Mayor of Bournemouth

• • Lewis Tregonwell, the founder of the town

The following were mayors of Bournemouth, Dorset, England, Before 1974, Bournemouth was in the county of Hampshire:[1]

Date Mayor

1890 Thomas James Hankinson the first mayor[2]

1891 Edward Wise Rebbeck

1892 Henry Newlyn

1893 George Merriman Hirons

1894 Merton Russell-Cotes

1895 Henry Newlyn

1896 James Atkinson Hosker

1897 William Mattocks

1898 William Hoare

1899 John Clark Webber

1900 George Joseph Lawson

1901 George Frost

1902 - 1904 John Elmes Beale

1905 - 1906 John Aldridge Parsons

1907 - 1909 George Edward Bridge

1910 Charles Hunt

1911 - 1913 Henry Seymour McCalmont Hill

1914 James Druitt

1915 - 1916 Henry Robson

1917 - 1918 Edward Ernest Bishop

1919 - 1922 Charles Henry Cartwright

1923 (part year) Thomas Bodley Scott (died in office)

1923 (part year) - 1924 Frederick Skinner Mate

1925 - 1927 Harry John Thwaites

1928 Sir Charles Henry Cartwright (4th term)

1929 - 1931 Percy May Bright

1932 - 1934 John Robert Edgecombe

1935 Henry George Harris

1936 Thomas Victor Rebbeck

1937 John Bennett Cole Beale

1938 Isaac William Dickinson

1939 Percy Wilfred Tom Hayward

1940 Alfred Herbert Little

1941 John James Empson

1942 Frank Bassett Summerbee

1943 Jabez Richards

1944 Harry Charles Brown

1945 Robert Charles Henry Old

1946 - 1949 John William Moore

1949 James Hugh Turner

1950 Sydney Arthur Thomson

1951 Frank James McInnes

1952 Harold Alfred Benwell

1953 Harry Percival Evelyn Mears, OBE

1954 George Smith

1955 Donald Nelson Willoughby

1956 Philip George Templeman, CBE

1957 Willliam James Whitelock

1958 Henry Brown

1959 Louis Victor Barney

1960 Mrs Bessie Bicknell (Bournemouth’s first woman Mayor)

1961 Deric Sidney Scott

1962 Alban Ernest James Adams

1963 Harry Percival Evelyn Mears, OBE

1964 (part year) Harold Alfred Benwell

1964 (part year) Harry Percival Evelyn Mears, OBE

1965 Reginald Sylvester Morris

1966 Philip Gordon Whitelegg

1967 Frank Alfred William Purdy

1968 Michael Willliam Green, OBE

1969 Basil Ewart David Beckett

1970 Edwin Alfred Lane

1971 Richard Ayton Judd

1972 Miss Leslie Mary Swetenham

1973 (to 30 March 1974) Major Bertram George Dillon

1974 (1 Apr – 24 May) William Frederick Forman, MBE

1974 William Thomas Roy Turner

1975 George Henry Masters

1976 Arthur William Patton

1977 Dr Gabriel Vivian Jaffé

1978 Frank Holmes Beale

1979 Patrick Walter Kelleway

1980 Ernest Norman Day

1981 Gordon Roy Anstee

1982 Mrs Sheila Elizabeth McQueen

1983 Mrs Jeanne Hilda Curtis

1984 Michael Harold Filer

1985 - 86 Robert Frederick Wotton

1986 - 87 Dan Crone

1987 - 88 Mrs Barbara R. Siberry

1988 - 89 Mrs Jacqueline Craven Harris

1989 - 90 Harry Bostock

1990 - 91 Wycliffe H Coe

1991 - 92 Lionel F Bennett

1992 - 93 Margaret Hogarth

1993 - 94 Ronald Whittaker

1994 - 95 Dr John Millward

1995 - 96 Mrs Pamela I Harris

1996 - 97 Mrs Jean Moore

Unitary Authority 1997

1997 - 98 Peter Brushett

1998 - 99 Keith Rawlings

1999 - 00 Hampton James Courtney

2000 - 01 Ben Grower

2001 - 02 Douglas Eyre

2002 - 03 David Baldwin

2003 - 04 Mrs Anne Rey

2004 - 05 Mrs Emily Morrell-Cross

2005 - 06 Ted Taylor

2006 - 07 Bob Chapman

2007 - 08 Mrs Anne Filer

2008 - 09 Stephen Chappell

2009 - 10 Mrs Beryl Baxter

2010 - 11 Barry Goldbart

2011 - 12 Chris Rochester

2012 - 13 Phil Stanley-Watts (Bournemouth’s 100th Mayor)

2013 - 14 Dr Rodney Cooper

2014 - 15 Chris Mayne

2015 - 16 John Adams

2016 - 17 Eddie Coope

2017 - 18 Lawrence Williams

2018-19 Derek Borthwick

2019-21 Susan Phillips, 2019-21[3][4] Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the mayoral term was given a year’s extension.

2021 David Kelsey