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Revision as of 17:08, 22 May 2010

This is a list of the Mayors of Bolton in the north west of England. The office of mayor is a ceremonial, non-political post. As the borough's First Citizen, the mayor serves as the civic representative at a wide range of functions and events throughout the local authority.

The Mayors of Bolton have represented three types of local government districts. The Mayors of the Municipal Borough of Bolton 1838-1889, the Mayors of the County Borough of Bolton 1889-1974, and the present Mayors of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton since 1974.[1][2]

There was also a Transitional Mayor / Chairman between 1973-1974 who saw over the dissolution of the County Borough of Bolton and the foundation of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.[3]

Mayors of Bolton

Municipal Borough Mayors

No. Mayor Party Tenure Terms Notes
1 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Charles James Darbishire Liberal 1838–1839 1 b.1797 – d.1874. The first Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Bolton.
2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Heywood Liberal 1839–1840 1 b.1786 – d.1868. Father of John Heywood, Mayor of Bolton 1903-05
3 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Arrowsmith Liberal 1840–1841 1 b.1791 – d.1870. Father of Peter Rothwell Arrowsmith, Mayor of Bolton 1853-55.
4 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Cullen Liberal 1841–1842 1 b.1782 – d.1859.
5 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Walsh Liberal 1842–1843 1 b.1791 – d.1873.
6 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Gregson Liberal 1843–1844 1 b.1795 – d.1865.
7 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Slater Liberal 1844–1845 1 b.1798 – d.1861.
8 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stephen Blair Conservative 1845–1846 1 b.1804 – d.1870. Conservative MP for Bolton 1848-52.
9 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Scowcroft Conservative 1846–1847 1 b.1788 – d.1865.
10 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Ridgeway Bridson Conservative 1847–1848 1 b.1795 – d.1863.
11 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Lever Rushton Conservative 1848–1850 2 b.1811 – d.1883.
12 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lt Col. William Gray Conservative 1850–1852 2 b.1814 – d.1895. Conservative MP for Bolton 1857-1874.
13 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Stones Conservative 1852–1853 1 b.c.1804 – d.1859.
14 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Rothwell Arrowsmith Liberal 1853–1855 2 b.1816 – d.1890. Son of James Arrowsmith, Mayor of Bolton 1840-41.
15 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Knowles Liberal 1855–1857 2 b.1813 – d.1886.
16 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Makant Liberal 1857–1859 2 b.1807 – d.1880.
17 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Orton Liberal 1859–1860 1 b.1804 – d.1870.
18 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Harwood Liberal 1860–1861 1 b.1802 – d.1875. Brother of Richard Harwood, Mayor of Bolton 1863-64.
19 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Rawthorne Wolfenden Liberal 1861–1863 2 b.1811 – d.1886. Brother of Charles Wolfenden, Mayor of Bolton 1875-77.
20 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Richard Harwood Liberal 1863–1864 1 b.1802 – d.1875. Brother of John Harwood, Mayor of Bolton 1860–61, and father of George Harwood, Liberal MP for Bolton 1895-1912.
21 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Richard Stockdale Liberal 1864–1866 2 b.1809 – d.1886.
22 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Dr Fergus Ferguson Liberal 1866–1867 1 b.1805 – d.1887.
23 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Barlow Liberal 1867–1869 2 b.1821 – d.1887.
24 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Walmsley Conservative 1869–1871 2 b.1812 – d.1890.
25 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Walter Cannon Conservative 1871–1873 2 b.1822 – d.1903. Brother in law of Richard Stockdale, Mayor of Bolton 1864-66.
26 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Jeremiah Marsden Conservative 1873–1875 2 b.1820 – d.1877.
27 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Charles Wolfenden Conservative 1875–1877 2 b.1826 – d.1884. Brother of James Rawthorne Wolfenden, Mayor of Bolton 1861-1863
28 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Greenhalgh Conservative 1877–1878 1 b.1822 – d.1881.
29 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Crook Marsden Conservative 1878–1879 1 b.1838 – d.1913.
30 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Henry Marriott Richardson Conservative 1879–1880 1 b.c.1816 – d.1893.
31 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Joseph Musgrave Conservative 1880–1881 1 b.1812 – d.1891.
32 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Glaister Conservative 1881–1882 1 b.1829 – d.1891. Grandfather of Thomas Glaister, Mayor of Bolton 1949-48.
33 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ebenezer Green Harwood Conservative 1882–1884 2 b.1833 – d.1902.
34 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Fletcher Conservative 1884–1887 3 b.1832 – d.1914.
35 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Moscrop Conservative 1887–1888 1 b.1811 – d.1889.
36 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Barrett Conservative 1888–1889 1 b.1842 – d.1908.

