List of mayors of Shrewsbury

This is a list of notable Mayors of Shrewsbury, the county town of the county of Shropshire, England, since the first recorded mayoralty in 1638. Prior to 1638 the leading citizens of the borough were the two Bailiffs. From 1974 to 2009 the position had the title Mayor of Shrewsbury and Atcham.

Notable Mayors of Shrewsbury

Source: Shrewsbury Town Council

1638-39 Thomas Jones (1st Mayor of Shrewsbury)
1657-58 Thomas Hunt (MP for Shrewsbury, 1645–53)
1685-86 Sir Francis Edwardes, 1st Baronet (MP for Shrewsbury, 1685–89; died on service in Ireland, 1690)
1696-97 John Kynaston (High Sheriff of Shropshire, 1689–90; MP for Shrewsbury, 1694–1709)
1726-27 John Adams (1677-1752) (father of William Adams (Master of Pembroke))^[1]
1737-38 Robert More (MP for Shrewsbury, 1754–61)
1762-63 Robert Clive (Clive of India; MP for Shrewsbury, 1761–1774)
1775-76 William Owen, (Captain (Royal Navy); founder of Campobello colony in New Brunswick, Canada; killed in India, 1778. Possibly Shrewsbury's first disabled Mayor, having lost an arm in 1760.)
1777-78 Charlton Leighton (later Sir Charlton, 4th Baronet) (MP for Shrewsbury 1777 and 1780–84)
1778-79 Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick (MP for Shrewsbury, 1768–74 and for Shropshire, 1774–84)
1806-07 Sir Baldwin Leighton, 6th Baronet (General of the British Army)
1807-08 Charles Bage (Wine Merchant)
1809-10 Joseph Bromfield (Architect)
1811-12 Sir John Hill, 3rd Baronet (MP for Shrewsbury, 1784–96 and 1805)
1819-20 Rev Hugh Owen (Clergyman and topographer)
1824-25 Hon and Rev Richard Hill (later 4th Baron Berwick) (Rector of Berrington, Shropshire)
1835 (part year) Robert Burton (Banker, head of Salop Bank)
1835-36 William Hazledine (Ironmaster)
1836-37 Sir John Bickerton Williams (Nonconformist historian and first knight made by Queen Victoria)
1842-43 Edward Haycock (Architect)
1843-44 Robert Burton
1861-62 William James Clement (Surgeon and MP for Shrewsbury, 1865–70)
1872-73 Samuel Pountney Smith (Architect)
1886-87 George Butler Lloyd (Banker, MP for Shrewsbury, 1913–22)
1887 Vincent Crump Confectioner
1888 Major General The Hon. William Henry Herbert (son of Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Gentleman
1889 George Jones Holt Wine Merchant
1890 Edmund Cresswell Peele Solicitor
1891 George Evans Gentleman - Retired Businessman - plumber
1892 William Lyon Browne Gentleman
1893 William Gowen Cross Chemist
1894 William Maynard How Solicitor
1895 Edmund Cresswell Peele Solicitor
1896 Edward Corbett Army Officer
1897 Thomas Pidduck Deakin, Hotel Proprietor
1898 Richard Scoltock Hughes, Shoemaker
1899-1900 Richard Scoltock Hughes, Shoemaker
1900-02 Samuel Meeson Morris Solicitor (two terms?)
1902-03 Herbert Robert Henry Southam, Brewer (Conservative)^[2]
1903-04 William Francis Watkins, Tailor
1904-05 Henry John Hearn, Brewer
1905-06 Richard Edward Jones, Maltster

1971-02 Lavinia Young (retired nurse and former Matron of Westminster Hospital London)^[3]

21st century

2000 Reginald Jones (Retired bus driver, lifelong Shrewsbury resident)
2000 - 01 John Peter Jones (Head Teacher (Special Education))
2001 - 02 Charles Forshaw (Retired)
2002 - 03 George Henry Mills Richey (Lt Col Retired)
2003 - 04 Eileen Dorothy Sandford (Retired)
2004 - 05 Miles Kenny (Property Manager)
2005 - 06 David Farmer
2006 - 07 Roger Evans (Retired)
2007 - 08 John Cooke (Farmer)
2008 - 09 Anne Chebsey (Biomedical Scientist)
2009 - 10 Alan Townsend (Retired Teacher)
2010 - 11 Kathleen Owen
2011 - 12 Tony Durnell (Shropshire & Shrewsbury Town Councillor)
2012 - 13 Keith Roberts (Retired Police Officer)
2013 - 14 Jon Tandy (Former Post Office Worker)
2014 - 15 Beverley Baker (Costume and accessory designer)
2015 - 16 Miles Kenny
2016 - 17 Ioan Jones
2017 - 18 Jane Mackenzie
2018 - 19 Peter Nutting
2019 - 20 Phil Gillam
2020 - 21 Gwen Burgess
2021 - 22 Julian Dean
2022 - 23 Elisabeth Roberts
2023 - 24 Becky Wall

References

^ Southam, Colonel H.R.H (1918–19). Lord Clive and the Rev. Dr. Williams Adams of Shrewsbury. Transcriptions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 4th Series, vol. VII, part 1. pp. 4–15.
^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
^ ""Many mourn former mayor Retrieved 16 August 2022". North Dorset Western Gazette. 27 June 1986. p. 3. Retrieved 7 March 2024.

[1] Southam, Colonel H.R.H (1918–19). Lord Clive and the Rev. Dr. Williams Adams of Shrewsbury. Transcriptions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 4th Series, vol. VII, part 1. pp. 4–15.

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

[3] ""Many mourn former mayor Retrieved 16 August 2022". North Dorset Western Gazette. 27 June 1986. p. 3. Retrieved 7 March 2024.

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