List of Lord Mayors of Bradford

This is a list of Mayors and the later Lord Mayors of the city of Bradford.

After having elected a mayor since 1847 Bradford was awarded the dignity of a Lord Mayoralty by letters patent dated 16 September 1907.^[1] At the time, it was the seventh most populous borough in England and Wales, and the second largest in area, and thus the largest municipality without a Lord Mayor.^[2] When Bradford became a metropolitan borough in 1974 the honour was confirmed by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.^[3]

Sir John Arthur Godwin First Lord Mayor of Bradford by James Charles

Henry Mitchell caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1890

Mayors of Bradford

Source:^[4]

Year	Name	Notes
1847–48	Robert Milligan	MP for Bradford, 1851
1848-49	Titus Salt	Mill Owner MP for Bradford, 1859
1849-50	Henry Forbes
1850-51	William Rand
1851-54	Samuel Smith
1854-56	William Murgatroyd
1856-59	Henry Brown
1859-62	Isaac Wright
1862-63	Matthew William Thompson	Railway Company Director MP for Bradford, 1867
1863-64	Joseph Farrar
1864-65	Charles Semon	Textile Merchant
1865-66	John Venimore Godwin
1866-67	William Brayshaw
1867-68	James Law
1868-69	Edward West
1869-71	Mark Dawson
1871-73	Matthew William Thompson	Railway Company Director MP for Bradford, 1867
1873-74	Manoah Rhodes
1874-75	Henry Mitchell	Mill Owner
1875-76	Wilson Sutcliffe	Managing Partner of Bowling Dye Works
1876-77	George Motley Waud
1877-78	Briggs Priestley	Mill Owner MP for Pudsey, 1885
1878-81	Angus Holden	Textile company director MP for Bradford East,1885
1881-82	John Hill
1882-83	Frederick Priestman
1883-85	Isaac Smith
1885-86	Thomas Hill
1886-87	Angus Holden	Textile company director MP for Bradford East, 1885
1887-88	John Limber Morley
1888-89	William Moulson
1889-90	Smith Feather
1890-91	Ezra Waugh Hammond
1891-92	Thomas Priestley
1892-93	William Oddy
1893-94	Jonas Whitley
1894-96	William Willis Wood
1896-98	Thomas Speight
1898-99	William Edward Aykroyd
1899-1902	William C. Lupton
1902-04	David Wade
1904-05	William Edward Briggs Priestley	Mill-owner MP for Bradford East, 1906
1905-06	William A. Whitehead

