# List of mayors of Sunderland

Below is a list of mayors of Sunderland in the United Kingdom (borough from 1836, metropolitan borough from 1974 to 1992 and City of Sunderland from 1992 to present)

## Mayors of Sunderland

* 1836-37 Andrew White (Whig)
* 1837-38 Richard Spoor
* 1838-39 Joseph Simpson
* 1839-40 Joseph Brown
* 1840-41 Richard White
* 1841-42 Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet
* 1842-43 Andrew White
* 1843-44 Robert Burdon Cay
* 1844-45 James Allison
* 1845-47 Robert Brown
* 1847 Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet
* 1847-48 John Scott
* 1848-49 Joseph Simpson
* 1849-50 William Ord
* 1850-51 William Mordey
* 1851-53 James Hartley
* 1853-54 Samuel Alcock
* 1854-56 Anthony John Moore
* 1856-58 George Smith Ranson
* 1858-59 John Candlish (Liberal Party)
* 1859-61 Samuel Alcock
* 1861-62 John Candlish
* 1862-63 James Hartley
* 1863-64 James Allison
* 1864-66 Edward Temperley Gourley
* 1866-67 John James Kayll
* 1867-68 Edward Temperley Gourley
* 1868-69 John Crossley
* 1869-70 William Thompson
* 1870-72 William Nicholson
* 1872-74 Alexander George McKenzie
* 1874-75 John Potts
* 1875-76 John Nicholson
* 1876-78 Samuel Storey
* 1878-79 Samuel Sinclair Robson
* 1879-80 Thomas Scott Turnbull
* 1880 Samuel Storey
* 1880-82 William Wilson
* 1882-84 John Wright Wayman
* 1884-86 Robert Preston
* 1886-88 Edwin Richardson
* 1888-89 George Barnes
* 1889-91 Robert Shadforth
* 1891-93 Stansfield Richardson
* 1893-95 John Sanderson
* 1895-97 William Burns
* 1897-99 William Bruce
* 1899-1900 Edwin Robert Dix
* 1900-02 John George Kirtley
* 1902-04 Henry John Turnbull (Liberal)
* 1904-06 Frederick Foster
* 1906-07 Stephen Moriarty Swan
* 1907-08 William Walker
* 1908-10 Arthur F. Young
* 1910-11 William Sanderson
* 1911-12 Edward Hazard Brown
* 1912-17 Stansfield Richardson
* 1917-19 William Frederick Vint
* 1919-20 Arthur Ritson
* 1920 William Frederick Vint
* 1920-22 Walter Raine
* 1922-24 George Stephenson Lawson
* 1924-26 John Spours Nicholson
* 1926-28 David Cairns
* 1928-30 Isaac Gibson Modlin
* 1930-33 Edward Hazard Brown
* 1933-35 Edward William Ditchburn
* 1935-37 Thomas Summerbell
* 1937-38 James Turner
* 1938 George Ford
* 1938-43 Myers Wayman
* 1943-44 Wilton Legender Milburn
* 1944-45 John Young
* 1945-46 Joshua Ritson
* 1946-47 Miles Walton
* 1947-49 Eden Johnston
* 1949-50 Jacob "Jack" Cohen
* 1950-51 George Henry Morgan
* 1951-52 William Harvey [Labour]
* 1952-53 Arthur Humphrey Suddick
* 1953-54 McGregor Ernest English
* 1954-55 Jane Huggins
* 1955-56 Edith Evelyn Blacklock
* 1956-57 Thomas Henry Cavanagh
* 1957-58 Joseph Hoy
* 1958-59 Edwin Ernest Wales
* 1959-60 Nicholas Lister Allison
* 1960-61 Joseph Tweddle
* 1961-62 Kitty Cohen
* 1962-63 Richard Thomas Weston
* 1963-64 Jane Ellen Hedley
* 1964-65 Robert Wilkinson
* 1965-66 Albert Watson
* 1966-67 Fred Young
* 1967-68 Norman Waters
* 1968-69 John William Purvis Wilkinson
* 1969-70 Mary Elizabeth Miller
* 1970-71 William Ord Stephenson
* 1971-72 William Sinclair Martin
* 1972-73 Leslie Watson
* 1973-74 George Conforth Park
* 1974-75 Tony Burgham|Anthony "Tony" Burgham
* 1975-76 Mary Elizabeth Porter
* 1976-77 Charles Henry Slater
* 1977-78 Thomas Bridges
* 1978-79 Arthur Lumley
* 1979 E Weir
* 1979-81 Leonard Harper
* 1981-82 Thomas Megan Finnigan
* 1982-83 Joseph Hall
* 1983-84 Annie Pratt
* 1984-85 George Elliott
* 1985-86 Ralph Carroll Baxter
* 1986-87 Thomas Scott
* 1987-88 John Mawston
* 1988-89 Leslie Mann
* 1989-90 Robert Kirby
* 1990-91 Andrew Watson Myers
* 1991-92 David Francis Thompson
* 1992-93 William Craddock
* 1993-94 Bryan Charlton
* 1994-95 Denis Gerard Whalen
* 1995-96 Eric Bramfitt
* 1996-97 Ian Galbraith
* 1997-98 Gowan James Scott
* 1998-99 Walter Scott
* 1999-2000 David Ross Wares
* 2000-01 Brian Dodds
* 2001-02 Ken Murray
* 2002-03 Peter Gibson (Labour)
* 2003-04 Juliana Heron (Labour)
* 2004-05 James B Scott (Labour)
* 2005-06 Bill Stephenson(Labour)
* 2006-07 Thomas Foster (Labour)
* 2007-08 Leslie Scott (Labour)
* 2008-09 Mary Smith (Labour)
* 2009-10 Dennis Richardson (Labour)
* 2010-11 Thomas Martin (Labour)
* 2011-12 Norma Wright (Labour)
* 2012-13 Iain Kay (Labour)
* 2013-14 Robert Heron (Labour)
* 2014-15 Stuart Porthouse (Labour until 2019)
* 2015-16 Barry Curran (Labour)
* 2016-17 Alan Emerson (Labour)
* 2017-18 Doris MacKnight (Labour)
* 2018–19 Lynda Scanlan (Labour)
* 2019-21 David Snowdon (Labour)
* 2021-22 Harry Trueman (Labour)
* 2022–23 Alison Smith (Labour)
* 2023-24 Dorothy Trueman (Labour)