Richard Neill Winfield was born on Jan. 20, 1933, in Chicago. His father, Richard Paul Winfield, was the food and beverage comptroller at the Pier Sixty-Six resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The office of mayor dates back to at least 1217 and it became lord mayor in 1389 under Richard II. Cllr Rowley, the deputy leader of the Conservative group on York Council, was first elected in ...