Lord Mayors of Bradford

Year	Name	Notes
1906-07	John Arthur Godwin	Merchant, First Lord Mayor, 1907
1907-08	John E. Fawcett
1908-09	James Hill	Woollen Merchant MP for Bradford Central, 1916
1909-10	William Land
1910-11	Jacob Moser	Textile merchant
1911-12	John B. Moorhouse
1912-13	Fred Foster
1913-14	John Arnold
1914-15	George H. Robinson
1915-16	Thomas Howarth
1916-17	Abram Peel
1917-18	John Bland
1918	Herbert Hustler Tetley
1918-19	Joseph Hayhurst
1919	Walter Barber
1919-20	William Wade
1920-21	Anthony Gadie	Estate Agent MP for Bradford Central, 1924
1921-22	Thomas Blythe
1922-23	Thomas Sowden
1923-24	Herbert M. Trotter
1924-25	John Henry Palin	Union official MP for Bradford North, 1918
1925-26	Joseph Stringer
1926-27	Richard Johnson
1927-28	Michael Conway
1928-29	Herbert T. Pullan
1929-30	Angus H. Rhodes
1930-31	Alfred Pickles
1931-32	George Walker
1932-33	John W. Longley
1933-34	Arthur W. Brown
1934-35	Walter Hodgson
1935-36	Jonas Pearson
1936-37	George R. Carter
1937-38	Henry Hudson
1938-39	Tom J. Robinson
1939-40	Meredith Farrer Titterington	MP for Bradford South
1940-41	William Illingworth
1941-42	Louis F.W.S. Smith
1942-43	James Harrison
1943-44	Walter Barraclough
1944-45	Cecil Barnett
1945-46	Kathleen Chamber
1946-47	Thomas I. Clough
1947-49	Frederick J. Cowie
1949-50	George Thomas Meggison
1950-51	Alton Ward
1951-52	Horace Hird
1952-53	John Shee
1953-54	Angus Crowther
1954-55	Henry James White
1955	Herbert William Semper
1955-56	Richard Cornelius Ruth
1956-57	Horace Robert Walker
1957-58	David Black
1958-59	Norbert William Durrant
1959-60	Ernest England
1960-61	Edgar Robinson	Textile Manufacturer, Liberal
1961-62	Benjamin Wilfrid Berry
1962-63	Harold K. Watson
1963-64	Tom Wood
1964-65	Weber Marshall Hird
1965-66	Jack Wilkinson
1966-67	Louis Cowgill
1967	Thomas Lee
1968	John William Taylor
1968-69	Arthur Walton
1969-70	Edward Newby
1970-71	John E. B. Singleton	Textile Merchant, John Singleton & Son. Manufacturers
1971-72	Herbert Moran
1972-73	Audrey Firth
1973-74	Derek Smith
April 1974	John E. B. Singleton	Textile Merchant, John Singleton & Son. Manufacturers
1974-75	Tom Edward Hall
1975-76	Doris Birdsall
1976-77	Frank Hillam
1977-78	Paul Hockney
1978-79	Arthur F. Trigg
1979-80	John S. Senior
1980-81	Arnold Lightowler
1981-82	Daniel C. Coughlin
1982-83	Joan Lightband
1983-84	Norman Free
1984-85	Olive Messer
1985-86	Mohammed Ajeeb	Housing Director
1986-87	William Arthur Nunn
1987-88	Laurie C. Coughlin
1988-89	Smith Midgley
1989-90	George Hodgson
1990-91	Ernest Saville
1991-92	Sydney John Collard
1992-93	Barry Kenneth Thorne
1993-94	Robert Sowman
1994-95	Danny Mangham
1995-96	Marilyn Beeley
1996-97	Gordon Mitchell
1997-98	James Anthony (Tony) Cairns
1998-99	Tony Miller
1999-2000	Harry Mason
2000-01	John Stanley King
2001-02	Ghazanfer Khaliq
2002-03	Richard E.J. Wightman	Finance Director
2003-04	Allan Irving Hillary
2004-05	Irene Ellison-Wood
2005-06	Valerie Binney
2006-07	Choudhary Rangzeb	Businessman
2007-08	Robin Owens
2008-09	Howard Middleton
2009-10	John D Godward
2010-11	Peter Hill
2011-12	Naveeda Ikram
2012-13	Dale Smith
2013-14	Khadim Hussain[5]	Engineer
2014-15	Mike Gibbons [6]
2015–16	Joanne Dodds [7]

References

1. The London Gazette: no. 28065. pp. 6575–6575. 1 October 1907. Retrieved 16 June 2008.
2. "A New Lord Mayor", The Times, 7 September 1907, pg. 7
3. The London Gazette: no. 46255. p. 4400. 4 April 1974. Retrieved 18 April 2008.
4. "MAYORS OF BRADFORD- LIST OF THE MEN AND WOMEN ELECTED TO THE OFFICE OF MAYOR AND LORD MAYOR IN BRADFORD" (PDF). City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
5. "The Lord Mayor-Biographical notes on the Lord Mayor, Councillor Khadim Hussain Civic Year 2013-2014". Bradford Council. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
6. "The Lord Mayor Lord Mayor 2014-2015". Bradford Council. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
7. "Your Council". Bradford Metropolitan District Council. Retrieved 13 December 2015.