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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

Ralph Allen. Mayor 1742
Eleazer Pickwick. Mayor 1826
Handel Cossham. Mayor 1882–85
  • 1230: John de Porta (first recorded Mayor of Bath)[1]
  • 1237: Henry le Tayleur
  • 1249: Walter Falc. Sir Henry Tailor (Cissor)
  • 1262: Henry the Tailor
  • 1277: Henry 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
  • 1296: Thomas Sweyn
  • 1299: William Cook (Cocus)
  • 1300: William Cook. John le Veniur. John Cole
  • 1302: Peter le Brevitor. William Scuel
  • 1304: William Cook
  • 1307: Peter le Brevitor
  • 1310: William Cook
  • 1311: Walter Falconer
  • 1313: Peter le Brevitor
  • 1314: Richard Wytesone
  • 1316: John Baker (Pistor)
  • 1317: John Baker (Pistor)
  • 1318: Richard Wytestone
  • 1322: John Baker (Pistor)
  • 1323: John Cole
  • 1325: John de Wyk
  • 1328: John de Wyk
  • 1329: Adam Wytestone
  • 1330: William Cook
  • 1331: Alexander Dyer (Tinctor)
  • 1332: Roger Cole
  • 1333: William Sweyn
  • 1334: Alexander Dyer (Tinctor)
  • 1335: Adam Wytestone
  • 1336: Roger Cole
  • 1337: Alexander Dyer
  • 1338: Roger Crist
  • 1339: William Cubbel
  • 1340: Adam Wytestone
  • 1341: Alexander Dyer
  • 1342: Roger Crist
  • 1343: John Cole
  • 1344: William Cubbel
  • 1345: Adam Wytestone
  • 1346: Alexander Dyer
  • 1347: William Cubbel
  • 1348: William Cubbel
  • 1349: Roger Crist
  • 1350: Thomas Stote
  • 1351: Robert le Dyer
  • 1352: William Cubbel
  • 1353: Thomas Stote
  • 1354: Walter Carpenter
  • 1355: John Whittokesmede
  • 1356: William Serrel
  • 1357: William Cook
  • 1358: John Sheory
  • 1359: Robert le Dyer
  • 1360: John Whittokesmede
  • 1361: Walter Carpenter
  • 1362: John Gregory
  • 1363: John Gregory
  • 1364: John Whittokesmede
  • 1365: John Whittokesmede
  • 1366: John Gregory
  • 1367: John Gregory
  • 1369: John Whittokesmede
  • 1370: William Drayton
  • 1371: John Gregory
  • 1372: Robert Wattes
  • 1373: John Gregory
  • 1375: John Compe
  • 1376: John Gregory
  • 1377: John Compe
  • 1378: John Natton
  • 1379: Robert Wattes
  • 1380: John Natton
  • 1381: John Gregory
  • 1382: Richard Bedul
  • 1385: John Natton
  • 1388: Robert Waspray
  • 1390–1394: William Rous, MP for Bath
  • 1395: Robert Draper (MP for Bath, 1395)[3]
  • 1400: Roger Testwode
  • 1401: Roger Testwode
  • 1402: Roger Wasprey
  • 1403: Roger Testwode
  • 1404: Richard Widcombe (MP for Bath, 1413–1428)[4]
  • 1407: Roger Testwode
  • 1408: Ralph Hunt
  • 1409: John Savage
  • 1410: Ralph Hunt
  • 1411: Robert Waspray
  • 1412: John Savage
  • 1414: Ralph Hunt
  • 1416: Walter Rich (MP for Bath, 1414–1435)[5]
  • 1417: Ralph Hunt
  • 1418: Richard Wydcombe
  • 1420: Richard Wydcombe
  • 1422: Ralph Hunt
  • 1423: William Phelyppes
  • 1425: John Savage
  • 1426: William Hodgekyns
  • 1427: Richard Wydcombe
  • 1428: William Phelyppes
  • 1429: Ralph Hunt
  • 1433: William Phelyppes
  • 1434: William Phelyppes
  • 1435: William Hogedkyns
  • 1437: William Phelyppes
  • 1438: Walter Rich
  • 1441: William Hodgekyns
  • 1442: William Phelyppes
  • 1443: Walter Ryche
  • 1444: William Phelyppes
  • 1447: William Hodgekyns
  • 1449: William Cubbel
  • 1452: William Dreyton
  • 1454: Thomas Abell
  • 1455: John Austell
  • 1461: John Thomas
  • 1467: John Steere
  • 1468: William Stanburgh
  • 1471: William Hayne
  • 1473: William Stanburgh
  • 1474: Robert Rogers
  • 1475: Robert Batyn
  • 1476: William Stanburgh
  • 1477: Robert Rogers
  • 1488: William Tyler
  • 1492: Robert Batyn
  • 1497: Lawrence Leche
  • 1503: Richard Chapman
  • 1530: Thomas Welpley[6]
  • 1533: Henry Covell
  • 1534: William Horsington
  • 1540: Robert Style
  • 1543: John CHapman
  • 1544: Anthony Scrope
  • 1550–1551: John Clement, (MP for Bath, 1539)[7]
