. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War....
	1645	Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet was the Lord Mayor of the City of London and a Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1654–1655 and 1656-1658.-Early life:...
	1646	Sir John Gayre John Gayre John Gayre or Gayer was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1646.Gayre was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He was one of the Court Assistants from 1617 to 1618, from 1622 to 1623, and from 1624 to 1626...
	1647	John Warner John Warner (Lord Mayor) John Warner was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1647.Warner was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He was Sheriff of London from 1639 to 1640. On 12 March 1640, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Queenhithe ward. From...
	1648	Abraham Reynardson Abraham Reynardson Abraham Reynardson was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1649.Reynardson was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. He was a member of the committe of the East India Company from 1630 to 1631 and a Court Assistant from 1630 to 1632...  Deposed, April 1649
	1649	Thomas Andrewes Thomas Andrewes Sir Thomas Andrewes was a London financier who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil Wars, and sat as a commissioner at the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I. During the Third English Civil War, as Lord Mayor of London, he made sure that there was no trouble in...
	1649	Thomas Foot
	1650	Thomas Andrewes Thomas Andrewes Sir Thomas Andrewes was a London financier who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil Wars, and sat as a commissioner at the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I. During the Third English Civil War, as Lord Mayor of London, he made sure that there was no trouble in...

	Elected	Name
	1651	John Kendricke
	1652	John Fowke John Fowke John Fowke was an English merchant and politician. He served as a Sheriff of London for 1644 and Lord Mayor of London for 1652.He was the Member of Parliament for City of London 1661 - 1662.-Early life:...
	1653	Thomas Vyner
	1654	Christopher Pack
	1655	John Dethick
	1656	Robert Tichborne Robert Tichborne Sir Robert Tichborne , was an English soldier who fought in the English Civil War and a regicide of Charles I.Before the war he was a linen-draper by trade. In 1643 he was a captain in the London trained bands. He was lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1647. He was an extreme republican and...
	1657	Richard Chiverton
	1658	Sir John Ireton John Ireton John Ireton was Lord Mayor of London in 1658 and brother of General Henry Ireton.John Ireton was knighted by Oliver Cromwell, and purchased the estate of Radcliffe-on-Soar, in Nottinghamshire from Colonel Hutchinson...
	1659	Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet also spelt Aleyn or Alleyn, was an English politician and grocer.He was the son of William Aleyn and his wife Elizabeth Compton, daughter of William Compton. Allen was alderman of Cheap Ward from 1652 until 1660 and subsequently of Aldgate Ward until 1679...
	1660	Sir Richard Browne, Bt
	1661	Sir John Frederick John Frederick (Lord Mayor) Sir John Frederick was an English merchant, MP and Lord Mayor of London.Frederick was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons. On 22 September 1653, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Vintry ward...
	1662	Sir John Robinson, Bt Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1667. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1662....
	1663	Sir Anthony Bateman
	1664	Sir John Lawrence
	1665	Sir Thomas Bloodworth Thomas Bloodworth Sir Thomas Bloodworth was Lord Mayor of London from October 1665 to October 1666. His inaction during the early stages of the Great Fire of London was widely criticized as one of the causes for the great extent of the damage to the city.Prior to his time as mayor, Bloodworth was a wealthy...
	1666	Sir William Bolton
	1667	Sir William Peake William Peake William Peake , painter and printseller, was the son of the painter Robert Peake the Elder, and father of the printseller and royalist army officer, Sir Robert Peake....
	1668	Sir William Turner
	1669	Sir Samuel Starling
	1670	Sir Richard Ford Richard Ford Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.-Early...
	1671	Sir George Waterman
	1672	Sir Robert Hanson
	1673	Sir William Hooker
	1674	Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet
	1675	Sir Joseph Sheldon
	1676	Sir Thomas Davies
	1677	Sir Francis Chaplin Francis Chaplin Sir Francis Percy Drummond Chaplin served as administrator for the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia from 1914 to 1923. He succeeded William Milton....
	1678	Sir James Edwards
	1679	Sir Robert Clayton Robert Clayton Sir Robert Clayton was a British merchant banker, politician and Lord Mayor of London.Robert Clayton was born in Northamptonshire, England. He became an apprentice to his uncle, a London scrivener, where he met a fellow apprentice, Alderman John Morris...
	1680	Sir Patience Ward
	1681	Sir John Moore
	1682	Sir William Prichard
	1683	Sir Henry Tulse Henry Tulse (Lord Mayor) Sir Henry Tulse was an alderman of the City of London and was Lord Mayor of London in 1684.Tulse was elected alderman for Bread Street Ward in the City of London in 1673. He was knighted at the Guildhall on 18 October 1673. In 1674 he was Sheriff of London. He became Lord Mayor in 1684.Tulse...
	1684	Sir James Smyth
	1685	Sir Robert Geffrye Robert Geffrye Sir Robert Geffrye was an English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.He was born at Landrake, near Saltash, Cornwall and moved to London where he became an eminent East India merchant and was knighted in 1673...