County Borough Mayors

No. Mayor Party Tenure Terms Notes
1 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Barrett Conservative 1889–1890 1 b.1842 – d.1908. The first Mayor of the County Borough of Bolton.
2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Matthew Fielding Conservative 1890–1891 1 b.1848 – d.1915.
3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Nicholson Conservative 1891–1894 3 b.1825 – d.1915.
4 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lt Col. Sir Benjamin Alfred Dobson Conservative 1894–1898 4 b.1847 – d.1898. Knighted on the 21 July 1897. Died in office.
5 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Nicholson Conservative 1898–1899 2 b.1825 – d.1915. Acted as caretaker mayor in 1898, and re-elected the same year.
6 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Edwin Scowcroft Conservative 1899–1901 2 b.1845 – d.1901. Died in office.
7 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Nicholson Conservative 1901 1 b.1825 – d.1915. Acted again as caretaker mayor in 1901.
8 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Miles Conservative 1901–1903 2 b.1841 – d.1917.
9 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Heywood Conservative 1903–1905 2 b.1849 – d.1910. Son of Robert Heywood, Mayor of Bolton 1839-40.
10 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Colonel George Hesketh Conservative 1905–1906 1 b.1853 – d.1930. Appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1918.
11 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Barlow Tong Conservative 1906–1908 2 b.1850 – d.1917. Uncle of Walter Wharton Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1940-41.
12 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Henry Brown Conservative 1908–1909 1 b.1850 – d.1931.
13 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Joseph Tyas Cooper Liberal 1909–1911 2 b.1852 – d.1929.
14 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Young Conservative 1911–1913 2 b.1861 – d.1917.
15 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Turner Brooks Conservative 1913–1914 1 b.1836 – d.1918.
16 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Seddon Conservative 1914–1916 2 b.1856 – d.1923.
17 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Knowles Edge Liberal 1916–1918 2 b.1854 – d.1931. Knighted on the 12 August 1919. Father of Sir William Edge, Liberal MP for Bolton 1916-23.
18 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Leverhulme Liberal 1918–1919 1 b.1851 – d.1925. Created Baron Leverhulme on the 21 Jun 1917, and Viscount Leverhulme on the 27 Nov 1922.[4]
19 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Parkinson Conservative 1919–1921 2 b.1862 – d.1936.
20 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Russell Conservative 1921–1922 1 b.1859 – d.1937. Conservative MP for Bolton 1922-23.
21 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alfred Potts Labour 1922–1923 1 b.1867 – d.unknown.
22 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edmund Aspinall Conservative 1923–1924 1 b.1858 – d.1940.
23 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Fletcher Steele Liberal 1924–1925 1 b.1867 – d.1941.
24 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Percy Knott Conservative 1925–1926 1 b.1865 – d.unknown.
25 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Evans Flitcroft Liberal 1926–1928 2 b.1861 – d.1938. Knighted in the King's Birthday Honours list 1913.
26 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Frank Cheadle Labour 1928–1929 1 b.1885 – d.1940.
27 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Edwards Roberts Conservative 1929–1930 1 b.1876 – d.1944.
28 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Henry Warburton Liberal 1930–1931 1 b.1865 – d.1936. Nephew of Thomas Warburton, founder of Warburtons the bakers.
29 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | George Sykes Conservative 1931–1932 1 b.c.1874 – d.1958.
30 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Samuel Lomax Labour 1932–1933 1 b.1871 – d.unknown.
31 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Dr Ernest Monks Conservative 1933–1934 1 b.1871 – d.1941. Father of Dr John Richard Monks, Mayor of Bolton 1970-71.
32 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Percy Taylor Liberal 1934–1935 1 b.1868 – d.1945. Appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1926.
