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List of mayors of Ipswich Borough, Suffolk

April 10, 2024

Ipswich was created a Borough in 1200 by charter of King John.[1][2]

Prior to 1835, the officers of Ipswich Corporation, at various times, consisted of:[3]

  • Two bailiffs
  • The high steward
  • Coroner
  • Twelve portmen
  • Twenty-four common council of headboroughs
  • An indefinite number of burgesses or freemen
  • A recorder
  • A town clerk
  • Chamberlains
  • A water bailiff
  • A treasurer
  • Clavigers (record keepers who held the keys to the miniment chest)
  • Sergeants-at-mace

Municipal Borough of Ipswich edit

The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 created the Municipal Borough of Ipswich. Following this Act, a mayor was elected, together with a High Steward, Recorder, ten Aldermen and thirty councillors.[3] The mayors were as follows:[4] William Vick published an album, The Mayors of Ipswich from 1835 to 1890 in 1890.[5]

Date Name Image Party Notes Refs
1836 Benjamin Brame
 
 Ipswich Yellow Party/Whig [6]
1836-37 Frederick Francis Seekamp Whig [6]
1837-38 Peter Bartholomew Long Physician
1838-39 George Green Sampson
 
 Physician
1839-40 John May (senior)
1840-41 Peter Bartholomew Long
2nd term
1841-1842 John Chevallier Cobbold
 
 Conservative
  • 1842-1843 George Josselyn
  • 1843-1844 William May
  • 1844-1845 William Rodwell
  • 1845-1846 Thomas d'Eye Burroughes
  • 1846-1847 George Green Sampson
  • 1847-1848 John May (senior)
  • 1848-1849 Charles Burton
  • 1849-1850 Thomas Baldock Ross
  • 1850-1851 Peter Bartholomew Long
  • 1851-1852 George Josselyn
  • 1852-1853 Samuel Harrison Cowell
  • 1853-1854 Charles Foote Gower
  • 1854-1855 Peter Bartholomew Long
  • 1855-1856 George Christopherson
  • 1856-1857 George Christopherson
  • 1857-1858 Ebenezer Goddard
  • 1858-1859 Jeremiah Head
  • 1859-1860 George Josselyn
  • 1860-1861 Edward Grimwade
  • 1862-1863 George Bacon
  • 1864-1865 Samuel Harrison Cowell
  • 1865-1866 Ebenezer Goddard
  • 1866-1867 Robert Charles Ransome
  • 1867-1868 John Patteson Cobbold
  • 1868-1869 Edward Packard (senior)
  • 1869-1870 Edward Grimwade
  • 1870-1871 George Green Sampson
  • 1871-1872 George Green Sampson
  • 1872-1873 Ebenezer Goddard
  • 1873-1875 Dr Barrington Chevallier
  • 1875-1876 George Calver Mason
  • 1876-1877 Walter Turner
  • 1877-1878 Charles Henry Cowell
  • 1878-1879 Alexander Francis Nicholson
  • 1879-1880 David Henry Booth
  • 1880-1881 Alfred Wrinch
  • 1881-1882 Frederick Fish
  • 1882-1883 Edward Rush Turner
  • 1883 John May Jnr
  • 1884-1885 Sterling Westhorp
  • 1885-1886 Benjamin Page Grimsey
  • 1886-1887 Edward Packard (junior)
  • 1887-1888 Robert Maplestone Miller
  • 1888-1889 John Henry Josselyn

County Borough of Ipswich edit

Following the enactment of the Local Government Act 1888 the County Borough of Ipswich was created with the rest of Suffolk being divided into the administrative counties of East and West Suffolk. The County Borough of Ipswich had the following mayors:[4]

