The earliest recorded Mayor of Oxford in England was Laurence Kepeharm (1205–1207?).
Since 1962 there has been a Lord Mayor of Oxford. Notable figures who have been Lord Mayor of Oxford include J. N. L. Baker (1964–65), Air-Vice-Marshal William Foster MacNeece Foster (1966–67) and Olive Gibbs (1974–75 and 1981–82).
The Lord Mayor for 2012–13 is Alan Armitage of the Liberal Democrat Party.
Famous quotes containing the word oxford:
“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)