List of mayors of Sheffield

Not to be confused with Mayor of the Sheffield City Region.

The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council. They are elected annually by the council. The post originated in 1843, with the appointment of William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield. Early mayors had significant powers and chaired both council meetings and the bench of magistrates.^[1]

William Jeffcock, first Mayor of Sheffield, portrait in Sheffield Town Hall

In 1855, the then-mayor was refused a good seat at the opening of the Paris Exhibition, as he did not have a chain of office. As a result, one was purchased the following year, and this has remained in use.^[2]

In 1897, in the same year as the opening of Sheffield Town Hall, the mayor was given the right to style himself the "Lord Mayor". To mark this, the first Lord Mayor, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, gave the Sheffield Mace to the city to mark the royal authority invested in the post.^[3]

The Lord Mayor has the use of the Lord Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall, an official badge and the honorary presidency of several organisations. The Lord Mayor's Awards and the Lord Mayor's Charity Fund are local institutions organised in the name of the Lord Mayor.

Ann Eliza Longden was the first female Lord Mayor (1936–7).^[4]

Notable former mayors include George Bassett, founder of a confectionery firm, and the steelmaker Mark Firth.

List of mayors of Sheffield

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Sir John Brown with the Chain of office, portrait in Sheffield Town Hall

 

Statue of Henry Fitzalan Howard, the last Mayor and first Lord Mayor of Sheffield, in the lobby of Sheffield Town Hall

 

The Lord Mayor's Parlour

 

Edward Tozer Mayor of Sheffield 1879

Year	Name	Party
1843	William Jeffcock	-
1844	Thomas Dunn		Whig
1845	Samuel Butcher	-
1846	Henry Wilkinson	-
1847	Edward Vickers	-
1848	T. R. Barker	-
1849	Thomas Birks	-
1850	Thomas Burdett Turton	-
1851	John Carr	-
1852	W. A. Matthews	-
1853	Francis Hoole	-
1854	William Fisher	-
1855	William Fawcett	-
1856	John William Pye-Smith		Liberal
1857	R. Jackson	-
1858	Charles Atkinson	-
1859	Henry E. Hoole	-
1860	Henry Vickers	-
1861–62	Sir John Brown		Conservative
1863–64	Thomas Jessop	-
1865	W. E. Laycock	-
1866–67	John Webster		Conservative
1868–71	Thomas Moore		Conservative
1872	John Fairburn	-
1873	Joseph Hallam	-
1874	Mark Firth		Liberal
1875	John Tasker	-
1876	George Bassett		Conservative
1877	Sir Frederick Mappin		Liberal
1878	David Ward	-
1879	Edward Tozer	-
1880	Abram Brooksbank	-
1881–82	Michael Hunter, Jnr.	-
1883–84	William Henry Brittain	-
1885	John W. Pye Smith		Liberal
1886	Sir Henry Stephenson		Liberal Unionist
1887–88	William Johnson Clegg		Liberal
1889	J. B. Jackson	-
1890	Samuel Osborn^[a]	-
1891	William Johnson Clegg		Liberal
1891	Joseph Gamble	-
1892	J. Batty Langley		Liberal
1893	E. S. Foster		Liberal
1894	Sir Charles. T. Skelton		Liberal
1895–96	Henry Fitzalan-Howard	-

