List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney

This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Sydney, a Local Government Area of New South Wales, Australia. The official title of Lord Mayors while holding office is: The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Mayors (1842–1853)

#	Mayor	Term
1	Charles Windeyer	1842
2	John Hosking	1842–1843
3	James Robert Wilshire	1843–1844
4	George Allen	1845
5	Henry McDermott	1846
6	Thomas Broughton	1847
7	Joshua Frey Josephson	1848
8	Edward Flood	1849
9	George Hill	1850
9	William Edward Thurlow	1851–1852
9	Daniel Egan	1853

Commissioners (1854–1856)

Commissioners	Term
Gilbert Elliot (Chief)	1854–1856
Frederick Orme Darval	1854–1856
John Rae	1854–1856

Mayors (1857–1902)

#	Mayor	Term
10	George Thornton	1857
11	John Williams	1858
12	George Smith	1859
13	James Murphy	1860
14	John Sutherland	1861
15	James Oatley	1862
16	Thomas Spence	1863
17	William Speer	1864
18	John Woods	1865
19	John Sutton	1866
20	Charles Moore	1867–1869
21	Walter Renny	1869–1870
22	Michael Chapman	1871–1872
23	James Merriman	1873
24	Stephen Styles Goold	1874
25	Benjamin Palmer	1875–1876
26	James Merriman	1877–1878
27	Charles James Roberts	1879
28	Robert Fowler	1880
29	John Harris	1881–1883
30	John Hardie	1884
31	Thomas Playfair	1885
32	John Young	1886
33	Alban Joseph Riley	1887
34	John Harris	1888–1889
35	Sydney Burdekin	1890–1891
36	Sir William Patrick Manning	1891–1894
37	Samuel Edward Lees	1895
38	Isaac Ellis Ives	1896–1897
38	Sir Matthew Harris	1898–1900
38	Sir James Graham	1901
38	Sir Thomas Hughes	1902

Lord Mayors (1902–1927)

The title of 'Lord Mayor' was conferred on the position of Mayor by King Edward VII on December 18, 1902.

#	Lord Mayor	Term
39	Sir Thomas Hughes	1902–1903
40	Samuel Edward Lees	1904
41	Allen Arthur Taylor	1905–1906
42	Sir Thomas Hughes	1907–1908
43	Allen Arthur Taylor	1909–1912
44	George Thomas Clarke	1912
45	Sir Arthur Cocks	1913
46	Richard Watkins Richards	1914–1915
47	Richard Meagher	1916–1917
48	James Joynton Smith	1918
49	John English	1919
50	Sir Richard Watkins Richards	1919–1920
51	William Patrick Fitzgerald	1920
52	William Lambert	1921
53	William Percy McElhone	1922
54	David Gilpin	1923–1924
55	Patrick Vincent Stokes	1925–1926
56	John Harold Mostyn	1927

Commissioners (1928–1930)

Commissioners	Term
E.P. Fleming	1928–1930
J. Garlick	1928–1930
H.E. Morton	1928–1930
Gordon Bennett	1928–1930

Lord Mayors (1930–1967)

#	Lord Mayor	Term
57	E.S. Marks	1930
58	Joseph Jackson	1931
59	Sir Samuel Walder	1932
60	R.C. Hagon	1933
61	Sir Alfred L. Parker	1934–1935
62	Arthur McElhone	1935
63	Archibald Howie	1936–1937
64	Sir Norman L. Nock	1938–1939
65	Stanley S. Crick	1940–1942
66	R.J. Bartley	1943–1944
67	W. Neville Harding	1945
68	R.J. Bartley	1946–1948
69	Ernest Charles O'Dea	1949–1952
70	Pat Hills	1953–1956
71	Harry Jensen	1957–1965
72	John Armstrong	1966–1967

Commissioners (1967–1969)

Commissioners	Term
Vernon Treatt (Chief)	1967–1969
John Shaw (Deputy Chief)	1967–1969
William Pettingell	1967–1969

Lord Mayors (1969–1987)

#	Lord Mayor		Party	Term
73		Sir Laurence Emmet McDermott	Civic Reform	1969—1972
74		David Griffin	Civic Reform	1972—1973
75		Sir Nicholas Shehadie	Civic Reform	1973—1975
76		Leo Port	Civic Reform	1975–1978
77		Nelson Meers	Civic Reform	1978–1980
78		Doug Sutherland	Civic Reform	1980–1987

Administrator (1987)

Administrator	Term
Sir Eric Neal	1987

Commissioners (1987–1988)

Commissioners	Term
Sir Eric Neal (Chief)	1987–1988
Sir Nicholas Shehadie (Deputy Chief)	1987–1988
Norman Oakes	1987–1988

Lord Mayors (1989–2004)

#	Mayor		Party	Term
79		Jeremey Bingham	Independent	1989—1991
80		Frank Sartor	Independent	1991—2003
81		Lucy Turnbull	Liberal	2003—2004

Commissioners (2004)

#	Commissioner		Party	Term
N/A		Tony Pooley	Labor	2004—2004
N/A		Garry Payne	Independent	2004—2004
N/A		Lucy Turnbull	Liberal	2004—2004

Lord Mayors (2004–present)

#	Mayor		Party	Term
82		Clover Moore	Independent	2004—present

External links

• List of Mayors at RULERS

References

• Mayors of Sydney