List of Mayors of Bath
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This a list of notable Mayors of Bath, the town historically in the county of Somerset, England, since the first recorded mayoralty in 1230.[1]
The mayor in 2015, Will Sandry, was the 788th Mayor of Bath.[2]
Pre-21st century
Source: Mayor's Office, Bath
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Eleazer Pickwick. Mayor 1826
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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)
- 1390-94: 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]
- 1550-51: 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]
- 1576–77: 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
- 1595-8: William Heath[17]
- 1598: William Sharestone
- 1603: William Sharestone
- 1604-5: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]
- 1742: Ralph Allen (postmaster and quarry-owner) [3]
- 1769: Thomas Warr Attwood (Bath City Architect)
- 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
- 1872-1873 Robert Stickney Blaine (MP for Bath, 1885)
- 1882–1885: Handel Cossham (MP for Bristol East, 1885)
- 1896 & 1899: George Woodiwiss[3]
- 1897: Charles Henry Simpson, Major
- 1898: John Ricketts (died 13 Jul 1899)
- 1899: Robert Edmund Dickinson MP JP
- 1900 & 1910: Thomas Ball Silcock
- 1901: Edward England Phillips
- 1902: James Edward Henshaw 1936
- 1903 & 1909: Charles Henry Simpson JP, Major
- 1904: Benjamin John
- 1905: Charles Bryan Oliver
- 1906: Sydney William Bush
- 1907: Thomas Hodgson Miller
- 1908: John William Knight
- 1911: Thomas Forder Plowman
- 1912: George Thomas Cooke
- 1913 & 1917: Preston King MD
- 1914: Frederick W. Spear, J.P. (Wholesaler and Provision Merchant)
- 1915: Harry Thomas Hatt
- 1916: Charles Henry Long
- 1918: Alfred William Wills
- 1919: Percy Jackman
- 1920: James Henry Colmer
- 1921: Ernest John White
- 1922 & 1924-1928: Cedric Chivers (3ied 30 Jan 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 Dec 1937)
- 1937–1938: Adrian E. Hopkins (leading philatelist)
- 1940–1942: Aubrey Bateman
- 1952: Alleyne Berry (father of Mary Berry)
- 1953: Adrian E. Hopkins
21st century
Source: Mayor's Office, Bath
- 2000: Angela Godfrey
- 2001: Marian McNeir
- 2002: Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst
- 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 [21]
- 2015: Will Sandry [22]
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- ↑ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/walley-john-1615
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- ↑ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/heath-william-1607
- ↑ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/stone-christopher-1556-1614
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