List of mayors of Norwich
Mayors of Norwich
Source (1900–2013): Norwich City Council

List of mayors of Norwich

Section Title: Mayors of Norwich
Table Section Text: Source (1900–2013): Norwich City Council

Year	Name	Notes

1403–04	William Appleyard	First Mayor of Norwich

1408–09	Edmund Warner	Merchant. MP for Norwich, 1401

1414–15	John Bixley	Merchant. MP for Norwich, 1413, 1415, 1416, 1419

1421–22	William Sedman	MP for Norwich, 1413, 1414, 1416

1424–25	Robert Baxter	Mercer. MP for Norwich, 1420, 1421

1429–30	Robert Baxter	Mercer. MP for Norwich, 1420, 1421

1435, 1440, 1452 and 1458	Robert Toppes	MP for Norwich

1515–16	John Clerke	Mercer. MP for Norwich, 1512

1520–21	John Clerke	Mercer. MP for Norwich, 1512

1521–22	Edward Rede	MP for Norwich, 1529

1531–32	Edward Rede	MP for Norwich, 1529

1532–33	Reginald Lytilprowe	MP for Norwich, 1529

1534–35	Augustine Steward	MP for Norwich, 1539, 1547

1542–43	William Rogers	MP for Norwich, 1542

1543–44	Edward Rede	MP for Norwich, 1529

1545–46	Robert Rugge	MP for Norwich, 1545

1546–47	Augustine Steward	MP for Norwich, 1539, 1547

1550–51	Robert Rugge	MP for Norwich, 1545

1554–55	Thomas Marsham	MP for Norwich, 1553

1556–57	Augustine Steward	MP for Norwich, 1539, 1547

1557–58	John Aldrich	MP for Norwich, 1555, 1572

1560–61	Robert Michell	MP for Norwich, 1563

1565–66	Thomas Sotherton	MP for Norwich, 1558, 1559

1568–69	Thomas Parker	MP for Norwich, 1563

1570–71	John Aldrich	MP for Norwich, 1555, 1572

1572–73	Robert Suckling	Mercer. MP for Norwich, 1586

1576–77	Thomas Layer	Grocer. MP for Norwich, 1586

1579–80	Simon Bowde	MP for Norwich, 1584

1581–82	Christopher Layer	Grocer. MP for Norwich, 1584 and 1597

1582–83	Robert Suckling	Mercer. MP for Norwich, 1586

1583–84	Thomas Gleane	Draper or mercer. MP for Norwich, 1589

1587–88	Francis Rugge	Mercer. MP for Norwich, 1589

1589–90	Christopher Layer	Grocer. MP for Norwich, 1584 and 1597

1591–92	Robert Yarham	MP for Norwich, 1593

1592–93	Thomas Gleane	Draper or mercer. MP for Norwich, 1589

1600–01	Alexander Thurston	MP for Norwich, 1601

1602	Thomas Gleane (disputed)	Gleane was elected in 1602, but the election was called into question. The city assembly had decided in 1598 that no one was to be mayor more than twice, and that nine years had to elapse between the two periods of office.

1604–05	Thomas Hyrne	Grocer. MP for Norwich, 1614, 1624, 1625, 1626

1605–06	Thomas Sotherton	MP for Norwich, 1597

1608–09	John Pettus	MP for Norwich, 1601, 1604

1609–10	Thomas Hyrne	Grocer. MP for Norwich, 1614, 1624, 1625, 1626

1615–16	Peter Gleane	MP for Norwich, 1628

1616–17	Sir Thomas Hyrne	Grocer. MP for Norwich, 1614, 1624, 1625, 1626

1618–19	Richard Rosse	MP for Norwich, 1621

1621–22	George Birch	Grocer and Apothecary

1624–25	Robert Debney	MP for Norwich, 1628

1652–53	William Barnham	Hosier. MP for Norwich, 1659, 1660

1657–58	Christopher Jay	MP for Norwich, 1661

1670–71	Augustine Briggs	MP for Norwich, 1678

1681–82	Hugh Bokenham	MP for Norwich, 1690

1685–86	Francis Gardiner	MP for Norwich, 1695

1691–92	Thomas Blofield	MP for Norwich, 1689

1694–95	John Ward	MP for Norwich, 1694

1700–01	Edward Clarke	MP for Norwich, 1701

1710–11	Robert Bene	MP for Norwich, 1710

1714–24	John Norman	local farmer, landowner and brewer

1735	Thomas Vere	MP for Norwich, 1735

1737	John Spurrell	Sheriff 1728, mayor 1737, alderman of South Conisford Ward for nearly 40 years

1774	James Crowe	surgeon

1788	John Patteson	MP for Norwich, 1806

1797	James Crowe	surgeon

1823	John Staniforth Patteson	brewer

1833–34	Sir Samuel Bignold	MP for Norwich, 1854

1846–47	Jeremiah Colman	Miller. Founder of Colman's Mustard

1848–49	Sir Samuel Bignold	MP for Norwich, 1854

1853–54	Sir Samuel Bignold	MP for Norwich, 1854

1859–60	Jacob Henry Tillett	Solicitor. MP for Norwich, 1880

1865-1866	W.P. Nichols	Prominent Norwich surgeon. Liberal

1867–68	Jeremiah James Colman	MP for Norwich, 1871

1872–73	Sir Samuel Bignold	MP for Norwich, 1854

1875–76	Jacob Henry Tillett	Solicitor. MP for Norwich, 1880

1878–80	Harry Bullard	Brewer

1886–87	Harry Bullard	Brewer

1891–92	George Moore Chamberlin	Store owner. High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1926

1894–95	Charles Edward Bignold

1895–96	John Moore

1896–97	Sir Charles Rackham Gilman	Knighted 1897

1897–98	Clement Charles Rix Spelman

1898–99	George Henry Morse

1899–1900	James William Clabburn

1900–01	Joseph John Dawson-Paul

1901–02	Russell James Colman

1902–03	Lieutenant Colonel John Robert Harvey

1903–04	Geoffrey Fowell Buxton

1904–05	Henry Zachariah Thompson Flowers

1905–06	Edward Thomas Boardman	Architect

1906–07	William Robert Crow Howlett

1907–08	Edmund Gurney Buxton	High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1922

1908–09	Walter Rye

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