Mayor of Peterborough
Appearance
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Not to be confused with Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough or List of mayors of Peterborough, Ontario.
The English city of Peterborough has had a mayor since 1847.[1]
Current role
[edit ]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
[edit ]- 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.[4]
- 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 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
[edit ]References
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- Betty Chambers (2015). Victorian Peterborough & Mr Mayor: The Story of John Whitwell and Henry Pearson Gates. Betty Chambers MBE. ISBN 978-1-782-80492-5.