List of mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne

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This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Melbourne, a Local Government Area of Victoria, Australia.

Contents 1 Mayors (1842-1902) 2 Lord Mayors (1902-1980) 3 Commissioners (1981-1982) 4 Lord Mayors (1982-1993) 5 Commissioners (1993-1996) 6 Lord Mayors (since 1996) 7 See also 8 External links 9 References

[edit] Mayors (1842-1902)

#	Mayor	Term
1	Henry Condell	1842 - 1844
2	Henry Moor	1844 - 1845
3	Sir James Frederick Palmer	1845 - 1846
4	Henry Moor	1846 - 1847
5	Andrew Russell	1847 - 1848
6	William Montgomerie Bell	1848 - 1849
7	Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves	1849 - 1850
8	William Nicholson	1850 - 1851
9	John Thomas Smith	1851 - 1853
10	John Hodgson	1853 - 1854
11	John Thomas Smith	1854 - 1856
12	Peter Davis	1856 - 1857
13	John Thomas Smith	1857 - 1858
14	Henry Swallows Walsh	1858 - 1859
15	Richard Eades	1859 - 1860
16	John Thomas Smith	1860 - 1861
17	Robert Bennett	1861 - 1862
18	Edward Cohen	1862 - 1863
19	John Thomas Smith	1863 - 1864
20	George Wragg	1864 - 1865
21	William Bayles	1865 - 1866
22	William Williams}	1866 - 1867
23	James Stewart Butters	1867 - 1868
24	Thomas Moubray	1868 - 1869
25	Samuel Amess	1869 - 1870
26	Thomas McPherson	1870 - 1871
27	Orlando Fenwick	1871 - 1872
28	Thomas O'Grady	1872 - 1873
29	John McIlwraith	1873 - 1874
30	James Gatehouse	1874 - 1875
31	Alexander Kennedy Smith	1875 - 1876
32	James Paterson	1876 - 1877
33	John Pigdon	1877 - 1878
34	Joseph Story	1878 - 1879
35	George Meares	1879 - 1881
36	Cornelius Job Ham	1881 - 1882
37	James Dodgshun	1882 - 1883
38	Charles Smith	1883 - 1884
39	Godfrey Downes Carter	1884 - 1885
40	James Cooper Stewart	1885 - 1886
41	William Cain	1887
42	Sir Benjamin Benjamin	1887 - 1889
43	Matthew Lang	1889 - 1892
44	Sir Arthur Snowden	1892 - 1895
45	William Strong	1895 - 1897
46	Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn	1897 - 1900
47	Sir Samuel Gillott	1900 - 1902

[edit] Lord Mayors (1902-1980)

The title of 'Lord Mayor' was conferred on the position of Mayor by King Edward VII on December 18, 1902.

#	Lord Mayor	Term
48	Sir Samuel Gillott	1902 - 1903
49	Sir Malcolm Donald McEacharn	1903 - 1904
50	Charles Pleasance	1904 - 1905
51	Sir Henry Weedon	1905 - 1908
52	James Burston	1908 - 1910
53	Thomas James Davey	1910 - 1912
54	Sir David Valentine Hennessy	1912 - 1917
55	Frank Stapley	1917 - 1918
56	William Whyte Cabena	1918 - 1919
57	John George Aikman	1919 - 1920
58	Sir John Warren Swanson	1920 - 1923
59	Sir William Brunton	1923 - 1926
60	Sir Stephen Joseph Morell	1926 - 1928
61	Harold Daniel Luxton	1928 - 1931
62	Sir Harold Gengoult Smith	1931 - 1934
63	Sir Alexander George Wales	1934 - 1937
64	Edward Campbell	1937 - 1938
65	Arthur William Coles	1938 - 1940
66	Sir Frank Beaurepaire	1940 - 1942
67	Sir Thomas Sydney Nettlefold	1942 - 1945
68	Sir Francis Raymond Connelly	1945 - 1948
69	Sir James Stanley Disney	1948 - 1951
70	Oliver John Nilsen	1951 - 1952
71	William John Brens	1952 - 1953
72	Robert Henry Solly	1953 - 1954
73	Francis Palmer Selleck	1954 - 1957
74	Sir Frederick William Thomas	1957 - 1959
75	Bernard Evans	1959 - 1961
76	Maurice Arnold Nathan	1961 - 1963
77	Edward Leo Curtis	1963 - 1965
78	Ian Francis Beaurepaire	1965 - 1967
79	Reginald Thomas Anthony Talbot	1967 - 1969
80	Edward Wallace Best	1969 - 1971
81	Alwynne Rowlands	1971 - 1972
82	Alan Douglas Whalley	1972 - 1974
83	Ron Walker	1974 - 1976
84	Donald Osborne	1976 - 1977
85	Irvin Rockman	1977 - 1979
86	Ralph Angelo Bernardi	1979 - 1980
87	John Willian Woodruff	1980 - 1981

[edit] Commissioners (1981-1982)

Commissioners	Term
Peter Francis Thorley (Chairman)	1981 - 1982
Neil Smith	1981 - 1982
Richard Allston	1981 - 1982

[edit] Lord Mayors (1982-1993)

#	Lord Mayor	Term
88	John Willian Gardner	1982 - 1983
89	Kevin Francis Chamberlin	1983 - 1984
90	Ewin John Beacham	1983 - 1984
91	Thomas Simon Lynch	1985 - 1986
92	Trevor Huggard	1986 - 1987
93	Alexis Ord	1987 - 1988
94	Winsome McCaughey	1988 - 1989
95	William Deveney	1989 - 1990
96	Richard Wynne	1990 - 1991
97	Richard Meldrum	1991 - 1992
98	Desmond Clark	1992 - 1993
99	Alan Watson	1993 - 1993

[edit] Commissioners (1993-1996)

Commissioners	Term
Kevan Gosper (Chief Commissioner)	1993 - 1996
John Rose (Deputy Chief Commissioner)	1993 - 1996
Catherine Walter	1993 - 1996
Kevin Rose	1993 - 1996

[edit] Lord Mayors (since 1996)

#	Lord Mayor	Term
100	Ivan Deveson	1996 - 1999
101	Peter Costigan	1999 - 2001
102	John So	2001 - 2008
103	Robert Doyle	2008 - present

[edit] See also

• Melbourne Town Hall
• List of Town Halls in Melbourne
• Local Government Areas of Victoria

[edit] External links

• List of Mayors at RULERS
• Melbourne City Council

[edit] References

• Appointment of Commissioners at the City of Melbourne