This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of Manchester in the North West of England.^[1][2]

Contents 1 Mayors of Manchester 1.1 1838–1892 2 Lord Mayors of Manchester 2.1 19th century 2.2 20th century 2.3 21st century 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Mayors of Manchester

[edit] 1838–1892

No.	Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	Sir Thomas Potter	1838–1840	2	father of Sir John Potter, who was Mayor 1848–1851.[3][4]
2	William Neil	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
13	Thomas Goadsby	1861–1862	1
14	Abel Heywood (1st time)	1862–1863	1
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
23	Abel Heywood (2nd time)	1876–1877	1
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 (1st time)	1883–1884	1
29	Sir John James Harwood (1st time)	1884–1885	1
30	Philip Goldschmidt (2nd time)	1885–1886	1
31	Matthew Curtis	1886–1887	1
32	Sir John James Harwood (2nd time)	1887–1888	2
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

[edit] Lord Mayors of Manchester

[edit] 19th century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	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 Voudrey	1898–1899	1
6	Thomas Briggs	1899–1901	2

[edit] 20th century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	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. (1st time)	1919	1
21	Tom Fox, OBE	1919–1920	1
22	Sir William Kay, Kt. (2nd time)	1920–1921	1
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. (3rd time)	1938	1
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
49	Thomas Henry Adams	1946–1947	1
50	Dame Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones, DBE	1947–1949	2
51	Robert Moss,	1949–1950	1
52	Colonel Samuel Percy Dawson, CBE, MM, TD, DL	1950–1951	1
53	William Collinson, 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 Lesle 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
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
76	F. J. 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
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

[edit] 21st century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes	Refs
102	Hugh Barrett	2000–2001	1
103	John Smith	2001–2002	1
104	Roy Walters, BEM, JP	2002–2003	1
105	Audrey Jones, JP	2003–2004	1
106	Tom O'Callaghan	2004–2005	1
107	Mohammed Afzal Khan	2005–17 May 2006	1		[7]
108	James Ashley	17 May 2006–12 August 2006	1	Died in office.	[7][8][9]
109	David Sandiford	11 October 2006–16 May 2007	1		[10][11]
110	Glynn Evans	16 May 2007–14 May 2008	1		[11][12]
111	Mavis Smitheman	14 May 2008–13 May 2009	1		[12][13][14]
112	Alison Firth	13 May 2009 (Incumbent)	1	Current Lord Mayor	[15]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Lord Mayor's Office