MAYORS OF BRADFORD
A LIST OF THE MEN AND WOMEN ELECTED TO THE OFFICE OF
MAYOR AND LORD MAYOR IN BRADFORD, INCLUDING CHAIRMEN OF
THE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITIES THAT BECAME PART OF THE
BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT IN 1974
Bradford
Beginning in 1847, with the Incorporation of the Borough (Bradford
became a County Borough in 1889, and a City in 1897)
1847
1847-48
1848-49
1849-50
1850-51
1851-52
1852-53
1853-54
1854-55
1855-56
1856-57
1857-58
1858-59
1859-60
1861-62
1862-63
1863-64
1864-65
1865-66
1866-67
1867-68
1868-69
1869-70
1870-71
1871-72
1872-73
1873-74
1874-75
1875-76
1876-77
1877-78
1878-79
1879-80
1880-81
1881-82
Robert Milligan
Robert Milligan
Titus Salt
Henry Forbes
William Rand
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith
William Murgatroyd
William Murgatroyd
Henry Brown
Henry Brown
Henry Brown
Isaac Wright
Isaac Wright
Matthew William Thompson
Joseph Farrar
Charles Semon
John Venimore Godwin
William Brayshaw
James Law
Edward West
Mark Dawson
Mark Dawson
Matthew William Thompson
Matthew William Thompson
Manoah Rhodes
Henry Mitchell
Wilson Sutcliffe
George Motley Waud
Briggs Priestley
Angus Holden
Angus Holden
Angus Holden
John Hill
1882-83
1883-84
1884-85
1885-86
1886-87
1887-88
1888-89
1889-90
1890-91
1891-92
1892-93
1893-94
1894-95
1895-96
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1902
1902-04
1904-05
1905-06
1906-07
1907-08
1908-09
1909-10
1910-11
1911-12
1912-13
1913-14
1914-15
1915-16
1916-17
1917-18
1918
1918-19
1919
1919-20
1920-21
1921-22
1922-23
1923-24
1924-25
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
1930-31
1931-32
1932-33
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
Frederick Priestman
Isaac Smith
Isaac Smith
Thomas Hill
Angus Holden
John Limber Morley
William Moulson
Smith Feather
Ezra Waugh Hammond
Thomas Priestley
William Oddy
Jonas Whitley
William Willis Wood
William Willis Wood
Thomas Speight
Thomas Speight
William E. Aykroyd
William C. Lupton
David Wade
William E.B. Priestley
William A. Whitehead
John A. Godwin, First Lord Mayor, 1907
John E. Fawcett
James Hill
William Land
Jacob Moser
John B. Moorhouse
Fred Foster
John Arnold
George H. Robinson
Thomas Howarth
Abram Peel
John Bland
Herbert Hustler Tetley
Joseph Hayhurst
Walter Barber
William Wade
Anthony Gadie
Thomas Blythe
Thomas Sowden
Herbert M. Trotter
John H. Palin, MP
Joseph Stringer
Richard Johnson
Michael Conway
Herbert T. Pullan
Angus H. Rhodes
Alfred Pickles
George Walker
John W. Longley
Arthur W. Brown, MBE
Walter Hodgson
Jonas Pearson
George R. Carter
Henry Hudson
Tom J. Robinson
M.F. Titterington
William Illingworth
Louis F.W.S. Smith
James Harrison
1943-44
1944-45
1945-46
1946-47
1947-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961-62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967
1968
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
April 1974
1974-75
1975-76
1976-77
1977-78
1978-79
1979-80
1980-81
1981-82
1982-83
1983-84
1984-85
1985-86
1986-87
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
1998-99
1999-2000
2000-2001
Walter Barraclough
Cecil Barnett
Kathleen Chambers
Thomas I. Clough
Frederick J. Cowie
George T. Meggison
Alton Ward
Horace Hird
John Shee
Angus Crowther
Henry James White
Herbert William Semper
Richard Cornelius Ruth
Horace Robert Walker
David Black
Norbert William Durrant
