List of mayors of Leeds
| Lord Mayor of Leeds | |
|---|---|
Incumbent Cllr Eileen Taylor since 2019 | |
| Style | The Right Worshipful |
| Status | Lord Mayor |
| Member of | Leeds City Council |
| Term length | One municipal year |
| Precursor | Mayor of Leeds (1661–1897) |
| Formation | 12 July 1897 |
| Website | Official website |
The Lord Mayor of Leeds (until 1897 known as the Mayor of Leeds) is a ceremonial post held by a member of Leeds City Council, elected annually by the council.
By charter from King Charles I in 1626, the leader of the governing body of the borough of Leeds was an alderman, the first holder being Sir John Savile.[1] A second charter, in 1661 from King Charles II, granted the title Mayor to Thomas Danby,[1] after whom Thomas Danby College was named. In 1893 the County Borough of Leeds was granted city status, and in 1897 Queen Victoria conferred the title of Lord Mayor on James Kitson.
The first woman to have the post was Jessie Beatrice Kitson in 1942: she was elected following the death of Arthur Clarke shortly after his election.[2][3]
In 2019, the council elected Leeds first ever black Lord Mayor, Eileen Taylor.[4] After serving as a Labour member of council since 2008, she was elected unanimously by fellow councillors at the authority's annual general meeting. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Taylor's term has been extended for another municipal year until May 2021. Should Taylor remain in office until May 2021, it will be the first time a Lord Mayor has served for two municipal years since George Brett's original term of office (1947-1948) was extended for a municipal year until 1949. Under the Representation of the People Act 1948, his term was extended until the first meeting held after the May 1949 council election.[5][6]
Notable former Mayors include Benjamin Gott (1799), Sir George Goodman (1836), several of the Lupton family, Henry Rowland Marsden (1873) and Alf Cooke of the famous printworks (1890).
List of Lord Mayors
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| Municipal year | Lord Mayor (party nomination - electoral ward if councillor) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1897-1898 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Kitson, MP for Colne Valley, 1892 (Lib) |
| 1898-1899 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party (UK)/meta/color" | | T Walter Harding (LUP) |
| 1899-1900 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Gordon (Con) |
| 1900-1901 | Frederick W. Lawson (?) | |
| 1901-1902 | Ambrose Edmund Butler (?) | |
| 1902-1903 | John Ward[9] (?) | |
| 1903-1904 | Arthur Currer Briggs (?) | |
| 1904-1905 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Robert Armitage, MP for Leeds Central, 1906 (Lib) |
| 1905-1906 | Edwin Woodhouse (?) | |
| 1906-1907 | Joseph Hepworth (?) | |
| 1907-1908 | Wilfred Lawrence Hepton (?) | |
| 1908-1909 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Frederick J Kitson (Lib) |
| 1909-1910 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Penrose Green (Con) |
| 1910-1911 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Middlebrook, MP for Leeds South, 1908 (Lib) |
| 1911-1912 | William Nicholson (?) | |
| 1912-1913 | Albert Wellesley Bain (?) | |
| 1913-1914 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Edward Brotherton (Con) |
| 1914-1915 | James Edward Bedford (?) | |
| 1915-1916 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir Charles Lupton (Con) |
| 1916-1917 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Edmund George Arnold (Lib nominated) |
| 1917-1918 | Frank Gott (?) | |
| 1918-1919 | Joseph Henry | |
| 1919-1920 | Thomas Beveridge Duncan (?) | |
| 1920-1921 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Albert Braithwaite (Con) |
| 1921-1922 | Willie Hodgson (?) | |
| 1922-1923 | Frank Fountain (?) | |
| 1923-1924 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir Edwin Airey (Con) |
| 1924-1925 | Charles Granville Gibson (?) | |
| 1925-1926 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Arnott (Lab) |
| 1926-1927 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Hugh Lupton (Con) |
| 1927-1928 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Ratcliffe (Lib) |
| 1928-1929 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Blythe Foster (Lab) |
| 1929-1930 | Nathaniel George Morrison (?) | |
| 1930-1931 | Arthur Hawkyard (?) | |
| 1931-1932 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Fred Simpson, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, 1935 (Lab) |
| 1932-1933 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Robert Holliday Blackburn (Con) |
| 1933-1934 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Albert Edward Wilkinson (Lib) |
| 1934-1935 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Hemingway (Lab) |
| 1935-1936 | Percival Tookey Leigh (?) | |
