List of mayors of Bath
This is a list of mayors of Bath, a city in the county of Somerset, England, since the first recorded mayoralty in 1230.[1]
The mayor for the municipal year beginning 28 May 2022 is Rob Appleyard, who is the 795th mayor.[2]
The Mayor of Bath in 1964 was Councillor Miss Kathleen Harper, the first woman to hold the office
Pre-21st century
Source: Mayor's Office, Bath[dead link]
- 1230: John de Porta (first recorded Mayor of Bath)[3]
- 1237: Henry le Tayleur
- 1249: Walter Falc. Sir Henry Tailor (Cissor)
- 1262: Henry the Tailor
- 1277: Henry the Tailor
- 1279: Nicholas Biscop
- 1280: John de Cumbe. William Scleht, Henry Tailor (Cissor)
- 1283: Richard Tabernarius. Richard Everard
- 1284: Thomas Sweyn
- 1285: William Cook (Cocus). Roger de Dichegate. Nicholas Clerk (Clerico). Stephen de Devyses. John de Cumbe. Richard Everard. Gilbert Taylor.
- 1286: Gilbert Taylor
- 1290: Stephen Baker. Henry Tailor (Cissor)
- 1291: Stephen de Devyses
- 1293: John le Taylor. William Scuel. William Cook (Cocus). Peter le Brevitor
- 1295: Peter le Brevitor
- 1299: William Cook (Cocus)
- 1390–1394: William Rous, MP for Bath
- 1395: Robert Draper (MP for Bath, 1395)[4]
- 1404: Richard Widcombe (MP for Bath, 1413–1428)[5]
- 1416: Walter Rich (MP for Bath, 1414–1435)[6]
- 1417: Richard Widcombe
- 1426: Richard Widcombe
- 1428: Richard Widcombe
- 1438: Walter Rich
- 1443: Walter Rich
- 1530: Thomas Welpley[7]
- 1550–1551: John Clement, (MP for Bath, 1539)[8]
- 1551: Edward Ludwell (MP for Bath, 1553)[9]
- 1554-5: Richard Chapman[10]
- 1573: William Walley[11]
- 1575: Thomas Turner (MP for Bath, 1563)[12]
- 1576–1577: George Pearman (MP for Bath, 1571–72)[13]
- 1580: William Sharestone (Sherston) (MP for Bath, 1584–1604)[14]
- 1582: William Walley[15]
- 1582: George Pearman
- 1584: William Sharestone
- 1585: John Walley, Snr (MP for Bath, 1589)[16]
- 1589: William Sharestone
- 1595-1598: William Heath[17]
- 1598: William Sharestone
- 1603: William Sharestone
- 1604-1605:Christopher Stone[18]
- 1613: Richard Gay (MP for Bath, 1626)[19]
- 1619: Richard Gay
- 1625: Richard Gay
- 1631: Richard Gay
- 1634: Anthony Kingston[20]
- 1644: John Parker[20]
- 1656: John Boys[20]
- 1677 Benjamin Baber[21]
- 1687 Benjamin Baber[21]
- 1700 Benjamin Baber[21]
- 1742: Ralph Allen (postmaster and quarry-owner)[3]
- 1769: Thomas Warr Attwood (Bath City Architect)
- 1784: William Street (died in 1785)[22]
- 1796: John Palmer (Surveyor and Comptroller General of the Post Office, MP for Bath, 1801)
- 1809: John Palmer
- 1826: Eleazer Pickwick (director of Somerset Coal Canal)[3]
- 1837: Simon Barrow (Lansdown Grove, Bath)
- 1838: Henry Gordon (Rear Admiral)
- 1844: Henry Gordon
- 1848: William Sutcliffe
- 1861: Thomas Jolly[23]
- 1868: Thomas Jolly[23]
- 1872–1873 Robert Stickney Blaine (MP for Bath, 1885)
- 1882–1885: Handel Cossham (MP for Bristol East, 1885)
- 1893: General Reginald Quintin Mainwaring
- 1894: William Cracknell Jolly[23]
- 1896 & 1899: George Woodiwiss[3]
- 1897: Charles Henry Simpson, Major
- 1898: John Ricketts (died 13 July 1899)
- 1899: Robert Edmund Dickinson, MP JP
- 1900: Thomas Ball Silcock
- 1901: Edward England Phillips
- 1902: James Edward Henshaw[24]
- 1903: Charles Henry Simpson, JP, Major
- 1904: Benjamin John
- 1905: Charles Bryan Oliver
- 1906: Sydney William Bush
- 1907: Thomas Hodgson Miller
- 1908: John William Knight
