Lord Mayor of Sheffield

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The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council. They are elected annually by the council. The post originated in 1843, with the appointment of William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield. Early mayors had significant powers, and chaired both council meetings and the bench of magistrates.[1]

In 1855, the then mayor was refused a good seat at the opening of the Paris Exhibition, as he did not have a chain of office. As a result, one was purchased the following year, and this has remained in use.[2]

In 1897, in the same year as the opening of Sheffield Town Hall, the Mayor was given the right to style himself the "Lord Mayor". To mark this, the first Lord Mayor, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, gave the Sheffield Mace to mark the royal authority invested in the post.[3]

The Lord Mayor has the use of the Lord Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall, an official badge and the honorary presidency of several organisations. The Lord Mayor's Awards and the Lord Mayor's Charity Fund are local institutions organised in the name of the Lord Mayor.

Notable former Mayors include George Bassett, creator of Liquorice Allsorts and the steelmaker Mark Firth.

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[edit] List of Mayors of Sheffield

Year Name Party
1843 William Jeffcock
1844 Thomas Dunn
1845 Samuel Butcher
1846 Henry Wilkinson
1847 Edward Vickers
1848 T. R. Barker
1849 Thomas Birks
1850 T. B. Turton
1851 John Carr
1852 W. A. Matthews
1853 F. Hoole
1854 Wm. Fisher
1855 Wm. Fawcett
1856 J. W. Pye Smith Liberal
1857 R. Jackson
1858 Charles Atkinson
1859 Henry E. Hoole
1860 Henry Vickers
1861-62 Sir John Brown Conservative
1863-64 Thomas Jessop
1865 W. E. Laycock
1866-67 John Webster Conservative
1868-71 Thomas Moore Conservative
1872 John Fairburn
1873 Joseph Hallam
1874 Mark Firth
1875 John Tasker
1876 George Bassett Conservative
1877 Sir Frederick Mappin Liberal
1878 David Ward
1879 Edward Tozer
1880 Abram Brooksbank
1881-82 Michael Hunter, Jnr.
1883-34 Wm. Henry Brittain
1885 John W. Pye Smith Liberal
1886 Sir Henry Stephenson Liberal Unionist
1887-78 William Johnson Clegg Liberal
1889 J. B. Jackson
1890 Samuel Osborn[4]
1891 William Johnson Clegg Liberal
1891 Joseph Gamble
1892 J. Batty Langley Liberal
1893 E. S. Foster Liberal
1894 Sir Charles. T. Skelton
1895-96 Duke of Norfolk

[edit] List of Lord Mayors of Sheffield

1897 Duke of Norfolk, KG[5]
1897 George Franklin
1898 William Edwin Clegg
1899 Samuel Roberts
1900 John Eaton
1901 George Senior
1902 John Wycliffe Wilson
1903 John Rutland Wheatley
1904 Joseph Jonas
1905 Herbert Hughes, CMG
1906 Robert Styring
1907 Harry P. Marsh
1908 Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO
1909 Earl Fitzwilliam, KCVO, DSO
1910 Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO
1911 Albert John Hobson
1912 Samuel Osborn
1913 George Ernest Branson
1914 Oliver Charles Wilson
1915 Frederick Arthur Warlow
1916 Walter Appleyard
1917 Alfred Cattell
1918 William Irons
1919 Samuel Roberts
1920 William Farewell Wardley
1921 Charles Simpson
1922 William Carter Fenton
1923 Arthur James Blanchard
1924 Alfred James Bailey
1925 Joseph Benson
1926 John George Graves
1927 Moses Humberstone
1928 Harry Bolton
1929 Charles William Beardsley
1930 Harold Warters Jackson
1931 Thomas Henry Watkins
1932 Ernest Wilson
1933 Fred Marshall
1934 Percival J. M. Turner CBE, JP
1935 Frank Thraves
1936 Ann Eliza Longden
1937 Ernest George Rowlinson
1938 William Joseph Hunter
1939 John Arthur Longden
1940 Luther Frederick Milner
1941 Charles Josiah Mitchell
1942 Harry England Bridgwater
1943 Samuel Hartley Marshall
1944 George Ernest Marlow
1945 Charles William Gascoigne
1946 Ernest Storm Graham
1947 William Ernest Yorke[6]
1949 Grace Tebbutt
1950 Herbert Keeble Hawson
1951 Thomas William Bridgland
1952 Peter Buchanan
1953 Oliver Spencer Holmes
1954 John Henry Bingham
1955 Joseph Curtis
1956 Robert Neill
1957 Albert Ballard
1958 John William Holland
1959 Alfred Vernon Wolstenholme
1960 Harold Slack
1961 James Wilfred Sterland, OBE
1962 Percival Cyril John Taylor Kirkman
1963 Isidore Lewis
1964 Albert Smith, OBE
1965 John Stenton Worrall, JP
1966 Lionel Stephen Edward Farris, JP
1967 Harold Lambert, OBE
1968 Patience Sheard, JP
1969 Daniel Joseph O’Neill, JP
1970 John Basil Peile, JP[4]
1970 Sidney Irwin Dyson
1971 Harold Hebblethwaite, JP
1972 Martha Strafford
1973 Stanley Kenneth Arnold
1974 Leonard Cope
1975 Albert Edward Richardson
1976 Reginald Edward Munn, JP
1977 Winifred Mary Golding, LL.D
1978 Peter Harold Jackson
1979 George Armitage
1980 William Owen, JP
1981 Enid Anne Hattersley
1982 Gordon Wragg, OBE, JP
1983 Peter Morgan Newton Jones
1984 George Roy Munn
1985 Dorothy Walton, JP
1986 Frank Prince
1987 Peter Horton
1988 Phyllis May Smith
1989 Anthony Damms
1990 James Moore
1991 Doris Askham
1992 William Jordan
1993 Qurban Hussain
1994 Ian Saunders
1995 David Heslop
1996 Peter Price
1997 Anthony Arber
1998 Frank White
1999 Trevor Bagshaw
2000 Patricia Midgley
2001 David Baker
2002 Marjorie Barker
2003 Diane Leek
2004 Mike Pye
2005 Roger Davison
2006 Jackie Drayton
2007 Arthur Dunworth

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Sheffield City Council - History of the Lord Mayor
  2. ^ Sheffield City Council - Lord Mayor's Chain
  3. ^ Sheffield City Council - The City Mace
  4. ^ a b Elected in place of the late Lord Mayor
  5. ^ Lord Mayor from July to November 1897
  6. ^ November 1947 to May 1949

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