Ernest England
Edgar Robinson
Benjamin Wilfrid Berry
Harold K. Watson
Tom Wood
Weber Marshall Hird
Jack Wilkinson
Louis Cowgill
Thomas Lee
John William Taylor
Arthur Walton
Edward Newby, OBE
John E. B. Singleton
Herbert Moran
Audrey Firth
Derek Smith
John E. B. Singleton
Tom Edward Hall
Doris Birdsall, CBE, MA (Hon), LHD
Frank Hillam
Paul Hockney
Arthur F. Trigg
John S. Senior
Arnold Lightowler
Daniel C. Coughlin
Joan Lightband
Norman Free
Olive Messer
Mohammed Ajeeb
William Arthur Nunn
Laurie C. Coughlin
Smith Midgley
George Hodgson
Ernest Saville
Sydney John Collard
Barry Kenneth Thorne
Robert Sowman
Danny Mangham
Marilyn Beeley
Gordon Mitchell
James Anthony (Tony) Cairns
Tony Miller
Harry Mason
John Stanley King
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
2013-2014
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-
Ghazanfer Khaliq
Richard E. J. Wightman
Allan Irving Hillary
Irene Ellison-Wood
Valerie Binney
Choudhary Rangzeb
Robin Owens
Howard Middleton
John D Godward
Peter Hill
Naveeda Ikram
Dale Smith
Khadim Hussain
Mike Gibbons
Joanne Dodds
Geoff Reid
Baildon Urban District Council
Chairmen of the Council since its constitution
1895-96
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1901
1901-09
1909-11
1911-12
1912-13
1913-14
1914-15
1915-16
1916-17
1917-18
1918-19
1919-20
1920-21
1921-22
1922-23
1923-25
1925-28
1928-29
1929-30
1930-31
1931-32
1932-34
1934-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
1944-45
1945-46
1946-48
Thomas Michael Holmes
Oliver Firth
William Holmes
George Edward Robinson
George Camille Waud
George Edward Robinson
William Holmes
Shaw Robinson
Frederick Holmes
Thomas Denbigh
Riley Green
William Henry Williams
William Edward Rhodes
Frederick William Whittaker
Willie Jowett
Frederick Holmes
Percy Louis Carroll
Joseph Bailey Jennings
William Edward Rhodes
Percy Louis Carroll
Arthur Greenwood
Harry Robinson
Amos Copley
Percy Louis Carroll
Joseph Denby
Henry Edgar Sucksmith
William Hill
Clifford Dewhirst
Joseph Denby
Harry Baker Robinson
William Milner
George Henry Copley
Arthur Blewitt
Charles Knipe
William Booth
David Vincent Scholes
William James Robinson
1948-49
Clifford Dewhirst
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961-62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
David Vincent Scholes
William Booth
Ambrose Theophilus Middleton Schofield
Herbert Moore
Percy Oates
James Arthur Schofield
Harold Oliver Griffiths
Newton Clough
Robert Hill
L.P. Warne
N. Woodhead
J.B. Franks
H. Chapman
C. Dewhirst
R.W. Bolton
J.G. Hansen
J. Hicks
F. Sanderson
C. Pilkington
F. Atkinson
L. Robinson
F. Clough
C. Mountain
A. Lightowler
A.W. Booth
Bingley Urban District Council
Chairmen of the Council since the amalgamation of Bingley, Bingley Outer and Wilsden in
1898
1898-99
1899-1900
1900-01
1901-02
1902-03
1903-04
1904-05
1905-06
1906-07
1907-08
1908-09
1909-10
1910-11
1911-12
1912-13
1913-14
1914-15
1915-16
1916-17
1917-18
1918-19
1919-20
1920-21
1921-22
1922-23
1923-24
1924-25
1925-26
James Gatecliff
Alfred Hartley
W.R. Atkinson
J.T. Wildon
John Barron
Win. Suthers
Geo. Towler
Geo. W. Foster
Wm. Hartley
Samuel Rushforth
W.R. Atkinson
W.R. Nunns
H.M. Dawson
H.M. Dawson
H.M. Dawson
Jubal Barrett
Thomas Turner
Harry Laycock
J.H. Whitwam
B. Garnett
T.W. Smales
T.W. Smales
J.R. Leach
T. Snowden, J.P.
W. Rushton
Major S. Moore, J.P.
J. Metcalfe, J.P.
C.A. Smith, J.P.
