List of mayors of Chesterfield

The office of Mayor of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, has existed since 1598 when Queen Elizabeth issued a charter to the town, granting the town the right to have a mayor. The first holder of this position was Ralph Clarke. This charter is on display in the Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery.^[1]

Prior to 1933 when the Local Government Act 1933 came into effect, any local citizen could hold the position, following this act only elected councillors could become mayor.^[2]

In 1974, a new charter issued by Queen Elizabeth II was granted when Staveley and Brimington where added to the borough to form the Chesterfield Borough Council.

Office-holders

Reference^[3]

1598 Ralph Clarke^[4]
1599 Godfrey Heathcote
1600–1601 Thomas Rayneshaw
1602–1605 Thomas Heathcote
1606 Godfrey Heathcote
1607 Thomas Woodward
1608–1609 Martin Bretland
1610 Godfrey Heathcote
1611 Nicholas Webster
1612–1613 Ralph Wheeldon
1614–1617 William Boot
1618 Godfrey Heathcote
1619 Ralph Wheeldon
1620–1621 Godfrey Webster
1622 William Boot
1623 Richard Taylor
1624–1625 Godfrey Heathcote
1626 Richard Milnes
1627 Reynold Bretland
1628 George Dickons
1629 Ralph Clarke
1630 Richard Taylor
1631 Thomas Forth
1632 Godfrey Heathcote
1633 William Clarke
1634 Reynold Bretland
1635 Ralph Clarke
1636-7 Richard Taylor
1638 William Newton
1639–1644 George Dickons
1645 Reynold Bretland
1646 Thomas Forth
1647 Thomas Bretland
1648 Ralph Clarke
1649 Richard Wood
1650 William Newton
1651 Samuel Taylor
1652 Reynold Bretland
1653 Thomas Forth
1654 Hercules Clay
1655 Ralph Clarke
1656 Richard Wood
1657 Gabriel Wain, Captain
1658 William Newton
1659 Thomas Forth
1660 Thomas Needham
1661 Hercules Clay, removed 25 September 1662 and John Allwood installed
1662 John Allwood
1663 Richard Marchant
1664 James Milnes
1665 Thomas Pinder
1666 Anthony Legate
1667 Richard Marchant
1668 John Woodward
1669 James Milnes
1670 Richard Clarke
1671 Thomas Bretland
1672 Peter Dowker
1673 Richard Youle
1674 Richard Marchant
1675 John Woodward
1676 James Milnes
1677 Richard Clarke
1678 Peter Dowker
1679 Richard Coupe
1680 Richard Youle
1681 Richard Marchant
1682 John Woodward
1683 Thomas Dowker
1684 Robert Stringfellow
1685 Peter Dowker
1686 Richard Coupe
1687 Richard Youle
1688 Francis Houldsworth
1689 John Woodward
1690 Thomas Dowker
1691 Francis Moore
1692 John Ashe
1693 Roger Coates
1694 John Milnes
1695 David Seale
1696 Richard Youle
1697 Thomas Webster
1698 Francis Moore
1699 John Revell
1700 John Ashe
1701 Jacob Breilsford
1702 Thomas Bower
1703 Richard Wood
1704 David Seale
1705 Francis Moore
1706 John Revell
1707 John Bright
1708 Jacob Breilsford
1709 Thomas Bower
1710 Richard Wood
1711 David Seale
1712 William Woodhouse
1713 John Revell
1714 John Bright
1715 William Clarke
1716 Christophe Pegge
1717 Jacob Breilsford
1718 William Sharshaw
1719 Job Bradley
1720 John Revell
1721 John Bright
1722 William Clarke
1723 Christopher Pegge (died in January 1724 before completing term)^[5]
1724 John Revell
1724 Samuel Inman
1725 Job Bradley
1726 John Bright
1727 Thomas Bower
1728 John Revell
1729 William Clark
1730 Samuel Inman
1731 Job Bradley
1732 John Bright
1733 Francis Bagshaw
1734 Richard Milnes
1735 William Clark
1736 Samuel Inman
1737 John Burton
1738 Job Bradley
1739 Francis Bagshaw
1740 Joshua Jebb
1741 Bernard Lucas
1742 Job Bradley
1743 William Clark
1744 Job Bradley
1745 Francis Bagshaw
1746 John Fidler
1747 Robert Watts
1748 Joshua Jebb
1749 William Saunders
1750 Henry Thornhill
1751 John Fidler
1752 Robert Watts
1753 Joshua Jebb
1754 William Saunders
1755 Henry Thornhill
1756 John Fidler
1757 Joshua Jebb
1758 William Saunders
1759 Henry Thornhill
1760 Joshua Jebb
1761 Nicholas Twigg
1762 Thomas Clark
1763 Godfrey Webster
1764 Joshua Jebb
1765 Nicholas Twigg
1766 Thomas Clark
1767 Samuel Towndrow
1768 Charles Staniforth
1769 Samuel Jebb
1770 Joshua Jebb
1771 No Mayor elected; Writ of Mandamus issued 8 July 1772 to compel election; Nicholas Twigg elected 15 July.
1772 Robert Jennings
1773 William Barker
1774 Samuel Towndrow
1775 John Willot
1776 Thomas Short
1777 Robert Jennings
1778 Samuel Towndrow
1779 John Elam
1780 Thomas Short
1781 Robert Marsden
1782 John Elam
1783 John Bale
1784 John Elam
1785 Thomas Dutton
1786 John Bale
1787 Thomas Dutton
1788 Mark Hewitt
1789 John Bale
1790 Thomas Dutton
1791 Job Bradley
1792 Thomas Dutton
1793 John Elam
1794 Job Bradley
1795 John Elam
1796 John Bower
1797 Thomas Dutton
1798 John Bower
1799 John Saxton
1800 Thomas Dutton
