Honorary Freemen
The status of Honorary Freeman is covered by the Local Government Act 1972, Section 249(5), where by a Borough or City Council may admit '...persons of distinction and persons who have in the opinion of the council, rendered eminent services to the Borough or City '.
The first Honorary Freemen was appointed in 1965. The names of all the Freemen are inscribed in the Council Chamber in the Town Hall, Hendon.
- Albert Noel Hansel Baines JP DL 1965
- Robert Menzies Franklin MA LLB 1965
- The Lord Latham of Hendon 1965
- Percy Lawrence 1965
- Alfred Abraham Naar MBE 1965
- Alfred Thomas Pike OBE JP 1965
- John Hotchin Rodway 1965
- Leonard Worden LLM 1965
- Reginald John Norman 1968
- John Gordon Bryson JP 1977
- Joseph Leopold Freedman JP MA LLB 1977
- William George Hart MBE 1977
- Karl Gadenne Pamplin OBE 1977
- Arthur Paul OBE JP 1977
- Cedric Hinton Fleetwood Reynolds JP 1977
- Leslie George Snelling 1977
- William Henry Tangye JP FRICS 1977
- Clara Thubrun OBE JP 1977
- The Rt Hon Mrs Margaret Thatcher OM FRS 1979
- The Corps of Royal Engineers 1982
- The Royal Air Force Hendon 1987
- Frank Dale Gibson OBE 1988
- The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 1993
- The Royal Logistics Corps – Postal & Courier Depot 1994
- Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks 2006
- Leslie Sussman MBE 2006
- John Dorrington Apthorp OBE 2008