List of lord mayors of Sheffield

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Year	Name	Party
1897	Henry Fitzalan-Howard^[b]		Conservative
1897	George Franklin	-
1898	William Edwin Clegg		Liberal
1899	Samuel Roberts		Conservative
1900	John Eaton	-
1901	George Senior^[7]		Conservative
1902	John Wycliffe Wilson^[8]		Liberal
1903	John Rutland Wheatley	-
1904	Joseph Jonas	-
1905	Herbert Hughes	-
1906	Robert Styring		Liberal
1907	Harry P. Marsh	-
1908	Henry Kenyon Stephenson		Liberal
1909	Earl Fitzwilliam		Conservative
1910	Henry Kenyon Stephenson		Liberal
1911	Albert John Hobson	-
1912	Samuel Osborn		Liberal
1913	George Ernest Branson	-
1914	Oliver Charles Wilson		Liberal
1915	Frederick Arthur Warlow		Liberal
1916	Walter Appleyard		Liberal
1917	Alfred Cattell		Conservative
1918	William Irons		Liberal
1919	Samuel Roberts		Conservative
1920	William Farewell Wardle	Citizen's
1921	Charles Simpson	Citizen's
1922	William Carter Fenton	Citizen's
1923	Arthur James Blanchard	Citizen's
1924	Alfred James Bailey	Citizen's
1925	Joseph Benson	Citizen's
1926	John George Graves	Citizen's
1927	Moses Humberstone		Labour
1928	Harry Bolton	-
1929	Charles William Beardsley		Labour
1930	Harold Warters Jackson	Municipal Progressive
1931	Thomas Henry Watkins	-
1932	Ernest Wilson	-
1933	Fred Marshall		Labour
1934	Percival J. M. Turner	-
1935	Frank Thraves		Labour
1936	Ann Eliza Longden		Conservative
1937	Ernest George Rowlinson		Labour
1938	William Joseph Hunter	-
1939	John Arthur Longden	-
1940	Luther Frederick Milner	-
1941	Charles Josiah Mitchell		Labour
1942	Harry England Bridgwater	-
1943	Samuel Hartley Marshall		Labour
1944	George Ernest Marlow	-
1945	Charles William Gascoigne		Labour
1946	Ernest Storm Graham	-
1947	William Ernest Yorke^[c]		Labour
1949	Grace Tebbutt		Labour
1950	Herbert Keeble Hawson	-
1951	Thomas William Bridgland		Labour
1952	Peter Buchanan		Labour
1953	Oliver Spencer Holmes	-
1954	John Henry Bingham		Labour
1955	Joseph Curtis		Labour
1956	Robert Neill		National Liberal
1957	Albert Ballard		Labour Co-op
1958	John William Holland		Labour
1959	Alfred Vernon Wolstenholme	-
1960	Harold Slack		Labour
1961	James Wilfred Sterland		Labour
1962	Percival Cyril John Taylor Kirkman	-
1963	Isidore Lewis		Labour
1964	Albert Smith		Labour
1965	John Stenton Worrall		Labour
1966	Lionel Stephen Edward Farris		Conservative
1967	Harold Lambert		Labour
1968	Patience Sheard		Labour
1969	Daniel Joseph O'Neill		Conservative
1970	John Basil Peile^[d]		Conservative
1970	Sidney Irwin Dyson		Labour
1971	Harold Hebblethwaite		Conservative
1972	Martha Strafford		Labour
1973	Stanley Kenneth Arnold		Conservative
1974	Leonard Cope		Labour
1975	Albert Edward Richardson		Labour
1976	Reginald Edward Munn		Labour
1977	Winifred Mary Golding		Labour
1978	Peter Harold Jackson		Conservative
1979	George Armitage		Labour
1980	William Owen		Labour
1981	Enid Anne Hattersley		Labour
1982	Gordon Wragg		Conservative
1983	Peter Morgan Newton Jones		Labour
1984	George Roy Munn		Labour
1985	Dorothy Walton		Labour
1986	Frank Prince		Labour
1987	Peter Horton		Labour
1988	Phyllis May Smith		Labour
1989	Anthony Damms		Labour
1990	James Moore		Labour
1991	Doris Askham		Labour
1992	William Jordan		Labour
1993	Qurban Hussain		Labour
1994	Ian Saunders		Labour
1995	David Heslop		Conservative
1996	Peter Price		Labour
1997	Antony Arber		Labour
1998	Frank White		Labour
1999	Trevor Bagshaw		Liberal Democrats
2000	Patricia Midgley		Labour
2001	David Baker		Liberal Democrats
2002	Marjorie Barker		Labour
2003	Diane Leek^[e]		Liberal Democrats
2004	Mike Pye		Labour
2005	Roger Davison		Liberal Democrats
2006	Jackie Drayton		Labour
2007	Arthur Dunworth		Liberal Democrats
2008	Jane Bird		Labour
2009	Graham Oxley		Liberal Democrats
2010	Alan Law		Labour
2011	Sylvia Dunkley		Liberal Democrats
2012	John Campbell		Labour
2013	Vickie Priestley		Liberal Democrats
2014	Peter Rippon		Labour
2015	Talib Hussain		Labour
2016	Denise Fox		Labour
2017	Anne Murphy		Labour
2018	Magid Magid		Green
2019 & 2020	Tony Downing		Labour
2021	Gail Smith		Liberal Democrats
2022	Sioned-Mair Richards		Labour
2023	Colin Ross		Liberal Democrats

Notes

1. Elected in place of the late Mayor.
2. Lord Mayor from July to November 1897
3. November 1947 to May 1949 due to change in election dates
4. Elected in place of the late Lord Mayor
5. May 2003 to June 2004 due to change in election date

References

1. . Sheffield City Council. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014.
2. "Lord Mayor's Chains & Badges". www.sheffield.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
3. "Lord Mayor's Chains & Badges". www.sheffield.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
4. www.picturesheffield.com Mrs. Ann Eliza Longden, First woman Lord Mayor 1936 (picture)
5. "Mayor History".
6. "Mayor History".
7. "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36609. London. 11 November 1901. p. 7.
8. "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.