# List of mayors of Hawthorn

This is a list of mayors and chairmen of the City of Hawthorn, a former local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and its precedents. It existed from 1856 until 1994 when it merged with the City of Kew and the City of Camberwell to form the new City of Boroondara.

## Council name

| Name | Established |
| Hawthorn Municipality | 27 July 1860 |
| Hawthorn Borough Council | 1863 |
| Hawthorn Town Council | 18 March 1887 |
| Hawthorn City Council | 12 September 1890 |

## Hawthorn Municipality chairmen (1860–1863)

| # | Chairman | Term |
| 1 | Michael O’Grady | 1860-1862 |
| 2 | Dugald McDougall | 1862-1863 |

## Hawthorn mayors (1863–1994)

| # | Chairman | Term | Bio |
| 3 | William Henry Pettett | 1863-1864 |
| 4 | Lauchlan Mackinnon | 1864-1865 |
| 5 | John de la Roche Bragge | 1865-1866 | Roche Bragge (c. 1816 - 9 May 1875) was an Australian surgeon. Bragge was living in Victoria and working as a doctor as of 1854. As of 1856 he was living in Hawthorn and working as a doctor of medicine and that year he served as a collector of votes in the elections for the District of South Bourke, Central, and South Province. In 1860 Bragge was elected to the inaugural Municipal Council of Hawthorn when the body was established and in 1865 he was elected as the Mayor and served for a year. As of 1870 he was practicing as a surgeon in Hawthorn. In 1875 Bragge died at his residence in Hawthorn. |
| 6 | Edward Augustus Atkyns | 1866-1867 |
| 7 | Frederick Walsh | 1867-1868 |
| 8 | Henry Lawes | 1868-1870 |
| 9 | Michael O’Grady | 1870-1871 |
| 10 | Alfred William Harston | 1871-1872 |
| 11 | Charles Baker | 1872-1873 |
| 12 | John Stevenson Denny | 1873-1874 |
| 13 | Edward Sayce | 1874-1876 |
| 14 | William Cleverdon | 1876-1877 |
| 15 | Robert Elias Wallen | 1877-1879 |
| 16 | William Cleverdon | 1879-1880 |
| 17 | Alexander Millie | 1880-1882 |
| 18 | William Bell | 1882-1883 |
| 19 | James Swan | 1883-1884 |
| 20 | William Thomas Wallis | 1884-1885 |
| 21 | William Cowper | 1885-1886 |
| 22 | Daniel George Cullen | 1886-1887 |
| 23 | Thomas Barrett | 1887-1888 |
| 24 | George Grant Munro | 1888-1889 |
| 25 | James Westley | 1889-1890 |
| 26 | Francis Gillman | 1891 |
| 27 | Charles Edgerton | 1891-1892 |
| 28 | Robert William Hooke | 1892-1893 |
| 29 | Percy Joseph Russell | 1893-1894 |
| 30 | Robert Thomson Barbour | 1894-1895 |
| 31 | James Scoular Riddell | 1895-1896 |
| 32 | Charles Dalley | 1896-1897 |
| 33 | Richard Ardagh | 1897-1898 |
| 34 | Arthur Norman Smith | 1898-1899 |
| 35 | John Adams | 1899-1900 |
| 36 | Frederick William McDonald | 1900-1901 |
| 37 | William Cowper | 1901-1902 |
| 38 | George Swinburne | 1902-1903 |
| 39 | Benjamin Goldsmith | 1903-1904 |
| 40 | William Andrews | 1904-1905 |
| 41 | Percy Joseph Russell | 1905-1906 |
| 42 | Charles Dalley | 1906-1907 |
| 43 | Henry Sayers Crocker | 1907-1908 |
| 44 | Henry Henningsen | 1908-1909 |
| 45 | David Henry Dureau | 1909-1910 |
| 46 | Andrew Roche | 1910-1911 |
| 47 | William George Burton | 1911-1912 |
| 48 | John V.M. Wood | 1912-1913 |
| 49 | Robert Thomas Barbour | 1913-1914 |
