List of mayors of Hawthorn

This is a list of mayors and chairmen of the City of Hawthorn, a former local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and its precedents. It existed from 1856 until 1994 when it merged with the City of Kew and the City of Camberwell to form the new City of Boroondara.

Council name

Name	Established
Hawthorn Municipality	27 July 1860
Hawthorn Borough Council	1863
Hawthorn Town Council	18 March 1887
Hawthorn City Council	12 September 1890

Hawthorn Municipality chairmen (1860–1863)

#	Chairman	Term
1	Michael O’Grady	1860-1862
2	Dugald McDougall	1862-1863

Hawthorn mayors (1863–1994)

#	Chairman	Term	Bio
3	William Henry Pettett	1863-1864
4	Lauchlan Mackinnon	1864-1865
5	John de la Roche Bragge	1865-1866	Roche Bragge (c. 1816 - 9 May 1875) was an Australian surgeon. Bragge was living in Victoria and working as a doctor as of 1854. As of 1856 he was living in Hawthorn and working as a doctor of medicine and that year he served as a collector of votes in the elections for the District of South Bourke, Central, and South Province. In 1860 Bragge was elected to the inaugural Municipal Council of Hawthorn when the body was established and in 1865 he was elected as the Mayor and served for a year. As of 1870 he was practicing as a surgeon in Hawthorn. In 1875 Bragge died at his residence in Hawthorn.
6	Edward Augustus Atkyns	1866-1867
7	Frederick Walsh	1867-1868
8	Henry Lawes	1868-1870
9	Michael O’Grady	1870-1871
10	Alfred William Harston	1871-1872
11	Charles Baker	1872-1873
12	John Stevenson Denny	1873-1874
13	Edward Sayce	1874-1876
14	William Cleverdon	1876-1877
15	Robert Elias Wallen	1877-1879
16	William Cleverdon	1879-1880
17	Alexander Millie	1880-1882
18	William Bell	1882-1883
19	James Swan	1883-1884
20	William Thomas Wallis	1884-1885
21	William Cowper	1885-1886
22	Daniel George Cullen	1886-1887
23	Thomas Barrett	1887-1888
24	George Grant Munro	1888-1889
25	James Westley	1889-1890
26	Francis Gillman	1891
27	Charles Edgerton	1891-1892
28	Robert William Hooke	1892-1893
29	Percy Joseph Russell	1893-1894
30	Robert Thomson Barbour	1894-1895
31	James Scoular Riddell	1895-1896
32	Charles Dalley	1896-1897
33	Richard Ardagh	1897-1898
34	Arthur Norman Smith	1898-1899
35	John Adams	1899-1900
36	Frederick William McDonald	1900-1901
37	William Cowper	1901-1902
38	George Swinburne	1902-1903
39	Benjamin Goldsmith	1903-1904
40	William Andrews	1904-1905
41	Percy Joseph Russell	1905-1906
42	Charles Dalley	1906-1907
43	Henry Sayers Crocker	1907-1908
44	Henry Henningsen	1908-1909
45	David Henry Dureau	1909-1910
46	Andrew Roche	1910-1911
47	William George Burton	1911-1912
48	John V.M. Wood	1912-1913
49	Robert Thomas Barbour	1913-1914
50	Edward Charles Rigby	1914-1915
51	Percy Joseph Russell	1915-1917
52	Robert William Lord	1917-1918
53	Edward Ward	1918-1919
54	Frank Ogglethorpe Wills Sambell	1919-1920
55	Thomas Henson Kitchin	1920-1921
56	John Chalmers	1921-1922
57	Joseph Brook Pridmore	1922-1923
58	Walter James Lancaster	1923-1924
59	Edward Charles Rigby	1924-1925
60	George William Simpson	1925-1926
61	Henry Angus Wallace	1926-1927
62	David Henry Evans	1927-1928
63	Edward Ward	1928-1929
64	William Thomas Lewis	1929-1930
65	Joseph Brook Pridmore	1930-1931
66	John Williams George	1931-1932
67	George William Simpson	1932-1935
68	Edward Charles Rigby	1935-1936
69	David Henry Evans	1936-1937
70	John Austin Gray	1937-1938
71	Joseph Fowler	1938-1939
72	William Thomas Lewis	1939-1940
73	Joseph Brook Pridmore	1940-1941
74	John Williams George	1941-1942
75	William Campbell Porteous	1942-1943
76	Joseph Brook Pridmore	1943-1944
77	William Thomas Lewis	1944-1945
78	Joseph Fowler	1945-1946
79	William Robert Gordon Longmuir	1946-1947
80	Edward Charles Rigby	1947-1948
81	Leslie Tyack	1948-1949
82	Harry Woolven Moffat	1949-1950
83	Joseph Brook Pridmore	1950-1951
84	Harold William George	1951-1953
85	David Swan	1953-1954
86	Thomas Howard Jackett	1954-1955
87	Alan Robert Patterson	1955-1956
88	Graham Sterling Slobom	1956-1957
89	Harold William George	1957-1958
90	William Richard Tresise	1958-1959
91	Gerald Stephen Phillips	1959-1960
92	Max William Yunghanns	1960-1961
93	Keith Charles Miller	1961-1962
94	Harold William George	1962-1963
95	Thomas Howard Jackett	1963-1964
96	Reginald Iliff Harris	1964-1965
97	Donald Ingersole	1965-1966
98	Geoffrey Alfred Saunders	1966-1967
99	William Piper Brown	1967-1968
100	George Loton	1968-1969
101	Lloyd Emerson Albert Orton	1969-1970
102	John Stanley Head	1970-1971
103	Keith Charles Miller	1971-1972
104	Walter Blair Dobson	1972-1973
105	John Stanley Head	1973-1974
106	John Hampton Hartwig Beale	1974-1975
107	Brian James Bergin	1975-1976
108	Betty May Marginson	1976-1977
109	William Hugh Nankivell	1977-1978
110	Guy Arundel Newton Brown	1978-1979
111	Salvatore Coffa	1979-1980
112	Leslie Julian Kausman	1980-1981
113	Jeffrey Alfred Wunderlich	1981-1982
114	Paul Alexander Jones	1982-1983
115	Rosalind McMillan	1983-1984
116	John Hampton Hartwig Beale	1984-1985
117	Jill Short	1985-1986
118	Salvatore Coffa	1986-1987
119	Guy Arundel Newton Brown	1987-1988
120	Barbara van Ernst	1988-1989
121	John Hampton Hartwig Beale	1989-1990
122	Jane Laidley Nathan	1990-1991
123	Barbara van Ernst	1991-1992
124	Ken Hare-Brown	1992-1993
125	Nigel Kirby	1993-1994

See also

• List of mayors of Boroondara (from 1996)

References

• Big Wigs of Hawthorn, Hawthorn Historical Society (2013)