List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

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James Shaw (1888–9);
Frederick Bullock (1891–2)
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This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Adelaide, a local government area of South Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/assets/acc/Council/docs/acc%20lord%20mayor%20and%20mayor%20list.pdf |title=Lord Mayors and Mayors of the City of Adelaide |publisher=adelaidecitycouncil.com.au |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130191335/http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/assets/acc/Council/docs/acc%20lord%20mayor%20and%20mayor%20list.pdf |archivedate=30 January 2013 }}

The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of nineteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation, followed by the councillors' election of a mayor. The first mayor was James Hurtle Fisher and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.{{cite web |url=http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/council/history/ |title=History of the Council |publisher=adelaidecitycouncil.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212205702/http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/council/history |archivedate=12 December 2013 }}

Mayors (1840–1919)

class="wikitable sortable" ! !! Mayor !! Term !! Image
1	{{sortname\|James Hurtle \|Fisher}}	1840–1842	80px
2	{{sortname\|Thomas \|Wilson \|dab=mayor}}	1842–1843
3	City managed as Government Department	1843–1849
4	City managed by Commissioners	1849–1852
5	{{sortname\|James Hurtle \|Fisher\|nolink=1}}	1852
6	{{sortname\|James Hurtle \|Fisher\|nolink=1}}	1852–1854
7	{{sortname\|Joseph \|Hall \|Joseph Hall (mayor)}}	1854–1855
8	{{sortname\|John \|Lazar}}	1855–1858
9	{{sortname\|William \|Sabben}}	1858–1859
10	{{sortname\|Edmund William \|Wright}}	1859
11	{{sortname\|Edward \|Glandfield}}	1859–1862
12	{{sortname\|Thomas\|English\|dab=mayor}}	1862–1863	80px
13	{{sortname\|Samuel\|Goode\|dab=mayor}}	1863–1864
14	{{sortname\|William\|Townsend\|dab=mayor}}	1864–1866	80px
15	{{sortname\|Henry Robert \|Fuller}}	1866–1869	80px
16	{{sortname\|Judah Moss \|Solomon}}	1869–1871	80px
17	{{sortname\|Adolph Heinrich Friedrich \|Bartels}}	1871–1873	80px
18	{{sortname\|William Dixon \|Allott}}	1873–1874
19	{{sortname\|John \|Colton\|dab=politician}}	1874–1875	80px
20	{{sortname\|Caleb \|Peacock}}	1875–1877	80px
21	{{sortname\|Henry \|Scott \|dab=mayor}}	1877–1878
22	{{sortname\|William Christie \|Buik}}	1878–1879
23	{{sortname\|Edwin Thomas \|Smith}}	1879–1882	80px
24	{{sortname\|Henry Robert \|Fuller\|nolink=1}}	1882–1883
25	{{sortname\|William \|Bundey\|dab=mayor}}	1883–1886	80px
26	{{sortname\|Edwin Thomas \|Smith\|nolink=1}}	1886–1887
27	{{sortname\|Sir Edwin Thomas\| Smith\|Edwin Thomas Smith\|nolink=1}}	1887–1888
28	{{sortname\|James\|Shaw\|James Shaw (mayor)}}	1888–1889	80px
29	{{sortname\|Lewis \|Cohen\|dab=mayor}}	1889–1890	80px
30	{{sortname\|Frederick William \|Bullock}}	1891–1892	80px
31	{{sortname\|Charles\|Willcox}}	1892–1894	80px
32	{{sortname\|Charles\|Tucker\|dab=mayor}}	1894–1898	80px
33	{{sortname\|Arthur Wellington \|Ware}}	1898–1901	80px
34	{{sortname\|Lewis \|Cohen\|dab=mayor\|nolink=1}}	1901–1904
35	{{sortname\|Theodore \|Bruce}}	1904–1907
36	{{sortname\|Frank \|Johnson\|Frank Johnson (mayor)}}	1907–1909	80px
37	{{sortname\|Lewis \|Cohen\|dab=mayor\|nolink=1}}	1909–1911
38	{{sortname\|Sir John Lavington \|Bonython\|John Lavington Bonython}}Until the widower Bonython remarried in December 1912, his sister Mrs H. A. Parsons served as acting Mayoress at official functions.	1911–1913	80px
39	{{sortname\|Alfred Allen \|Simpson}}	1913–1915
40	{{sortname\|Isaac \|Isaacs\|Isaac Isaacs (mayor)}}	1915–1917	80px
41	{{sortname\|Charles Richmond \|Glover}}	1917–1919	80px

Lord mayors (since 1919)

The Official styled title of the Lord Mayor of Adelaide is The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide.

