The Mayor of Newham was a position first established in 1965 with the creation of the London Borough of Newham. It replaced the mayors of East Ham and West Ham. A directly elected mayor of Newham 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
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