- Lord Mayor of Sheffield
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William Jeffcock, first Mayor of Sheffield, portrait in Sheffield Town Hall
The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council. They are elected annually by the council. The post originated in 1843, with the appointment of William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield. Early mayors had significant powers, and chaired both council meetings and the bench of magistrates.[1]
In 1855, the then mayor was refused a good seat at the opening of the Paris Exhibition, as he did not have a chain of office. As a result, one was purchased the following year, and this has remained in use.[2]
In 1897, in the same year as the opening of Sheffield Town Hall, the Mayor was given the right to style himself the "Lord Mayor". To mark this, the first Lord Mayor, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, gave the Sheffield Mace to mark the royal authority invested in the post.[3]
The Lord Mayor has the use of the Lord Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall, an official badge and the honorary presidency of several organisations. The Lord Mayor's Awards and the Lord Mayor's Charity Fund are local institutions organised in the name of the Lord Mayor.
Notable former Mayors include George Bassett, creator of Liquorice Allsorts and the steelmaker Mark Firth.
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List of Mayors of Sheffield
Sir John Brown with the Chain of office, portrait in Sheffield Town Hall
Statue of Henry Fitzalan Howard, the last Mayor and first Lord Mayor of Sheffield, in the lobby of Sheffield Town HallYear Name Party 1843 William Jeffcock 1844 Thomas Dunn 1845 Samuel Butcher 1846 Henry Wilkinson 1847 Edward Vickers 1848 T. R. Barker 1849 Thomas Birks 1850 T. B. Turton 1851 John Carr 1852 W. A. Matthews 1853 F. Hoole 1854 Wm. Fisher 1855 Wm. Fawcett 1856 J. W. Pye Smith Liberal 1857 R. Jackson 1858 Charles Atkinson 1859 Henry E. Hoole 1860 Henry Vickers 1861-62 Sir John Brown Conservative 1863-64 Thomas Jessop 1865 W. E. Laycock 1866-67 John Webster Conservative 1868-71 Thomas Moore Conservative 1872 John Fairburn 1873 Joseph Hallam 1874 Mark Firth Liberal 1875 John Tasker 1876 George Bassett Conservative 1877 Sir Frederick Mappin Liberal 1878 David Ward 1879 Edward Tozer 1880 Abram Brooksbank 1881-82 Michael Hunter, Jnr. 1883-34 Wm. Henry Brittain 1885 John W. Pye Smith Liberal 1886 Sir Henry Stephenson Liberal Unionist 1887-78 William Johnson Clegg Liberal 1889 J. B. Jackson 1890 Samuel Osborn[4] 1891 William Johnson Clegg Liberal 1891 Joseph Gamble 1892 J. Batty Langley Liberal 1893 E. S. Foster Liberal 1894 Sir Charles. T. Skelton 1895-96 Henry Fitzalan-Howard List of Lord Mayors of Sheffield
Year Name Party 1897 Henry Fitzalan-Howard[5] Conservative 1897 George Franklin 1898 William Edwin Clegg Liberal 1899 Samuel Roberts Conservative 1900 John Eaton 1901 George Senior 1902 John Wycliffe Wilson Liberal 1903 John Rutland Wheatley 1904 Joseph Jonas 1905 Herbert Hughes, CMG 1906 Robert Styring Liberal 1907 Harry P. Marsh 1908 Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO Liberal 1909 Earl Fitzwilliam, KCVO, DSO Conservative 1910 Henry Kenyon Stephenson, DSO Liberal 1911 Albert John Hobson 1912 Samuel Osborn Liberal 1913 George Ernest Branson 1914 Oliver Charles Wilson Liberal 1915 Frederick Arthur Warlow Liberal 1916 Walter Appleyard Liberal 1917 Alfred Cattell Conservative 1918 