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
1930-31
1931-32
1932-33
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
1944-45
1945-46
1946-47
1947-48
1948-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961-62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
J.W. Walker
J.H. Whitley
J. Whittingham
W.M. Whitwam
R. Mitchell
F. Atkinson
R.W. Addison
A.R. Bentley
W. Woodcock
James Earnshaw
David W. Suley
Angus Jowett
E. Ridsdale Park
John Newhill
J.W. Minnikin
J.P. Keegan
W.V. Eustace
F. Ellison
P. Stirk, J.P.
B. Garnett
N. Clarkson
L. Grunwell
F. Shaw
J. Wild
A.R. Bentley
H. Whitehead
J.A. Brearley
J.A. Flanagan
Mrs M.P. Rycroft
H. Pratt
JR. Escritt, M.Sc.
L. Hanson
A.G. Moorhouse
W.H. Penn
L.O. Taylor
M. Calvert
L.H. Kershaw
E.K. Eckersley
J. Craven
S.H. Cross
P.R. Bootham
K. Marshall
E.T. Fox
Mrs F.M. Davy
L. Archer
AG. Raistrick
T.F. Shaw
Mrs E. Hall
llkley Urban District Council
Chairmen
1894-95
1895-96
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1900
1900-01
John Beanlands
John Beanlands
William Hartley
Thomas Horsman
Jabez Dobson
Henry Ellis
James C. Naylor
1901-02
1902-03
1903-04
1904-05
1905-06
1906-07
1907-08
1908-09
1909-10
1910-11
1911-12
1912-13
1913-14
1914-15
1915-16
1916-17
1917-18
1918-19
1919-20
1920-21
1921-22
1922-23
1923-24
1924-25
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
1930-31
1931-32
1932-33
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
1944-45
1945-46
1946-47
1947-48
1948-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
Edward Fletcher
John Thomas Jackson
John William Benson
John William Benson
John William Dixon
John Alfred Middlebrook
James Crossley Barker
James Crossley Barker
Isaac Dean
Joseph Dinsdale
lsaac Dean
Frederick Sagar Jackson
Frederick Sagar Jackson
William Dobson
William Richard Bates
William Prest
William Prest
James Blackader Bray
Frederick Sagar Jackson
John William Dixon
John William Lund
John William Dixon
William Prest
Henry Schofield
William Rhodes
Alfred Colbert
Thomas Hubert Frith
Thomas Hubert Frith
George Mott
Fred Sugden
William Dobson
Charles Frederick Pyett
James Brown Whitfield
Maurice Rowland Dobson
Maurice Rowland Dobson
Geoffrey Veale
Ernest Waddilove
Arthur Christian Voigt
George Mennell
James Edward Dykes
Walter Harold lllingworth
Henry Hargrave
William Milnes
William Milnes
William Milnes
James Ronald Phillips
Florence Sarah Hampshire
George William dough
John William Rhodes
Maurice Edric Midgley
Basil Aykroyd Smith
Eric Wolfe
John Hardy
Fred Atkinson
William Hill
James Hulme Bowes
Hylda Hawkins
Leonard James Sarjeant
Janet Lucille Ellicott
Eddie Binns
1961-62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
John Richard Armistead
Eric Smith
Owen Benjamin Moss
Fred Atkinson
James Melvin Shelton
Hylda Hawkins
Cohn Briggs Outtersides
David Basil Marshall
Raymond Phillip Bushell
Arthur Francis James Marshall
James Melvin Shelton
Dale Smith
Jack Spencer
Keighley Borough Council
The Mayoralty
Persons who have filled the office of Mayor since the Incorporation of the Borough
1882-83
1883-84
1884-85
1885-86
1886-87
1887-90
1890-93
1893-94
1894-95
1895-96
1896-98
1898-99
1899-1902
1902-03
1903-04
1904-05
1905-07
1907-08
1908-09
1909-10
1910-12
1912-16
1916-18
1918-20
1920-21
1921-22
1922-23
1923-25
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
1930-31
1931-32
1932-33
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1936-37
Benjamin S. Brigg
Richard L. Hattersley
William Clough
Edward D.A. Marriner
