Waldemar Thor Neilson-Hansen

Waldemar 'Wally' Thor Neilson-Hansen (born December 1918 Hackney, died 17 March 2011 ) was an engineer and politician.

At the first Greater London Council elections in 1964 he stood as a Liberal Party candidate at for the three-seat Waltham Forest electoral division, finishing in a poor eleventh place.

By 1977 he had joined the Conservative Party and was elected to the Greater London Council to represent Leyton. He lost the seat at the next GLC election in 1981.

He returned to local politics at the 1982 London Borough Council elections. He became a councillor for Endlebury ward, in the Chingford  area of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, holding the seat at the next three elections before retiring in 1998.

He stood for parliament at the 1983 General Election at Leyton without success.