List of Past Lord Mayors of Sheffield

By Royal Grant of Title in 1897, Queen Victoria conferred the title and dignity of “Lord Mayor” upon the first citizen of Sheffield, which continues to the present day.  On this page you will find information about the past Lord Mayors of Sheffield from 1897 onwards.

 

 

 

elected 1897  -  His Grace The Duke of Norfolk, EM, KG  -  died 1917

                          (from July to November 1897)

elected 1897  -  George Franklin  -  died 1916

elected 1898  -  William Edwin Clegg  -  died 1932

elected 1899  -  Samuel Roberts  -  died 1926

elected 1900  -  John Eaton  -  died 1900

elected 1901  -  George Senior  -  died 1915

elected 1902  -  John Wycliffe Wilson  -  died 1921

elected 1903  -  John Rutland Wheatley  -  died 1916

elected 1904  -  Joseph Jonas  -  died 1921

elected 1905  -  Herbert Hughes, CB, CMG  -  died 1917

elected 1906  -  Robert Styring  -  died 1944

elected 1907  -  Harry P. Marsh  -  died 1933

elected 1908  -  Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO  -  died 1947

elected 1909  -  The Rt. Hon. The Earl Fitzwilliam, KCVO, DSO  -  died 1943

 

elected 1910  -  Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO  -  died 1947

elected 1911  -  Albert John Hobson  -  died 1923

elected 1912  -  Samuel Osborn  -  died 1952

elected 1913  -  George Ernest Branson  -  died 1941

elected 1914  -  Oliver Charles Wilson  -  died 1946

elected 1915  -  Frederick Arthur Warlow  -  died 1925

elected 1916  -  Walter Appleyard  -  died 1930

elected 1917  -  Alfred Cattell  -  died 1933

elected 1918  -  William Irons  -  died 1933

elected 1919  -  Samuel Roberts  -  died 1955

 

elected 1920  -  William Farewell Wardley  -  died 1941

elected 1921  -  Charles Simpson  -  died 1935

elected 1922  -  William Carter Fenton  -  died 1959

elected 1923  -  Arthur James Blanchard  -  died 1957

elected 1924  -  Alfred James Bailey  -  died 1948

elected 1925  -  Joseph Benson  -  died 1928

elected 1926  -  John George Graves  -  died 1945

elected 1927  -  Moses Humberstone  -  died 1944

elected 1928  -  Harry Bolton  -  died 1932

elected 1929  -  Charles William Beardsley  -  died 1952

 

elected 1930  -  Harold Warters Jackson – died 1972

elected 1931  -  Thomas Henry Watkins  -  died 1941

elected 1932  -  Ernest Wilson  -  died 1970

elected 1933  -  Fred Marshall  -  died 1962

elected 1934  -  Percival J. M. Turner, CBE, JP  -  died 1969

elected 1935  -  Frank Thraves  -  died 1952

elected 1936  -  Ann Eliza Longden  -  died 1952

elected 1937  -  Ernest George Rowlinson  -  died 1941

elected 1938  -  William Joseph Hunter  -  died 1954

elected 1939  -  John Arthur Longden  -  died 1951

 

elected 1940  -  Luther Frederick Milner  -  died 1962

elected 1941  -  Charles Josiah Mitchell  -  died 1967

elected 1942  -  Harry England Bridgwater  -  died 1949

elected 1943  -  Samuel Hartley Marshall, JP  -  died 1981

elected 1944  -  George Ernest Marlow  -  died 1952

elected 1945  -  Charles William Gascoigne, CBE, BEM  -  died 1967

elected 1946  -  Ernest Storm Graham  -  died 1962

elected 1947  -  William Ernest Yorke (November 1947 to May 1949)  -  died 1968

elected 1949  -  Grace Tebbutt – died 1983

 

elected 1950  -  Herbert Keeble Hawson  -  died 1984

elected 1951  -  Thomas William Bridgland  -  died 1966

elected 1952  -  Peter Buchanan  -  died 1962

elected 1953  -  Oliver Spencer Holmes, CBE, JP  -  died 1988

elected 1954  -  John Henry Bingham, LL.D, JP  -  died 1970

elected 1955  -  Joseph Curtis  -  died 1982

elected 1956  -  Robert Neill  -  died 1960

elected 1957  -  Albert Ballard, CBE, LL.D  -  died 1968

elected 1958  -  John William Holland, JP  -  died 1971

elected 1959  -  Alfred Vernon Wolstenholme, JP  -  died 1974

 

elected 1960  -  Harold Slack, MBE  -  died 1965

elected 1961  -  James Wilfred Sterland, OBE, LL.D, JP  -  died 1992

elected 1962  -  Percival Cyril John Taylor Kirkman  -  died 1994

elected 1963  -  Isidore Lewis, LL.D, JP  -  died 1983

elected 1964  -  Albert Smith, OBE  -  died 1968

elected 1965  -  John Stenton Worrall, JP  -  died 1984

elected 1966  -  Lionel Stephen Edward Farris, JP  -  died 1986

elected 1967  -  Harold Lambert, OBE  -  died 1989

elected 1968  -  Patience Sheard, JP  -  died 2005

elected 1969  -  Daniel Joseph O’Neill, JP  -  died 1970

 

elected 1970  -  John Basil Peile, JP – died 1999

                         (elected for the remainder of the late Lord Mayor’s term of office)

elected 1970  -  Sidney Irwin Dyson  -  died 1978

elected 1971  -  Harold Hebblethwaite, JP  -  died 1998

elected 1972  -  Martha Strafford  -  died 1974

elected 1973  -  Stanley Kenneth Arnold

elected 1974  -  Leonard Cope  -  died 1999

elected 1975  -  Albert Edward Richardson  -  died 1988

elected 1976  -  Reginald Edward Munn, JP  -  died 2002

elected 1977  -  Winifred Mary Golding, LL.D  -  died 2003

elected 1978  -  Peter Harold Jackson  -  died 2003

elected 1979  -  George Armitage  -  died 1987

 

elected 1980  -  William Owen, JP  -  died 1992

elected 1981  -  Enid Anne Hattersley  -  died 2001

elected 1982  -  Gordon Wragg, OBE, JP  -  died 2003

elected 1983  -  Peter Morgan Newton Jones  -  died 1990

elected 1984  -  George Roy Munn  -  died 1989

elected 1985  -  Dorothy Walton, JP  -  died 2005

elected 1986  -  Frank Prince

elected 1987  -  Peter Horton  -  died 2005

elected 1988  -  Phyllis May Smith  -  died 2001

elected 1989  -  Anthony Damms

 

elected 1990  -  James Arthur Moore

elected 1991  -  Doris Askham  -  died 2006

elected 1992  -  William Thomas Jordan

elected 1993  -  Qurban Hussain

elected 1994  -  Ian Saunders

elected 1995  -  David Ian Heslop, OBE

elected 1996  -  Peter Price

elected 1997  -  Anthony Edward Arber  -  2000

elected 1998  -  Frank White

elected 1999  -  Trevor Bagshaw

 

elected 2000  -  Patricia Anne Midgley, JP

elected 2001  -  David Baker

elected 2002  -  Marjorie Barker

elected 2003  -  Diane Wainwright Leek 

elected 2004  -  Michael John Pye

elected 2005  -  Roger Noel Davison

elected 2006  -  Jacqueline (Jackie) Drayton

elected 2007  -  Arthur Dunworth

 

names of female Lord Mayors in bold