This is a List of Mayors of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich. The office was created in 1900 and abolished in 1965. * 1900-1901: Colonel Edwin Hughes MP, LCC * 1901-1902: John Jeffrey Messent [1] and [2] * 1902-1903: John Jeffrey Messent (second term) * 1903-1904: Reverend Lewis Jenkins Jones * 1904-1905: Reverend Lewis Jenkins Jones (second term) * 1905-1906: Gilbert Slater - later Principal of Ruskin College * 1906-1907: William James Squires * 1907-1908: William James Squires (second term) * 1908-1909: George Whale * 1909-1910: William James Francis * 1910-1911: Sidney Herbert Cuff * 1911-1912: Sidney Herbert Cuff (second term) * 1912-1913: Sidney Herbert Cuff (third term) * 1913-1914: Henry Smith Syer [3] * 1914-1915: Henry