	1686	Sir John Peake John Peake John Morris Peake was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the British field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played all five matches as forward.-External links:*...
	1687	Sir John Shorter
	1688	Sir John Eyles
	1688	Sir John Chapman
	1689-1690	Thomas Pilkington
	1691	Sir Thomas Stampe
	1692	Sir John Fleet
	1693	Sir William Ashurst William Ashurst William "Bill" Ashurst was an English football player who played for Lincoln City and Notts County, as well as the English national side. He later played for Newark Town and Bestwood Colliery.-External links:**...
	1694	Sir Thomas Lant Thomas Lant Thomas Lant was a draftsman and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Lant was born in Gloucester and was one of seven children of Thomas and Mary Lant. When Lant was twelve years old, he became a page to Richard Cheney, the Bishop of Gloucester. When Cheney died in 1579,...
	1695	Sir John Houblon John Houblon Sir John Houblon was the first Governor of the Bank of England from 1694 to 1697.-Biography:Sir John was the third son of James Houblon, a London merchant, and his wife, Mary Du Quesne, daughter of Jean Du Quesne, the younger...
	1696	Sir Edward Clarke
	1697	Sir Humphrey Edwin Humphrey Edwin -Early life:Edwin was born at Hereford, the only son of William Edwin, twice mayor of Hereford, by his wife, Anne, of the family of Mansfield. He came to London, and in or before 1670 married Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Sambrooke, a wealthy London merchant of the ward of Bassishaw, and sister...
	1698	Sir Francis Child Francis Child Francis Child may refer to:*Francis Child , Lord Mayor of London* Francis James Child...
	1699	Sir Richard Levett Richard Levett Sir Richard Levett , Sheriff, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, was one of the first directors of the Bank of England, an adventurer with the London East India Company and the proprietor of the trading firm Sir Richard Levett & Company. He had homes at Kew and in London's Cripplegate, close by...
	1700	Sir Thomas Abney Thomas Abney Sir Thomas Abney was Lord Mayor of London.Abney was born in Willesley, which at the time was in Derbyshire but is now in Leicestershire. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where a house is named after him....

18th century

	Elected	Name
	1701	Sir William Gore
	1702	Sir Samuel Dashwood
	1703	Sir John Parsons
	1704	Sir Chnen Buckingham
	1705	Sir Thomas Rawlinson
	1706	Sir Robert Bedingfeld
	1707	Sir William Withers William Withers Sir William Withers was Lord Mayor of London from 1707 to 1708.-Family background:He was born in 1657, a descendant of Sir Thomas Wyther. Sir William Withers' father was believed to be the first family member to spell the name Wyther as Withers.Withers married Margaret Hayes, daughter of Thomas...
	1708	Sir Charles Duncombe
	1709	Sir Samuel Garrard, 4th Baronet
	1710	Sir Gilbert Heathcote (Later Bt)
	1711	Sir Robert Beachcroft
	1712	Sir Richard Hoare Richard Hoare Sir Richard Hoare was the founder of C. Hoare & Co, one of the United Kingdom's oldest private banks.-Career:Having been raised near Smithfield Market in London, Richard Hoare began his working life apprenticed to a goldsmith. He was granted the Freedom of the Goldsmiths' Company on 5 July 1672....
	1713	Sir Samuel Stanier
	1714	Sir William Humfreys
	1715	Sir Charles Peers
	1716	Sir James Bateman
	1717	Sir William Lewen
	1718	Sir John Ward
	1719	Sir George Thorold, Bt
	1720	Sir John Fryer, Bt
	1721	Sir William Stewart
	1722	Sir Gerard Conyers
	1723	Sir Peter Delmé Peter Delmé Sir Peter Delmé was a notable English figure in commerce and banking in the early 18th century.Delmé was the third son of Pierre Delmé and Sibella Nightingale...
	1724	Sir George Merttins
	1725	Sir Francis Forbes
	1726	Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet of Gidea Hall, Essex was a British financier. Eyles was the eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Eyles, 1st Baronet. He was married to his cousin, Mary Haskin Styles. Together they had two children, a girl and a boy...
	1727	Sir Edward Becher
	1728	Sir Robert Baylis
	1729	Sir Robert Brocas
	1730	Humphrey Parsons  (1st term)
	1731	Francis Child
	1732	John Barber
	1733	Sir William Billers
	1734	Sir Edward Bellamy
	1735	Sir John Williams
	1736	Sir John Thompson
	1737	Sir John Barnard John Barnard (British politician) Sir John Barnard was a British Whig politician and Lord Mayor of London.He was a son of John Barnard of London, a Quaker merchant, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Robert Payne of Play Hatch in Sonning on the border of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.He was a Sheriff of London in 1736 and elected Lord...
