List of mayors of Subiaco


The City of Subiaco is a local government area in Perth, Western Australia. It was established on 10 April 1896 as the Subiaco Road Board, with a chairman elected by the board members as its leader. The first chairman was Charles Hutt, who was the secretary of the Subiaco Progress Association. By the end of 1896, the population of the Subiaco Road District was above 2000, allowing the Road Board to apply to become a municipality. The government granted the request, and so the Municipality of Subiaco was gazetted on 26 March 1897. The first mayor of the Municipality of Subiaco was Henry Doyle. By 1952, the Municipality of Subiaco had reached a high enough population that it was eligible to become a city. Thus, on 8 February 1952, the City of Subiaco was gazetted.
The longest serving mayor is Joseph Abrahams, who served from 1949 to 1974.
Evelyn Parker, who was mayor from 1975 to 1977, was Western Australia's first woman mayor. She was honoured with the naming of the Evelyn H Parker Library in 1990.

Municipality of Subiaco

MayorTermNotes
Henry Doyle1897–1898Chair of the Subiaco Board of Health
Charles Hart1898–1899
Austin Bastow1899–1902
Henry Daglish1902–1904Member for Subiaco from 24 April 1901 to 3 October 1911Premier of Western Australia from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905Honoured with the naming of the suburb of Daglish
John Henry Prowse1904–1905Later served as the member for Swan and Forrest in the Parliament of Australia
Austin Bastow1905–1907
Henry Daglish1907–1908Member for Subiaco from 24 April 1901 to 3 October 1911Honoured with the naming of the suburb of Daglish
Thomas Harold "Shirley" White1908–1910
James Chesters1910–1912
Joseph Duffell1912–1915Member for the Metropolitan-Suburban Province from 22 May 1914 to 21 May 1926
James Theophilus Guy1915–1916
William John Berryman1916–1917
Lionel Boas1917–1920
William John Berryman1920–1921
Walter Richardson1921–1922Member for Subiaco from 12 March 1921 to 8 April 1933
Arthur Keene1922–1923
Roland Astill Robinson1923–1926
John Charles Roydhouse1926–1929
G. H. Olney1929–1931
H. L. Downe1931–1936
Walter Richardson1936–1943Member for Subiaco from 12 March 1921 to 8 April 1933
J. P. Bathgate1943–1949
Joseph H. Abrahams1949–1952