Municipality of Newtown

Municipality of Newtown New South Wales
Established	12 December 1862
Abolished	December 1948

The Municipality of Newtown was a local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The small municipality was proclaimed as a borough in 1862 and was centred on the suburbs of Newtown, Erskineville and Enmore. The municipality was divided into three wards: Kingston, Enmore and O'Connell. In 1948 under the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, Newtown Municipal Council was merged with the larger neighbouring City of Sydney which was located immediately to the North, although parts have subsequently, since 1968, been moved into Marrickville Council.^[1] Mayors included Lilian Fowler (1937-1939), the first female mayor in Australia.

Mayors

Years	Mayors[2][3]
1862–1863	Frederick William Holland
1864	Joseph Kingsbury
1865	Henry Munro
1866	William Curtis
1867	James Conley
1868	Henry Munro
1869	William Curtis
1870	Joseph Kingsbury
1871–1876	William Bailey
1877	James Smith
1878	Alfred Fallick
1879	James Smith
1880	Daniel Wildman
1881	Charles Whately
1882	Ninian Melville
1883	Charles Boots
1884–1885	James Smith
1886	Charles Whately
1887–1888	Richard Bellemey
1889	Joseph Jolly
1890	Charles Lane
1891	William Dolman
1892–1894	William Rigg
1895	Harold Morgan
1896	James Smith
1897	William Cox
1898	William Rigg
1899	Charles Ibbotson
1900–1901	John Salmon
1902	Harold Morgan
1903–1904	John Salmon
1905	William Edwards
1906	Henry Howe
1907–1910	Harold Morgan
1911–1912	William Rigg
1913–1915	Frank Bamfield
1916–1917	Charles Henry Turtle
1918–1920	Harold Thomas Morgan
1921	James Campbell
1922–1923	William Henry Pritchard
1924	Nicholas James Buzacott
1925	William Alfred Dibble
1926	Isidore Edwin Ryan
1927	William Leslie Smith
1928	William Henry Delve
1929	Joseph Solomon
1930	Reuben Sydney Goddard
1931	Joseph Vincent Bugler
1932	Frederick Benedict Roberts
1933	Frederick Newnham
1934	Isidore Edwin Ryan
1935	Reuben Sydney Goddard
1936	Frederick Newnham
1937	Isidore Edwin Ryan
1938–1939	Lilian Fowler
1940	Raymond Jules Beaufils
1941	Isidore Edwin Ryan
1942–1943	Arthur Edward Greenup
1944	Patrick Joseph Walters
1945	Sidney Augustus Fleming
1946	George Henry Smith
1947	William Francis Bodkin
1948	Reuben Sidney Goddard
1948	Ernest Gerard Wright

References

1. "Local Government Boundaries". Newtown Sesquicentenary Project. City of Sydney - Archives. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
2. Chubb, William (1912). "Jubilee Souvenir of the Municipality of Newtown" (PDF). Sydney Archives - Newtown Project. Newtown Municipal Council. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
3. "Councillors - Aldermen of the Newtown Municipal Council 1863 to 1948". Newtown Sesquicentenary Project. City of Sydney Archives. 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2013.