The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council. They are elected annually by the council. The post originated in 1843, with the appointment of William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield. Early mayors had significant powers and chaired both council meetings and the bench of magistrates.[1]
In 1855, the then-mayor was refused a good seat at the opening of the Paris Exhibition, as he did not have a chain of office. As a result, one was purchased the following year, and this has remained in use.[2]
In 1897, in the same year as the opening of Sheffield Town Hall, the mayor was given the right to style himself the "Lord Mayor". To mark this, the first Lord Mayor, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, gave the Sheffield Mace to the city to mark the royal authority invested in the post.[3]
The Lord Mayor has the use of the Lord Mayor's Parlour in Sheffield Town Hall, an official badge and the honorary presidency of several organisations. The Lord Mayor's Awards and the Lord Mayor's Charity Fund are local institutions organised in the name of the Lord Mayor.
Ann Eliza Longden was the first female Lord Mayor (1936–7).[4]
Notable former mayors include George Bassett, founder of a confectionery firm, and the steelmaker Mark Firth.
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1843 | William Jeffcock | - | |
| 1844 | Thomas Dunn | Whig | |
| 1845 | Samuel Butcher | - | |
| 1846 | Henry Wilkinson | - | |
| 1847 | Edward Vickers | - | |
| 1848 | T. R. Barker | - | |
| 1849 | Thomas Birks | - | |
| 1850 | Thomas Burdett Turton | - | |
| 1851 | John Carr | - | |
| 1852 | W. A. Matthews | - | |
| 1853 | Francis Hoole | - | |
| 1854 | William Fisher | - | |
| 1855 | William Fawcett | - | |
| 1856 | John William Pye-Smith | Liberal | |
| 1857 | R. Jackson | - | |
| 1858 | Charles Atkinson | - | |
| 1859 | Henry E. Hoole | - | |
| 1860 | Henry Vickers | - | |
| 1861–62 | Sir John Brown | Conservative | |
| 1863–64 | Thomas Jessop | - | |
| 1865 | W. E. Laycock | - | |
| 1866–67 | John Webster | Conservative | |
| 1868–71 | Thomas Moore | Conservative | |
| 1872 | John Fairburn | - | |
| 1873 | Joseph Hallam | - | |
| 1874 | Mark Firth | Liberal | |
| 1875 | John Tasker | - | |
| 1876 | George Bassett | Conservative | |
| 1877 | Sir Frederick Mappin | Liberal | |
| 1878 | David Ward | - | |
| 1879 | Edward Tozer | - | |
| 1880 | Abram Brooksbank | - | |
| 1881–82 | Michael Hunter, Jnr. | - | |
| 1883–84 | William Henry Brittain | - | |
| 1885 | John W. Pye Smith | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Sir Henry Stephenson | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1887–88 | William Johnson Clegg | Liberal | |
| 1889 | J. B. Jackson | - | |
| 1890 | Samuel Osborn[a] | - | |
| 1891 | William Johnson Clegg | Liberal | |
| 1891 | Joseph Gamble | - | |
| 1892 | J. Batty Langley | Liberal | |
| 1893 | E. S. Foster | Liberal | |
| 1894 | Sir Charles. T. Skelton | Liberal | |
| 1895–96 | Henry Fitzalan-Howard | - | |
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | Henry Fitzalan-Howard[b] | Conservative | |
| 1897 | George Franklin | - | |
| 1898 | William Edwin Clegg | Liberal | |
| 1899 | Samuel Roberts | Conservative | |
| 1900 | John Eaton | - | |
| 1901 | George Senior[7] | Conservative | |
| 1902 | John Wycliffe Wilson[8] | Liberal | |
| 1903 | John Rutland Wheatley | - | |
| 1904 | Joseph Jonas | - | |
| 1905 | Herbert Hughes | - | |
| 1906 | Robert Styring | Liberal | |
| 1907 | Harry P. Marsh | - | |
| 1908 | Henry Kenyon Stephenson | Liberal | |
| 1909 | Earl Fitzwilliam | Conservative | |
| 1910 | Henry Kenyon Stephenson | Liberal | |
| 1911 | Albert John Hobson | - | |
| 1912 | Samuel Osborn | Liberal | |
| 1913 | George Ernest Branson | - | |
| 1914 | Oliver Charles Wilson | Liberal | |
| 1915 | Frederick Arthur Warlow | Liberal | |
| 1916 | Walter Appleyard | Liberal | |
| 1917 | Alfred Cattell | Conservative | |
| 1918 | William Irons | Liberal | |
| 1919 | Samuel Roberts | Conservative | |
| 1920 | William Farewell Wardle | Citizen's | |
| 1921 | Charles Simpson | Citizen's | |
| 1922 | William Carter Fenton | Citizen's | |
| 1923 | Arthur James Blanchard | Citizen's | |
| 1924 | Alfred James Bailey | Citizen's | |
