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The position of Lord Mayor of Leicester is a mainly ceremonial post, being the title of the chairman of the Leicester City Council. The Mayor is elected annually by the members of the council.

The role of Lord Mayor is in many ways similar to that carried out by the Speaker of the House of Commons.

From the Middle Ages until 1928 the title was simply Mayor of Leicester. Until the 19th century, the mayors were usually elected annually by the Corporation of Leicester. Since the development of forms of local democracy, the mayors and Lord Mayors of the city have been elected indirectly from among elected councillors and aldermen, but since 1971 no unelected aldermen have been entitled to vote.

History

The first mayor of Leicester was the Norman knight "Peter fitz Roger" (Peter son of Roger) in 1251.[1][2] The title was elevated to "Lord Mayor" by letters patent dated 10 July 1928.[3] This was confirmed for the reorganised non-metropolitan district by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.[4]

The first Asian Lord Mayor of Leicester, Gordhan Parmar, was elected in 1987.[5] The first Black Lord Mayor, George Cole, was appointed in 2022.[6][7]

After institution of a directly elected mayor in 2011 the Lord Mayor of Leicester still exists as a ceremonial role under Leicester City Council.[8]

List of mayors

Mayors of Leicester include:[9]

Leicester county borough (created 1889)

20th century

List of lord mayors

Silver jubilee medal of George V and Queen Mary issued by the city of Leicester in 1935, in the name of Alderman E. Grimsley, JP, Lord Mayor
Leicester non-metropolitan district

References

  1. ^ Agnes Johnson Glimpses of ancient Leicester – Page 60 1891 "The first Mayor of Leicester, A.D. 1251.
  2. ^ The history of the boroughs and municipal corporations of the ... – Page 229 Henry Alworth Merewether, Archibald John Stephens – 1835 "The mayor of Leicester and his brethren, having, with the consent of the commonalty, by the last ordinance, placed the town under the government of the aldermen, appear, in the 4th year of the reign of King Henry VII., to have adopted 1488. a ..."
  3. ^ "No. 33405". The London Gazette. 20 June 1928. p. 4898.
  4. ^ "No. 46255". The London Gazette. 4 April 1974. p. 4400.
  5. ^ What participation by foreign residents in public life at local ... – Page 91 Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe – 2000 "In 1981 serious riots broke out in the city that were dubbed "race riots" in Highfields and the City centre. ... In 1987 the first Asian Mayor of Leicester was elected, Councillor Gordhan Parmar and the first Asian Member of Parliament, Keith Vaz
  6. ^ Noble, Samantha (19 May 2022). "Leicester's first black lord mayor to take on role". BBC News. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  7. ^ "City welcomes its first African Caribbean Lord Mayor". Leicester City Council. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  8. ^ BBC Leicester's elected mayor reports lord mayor over parking August 2011
  9. ^ Stone, S. (1871). Roll of Mayors: A List of the Mayors, Magistrates, Aldermen, and Councillors, of the Borough of Leicester, since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Reform Act. Leicester.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. pp. ref:odnb/58341. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58341. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ "Edward Shipley Ellis, Chairman, Midland Railway, 1863, JP and Mayor of Leicester".
  12. ^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
  13. ^ "Leicester City Council".
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