Former City Lord Mayor is Southwarks Guildable Manor foreman

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Alderman Ian Luder, Lord Mayor of London in 2008-9, has been elected foreman of the Guildable Manor of Southwark.

He succeeds former BBC International Mastermind champion Leslie Grout.

The installation on Wednesday afternoon was immediately followed by a sitting of the Guildable Manor court leet at St George the Martyr Church in Borough High Street.

This was the first time that court of Guildable Manor, covering the Borough Market area, has been convened at the church.

But it was the last to be presided over by Southwark High Steward Brian Barker who retires next spring as Recorder of London.

The jurors presented the retiring High Steward with a copy of Southwark and the City by David Johnson.

Judge Nicholas Hilliard, who has been appointed the next Recorder of London, is expected to be confirmed as High Steward shortly before Easter.

Since 1804 it has been the convention for the Recorder to also take on the role of Southwark's High Steward at the invitation of the City of London's Aldermanic Court.

In 2003 Judge Hilliard, at present Common Serjeant of London, was prosecuting barrister in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? coughing major trial at Southwark Crown Court.

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Former City Lord Mayor is Southwarks Guildable Manor foreman