William Irons Liberal 1919 Samuel Roberts Conservative 1920 William Farewell Wardle Citizen's 1921 Charles Simpson 1922 William Carter Fenton 1923 Arthur James Blanchard Citizen's 1924 Alfred James Bailey Citizen's 1925 Joseph Benson 1926 John George Graves Citizen's 1927 Moses Humberstone Labour 1928 Harry Bolton 1929 Charles William Beardsley 1930 Harold Warters Jackson Municipal Progressive 1931 Thomas Henry Watkins 1933 Fred Marshall Labour 1934 Percival J. M. Turner CBE, JP 1935 Frank Thraves Labour 1936 Ann Eliza Longden 1937 Ernest George Rowlinson Labour 1938 William Joseph Hunter 1939 John Arthur Longden 1940 Luther Frederick Milner 1941 Charles Josiah Mitchell 1942 Harry England Bridgwater 1943 Samuel Hartley Marshall 1944 George Ernest Marlow 1945 Charles William Gascoigne 1946 Ernest Storm Graham 1947 William Ernest Yorke[6] 1949 Grace Tebbutt Labour 1950 Herbert Keeble Hawson 1951 Thomas William Bridgland 1952 Peter Buchanan 1953 Oliver Spencer Holmes 1954 John Henry Bingham Labour 1955 Joseph Curtis 1956 Robert Neill 1957 Albert Ballard Labour Co-op 1958 John William Holland 1959 Alfred Vernon Wolstenholme 1960 Harold Slack 1961 James Wilfred Sterland, OBE 1962 Percival Cyril John Taylor Kirkman 1963 Isidore Lewis Labour 1964 Albert Smith, OBE 1965 John Stenton Worrall, JP 1966 Lionel Stephen Edward Farris, JP Conservative 1967 Harold Lambert, OBE Labour 1968 Patience Sheard, JP Labour 1969 Daniel Joseph O'Neill, JP 1970 John Basil Peile, JP[4] Conservative 1970 Sidney Irwin Dyson Labour 1971 Harold Hebblethwaite, JP Conservative 1972 Martha Strafford 1973 Stanley Kenneth Arnold Conservative 1974 Leonard Cope Labour 1975 Albert Edward Richardson Labour 1976 Reginald Edward Munn, JP Labour 1977 Winifred Mary Golding, LL.D Labour 1978 Peter Harold Jackson Labour 1979 George Armitage Labour 1980 William Owen, JP Labour 1981 Enid Anne Hattersley Labour 1982 Gordon Wragg, OBE, JP Conservative 1983 Peter Morgan Newton Jones Labour 1984 George Roy Munn Labour 1985 Dorothy Walton, JP Labour 1986 Frank Prince Labour 1987 Peter Horton Labour 1988 Phyllis May Smith Labour 1989 Anthony Damms Labour 1990 James Moore Labour 1991 Doris Askham Labour 1992 William Jordan Labour 1993 Qurban Hussain Labour 1994 Ian Saunders Labour 1995 David Heslop Conservative 1996 Peter Price Labour 1997 Antony Arber Labour 1998 Frank White Labour 1999 Trevor Bagshaw Liberal Democrat 2000 Patricia Midgley Labour 2001 David Baker Liberal Democrat 2002 Marjorie Barker Labour 2003 Diane Leek Liberal Democrat 2004 Mike Pye Labour 2005 Roger Davison Liberal Democrat 2006 Jackie Drayton Labour 2007 Arthur Dunworth Liberal Democrat 2008 Jane Bird Labour 2009 Graham Oxley Liberal Democrat 2010 Alan Law Labour 2011 Sylvia Dunkley Liberal Democrat Notes
- ^ Sheffield City Council - History of the Lord Mayor
- ^ Sheffield City Council - Lord Mayor's Chain
- ^ Sheffield City Council - The City Mace
- ^ a b Elected in place of the late Lord Mayor
- ^ Lord Mayor from July to November 1897
- ^ November 1947 to May 1949
References
- "List of past Lord Mayors". Sheffield City Council. http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/your-city-council/lord-mayor/past-lord-mayors. Retrieved 2006-08-20.
- "Sheffield Genealogy - Mayors, Lord Mayors & Master Cutlers". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/webpages/mayorscutlers.htm. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
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