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Show LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. Th If aw Chief Maglitrate of England's Famous Capital. Mr. Joseph Savory, the new lord mayor of London, who was recently elected by the aldermen at their annual meet- ing in the Guild-ball, Guild-ball, is 47 years of age. Although of French extraction extrac-tion his family has long been connected con-nected with the commercial interests in-terests of the city of London. His. father was Mr. Joseph Savory, of another was Miss Caroline Braithwaite, a lady claiming kinship with an old Westmoreland and Cumberland family. Educated at Harrow, Mr. Savory, when he was a mere lad, entered the trainees of which he is now the head, ihe firm at that time being known as A, B. Savory & Sons. His active associa- ' tion with corrate. Me diates from the, year 1882, when in conjunction with gif Folydore De Keyser, the alderman of Farringdon Without, he held the office : of sheriff, the lord mayor with whom be was associated being Sir Henry Edmund Ed-mund Knight Mr. Savory is a Conservative Con-servative in politics and is a member of the Primrose league. |