List of mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne

Mayors (1842–1902)

#	Mayor	Term
1	Henry Condell	1842–1844
2	Henry Moor	1844–1845
3	Sir James Frederick Palmer	1845–1846
4	Henry Moor	1846–1847
5	Andrew Russell	1847–1848
6	William Montgomerie Bell	1848–1849
7	Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves	1849–1850
8	William Nicholson	1850–1851
9	John Thomas Smith	1851–1853
10	John Hodgson	1853–1854
11	John Thomas Smith	1854–1856
12	Peter Davis	1856–1857
13	John Thomas Smith	1857–1858
14	Henry Swallows Walsh	1858–1859
15	Richard Eades	1859–1860
16	John Thomas Smith	1860–1861
17	Robert Bennett	1861–1862
18	Edward Cohen	1862–1863
19	John Thomas Smith	1863–1864
20	George Wragg	1864–1865
21	William Bayles	1865–1866
22	William Williams	1866–1867
23	James Stewart Butters	1867–1868
24	Thomas Moubray	1868–1869
25	Samuel Amess	1869–1870
26	Thomas McPherson	1870–1871
27	Orlando Fenwick	1871–1872
28	Thomas O'Grady	1872–1873
29	John McIlwraith	1873–1874
30	James Gatehouse	1874–1875
31	Alexander Kennedy Smith	1875–1876
32	James Paterson	1876–1877
33	John Pigdon	1877–1878
34	Joseph Story	1878–1879
35	George Meares	1879–1881
36	Cornelius Job Ham	1881–1882
37	James Dodgshun	1882–1883
38	Charles Smith	1883–1884
39	Godfrey Downes Carter	1884–1885
40	James Cooper Stewart	1885–1886
41	William Cain	1887
42	Sir Benjamin Benjamin^[1]	1887–1889
43	Matthew Lang	1889–1892
44	Sir Arthur Snowden	1892–1895
45	William Strong	1895–1897
46	Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn	1897–1900
47	Sir Samuel Gillott	1900–1902

The title of "Lord Mayor" was conferred on the position of Mayor by King Edward VII on December 18, 1902.

#	Lord Mayor	Term
48	Sir Samuel Gillott	1902–1903
49	Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn	1903–1904
50	Charles Pleasance	1904–1905
51	Sir Henry Weedon	1905–1908
52	James Burston	1908–1910
53	Thomas James Davey	1910–1912
54	Sir David Valentine Hennessy	1912–1917
55	Frank Stapley	1917–1918
56	William Whyte Cabena	1918–1919
57	John George Aikman	1919–1920
58	Sir John Warren Swanson	1920–1923
59	Sir William Brunton	1923–1926
60	Sir Stephen Joseph Morell	1926–1928
61	Harold Daniel Luxton	1928–1931
62	Sir Harold Gengoult Smith	1931–1934
63	Sir Alexander George Wales	1934–1937
64	Edward Campbell	1937–1938
65	Sir Arthur William Coles	1938–1940
66	Sir Frank Beaurepaire	1940–1942
67	Sir Thomas Sydney Nettlefold	1942–1945
68	Sir Francis Raymond Connelly	1945–1948
69	Sir James Stanley Disney	1948–1951
70	Oliver John Nilsen	1951–1952
71	William John Brens	1952–1953
72	Robert Henry Solly	1953–1954
73	Sir Francis Palmer Selleck	1954–1957
74	Sir Frederick William Thomas	1957–1959
75	Bernard Evans	1959–1961
76	Maurice Arnold Nathan	1961–1963
77	Edward Leo Curtis	1963–1965
78	Ian Francis Beaurepaire	1965–1967
79	Reginald Thomas Anthony Talbot	1967–1969
80	Edward Wallace Best	1969–1971
81	Alwynne Rowlands	1971–1972
82	Alan Douglas Whalley	1972–1974
83	Ron Walker	1974–1976
84	Donald Osborne	1976–1977
85	Irvin Rockman	1977–1979
86	Ralph Angelo Bernardi	1979–1980
87	John Willian Woodruff	1980–1981

Commissioners	Term
Peter Francis Thorley (Chairman)	1981–1982
Neil Smith	1981–1982
Richard Allston	1981–1982

Commissioners	Term
Kevan Gosper (Chief Commissioner)	1993–1996
John Rose (Deputy Chief Commissioner)	1993–1996
Catherine Walter	1993–1996
Kevin Rose	1993–1996