Mayor of Totnes
Totnes, Devon, England received its first borough charter from King John and the recorded list of mayors dates from 1359. The town was incorporated in 1505 with a governing structure consisting of a mayor, recorder and a single council of burgesses. A further charter in 1596 concentrated power in the hands of the town’s leading merchants, redefining the corporation as a governing body of 14 ‘masters’, including the mayor, with an inferior council of 20 burgesses. The masters filled vacancies in their ranks by co-option and nominated the mayoral candidates. [1]
The following have been mayors of Totnes:
- 1396–98: Walter Browning (MP for Totnes), 1388 [2]
- 1399–1400: Walter Browning
- 1401–03: Walter Browning
- 1535-37: Christopher Savery[3]
- 1548-49: Christopher Savery
- 1556-57: Christopher Savery
- 1585-86: Nicholas Ball[4]
- 1589-90: Nicholas Hayman[5]
- 1593-94: Leonard Darr[6]
- 1598-99: Philip Holditch (MP for Totnes, 1601) [7]
- 1605–06: Christopher Wise [8]
- 1612-13: Richard Rodd[9]
- 1621–22: Christopher Wise
- 1623–24: Philip Holditch II (son of Philip Holditch above, MP for Totnes, 1626) [10]
- 1638–39: Philip Holditch II
- 1718–19: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
- 1737–38: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
- 1754-55: Benjamin Babbage (grandfather of Charles Babbage)[11]
- 1780–81: William Adams (MP for Plympton Erle 1796–1801 and Totnes 1801–11)
- 1788–89: William Adams
- 1797–98: William Adams
- 1882–84: Frederick Bowden [12]
- 1950–51: Charles Stanley Jacka [13]
- 1970–71: Jean M Gilbert [14]
21st century
- 2001: Pruw Boswell
- 2003: J.A. Westacott
- 2004–05: Jim Parkes
- 2005–07: Pruw Boswell
- 2008: David Horsburgh
- 2009–10: Jean Rosemary Harrop
- 2010–11: Anthony Whitty
- 2011–12: Judy Westacott
- 2012–13: Pruw Boswell
- 2014–16: Jacqui Hodgson [15]
References
- ↑ "Totnes". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "BROWNING, Walter, of Totnes, Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2014-09-04.
- ↑ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "SAVERY, Christopher (by 1502-60), of Totnes, Devon.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ↑ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "BALL, Nicholas (d.1586), of Totnes; later of Dartington, Devon.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ↑ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "HAYMAN, Nicholas (d.1606), of Totnes; later of Dartmouth, Devon.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/darr-leonard-1554-1615
- ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/holditch-philip-1608
- ↑ "Christopher Wise (c.1566–1628), Mayor of Totnes (1605 & 1621)". BBC. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/rodd-richard-1633
- ↑ "HOLDITCH, Philip (by 1587-1654), of Totnes, Devon". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "Devon Perspectives-On Charles Babbage". Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "Frederick Bowden (1819–1903), Mayor of Totnes (1883)". BBC. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "Charles Stanley Jacka (1893–1970), Mayor of Totnes (1950–1951)". BBC. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "Mayor Choosing in Totnes Guildhall". Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "Councillors". Totnes Town Council. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
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