List of Mayors of Wanstead and Woodford

This is a list of people who held the office of Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Wanstead and Woodford. The office was created in 1937 when the Wanstead and Woodford Urban District was granted a charter of incorporation and was abolished in 1965 when the area was included in the larger London Borough of Redbridge.


 * Charter Mayor: Sir James Hawkey
 * 1937-38: Sir James Hawkey
 * 1938-39: Ernest Alger
 * 1939-40: William Wastell
 * 1940-41: Richard Fidler
 * 1941-42: Herbert Simpkins
 * 1942-43: Arthur Southam
 * 1943-44: Sir James Hawkey (third term)
 * 1944-45: Sir James Hawkey (fourth term)
 * 1945-46: Frederick George Booth
 * 1946-47: Frederick George Booth (second term)
 * 1947-48: Ralph Henry Fox
 * 1948-49: Ralph Henry Fox (second term)
 * 1949-50: Hubert Hann
 * 1950-51: Reginald William Dale
 * 1951-52: Vivian Ernest Steven
 * 1952-53: Albert Reginald Page
 * 1953-54: Donald Logan Forbes
 * 1954-55: Ethel Fanny Mahala Hollis
 * 1955-56: Reginald Edwards
 * 1956-57: Norman Earnest Britton
 * 1957-58: Charles Horace Moss
 * 1958-59: Roy Alan Dolton
 * 1959-60: Guy C E Dixon
 * 1960-61: Frank B Baverstock
 * 1961-62: Sylvia V F Ashton
 * 1962-63: William Robinson
 * 1963-64 (part): Edgar Gardner
 * 1963-64 (part): Winifred Julia Roberts
 * 1964-65: Dennis Kavanagh Lestrange