33 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Benjamin Kirkman Labour 1935–1936 1 b.c.1864 – d.1953.
34 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Alfred Russell Conservative 1936–1937 1 b.1873 – d.1948.
35 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Halstead Labour 1937–1938 1
36 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Entwistle Conservative 1938–1939 1
37 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Charles Harold Beswick Liberal 1939–1940 1 b.1874 – d.unknown.
38 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Walter Wharton Tong Conservative 1940–1941 1 b.1890 – d.unknown. Nephew of Thomas Barlow Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1906-08. Knighted on the 11 February 1955.
39 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alfred Booth Labour 1941–1942 1 b.1893 – d.1965. Labour MP for Bolton East 1950-1951.
40 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Bleakley Conservative 1942–1943 1 b.1893 – d.unknown.
41 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Fred Bentley Liberal 1943–1944 1
42 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Walter Bradley Conservative 1944–1945 1
43 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Demaine Labour 1945–1946 1 b.1874 – d.unknown.
44 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Dr Horace Wilfred Taylor Conservative 1946–1947 1
45 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Henry Hampson Labour 1947–1949 2
46 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Glaister Conservative 1949–1950 1 b.1886 – d.unknown. Grandson of Thomas Glaister, Mayor of Bolton 1881-82, and brother-in-law of William Wharton Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1940-41.
47 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Helen Wright Labour 1950–1951 1 b.1892 – d.1970. The first female Mayor of Bolton.
48 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Parry Dunning Conservative 1951–1952 1 b.1893 – d.1973.
49 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Vickers Labour 1952–1953 1 b.1895 – d.1972. Awarded an OBE in 1966.
50 James Parkes, MBE Independent 1953–1954 1 b.1893 – d.1980. The only Independent Mayor of Bolton. Awarded an MBE in 1949.
51 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Flanagan Labour 1954–1955 1 b.1887 – d.1964.
52 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Entwistle Conservative 1955–1956 1 died 1978.
53 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Lowe Labour 1956–1957 1 b.1904 – d.1986.
54 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Frank Young Conservative 1957–1958 1 b.1904 – d.1977.
55 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Elizabeth Ann Ashmore Labour 1958–1959 1 b.1895 – d.1972.
56 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edwin Taylor Conservative 1959–1960 1 b.1905 – d.1973. Conservative MP for Bolton East 1960-64.
57 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Gradwell Labour 1960–1961 1 b.1882 – d.unknown.
58 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Harold Bateson Conservative 1961–1962 1 b.1897 – d.unknown.
59 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Arthur Childs Labour 1962–1963 1 b.1899 – d.unknown.
60 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Connor Liberal 1963–1964 1
61 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Harry Wood Conservative 1964–1965 1
62 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Charles Henry Lucas Labour 1965–1966 1 Awarded a CBE in 1970.
63 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Nora Vickers Conservative 1966–1967 1
64 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clarence Leat Labour 1967–1968 1 b.1892 – d.1973.
65 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ethel Maisie Ryley Conservative 1968–1969 1
66 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Herbert Glynn Labour 1969–1970 1 b.1908 – d.1995.[5]
67 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Dr John Richard Monks, GM Conservative 1970–1971 1 b.1911 – d.1985. Son of Dr Ernest Monks, Mayor of Bolton 1933-34.
68 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arnold Townend Labour 1971–1972 1
69 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alan Ellis Clarke Labour 1972–1973 1 b.1931. Triplet brother of Donald Stewart Clarke, Mayor of Bolton 1977-78.
70 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Henry Devenish Labour 1973–1974 1

