Civic mayor of Doncaster

Not to be confused with Directly elected mayor of Doncaster.
Mayor of Doncaster
Incumbent
Paul Wray

since May 2015
Appointer Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Website Office of the Civic Mayor

The Mayor of Doncaster is the ceremonial leader of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The mayor is appointed annually from the members of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and serves for one municipal year.

History

The first mayor of Doncaster, in 1493, was a Thomas Pigborne.[1] The first mayor of the Borough of Doncaster under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 was Sir William Bryan Cooke, 8th baronet of Wheatley.[2] The role was reconstituted on 1 April 1974 to cover the larger Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.

Since May 2002 there has also been a directly elected mayor of Doncaster and in May 2012, voters decided in a referendum to keep the position.[3]

List of mayors (since 1900)

Source: Docaster History

  • 1900 Charles Theobald
  • 1901 Thomas Windle
  • 1902 Robert Robinson
  • 1903 John Tinsley Spencer
  • 1904 George Smith
  • 1905 George Smith
  • 1906 Nathan Gyles
  • 1907 Enoch Ellis
  • 1908 Joseph Firth Clark
  • 1909 George Bennett
  • 1910 John Halmshaw
  • 1911 Charles Wightman
  • 1912 William Clark
  • 1913 John Thomas Kay
  • 1914 Patrick Stirling (engineer/footballer)
  • 1915 Samuel Balmforth
  • 1916 Samuel Balmforth
  • 1917 George Raithby
  • 1918 Abner Carr
  • 1919 Richard Martin Jackson
  • 1920 Frederick William Cocking
  • 1921 Samuel Morris
  • 1922 George Thomas Tuby
  • 1923 Thomas Hedley Oliver
  • 1924 William Davy Borrill
  • 1925 Edwin Smith Knight
  • 1926 Ernest John Dowson
County Borough
  • 1927 Herbert Myers Marshall
  • 1928 Harry Warren
  • 1929 Richard Henry Hepworth
  • 1930 Walter James Crookes
  • 1931 George Watson
  • 1932 Arthur Thomson
  • 1933 Thomas Gilberthorpe
  • 1934 George Herbert Ranyard
  • 1935 Harry Herbert Bone
  • 1936 Thomas Henry Johnson
  • 1937 Samuel Morris
  • 1938 Willie Corbett
  • 1939 Herbert Fred Heaviside
  • 1940 Ernest Scargall
  • 1940 Andrew Clarke
  • 1941 Frederick Charles Trotter
  • 1942 Charles Herbert Mason
  • 1943 Sidney Howe Auckland
  • 1944 Walter Firth
  • 1945 Frederick Charles Trotter
  • 1946 Ernest Shaw
  • 1947 Harry Llewellyn Goe
  • 1948 Percy Judd
  • 1949 Herbert Martin
  • 1949 Percy Judd
  • 1950 Herbert Wilson
  • 1951 Rose Hodson
  • 1952 Edgar Hubbard
  • 1953 Albert Edward Cammidge
  • 1954 Herbert Jackson
  • 1955 Alfred Edward Hall
  • 1956 Elizabeth Dougal Callander
  • 1957 William Chappell
  • 1958 Arthur Harvey
  • 1959 Fred Ogden
  • 1960 Frank Stafford Heptonstall
  • 1961 Thomas Henry Wright
  • 1962 Reginald Kelsall
  • 1963 William Ernest Whittington
  • 1964 Stanley Claude Holbrook
  • 1965 H. Culshaw
  • 1966 George Francis Hardy
  • 1967 Elsie Stenson
  • 1968 William Hubert Kelly
  • 1969 Marcus S. Outwin
  • 1970 Olive Sunderland
  • 1971 William Clarke
  • 1972 Edith Plumb
  • 1973 Arthur Heaven
Metropolitan Borough
  • 1974 Albert Edward Cammidge
  • 1975 Gerald Messines McDade
  • 1976 Gordon Gallimore
  • 1977 Robert Vernon Carr Grainger
  • 1978 Winifred M. Liversidge
  • 1979 George Cheshire
  • 1980 John Edward Oliver
  • 1981 Alexander Grimson
  • 1982 Harry Schofield
  • 1983 Catherine Bower
  • 1984 Norma Wilson
  • 1985 Lionel Norten Hall
  • 1986 Edward Gardner
  • 1987 Gladys Ambler
  • 1988 Ronald Wilfred Gillies
  • 1989 Raymond Stockhill
  • 1990 John Meredith
  • 1991 William R. Gillies
  • 1992 Charles W. Verrill
  • 1993 John Quinn
  • 1994 Gordon Gallimore
  • 1995 Andy Lanaghan
  • 1996 Dorothy Layton
  • 1997 Sheila Mitchinson
  • 1998 Margaret Robinson
  • 1999 Yvonne Woodcock
  • 2000 Maureen Edgar
  • 2001 Beryl Roberts
  • 2002 John R. Quinn
  • 2003 G. M. (Mick) Jameson
  • 2004 Margaret Ward
  • 2005 Susan Bolton
  • 2006 Norah Troops
  • 2007 Anthony Sockett
  • 2008 Paul Coddington
  • 2009 Ros Jones
  • 2010 Margaret Pinkney (resigned due to ill health)
  • 2010 Ken Knight
  • 2011 Eva Hughes
  • 2012 Christine Mills
  • 2013 Eddie Dobbs
  • 2014 Pat Haith [4]
  • 2015 Paul Wray [5]

References

  1. The early Yorkshire woollen trade Page xxx John Lister - 1924 "The first mayor of Doncaster, in 1493, was a Thomas Pigborne"
  2. The gentleman's magazine - Volume 37 - Page 186 1852 "In 1836 he was the first Mayor of Doncaster under the Municipal Act,"
  3. Mayor Peter Davies and Doncaster Council set date for elected mayor referendum, BBC News 1 February 2012
  4. http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/sections/councilanddemocracy/doncasterscouncillors/office_of_the_civic_mayor.aspx
  5. "Doncaster’s new civic mayor is installed". The Star. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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