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This is a list of Mayors of Bath, a city in the county of Somerset, England, since the first recorded mayoralty in 1230.[1]

The mayor in 2016, Paul Crossley, is the 789th Mayor of Bath.

Pre-21st century

Source: Mayor's Office, Bath

Ralph Allen. Mayor 1742
Eleazer Pickwick. Mayor 1826
Handel Cossham. Mayor 1882–85
  • 1230: John de Porta (first recorded Mayor of Bath)[2]
  • 1237: Henry le Tayleur
  • 1249: Walter Falc. Sir Henry Tailor (Cissor)
  • 1262: Henry the Tailor
  • 1277: Henry the Tailor
  • 1279: Nicholas Biscop
  • 1280: John de Cumbe. William Scleht, Henry Tailor (Cissor)
  • 1283: Richard Tabernarius. Richard Everard
  • 1284: Thomas Sweyn
  • 1285: William Cook (Cocus). Roger de Dichegate. Nicholas Clerk (Clerico). Stephen de Devyses. John de Cumbe. Richard Everard. Gilbert Taylor.
  • 1286: Gilbert Taylor
  • 1290: Stephen Baker. Henry Tailor (Cissor)
  • 1291: Stephen de Devyses
  • 1293: John le Taylor. William Scuel. William Cook (Cocus). Peter le Brevitor
  • 1295: Peter le Brevitor
  • 1299: William Cook (Cocus)
  • 1390–94: William Rous, MP for Bath
  • 1395: Robert Draper (MP for Bath, 1395)[3]
  • 1404: Richard Widcombe (MP for Bath, 1413–1428)[4]
  • 1416: Walter Rich (MP for Bath, 1414–1435)[5]
  • 1417: Richard Widcombe
  • 1426: Richard Widcombe
  • 1428: Richard Widcombe
  • 1438: Walter Rich
  • 1443: Walter Rich
  • 1530: Thomas Welpley[6]
  • 1550–51: John Clement, (MP for Bath, 1539)[7]
  • 1551: Edward Ludwell (MP for Bath, 1553)[8]
  • 1554-5: Richard Chapman[9]
  • 1573: William Walley[10]
  • 1575: Thomas Turner (MP for Bath, 1563)[11]
  • 1576–77: George Pearman (MP for Bath, 1571–72)[12]
  • 1580: William Sharestone (Sherston) (MP for Bath, 1584–1604)[13]
  • 1582: William Walley[14]
  • 1582: George Pearman
  • 1584: William Sharestone
  • 1585: John Walley, Snr (MP for Bath, 1589)[15]
  • 1589: William Sharestone
  • 1595-8: William Heath[16]
  • 1598: William Sharestone
  • 1603: William Sharestone
  • 1604-5:Christopher Stone[17]
  • 1613: Richard Gay (MP for Bath, 1626)[18]
  • 1619: Richard Gay
  • 1625: Richard Gay
  • 1631: Richard Gay
  • 1634: Anthony Kingston[19]
  • 1644: John Parker[19]
  • 1656: John Boys[19]
  • 1742: Ralph Allen (postmaster and quarry-owner)[2]
  • 1769: Thomas Warr Attwood (Bath City Architect)
  • 1796: John Palmer (Surveyor and Comptroller General of the Post Office, MP for Bath, 1801)
  • 1809: John Palmer
  • 1826: Eleazer Pickwick (director of Somerset Coal Canal)[2]
  • 1837: Simon Barrow (Lansdown Grove, Bath)
  • 1838: Henry Gordon (Rear Admiral)
  • 1844: Henry Gordon
  • 1872–1873 Robert Stickney Blaine (MP for Bath, 1885)
  • 1882–1885: Handel Cossham (MP for Bristol East, 1885)
  • 1893: General Reginald Quintin Mainwaring
  • 1896 & 1899: George Woodiwiss[2]
  • 1897: Charles Henry Simpson, Major
  • 1898: John Ricketts (died 13 July 1899)
  • 1899: Robert Edmund Dickinson MP JP
  • 1900 & 1910: Thomas Ball Silcock
  • 1901: Edward England Phillips
  • 1902: James Edward Henshaw 1936
  • 1903 & 1909: Charles Henry Simpson JP, Major
  • 1904: Benjamin John
  • 1905: Charles Bryan Oliver
  • 1906: Sydney William Bush
  • 1907: Thomas Hodgson Miller
  • 1908: John William Knight
  • 1911: Thomas Forder Plowman
  • 1912: George Thomas Cooke
  • 1913 & 1917: Preston King MD
  • 1914: Frederick W. Spear, J.P. (Wholesaler and Provision Merchant)
  • 1915: Harry Thomas Hatt
  • 1916: Charles Henry Long
  • 1918: Alfred William Wills
  • 1919: Percy Jackman
  • 1920: James Henry Colmer
  • 1921: Ernest John White
  • 1922 & 1924–1928: Cedric Chivers (3ied 30 January 1929)
  • 1923: Charles Henry Hacker
  • 1929 & 1934: Aubrey Bateman (founder of Bath Royal United Hospital)[2]
  • 1930: Thomas Sturge Cotterell MBE JP
  • 1932: Rhodes G Cook
  • 1933: Horace Scott Davey CMG, Lt Col The Hon
  • 1935 & 1939: James Sidney Carpenter LL D
  • 1936: Walter Farley Long
  • 1937: Leonard Graham Araham Adams (resigned 6 December 1937)
  • 1937–1938: Adrian E. Hopkins (leading philatelist)
  • 1940–1942: Aubrey Bateman
  • 1952: Alleyne Berry (father of Mary Berry)
  • 1953: Adrian E. Hopkins

21st century

Source: Mayor's Office, Bath

  • 2000: Angela Godfrey
  • 2001: Marian McNeir
  • 2002: Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst
  • 2003: David James Hawkins
  • 2004: Roger Alan Symonds
  • 2005: Peter John Metcalfe
  • 2006: Carol Ann Paradise
  • 2007: Sharon Ball
  • 2008: Tim Ball
  • 2009: Colin Vincent Barrett
  • 2010: Shaun McGall
  • 2011: Bryan Chalker
  • 2012: Andrew Furse
  • 2013: Malcolm John Henry Lees
  • 2014: Cherry Beath[20]
  • 2015: Will Sandry[21]
  • 2016: Paul Crossley

References

  1. ^ "Mayors of Bath since 1230" (PDF). Mayors office. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e "The Mayor of Bath". Mayor's Office, Bath. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  3. ^ "DRAPER, Robert, of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  4. ^ "WIDCOMBE (WYDECOMBE), Richard, of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  5. ^ "RICH, Walter (d.1446/7), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. ^ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/welpley-thomas-1483-1534-or-later
  7. ^ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/clement-john-1502-5156
  8. ^ "LUDWELL, Edward (by 1523-63/66), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  9. ^ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/chapman-richard-1504-80
  10. ^ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/walley-john-1615
  11. ^ "TURNER, Thomas II (d.c.1586), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  12. ^ "PEARMAN, George (d.1604), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  13. ^ "SHARESTON, William (d.1621), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  14. ^ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/walley-john-1615
  15. ^ "WALLEY, John (d.1615), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  16. ^ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/heath-william-1607
  17. ^ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/stone-christopher-1556-1614
  18. ^ "GAY, Richard (by 1559–1641), of Walcott Street and Westgate Street, Bath and Claverton, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  19. ^ a b c "JOHN BOYS (MAYOR OF BATH 1656)" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  20. ^ "Mayor of Bath". Mayors Office, Bath. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  21. ^ "Next Mayor of Bath Named". Retrieved 7 June 2015.
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