  • 1889-1890 Nathaniel Catchpole
  • 1890-1891 Frederick Turner
  • 1891-1892 Sir Daniel Ford Goddard
  • 1892-1893 Roderick Donald Fraser
  • 1893-1894 Samuel Richard Anness
  • 1894-1895 John Henry Bartlet
  • 1895-1896 George Francis Josselyn
  • 1896-1897 Felix Thornley Cobbold
  • 1897-1898 Robert Stocker Paul
  • 1898-1899 Edwin Perkins Ridley
  • 1899-1900 William Churchman
  • 1900-1901 William Fraser Paul
  • 1901-1902 Arthur Churchman
  • 1902-1903 William John Catchpole
  • 1903-1904 Frederick Bennett
  • 1904-1905 John Henry Grimwade
  • 1905-1906 Bunnell H Burton
  • 1906-1907 William Orford White
  • 1907-1908 Harry W Raffe
  • 1908-1909 Francis Charles Ward
  • 1909-1910 Alexander Gibb
  • 1910-1911 Peter Wyndham Cobbold
  • 1911-1912 Frederick Edward Rands
  • 1912-1913 Edward Colby Ransome
  • 1913-1914 William Pipe
  • 1914-1915 John Dupuis Cobbold
  • 1915-1916 Sydney Brand
  • 1916-1917 Valentine Desborough Colchester
  • 1917-1918 Henry Dixon Phillips
  • 1918-1919 Edward Colby Ransome
  • 1919-1920 Frederick Edward Rands
  • 1920-1921 Frank John Mason
  • 1921-1922 William Pipe
  • 1922-1923 Alfred Sizer
  • 1923-1924 John Richard Staddon
  • 1924-1925 Frederick William Turner
  • 1925-1926 Kavas Jamas Badshah
  • 1926-1927 Charles Ernest Tempest
  • 1927-1928 William Rowley Elliston
  • 1928-1929 James Francis Clark Hossack
  • 1929-1930 Arthur Lewis Clouting
  • 1930-1931 Sidney Charles Grimwade
  • 1931-1933 George William Senton
  • 1933-1934 Robert Frederick Jackson
  • 1934-1935 George Ambrose Mallett
  • 1935-1936 Hubert Ernest Holland
  • 1936-1937 Albert Victor Smith
  • 1937-1938 George Underwood
  • 1938-1939 Edward Lawrence Hunt
  • 1940-1941 Robert Frederick Jackson
  • 1942 (Nov-Dec) Frank John Mason
  • 1942-1943 (Dec-Nov) Owen Dudley Phillips
  • 1943-1944 Charles West English
  • 1944-1945 Sidney Charles Grimwade
  • 1945-1946 Frederick Henry Warner
  • 1946-1947 Mrs Mary Whitmore
  • 1947-1949 James Barry Cullingham
  • 1949-1950 Arthur James Cook
  • 1950-1951 Cyril Catchpole
  • 1951-1952 Albert John Colthorpe
  • 1952-1953 James Chalmers
  • 1953-1954 Mrs Lesley Lewis
  • 1954-1955 Clifford Gerald Roper
  • 1955-1956 Christopher Gorden Rushen
  • 1956-1957 Phineas Weiner Lewis
  • 1957-1958 Robert Ratcliffe
  • 1958-1959 George William Pipe
  • 1959-1960 Richard James Lewis
  • 1960-1961 Percy John Fowler
  • 1961-1962 Mrs Charlotte Green
  • 1962-1963 Arthur Vernon Bishop
  • 1963-1964 John McClennan Stewart
  • 1964-1965 Edward Charles Grimwade
  • 1965-1966 Victor Robert Redvers Francis
  • 1966-1967 Mrs Marjory Keeble
  • 1967-1968 Arthur J Lambert
  • 1968-1969 Owen Sturly Nunn / Mrs Marjorie J Nesby
  • 1969-1970 Samuel William Teagar Godward
  • 1970-1971 Wallace Mortimer Morfey
  • 1971-1972 Cyril George Skinner
  • 1972-1973 Walter Horace Mulley
  • 1973-1974 Mrs Ruby Ann Skerritt
  • 1974-1975 Arthur J Lambert
  • 1975-1976 Mrs Beryl James
  • 1976-1977 Hugh R Davis
  • 1977-1978 David Myer
  • 1978-1979 Alan Seabrooke
  • 1979-1980 Eric Grant
  • 1980-1981 Sydney Mason
  • 1981-1982 Mrs Ann Smith
  • 1982-1983 Mrs Beryl James
  • 1983-1984 Douglas Grimwood
  • 1984-1985 Peter K Gardiner
  • 1985-1986 Eric Grant
  • 1986-1987 Mrs Gillian Auton*
  • 1987-1988 Derek Warsop
  • 1988-1989 William A Quinton
  • 1989-1990 Ms Sheila Baguley
  • 1990-1991 Jack West
  • 1991-1992 Kenneth Wilson
  • 1992-1993 Mrs Joan Cubbin
  • 1993-1994 Mrs Margaret Alderton
  • 1994-1995 Ian Roderick Grimwood
  • 1995-1996 Albert W Grant
  • 1996-1997 Philip H L Smart
  • 1997-1998 Mrs Jeannette E Macartney
  • 1998-1999 George Hamilton Clarke MBE
  • 1999-2000 John Charles Mowles
  • 2000-2001 Don Edwards
  • 2001-2002 Maureen Carrington-Brown
  • 2002-2003 Richard Risebrow
  • 2003-2004 Penelope Kathryn Breakwell
  • 2004-2005 Roger Edwin Fern
  • 2005-2006 William George Wright
  • 2006-2007 Henry George Davies
  • 2007-2008 Inga Elisabeth Lockington
  • 2008-2009 David Hale
  • 2009-2010 David Goldsmith
  • 2010-2011 Jane Chambers
  • 2011-2012 John Le Grys
  • 2012-2013 Mary Blake
  • 2013-2014 Hamil Clarke
  • 2014-2015 Bill Quinton
  • 2015-2016 Glen Chisholm
  • 2016-2017 Roger Fern
  • 2017-2018 Sarah Barber
  • 2018-2019 Jane Riley
  • 2019-2021 Jan Parry**
  • 2021 Jane Riley***
  • 2021-2022 Elizabeth Hughes
  • 2022- John Cook