	1738	Micajah Perry
	1739	Sir John Salter
	1740	Humphrey Parsons (2nd term); died in office
	1741	Daniel Lambert
	1741	Sir Robert Godschall
	1742	George Heathcote George Heathcote George Heathcote was an eighteenth century English politician and philanthropist who was a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.He was a nephew of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Governor of the Bank of England...
	1742	Robert Willimott
	1743	Robert Westley
	1744	Henry Marshall
	1745	Richard Hoare
	1746	William Benn
	1747	Sir Robert Ladbroke
	1748	Sir William Calvert
	1749	Sir Samuel Pennant Samuel Pennant Sir Samuel Pennant was a Lord Mayor of London.He was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1745 and then elected Lord Mayor of London for 1749 but died the following year in office, and was succeeded by John Blachford. There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal.Sir...  Died in office
	1750	John Blachford
	1750	Francis Cockayne

	Elected	Name
	1751	Thomas Winterbottom
	1752	Robert Alsop
	1752	Crisp Gascoyne
	1753	Edward Ironside
	1753	Thomas Rawlinson
	1754	Stephen T. Janssen
	1755	Slingsby Bethell
	1756	Marshe Dickinson
	1757	Sir Charles Asgill, Bt Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet , merchant banker, was the third son of Henry Asgill, silkman, of St Clement Danes, Middlesex and was educated at Westminster School....
	1758	Sir Richard Glyn, Bt Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet was a British banker and politician.Together with Joseph Vere and Thomas Hallifax he founded the bank of Vere, Glyn & Hallifax, which evolved into Williams & Glyn's Bank....
	1759	Sir Thomas Chitty
	1760	Sir Matthew Blakiston
	1761	Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bt Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet , of Lee Place in Kent, was an English merchant and banker who served as a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London....
	1762	William Beckford William Beckford (politician) William Beckford was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London . His vast wealth came largely from his plantations in Jamaica...  (1st term)
	1763	William Bridgen
	1764	Sir William Stephenson
	1765	George Nelson
	1766	Sir Robert Kite Robert Kite Robert Kite was knighted on October 16, 1760. Sir Robert was appointed Sheriff of London for 1761 and Lord Mayor of London for 1766.- References :* Shaw, William A. . London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906.* Graves, Lucia . cityoflondon.gov.uk...
	1767	Thomas Harley Thomas Harley The Honourable Thomas Harley was a British politician.Harley was a younger son of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. He became an alderman of London, Sheriff of London in 1764 and Lord Mayor of London in 1767...
	1768	Samuel Tumer
	1769	William Beckford (2nd term)
	1770	Barlow Trecothick
	1770	Brass Crosby Brass Crosby Brass Crosby was an English radical lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.-Life:Brass Crosby was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1725. He qualified in law and came to London to practise his chosen profession. In 1758 he was elected to the City Council and elected 'lay' Sheriff in 1764...
	1771	William Nash
	1772	James Townsend
	1773	Frederick Bull
	1774	John Wilkes John Wilkes John Wilkes was an English radical, journalist and politician.He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters—rather than the House of Commons—to determine their representatives...
	1775	John Sawbridge John Sawbridge John Sawbridge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780.Sawbridge was the eldest son of John Sawbridge of Olantigh and his wife Elizabeth Wanley, daughter of George Wanley....
	1776	Sir Thomas Hallifax
	1777	Sir James Esdaile James Esdaile (lord mayor) Sir James Esdaile was the Lord Mayor of London in 1777. His grandfather was Baron d'Esdaile who fled from France in an attempt to avoid persecution by Louis XIV.He was Sheriff of London in 1767....
	1778	Samuel Plumbe
	1779	Brackley Kennett Brackley Kennett Brackley Kennett was a British merchant who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1779-1780. During his time in office the Gordon Riots broke out and his response to the rioting proved controversial...
	1780	Sir Watkin Lewes Watkin Lewes Sir Watkin Lewes was a Welsh politician in England.Lewes was the second son of Reverend Watkin Lewes, Pen-Y-Benglog, Melinau, and Ann Williams, Treamlod , Pembrokeshire. He was educated in Shrewsbury School and in Magdalene College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1763...
	1781	William Plomer William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom...
	1782	Nathaniel Newnham
	1783	Robert Peckham
	1784	Richard Clark
	1785	Thomas Wright
	1786	Thomas Sainsbury
	1787	John Burnell
	1788	William Gill
	1789	William Pickett
	1790	John Boydell John Boydell John Boydell was an 18th-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated a British tradition in the art form...
	1791	John Hopkins
	1792	Sir James Sanderson
	1793	Paul le Mesurier
	1794	Thomas Skinner
	1795	Sir William Curtis, 1st Baronet
	1796	Sir Brook Watson Brook Watson Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet was a British merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London, perhaps most famous as the subject of Watson and the Shark , a painting by John Singleton Copley which depicted a shark attack on Watson as a boy, as a result of which he lost his right leg below the...
