List of mayors of Dartmouth, Devon explained

Dartmouth received borough status in 1341 with the right to elect a mayor. In 1974 the town became part of South Hams District. There is still a Town Council and a mayor, but with reduced powers.^[1]

The following have been mayors of Dartmouth, Devon, England:

14th century

• 1374–75: John Hawley, MP for Dartmouth, 1390, 1393, 1394 and 1402 ^[2]
• 1376–77: John Hawley
• 1378–79: John Hawley
• 1382–83: John Hawley
• 1385–86: John Hawley
• 1387–89: John Hawley
• 1390–91: John Hawley
• 1392–95: John Hawley
• 1397–99: John Hawley
• 1400–01: John Hawley

16th Century

• 1547-48: Nicholas Roupe, MP for Dartmouth 1553^[3]
• 1551-52: Gilbert Roupe, MP for Dartmouth 1553^[4]
• 1554=55: Nicholas Roupe, MP for Dartmouth 1553^[3]
• 1593: Nicholas Hayman, MP for Dartmouth 1586 and 1593^[5]
• 1597–98: Thomas Holland, MP for Dartmouth, 1593, 1604 and 1614 ^[6]

17th century

• 1602: Nicholas Hayman
• c.1620: Andrew Voysey, MP for Dartmouth, 1640

[William Plumleigh] Recvr. Dartmouth 1610–11,2 mayor 1617–18, 1625–6, 1632–3, 1641-2^[7]

20th century

• 1900-01 Thomas Wilton
• 1901-02 William Philip Ditcham
• 1902-03 John William Medway (Liberal)^[8]
• 1903-06 Richard Burford Seale
• 1906-10 John Brown
• 1910-11 Edward Ethelbert Lort Phillips
• 1911-14 Charles Peek
• 1914-18 Thomas Wilton
• 1918-19 Sir Thomas Wilton
• 1919-21 Charles Peek
• 1921-22 Algernon Joseph Yorke
• 1922-23 Sir Alfred G. Bourne
• 1923-29 Dr Henry J. Campbell
• 1929-32 James Harry Smith
• 1932-33 George Henry Marshall
• 1933-36 Ernest Albert Travers
• 1936-37 William Thomas Pillar
• 1937-38 George Henry Marshall
• 1938-45 William George Row
• 1945-46 Herbert George Middleton
• 1946-47 Frank Scardifield
• 1947-50 Bertie Lavers
• 1950-51 James Clifford S.R. Stoneman
• 1951-53 Albert Montague William Chapman
• 1953-54 Harold John Adams
• 1954-56 Dorothy Holwill, 1st woman mayor
• 1956-57 Bertie Lavers
• 1957-58 Norman Hewson
• 1958-60 Harold Charles Lloyd
• 1960-61 James William Lee Palin
• 1961-62 Richard Martin Hoare
• 1962-63 Dorothy Holwill
• 1963-65 Eric S. Rimmer
• 1965-66 Margaret V.M. Keane
• 1966-67 Harold G. White
• 1967-68 Robert Middleton
• 1968-69 Eric J. Cook
• 1969-70 Albert J. Mashford
• 1970-71 Eric J. Cook
• 1971-73 Frank C. Mullett
• 1973-74Irene Ethel Frances Scawn
• 1974-75 Albert J. Mashford
• 1975-76 Brenda Bradley Breakwell
• 1976-77 Brian Alfred Goss
• 1977-78 Richard Martin Hoare
• 1978-80 Dennis Arthur Woods
• 1980-81 Irene Ethel Frances Scawn
• 1981-83 Donald William Rablin Webb
• 1983-85 Beryl Mary Calder
• 1985-86 Leslie William Savage
• 1986-89 Donald William Rablin Webb
• 1989-90 Bryan Martin Measures
• 1990-93 Brian J. Edgington
• 1993-95 Jack Cutter
• 1995-97 Margaret A Roberts
• 1997-99 Paul J. Darby
• 1999-2000 Melvyn Stone

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21st century

• 2000–05: Richard Rendle
• 2005–06: Peter Norton
• 2006–07: Iris Pritchard
• 2007–08: Iris Pritchard
• 2008–09: Debbie Morris ^[10]
• 2010–11: Richard Rendle
• 2011–13: Paul Allen
• 2014–15: Rob M Lyon ^[11]
• 2016–17: Rob M Lyon ^[12]
• 2017–18: Richard Cooke ^[12]
• 2018–19: Rob M Lyon ^[12]

External links

• List of Mayors

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of Dartmouth. Dartmouth. 4 August 2014.
2. Web site: HAWLEY, John I (d.1408), of Dartmouth, Devon.. History of Parliament Online. 4 August 2014.
3. Web site: ROUPE, Nicholas (By 1506-55 or later), of Dartmouth, Devon. | History of Parliament Online.
4. Web site: ROUPE, Gilbert (By 1514-75/78), of Dartmouth, Devon. | History of Parliament Online.
5. Web site: Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys . HAYMAN, Nicholas (d.1606), of Totnes; later of Dartmouth, Devon. . History of Parliament Online . 2014-06-25.
6. Web site: HOLLAND, Thomas (-d.1618), of Dartmouth, Devon | History of Parliament Online.
7. 4 members of the Plumleigh family of Dartmouth served as Mayor of Dartmouth in the 16th & 17th centuries (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.595, pedigree of Plumleigh)
8. Election of Mayors . 12 November 1902 . 10 . 36923.
9. http://www.dartmouth-history.org.uk/dartmouth/soci/htm/102741_0.htm
10. Web site: Dartmouth Town Mayor.
11. Web site: Dartmouth Town Council - Your Councillors . 2014-06-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121103223730/http://www.dartmouthtowncouncil.org/Core/Dartmouth/Pages/Your_Councillors_1.aspx . 2012-11-03 .
12. Web site: A new mayor was elected at the town's council meeting. 7 March 2018 . Dartmouth Chronicle. 10 April 2019.