audio by title black history fact of the day 18

In 1906, John Richard Archer was elected as a Progressive councillor for the Latchmere ward.  In 1913 he was elected as the Mayor of Battersea and until recently he was thought to have been Britain's first Black mayor, but as we learned in fact 17, that distinction belongs to Dr. Allan Minns who became the mayor of Thetford in 1904. Archer went on to be elected alderman in 1925 and at the time of his death in 1935, he was serving as the deputy leader of Battersea council.