Mayor of Peterborough explained
The English city of Peterborough has had a mayor since 1847.[1]
Current role
As well as officiating at ceremonies, and representing the city, the mayor is the impartial chairman of the council.[2]
List of mayors since 1847
- 1874 - 1876 Henry Pearson Gates, JP[3] Gates represented himself, in his capacity as mayor against the crown in R. v Mayor of Peterborough, heard before Blackburn J.[4] 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 Sir 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
See also
Further reading
- Book: Victorian Peterborough & Mr Mayor: The Story of John Whitwell and Henry Pearson Gates. Betty Chambers. Betty Chambers MBE. 2015. 978-1-782-80492-5.
Notes and References
- Victoria County History of Northampton, Volume 7 pages 217. Constable, London (1906).
- https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/council/the-mayor/about-the-mayor
- The Solicitor's Journal, 20 November 1875, page 52, col 1
- The Weekly Reporter, Vol 23, p344-5, 6 March 1875