1801 John Bower
1802 Thomas Dutton
1803 John Bower
1804 John Elam
1805 Thomas Dutton
1806 John Bower
1807 John Elam
1808 Thomas Dutton
1809 John Bower
1810 George Fletcher
1811 John Elam
1812 Thomas Dutton
1813 John Bower
1814 John Elam
1815 Joseph Graham
1816 John Muggleston
1817 John Elam
1818 Samuel Dutton
1819 Joseph Graham
1820 Samuel Dutton
1821 John Elam
1822 John Muggleston
1823 Gilbert Crompton
1824 Samuel Dutton
1825 John Elam
1826 George Fletcher
1827 John Muggleston
1828 Thomas Wilcockson
1829 William Battison
1830 Samuel Dutton
1831 John Muggleston
1832 William Battison
1833 Samuel Dutton
1834 Thomas Wilcockson
1835 Thomas Wilcockson to November, then Gilbert Crompton
1836 John Charge
1837 Gilbert Crompton
1838 Samuel Dutton
1839 Edmund Gilling Maynard
1840 Robert Daniel
1841 Gilbert Crompton
1842 Samuel Dutton
1843 Thomas Clark
1844 John Gregory Cottingham^[6]
1845 Samuel Dutton
1846 Edmund Gilling Maynard
1847 John Gilbert Crompton
1848 John Gregory Cottingham
1849 John Walker
1850 Godfrey Heathcote
1851 Edmund Gilling Maynard
1852 John Walker
1853-4 William Drabble
1855 William Hewitt
1856 William Drabble
1857 William Hewitt
1858 Charles Stanhope Burke Busby
1859–1860 Joseph Shipton
1861 William Drabble
1862 Thomas Jones
1863 Cornelius Black
1864 James Ball White
1865 James Wright
1866–1867 Charles Stanhope Burke Busby
1868 James Ball White
1869–1870 James Wright
1871–1872 John Marsden
1873 Thomas Philpot Wood
1874 George Albert Rooth
1875 James Wright & George Albert Rooth
1876 John Marsden
1877 John Drabble
1878 Theophilus Pearson
1879–1880 John Brown
1881 John Brown to May, then John Higginbottom
1882 John Higginbottom
1883–1884 George Edward Gee
1885–1886 Thomas Philpot Wood
1887 George Booth
1888 Bowery Douglas
1889 Edward Woodhead
1890–1892 John Morton Clayton
1893–1894 William Bradbury Robinson
1895 Adam Clarke Locke
1896 Charles Paxton Markham
1897 James Pearson
1898 Bowery Douglas
1899–1901 William Spooner
1902 Charles Portland Robinson^[7]
1903 James Pearson
1904 Arthur Ernest Hopkins
1905–1907 George Albert Eastwood
1908 Samuel Edward Short
1909–1910 Charles Paxton Markham
1911 Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
1912 William Bradbury Robinson
1913–1918 Ernest Shentall
1919–1920 Wilfred Hawksley Edmunds
1921 William Rhodes
1922 George Clark
1923–1924 William Edmund Wakerley
1925–1926 Harry Cropper
1927 Violet Rosa Markham
1928 Philip Moffat Robinson
1929–1930 Herbert Jowett Watson
1931 Thomas Dennis Sims
1932 Arthur Whiteley Swale
1933 Robert Anderson McCrea
1934 Harry Varley
1935 Harry Pearson Short
1936 George Frank Kirk
1937 Harry Hatton
1938 Samuel Thomas Rodgers
1939 James William Thompson
1940 Walter Wicks
1941 Sydney Ashton Syddall
1942 William Baines
1943 Edgar Thomas Styler
1944 William Edwin Taylor
1945 Thomas Joseph Mitchell
1946 Florence Robinson
1947–1948 Edgar Smith
1949 John Eaton Bird
1950 William Porter
1951 George William Heathcote
1952 Frank Hadfield
1953 Edwin Swale
1954 Leonard Wilkinson
1955 Henry Charles Day
1956 William Weston
1957 Hiram Tagg
1958 Levi Heath
1959 John Leslie Hadfield
1960 Harold Charles Mullett
1961 Harry Cantrell Martin
1962 Ernest Bradbury Robinson
1963 James Anderson
1964 Edward Cyril Hancock
1965 Tom Bucknall
1966 Annie Collishaw
1967 George Albert Wigfield
1968 George Henry Rees
1969 Victor Stuart Allen
1970 Elizabeth Mary Turner
1971 Basil Crosbie Willett
1972 John Ford
1973 Lois Tideswell
1974 Harold Barber Fisher
1975 John Wickins
1976 Walter Everett
1977 William Gorman
1978 Patrick Edward Kelly
1979 Margaret Wyper Anderson
1980 Stanley Meakin
1981 Cissie Sargeant
1982 Donald Arthur Wain
1983 Ronald Jepson
1984 Michael Gabriel Caulfield
1985 Thomas Edmund Whyatt
1986 William Smith
1987 Edwin Harold Barker
1988 John Smith
1989 Leslie McCulloch
1990 Arthur Webber
1991 William Jepson
1992 Terence Kendellen
1993 George Arthur Wright
1994 Richard Albert Matthews
1995 David Stone
1996 Geoffrey Waddoups
1997 Margaret Ann Higgins
1998 Michael Lancelot Fanshawe
1999 Terence Frank Gilby
2000 Michael Leverton
2001 James McManus
2002 Paul Najid Al Rahman Barry
2003 June Isabel Beckingham
2004 Asad Shafi Qazi
2005 Keith Falconer
2006 Trudi Mulcaster
2007 Christine Ludlow
2008 Fred Quayle
2009 Adrian Kitch
2010 Keith P Morgan
2011 Peter I Barr
2012 Donald Parsons
2013 Paul Christopher Stone
2014 Alexis Saliou Diouf
2015 Barry Bingham
2016 Steve Brunt
2017 Maureen Davenport
2018 Stuart Brittain
2019 Gordon Simmons
2020 Glenys Falconer
2021 Glenys Falconer
2022 Tony Rogers
2023 Mick Brady

