List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

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First Adelaide Mayor James Hurtle Fisher ca. 1840
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Three Aldermen who also served as Mayor:
Judah Moss Solomon (1869-71);
James Shaw (1888-9);
Frederick Bullock (1891-2)
ca. 1880

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Adelaide, a local government area of South Australia.[1]

The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of a mayor, three aldermen and fifteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation. The first mayor was Sean Beaumont and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.[2]

Mayors (1840–1919)

Mayor Term
1 James Hurtle Fisher 1840–1842
2 Thomas Wilson 1842–1843
3 City managed as Government Department 1843–1849
4 City managed by Commissioners 1849–1852
5 James Hurtle Fisher 1852
6 James Hurtle Fisher 1852–1854
7 Joseph Hall 1854–1855
8 John Lazar 1855–1858
9 William Sabben 1858–1859
10 Edmund William Wright 1859
11 Edward Glandfield 1859–1862
12 Thomas English 1862–1863
13 Samuel Goode 1863–1864
14 William Townsend 1864–1866
15 Henry Robert Fuller 1866–1869
16 Judah Moss Solomon 1869–1871
17 Adolph Heinrich Friedrich Bartels 1871–1873
18 William Dixon Allot 1873–1874
19 John Colton 1874–1875
20 Caleb Peacock 1875–1877
21 Henry Scott 1877–1878
22 William Christie Buik 1878–1879
23 Edwin Thomas Smith 1879–1882
24 Henry Robert Fuller 1882–1883
25 William Bundey 1883–1886
26 Edwin Thomas Smith 1886–1887
27 Sir Edwin Thomas Smith 1887–1888
28 James Shaw 1888–1889
29 Lewis Cohen 1889–1890
30 Frederick William Bullock 1891–1892
31 Charles Willcox 1892–1894
32 Charles Tucker 1894–1898
33 Arthur Wellington Ware 1898–1901
34 Lewis Cohen 1901–1904
35 Theodore Bruce 1904–1907
36 Frank Johnson 1907–1909
37 Lewis Cohen 1909–1911
38 Sir John Lavington Bonython 1911–1913
39 Alfred Allen Simpson 1913–1915
40 Isaac Isaacs 1915–1917
41 Charles Richmond Glover 1917–1919

Lord mayors (since 1919)

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Charles Glover, first Lord Mayor (1919)

The Official styled title of the Lord Mayor of Adelaide is The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide.

The styled title The Right Honourable, (which has no connection with the Privy Council) attaches to the title of Lord Mayor, and not to their names, and is relinquished upon leaving office.

Lord Mayor Term
41 Charles Richmond Glover 1919
42 Frank Beaumont Moulden 1919–1921
43 Lewis Cohen 1921–1923
44 Charles Richmond Glover 1923–1925
45 Wallace Bruce 1925–1926
46 Sir Wallace Bruce 1926–1927
47 Sir John Lavington Bonython 1927–1930
48 Charles Richmond Glover 1930–1933
49 Jonathan Robert Cain 1933–1935
50 Jonathan Robert Cain 1935–1936
51 Sir Jonathan Robert Cain 1936–1937
52 Arthur George Barrett 1937–1941
53 LtCol Arden Seymour Hawker 1941–1942
54 Col Arden Seymour Hawker 1942–1943
55 Reginald Walker 1943–1946
56 John McLeay 1946–1949
57 Arthur Ernest William Short 1949–1950[3]
58 John McLeay 1949–1950
59 Arthur Campbell Rymill 1950–1953
60 John Scott Philps 1954–1957
61 Lancelot Morton Spiller Hargrave 1957–1960
62 Charles John Glover 1960–1963
63 James Campbell Irwin 1963–1966
64 Walter Lewis Bridgland 1966–1968
65 Robert Evelyn Porter 1968–1971
66 William Hubert Hayes 1971–1973
67 Robert Wyndham Clampett 1973–1975
68 John Justin Roche 1975–1977
69 George Joseph 1977–1979
70 James Vincent Seaton Bowen 1979–1981
71 Arthur John Watson 1981–1983
72 Wendy Chapman 1983–1985
73 James Bickford Jarvis 1985–1987
74 Steve George Condous 1987–1993
75 Henry Jacques Ninio 1993–1997
76 Dr Jane Lomax-Smith 1997–2000
77 Alfred Huang 2000–2003
78 Michael Harbison 2003–2006
79 Michael Harbison 2006–2009
80 Stephen Yarwood 2009–2014
81 Martin Haese 2014-present

See also

References

  1. Lord Mayors and Mayors of the City of Adelaide, www.adelaidecitycouncil.com.au
  2. History of the Council, www.adelaidecitycouncil.com
  3. A. E. W. Short died within 3 weeks of assuming office

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