The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council. They are elected annually by the council. The post originated in 1843, with the appointment of William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield. Early mayors had significant powers, and chaired both council meetings and the bench of magistrates.^[1]

In 1855, the then mayor was refused a good seat at the opening of the Paris Exhibition, as he did not have a chain of office. As a result, one was purchased the following year, and this has remained in use.^[2]

In 1897, in the same year as the opening of Sheffield Town Hall, the Mayor was given the right to style himself the "Lord Mayor". To mark this, the first Lord Mayor, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, gave the Sheffield Mace to mark the royal authority invested in the post.^[3]

The Lord Mayor has the use of the Lord Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall, an official badge and the honorary presidency of several organisations. The Lord Mayor's Awards and the Lord Mayor's Charity Fund are local institutions organised in the name of the Lord Mayor.

Notable former Mayors include George Bassett, creator of Liquorice Allsorts and the steelmaker Mark Firth.

Contents 1 List of Mayors of Sheffield 2 List of Lord Mayors of Sheffield 3 Notes 4 References

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Year	Name	Party
1843	William Jeffcock
1844	Thomas Dunn
1845	Samuel Butcher
1846	Henry Wilkinson
1847	Edward Vickers
1848	T. R. Barker
1849	Thomas Birks
1850	T. B. Turton
1851	John Carr
1852	W. A. Matthews
1853	F. Hoole
1854	Wm. Fisher
1855	Wm. Fawcett
1856	J. W. Pye Smith		Liberal
1857	R. Jackson
1858	Charles Atkinson
1859	Henry E. Hoole
1860	Henry Vickers
1861-62	Sir John Brown		Conservative
1863-64	Thomas Jessop
1865	W. E. Laycock
1866-67	John Webster		Conservative
1868-71	Thomas Moore		Conservative
1872	John Fairburn
1873	Joseph Hallam
1874	Mark Firth		Liberal
1875	John Tasker
1876	George Bassett		Conservative
1877	Sir Frederick Mappin		Liberal
1878	David Ward
1879	Edward Tozer
1880	Abram Brooksbank
1881-82	Michael Hunter, Jnr.
1883-34	Wm. Henry Brittain
1885	John W. Pye Smith		Liberal
1886	Sir Henry Stephenson		Liberal Unionist
1887-78	William Johnson Clegg		Liberal
1889	J. B. Jackson
1890	Samuel Osborn[4]
1891	William Johnson Clegg		Liberal
1891	Joseph Gamble
1892	J. Batty Langley		Liberal
1893	E. S. Foster		Liberal
1894	Sir Charles. T. Skelton
1895-96	Duke of Norfolk

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1897 Duke of Norfolk, KG[5] 1897 George Franklin 1898 William Edwin Clegg 1899 Samuel Roberts 1900 John Eaton 1901 George Senior 1902 John Wycliffe Wilson 1903 John Rutland Wheatley 1904 Joseph Jonas 1905 Herbert Hughes, CMG 1906 Robert Styring 1907 Harry P. Marsh 1908 Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO 1909 Earl Fitzwilliam, KCVO, DSO 1910 Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO 1911 Albert John Hobson 1912 Samuel Osborn 1913 George Ernest Branson 1914 Oliver Charles Wilson 1915 Frederick Arthur Warlow 1916 Walter Appleyard 1917 Alfred Cattell 1918 William Irons 1919 Samuel Roberts 1920 William Farewell Wardley 1921 Charles Simpson 1922 William Carter Fenton 1923 Arthur James Blanchard 1924 Alfred James Bailey 1925 Joseph Benson 1926 John George Graves 1927 Moses Humberstone 1928 Harry Bolton 1929 Charles William Beardsley 1930 Harold Warters Jackson 1931 Thomas Henry Watkins 1933 Fred Marshall 1934 Percival J. M. Turner CBE, JP

1935 Frank Thraves 1936 Ann Eliza Longden 1937 Ernest George Rowlinson 1938 William Joseph Hunter 1939 John Arthur Longden 1940 Luther Frederick Milner 1941 Charles Josiah Mitchell 1942 Harry England Bridgwater 1943 Samuel Hartley Marshall 1944 George Ernest Marlow 1945 Charles William Gascoigne 1946 Ernest Storm Graham 1947 William Ernest Yorke[6] 1949 Grace Tebbutt 1950 Herbert Keeble Hawson 1951 Thomas William Bridgland 1952 Peter Buchanan 1953 Oliver Spencer Holmes 1954 John Henry Bingham 1955 Joseph Curtis 1956 Robert Neill 1957 Albert Ballard 1958 John William Holland 1959 Alfred Vernon Wolstenholme 1960 Harold Slack 1961 James Wilfred Sterland, OBE 1962 Percival Cyril John Taylor Kirkman 1963 Isidore Lewis 1964 Albert Smith, OBE 1965 John Stenton Worrall, JP 1966 Lionel Stephen Edward Farris, JP 1967 Harold Lambert, OBE 1968 Patience Sheard, JP 1969 Daniel Joseph O’Neill, JP 1970 John Basil Peile, JP[4] 1970 Sidney Irwin Dyson 1971 Harold Hebblethwaite, JP 1972 Martha Strafford

1973 Stanley Kenneth Arnold 1974 Leonard Cope 1975 Albert Edward Richardson 1976 Reginald Edward Munn, JP 1977 Winifred Mary Golding, LL.D 1978 Peter Harold Jackson 1979 George Armitage 1980 William Owen, JP 1981 Enid Anne Hattersley 1982 Gordon Wragg, OBE, JP 1983 Peter Morgan Newton Jones 1984 George Roy Munn 1985 Dorothy Walton, JP 1986 Frank Prince 1987 Peter Horton 1988 Phyllis May Smith 1989 Anthony Damms 1990 James Moore 1991 Doris Askham 1992 William Jordan 1993 Qurban Hussain 1994 Ian Saunders 1995 David Heslop 1996 Peter Price 1997 Anthony Arber 1998 Frank White 1999 Trevor Bagshaw 2000 Patricia Midgley 2001 David Baker 2002 Marjorie Barker 2003 Diane Leek 2004 Mike Pye 2005 Roger Davison 2006 Jackie Drayton 2007 Arthur Dunworth 2008 Jane Bird 2009 Graham Oxley

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[edit] References

• "List of past Lord Mayors". Sheffield City Council. http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/lord-mayor/past-lord-mayors. Retrieved 2006-08-20. 
• "Sheffield Genealogy - Mayors, Lord Mayors & Master Cutlers". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/webpages/mayorscutlers.htm. Retrieved 2006-08-21.