Notes edit

  • Mother of Jan Parry, later mayor 2019-2021
    • Jan Parry was elected Mayor at the annual council meeting in May 2019. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic she agreed to carry on for a further municipal year. However, she stepped down from the council at the end of January 2021 for family reasons. She was the first mayor who was also the daughter of a former mayor.[7]
    • Former Mayor Jane Riley was elected Mayor in February 2021 on an interim basis, and was succeeded by Elizabeth Hughes at annual council meeting in May 2021.

References edit

  1. ^ Martin, Geoffrey "The Medieval and Early Modern Borough" in Salmon N. P. and Malster R. (eds), Ipswich From the First to the Third Millennium (Papers from an Ipswich Society Symposium), (Ipswich Society, Ipswich 2001), 7–17.
  2. ^ Text of charter (translated into English) and image of 1200 Town Seal, see Wodderspoon, J., Memorials of the Ancient Town of Ipswich (Pawsey (Ipswich): Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans (London) 1850), 'Ancient Incorporation of the Town', pp 75–130, at pp 75–85.
  3. ^ a b "The History of the Mayoralty". Retrieved 17 January 2010. The old corporation (or Assembly) was replaced in 1835 by a Mayor, High Steward, Recorder, ten Aldermen and thirty Councillors, with the usual officers
  4. ^ a b "Mayors of Ipswich | Ipswich Borough Council". www.ipswich.gov.uk. Ipswich Borough Council. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  5. ^ "The Mayors of Ipswich from 1835 to 1890". Suffolk Libraries. Suffolk Libraries. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  6. ^ a b "The Mayoralty in Ipswich". www.ipswich.gov.uk. Ipswich Borough Council. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  7. ^ Geater, Paul (2021). "Ipswich mayor stands down from local politics". Ipswich Star. No. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.