The styled title The Right Honourable, (which has no connection with the privy council) attaches to the title of Lord Mayor, and not to their names, and is relinquished upon leaving office.

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ ! !! Lord Mayor !! Term !! Image
41	{{sortname\|Charles Richmond \|Glover}}	1919	80px
42	{{sortname\|Frank Beaumont \|Moulden}}	1919–1921
43	{{sortname\|Lewis \|Cohen\|dab=mayor}}	1921–1923	80px
44	{{sortname\|Charles Richmond \|Glover\|nolink=1}}	1923–1925
45	{{sortname\|Wallace \|Bruce}}	1925–1927
46	{{sortname\|Sir John Lavington\|Bonython\|John Lavington Bonython}}	1927–1930	80px
47	{{sortname\|Charles Richmond \|Glover\|nolink=1}}	1930–1933
48	{{sortname\|Jonathan Robert \|Cain}}	1933–1937
49	{{sortname\|Arthur \|Barrett\|dab=mayor}}	1937–1941
50	{{sortname\|Arden Seymour \|Hawker}}	1941–1943
51	{{sortname\|Reginald \|Walker}}	1943–1946
52	{{sortname\|John \|McLeay\|John McLeay, senior}}	1946–1949	80px
53	{{sortname\|Arthur Ernest William \|Short}}	1949A. E. W. Short died within 3 weeks of assuming office
54	{{sortname\|John \|McLeay\|John McLeay, senior\|nolink=1}}	1949–1950
55	{{sortname\|Arthur \|Rymill}}	1950–1953
56	{{sortname\|John Scott \|Philps}}	1954–1957
57	{{sortname\|Lancelot Morton Spiller\|Hargrave}}	1957–1960
58	{{sortname\|Charles John \|Glover}}, Sir John Glover{{Citation \| author1=Glover (Family) \| author2=Glover, Charles Peter, 1828–1881 \| author3=Glover, Hannah, 1830–1913 \| author4=Glover, C.R.J. (Charles Richmond John), 1870–1936 \| author5=Glover, Charles John, Sir, 1902–1969 \| author6=Glover, C. J. M \| title=Glover family \| publication-date=1840 \| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/198290038 \| accessdate=16 August 2019 }}	1960–1963
59	{{sortname\|James Campbell \|Irwin}}	1963–1966
60	{{sortname\|Walter Lewis \|Bridgland}}	1966–1968
61	{{sortname\|Robert Evelyn \|Porter}}	1968–1971
62	{{sortname\|William Hubert \|Hayes}}	1971–1973
63	{{sortname\|Robert Wyndham \|Clampett}}	1973–1975
64	{{sortname\|John Justin \|Roche}}	1975–1977
65	{{sortname\|George\|Joseph\|dab=Australian politician}}	1977–1979
66	{{sortname\|James Vincent Seaton \|Bowen}}	1979–1981
67	{{sortname\|Arthur John \|Watson}}	1981–1983
68	{{sortname\|Wendy \|Chapman}}	1983–1985
69	{{sortname\|James Bickford \|Jarvis}}	1985–1987
70	{{sortname\|Steve \|Condous}}	1987–1995
71	{{sortname\|Henry Jacques \|Ninio}}	1995–1997	80px
72	{{sortname\|Jane \|Lomax-Smith}}	1997–2000	80px
73	{{sortname\|Alfred \|Huang}}	2000–2002
74	{{sortname\|Michael \|Harbison}}	2002–2010	80px
75	{{sortname\|Stephen \|Yarwood}}	2010–2014	80px
76	{{sortname\|Martin \| Haese}}	2014–2018	80px
77	{{sortname\|Sandy \|Verschoor}}	2018–2022	80px
78	{{sortname\|Jane\|Lomax-Smith}}	2022–present	80px

References

External links

[http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com adelaidecitycouncil.com]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928180316/http://www.adelaidejmuseum.org/bookoflife.php?id=17 How Adelaide became a Lord Mayoralty, adelaidejmuseum.org]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120224105419/http://www.adelaidejmuseum.org/history/civicleaders.htm Civic Leaders, adelaidejmuseum.org]

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List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

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Lord mayors (since 1919)

See also

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