  • 1551: Edward Ludwell (MP for Bath, 1553)[8]
  • 1553: John Davys
  • 1554-5: Richard Chapman[9]
  • 1555: Thomas Ash
  • 1567: John Pearman
  • 1568: Robert Frauncys
  • 1569: Robert Frauncys
  • 1572: John Wyatt
  • 1573: William Walley[10]
  • 1574: William Cavell
  • 1575: Thomas Turner (MP for Bath, 1563)[11]
  • 1576–1577: George Pearman (MP for Bath, 1571–72)[12]
  • 1578: John Wyatt
  • 1579: Thomas Bushe
  • 1580: William Sharestone (Sherston) (MP for Bath, 1584–1604)[13]
  • 1581: William Walley[14]
  • 1582: George Pearman
  • 1583: John Chapman
  • 1584: William Sharestone
  • 1585: John Walley, Snr (MP for Bath, 1589)[15]
  • 1586: Thomas Fytche
  • 1587: John Sachefild
  • 1588: John Walley, Snr (MP for Bath, 1589)[15]
  • 1589: William Sharestone
  • 1591: Thomas Fytche
  • 1592: John Sachefild
  • 1593: William Chapman
  • 1594: William Heath[16]
  • 1595: William Moreford
  • 1596: John Sachfilde
  • 1597: Thomas Fytche (died). William Heath[16] (elected)
  • 1598: William Sharestone
  • 1599: John Chapman
  • 1603: William Sharestone
  • 1604-1605:Christopher Stone[17]
  • 1613: Richard Gay (MP for Bath, 1626)[18]
  • 1619: Richard Gay
  • 1625: Richard Gay
  • 1631: Richard Gay
  • 1634: Anthony Kingston[19]
  • 1644: John Parker[19]
  • 1656: John Boys[19]
  • 1677 Benjamin Baber[20]
  • 1687 Benjamin Baber[20]
  • 1700 Benjamin Baber[20]
  • 1742: Ralph Allen (postmaster and quarry-owner)[21]
  • 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)[21]
  • 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[21]
  • 1897: Charles Henry Simpson, Major
  • 1898: John Ricketts (died 13 July 1899)
  • 1899: Robert Edmund Dickinson, MP
  • 1900: Thomas Ball Silcock
  • 1901: Edward England Phillips
  • 1902: James Edward Henshaw[24]
  • 1903: Charles Henry Simpson, Major
  • 1904: Benjamin John
  • 1905: Charles Bryan Oliver
  • 1906: Sydney William Bush
  • 1907: Thomas Hodgson Miller
  • 1908: John William Knight
  • 1909: Charles Henry Simpson, Major (second time)
  • 1910: Thomas Ball Silcock (second time)
  • 1911: Thomas Forder Plowman
  • 1912: George Thomas Cooke
  • 1913: Preston King
  • 1914: Frederick W. Spear, (Wholesaler and Provision Merchant)
  • 1915: Harry Thomas Hatt
  • 1916: Charles Henry Long
  • 1917: Preston King (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)[21]
  • 1930: Thomas Sturge Cotterell
  • 1932: Rhodes G Cook
  • 1933: Horace Scott Davey, Lt Col
  • 1935 & 1939: James Sidney Carpenter,
  • 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
  • 1962: Gulielma Law
  • 1963: Royston Ernest Tucker
  • 1964: George Emanuel de Chazal Mayer
  • 1965: Ada Elsie May Hanna
  • 1966: Ronald Harry Purdie
  • 1967: Ronald Fred Emmerson
  • 1968: Roy Gordon Hiscocks
  • 1969: Alexander Stewart Polson
  • 1970: Walter Gower Huggett
  • 1971: Mabel Mary Grosvenor
  • 1972: Alec Louis Ricketts
  • 1973: Thomas John Cornish
  • 1974: William Percy Johns
  • 1975: Cicely Margaret Edmunds
  • 1976: Mary Elizabeth Rawlings
  • 1977: Raymond Charles Rosewarn
  • 1978: Kenneth John Holloway (died 10 December 1978)
  • 1979: George Durant Kersley, (elect 2 January 1979)
  • 1979: John Humphrey Lyons, Major
  • 1980: Brian James Hamlen
  • 1981: Leslie Albert William Ridd,
  • 1982: Laurence John Harris Coombs
  • 1983: Elgar Spencer Jenkins
  • 1984: Anthony John Rhymes
  • 1985: Jeannette Farley Hole
  • 1986: Samuel Leslie Jane
  • 1987: Ian Charles Dewey
  • 1988: John James Malloy, Commander
  • 1989: Anne Maureen McDonagh
  • 1990: Jeffrey William Higgins
  • 1991: Denis Reginald Lovelace
  • 1992: Eric Jack Trevor Snook
  • 1993: Edwina Harding Bradley
  • 1994: Howard William Routledge
  • 1995: Jeffrey Stephen Manning
  • 1996: Margaret Mary Feeny
  • 1997: Marian Frances Hammond
  • 1998: Ray David Cliffe
  • 1999: John Anthony Bailey

