Mayor of Winchester
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The Office of Mayor of Winchester is the second oldest mayoralty in England, dating back to the period when Winchester was the capital of Wessex and England. The Mayor of Winchester thus stands second only to the Lord Mayor of the City of London in the order of precedence of civic heads.
The exact date of the conferment of full mayoral rights is not known, since the original charter cannot be traced. When London petitioned the King for a grant of mayoralty in 1190, Winchester was not cited as precedent (as were certain French cities), but by 1200 there was reference to the mayoralty as an existing office. It is, therefore, safe to say that the office dates back to the 1190s.
The earliest Mayors sometimes held the office for several years in succession, but from the 13th century to the present day, the Mayor has been chosen annually. Until the 16th century, the Mayor elect was required to travel to Westminster to receive the royal assent.
Winchester is one of just five local authorities in England to have an official residence for its Mayor. Abbey House was built in about 1700 and sited in the Abbey Gardens just off The Broadway in Winchester. It was acquired by the City Council in 1889. The house stands on the site of a monastic establishment known as Nunnaminster and later as St. Mary's Abbey, which was founded around AD900 by Alfred's Queen Ealhswith. The Abbey survived until the late 1530s when it was formally surrendered to the Crown as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Mayors of Winchester since 1900
2007-2008 - Chris Pines
2006-2007 - Sue Nelmes
2005-2006 - Neil Baxter
2004-2005 - Cecily Sutton
2003-2004 - Jean Hammerton
2002-2003 - John Steel
2001-2002 - Therese Evans
2000-2001 - Georgina Busher
1999-2000 - Allan Mitchell
1998-1999 - George Fothergill
1997-1998 - Norman Hibdige
1996-1997 - Brian Blunt
1995-1996 - Patricia Norris
1994-1995 - Raymond Pearce
1993-1994 - Susan Glasspool
1992-1993 - Wing Cdr John Nunn
1991-1992 - Capt Richard Bates
1990-1991 - Pamela Peskett
1989-1990 - Frederick Allgood JP
1988-1989 - Commander B Hall MBE
1987-1988 - Major D Covill MBE DCM
1986-1987 - Sue Gentry
1985-1986 - Jean Freeman
1984-1985 - J Broadway
1983-1984 - Frederick Peachey
1982-1983 - Albert Austen
1981-1982 - Ian Bidgood
1980-1981 - M Pamela Pitt
1979-1980 - John Green
1978-1979 - John Flook
1977-1978 - David Ball
1976-1977 - Gwendoline Shave
1975-1976 - Alan Cotterill
1974-1975 - Barbara Carpenter Turner
1973-1974 - Cyril Taylor
1972-1973 - T David Sermon
1971-1972 - Alice Cleary
1970-1971 - Stanley Steel
1969-1970 - S E Spicer
1968-1969 - Stewart Green
1967-1968 - D Jeffrey Smith
1966-1967 - Barbara Carpenter Turner
1965-1966 - Cyril Bones
1964-1965 - Stanley Steel
1963-1964 - Dorothy Richards
1962-1963 - John Hutchins
1961-1962 - Vera Neate
1960-1961 - Lt Colonel Donald Charles Spelman
1959-1960 - Margaret E L Lowden
1958-1959 - Fendall W Harvey Pratt
1957-1958 - Evelyn Mary Barnes
1956-1957 - Major Paul Henry Benson Woodhouse
1955-1956 - Barbara Gertrude Thackeray
1954-1955 - Adelaide Charles(died in office then Doris Edmeades)
1953-1954 - Reginald Dutton
1952-1953 - Doris Edmeades
1951-1952 - Arthur Edmonds
1950-1951 - Reginald Evans
1949-1950 - Cyril Taylor
1947-1949 - Doris Crompton
1946-1947 - Cyril Bones
1945-1946 - Charles Sankey
1938-1945 - Francis Griffiths
1937-1938 - William Richardson
1936-1937 - John Pinsent
1935-1936 - Arthur Edmonds
1934-1935 - John Hodder
1933-1934 - Frank Newton
1932-1933 - Hew Ross
1931-1932 - William Lansdell
1930-1931 - Walter Hamblin
1929-1930 - Harry Collis
1928-1929 - William Symes
1926-1928 - Frederick Manley
1925-1926 - William Hayward
1924-1925 - Henry Johnson
1922-1924 - Herbert Vacher
1921-1922 - Stanley Clifton
1919-1921 - Arthur Dyer
1914-1919 - Alfred Edmeades
1913-1914 - Harry Sealey
1912-1913 - Howard Elkington
1911-1912 - Frederick Holdaway
1910-1911 - John Furley
1909-1910 - Harold Stratton
1908-1909 - Frederick King
1907-1908 - William Forder
1906-1907 - Reginald Harris
1905-1906 - Chaloner Shenton
1904-1905 - Fred Morgan
1903-1904 - George Ward
1902-1903 - James Fort
1901-1902 - Bertram Cancellor
1900-1901 - Alfred Bowke