Transitional Mayor

No. Mayor Party Tenure Terms Notes
1 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Collins Hanscomb Conservative 1973–1974 1 Transitional Mayor / Chairman between the dissolution of the County Borough and the foundation of the Metropolitan Borough.[3]

Metropolitan Borough Mayors

The current mayor.[15] }

References

  1. ^ Links in a Chain - Bolton 1838-2008. URL accessed 11 May 2008.
  2. ^ Famous Boltonians. URL accessed 11 May 2008.
  3. ^ a b Links in a Chain - John Collins Hanscomb. URL accessed 11 May 2008.
  4. ^ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]. URL accessed 15 May 2008.
  5. ^ Former Mayor dies, 87. The Bolton Evening News, first published 29 November 1995.
  6. ^ 'He lived life to the full'. The Bolton Evening News, first published 17 March 2005.
  7. ^ 'First Citizen' dies. The Bolton Evening News, first published 13 September 2001.
  8. ^ Former mayor dies. The Bolton Evening News, first published 2 March 1999.
  9. ^ Award 'a major boost to ethnic minorities'. The Bolton Evening News, first published 30 December 1995.
  10. ^ Ex-mayor dies after heart attack. The Bolton Evening News, first published 4 December 2001.
  11. ^ Tributes to former Mayor of Bolton. The Bolton News, first published 5 May 2008.
  12. ^ Former mayor retires from politics. The Bolton News, first published 12 April 2007.
  13. ^ History as Lib-Dem takes over as Mayor. The Bolton News, first published 17 May 2007.
  14. ^ Bolton's new Mayor all set for a Marathon year. The Bolton News, first published 15 May 2008.
  15. ^ New Mayor pays tribute to the people of Bolton. The Bolton News, first published 13 May 2009.
No. Mayor Party Tenure Terms Notes
1 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Doris Berry Conservative 1974–1975 1 b.1912 – d.1992. The first Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Arthur Foster Labour 1975–1976 1
3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Rigby Conservative 1976–1977 1
4 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Donald Stewart Clarke Labour 1977–1978 1 b.1931 – d.2005. Triplet brother of Alan Ellis Clarke, Mayor of Bolton 1972-73.[6]
5 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Adam Hibbert Conservative 1978–1979 1
6 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Elizabeth Olwen Hamer Labour 1979–1980 1 b.1928 – d.1995.
7 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Smith Conservative 1980–1981 1
8 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Joseph Wild Labour 1981–1982 1
9 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Collins Hanscomb, CBE Conservative 1982–1983 1 Transitional Mayor/Chairman 1973-74. Awarded a CBE on the 1 January 1980.
10 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alan Samuel Brigg Labour 1983–1984 1 b.1911 – d.1988.
11 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Barbara Annette Hurst Conservative 1984–1985 1 b.1919 – d.2001. Awarded an MBE in 1993.[7]
12 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Hardman Labour 1985–1986 1 b.1939 – d.1999.[8]
13 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Poulsom Conservative 1986–1987 1
14 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Arthur Robinson Labour 1987–1988 1 b.12/03/1923 d 26/02/1990
15 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Brian Melvyn Allanson Conservative 1988–1989 1
16 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Kenneth MacIvor Labour 1989–1990 1 b.1925 – d.2004.
17 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Geoffrey Smith Labour 1990–1991 1 b.1945.
18 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Gerald Riley Conservative 1991–1992 1
19 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ernest Crook Labour 1992–1993 1
20 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Campbell Jocelyn H Benjamin, OBE Labour 1993–1994 1 b.1914 – d.2004. The first black Mayor of Bolton. Awarded an OBE in 1996.[9]
21 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Anderton Labour 1994–1995 1
22 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Frank Alan Rushton Conservative 1995–1996 1
23 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Eric Johnson Labour 1996–1997 1 Also was Mayor of Blackrod 1988-89 and 1993-94.
24 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Gareth Birch Labour 1997–1998 1 b.1948 – d.2001.[10]
25 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Louis Finch Labour 1998–1999 1 b.1937. Also was Mayor of Westhoughton 1986-87.
26 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Monaghan Labour 1999–2000 1 b.1936 – d.2008.[11] Also was Mayor of Blackrod 1992-93 and 1997-98.
27 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alan Wilkinson Conservative 2000–2001 1
28 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Kevan James Helsby, MBE Labour 2001–2002 1 b.1950. Received an MBE in the Millennium honours list. Also was Mayor of Horwich 1987-88 and 2004-05.[12]
29 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Walsh, OBE Conservative 2002–2003 1 Awarded an OBE in 1994.
30 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clifford Morris Labour 2003–2004 1
31 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Prentice Howarth Labour 2004–2005 1
32 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Frank Richard White Labour 2005–2006 1 b.1940. Labour MP for Bury and Radcliffe 1979-1983.
33 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Walter Hall Conservative 2006–2007 1 b.1935.
34 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | Barbara Olwyn Ronson Liberal Democrat 2007–2008 1 b.1942. Also was Mayor of Horwich 1996-97.[13]
35 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Connell Labour 2008–2009 1 b.1941.[14]
36 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Norman Critchley Conservative 2009–2010 1
37 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Byrne Conservative 2010–Date 1