	1797	Sir John Anderson, Bt
	1798	Sir Richard Glyn, Bt Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet was a British banker and politician.Glyn was the son of Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Elizabeth...
	1799	Harvey Christian Combe Harvey Christian Combe Harvey Christian Combe was an English Whig politician.He was Lord Mayor of London in 1799.At the 1796 general election he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held the seat for 21 years, until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1817 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds...
	1800	Sir William Staines

19th century

	Elected	Name
	1801	Sir John Eamer
	1802	Charles Price Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet was a merchant in the City of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician.Price was the son of the Rev. Ralph Price, incumbent of Farnborough, Berkshire, and his wife Sarah Richardson. He was sent to the city of London, at a young age under the care of an uncle, who...
	1803	John Perring
	1804	Peter Perchard
	1805	James Shaw Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet , became Lord Mayor of London in 1805. 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...
	1806	Sir William Leighton
	1807	John Ansley
	1808	Charles Flower
	1809	Thomas Smith
	1810	Joshua Smith
	1811	Claudius Hunter Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, 1st Baronet Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, 1st Baronet , lawyer and Lord Mayor of London.-Biography:Hunter, who was born at Beech Hill, near Reading, 24 February 1775, was the youngest son of Henry Hunter of Beech Hill, Berkshire, a barrister, by Mary, third daughter of William Sloane, the great-nephew of Sir...
	1812	George Scholey
	1813	William Domville William Domville William Domville was a leading Irish politician and barrister of the Restoration era. Due to the great trust which the Crown had in his ability, he remained Attorney General for Ireland throughout the reign of Charles II, and it has been argued that it was in his term of office that the Attorney...
	1814	Samuel Birch
	1815–1816	Matthew Wood Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet was a British Whig politician.-Life:Matthew Wood was the son of William Wood, a serge maker from Exeter and Tiverton, and his wife Catherine Cluse . He was educated briefly at Blundell's School, before being obliged to help his ailing father...
	1817	Christopher Smith
	1818	John Atkins
	1819	George Bridges
	1820	John Thomas Thorp
	1821	Christopher Magnay
	1822	William Heygate
	1823	Robert Waithman Robert Waithman Robert Waithman , Lord Mayor of London, was born at Wrexham.After being employed for some time in a London linen draper's, he opened, about 1786, a draper's shop of his own, and made a considerable fortune. In 1818 he was returned to Parliament, as a liberal, for the City of London...
	1824	John Garratt
	1825	William Venables
	1826	Anthony Brown
	1827	Matthias Prime Lucas
	1828	William Thompson
	1829	John Crowder
	1830-1831	John Key Sir John Key, 1st Baronet Sir John Key, 1st Baronet was a Whig politician in England.He was elected Sheriff of the City of London in 1824 and Lord Mayor of London for two years, from 1830 to 1832....
	1832	Sir Peter Laurie Peter Laurie Sir Peter Laurie was a British politician who served as Lord Mayor of London.He was appointed Sheriff of the City of London for 1823 and elected Lord Mayor for 1832. From 1838 until his death, he was Chairman of the Union Bank. He also worked as a saddler, who supplied saddles for the Indian...
	1833	Charles Farebrother
	1834	Henry Winchester
	1835	William Taylor Copeland William Taylor Copeland William Taylor Copeland, MP, Alderman was a British businessman and politician who served as Lord Mayor of London and a Member of Parliament.- Family and business :...
	1836	Thomas Kelly
	1837	John Cowan John Cowan John Cowan is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival...
	1838	Samuel Wilson
	1839	Sir Chapman Marshall
	1840	Thomas Johnson
	1841	John Pirie John Pirie Sir John Pirie was an alderman, and Lord Mayor , of the city of London. He was the largest shipbroker in London.In the 1830s he started to uphold Wakefield's principles and became a founding director, and one of the largest financiers, of the South Australian Company.He was also a director of the...
	1842	John Humphery
	1843	William Magnay
	1844	Michael Gibbs
	1845	John Johnson
	1846	Sir George Carroll
	1847	John Kinnersley Hooper
	1848	Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet was a British Liberal Party politician. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1848–49, and sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1865....
	1849	Thomas Farncomb
	1850	John Musgrove

	Elected	Name
	1851	William Hunter
	1852	Thomas Challis
	1853	Thomas Sidney
	1854	Francis Moon
	1855	David Salomons David Salomons Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet was a leading figure in the 19th century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom...
	1856	Thomas Finnis
	1857	Sir Robert Carden
	1858	David Wire
	1859	John Carter
	1860-1861	William Cubitt
	1862	William Rose
	1863	William Lawrence William Lawrence (London MP) Sir William Lawrence was an English builder and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1865 and 1885....
	1864	Warren Stormes Hale Warren Stormes Hale Warren Stormes Hale was Lord Mayor of London and founder of the City of London School.Born on 2 February 1791 he was orphaned and became an apprentice candlemaker or chandler; he was later twice Master of the Tallow Chandlers' Company....
