THE NEW LORD MAYOR
•Alderman Sir Vezey Strong has been a member of the City Corporation for more than 10 years. He is the representative of the Queenhithe ward, A lifelong abstainer and an ardent worker ia the temperance cause, Sir Vezey is a past master .of the Stationers' . and Plumbers' Companies, a representative of the city on the Metropolitan Water Board, chairman of the London Temperance Hospital, a director of the United King-dom Temperance and General Provident Institution, and an officer of the French Legion of Honour. He. was senior sheriff in 1904-5, when he was knighted. f Although a strong temperance man hiriiself, he will not exclude wine from the Guildhall banquets, believing, as he does, in extending- the same liberty to others ■hich he claims for himself.
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Grey River Argus, 24 November 1910, Page 1
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