| 50 | Edward Charles Rigby | 1914-1915 |
| 51 | Percy Joseph Russell | 1915-1917 |
| 52 | Robert William Lord | 1917-1918 |
| 53 | Edward Ward | 1918-1919 |
| 54 | Frank Ogglethorpe Wills Sambell | 1919-1920 |
| 55 | Thomas Henson Kitchin | 1920-1921 |
| 56 | John Chalmers | 1921-1922 |
| 57 | Joseph Brook Pridmore | 1922-1923 |
| 58 | Walter James Lancaster | 1923-1924 |
| 59 | Edward Charles Rigby | 1924-1925 |
| 60 | George William Simpson | 1925-1926 |
| 61 | Henry Angus Wallace | 1926-1927 |
| 62 | David Henry Evans | 1927-1928 |
| 63 | Edward Ward | 1928-1929 |
| 64 | William Thomas Lewis | 1929-1930 |
| 65 | Joseph Brook Pridmore | 1930-1931 |
| 66 | John Williams George | 1931-1932 |
| 67 | George William Simpson | 1932-1935 |
| 68 | Edward Charles Rigby | 1935-1936 |
| 69 | David Henry Evans | 1936-1937 |
| 70 | John Austin Gray | 1937-1938 |
| 71 | Joseph Fowler | 1938-1939 |
| 72 | William Thomas Lewis | 1939-1940 |
| 73 | Joseph Brook Pridmore | 1940-1941 |
| 74 | John Williams George | 1941-1942 |
| 75 | William Campbell Porteous | 1942-1943 |
| 76 | Joseph Brook Pridmore | 1943-1944 |
| 77 | William Thomas Lewis | 1944-1945 |
| 78 | Joseph Fowler | 1945-1946 |
| 79 | William Robert Gordon Longmuir | 1946-1947 |
| 80 | Edward Charles Rigby | 1947-1948 |
| 81 | Leslie Tyack | 1948-1949 |
| 82 | Harry Woolven Moffat | 1949-1950 |
| 83 | Joseph Brook Pridmore | 1950-1951 |
| 84 | Harold William George | 1951-1953 |
| 85 | David Swan | 1953-1954 |
| 86 | Thomas Howard Jackett | 1954-1955 |
| 87 | Alan Robert Patterson | 1955-1956 |
| 88 | Graham Sterling Slobom | 1956-1957 |
| 89 | Harold William George | 1957-1958 |
| 90 | William Richard Tresise | 1958-1959 |
| 91 | Gerald Stephen Phillips | 1959-1960 |
| 92 | Max William Yunghanns | 1960-1961 |
| 93 | Keith Charles Miller | 1961-1962 |
| 94 | Harold William George | 1962-1963 |
| 95 | Thomas Howard Jackett | 1963-1964 |
| 96 | Reginald Iliff Harris | 1964-1965 |
| 97 | Donald Ingersole | 1965-1966 |
| 98 | Geoffrey Alfred Saunders | 1966-1967 |
| 99 | William Piper Brown | 1967-1968 |
| 100 | George Loton | 1968-1969 |
| 101 | Lloyd Emerson Albert Orton | 1969-1970 |
| 102 | John Stanley Head | 1970-1971 |
| 103 | Keith Charles Miller | 1971-1972 |
| 104 | Walter Blair Dobson | 1972-1973 |
| 105 | John Stanley Head | 1973-1974 |
| 106 | John Hampton Hartwig Beale | 1974-1975 |
| 107 | Brian James Bergin | 1975-1976 |
| 108 | Betty May Marginson | 1976-1977 |
| 109 | William Hugh Nankivell | 1977-1978 |
| 110 | Guy Arundel Newton Brown | 1978-1979 |
| 111 | Salvatore Coffa | 1979-1980 |
| 112 | Leslie Julian Kausman | 1980-1981 |
| 113 | Jeffrey Alfred Wunderlich | 1981-1982 |
| 114 | Paul Alexander Jones | 1982-1983 |
| 115 | Rosalind McMillan | 1983-1984 |
| 116 | John Hampton Hartwig Beale | 1984-1985 |
| 117 | Jill Short | 1985-1986 |
| 118 | Salvatore Coffa | 1986-1987 |
| 119 | Guy Arundel Newton Brown | 1987-1988 |
| 120 | Barbara van Ernst | 1988-1989 |
| 121 | John Hampton Hartwig Beale | 1989-1990 |
| 122 | Jane Laidley Nathan | 1990-1991 |
| 123 | Barbara van Ernst | 1991-1992 |
| 124 | Ken Hare-Brown | 1992-1993 |
| 125 | Nigel Kirby | 1993-1994 |