| 1936-1937 | Tom Coombs (?) | |
| 1937-1938 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Badlay (Lab) |
| 1938-1939 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Rowland Winn (Con) |
| 1939-1940 | Charles Humphrey Boyle (?) | |
| 1940-1941 | Willie Withey (?) | |
| 1941-1942 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Hyman Morris (Con) |
| 1942-1943 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Arthur Clarke (Lib) died 9 November 1942[10] |
| width="1" bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Jessie B Kitson (Ind, Lib nominated)[11] | |
| 1943-1944 | Albert Hayes (?) | |
| 1944-1945 | Charles Vivian Walker (?) | |
| 1945-1946 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Beevers (Labour)[12] |
| 1946-1947 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir George Martin (Con) |
| 1947-1948 | rowspan="2" width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Brett (Labour) |
| 1948-1949 | ||
| 1949-1950 | Norman Vine (?) | |
| 1950-1951 | Francis Hugh O’Donnell (?) | |
| 1951-1952 | Francis Eric Tetley (?) | |
| 1952-1953 | Frank Barlow Burnley (?) | |
| 1953-1954 | Donald George Cowling (?) | |
| 1954-1955 | Henry Sidman Vick (?) | |
| 1955-1956 | Sir James Croysdale (?) | |
| 1956-1957 | Thomas Austin Jessop (?) | |
| 1957-1958 | Joseph Hiley (?) | |
| 1958-1959 | Mary Pearce (?) | |
| 1959-1960 | Gertrude Annie Stevenson (?) | |
| 1960-1961 | Lillian Hammond (?) | |
| 1961-1962 | Percival Arthur Woorward (?) | |
| 1962-1963 | Harold Watson (?) | |
| 1963-1964 | Edwin Wooler (?) | |
| 1964-1965 | Lizzie Naylor (?) | |
| 1965-1966 | William R Hargreave (?) | |
| 1966-1967 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Joshua "Jos" Walsh (Lab) |
| 1967-1968 | Lawrence Turnbull (?) | |
| 1968-1969 | John Rafferty (?) | |
| 1969-1970 | Allan Roberts Bretherick (?) | |
| 1970-1971 | Arthur Brown (?) | |
| 1971-1972 | John Trevor V Watson (?) | |
| 1972-1973 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Albert Smith (Lab) |
| 1973-1974 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Kenneth Davison (Con) |
| 1974-1975 | Joan de Carteret (?) | |
| 1975-1976 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Alan Pedley (Con, Headingley) |
| 1976-1977 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Ernest Howard Morris (Lab, City & Woodhouse) |
| 1977-1978 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr William Hudson (Con, Aireborough) |
| 1978-1979 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Harry Booth (Lab, Beeston & Holbeck) |
| 1979-1980 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Christine Thomas (Con, Chapel Allerton & Scott Hall) |
| 1980-1981 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Eric Atkinson (Lab, Bramley) |
| 1981-1982 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Patrick "Paddy" Crotty OBE (Con, Roundhay) |
| 1982-1983 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Doreen Jenner (Lab, University) |
| 1983-1984 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Martin Dodgson (Con, Halton) |
| 1984-1985 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Douglas Gabb (Lab, Seacroft) |
| 1985-1986 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Sydney Symmonds (Con, Moortown) |
| 1986-1987 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Rose Lund (Lab, Rothwell) |
| 1987-1988 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Doreen Wood (Con, Halton) |
| 1988-1989 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Arthur Vollans (Lab, Seacroft) |
| 1989-1990 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Leslie "Les" Carter (Con, Cookridge) |
| 1990-1991 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Bill Kilgallon (Lab, University) |
| 1991-1992 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Ronald "Ronnie" Feldman (Con, North) |
| 1992-1993 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Denise Atkinson (Lab, Bramley) |
| 1993-1994 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Keith Loudon (Con, Cookridge) |
| 1994-1995 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Christiana Myers (Lab, City & Holbeck) |
| 1995-1996 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Margaret "Peggy" White CBE (Con, Roundhay) |
| 1996-1997 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Malcolm Bedford (Lab, Wortley) |
| 1997-1998 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Linda Middleton (Lab, Middleton) |
| 1998-1999 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Graham Kirkland (LD, Otley & Wharfedale) |
| 1999-2000 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Keith Parker (Lab, Barwick & Kippax) |
| 2000-2001 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Bernard Atha (Lab, Kirkstall) |
| 2001-2002 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr David Hudson (Con, Wetherby) |
