List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Manchester
This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of Manchester in the North West of England.[1][2]
Mayors of Manchester
1838–1892
| 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
19th century
| 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
| 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 | Dame Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones, 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 | |
21st century
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