Robert Holmes
William Weatherhead
Ira lckringill
Shem Paget
John Dickinson
Richard Edmondson
R.N. Smith
C.H. Foulds
Henry C. Longsdon
Joseph Waterhouse
William Clough
John Smith
John W. Smith
Robert Clough
James Wharton
Richard Edmondson
Samuel Clough
William A. Brigg
Frederick W.L. Butterfield
Ferdinand N. Binns
John W. Midgley
James Longton
Newman King
Robert Calverley
Arthur Smith
Albert Smith
William Bland
Eli Murton
James Berry
Frederick Dickinson
Michael P. Cryer
David Rhodes
Ernest Whalley
Tom Broster
John Henderson
Thomas Wardle
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
1944-45
1945-46
1946-47
1947-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961 -62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
Wilfred Southwell
Thomas Duerden
John W. Wardle
Joseph Denby
William Waterhouse
Tom Snowden
Edgar Middleton
J. Spencer Binns
William Smith
George H. Norton
Arthur W. Tack
J. Harold Wright
George S. Mason
Ernest Hutchinson
David C. Hudson
Robert W. Waterhouse
James Procter
Noel Johns
Percy Taylor
John A. Taylor
William E. Walton
John Binns
Harry Hammond
John S. Bell
James N. Welch
Thomas Gallagher
George W. Dale
Joseph Nolan
Frank Jeffrey
Elsie M. Foulds
Alan Greenwood
James H. Waterworth
John E. Brownbridge
Jim Greenwood
Sydney Bancroft
William A. Proom
G.B. Welham
Queensbury Urban District Council
Chairmen
1894
1895-96
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1900
1900-01
1901-02
1902-03
1903-04
1904-05
1905-06
1906-07
1907-08
1908-09
1909-10
1910-11
1911-12
John Sherwin
James Ackroyd
Joseph Stocks
Arthur Hainsworth
Isaac Whiteley
Arthur Bairstow
Herbert A. Foster
Herbert A. Foster
Herbert A. Foster
Herbert A. Foster
Herbert A. Foster
Herbert A. Foster
Herbert A. Foster
Herbert A. Foster
Dennis Carter
Briggs Hainsworth
John W. Briggs
R.A. Drake
1912-13
1913-14
1914-15
1915-16
1916-17
1917-18
1918-19
1919-20
1920-21
1921 -22
1922-23
1923-24
1924-25
1925-26
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
1930-31
1931 -32
1932-33
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1936-37
Edwin Waugh
Samuel Balmforth
James Chatburn
William H. Midgley
WaIter Riley
John Hartley
Arthur Bairstow
Robert L. Foster
WaIter Riley
Harry Gledhill
Harry GledhiII
James H. Smith
James Balmforth
Arthur R. Burniston
Harry GledhiII
James Balmforth
Joseph Grey
Percy Carling
Ralph Lightowler
Ralph Lightowler
Ralph Lightowler
Ralph Lightowler
Ralph Lightowler
Ralph Lightowler
Ralph Lightowler
March 1937
Queensbury Urban District Council amalgamated with Shelf Urban District Council to form
Queensbury and Shelf Urban District Council
1937-38
1938-39
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
1944-45
1945-46
1946-47
1947-48
1948-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961 -62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
Ralph Lightowler
W. Farrar
W. Farrar
A. Harrison
J.H. Moore
H. Petty
H. Pickles
Mrs M.A. Barraclough, M.B.E.
Walter R. Bairstow
J.H. Moore
J.H. Moore
W. Farrar
J. Smith
J. Smith
Mrs M.E. McCreath
W.S. Smith
L. Ashworth
H.E. Nichols
J.H. Moore
J.H. Chatburn
E. Sutcliffe
H.E. Nichols
A. Ashworth
F.W. Pohlmann
R. Harling
R. Goodwin
L. Woodhead
F.W. Pohlmann
J.T. Roberts
R. Goodwin
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
E. Sutcliffe
J.H. Chatbum
M. Cookland
Mrs I. Craven
H. Crowther
J. Bradley
Harold S. Bolton
Shipley Urban District Council
Chairmen of the Council, from January, 1895
1895-1904
Charles Brook Shaw
1904-07
Sir James Roberts, Bt., J.P.
