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Home » GHTArchives » Glossop Borough Council – Mayors of Glossop

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Glossop Borough Council – Mayors of Glossop

  • Published: October 7, 2020

Glossop Borough Council

Glossop’s Succession of Mayors from Incorporation

Date of Charter of Incorporation, 19th October 1866

Francis James Summer 1866 – 1868
William Shepley 1868 – 1870
Joseph Stafford 1870 – 1873
William Sidebottom 1873 – 1874
Samuel Wood 1874 – 1876
Samuel Rowbottom 1876 – 1879
James Sidebottom 1879 – 1885

1880s

William Dawson 1885 – 1886
James Sidebottom 1886 – 1888
John Hadfield 1888 – 1889
William Dawson 1889 – 1891

1890s

William Shepley Rhodes 1891 – 1893
Edward Woolley 1893 – 1895
Herbert Rhodes 1895 – Feb. 1897
John Barnes Mar. – 1897 – 1898
Samuel Hill-Wood 1898 -1902

1900s

Edward Partington 1902 – 1904
William Holdgate 1904 – 1905
Thomas Braddock 1905 – 1906
Alfred Garside 1906 – 1907
Herbert Partington 1907 – 1908
Henry Hadfield 1908 – 1909
Brook Furniss 1909 – 1910

1910s

James Malkin 1910 – 1911
Francis Gordon Knowles 1911 – 1912
William White 1912 – 1913
Herbert Partington 1913 – May – 1916
Mrs M. A. Partington 1916 – May – 1919
Sam Bamforth 1919 – 1923

1920s

William Newton 1923 – 1925
William Jackson 1925 – 1926
Joseph Edwin Buckley 1926 – 1927
Richard Sellers 1927 – 1928
Joseph Dempsey Doyle 1928 – 1929
Arthur Mellor 1929 – 1930

1930s

Herbert Lee Roebuck 1930 – 1931
George Platt 1931 – 1932
Robert John Boak 1932 – 1933
William Dennis 1933 – 1934
Thomas Farnsworth 1934 – 1935
Richard Alfred Beckmann 1935 – 1936
John Hague 1936 – 1937
William Hankinson 1937 – 1938
John Henry May Nov. – Dec. – 1938
Richard Sellers Jan. – Nov. – 1939
John Henry Cuthbert 1939 – 1940

1940s

Joseph Taylor 1940 – 1941
Ernest Hague 1941 – 1942
Ernest Cocker Harrop 1942 – 1943
Joe Baber 1943 – 1944
Joe Hough 1944 – 1945
Harold Hadfield 1945 – 1946
James Walker Wilde 1946 – 1947
Samuel Platt May. – 1947 – 1949
Ernest Higton 1949 – 1950

1950s

May Louise Casey 1950 – 1951
Robert John Boak 1951 – 1952
Henry Cooper 1952 – 1953
Richard Alfred Beckmann 1953 – 1954
Herbert Turner 1954 – 1955
Samuel Burgess 1955 – 1956
George Bowes Donaldson 1956 – 1957
Claud Woolley 1957 – 1958
Harry Norman Sheldon 1958 – 1959
Sam Bamforth 1959 – 1960

1960s

Frank Gibbs 1960 – 1961
Harold Hadfield 1961 – 1962
Ernest John Farmer 1962 – 1963
Herbert Turner 1963 – 1964
Ian Watson Higton 1964 – 1965
Donald Moore 1965 – 1966
Mrs Ada Williams 1966 – 1967
Cedric Blackman 1967 – 1968
Mrs Ada Williams Feb. – March – 1968
Gordon Middleton 1968 – 1969
Peter Mathews 1969 – 1970

1970s

James Goddard 1970 – 1971
Dorothy Singleton 1971 – 1972
Fredrick Thomasson 1972 – 1973
George Chatterton 1973 – 1974

On 1 April 1974, Glossop Borough Council was absorbed into High Peak Borough Council, who have a list of Mayors from 1974 onwards.

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