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The Mayors of Halifax

This page lists the people who have held the office of Mayor of Halifax.

The mayoral term begins in November, so a reference such as:

1857-1860: Thomas Selby Walsh

indicates that Thomas Selby Walsh held the office of Mayor of Halifax from November 1857 to November 1860

Any exceptions are indicated

See also the entries for

1848-1849: John Baldwin
1849-1851: John Crossley
1851-1853: Samuel Waterhouse
1853-1856: Joshua Appleyard
1856-1857: John Whitworth
1857-1860: Thomas Selby Walsh
1860-1861: Daniel Ramsden
1861-1863: John Crossley
1863-1865: Colonel William Irving Holdsworth
1865-1866: Dr William Wightman
1866-1868: Thomas Shaw
1868-1869: John Dyson Hutchinson
1869-1871: Henry Charles McCrea
1871-1872: John Dyson Hutchinson
1872-1874: Thomas Wayman
1874-1876: Edward Crossley
1876-1877: Nathan Whitley
1877-1879: Samuel Thomas Midgley
1879 (November)-1880 (March): Matthew Smith
1880 (April)-1881 (November): James Bairstow
1881-1883: Nathan Whitley
1883-1884: Alfred Ramsden
1884-1885: Edward Crossley
1885-1887: Richard Horsfall
1887-1890: James Booth
1890-1893 (July): James William Davis
1893 (August-November): James Booth
1893-1894: Samuel Thomas Midgley
1894-1895: Michael Booth
1895-1897: George Henry Smith
1897-1898: John Herbert Lacy Baldwin
1898-1899: John Taylor Simpson
1899-1902: William Brear
1902-1904: Josiah Wade
1904-1905: Enoch Robinson
1905-1907: Richard Dearden Ward
1907-1908: William Wallace
1908-1911: Sir Frederick Whitley Thomson
1911-1912: George Taylor Ramsden
1912-1915: William Henry Ingham
1915-1917: Richard Hodgson
1917-1919: Howard Clay
1919-1920: Charles Frederic Spencer
1920-1922: Thomas Hey
1922-1923: Arthur William Longbottom
1923-1924: Robert Thomas
1924-1925: Joseph Harold Waddington
1925-1926: William Smith
1926-1927: Arthur Henry Gledhill
1927-1928: Arthur Llewellyn Whittaker
1928-1929: John Law
1929-1930: Edgar Smith
1930-1931: John Carter
1931-1932: Rufus Stirk
1932-1933: William Crabtree
1933-1934: Frederick Austin Leach
1934-1935: Mrs Miriam Lightowler
1935-1936: Walter Brenard
1936-1937: Crossley Hodgson
1937-1938: Frank Watkinson
1938-1939: John Radcliffe
1939-1940 (July): George Barker
1940 (August-November): John Radcliffe
1940-1941: Norman Frederick Smagg Winter
1941-1942: Percival Nathan Whitley
1942-1943: John Oddy
1943-1944: Thomas Greenwood
1944-1945: Lewis Chambers
1945-1946: Joseph Henry Stephenson
1946-1947: Charles Henry Lucas
1947-1949: Charles Holdsworth
1949-1950: John Burdock
1950-1951: Fred Sharp
1951-1952: Arthur Pickles
1952-1953: William Regan
1953-1954: Harold Pickles
1954-1955: Norman Eric Barber
1955-1956: Joe Nicholl
1956-1957: Frank Harland Swire
1957-1958: Edgar Otty Bower
1958-1959: Sir Dryden Brook
1959-1960: Miss Mary Pickles
1960-1961: Douglass Robinson
1961-1962: Mrs Winifred Oxley
1962-1963: Tom Berry
1963-1964: Wilson Haigh
1964-1965: Douglas Fawcett
1965-1966: Harry Ludlam
1966-1967: Fred Ellis
1967-1968: Mrs Laura Annie Mitchell
1968-1969: Eric Whitehead
1969-1970: Joseph Liley
1970-1971: Albert Berry
1971-1972: George Howard Smith
1972-1973: Maurice Jagger
1973-1974: Raymond J. Talbot