References

^ "Chesterfield Borough Council – History". chesterfield.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
^ "Chesterfield Borough Council – Mayor and mayoress". chesterfield.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
^ V. Morley (24 May 2017). "Mayors of Chesterfield (Appendix 20)" (PDF). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
^ Bestall, J.M. (1984). History of Chesterfield: pt. 1. Tudor and Stuart Chesterfield. History of Chesterfield. Borough of Chesterfield. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-9500459-9-3. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
^ Riden, P.; Blair, J.; Chesterfield (England). Borough Council (1980). History of Chesterfield: Records of the Borough of Chesterfield and related documents 1204–1835. Chesterfield Borough Council. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-9500459-8-6. Retrieved 6 July 2018. The newspaper article already referred to provides additional information about a few of the mayors. ... to the removal of Hercules Clay and the installation of John Allwood; to Christopher Pegge's death in office in January 1724; and to the writ ...
^ Yeatman, J.P.; Sitwell, G.R.; Liverpool, C.G.S.F.E. (1889). The Feudal History of the County of Derby; (chiefly During the 11th, 12th, and 13th Centuries). The Feudal History of the County of Derby. Bemrose. p. 160. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.

[chesterfield-1] "Chesterfield Borough Council – History". chesterfield.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

[chesterfield2-2] "Chesterfield Borough Council – Mayor and mayoress". chesterfield.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

[chesterfield3-3] V. Morley (24 May 2017). "Mayors of Chesterfield (Appendix 20)" (PDF). Retrieved 2 April 2018.

[Bestall_1984_p._83-4] Bestall, J.M. (1984). History of Chesterfield: pt. 1. Tudor and Stuart Chesterfield. History of Chesterfield. Borough of Chesterfield. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-9500459-9-3. Retrieved 6 July 2018.

[Riden_Blair_Chesterfield_(England)._Borough_Council_1980_p._205-5] Riden, P.; Blair, J.; Chesterfield (England). Borough Council (1980). History of Chesterfield: Records of the Borough of Chesterfield and related documents 1204–1835. Chesterfield Borough Council. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-9500459-8-6. Retrieved 6 July 2018. The newspaper article already referred to provides additional information about a few of the mayors. ... to the removal of Hercules Clay and the installation of John Allwood; to Christopher Pegge's death in office in January 1724; and to the writ ...

[Yeatman_Sitwell_Liverpool_1889_p._160-6] Yeatman, J.P.; Sitwell, G.R.; Liverpool, C.G.S.F.E. (1889). The Feudal History of the County of Derby; (chiefly During the 11th, 12th, and 13th Centuries). The Feudal History of the County of Derby. Bemrose. p. 160. Retrieved 6 July 2018.

[7] "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.

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