List of mayors of Manchester
20th century

List of mayors of Manchester

Section Title: 20th century
Table Section Text: None

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

24	Sir William Cundiff	1922	1923	1

25	William Turner Jackson	1923	1924	1

26	Sir Frederick Joseph West, GBE, Kt	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, who was lord mayor 1981–1982

49	Thomas Henry Adams	1946	1947	1

50	Dame Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones, JP	1947	1949	2	First woman to hold the office

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.

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

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	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, who was lord mayor 1945–1946)

84	Clifford Tomlinson	1982	1983	1

85	Dr M. J. Taylor	1983	1984	1	Son of Joe Taylor, founder and first chairman of the Greater Manchester Council

86	Harold Tucker	1984	1985	1

87	Kenneth Strath	1985	1986	1	First chair of the council

88	Kathleen Robinson	1986	1987	1

89	Eileen Kelly	1987	1988	1	Last chair of the council

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

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Leslie Lever's "Baron Lever", served as Lord Mayor of Manchester (1957–58).
Leslie Lever served as Lord Mayor of Manchester (1957–58).
Leslie Lever served as Lord Mayor of Manchester (1957–58).

final_sentence: Leslie Lever's "Baron Lever", served as Lord Mayor of Manchester (1957–58).
final_sentence: Leslie Lever served as Lord Mayor of Manchester (1957–58).
final_sentence: Leslie Lever served as Lord Mayor of Manchester (1957–58).