List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney

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Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

s and Lord Mayor
Lord Mayor
The Lord Mayor is the title of the Mayor of a major city, with special recognition.-Commonwealth of Nations:* In Australia it is a political position. Australian cities with Lord Mayors: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Sydney, and Wollongong...

s of the City of Sydney

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The City of Sydney is the Local Government Area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia...

, a Local Government Area of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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. The official title of Lord Mayors while holding office is: The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Mayors (1842-1853)

#	Mayor Mayor In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....	Term
1	Charles Windeyer Charles Windeyer Charles Windeyer was an Australian magistrate who held a variety of public positions and was later appointed by Governor George Gipps as the first Mayor of Sydney. He was the father of barrister and politician Richard Windeyer and grandfather of politician and judge William Charles...	1842
2	John Hosking	1842 - 1843
3	James Robert Wilshire James Robert Wilshire James Wilshire was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1855 and 1856 and again from 1858 until his death. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term between 1856 and 1857.-Early life:Wilshire was the son of...	1843 - 1844
4	George Allen	1845
5	Henry McDermott	1846
6	Thomas Broughton	1847
7	Joshua Frey Josephson	1848
8	Edward Flood Edward Flood Edward Flood was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1851 and 1856 and again from 1879 until his death. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1872...	1849
9	George Hill	1850
9	William Edward Thurlow	1851 - 1852
9	Daniel Egan Daniel Egan Daniel Egan was an Australian politician. Egan served as Mayor of Sydney in 1853 and was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....	1853

Commissioners (1854-1856)

Commissioners	Term
Gilbert Elliot (Chief)	1854 - 1856
Frederick Orme Darval	1854 - 1856
John Rae	1854 - 1856

Mayors (1857-1902)

#	Mayor Mayor In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....	Term
10	George Thornton George Thornton (Australian) George Thornton was an Australian merchant and politician, serving as a Sydney Municipal Council Alderman, Mayor of Sydney and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council....	1857
11	John Williams	1858
12	George Smith	1859
13	James Murphy	1860
14	John Sutherland	1861
15	James Oatley	1862
16	Thomas Spence	1863
17	William Speer	1864
18	John Woods	1865
19	John Sutton	1866
20	Charles Moore	1867 - 1869
21	Walter Renny	1869 - 1870
22	Michael Chapman	1871 - 1872
23	James Merriman	1873
24	Stephen Styles Goold	1874
25	Benjamin Palmer	1875 - 1876
26	James Merriman	1877 - 1878
27	Charles James Roberts	1879
28	Robert Fowler	1880
29	John Harris	1881 - 1883
30	John Hardie John Hardie John Hardie is a New Zealand rugby union player. He plays as a flanker for the Southland Stags in the ITM Cup and Highlanders in the Super Rugby competition.-Provincial Rugby:...	1884
31	Thomas Playfair	1885
32	John Young	1886
33	Alban Joseph Riley	1887
34	John Harris	1888 - 1889
35	Sydney Burdekin	1890 - 1891
36	Sir William Patrick Manning William Patrick Manning Sir William Patrick Manning was an Australian politician.Born at Darlinghurst to baker John Manning and Margaret Harrocks, he worked as a financier and had extensive business interests. Around 1867 he married Honorah Torpy in Sydney, with whom he had eight children...	1891 - 1894
37	Samuel Edward Lees	1895
38	Isaac Ellis Ives	1896 - 1897
38	Sir Matthew Harris	1898 - 1900
38	Sir James Graham James Graham (physician) Sir James Graham was a Scottish-born physician and public man, active in Australia, Mayor of Sydney in 1901.Graham was born in Edinburgh, son of Thomas Graham, marble polisher, and his wife Jane, née Square. Graham graduated M.A. at University of Edinburgh in 1879 and M.B. and C.M. in 1882...	1901
38	Sir Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes (Sydney mayor) Sir Thomas Hughes was the Lord Mayor of The City of Sydney and served as Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson from 1906-1929.-References:A singular success : Washington H. Soul Pattinson, 1872-1993 / edited by Kathy Shand. Double Bay, NSW : Focus Books, 1993....	1902

Lord Mayors (1902-1927)

The title of 'Lord Mayor' was conferred on the position of Mayor by King Edward VII

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

on December 18, 1902.

#	Lord Mayor Lord Mayor The Lord Mayor is the title of the Mayor of a major city, with special recognition.-Commonwealth of Nations:* In Australia it is a political position. Australian cities with Lord Mayors: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Sydney, and Wollongong...	Term
39	Sir Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes (Sydney mayor) Sir Thomas Hughes was the Lord Mayor of The City of Sydney and served as Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson from 1906-1929.-References:A singular success : Washington H. Soul Pattinson, 1872-1993 / edited by Kathy Shand. Double Bay, NSW : