List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney
Lord Mayor of City of Sydney | |
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Style | The Right Honourable Lord Mayor |
Appointer | Sydney City Council |
Term length | 4 years |
Inaugural holder | Ald. Charles Windeyer (Mayor) Ald. Sir Thomas Hughes (Lord Mayor) |
Formation | 1842 (as Mayor) 1902 (as Lord Mayor) |
Website | Lord Mayor of Sydney |
The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Sydney is the honorific title of the head of Sydney City Council which is the local government body for the City of Sydney, the local government area covering the central business district of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Lord Mayor has been directly elected since 2004, replacing the previous system of being internally elected by the Councillors, and served a four-year term. The most recent election was held on 8 September 2012, at which the incumbent Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, Independent, was re-elected.[1]
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Background[edit]
The office of Mayor of Sydney along with the Sydney municipality was created 20 July 1842 pursuant to the Sydney City Incorporation Act 1842 by Governor Sir George Gipps, of the New South Wales Legislative Council. This replaced the previous system under an Act of 1833, whereby three police commissioners were responsible for local conditions. The office of Mayor was elevated to Lord Mayor in 1902 by King Edward VII, and as part of this process received the honorific The Right Honourable (The Rt. Hon.).
Vestments of office[edit]
As head of the council, the Lord Mayor is entitled to wear the chains and robes of office, as befitting the ancient status of lord mayor of a large city. In 1902 the Sydney Chamber of Commerce commissioned the first link of a mayoral chain. In 1903, the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Harry Rawson presented the first Lord Mayor, Thomas Hughes, with the chain of office. It features the coat of arms of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce and the Stock Exchange and a pendant depicting the coat of arms of Sydney. Successive mayors each added a medallion, on which was embossed their term of office. By 1945, this practice had ended because of the size and weight of the chain. Today, the chain is worn with the robes of office only for rare civic ceremonies; a smaller collar being worn for most civic duties.
The original civic robe for the Mayor of Sydney in 1842 was purple, trimmed with ermine and worn with a court dress hat. The current robes worn by the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor are black, trimmed with ermine, and worn with bicorne hat, lace jabot and white gloves. They are worn rarely and only at major civic functions.[2] Recently, it has become the custom not to wear the robes.
List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney[edit]
# | Officeholder | Term | Office title | Party | |
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1 | Charles Windeyer | 1842 | Mayor | n/a | |
2 | John Hosking | 1842–1843 | |||
3 | James Robert Wilshire | 1843–1844 | |||
4 | George Allen | 1845 | |||
5 | Henry McDermott | 1846 | |||
6 | Thomas Broughton | 1847 | |||
7 | Joshua Frey Josephson | 1848 | |||
8 | Edward Flood | 1849 | |||
9 | George Hill | 1850 | |||
10 | William Edward Thurlow | 1851–1852 | |||
11 | Daniel Egan | 1853 | |||
n/a | n/a | Gilbert Elliot (Chief) | 1854–1856 | Commissioners | |
Frederick Orme Darval | |||||
John Rae | |||||
12 | George Thornton | 1857 | Mayor | ||
13 | John Williams | 1858 | |||
14 | George Smith | 1859 | |||
15 | James Murphy | 1860 | |||
16 | John Sutherland | 1861 | |||
17 | James Oatley | 1862 | |||
18 | Thomas Spence | 1863 | |||
19 | William Speer | 1864 | |||
20 | John Woods | 1865 | |||
21 | John Sutton | 1866 | |||
22 | Charles Moore | 1867–1869 | |||
23 | Walter Renny | 1869–1870 | |||
24 | Michael Chapman | 1871–1872 | |||
25 | James Merriman | 1873 | |||
26 | Stephen Styles Goold | 1874 | |||
27 | Benjamin Palmer | 1875–1876 | |||
– | James Merriman | 1877–1878 | |||
28 | Charles James Roberts | 1879 | |||
29 | Robert Fowler | 1880 | |||
30 | John Harris | 1881–1883 | |||
31 | John Hardie | 1884 | |||
32 | Thomas Playfair | 1885 | |||
33 | John Young | 1886 | |||
34 | Alban Joseph Riley | 1887 | |||
35 | John Harris | 1888–1889 | |||
36 | Sydney Burdekin | 1890–1891 | |||
37 | Sir William Patrick Manning | 1891–1894 | |||
38 | Samuel Edward Lees | 1895 | |||
39 | Isaac Ellis Ives | 1896–1897 | |||
40 | Sir Matthew Harris | 1898–1900 | |||
41 | Sir James Graham | 1901 | Independent | ||
42 | Thomas Hughes | 1902 | |||
1902–1903 | Lord Mayor | ||||
– | Samuel Edward Lees | 1904 | |||
43 | Allen Taylor | 1905–1906 | Civic Reform | ||
– | Thomas Hughes | 1907–1908 | Independent | ||
– | Sir Allen Taylor | 1909–1912 | Civic Reform | ||
44 | George Thomas Clarke | 1912 | Independent | ||
45 | Sir Arthur Cocks | 1913 | Civic Reform | ||
46 | Richard Watkins Richards | 1914–1915 | Independent | ||
47 | Richard Meagher | 1916–1917 | Labor Party | ||
48 | James Joynton Smith | 1918 | Independent | ||
49 | John English | 1919 | Labor Party | ||
50 | Sir Richard Watkins Richards | 1919–1920 | Independent | ||
51 | William Patrick Fitzgerald | 1920 | Labor Party | ||
52 | William Lambert | 1921 | |||
53 | William McElhone | 1922 | Independent | ||
54 | David Gilpin | 1923–1924 | Civic Reform | ||
55 | Patrick Vincent Stokes | 1925–1926 | Labor Party | ||
56 | John Harold Mostyn | 1927 | |||
n/a | n/a | E.P. Fleming | 1928–1930 | Commissioners | n/a |
J. Garlick | |||||
H.E. Morton | |||||
Gordon Bennett | |||||
57 | Ernest Marks | 1930 | Lord Mayor | Civic Reform | |
58 | Joseph Jackson | 1931 | |||
59 | Sir Samuel Walder | 1932 | |||
60 | Richard Hagon | 1933 | Independent | ||
61 | Sir Alfred Parker | 1934–1935 | Civic Reform | ||
62 | Arthur McElhone | 1935 | Independent | ||
63 | Archibald Howie | 1936–1937 | Civic Reform | ||
64 | Sir Norman Nock | 1938–1939 | Independent | ||
65 | Stanley Crick | 1940–1942 | Civic Reform | ||
66 | Reg Bartley | 1943–1944 | |||
67 | William Harding | 1945 | |||
– | Reg Bartley | 1946–1948 | |||
68 | Ernest Charles O'Dea | 1949–1952 | Labor Party | ||
69 | Pat Hills | 1953–1956 | |||
70 | Harry Jensen | 1956–1965 | |||
71 | John Armstrong | 1966–1967 | |||
n/a | n/a | Vernon Treatt | 14 November 1967 – 26 September 1969 | Chief Commissioner | n/a |
John Shaw | Deputy Chief Commissioner | ||||
William Pettingell | Commissioner | ||||
72 | Sir Laurence Emmet McDermott | 1969—1972 | Lord Mayor | Civic Reform | |
73 | David Griffin | 1972—1973 | |||
74 | Sir Nicholas Shehadie | 1973—1975 | |||
75 | Leo Port | 1975–1978 | |||
76 | Nelson Meers | 1978–1980 | |||
77 | Doug Sutherland | 1980–1987 | Labor Party | ||
n/a | n/a | Sir Eric Neal | 6 April 1987 | Administrator | n/a |
6 April 1987 – 31 December 1988 | Chief Commissioner | ||||
Sir Nicholas Shehadie | Deputy Chief Commissioner | ||||
Norman Oakes | Commissioner | ||||
78 | Jeremy Bingham | 1989—1991 | Lord Mayor | Civic Reform | |
79 | Frank Sartor | 1991—2003 | Independent | ||
80 | Lucy Turnbull | 2003—2004 | |||
n/a | n/a | Tony Pooley | 6 February 2004 — 27 March 2004 | Commissioners | n/a |
Garry Payne | |||||
Lucy Turnbull | |||||
81 | Clover Moore | 2004—present | Lord Mayor | Independent |
References[edit]
- ^ "Sydney City Council". Local Government Elections 2012. Electoral Commission of New South Wales. 14 September 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ^ City of Sydney: Mace, chain and robes at City of Sydney official website
- Mayors of Sydney at City of Sydney official website