| 2002-2003 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Bryan North (Lab, Morley South) |
| 2003-2004 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Neil Taggart (Lab, Chapel Allerton) |
| 2004-2005 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Christopher "Chris" Townsley (LD, Horsforth) |
| 2005-2006 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr William "Bill" Hyde (Con, Temple Newsam) |
| 2006-2007 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Mohammed Iqbal (Lab, City & Hunslet) |
| 2007-2008 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | | Cllr Brian Cleasby (LD, Horsforth) |
| 2008-2009 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Frank Robinson (Con, Calverley & Farsley) |
| 2009-2010 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Morley Borough Independents/meta/color" | | Cllr Judith Elliott (MBI, Morley South) |
| 2010-2011 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr James "Jim" McKenna (Lab, Armley) |
| 2011-2012 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Revd Alan Taylor (LD, Gipton & Harehills) |
| 2012-2013 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Ann Castle (Con, Harewood) |
| 2013-2014 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Thomas "Tom" Murray (Lab, Garforth & Swillington) |
| 2014-2015 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr David Congreve (Lab, Beeston & Holbeck) |
| 2015-2016 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Judith Chapman (LD, Weetwood) |
| 2016-2017 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Gerald "Gerry" Harper (Lab, Hyde Park & Woodhouse) |
| 2017-2018 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Jane Dowson (Lab, Chapel Allerton) |
| 2018-2019 | width="1" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Graham Latty (Con, Guiseley & Rawdon) |
| 2019-2020 | rowspan="2" width="1" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cllr Eileen Taylor (Lab, Chapel Allerton)[a] |
| 2020-2021 | ||
Notes
- ^ Taylor's original one-year term (2019-2010) was extended for an extra municipal year following the COVID-19 pandemic and postponement of the council's Annual Council Meeting and Mayor Making ceremony of a new Lord Mayor for the 2020-2021 municipal year. Should Taylor remain in office until May 2021, it will be the first time a Lord Mayor has served for two municipal years since George Brett's original term of office (1947-1948) was extended for a municipal year until 1949. Under the Representation of the People Act 1948, his term was extended until the first meeting held after the May 1949 council election.[13][14]
References
- ^ a b Leeds Civic Trust Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine Leeds Coat of Arms
- ^ Leeds' first woman Lord Mayor
- ^ Margaret Drinkall (2013) The Leeds Book Of Days: November 17th, 1942 (The History Press) ISBN 0752479628
- ^ "Leeds to get first black Lord Mayor". 16 January 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ "Update from Leeds City Council regarding the Lord Mayor and this year's Mayor Making ceremony". leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. 21 May 2020.
- ^ "VERBATIM REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF LEEDS CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL MEETING ON MONDAY, 28TH JUNE 2004" (PDF). leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- ^ "Lord Mayors & Aldermen of Leeds since 1626" (PDF). Leeds City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ Fraser, D. A History of Modern Leeds. Manchester University Press, 1980 England, UK. p. 384. ISBN 9780719007811. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale Lord Mayor of Leeds 1896-1897...
- ^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ "NEW MAYOR DROPPED DEAD". The Charlottetown Guardian. 3 December 1942. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Fantastic photo flashback to year Leeds had its first female Lord Mayor". leedsstar.co.uk. Leeds Star Media. 6 November 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- ^ "Friday flashback: The man behind the name". facebook.com. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. 16 January 2015.
- ^ "Update from Leeds City Council regarding the Lord Mayor and this year's Mayor Making ceremony". leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. 21 May 2020.
- ^ "VERBATIM REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF LEEDS CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL MEETING ON MONDAY, 28TH JUNE 2004" (PDF). leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lord Mayors of Leeds.
- "Lord Mayor of Leeds". Leeds City Council. Retrieved 8 September 2012. General information about current Lord Mayor
- "Lord Mayors & Aldermen of Leeds since 1626" (pdf). Leeds City Council. Retrieved 1 November 2017.