	1865	Benjamin Phillips
	1866	Thomas Gabriel
	1867	William Ferneley Allen
	1868	James Lawrence Sir James Lawrence, 1st Baronet Sir James Clarke Lawrence, 1st Baronet was Lord Mayor of London and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885....
	1869	Robert Besley
	1870	Thomas Dakin
	1871	Sills Gibbons
	1872	Sir Sydney Waterlow
	1873	Andrew Lusk Sir Andrew Lusk, 1st Baronet Sir Andrew Lusk, 1st Baronet was a Scottish born businessman and Liberal politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885.Lusk was the son of John Lusk of Barr, Ayrshire and his wife Margaret Earl...
	1874	David Stone David Henry Stone Alderman David Henry Stone born in 1812, died 26 February 1890. His family were the owners of a large amount of land near Lewes for at least three centuries. He was the nephew of Thomas Farncomb the Lord Mayor of London of 1849. Educated at St Olave's Grammar School, in Southwark...
	1875	William Cotton William James Richmond Cotton Sir William James Richmond Cotton was an English merchant and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885....
	1876	Sir Thomas White
	1877	Thomas Owden
	1878	Sir Charles Whetham
	1879	Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott
	1880	William McArthur William McArthur (1816-1887) Sir William McArthur was an Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of London, and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885....
	1881	John Ellis
	1882	Henry Knight
	1883	Robert Fowler Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP was an MP and Lord Mayor of London....  (1st term)
	1884	George Nottage	(died in office)
	1885	Robert Fowler Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP was an MP and Lord Mayor of London....  (2nd term)
	1885	John Staples
	1886	Sir Reginald Hanson Reginald Hanson Sir Reginald Hanson 1st Baronet, Kt, JP, DL, FSA was Lord Mayor of London and a British Conservative Party politician....
	1887	Polydore de Keyser Polydore de Keyser Sir Polydore de Keyser , was a lawyer and the first Roman Catholic since the Reformation to be elected Lord Mayor of London . He was born in the Belgian city of Dendermonde, near Ghent, Belgium....
	1888	James Whitehead Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet DL was a British merchant and Liberal Party politician.-Early life:Whitehead was born at Bramhall, near Sedbergh in Yorkshire. He was educated at the grammar school in Appleby-in-Westmorland, and was apprenticed as a draper in Kendal. He made his way to Bradford...
	1889	Sir Henry Isaacs
	1890	Sir Joseph Savory, 1st Baronet Sir Joseph Savory, 1st Baronet Sir Joseph Savory, 1st Baronet was a Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and MP.He was born in Clapton, London, the eldest son of Joseph Savory of Buckhurst Park, Berkshire and educated at Harrow School....
	1891	David Evans
	1892	Stuart Knill
	1893	George Tyler George Robert Tyler Sir George Robert Tyler, 1st Baronet was a Baronet and Lord Mayor of London.-Career:Tyler was a founder of the firm of Venables, Tyler and Son, papermakers of 17 Queenhithe....
	1894	Sir Joseph Renals
	1895	Sir Walter Wilkin
	1896	George Faudel-Phillips
	1897	Lt. Col. Horatio Davies Horatio Davies Lieutenant Colonel Sir Horatio David Davies KCMG was a London businessman, politician, magistrate and a driving force behind the establishment of Pimms as an international brandname.-Early life:...
	1898	Sir John Voce Moore John Voce Moore Sir John Voce Moore was an English businessman and Lord Mayor of London.He was born in Stockport in 1826, the son of James Moore.He founded a tea trading company at age 22 and retired as the senior partner of Moore Brothers Tea Merchants....
	1899	Alfred Newton
	1900	Frank Green

20th century

Elected	Name
1901	Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale Sir Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale, 1st Baronet, PC, KCVO, Bt was a distinguished public figure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.He was born on 19 January 1849 and educated at Eton....	Grocer Worshipful Company of Grocers The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London. It is ranked second in the order of precedence of the Companies and, having been established in 1345, is one of the original Great Twelve City Livery Companies....
1902	Sir Marcus Samuel Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted JP , known as Sir Marcus Samuel, 1st Baronet between 1903 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, a precursor to Royal Dutch Shell.-Career:Samuel was born into a Jewish family in...
1903	Sir James Ritchie
1904	John Pound
1905	Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan
1906	Sir William Treloar William P. Treloar Sir William Purdie Treloar, 1st Baronet , was a manufacturer and philanthropist and Lord Mayor of the City of London.-Career:...