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Ipswich was created a Borough in 1200 by charter of King John 1 2 Prior to 1835 the officers of Ipswich Corporation at various times consisted of 3 Two bailiffs The high steward Coroner Twelve portmen Twenty four common council of headboroughs An indefinite number of burgesses or freemen A recorder A town clerk Chamberlains A water bailiff A treasurer Clavigers record keepers who held the keys to the miniment chest Sergeants at maceContents 1 Municipal Borough of Ipswich 2 County Borough of Ipswich 3 Notes 4 ReferencesMunicipal Borough of Ipswich editThe Municipal Corporations Act 1835 created the Municipal Borough of Ipswich Following this Act a mayor was elected together with a High Steward Recorder ten Aldermen and thirty councillors 3 The mayors were as follows 4 William Vick published an album The Mayors of Ipswich from 1835 to 1890 in 1890 5 Date Name Image Party Notes Refs1836 Benjamin Brame nbsp Ipswich Yellow Party Whig 6 1836 37 Frederick Francis Seekamp Whig 6 1837 38 Peter Bartholomew Long Physician1838 39 George Green Sampson nbsp Physician1839 40 John May senior 1840 41 Peter Bartholomew Long 2nd term1841 1842 John Chevallier Cobbold nbsp Conservative1842 1843 George Josselyn 1843 1844 William May 1844 1845 William Rodwell 1845 1846 Thomas d Eye Burroughes 1846 1847 George Green Sampson 1847 1848 John May senior 1848 1849 Charles Burton 1849 1850 Thomas Baldock Ross 1850 1851 Peter Bartholomew Long 1851 1852 George Josselyn 1852 1853 Samuel Harrison Cowell 1853 1854 Charles Foote Gower 1854 1855 Peter Bartholomew Long 1855 1856 George Christopherson 1856 1857 George Christopherson 1857 1858 Ebenezer Goddard 1858 1859 Jeremiah Head 1859 1860 George Josselyn 1860 1861 Edward Grimwade 1862 1863 George Bacon 1864 1865 Samuel Harrison Cowell 1865 1866 Ebenezer Goddard 1866 1867 Robert Charles Ransome 1867 1868 John Patteson Cobbold 1868 1869 Edward Packard senior 1869 1870 Edward Grimwade 1870 1871 George Green Sampson 1871 1872 George Green Sampson 1872 1873 Ebenezer Goddard 1873 1875 Dr Barrington Chevallier 1875 1876 George Calver Mason 1876 1877 Walter Turner 1877 1878 Charles Henry Cowell 1878 1879 Alexander Francis Nicholson 1879 1880 David Henry Booth 1880 1881 Alfred Wrinch 1881 1882 Frederick Fish 1882 1883 Edward Rush Turner 1883 John May Jnr 1884 1885 Sterling Westhorp 1885 1886 Benjamin Page Grimsey 1886 1887 Edward Packard junior 1887 1888 Robert Maplestone Miller 1888 1889 John Henry JosselynCounty Borough of Ipswich editFollowing the enactment of the Local Government Act 1888 the County Borough of Ipswich was created with the rest of Suffolk being divided into the administrative counties of East and West Suffolk The County Borough of Ipswich had the following mayors 4 1889 1890 Nathaniel Catchpole 1890 1891 Frederick Turner 1891 1892 Sir Daniel Ford Goddard 1892 1893 Roderick Donald Fraser 1893 1894 Samuel Richard Anness 1894 1895 John Henry Bartlet 1895 1896 George Francis Josselyn 1896 1897 Felix Thornley Cobbold 1897 1898 Robert Stocker Paul 1898 1899 Edwin Perkins Ridley 1899 1900 William Churchman 1900 1901 William Fraser Paul 1901 1902 Arthur Churchman 1902 1903 William John Catchpole 1903 1904 Frederick Bennett 1904 1905 John Henry Grimwade 1905 1906 Bunnell H Burton 1906 1907 William Orford White 1907 1908 Harry W Raffe 1908 1909 Francis Charles Ward 1909 1910 Alexander Gibb 1910 1911 Peter Wyndham Cobbold 1911 1912 Frederick Edward Rands 1912 1913 Edward Colby Ransome 1913 1914 William Pipe 1914 1915 John Dupuis Cobbold 1915 1916 Sydney Brand 1916 1917 Valentine Desborough Colchester 1917 1918 Henry Dixon Phillips 1918 1919 Edward Colby Ransome 1919 1920 Frederick Edward Rands 1920 1921 Frank John Mason 1921 1922 William Pipe 1922 1923 Alfred Sizer 1923 1924 John Richard Staddon 1924 1925 Frederick William Turner 1925 1926 Kavas Jamas Badshah 1926 1927 Charles Ernest Tempest 1927 1928 William Rowley Elliston 1928 1929 James Francis Clark Hossack 1929 1930 Arthur Lewis Clouting 1930 1931 Sidney Charles Grimwade 1931 1933 George William Senton 1933 1934 Robert Frederick Jackson 1934 1935 George Ambrose Mallett 1935 1936 Hubert Ernest Holland 1936 1937 Albert