- 1909: Charles Henry Simpson, JP, Major (second time)
- 1910: Thomas Ball Silcock (second time)
- 1911: Thomas Forder Plowman
- 1912: George Thomas Cooke
- 1913: Preston King MD
- 1914: Frederick W. Spear, JP (Wholesaler and Provision Merchant)
- 1915: Harry Thomas Hatt
- 1916: Charles Henry Long
- 1917: Preston King MD (second time)
- 1918: Alfred William Wills
- 1919: Percy Jackman
- 1920: James Henry Colmer
- 1921: Ernest John White
- 1922 & 1924–1928: Cedric Chivers (died 30 January 1929)
- 1923: Charles Henry Hacker
- 1929 & 1934: Aubrey Bateman (founder of Bath Royal United Hospital)[3]
- 1930: Thomas Sturge Cotterell MBE JP
- 1932: Rhodes G Cook
- 1933: Horace Scott Davey CMG, Lt Col The Hon
- 1935 & 1939: James Sidney Carpenter, LL D
- 1936: Walter Farley Long
- 1937: Leonard Graham Araham Adams (resigned 6 December 1937)
- 1937–1938: Adrian E. Hopkins (leading philatelist)
- 1940–1942: Aubrey Bateman
- 1944: Joseph Plowman[25]
- 1951: Reginald Wilfrid Pearson
- 1952: Alleyne Berry (father of Mary Berry)
- 1953: Adrian E. Hopkins
- 1954: William Henry Gallop
- 1955: Alfred Norman Dix
- 1956: Sydney Arthur Smith
- 1957: Tom Jones
- 1958: Hugh Duckworth Roberts
- 1959: Edward William Arthur Mortimer
- 1960: Arthur Cecil Knight
- 1961: William Henry Jordan Shepherd, JP
- 1962: Gulielma Law, MA JP Mrs
- 1963: Royston Ernest Tucker
- 1964: George Emanuel de Chazal Mayer
- 1965: Ada Elsie May Hanna, Mrs
- 1966: Ronald Harry Purdie
- 1967: Ronald Fred Emmerson
- 1968: Roy Gordon Hiscocks
- 1969: Alexander Stewart Polson
- 1970: Walter Gower Huggett
- 1971: Mabel Mary Grosvenor, Mrs
- 1972: Alec Louis Ricketts
- 1973: Thomas John Cornish
- 1974: William Percy Johns
- 1975: Cicely Margaret Edmunds, Miss
- 1976: Mary Elizabeth Rawlings, Miss
- 1977: Raymond Charles Rosewarn
- 1978: Kenneth John Holloway (died 10 December 1978)
- 1979: George Durant Kersley, MD (elect 2 January 1979)
- 1979: John Humphrey Lyons, Major
- 1980: Brian James Hamlen
- 1981: Leslie Albert William Ridd, JP
- 1982: Laurence John Harris Coombs
- 1983: Elgar Spencer Jenkins
- 1984: Anthony John Rhymes
- 1985: Jeannette Farley Hole, Mrs
- 1986: Samuel Leslie Jane
- 1987: Ian Charles Dewey
- 1988: John James Malloy, Commander
- 1989: Anne Maureen McDonagh, Mrs
- 1990: Jeffrey William Higgins
- 1991: Denis Reginald Lovelace
- 1992: Eric Jack Trevor Snook
- 1993: Edwina Harding Bradley, Mrs
- 1994: Howard William Routledge
- 1995: Jeffrey Stephen Manning
- 1996: Margaret Mary Feeny, MBE, Miss
- 1997: Marian Frances Hammond, Mrs
- 1998: Ray David Cliffe, MBE
- 1999: John Anthony Bailey
21st century
Source: Mayor's Office, Bath
- 2000: Angela Godfrey
- 2001: Marian McNeir, MBE
- 2002: Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst, MBE
- 2003: David James Hawkins
- 2004: Roger Alan Symonds
- 2005: Peter John Metcalfe
- 2006: Carol Ann Paradise
- 2007: Sharon Ball
- 2008: Tim Ball
- 2009: Colin Vincent Barrett
- 2010: Shaun McGall
- 2011: Bryan Chalker
- 2012: Andrew Furse
- 2013: Malcolm John Henry Lees
- 2014: Cherry Beath[27]
- 2015: Will Sandry[28]
- 2016: Paul Crossley
- 2017: Ian Gilchrist
- 2018: Patrick Anketell-Jones
- 2019: Gerry Curran
- 2020: Manda Rigby
- 2021: June Player
- 2022: Rob Appleyard
See also
References
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- ^ The Right Worshipful The Mayor of Bath
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