Mayor of Peterborough


The English city of Peterborough has had a mayor since 1847.

Current role

As well as officiating at ceremonies, and representing the city, the mayor is the impartial chairman of the council.

List of mayors since 1847

  1. 1874-1876 Henry Pearson Gates, JP Gates represented himself, in his capacity as mayor against the crown in R. v Mayor of Peterborough, heard before Blackburn J. The hearing was for a writ of mandamus relating to a procedural matter in a ratepayers meeting to fund corporation opposition to the parliamentary Peterborough Water Bill.
  2. 1877 Andrew Percival
  3. 1878 William Paley MD, JP
  4. 1879 and 80 John Core
  5. 1881 and 82 John Thompson JP
  6. 1883 John Whitwell
  7. 1884 William Barford JP
  8. 1885 Edward Vergette
  9. 1886 William Daniel Nichols JP
  10. 1887 Henry Pearson Gates
  11. 1888 and 89 Thomas Lawrence Barrett JP
  12. 1890 William Beaver JP
  13. 1891 and 92 John Henry Beeby JP
  14. 1893 Joseph Clifton
  15. 1894 William Daniel Nichols JP
  16. 1895 Daniel Henry Redhead JP
  17. 1896 and 97 John Thompson JP
  18. 1898 Joseph Hunting JP
  19. 1899 William Beaver JP
  20. 1900 John Thomas Miller JP
  21. 1901 G C Wentworth-Fitzwilliam DL JP
  22. 1902 and 03 George Keeble JP
  23. 1904 William Daniel Nichols JP
  24. 1905 Daniel Henry Redhead JP
  25. 1906 Thomas C Lamplugh JP
  26. 1907 Joseph Batten
  27. 1908 Thomas Ivatt Slater JP
  28. 1909 John Betts Tebbutt
  29. 1910 William Cliffe JP
  30. 1911 Charles Edward Crawley
  31. 1912 Thomas C Lamplugh JP
  32. 1913 John Golby Barford JP
  33. 1914 Richard Winfrey JP
  34. 1915 John William Williamson JP
  35. 1916-1918 George Nicholls OBE, JP
  36. 1919 Charles Tomson Vergette
  37. 1920 Walter Riseley
  38. 1921 Frank Edwin Hunting
  39. 1922 Thomas Crosby Lamplugh JP
  40. 1923 and 24 Charles Day
  41. 1925 Charles Leonard Fletcher
  42. 1926 and 27 John Thomas Fisher JP
  43. 1928 Thomas Ivatt Slater JP
  44. 1929 Arthur John Edward Craig JP
  45. 1930 George Samuel Palmer JP
  46. 1931 Matthew Hooke
  47. 1932 John Mansfield JP
  48. 1933 William Oliver Snowden
  49. 1934 Arthur Edwin Fletcher
  50. 1935 Arthur Itter MA, B Com
  51. 1935 and 36 Arthur Holdich Mellows DL, MA, TD
  52. 1937 George Clavering Hall JP
  53. 1938 Richard Charles Howard
  54. 1939 and 40 Lily Violet Bryant
  55. 1941 James Alfred Bartram
  56. 1942 and 43 Harry Johnson Farrow
  57. 1944 Harry Wilfred Kelley JP
  58. 1945 Joseph Algernon Farrow
  59. 1946 Albert William Viney MBE
  60. 1947 John Edward Swain JP
  61. 1948-May 1949 Edward Victor Martin
  62. 1949-1950 John Richard Hall JP
  63. 1950-1951 Harry Ray Horrell
  64. 1951-1952 George Rowell Chamberlain
  65. 1952-1953 Mabel Wood JP
  66. 1953-1954 Arthur Lister Robinson MBE
  67. 1954-1955 Reginald William North
  68. 1955-1956 Lady Benstead JP
  69. 1956-1957 John Walter Setchfield
  70. 1957-1958 George Alfred Smith
  71. 1958-1959 Royce William Westcombe MBE, JP
  72. 1959-1960 Maud Swift
  73. 1960-1961 John Azor Savage
  74. 1961-1962 Charles William Swift
  75. 1962-1963 George Walter Govey
  76. 1963-1964 Carl Ernest Hall
  77. 1964-1965 Ernest George Edward Bradley
  78. 1965-1966 Gordon Tyers
  79. 1966-1967 Alfred William Clements MM
  80. 1967-1968 Frank Leonard Mackman
  81. 1968-1969 Arthur William Leno Adams
  82. 1969-1970 George Alfred Forster
  83. 1970-1971 Edward Aaron Hall
  84. 1971-1972 Dennis William Bracey ChM, FRCS
  85. 1972-1973 Roy Topley
  86. 1973-1974 Harold Raymond Wentworth Laxton MA
  87. 1974-1975 Jack Farrell
  88. 1975-1976 William Richard Cashmore
  89. 1976-1977 Edward Ernest Titman
  90. 1977-1978 Jean Barker
  91. 1978-1979 Ben Franklin
  92. 1979-1980 Murdoch McKenzie Charteris MBE, AE
  93. 1980-1981 Audrey Chalmers
  94. 1981-1982 Thomas Arthur Gray
  95. 1982 Alfred Richard Shelford ACII, FRSA
  96. 1983 Edward John James
  97. 1983-1984 Kenneth Aubrey Winfield-Chislett
  98. 1984-1985 Raymond Palmer JP
  99. 1985-1986 Robert Edmund Burke
  100. 1986-1987 Joseph Ernest Hall
  101. 1987-1988 Rex Eady Perkins JP
  102. 1988-1989 Constance Margaret Gray
  103. 1989-1990 Derek John Hedges BA, FSCA
  104. 1990-1991 Alfred Arthur Sapey
  105. 1991-1992 Geoffrey Ronald Ridgway BSc CEng
  106. 1992-1993 Leslie Allan Rimes
  107. 1993-1994 Kathleen Coppen
  108. 1994-1995 Roberta Glenys Ewart Day
  109. 1995-1996 John Frederick White Holdich OBE
  110. 1996-1997 Mohammed Ayoub Choudhary
  111. 1997-1998 Yvonne Lowndes
  112. 1998-1999 Mary Beatrice Rainey B.Ed
  113. 1999-2000 John Ernest Graham Bartlett
  114. 2000-2002 Raymond Arthur Pobgee MBE DL
  115. 2002-2003 Clifford Stanley Horace Sneesby
  116. 2003-2004 David Raines
  117. 2004-2005 Raja Akhtar
  118. 2005 John Ray Horrell CBE
  119. 2006 David Thorpe
  120. 2006-2007 Michael Burton OBE FRIN
  121. 2007-2008 Marion Todd
  122. 2008-2009 Patricia Nash MBE
  123. 2009-2010 Irene Walsh
  124. 2010-2011 Keith Sharp
  125. 2011-2012 Paula Thacker MBE
  126. 2012-2013 George Simons
  127. 2013-2014 June Stokes
  128. 2014-2015 David Over
  129. 2015-2016 John Peach
  130. 2016-2017 David Sanders
  131. 2017-2018 John Fox
  132. 2018-2019 Christopher Ash
  133. 2019-2021 Gul Nawaz
  134. 2021-2022 Stephen Lane
  135. 2022-2023 Alan Dowson
  136. 2023-2024 Nick Sandford