List of Lord Mayors of Manchester

This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of Manchester in the North West of England.

Mayors of Manchester

1838–1892

No.	Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	Sir Thomas Potter	1838 – 1840	2	father of Sir John Potter, who was Mayor 1848–1851.
2	William Neil	1840 – 1842	2
3	James Kershaw	1842 – 1843	1
4	Alexander Kay	1843 – 1845	2
5	William Benjamin Watkins	1845 – 1846	1
6	Sir Elkanah Armitage	1846 – 1848	2
7	Sir John Potter	1848 – 1851	3	son of Sir Thomas Potter, who was Mayor 1838–1840.
8	Robert Barnes	1851 – 1853	2
9	Benjamin Nicholls	1853 – 1855	2
10	Sir James Watts	1855 – 1857	2
11	Ivie Mackie	1857 – 1860	3
12	Matthew Curtis	1860 – 1861	1
13	Thomas Goadsby	1861 – 1862	1
14	Abel Heywood (1st time)	1862 – 1863	1
15	John Marsland Bennett	1863 – 1865	2
16	William Bowker	1865 – 1866	1
17	Robert Neill	1866 – 1868	2
18	John Grave	1868 – 1871	3
19	William Booth	1871 – 1873	2
20	Alfred Watkin	1873 – 1874	1
21	John King	1874 – 1875	1
22	Matthew Curtis	1875 – 1876	1
23	Abel Heywood (2nd time)	1876 – 1877	1
24	Charles Sydney Grundy	1877 – 1879	2
25	Henry Patteson	1879 – 1880	1
26	Sir Thomas Baker	1880 – 1882	2
27	John Hopkinson	1882 – 1883	1
28	Philip Goldschmidt (1st time)	1883 – 1884	1
29	Sir John James Harwood (1st time)	1884 – 1885	1
30	Philip Goldschmidt (2nd time)	1885 – 1886	1
31	Matthew Curtis	1886 – 1887	1
32	Sir John James Harwood (2nd time)	1887 – 1888	2
33	William Batty	1888 – 1889	1
34	Sir John Mark	1889 – 1891	2	The first Mayor of the County Borough.
35	Sir Bosdin Thomas Leech	1891 – 1892	1

Lord Mayors of Manchester

19th century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	Sir Anthony Marshall	1892 – 1894	2
2	Abraham Evans Lloyd	1894 – 1896	2
3	John Foulkes Roberts	1896 – 1897	1
4	Robert Gibson	1897 – 1898	1
5	Sir William Henry Voudrey	1898 – 1899	1
6	Thomas Briggs	1899 – 1901	2

