Past Civic Mayors and Freemen and freedoms granted by the Borough

Past Civic Mayors, past chairmen of the urban district council of Coulsdon and Purley and Freemen and freedoms granted by the Borough.

Freemen and Freedoms granted by the Borough

 

Freemen of the County Borough of Croydon
Sir Frederick Thomas EDRIDGE Ald, DI, JP 1897
Field Marshal the Rt. Hon. Earl ROBERTS of Kandahar, VC, KG, KP, OM 1901
Nathaniel PAGE, Ald, JP 1902
William Ford STANLEY, JP 1907
Frederick FOSS, Ald. JP 1907
Sir Reuben Vincent BARROW, Ald, JP 1909
Sir William Purdie TRELOAR, Bt. JP 1911
James TRUMBLE, Ald, JP 1912
Henry Keatley MOORE, Ald, JP, BA, MBus 1917
Dame Elizabeth Sara EDRIDGE 1920
Howard HOULDER, Ald, DL, JP 1920
Mary Mossman HOULDER, JP 1920
Martin TAYLOR, Ald. 1922
Edward George BATES 1926
The Rt. Hon. & Most Rev. Archbishop Lord DAVIDSON of Lambeth, GCVO, DD 1928
Albert James Camden FIELD, Ald, JP 1932
John Montague NEWNHAM, OBE, DL, JP, LLD 1937
William PEET, Ald, JP, FCA 1937
Major General Sir Ernest COWELL KBE, CB, JSO, TD, DL, MD, FRCS, KHS 1945
Marshal of the Royal Air Force, The Lord TEDDER, GCB 1946
Thomas William Wood ROBERTS, DL, JP 1950
Lt. Col. Charles Herbert GIBSON, DL 1954
Thomas Percy REES, OBE, MD, FRCP, DPM 1956
Alan John KIRBY. OBE, Hon RAM, Hon FTC 1958
The Rt. Hon. & Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis FISHER, GCVO, DD, Archbishop of Canterbury 1961
Alderman Sir James MARSHALL JP, DL 1962

  

Freemen of the London Borough of Croydon
Lt. Col. Basil MONK, MBE, JP, DL 1968
Frederick Walter HARRIS, CBE 1970
Albert John DUNN, OBE, JP 1976
Frank Thomas COLE, JP 1977
Digby Milward WEIGHTMAN, MA 1977
Alan BLAKEMORE, CBE 1982
Bernard WEATHERILL (Speaker of House of Commons) 1983
STANLEY E. LITTLECHILD, OBE 1990
Colonel D.J MCLELLAND, CBE, TD, DL 1993
The Rt. Hon. The Lord BOWNESS, CBE, DL 2002
The Rt. Rev. Wilfred Denniston WOOD, KA, D. UNIV, D.D, Bishop of Croydon 2002
Adrian DENNIS, MRTPI 2006
Derek LOUGHBOROUGH, AII, APMI, AIMgt 2006
David Keith WECHSLER 2007
The Rt. Hon. Malcolm Wicks M.P. (awarded posthumously) 2012
Ian Austen 2015
Colonel IWB McRobbie OBE TD DL 2015
Revd. Canon Colin J Luke Boswell 2016

 

Freedom of Entry to the London Borough of Croydon
41 (Princess Louise's Kensington) Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals (Volunteers) 1993
151 (Greater London) Support Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers) 1993
2 Company 10th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, (Volunteers) 1993
C Squadron (Kent & Sharpshooters Yeomanry), The Royal Yeomanry 1993
The Rifles (and Adoption of the 2nd Battalion The Rifles by the Borough) 2010

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