1907	Sir John Bell
1908	Sir George Truscott
1909	Sir John Knill, Bt
1910	Sir Thomas V. Strong
1911	Sir Thomas B. Crosby
1912	Col. Sir David Burnett
1913	Sir Vansittart Bowater (later Bt)
1914	Colonel Sir Charles Johnston
1915	Col. Sir Charles Wakefield
1916	Sir William Dunn, Bt William Henry Dunn Sir William Henry Dunn, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician.Dunn was born in Clitheroe, in Lancashire. He was married to Ellen Pawle in 1885 and they had one son and a daughter....
1917	Charles Hanson
1918	Sir Horace Brooks Marshall Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall of Chipstead KCVO PC was an English publisher and newspaper distributor and Lord Mayor of London, 1918–1919.Marshall was born in Streatham, Surrey, a suburb of London...  (later Bt)
1919	Sir Edward Cooper
1920	James Roll
1921	Sir John Baddeley, Bt Sir John Baddeley, 1st Baronet Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Baronet JP was a British magistrate and baronet.-Background:He was the eldest son of John Baddeley and his wife Frances Beresford, fifth daughter of James Beresford...
1922	Edward C. Moore
1923	Colonel Sir Louis Newton
1924	Sir Alfred Bower
1925	Sir William Pryke
1926	Sir George R. Blades (later Bt)
1927	Sir Charles Batho
1928	Sir Kynaston Studd Kynaston Studd Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet OBE , known as "JEK", was a British cricketer, businessman and Lord Mayor of London.-Family:...
1929	Sir William Waterlow (later Bt)
1930	Sir William P. Neal
1931	Sir Maurice Jenks
1932	Sir Percy Greenaway
1933	Sir Charles Collett
1934	Sir Stephen Killik
1935	Sir Percy Vincent
1936	Sir George Broadbridge
1937	Sir Harry Twyford
1938	Major Sir Frank Bowater
1939	Sir William Coxen
1940	Sir George Wilkinson
1941	Lt. Col. Sir John Laurie
1942	Sir Samuel Joseph Sir Samuel Joseph, 1st Baronet Sir Samuel George Joseph, 1st Baronet was the 615th Lord Mayor of London.-Career:Samuel Joseph made a name for himself when in 1908, together with his cousin, Sydney Gluckstein, he acquired C. W. Bovis & Co., then a local builder, and expanded it into a major construction business...  (later Bt)
1943	Sir Frank Newson-Smith
1944	Sir Frank Alexander
1945	Sir Charles Davis
1946	Sir Bracewell Smith Bracewell Smith Sir Bracewell Smith, Bt was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.-Biography:Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, he attended Wesley Place Primary School in the town. He started as a pupil teacher and attended Leeds University before entering business...
1947	Sir Frederick Wells
1948	Sir George Aylwen
1949	Sir Frederick Rowland
1950	Denis Lowson (later Bt)	Grocer Worshipful Company of Grocers The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London. It is ranked second in the order of precedence of the Companies and, having been established in 1345, is one of the original Great Twelve City Livery Companies....

Elected	Name
1951	Sir Leslie Boyce
1952	Sir Rupert de la Bère, 1st Baronet
1953	Sir Noël Bowater, 2nd Baronet
1954	Harold W. S. Howard (later Bt)
1955	Cuthbert Ackroyd
1956	Sir Cullum Welch
1957	Sir Denis Truscott
1958	Sir Harold Gillett (later Bt)
1959	Sir Edmund Stockdale
1960	Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen Bernard Waley-Cohen Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet , was a British businessman. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1960. He was educated at Clifton College where he was a member of Polacks....	Clothworkers
1961	Sir Frederick Alfred Hoare
1962	Sir Ralph Perring
1963	Sir James Harman
1964	Sir James Miller
1965	Sir Lionel Denny
1966	Sir Robert Bellinger Robert Bellinger Sir Robert Ian Bellinger, GBE was a British politician and Lord Mayor of London.Born in Gloucestershire, he was raised in Fulham, London where he attended All Saints church school. Following his father's death he started work at the age of 14 as an office boy...	Broderer Worshipful Company of Broderers The Worshipful Company of Broderers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Broderers were workers in embroidery; the organization of Broderers existed in at least 1376, and was officially incorporated by a Royal Charter in 1561. As the craft of embroidery has lost its importance as a...
1967	Sir Gilbert Inglefield
1968	Sir Charles Trinder
1969	LtCol Sir Ian Bowater Ian Frank Bowater Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ian Frank Bowater, GBE, DSO, TD was Lord Mayor of London from 1969 to 1970, the youngest son of Sir Frank Bowater, 1st Baronet , and Ethel Anita Fryar.-Career:...
1970	Sir Peter Studd Peter Malden Studd Sir Peter Malden Studd GBE KCVO MA DSc DL - was an English cricketer and the 643rd Lord Mayor of London.-Biography:...
1971	Sir Edward Howard, 2nd Baronet
1972	Lord Mais Alan Mais, Baron Mais Alan Raymond Mais, Baron Mais, GBE, TD, ERD, JP was a British peer and former Lord Mayor of the City of London between 1972 and 1973....