[26]

21st century

Source: Mayor's Office, Bath

  • 2000: Angela Godfrey
  • 2001: Marian McNeir
  • 2002: Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst
  • 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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  2. ^ The Right Worshipful The Mayor of Bath
  3. ^ "DRAPER, Robert, of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  4. ^ "WIDCOMBE (WYDECOMBE), Richard, of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  5. ^ "RICH, Walter (d.1446/7), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. ^ "WELPLEY, Thomas (c.1483-1534 or later), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  7. ^ "CLEMENT, John (by 1502-51/56), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  8. ^ "LUDWELL, Edward (by 1523-63/66), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  9. ^ "CHAPMAN, Richard (c.1504-80), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  10. ^ "WALLEY, John (d.1615), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  11. ^ "TURNER, Thomas II (d.c.1586), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  12. ^ "PEARMAN, George (d.1604), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  13. ^ "SHARESTON, William (d.1621), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  14. ^ "WALLEY, John (d.1615), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  15. ^ a b "WALLEY, John (d.1615), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  16. ^ a b "HEATH, William (d.1607), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  17. ^ "STONE, Christopher (c.1556-1614), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  18. ^ "GAY, Richard (by 1559–1641), of Walcott Street and Westgate Street, Bath and Claverton, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  19. ^ a b c "JOHN BOYS (MAYOR OF BATH 1656)" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ a b c "Stephen Baber". www.westminster-abbey.org. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  21. ^ a b c d "The Mayor of Bath". Mayor's Office, Bath. Retrieved 4 June 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ^ "Mayor of Bath.co.uk" (PDF). Mayor of Bath. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  23. ^ a b c Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004), "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. ref:odnb/57819, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57819, retrieved 1 November 2022
  24. ^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
  25. ^ "LETTER FROM JOSEPH PLOWMAN, MAYOR OF BATH". somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  26. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  28. ^ "Bath's Mayor and MP speak out for World Mental Health Day celebration". Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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