The Council and democracy The Lord Mayor of Manchester

Former Lord Mayors of Manchester (1892-Present)

Lord Mayors by year:

  • 2022-23 Donna Ludford
  • 2020-22 Tommy Judge
  • 2019-20 Abid Latif Chohan
  • 2018-19 June Hitchen
  • 2017-18 Eddy Newman
  • 2016-17 Carl Austin-Behan
  • 2015-16 Paul Murphy OBE
  • 2014-15 Susan Cooley
  • 2013-14 Naeem ul Hassan JP
  • 2012-13 Elaine Boyes
  • 2011-12 Harry Lyons
  • 2010-11 Mark Hackett
  • 2009-10 Alison Firth
  • 2008-09 Mavis Smitheman
  • 2007-08 Glynn Evans
  • 2006-07 David Sandiford
  • 2006-07 James Ashley
  • 2005-06 Mohammed Afzal Khan
  • 2004-05 Tom O'Callaghan
  • 2003-04 Audrey Jones JP
  • 2002-03 Roy Walters BEM JP
  • 2001-02 John Smith
  • 2000-01 Hugh Barrett
  • 1999-2000 Tony Burns
  • 1998-99 Gordon Conquest
  • 1997-98 Gerry Carroll
  • 1996-97 Derek Shaw
  • 1995-96 Joyce Keller
  • 1994-95 Sheila Smith
  • 1993-94 William T Risby
  • 1992-93 William Egerton
  • 1991-92 George Chadwick
  • 1990-91 John Gilmore
  • 1989-90 Yomi Mambu
  • 1988-89 Patricia Conquest
  • 1987-88 Eileen Kelly
  • 1986-87 Kathleen Robinson
  • 1985-86 Kenneth Strath
  • 1984-85 Harold Tucker
  • 1983-84 Dr M. J. Taylor
  • 1982-83 Clifford Tomlinson
  • 1981-82 Hugh Lee
  • 1980-81 Winnie Smith
  • 1979-80 G.W.G. Fitzsimons
  • 1978-79 Trevor Thomas
  • 1977-78 Robert Crawford
  • 1976-77 Kenneth Franklin
  • 1975-76 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
  • 1974-75 F J Balcombe JP
  • 1973-74 Kenneth Collis
  • 1972-73 Edward Grant
  • 1971-72 Douglas John Edwards
  • 1970-71 William Atkinson Downward, Esq DL
  • 1969-70 Neil Gowanloch Westbrook, Esq
  • 1968-69 Harold Stockdale, Esq
  • 1967-68 Dame Elizabeth Yarwood, DBE DL
  • 1966-67 Nellie Beer, OBE DL
  • 1965-66 Bernard Sydney Langton, Esq CBE
  • 1964-65 Dr William Chadwick
  • 1963-64 Robert Carr Rogers, Esq CBE
  • 1962-63 Sir Robert Thomas, Kt DL
  • 1961-62 Sir Lionel Biggs, Kt
  • 1960-61 Arthur Donovan, Esq
  • 1959-60 Harold Quinney, Esq DL
  • 1958-59 James Edward Fitzsimons, Esq
  • 1957-58 Sir Leslie Lever
  • 1956-57 Harry Sharp, Esq
  • 1955-56 Tom Regan, Esq
  • 1954-55 Sir Richard Harper, Kt
  • 1953-54 Abraham Moss, Esq
  • 1952-53 Douglas Gosling, Esq
  • 1951-52 William Collingson, Esq OBE
  • 1950-51 Colonel Samuel Percy Dawson CBE, MM, TD, DL
  • 1949-50 Robert Moss, Esq
  • 1947-1949 (November - May) Dame Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones, DBE
  • 1946-47 Thomas Henry Adams
  • 1945-46 Hugh Lee, Esq
  • 1944-45 William Philip Jackson, Esq
  • 1943-44 Leonard Bramwell Cox, Esq
  • 1942-43 John Septimus Hill, Esq
  • 1941-42 Wright Robinson, Esq
  • 1940-41 Robert Griffith Edwards, Esq
  • 1939-40 George Harold White, Esq
  • 1938-39 Elijah John Hart, Esq
  • 1938 Sir William Kay, Kt
  • 1937-38 (8 July to 9 November) Joseph Crookes Grimes, Esq OBE
  • 1936-37 Joseph Toole, Esq
  • 1935-36 Thomas Stone Williams, Esq
  • 1934-35 Samuel Woollam, Esq
  • 1933-34 Joseph Binns, Esq MBE
  • 1932-33 Sir William Walker, Kt
  • 1931-32 Ellis Green, Esq
  • 1930-31 George Frank Titt, Esq
  • 1929-30 Sir Robert Noton Barclay, Kt
  • 1928-29 Lt-Col George Westcott, OBE
  • 1927-28 Sir William Davy, Kt
  • 1926-27 James Henry Swales, Esq
  • 1925-26 Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell, Kt CBE
  • 1924-25 Sir Frederick Joseph West, Kt GBE
  • 1923-24 William Turner Jackson, Esq
  • 1922-23 Sir William Cundiff
  • 1921-22 Lord Simon of Wythenshawe
  • 1920-21 Sir William Kay, Kt
  • 1919-20 Tom Fox, Esq OBE
  • 1919 Sir William Kay, Kt
  • 1918-19 (9 April to 9 November) John Makeague, Esq
  • 1917-18 Sir Alexander Porter
  • 1916-17 Sir Thomas Smethurst
  • 1915-16 (2 February to 9 November) Arthur George Copeland, Esq
  • 1913-15 Sir Daniel McCabe DL
  • 1911-13 Sir Samuel Walter Royse
  • 1909-11 Sir Charles Behrens
  • 1907-09 Sir Edward Holt, Bart
  • 1906-07 John Harrop, Esq
  • 1905-06 James Herbert Thewlis, Esq
  • 1903-05 Sir Thomas Thornhill Shann
  • 1902-03 John Royle, Esq
  • 1901-02 Sir James Hoy
  • 1899-1901 Thomas Briggs, Esq
  • 1898-99 Sir William Henry Vaudrey
  • 1897-98 Robert Gibson, Esq
  • 1896-97 John Foulkes Roberts, Esq
  • 1894-96 Abraham Evans Lloyd, Esq
  • 1892-94 Sir Anthony Marshall

 

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