1973	Sir Hugh Wontner Hugh Wontner Sir Hugh Walter Kingwell Wontner GBE, CVO, was an English hotelier and politician. He was managing director of the Savoy hotel group from 1941 to 1979 and its chairman from 1948 to 1984, continuing as president until his death. He was also chairman of the Savoy Theatre from 1948 until his death...
1974	Sir Murray Fox
1975	Sir Lindsay Ring
1976	Sir Robin Gillett Robin Gillett Sir Robin Danvers Penrose Gillett, 2nd Baronet, GBE, RD , was Lord Mayor of London 1976-77. He was also Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod 1985 – 30 November 2000.-Family and education:...
1977	Sir Peter Vanneck Peter Vanneck Air Commodore Sir Peter Beckford Rutgers Vanneck, GBE, CB, AFC, AE, DL was a British Royal Navy officer, jet pilot, engineer, stockbroker and politician...
1978	Sir Kenneth Cork Kenneth Cork Sir Kenneth Russell Cork GBE was a British accountant and insolvency expert, and the Lord Mayor of London from 1978-1979. He is best known for chairing a major review of UK insolvency law .He was a partner in Cork Gully, a well-known firm of insolvency...
1979	Sir Peter Gadsden Peter Gadsden Sir Peter Drury Haggerston Gadsden, GBE, AC, JP was a Canadian born British chartered engineer and globe-trotting trader. He was the 652nd Lord Mayor of London in 1979 and 1980.-Background:...
1980	Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe
1981	Sir Christopher Leaver
1982	Sir Anthony Jolliffe
1983	Dame Mary Donaldson Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington Dorothy Mary Warwick, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, GBE DStJ , better known as Dame Mary Donaldson, was the first, and to date the only, female Lord Mayor of London ....	Gardener Worshipful Company of Gardeners The Worshipful Company of Gardeners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. An organisation of Gardeners existed in the middle of the fourteenth century; it received a Royal Charter in 1605. The Company no longer exists as a regulatory authority for the sale of produce in London;...
1984	Sir Alan Traill	Cutler Worshipful Company of Cutlers The Worshipful Company of Cutlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The trade of knife making and repairing was organised in the thirteenth century; the organisation received a Royal Charter later in 1416...
1985	Sir Allan Davis
1986	Sir David Rowe-Ham
1987	Sir Greville Spratt	Ironmonger Worshipful Company of Ironmongers The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Ironmongers, who were originally known as the Ferroners, were incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1463...
1988	Sir Christopher Collett	Glover Worshipful Company of Glovers The Worshipful Company of Glovers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Glovers were originally classified as Cordwainers, but eventually separated to form their own organization in 1349. They received a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1639...
1989	Sir Hugh Bidwell	Grocer Worshipful Company of Grocers The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London. It is ranked second in the order of precedence of the Companies and, having been established in 1345, is one of the original Great Twelve City Livery Companies....
1990	Sir Alexander Michael Graham
1991	Sir Brian Jenkins	Merchant Taylor Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London.The Company, originally known as the Guild and Fraternity of St...
1992	Sir Francis McWilliams	Engineer Worshipful Company of Engineers The Worshipful Company of Engineers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was founded and became a Livery Company in 1983 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 2004...
1993	Sir Paul Newall	Baker Worshipful Company of Bakers The Worshipful Company of Bakers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Bakers' Guild is known to have existed in the twelfth century. From the Corporation of London, the Guild received the power to enforce regulations for baking, known as the Assize of Bread and Ale. The...
1994	Sir Christopher Walford	Playing Card Maker Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was incorporated by Royal Charter granted by Charles I with effect from 22 October 1628, and was granted Livery status on 27 November 1792 with a limit of a hundred members. On 21...
1995	Sir John Chalstrey	Barber Worshipful Company of Barbers The Worshipful Company of Barbers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation's records date as early as 1308, recording Richard le Barber as the first to hold the office of Master....
1996	Sir Roger William Cork
1997	Sir Richard Nichols	Salter Worshipful Company of Salters The Worshipful Company of Salters is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, 9th in order of precedence. The Company originated as the Guild of Corpus Christi, which was granted a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1559...
1998	Lord Levene of Portsoken Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken Peter Keith Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken KBE is chairman of NBNK Investments plc and was Lord Mayor of London 1998 to 1999.-Life:Lord Levene has enjoyed a long and varied career in business, government and banking...	Carman Worshipful Company of Carmen The Worshipful Company of Carmen is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Carmen, or drivers of carts, caused upset in 1481. The King conscripted carts to carry his wine allowing rural carters to force food prices up. By offering to provide the King's carriage and clean the streets the...
1999	Sir Clive Martin Clive Martin Sir Clive Martin, OBE, DL, TD, is a British businessman and a former Lord Mayor of London from 1999-2000.Martin was born in London and educated at Haileybury and the London College of Printing....	Stationer and Newspaper Maker Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Stationers' Company was founded in 1403; it received a Royal Charter in 1557...