20th century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
7	Sir James Hoy	1901 – 1902	1
8	John Royle	1902 – 1903	1
9	Sir Thomas Thornhill Shann	1903 – 1905	2
10	James Herbert Thewlis	1905 – 1906	1
11	John Harrop	1906 – 1907	1
12	Sir Edward Holt, Bart.	1907 – 1909	2
13	Sir Charles Behrens	1909 – 1911	2
14	Sir Samuel Walter Royse	1911 – 1913	2
15	Sir Daniel McCabe, DL	1913 – 1915	2
16	Arthur George Copeland	1915 – 1916	1
17	Sir Thomas Smethhurst	1916 – 1917	1
18	Sir Alexander Porter	1917 – 1918	1
19	John Makeague	1918 – 1919	1
20	Sir William Kay, Kt. (1st time)	1919	1
21	Tom Fox, OBE	1919 – 1920	1
22	Sir William Kay, Kt. (2nd time)	1920 – 1921	1
23	Ernest Emil Darwin Simon	1921 – 1922	1	knighted in 1932, created Baron Simon of Wythenshawe in 1947.
24	Sir William Cundiff	1922 – 1923	1
25	William Turner Jackson	1923 – 1924	1
26	Sir Frederick Joseph West, Kt, GBE	1924 – 1925	1
27	Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell, Kt, CBE	1925 – 1926	1
28	James Henry Swales	1926 – 1927	1
29	Sir William Davy, Kt	1927 – 1928	1
30	Lt-Col George Westcott, OBE	1928 – 1929	1
31	Sir Robert Noton Barclay, Kt	1929 – 1930	1
32	George Frank Titt	1930 – 1931	1
33	Ellis Green	1931 – 1932	1
34	Sir William Walker, Kt	1932 – 1933	1
35	Joseph Binns, MBE	1933 – 1934	1
36	Samuel Woollam	1934 – 1935	1
37	Thomas Stone Williams	1935 – 1936	1
38	Joseph Toole	1936 – 1937	1
39	Joseph Crookes Grimes, OBE	1937 – 1938	1
40	Sir William Kay, Kt. (3rd time)	1938	1
41	Elijah John Hart	1938 – 1939	1
42	George Harold White	1939 – 1940	1
43	Robert Griffith Edwards	1940 – 1941	1
44	Wright Robinson	1941 – 1942	1
45	John Septimus Hill	1942 – 1943	1
46	Leonard Bramwell Cox	1943 – 1944	1
47	William Philip Jackson	1944 – 1945	1
48	Hugh Lee	1945 – 1946	1
49	Thomas Henry Adams	1946 – 1947	1
50	Dame Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones, DBE	1947 – 1949	2
51	Robert Moss,	1949 – 1950	1
52	Colonel Samuel Percy Dawson, CBE, MM, TD, DL	1950 – 1951	1
53	William Collinson, OBE	1951 – 1952	1
54	Douglas Gosling	1952 – 1953	1
55	Abraham Moss	1953 – 1954	1
56	Sir Richard Harper, Kt	1954 – 1955	1
57	Tom Regan	1955 – 1956	1
58	Harry Sharp	1956 – 1957	1
59	Sir Lesle Lever MP	1957 – 1958	1	created Baron Lever in 1975.
60	James Edward Fitzsimons	1958 – 1959	1
61	Harold Quinney, DL	1959 – 1960	1
62	Arthur Donovan	1960 – 1961	1
63	Sir Lionel Biggs, Kt	1961 – 1962	1
64	Sir Robert Thomas, Kt, DL	1962 – 1963	1
65	Robert Carr Rogers, CBE	1963 – 1964	1
66	Dr William Chadwick	1964 – 1965	1
67	Bernard Sydney Langton, CBE	1965 – 1966	1
68	Nellie Beer, OBE, DL	1966 – 1967	1
69	Dame Elizabeth Yarwood, DBE, DL	1967 – 1968	1
70	Harold Stockdale	1968 – 1969	1
71	Neil Gowanloch Westbrook	1969 – 1970	1
72	William Atkinson Downward, DL	1970 – 1971	1
73	Douglas John Edwards	1971 – 1972	1
74	Edward Grant	1972 – 1973	1
75	Kenneth Collis	1973 – 1974	1
76	F. J. Balcombe, JP	1974 – 1975	1	The first Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough
77	Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw	1975 – 1976	1
78	Kenneth Franklin	1976 – 1977	1
79	Robert Crawford	1977 – 1978	1
80	Trevor Thomas	1978 – 1979	1
81	G.W.G. Fitzsimons	1979 – 1980	1
82	Winnie Smith	1980 – 1981	1
83	Hugh Lee	1981 – 1982	1
84	Clifford Tomlinson	1982 – 1983	1
85	Dr M. J. Taylor	1983 – 1984	1
86	Harold Tucker	1984 – 1985	1
87	Kenneth Strath	1985 – 1986	1
88	Kathleen Robinson	1986 – 1987	1
89	Eileen Kelly	1987 – 1988	1
90	Patricia Conquest	1988 – 1989	1
91	Yomi Mambu	1989 – 1990	1
92	John Gilmore	1990 – 1991	1
93	George Chadwick	1991 – 1992	1
94	William Egerton	1992 – 1993	1
95	William T Risby	1993 – 1994	1
96	Sheila Smith	1994 – 1995	1
97	Joyce Keller	1995 – 1996	1
98	Derek Shaw	1996 – 1997	1
99	Gerry Carroll	1997 – 1998	1
100	Gordon Conquest	1998 – 1999	1
101	Tony Burns	1999 – 2000	1

21st century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
102	Hugh Barrett	2000 – 2001	1
103	John Smith	2001 – 2002	1
104	Roy Walters, BEM, JP	2002 – 2003	1
105	Audrey Jones, JP	2003 – 2004	1
106	Tom O'Callaghan	2004 – 2005	1
107	Mohammed Afzal Khan	2005 – 2006	1
108	James Ashley	2006	1	Died in office.
109	David Sandiford	2006 – 2007	1
110	Glynn Evans	2007 – 2008	1
111	Mavis Smitheman	2008 – 2009	1
112	Alison Firth	2009 – 2010	1

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