lord mayor

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I spoke to Deptford’s lord mayor, Sir Barnubus Bliss, about what’s most important to him about folks experiencing the fair closest to L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Sood was the UK's first female Asian lord mayor.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

More than 20 years have passed since Alex Maskey became the first Sinn Féin lord mayor to pay his respects to the war dead at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

Mr Ó Donnghaile, a former Belfast lord mayor, was suspended by Sinn Féin over the issue but the party allowed him to resign on health grounds in 2023 without revealing the complaint against him.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024

William Beckford, the lord mayor of London, owed his fortune to his sugar plantations in Jamaica.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson