This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of Manchester in the North West of England.[1][2]
Mayors of Manchester[edit]
1838–1892[edit]
| No. |
Mayor |
Tenure Begin |
Tenure End |
Terms |
Notes |
| 1 |
Sir Thomas Potter |
1838 |
1840 |
2 |
Father of Sir John Potter, who was Mayor 1848–1851.[3][4] |
| 2 |
William Neild |
1840 |
1842 |
2 |
|
| 3 |
James Kershaw |
1842 |
1843 |
1 |
|
| 4 |
Alexander Kay |
1843 |
1845 |
2 |
|
| 5 |
William Benjamin Watkins |
1845 |
1846 |
1 |
|
| 6 |
Sir Elkanah Armitage |
1846 |
1848 |
2 |
|
| 7 |
Sir John Potter |
1848 |
1851 |
3 |
Son of Sir Thomas Potter, who was Mayor 1838–1840.[3][4] |
| 8 |
Robert Barnes |
1851 |
1853 |
2 |
|
| 9 |
Benjamin Nicholls |
1853 |
1855 |
2 |
|
| 10 |
Sir James Watts |
1855 |
1857 |
2 |
|
| 11 |
Ivie Mackie |
1857 |
1860 |
3 |
|
| 12 |
Matthew Curtis |
1860 |
1861 |
1 |
1st term |
| 13 |
Thomas Goadsby |
1861 |
1862 |
1 |
|
| 14 |
Abel Heywood |
1862 |
1863 |
1 |
1st term |
| 15 |
John Marsland Bennett |
1863 |
1865 |
2 |
|
| 16 |
William Bowker |
1865 |
1866 |
1 |
|
| 17 |
Robert Neill |
1866 |
1868 |
2 |
|
| 18 |
John Grave |
1868 |
1871 |
3 |
|
| 19 |
William Booth |
1871 |
1873 |
2 |
|
| 20 |
Alfred Watkin |
1873 |
1874 |
1 |
|
| 21 |
John King |
1874 |
1875 |
1 |
|
| 22 |
Matthew Curtis |
1875 |
1876 |
1 |
2nd term |
| 23 |
Abel Heywood |
1876 |
1877 |
1 |
2nd term |
| 24 |
Charles Sydney Grundy |
1877 |
1879 |
2 |
|
| 25 |
Henry Patteson |
1879 |
1880 |
1 |
|
| 26 |
Sir Thomas Baker |
1880 |
1882 |
2 |
|
| 27 |
John Hopkinson |
1882 |
1883 |
1 |
|
| 28 |
Philip Goldschmidt |
1883 |
1884 |
1 |
1st term |
| 29 |
Sir John James Harwood |
1884 |
1885 |
1 |
1st term |
| 30 |
Philip Goldschmidt |
1885 |
1886 |
1 |
2nd term |
| 31 |
Matthew Curtis |
1886 |
1887 |
1 |
3rd term |
| 32 |
Sir John James Harwood |
1887 |
1888 |
2 |
2nd term |
| 33 |
William Batty |
1888 |
1889 |
1 |
|
| 34 |
Sir John Mark |
1889 |
1891 |
2 |
The first Mayor of the County Borough. |
| 35 |
Sir Bosdin Thomas Leech |
1891 |
1892 |
1 |
|
Lord Mayors of Manchester[edit]
19th century[edit]
| No. |
Lord Mayor |
Tenure Begin |
Tenure End |
Terms |
Notes |
| 1 |
Sir Anthony Marshall |
1892 |
1894 |
2 |
|
| 2 |
Abraham Evans Lloyd |
1894 |
1896 |
2 |
|
| 3 |
John Foulkes Roberts |
1896 |
1897 |
1 |
|
| 4 |
Robert Gibson |
1897 |
1898 |
1 |
|
| 5 |
Sir William Henry Vaudrey |
1898 |
1899 |
1 |
|
| 6 |
Thomas Briggs |
1899 |
1901 |
2 |
|
20th century[edit]
| No. |
Lord Mayor |
Tenure Begin |
Tenure End |
Terms |
Notes |
| 7 |
Sir James Hoy |
1901 |
1902 |
1 |
|
| 8 |
John Royle |
1902 |
1903 |
1 |
|
| 9 |
Sir Thomas Thornhill Shann |
1903 |
1905 |
2 |
|
| 10 |
James Herbert Thewlis |
1905 |
1906 |
1 |
|
| 11 |
John Harrop |
1906 |
1907 |
1 |
|
| 12 |
Sir Edward Holt, Bart. |
1907 |
1909 |
2 |
|
| 13 |
Sir Charles Behrens |
1909 |
1911 |
2 |
|
| 14 |
Sir Samuel Walter Royse |
1911 |
1913 |
2 |
|
| 15 |
Sir Daniel McCabe, DL |
1913 |
1915 |
2 |
|
| 16 |
Arthur George Copeland |
1915 |
1916 |
1 |
|
| 17 |
Sir Thomas Smethhurst |
1916 |
1917 |
1 |
|
| 18 |
Sir Alexander Porter |
1917 |
1918 |
1 |
|
| 19 |
John Makeague |
1918 |
1919 |
1 |
|
| 20 |
Sir William Kay, Kt. |
1919 |
1919 |
1 |
1st term |
| 21 |
Tom Fox, OBE |
1919 |
1920 |
1 |
|
| 22 |
Sir William Kay, Kt. |
1920 |
1921 |
1 |
2nd term |
| 23 |
Ernest Emil Darwin Simon |
1921 |
1922 |
1 |
Knighted in 1932, created Baron Simon of Wythenshawe in 1947.[5] |
| 24 |
Sir William Cundiff |
1922 |
1923 |
1 |
|
| 25 |
William Turner Jackson |
1923 |
1924 |
1 |
|
| 26 |
Sir Frederick Joseph West, Kt, GBE |
1924 |
1925 |
1 |
|
| 27 |
Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell, Kt, CBE |
1925 |
1926 |
1 |
|
| 28 |
James Henry Swales |
1926 |
1927 |
1 |
|
| 29 |
Sir William Davy, Kt |
1927 |
1928 |
1 |
|
| 30 |
Lt-Col George Westcott, OBE |
1928 |
1929 |
1 |
|
| 31 |
Sir Robert Noton Barclay, Kt |
1929 |
1930 |
1 |
|
| 32 |
George Frank Titt |
1930 |
1931 |
1 |
|
| 33 |
Ellis Green |
1931 |
1932 |
1 |
|
| 34 |
Sir William Walker, Kt |
1932 |
1933 |
1 |
|
| 35 |
Joseph Binns, MBE |
1933 |
1934 |
1 |
|
| 36 |
Samuel Woollam |
1934 |
1935 |
1 |
|
| 37 |
Thomas Stone Williams |
1935 |
1936 |
1 |
|
| 38 |
Joseph Toole |
1936 |
1937 |
1 |
|
| 39 |
Joseph Crookes Grimes, OBE |
1937 |
1938 |
1 |
|
| 40 |
Sir William Kay, Kt. |
1938 |
1938 |
1 |
3rd term |
| 41 |
Elijah John Hart |
1938 |
1939 |
1 |
|
| 42 |
George Harold White |
1939 |
1940 |
1 |
|
| 43 |
Robert Griffith Edwards |
1940 |
1941 |
1 |
|
| 44 |
Wright Robinson |
1941 |
1942 |
1 |
|
| 45 |
John Septimus Hill |
1942 |
1943 |
1 |
|
| 46 |
Leonard Bramwell Cox |
1943 |
1944 |
1 |
|
| 47 |
William Philip Jackson |
1944 |
1945 |
1 |
|
| 48 |
Hugh Lee |
1945 |
1946 |
1 |
Father of Hugh Lee (Lord Mayor 1981–1982) |
| 49 |
Thomas Henry Adams |
1946 |
1947 |
1 |
|
| 50 |
Mary Latchford Kingsmill-Jones, CBE, JP |
1947 |
1949 |
2 |
|
| 51 |
Robert Moss, |
1949 |
1950 |
1 |
|
| 52 |
Colonel Samuel Percy Dawson, CBE, MM, TD, DL |
1950 |
1951 |
1 |
|
| 53 |
William Collingson, OBE |
1951 |
1952 |
1 |
|
| 54 |
Douglas Gosling |
1952 |
1953 |
1 |
|
| 55 |
Abraham Moss |
1953 |
1954 |
1 |
|
| 56 |
Sir Richard Harper, Kt |
1954 |
1955 |
1 |
|
| 57 |
