List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide explained

Post:Lord Mayor of Adelaide
Flag:City of Adelaide Logo.png
Flagsize:180px
Incumbent:Jane Lomax-Smith
Incumbentsince:November 2022
Style:The Right Honourable
First:James Hurtle Fisher
Website:Website

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Adelaide, a local government area of South Australia.[1]

The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of nineteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation, followed by the councillors' election of a mayor. The first mayor was James Hurtle Fisher and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.[2]

Mayors (1840–1919)

Mayor Term Image
1 1840–1842
2 1842–1843
3 City managed as Government Department 1843–1849
4 City managed by Commissioners 1849–1852
5 1852
6 1852–1854
7 1854–1855
8 1855–1858
9 1858–1859
10 1859
11 1859–1862
12 1862–1863
13 1863–1864
14 1864–1866
15 1866–1869
16 1869–1871
17 1871–1873
18 1873–1874
19 1874–1875
20 1875–1877
21 1877–1878
22 1878–1879
23 1879–1882
24 1882–1883
25 1883–1886
26 1886–1887
27 1887–1888
28 1888–1889
29 1889–1890
30 1891–1892
31 1892–1894
32 1894–1898
33 1898–1901
34 1901–1904
35 1904–1907
36 1907–1909
37 1909–1911
38 [3] 1911–1913
39 1913–1915
40 1915–1917
41 1917–1919

Lord mayors (since 1919)

The Official styled title of the Lord Mayor of Adelaide is The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide.

The styled title The Right Honourable, (which has no connection with the privy council) attaches to the title of Lord Mayor, and not to their names, and is relinquished upon leaving office.

! !! Lord Mayor !! Term !! Image
41 1919
42 1919–1921
43 1921–1923
44 1923–1925
45 1925–1927
46 1927–1930
47 1930–1933
48 1933–1937
49 1937–1941
50 1941–1943
51 1943–1946
52 1946–1949
53 1949[4]
54 1949–1950
55 1950–1953
56 1954–1957
57 1957–1960
58 , Sir John Glover 1960–1963
59 1963–1966
60 1966–1968
61 1968–1971
62 1971–1973
63 1973–1975
64 1975–1977
65 1977–1979
66 1979–1981
67 1981–1983
68 1983–1985
69 1985–1987
70 1987–1993
71 1993–1997
72 1997–2000
73 2000–2003
74 2003–2010
75 2010–2014
76 2014–2018
77 2018–2022
78 2022–present

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lord Mayors and Mayors of the City of Adelaide . adelaidecitycouncil.com.au . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130130191335/http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/assets/acc/Council/docs/acc%20lord%20mayor%20and%20mayor%20list.pdf . 30 January 2013 .
  2. Web site: History of the Council . adelaidecitycouncil.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131212205702/http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/council/history . 12 December 2013 .
  3. Until the widower Bonython remarried in December 1912, his sister Mrs H. A. Parsons served as acting Mayoress at official functions.
  4. A. E. W. Short died within 3 weeks of assuming office