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Ian Nimmo-Smith is the new Mayor of Cambridge

by admin on 29 May, 2011

Ian with former Mayor Cllr Evelyn Knowles

At the City Council’s annual meeting on Thursday, Councillor Ian Nimmo-Smith was made Mayor of the Cambridge for the municipal year 2011-2012.

In his speech proposing Ian, Cllr Damien Tunnacliffe said, ‘Cllr Nimmo-Smith has served as a councillor for over 20 years, and during that time has gained the affection of many, many people from all walks of life. He is a person of great talents and interests, a mathematician, a statistician, school governor, knowledgeable about all things horticultural – a shared interest with Margaret, his wife – a conservator of the River Cam and much more.

‘One great interest is music. I had the pleasure of listening to the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra in which Ian plays, only this past Saturday. Not only does Ian play the viola, he is a violin maker, and for many years ran the Cambridgeshire Holiday Orchestra Association courses for young musicians.’

Ian holds the record for the longest serving Leader of Cambridge City Council. He was Leader for nearly 7 years, from 2003 to 2010. He has also played an important part in committees, especially the Planning Committee.

Ian’s installation as Mayor was witnessed by quite a number of members of his family, including all his children and grand-children, and no fewer than 17 former mayors of the City, including Evelyn Knowles. As an innovation this year (for Cambridge anyway), Ian Nimmo-Smith has started a blog-site for his mayoral year. He will be posting there about his activities as mayor as well as about his work as a local councillor – even the Mayor still gets casework!

The blog site is: http://mayor.cambridge.gov.uk/ Do take a look – Ian has already started posting to it.

The Cambridge News covers the story here.

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