List of mayors of Oxford


The Mayor of Oxford is an official with oversight of the administration of the city of Oxford, England. The earliest recorded mayor of Oxford was Laurence Kepeharm.
On 23 October 1962 the city was granted the honour of electing a Lord Mayor. Notable figures who have been Lord Mayor of Oxford include J. N. L. Baker, Air-Vice-Marshal William Foster MacNeece Foster and Olive Gibbs.

List of Lord Mayors

By modern convention, Oxford City Council elects the longest-serving councillor as Lord Mayor. The term of the office is for one year and can only be held once.
YearNameNotes
1962/1963Evan Owen RobertsFirst Lord Mayor
1963/1964Alec Percival Parker
1964/1965John Leonard Norman BakerUniversity Councillor
1965/1966Florence Kathleen LowerFirst woman Lord Mayor
1966/1967William Foster MacNeece FosterAir Vice-Marshal
1967/1968Francis Vincent Pickstock
1968/1969Peter Spencer Spokes
1969/1970Percy Dudley Bromley
1970/1971Michael MaclaganUniversity Councillor
1971/1972Thomas James Meadows
1972/1973Arthur Bernard Connors
1973/1974Frederick George Ingram
1974/1975Olive Frances Gibbs
1975/1976William George Robert Fagg
1976/1977Ann Hazel SpokesLater Ann Spokes Symonds
1977/1978Dora Minnie Carr
1978/1979William Eaton Simpson
1979/1980John Arundell Hamilton
1980/1981Gordon Woodward
1981/1982Henry Briskol Nicholson Myers Nimmo
died in office December 1981 and replaced by
Olive Frances Gibbs
1982/1983Anthony William Williamson
1983/1984Janet Gillespie Todd
1984/1985Frank Arnold Garside
1985/1986Roger Alan Dudman
1986/1987John George William Parker
1987/1988Elizabeth Florence Mary StandingfordIn place of her husband Bert
who died on 19 May 1987
when Lord Mayor Elect
1988/1989Nellie Dorothy WhorleyLater Nellie Comfort
1989/1990Patricia Anne Tempest Yardley
1990/1991Queenie Lewingdon Hamilton
1991/1992Alan David Pope
1992/1993Barbara May Gatehouse
1993/1994John Gordon Power
1994/1995William Walker Buckingham
1995/1996Joseph Charles Blewitt
1996/1997Beryl Ivy Keen
1997/1998William John Baker
1998/1999Carol Roberts
1999/2000Valerie Smith
2000/2001Maureen Christian
2001/2002Peter Moss
2002/2003Gillian Ann Sanders
2003/2004Patrick Stannard
2004/2005Bryan Keen
2005/2006Robert John Price
2006/2007Jim Campbell
2007/2008John Tanner
2008/2009Susanna Pressel
2009/2010Mary Clarkson
2010/2011John Goddard
2011/2012Elise Benjamin
2012/2013Alan Armitage resigned 4 March 2012 and
replaced 13 March 2013 by Mohammed Abbasi
2013/2014Dee Sinclair
2014/2015Mohammed Abbasi
2015/2016Rae Humberstone
2016/2017Mohammed Altaf-Khan
2017/2018Jean Fooks
2018/2019Colin Cook
2019/2020Craig Simmons
2020/2022Mark Lygo
2022/2023James Fry
2023/2024Lubna Arshad
2024/2025Mike RowleyFirst openly gay Lord Mayor.