Victor Smith 1937 1938 George Underwood 1938 1939 Edward Lawrence Hunt 1940 1941 Robert Frederick Jackson 1942 Nov Dec Frank John Mason 1942 1943 Dec Nov Owen Dudley Phillips 1943 1944 Charles West English 1944 1945 Sidney Charles Grimwade 1945 1946 Frederick Henry Warner 1946 1947 Mrs Mary Whitmore 1947 1949 James Barry Cullingham 1949 1950 Arthur James Cook 1950 1951 Cyril Catchpole 1951 1952 Albert John Colthorpe 1952 1953 James Chalmers 1953 1954 Mrs Lesley Lewis 1954 1955 Clifford Gerald Roper 1955 1956 Christopher Gorden Rushen 1956 1957 Phineas Weiner Lewis 1957 1958 Robert Ratcliffe 1958 1959 George William Pipe 1959 1960 Richard James Lewis 1960 1961 Percy John Fowler 1961 1962 Mrs Charlotte Green 1962 1963 Arthur Vernon Bishop 1963 1964 John McClennan Stewart 1964 1965 Edward Charles Grimwade 1965 1966 Victor Robert Redvers Francis 1966 1967 Mrs Marjory Keeble 1967 1968 Arthur J Lambert 1968 1969 Owen Sturly Nunn Mrs Marjorie J Nesby 1969 1970 Samuel William Teagar Godward 1970 1971 Wallace Mortimer Morfey 1971 1972 Cyril George Skinner 1972 1973 Walter Horace Mulley 1973 1974 Mrs Ruby Ann Skerritt 1974 1975 Arthur J Lambert 1975 1976 Mrs Beryl James 1976 1977 Hugh R Davis 1977 1978 David Myer 1978 1979 Alan Seabrooke 1979 1980 Eric Grant 1980 1981 Sydney Mason 1981 1982 Mrs Ann Smith 1982 1983 Mrs Beryl James 1983 1984 Douglas Grimwood 1984 1985 Peter K Gardiner 1985 1986 Eric Grant 1986 1987 Mrs Gillian Auton 1987 1988 Derek Warsop 1988 1989 William A Quinton 1989 1990 Ms Sheila Baguley 1990 1991 Jack West 1991 1992 Kenneth Wilson 1992 1993 Mrs Joan Cubbin 1993 1994 Mrs Margaret Alderton 1994 1995 Ian Roderick Grimwood 1995 1996 Albert W Grant 1996 1997 Philip H L Smart 1997 1998 Mrs Jeannette E Macartney 1998 1999 George Hamilton Clarke MBE 1999 2000 John Charles Mowles 2000 2001 Don Edwards 2001 2002 Maureen Carrington Brown 2002 2003 Richard Risebrow 2003 2004 Penelope Kathryn Breakwell 2004 2005 Roger Edwin Fern 2005 2006 William George Wright 2006 2007 Henry George Davies 2007 2008 Inga Elisabeth Lockington 2008 2009 David Hale 2009 2010 David Goldsmith 2010 2011 Jane Chambers 2011 2012 John Le Grys 2012 2013 Mary Blake 2013 2014 Hamil Clarke 2014 2015 Bill Quinton 2015 2016 Glen Chisholm 2016 2017 Roger Fern 2017 2018 Sarah Barber 2018 2019 Jane Riley 2019 2021 Jan Parry 2021 Jane Riley 2021 2022 Elizabeth Hughes 2022 John CookNotes editMother of Jan Parry later mayor 2019 2021 Jan Parry was elected Mayor at the annual council meeting in May 2019 Owing to the COVID 19 pandemic she agreed to carry on for a further municipal year However she stepped down from the council at the end of January 2021 for family reasons She was the first mayor who was also the daughter of a former mayor 7 Former Mayor Jane Riley was elected Mayor in February 2021 on an interim basis and was succeeded by Elizabeth Hughes at annual council meeting in May 2021 References edit Martin Geoffrey The Medieval and Early Modern Borough in Salmon N P and Malster R eds Ipswich From the First to the Third Millennium Papers from an Ipswich Society Symposium Ipswich Society Ipswich 2001 7 17 Text of charter translated into English and image of 1200 Town Seal see Wodderspoon J Memorials of the Ancient Town of Ipswich Pawsey Ipswich Longman Brown Green amp Longmans London 1850 Ancient Incorporation of the Town pp 75 130 at pp 75 85 a b The History of the Mayoralty Retrieved 17 January 2010 The old corporation or Assembly was replaced in 1835 by a Mayor High Steward Recorder ten Aldermen and thirty Councillors with the usual officers a b Mayors of Ipswich Ipswich Borough Council www ipswich gov uk Ipswich Borough Council Retrieved 11 March 2020 The Mayors of Ipswich from 1835 to 1890 Suffolk Libraries Suffolk Libraries Retrieved 4 March 2024 a b The Mayoralty in Ipswich www ipswich gov uk Ipswich Borough Council Retrieved 4 March 2024 Geater Paul 2021 Ipswich mayor stands down from local politics Ipswich Star No 31 January 2021 Retrieved 29 September 2021 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of mayors of Ipswich Borough Suffolk amp oldid 1214470895, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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