List of mayors of Bath

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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 6 May 2021 is June Player, who is the 794th 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)[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
  • 1872–1873 Robert Stickney Blaine (MP for Bath, 1885)
  • 1882–1885: Handel Cossham (MP for Bristol East, 1885)
  • 1893: General Reginald Quintin Mainwaring
  • 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[23]
  • 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[24]
  • 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

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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[26]
  • 2015: Will Sandry[27]
  • 2016: Paul Crossley
  • 2017: Ian Gilchrist
  • 2018: Patrick Anketell-Jones
  • 2019: Gerry Curran
  • 2020: Manda Rigby
  • 2021: June Player

See also[]

  • Bath, Somerset#Charter trustees

References[]

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  2. ^ The Right Worshipful The Mayor of Bath
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  6. ^ "RICH, Walter (d.1446/7), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
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  8. ^ "CLEMENT, John (by 1502-51/56), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  9. ^ "LUDWELL, Edward (by 1523-63/66), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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  11. ^ "WALLEY, John (d.1615), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  12. ^ "TURNER, Thomas II (d.c.1586), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  13. ^ "PEARMAN, George (d.1604), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  14. ^ "SHARESTON, William (d.1621), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  15. ^ "WALLEY, John (d.1615), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  16. ^ "WALLEY, John (d.1615), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  17. ^ "HEATH, William (d.1607), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  18. ^ "STONE, Christopher (c.1556-1614), of Bath, Som. | History of Parliament Online".
  19. ^ "GAY, Richard (by 1559–1641), of Walcott Street and Westgate Street, Bath and Claverton, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  20. ^ a b c "JOHN BOYS (MAYOR OF BATH 1656)" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  21. ^ a b c "Stephen Baber". www.westminster-abbey.org. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  22. ^ "Mayor of Bath.co.uk" (PDF). Mayor of Bath. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  23. ^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
  24. ^ "LETTER FROM JOSEPH PLOWMAN, MAYOR OF BATH". somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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  27. ^ "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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