| 1925 | Joseph Benson | Citizen's | |
| 1926 | John George Graves | Citizen's | |
| 1927 | Moses Humberstone | Labour | |
| 1928 | Harry Bolton | - | |
| 1929 | Charles William Beardsley | Labour | |
| 1930 | Harold Warters Jackson | Municipal Progressive | |
| 1931 | Thomas Henry Watkins | - | |
| 1932 | Ernest Wilson | - | |
| 1933 | Fred Marshall | Labour | |
| 1934 | Percival J. M. Turner | - | |
| 1935 | Frank Thraves | Labour | |
| 1936 | Ann Eliza Longden | Conservative | |
| 1937 | Ernest George Rowlinson | Labour | |
| 1938 | William Joseph Hunter | - | |
| 1939 | John Arthur Longden | - | |
| 1940 | Luther Frederick Milner | - | |
| 1941 | Charles Josiah Mitchell | Labour | |
| 1942 | Harry England Bridgwater | - | |
| 1943 | Samuel Hartley Marshall | Labour | |
| 1944 | George Ernest Marlow | - | |
| 1945 | Charles William Gascoigne | Labour | |
| 1946 | Ernest Storm Graham | - | |
| 1947 | William Ernest Yorke[c] | Labour | |
| 1949 | Grace Tebbutt | Labour | |
| 1950 | Herbert Keeble Hawson | - | |
| 1951 | Thomas William Bridgland | Labour | |
| 1952 | Peter Buchanan | Labour | |
| 1953 | Oliver Spencer Holmes | - | |
| 1954 | John Henry Bingham | Labour | |
| 1955 | Joseph Curtis | Labour | |
| 1956 | Robert Neill | National Liberal | |
| 1957 | Albert Ballard | Labour Co-op | |
| 1958 | John William Holland | Labour | |
| 1959 | Alfred Vernon Wolstenholme | - | |
| 1960 | Harold Slack | Labour | |
| 1961 | James Wilfred Sterland | Labour | |
| 1962 | Percival Cyril John Taylor Kirkman | - | |
| 1963 | Isidore Lewis | Labour | |
| 1964 | Albert Smith | Labour | |
| 1965 | John Stenton Worrall | Labour | |
| 1966 | Lionel Stephen Edward Farris | Conservative | |
| 1967 | Harold Lambert | Labour | |
| 1968 | Patience Sheard | Labour | |
| 1969 | Daniel Joseph O'Neill | Conservative | |
| 1970 | John Basil Peile[d] | Conservative | |
| 1970 | Sidney Irwin Dyson | Labour | |
| 1971 | Harold Hebblethwaite | Conservative | |
| 1972 | Martha Strafford | Labour | |
| 1973 | Stanley Kenneth Arnold | Conservative | |
| 1974 | Leonard Cope | Labour | |
| 1975 | Albert Edward Richardson | Labour | |
| 1976 | Reginald Edward Munn | Labour | |
| 1977 | Winifred Mary Golding | Labour | |
| 1978 | Peter Harold Jackson | Conservative | |
| 1979 | George Armitage | Labour | |
| 1980 | William Owen | Labour | |
| 1981 | Enid Anne Hattersley | Labour | |
| 1982 | Gordon Wragg | Conservative | |
| 1983 | Peter Morgan Newton Jones | Labour | |
| 1984 | George Roy Munn | Labour | |
| 1985 | Dorothy Walton | Labour | |
| 1986 | Frank Prince | Labour | |
| 1987 | Peter Horton | Labour | |
| 1988 | Phyllis May Smith | Labour | |
| 1989 | Anthony Damms | Labour | |
| 1990 | James Moore | Labour | |
| 1991 | Doris Askham | Labour | |
| 1992 | William Jordan | Labour | |
| 1993 | Qurban Hussain | Labour | |
| 1994 | Ian Saunders | Labour | |
| 1995 | David Heslop | Conservative | |
| 1996 | Peter Price | Labour | |
| 1997 | Antony Arber | Labour | |
| 1998 | Frank White | Labour | |
| 1999 | Trevor Bagshaw | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2000 | Patricia Midgley | Labour | |
| 2001 | David Baker | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2002 | Marjorie Barker | Labour | |
| 2003 | Diane Leek[e] | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2004 | Mike Pye | Labour | |
| 2005 | Roger Davison | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2006 | Jackie Drayton | Labour | |
| 2007 | Arthur Dunworth | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2008 | Jane Bird | Labour | |
| 2009 | Graham Oxley | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2010 | Alan Law | Labour | |
| 2011 | Sylvia Dunkley | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2012 | John Campbell | Labour | |
| 2013 | Vickie Priestley | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2014 | Peter Rippon | Labour | |
| 2015 | Talib Hussain | Labour | |
| 2016 | Denise Fox | Labour | |
| 2017 | Anne Murphy | Labour | |
| 2018 | Magid Magid | Green | |
| 2019 &
2020 |
Tony Downing | Labour | |
| 2021 | Gail Smith | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2022 | Sioned-Mair Richards | Labour | |
| 2023 | Colin Ross | Liberal Democrats | |