1907-11
John Pitts
1911-12
Exelby Reynolds
1912-19
Thomas Hill, J.P., O.B.E.
1919-20
Henry Hirst
1920-23
Fred Fearnley Rhodes, J.P.
1923-24
George Birbeck
1924-25
Fred Fearnley Rhodes, J.P.
1925-27
Edwin Cowgill
1927-29
Victor Waddilove
1929-30
Albert Ernest Horne, J.P.
1930-31
Thomas John Gray, J.P.
1931-32
Clifford Cawthorne
1932-34
Gordon Waddilove
1934-35
Arthur William Robson
1935-36
William Smith Tinsley
1936-37
Victor Waddilove
1937-38
George Birbeck
1938-39
John Chippindale, J.P.
1939-42
Albert Ernest Horne, J.P.
1942-43
Thomas John Gray, J.P.
1943-45
Charles Malcolm Smith, J.P.
1945-46
Samuel Derbyshire, J.P.
1946-47
John Lancaster, J.P.
1947-48
Albert Edward Roberts, J.P.
1948-49
Benjamin Cromack, D.S.M.
1949-50
William Henry Bannister
1950-51
Arthur Butterfield
1951-52
Clarence Albert Richardson
1952-53
Mrs Alice Woodcock
1953-54
Gordon Waddilove
1954-Aug. 1955
Oliver Brook Raistrick
Sept. 1955-1957
Frank Thornton, J.P.
1957-58
Alfred Stanley Geo. Rodway
1958-59
Harry Easy
1959-60
Joseph Clifford Padgett
1960-61
Albert Swift
1961-62
Thomas William Warburton, O.B.E., J.P.
1962-63
Thomas Ellison Hainsworth
1963-64
Thomas Martin Duggan
1964-65
Arthur Butterfield
1965-66
George Arthur Shaw
1966-67
Jack King
1967-68
Raymond Clapham
1968-69
Robert Martin
1969-70
Thomas Martin Duggan
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
Frank Thornton, M.B.E., J.P.
Mrs Joanna Bowron Evans
Eric Alfred Armitage
Eric Wade Pearson
Silsden Urban District Council
Chairmen
1895-1905
1905-1914
1914-1918
1918-1922
1922-1925
1925-1932
1932-1935
1935-1937
1937-1940
1940-1943
1943-1946
1946-1949
1949-1952
1952-1955
1955-1958
1958-1959
1959-1962
1962-1963
1963-1966
1966-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969-1970
1970-1 971
1971 -1 972
1972-1 973
1973-1974
Charles Weatherhead
Tom Fletcher
Frank Driver
William Easnett
Joseph Tunnicliffe
Albert Wilson
Fergus Green
Herbert Wilkinson
C.T. Fletcher
Horace Fortune
Henry Wellock
G. William Smith
Horace Fortune
Arthur Watson
Mrs Nellie Fortune
Alfred B. Green
John J. Barker
James E. Marsh
Miss Catherine Herbert
Bertram S. Mole
Harold Kellett
Bernard Emmott
Thomas Hayes
William F. Cathey
John J. Barker
Mrs D. Robinson
E.H.V. Robinson
Skipton Rural District Council
Chairmen of the Council since formation
1894-1941
1941-1944
1944-1947
1947-1950
1950-1953
1953-1956
1956-1959
1959-1961
1961-1962
1962-1963
1963-1964
1964-1965
1965-1966
1966-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969-1970
John Arthur Slingsby, J.P.
George Sugden Green, J.P.
Harry Riddiough, J.P.
Wright Snowden, J.P.
Joe Watson, J.P.
Harfield Henry Edmonds
Charlie Nuttall
Denis Ewart Riddiough, T.D., J.P.
Annie Taylor, J.P.
Robert Hagley
Robert Thackray Swales
Ernest Cumberland
Maurice Cleaver
William Dawson
Thomas Carter
Evelyn Elizabeth Markham
William Stockdale
1970-1971
1971-1972
1972-1973
1973-1974
John Keith Lockyer, B.Ch.D., L.D.S.
Richard Arthur Stockdale, B.Sc., (Agr.)
William Henry Spinks
Robert Leslie Fryers