List of mayors of Bath

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 June 2020 is Manda Rigby, who is the 793rd 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

See also

References
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  2. Bathnewseum
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  9. "LUDWELL, Edward (by 1523-63/66), of Bath, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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  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. "JOHN BOYS (MAYOR OF BATH 1656)" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  21. "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 (36922). London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
  24. "LETTER FROM JOSEPH PLOWMAN, MAYOR OF BATH". somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  25. http://www.mayorofbath.co.uk/files/myrlist-cityofbath_june1011.pdf
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