Florence Cayford
Dame Florence Evelyne Cayford was a Labour politician in London.
From 1937–65, Cayford served as a member of Hampstead Borough Council, leading the Labour group 1945–58. She sat an alderman on the London County Council, and later as a councillor Shoreditch and Finsbury. She served as chair of the council in 1960. She continued as a councillor on the newly formed London Borough of Camden from 1964, serving as Deputy Mayor 1967–68 and Mayor 1968–69, and represented Islington on the Greater London Council from 1964–67.
In the 1965 Birthday Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for "political and public services". In 1968 she saw foundation stone laid for what would become Webheath.
