Alderman, J.P. and Mayor of West Ham in November 1905.
London Wikia records: Businessman and local politician. Born Canning Town, he was made a partner in the business founded by his father, which became John Byford & Son. They were lime, cement and brick merchants of Poplar. 1898 elected to West Ham Borough Council, becoming an alderman in 1901 and served as Mayor of West Ham 1904-5. Knighted in 1925.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Byford, junior
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
Chairman of the Governing Council of Goodenough College, 2006.
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
Lord Mayor of London (1897), Army officer and businessman. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. Listed on the "opening" plaque as "Lieutt.Col." He was very successful running a n...
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