# Mayor of Peterborough

The English city of Peterborough has had a mayor since 1847.

## Current role

As well as officiating at ceremonies, and representing the city, the mayor is the impartial chairman of the council.

## List of mayors since 1847

* 1874–1876 Henry Pearson Gates, JP Gates represented himself, in his capacity as mayor against the crown in R. v Mayor of Peterborough, heard before Blackburn J. The hearing was for a writ of mandamus relating to a procedural matter in a ratepayers meeting to fund corporation (council) opposition to the parliamentary Peterborough Water Bill.
* 1877 Andrew Percival
* 1878 William Paley MD, JP
* 1879 and 80 John Core
* 1881 and 82 John Thompson JP
* 1883 John Whitwell
* 1884 William Barford JP
* 1885 Edward Vergette
* 1886 William Daniel Nichols JP
* 1887 Henry Pearson Gates
* 1888 and 89 Thomas Lawrence Barrett JP
* 1890 William Beaver JP
* 1891 and 92 John Henry Beeby JP
* 1893 Joseph Clifton
* 1894 William Daniel Nichols JP
* 1895 Daniel Henry Redhead JP
* 1896 and 97 John Thompson JP
* 1898 Joseph Hunting JP
* 1899 William Beaver JP
* 1900 John Thomas Miller JP
* 1901 G C Wentworth-Fitzwilliam DL JP
* 1902 and 03 George Keeble JP
* 1904 William Daniel Nichols JP
* 1905 Daniel Henry Redhead JP
* 1906 Thomas C Lamplugh JP
* 1907 Joseph Batten
* 1908 Thomas Ivatt Slater JP
* 1909 John Betts Tebbutt
* 1910 William Cliffe JP
* 1911 Charles Edward Crawley
* 1912 Thomas C Lamplugh JP
* 1913 John Golby Barford JP
* 1914 Richard Winfrey JP
* 1915 John William Williamson JP
* 1916–1918 George Nicholls OBE, JP
* 1919 Charles Tomson Vergette
* 1920 Walter Riseley
* 1921 Frank Edwin Hunting
* 1922 Thomas Crosby Lamplugh JP
* 1923 and 24 Charles Day
* 1925 Charles Leonard Fletcher
* 1926 and 27 John Thomas Fisher JP
* 1928 Thomas Ivatt Slater JP
* 1929 Arthur John Edward Craig JP
* 1930 George Samuel Palmer JP
* 1931 Matthew Hooke
* 1932 John Mansfield JP
* 1933 William Oliver Snowden
* 1934 Arthur Edwin Fletcher
* 1935 Arthur Itter MA, B Com
* 1935 and 36 Arthur Holdich Mellows DL, MA, TD
* 1937 George Clavering Hall JP
* 1938 Richard Charles Howard
* 1939 and 40 Lily Violet Bryant
* 1941 James Alfred Bartram
* 1942 and 43 Harry Johnson Farrow
* 1944 Harry Wilfred Kelley JP
* 1945 Joseph Algernon Farrow
* 1946 Albert William Viney MBE
* 1947 John Edward Swain JP
* 1948–May 1949 Edward Victor Martin
* 1949–1950 John Richard Hall JP
* 1950–1951 Harry Ray Horrell
* 1951–1952 George Rowell Chamberlain
* 1952–1953 Mabel Wood JP
* 1953–1954 Arthur Lister Robinson MBE
* 1954–1955 Reginald William North
* 1955–1956 Lady (Gladys Mary) Benstead JP
* 1956–1957 John Walter Setchfield
* 1957–1958 George Alfred Smith
* 1958–1959 Royce William Westcombe MBE, JP
* 1959–1960 Maud Swift
* 1960–1961 John Azor Savage
* 1961–1962 Charles William Swift
* 1962–1963 George Walter Govey
* 1963–1964 Carl Ernest Hall
* 1964–1965 Ernest George Edward Bradley
* 1965–1966 Gordon Tyers
* 1966–1967 Alfred William Clements MM
* 1967–1968 Frank Leonard Mackman
* 1968–1969 Arthur William Leno Adams
* 1969–1970 George Alfred Forster
* 1970–1971 Edward Aaron Hall
* 1971–1972 Dennis William Bracey ChM, FRCS
* 1972–1973 Roy Topley
* 1973–1974 Harold Raymond Wentworth Laxton MA
* 1974–1975 Jack Farrell
* 1975–1976 William Richard Cashmore
* 1976–1977 Edward Ernest Titman
* 1977–1978 Jean Barker
* 1978–1979 Ben Franklin
* 1979–1980 Murdoch McKenzie Charteris MBE, AE
* 1980–1981 Audrey Chalmers
* 1981–1982 Thomas Arthur Gray
* 1982 Alfred Richard Shelford ACII, FRSA (died November 1982)
* 1983 Edward John James (to May 1983)
* 1983–1984 Kenneth Aubrey Winfield-Chislett
* 1984–1985 Raymond Palmer JP
* 1985–1986 Robert Edmund Burke
* 1986–1987 Joseph Ernest Hall
* 1987–1988 Rex Eady Perkins JP
* 1988–1989 Constance Margaret Gray
* 1989–1990 Derek John Hedges BA, FSCA
* 1990–1991 Alfred Arthur Sapey
* 1991–1992 Geoffrey Ronald Ridgway BSc CEng
* 1992–1993 Leslie Allan Rimes
* 1993–1994 Kathleen Coppen
* 1994–1995 Roberta Glenys Ewart Day
* 1995–1996 John Frederick White Holdich OBE
* 1996–1997 Mohammed Ayoub Choudhary
* 1997–1998 Yvonne Lowndes
* 1998–1999 Mary Beatrice Rainey B.Ed (Hons)
* 1999–2000 John Ernest Graham Bartlett
* 2000–2002 Raymond Arthur Pobgee MBE DL
* 2002–2003 Clifford Stanley Horace Sneesby
* 2003–2004 David Raines
* 2004–2005 Raja Akhtar
* 2005 John Ray Horrell CBE (died December 2005)
* 2006 David Thorpe (to May 2006)
* 2006–2007 Michael Burton OBE FRIN
* 2007–2008 Marion Todd
* 2008–2009 Patricia Nash MBE
* 2009–2010 Irene Walsh
* 2010–2011 Keith Sharp
* 2011–2012 Paula Thacker MBE
* 2012–2013 George Simons
* 2013–2014 June Stokes
* 2014–2015 David Over
* 2015–2016 John Peach
* 2016–2017 David Sanders
* 2017–2018 John Fox
* 2018–2019 Christopher Ash
* 2019–2021 Gul Nawaz
* 2021–2022 Stephen Lane
* 2022–2023 Alan Dowson
* 2023–2024 Nick Sandford