List of Lord Mayors of Manchester

This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of Manchester in the North West of England.Former Mayors of Manchester (1838-1892) . URL accessed 3 December 2007.Former Lord Mayors of Manchester (1892-Present). URL accessed 3 December 2007.

 Mayors of Manchester 
 1838–1892 
No. Mayor Tenure Terms Notes  1  Sir Thomas Potter  1838 – 1840  2  father of Sir John Potter, who was Mayor 1848–1851.thePeerage.com - Sir Thomas Potter. URL accessed 14 December 2007.thePeerage.com - Sir John Potter. URL accessed 14 December 2007. 2  William Neil  1840 – 1842  2   3  James Kershaw  1842 – 1843  1   4  Alexander Kay  1843 – 1845  2   5  William Benjamin Watkins  1845 – 1846  1   6  Sir Elkanah Armitage  1846 – 1848  2   7  Sir John Potter  1848 – 1851  3  son of Sir Thomas Potter, who was Mayor 1838–1840. 8  Robert Barnes  1851 – 1853  2   9  Benjamin Nicholls  1853 – 1855  2   10  Sir James Watts  1855 – 1857  2   11  Ivie Mackie  1857 – 1860  3   12  Matthew Curtis  1860 – 1861  1   13  Thomas Goadsby  1861 – 1862  1   14  Abel Heywood (1st time)  1862 – 1863  1   15  John Marsland Bennett  1863 – 1865  2   16  William Bowker  1865 – 1866  1   17  Robert Neill  1866 – 1868  2   18  John Grave  1868 – 1871  3   19  William Booth  1871 – 1873  2   20  Alfred Watkin  1873 – 1874  1   21  John King  1874 – 1875  1   22  Matthew Curtis  1875 – 1876  1   23  Abel Heywood (2nd time)  1876 – 1877  1   24  Charles Sydney Grundy  1877 – 1879  2   25  Henry Patteson  1879 – 1880  1   26  Sir Thomas Baker  1880 – 1882  2   27  John Hopkinson  1882 – 1883  1   28  Philip Goldschmidt (1st time)  1883 – 1884  1   29  Sir John James Harwood (1st time)  1884 – 1885  1   30  Philip Goldschmidt (2nd time)  1885 – 1886  1   31  Matthew Curtis  1886 – 1887  1   32  Sir John James Harwood (2nd time)  1887 – 1888  2   33  William Batty  1888 – 1889  1   34  Sir John Mark  1889 – 1891  2  The first Mayor of the County Borough. 35  Sir Bosdin Thomas Leech  1891 – 1892  1  

 Lord Mayors of Manchester 
19th century
No. Lord Mayor Tenure Terms Notes  1  Sir Anthony Marshall  1992 – 1994  2   2  Abraham Evans Lloyd  1994 – 1994  2   3  John Foulkes Roberts  1994 – 1995  1   4  Robert Gibson  1995 – 1995  1   5  Sir William Henry Voudrey  1995 – 1995  1   6  Thomas Briggs  1995 – 1998  2  

20th century
No. Lord Mayor Tenure 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. (1st time)  1919  1   21  Tom Fox, OBE  1919 – 1920  1   22  Sir William Kay, Kt. (2nd time)  1920 – 1921  1   23  Ernest Emil Darwin Simon  1921 – 1922  1  knighted in 1932, created Baron Simon of Wythenshawe in 1947.Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page: Severn to Sligo  (including Simon of Wythenshawe). URL accessed 14 December 2007. 24  Sir William Cundiff  1922 – 1923  1   25  William Turner Jackson  1923 – 1924  1   26  Sir Frederick Joseph West, Kt, GBE  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. (3rd time)  1938  1   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   49  Thomas Henry Adams  1946 – 1947  1   50  Dame Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones, DBE  1947 – 1949  2   51  Robert Moss,  1949 – 1950  1   52  Colonel Samuel Percy Dawson, CBE, MM, TD, DL  1950 – 1951  1   53  William Collinson, 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 Lesle Lever MP  1957 – 1958  1  created Baron Lever in 1975.thePeerage.com - Sir Leslie Maurice Lever, Baron Lever. URL accessed 14 December 2007. 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   76  F. J. Balcombe, JP  1974 – 1975  1  The 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   84  Clifford Tomlinson  1982 – 1983  1   85  Dr M. J. Taylor  1983 – 1984  1   86  Harold Tucker  1984 – 1985  1   87  Kenneth Strath  1985 – 1986  1   88  Kathleen Robinson  1986 – 1987  1   89  Eileen Kelly  1987 – 1988  1   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  

21st century
No. Lord Mayor Tenure Terms Notes  7  Hugh Barrett  1998 – 2001  1   8  John Smith  2001 – 2001  1   9  Roy Walters, BEM, JP  2001 – 2002  1   10  Audrey Jones, JP  2002 – 2002  1   11  Tom O'Callaghan  2002 – 2003  1   12  Mohammed Afzal Khan  2003 – 2005  1   13  James Ashley  2005  1  Died in office.Lord Mayor of Manchester has passed away. URL accessed 14 December 2007.Lord Mayor of Manchester dies. The Manchester Evening News, first published 14 August 2006. 14  David Sandiford  2005 – 2012  1   15  Glynn Evans  2012 – 2013  1  16  Mavis Smitheman  2013 – 2023  1   17  Alison Firth  2023 – 2024  1 New Lord Mayor unites nations. URL accessed 27 November 2009.

References

Other websites
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