2000	Sir David Howard, 3rd Baronet Howard Baronets There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Howard, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extinct while one is still extant....	Gardener Worshipful Company of Gardeners The Worshipful Company of Gardeners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. An organisation of Gardeners existed in the middle of the fourteenth century; it received a Royal Charter in 1605. The Company no longer exists as a regulatory authority for the sale of produce in London;...

21st century

	Elected	Name
	2001	Sir Michael Oliver Michael Oliver (Lord Mayor) Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver was an investment banker and Lord Mayor of London.Educated at Wellington College, he started his working life in Stockbrokers Kitcat & Aitken and became a member of the London Stock Exchange. He subsequently became both a partner of the firm and later Managing...	Ironmonger Worshipful Company of Ironmongers The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Ironmongers, who were originally known as the Ferroners, were incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1463...
	2002	Sir Gavyn Arthur	Wax Chandler Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation was established in 1358 by the granting of by-laws and ordinances by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. New ordinances were issued in 1371...
	2003	Sir Robert Finch Robert Finch (Lord Mayor) Sir Robert Finch is a British businessman, former lawyer, and former Lord Mayor of the City of London.Born in British India, Finch was educated at Felsted School and the College of Law. He joined Linklaters in 1969, progressed to partner in 1974, and head of real estate from 1997 to 1999...	Solicitor City of London Solicitors' Company The City of London Solicitors' Company is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1908; the City granted it Livery status in 1944. The Company received a Royal Charter in 1958. Prior to 1969, when the City of London Law Society was formed, the Company functioned...
	2004	Sir Michael Savory	Poulter Worshipful Company of Poulters The Worshipful Company of Poulters is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. In 1368, the organisation received the power to regulate the sale of poultry, swans, pigeons, rabbits and small game...
	2005	Sir David Brewer David William Brewer Sir David William Brewer CMG JP is the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London, appointed by Queen Elizabeth II in May 2008. He was Lord Mayor of London between 2005 and 2006.-Early life:...	Merchant Taylor Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London.The Company, originally known as the Guild and Fraternity of St...
	2006	Sir John Stuttard John Stuttard Sir John Boothman Stuttard is an English chartered accountant and was the Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2006/2007.-Early life:...	Glazier Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Guild of Glaziers, or makers of Glass, the Company's forerunner, existed as early as 1328. It received a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1638...
	2007	Sir David Lewis David Lewis (Lord Mayor) Sir David Thomas Rowell Lewis was the Lord Mayor of the City of London for 2007–08.Lewis was born in Hong Kong. He is the grandson of a sheep-farmer from Carmarthenshire, Wales and regards himself as Welsh. He was educated at the Dragon School and St Edward's School, Oxford before studying...	Solicitor City of London Solicitors' Company The City of London Solicitors' Company is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1908; the City granted it Livery status in 1944. The Company received a Royal Charter in 1958. Prior to 1969, when the City of London Law Society was formed, the Company functioned...
	2008	Ian Luder Ian Luder Ian David Luder CBE was the 681st Lord Mayor of the City of London, serving from 2008 to 2009.Luder attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree then studied economics and economic history at University College London before working as a tax accountant for Arthur Andersen and later Grant...	Cooper Worshipful Company of Coopers The Worshipful Company of Coopers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation of Coopers existed in 1422; it received a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1501...
	2009	Nick Anstee Nick Anstee Nicholas John Anstee was the 682nd Lord Mayor of the City of London, from 2009 to 2010. He continues as the Alderman of the Ward of Aldersgate and has served as a representative in the City since his election as a Common Councillor in 1987.-Early life:Alderman Anstee was born in Moreton-in-Marsh,...	Butcher Worshipful Company of Butchers The Worshipful Company of Butchers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England. Records indicate that an organization of Butchers existed as early as 975; the Butchers' Guild, the direct predecessor of the present Company, was granted the right to regulate the trade in 1331. The...
	2010	Michael Bear Michael Bear (Lord Mayor) Michael Bear was the 683rd Lord Mayor of London, whose one-year term began on 12 November 2010 and ended 11 November 2011. He is the Alderman of the ward of Portsoken and previously represented that Ward as Common Councilman and Deputy...	Pavior Worshipful Company of Paviors The Worshipful Company of Paviors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Paviors were formed at some point prior to 1276; they were responsible for the paving and maintenance of London's streets. It received a Royal Charter in 1672...
	2011	David Wootton David Wootton David Wootton is the 684th Lord Mayor of London, from 2011 to 2012. He is the Alderman of the Ward of Aldersgate.-Early life:...	Fletchers Worshipful Company of Fletchers The Worshipful Company of Fletchers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England. Originally, the Bowyers and Fletchers formed one organisation. However, in 1371, the Fletchers petitioned the Lord Mayor of the City of London to divide into their own Company...