LONDON’S LORD MAYOR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20834, 28 September 1929, Page 13

LONDON’S LORD MAYOR

■ APPROACHING ELECTION. SIR W. WATERLOW’S CLAIMS. LONDON, September 17. By a show of hands the liverymen of the London Guilds will, on September 28, elect a Lord Mayor, in succession to Sir Kynaston Studd, the famous onetime cricketer. - Sir William Waterlow is regarded as a certainty for the position. He is the senior aldermanr and, since he retired from the firm of Waterlow and Sons, printers, in 1028, he has devoted himself to the administrative work of the relief fund for distress on the coalfields, of which lie is a trustee. To be eligible for election as Lord Mayor of London a man must be an alderman of the City and have served as sheriff. The only aldermen who at present fulfil these requirements arc Sir William Waterlow and Sir Stephen Killik. The other junior aldermen—lo in number—have not yet been sheriffs. Sir William Waterlow, who is next in rotation to serve as Lord Mayor, was born in 1871, and was until last year a managing director of Waterlow and Sons, Ltd., printers and manufacturers. He joined the corporation as a common councilman of Cornhill Ward in 1914, was promoted alderman in 1922 on the death of Sir Edward Cooper, and is at present serving as sheriff.