Wakefield Mayors

Elected Mayors of Wakefield, 1848-1938:

  • 1848 George William Harrison
  • 1849 Joseph Holdsworth
  • 1850 James Micklethwaite
  • 1851 Benjamin Walker
  • 1852 John Gregory
  • 1853 Henry Brown
  • 1854 Thomas Clayton
  • 1855 John Gregory
  • 1856 Henry Brown
  • 1857 Thomas Mark Carter
  • 1858 George Hudswell Westerman
  • 1859 Henry Brown
  • 1860 Thomas Haigh
  • 1861 William Shaw
  • 1862 Samuel Holdsworth
  • 1863 Samuel Holdsworth
  • 1864 William Hartley Lee
  • 1865 Joseph Rhodes
  • 1866 William Shaw
  • 1867 William Hartley Lee
  • 1868 Samuel Holdsworth
  • 1869 Samuel Whitham
  • 1870 Henry Lee
  • 1871 William Henry Bedford Tomlinson
  • 1872 Thomas Wilton Haigh
  • 1873 Thomas Wilton Haigh
  • 1874 William Henry Stewart
  • 1875 William Henry Gill
  • 1876 William Henry Gill
  • 1877 William Henry Stewart
  • 1878 Thomas Taylor
  • 1879 William Hartley Lee
  • 1880 William Hartley Lee
  • 1881 Francis Milthorp
  • 1882 George Mander
  • 1883 William Hartley Lee
  • 1884 George Moorhouse
  • 1885 Reuben Reynolds
  • 1886 Henry Lee
  • 1887 Henry Lee
  • 1888 William Hartley Lee
  • 1889 Benjamin Watson
  • 1890 Joseph Haslegrave
  • 1891 William Nicholson
  • 1892 John Samuel Booth
  • 1893 Walter Wade
  • 1894 Jonas Nicholson
  • 1895 William Henry Milnes
  • 1896 Henry Smith
  • 1897 Alfred William Stanfield
  • 1898 George Henry Roberts
  • 1899 Barron Kilner
  • 1900 Frederick Simpson
  • 1901 Henry Slade Childe
  • 1902 Edward Allen Brotherton
  • 1903 William Rhodes
  • 1904 Edmund Stonehouse
  • 1904 Henry Slade Childe
  • 1905 Henry Slade Childe
  • 1906 William Henry Kingswell
  • 1907 William Henry Kingswell
  • 1908 Albert Hudson
  • 1909 Albert Hudson
  • 1910 Albert Hudson
  • 1911 Henry White
  • 1912 Edwin Lodge Hirst
  • 1913 John William Saville
  • 1914 Edmund Stonehouse
  • 1915 Edmund Stonehouse
  • 1916 Edmund Stonehouse
  • 1917 George Blakey
  • 1918 George Blakey
  • 1919 George Blakey
  • 1920 George Foster
  • 1921 George Blakey
  • 1922 George Foster
  • 1922 Harold Holroyd Holdsworth
  • 1923 John Tennant
  • 1924 John William Smith
  • 1925 Charles Mellor
  • 1926 George Henry Sherwood
  • 1927 George Brown Hillman
  • 1928 John Hardy Richards
  • 1929 Burley Johnson
  • 1930 Samuel Pickles
  • 1931 Samuel Butterworth
  • 1932 Walter Emmett
  • 1933 Tuke Brewer
  • 1934 F W T Mills
  • 1935 Albert Charlesworth
  • 1936 George Hemingway
  • 1937 Tom Crowe
  • 1938 Rowland White

Taken from the book Wakefield: its history and people by J W Walker

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