Tom Regan |
1955 |
1956 |
1 |
|
| 58 |
Harry Sharp |
1956 |
1957 |
1 |
|
| 59 |
Sir Leslie Lever MP |
1957 |
1958 |
1 |
Created Baron Lever in 1975.[6] |
| 60 |
James Edward Fitzsimons |
1958 |
1959 |
1 |
|
| 61 |
Harold Quinney, DL |
1959 |
1960 |
1 |
|
| 62 |
Arthur Donovan |
1960 |
1961 |
1 |
|
| 63 |
Sir Lionel Biggs, Kt |
1961 |
1962 |
1 |
|
| 64 |
Sir Robert Thomas, Kt, DL |
1962 |
1963 |
1 |
|
| 65 |
Robert Carr Rogers, CBE |
1963 |
1964 |
1 |
|
| 66 |
Dr William Chadwick |
1964 |
1965 |
1 |
|
| 67 |
Bernard Sydney Langton, CBE |
1965 |
1966 |
1 |
|
| 68 |
Nellie Beer, OBE, DL |
1966 |
1967 |
1 |
The first woman in function |
| 69 |
Dame Elizabeth Yarwood, DBE, DL |
1967 |
1968 |
1 |
|
| 70 |
Harold Stockdale |
1968 |
1969 |
1 |
|
| 71 |
Neil Gowanloch Westbrook |
1969 |
1970 |
1 |
|
| 72 |
William Atkinson Downward, DL |
1970 |
1971 |
1 |
|
| 73 |
Douglas John Edwards |
1971 |
1972 |
1 |
|
| 74 |
Edward Grant |
1972 |
1973 |
1 |
|
| 75 |
Kenneth Collis |
1973 |
1974 |
1 |
Opened T1 Manchester Airport and also given an OBE in 1992 |
| 76 |
Frederick Balcombe, JP |
1974 |
1975 |
1 |
The first Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough |
| 77 |
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw |
1975 |
1976 |
1 |
|
| 78 |
Kenneth Franklin |
1976 |
1977 |
1 |
|
| 79 |
Robert Crawford |
1977 |
1978 |
1 |
|
| 80 |
Trevor Thomas |
1978 |
1979 |
1 |
|
| 81 |
G.W.G. Fitzsimons |
1979 |
1980 |
1 |
|
| 82 |
Winnie Smith |
1980 |
1981 |
1 |
|
| 83 |
Hugh Lee |
1981 |
1982 |
1 |
Son of Hugh Lee (Lord Mayor 1945-1946) |
| 84 |
Clifford Tomlinson |
1982 |
1983 |
1 |
|
| 85 |
Dr M. J. Taylor |
1983 |
1984 |
1 |
Son of Dr Joe Taylor, founder and first chairman of the Greater Manchester Council |
| 86 |
Harold Tucker |
1984 |
1985 |
1 |
|
| 87 |
Kenneth Strath |
1985 |
1986 |
1 |
|
| 88 |
Kathleen Robinson |
1986 |
1987 |
1 |
|
| 89 |
Eileen Kelly |
1987 |
1988 |
1 |
|
| 90 |
Patricia Conquest |
1988 |
1989 |
1 |
|
| 91 |
Yomi Mambu |
1989 |
1990 |
1 |
|
| 92 |
John Gilmore |
1990 |
1991 |
1 |
|
| 93 |
George Chadwick |
1991 |
1992 |
1 |
|
| 94 |
William Egerton |
1992 |
1993 |
1 |
|
| 95 |
William T Risby |
1993 |
1994 |
1 |
|
| 96 |
Sheila Smith |
1994 |
1995 |
1 |
|
| 97 |
Joyce Keller |
1995 |
1996 |
1 |
|
| 98 |
Derek Shaw |
1996 |
1997 |
1 |
|
| 99 |
Gerry Carroll |
1997 |
1998 |
1 |
|
| 100 |
Gordon Conquest |
1998 |
1999 |
1 |
|
| 101 |
Tony Burns |
1999 |
2000 |
1 |
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21st century[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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