List of mayors of Hawthorn explained

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

NameEstablished
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)

ChairmanTerm
1 1860-1862
2 1862-1863

Hawthorn mayors (1863–1994)

ChairmanTermBio
3 1863-1864
4 1864-1865
5 John de la Roche Bragge1865-1866Roche Bragge (c. 1816 - 9 May 1875) was an Australian surgeon.[1]

Bragge was living in Victoria and working as a doctor as of 1854.[2] 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.[3] [4]

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.[5] As of 1870 he was practicing as a surgeon in Hawthorn.[6]

In 1875 Bragge died at his residence in Hawthorn.[7]

6 Edward Augustus Atkyns1866-1867
7 Frederick Walsh1867-1868
8 Henry Lawes1868-1870
9 Michael O’Grady1870-1871
10 Alfred William Harston1871-1872
11 Charles Baker1872-1873
12 John Stevenson Denny1873-1874
13 Edward Sayce1874-1876
14 William Cleverdon1876-1877
15 Robert Elias Wallen1877-1879
16 William Cleverdon1879-1880
17 Alexander Millie1880-1882
18 William Bell1882-1883
19 James Swan1883-1884
20 William Thomas Wallis1884-1885
21 William Cowper1885-1886
22Daniel George Cullen1886-1887
23Thomas Barrett1887-1888
24George Grant Munro1888-1889
25James Westley1889-1890
26Francis Gillman1891
27Charles Edgerton1891-1892
28Robert William Hooke1892-1893
29Percy Joseph Russell1893-1894
30Robert Thomson Barbour1894-1895 -31James Scoular Riddell1895-1896
32Charles Dalley1896-1897
33Richard Ardagh1897-1898
34Arthur Norman Smith1898-1899
35John Adams1899-1900
36Frederick William McDonald1900-1901
37William Cowper1901-1902
38George Swinburne1902-1903
39Benjamin Goldsmith1903-1904
40William Andrews1904-1905
41Percy Joseph Russell1905-1906
42Charles Dalley1906-1907
43Henry Sayers Crocker1907-1908 -44Henry Henningsen1908-1909 -45David Henry Dureau1909-1910
46Andrew Roche1910-1911
47William George Burton1911-1912
48John V.M. Wood1912-1913
49Robert Thomas Barbour1913-1914
50Edward Charles Rigby1914-1915
51Percy Joseph Russell1915-1917
52Robert William Lord1917-1918
53Edward Ward1918-1919
54Frank Ogglethorpe Wills Sambell1919-1920
55Thomas Henson Kitchin1920-1921 -56John Chalmers1921-1922
57Joseph Brook Pridmore1922-1923
58Walter James Lancaster1923-1924
59Edward Charles Rigby1924-1925
60George William Simpson1925-1926
61Henry Angus Wallace1926-1927
62David Henry Evans1927-1928
63Edward Ward1928-1929
64William Thomas Lewis1929-1930
65Joseph Brook Pridmore1930-1931
66John Williams George1931-1932
67George William Simpson1932-1935
68Edward Charles Rigby1935-1936
69David Henry Evans1936-1937
70John Austin Gray1937-1938
71Joseph Fowler 1938-1939 -72William Thomas Lewis1939-1940
73Joseph Brook Pridmore1940-1941 -74John Williams George1941-1942
75William Campbell Porteous1942-1943
76Joseph Brook Pridmore1943-1944 -77William Thomas Lewis1944-1945
78Joseph Fowler1945-1946 -79William Robert Gordon Longmuir1946-1947 -80Edward Charles Rigby1947-1948
81Leslie Tyack1948-1949
82Harry Woolven Moffat1949-1950
83Joseph Brook Pridmore1950-1951
84Harold William George1951-1953
85David Swan1953-1954
86Thomas Howard Jackett1954-1955
87Alan Robert Patterson1955-1956 -88Graham Sterling Slobom1956-1957
89Harold William George1957-1958
90William Richard Tresise1958-1959
91Gerald Stephen Phillips1959-1960
92 Max William Yunghanns1960-1961
93 Keith Charles Miller1961-1962
94Harold William George1962-1963
95Thomas Howard Jackett1963-1964
96Reginald Iliff Harris1964-1965
97Donald Ingersole1965-1966
98Geoffrey Alfred Saunders1966-1967
99 William Piper Brown1967-1968
100George Loton1968-1969
101Lloyd Emerson Albert Orton1969-1970
102 John Stanley Head1970-1971 -103 Keith Charles Miller1971-1972
104 Walter Blair Dobson1972-1973
105 John Stanley Head1973-1974
106 John Hampton Hartwig Beale1974-1975
107 Brian James Bergin1975-1976 -108 Betty May Marginson1976-1977
109 William Hugh Nankivell1977-1978
110 Guy Arundel Newton Brown1978-1979 -111 Salvatore Coffa1979-1980
112 Leslie Julian Kausman1980-1981
113 Jeffrey Alfred Wunderlich1981-1982 -114 Paul Alexander Jones1982-1983
115 Rosalind McMillan1983-1984
116 John Hampton Hartwig Beale1984-1985
117 Jill Short1985-1986
118 Salvatore Coffa1986-1987
119 Guy Arundel Newton Brown1987-1988
120 Barbara van Ernst1988-1989
121 John Hampton Hartwig Beale1989-1990
122 Jane Laidley Nathan1990-1991
123 Barbara van Ernst1991-1992
124 Ken Hare-Brown1992-1993 -125 Nigel Kirby1993-1994

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. News: Family Notices. Leader. Melbourne, VIC. 26 . 15 May 1875. 12 August 2021 .
  2. News: Domestic Intelligence: Dangerous Lunatic. The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 5 . 25 April 1854. 12 August 2021 .
  3. News: Advertising: Legislative Council and Assembly. Notice to Electors. The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 3 . 5 April 1856. 12 August 2021 .
  4. News: The Kew Shooting Case. The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 4 . 19 June 1856. 12 August 2021 .
  5. Web site: 2013. "Big Wigs" of Hawthorn. 11 August 2021 . Hawthorn Historical Society.
  6. News: Alleged Use of Poisonous Medicine. The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 6 . 7 April 1870. 12 August 2021 .
  7. News: Family Notices. Leader. Melbourne, VIC. 26 . 15 May 1875. 12 August 2021 .

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