List of mayors of Totnes

Totnes, Devon, England received its first borough charter from King John and the recorded list of mayors dates from 1359. The town was incorporated in 1505 with a governing structure consisting of a mayor, recorder and a single council of burgesses. A further charter in 1596 concentrated power in the hands of the town's leading merchants, redefining the corporation as a governing body of 14 "masters", including the mayor, with an inferior council of 20 burgesses. The masters filled vacancies in their ranks by co-option and nominated the mayoral candidates.
The following have been mayors of Totnes:

1396–1398: Walter Browning, 1388
1399–1400: Walter Browning
1401–1403: Walter Browning
1517-1518: John Giles
1535-1537: Christopher Savery
1548-1549: Christopher Savery
1556-1557: Christopher Savery
1585–1586: Nicholas Ball
1589–1590: Nicholas Hayman
1593–1594: Leonard Darr
1598–1599: Philip Holditch
1605–1606: Christopher Wise
1612-1613: Richard Rodd
1620: Richard Lee
1621–1622: Christopher Wise
1623–1624: Philip Holditch II
1638–1639: Philip Holditch II
1687: Robert Symons
1718–1719: Nicholas Trist
1737–1738: Nicholas Trist
1754-1755: Benjamin Babbage
1780–1781: William Adams
1788–1789: William Adams
1797–1798: William Adams
1866–1867: Thomas Edward Owen
1870–1871: Robert W. Chaster
1872: Robert Bourne
1873: James Smith Rose
1874–1875: Jeffery Michelmore
1876–1877: Joseph Roe
1878: John P. F. P. Haines
1879: Jeffery Michelmore
1880–1881: Edward Harris
1882–1884: Frederick Bowden
1902-1903: Dr. J. G. Gibson
1945–1946: Lilley Ramsden
1950–1951: Charles Stanley Jacka
1970–1971: Jean M Gilbert

21st century

2001–2002: Pruw Boswell-Harper
2003–2004: J.A. Westacott
2004–2005: Jim Parkes
2005–2007: Pruw Boswell-Harper
2008–2009: David Horsburgh
2009–2010: Jean Rosemary Harrop
2010–2011: Anthony Whitty
2011–2012: Judy Westacott
2012–2014: Pruw Boswell-Harper
2014–2016: Jacqui Hodgson
2016–2017: Eleanor Cohen
2017–2018: Rosie Adam
2018–2019: Judy Westacott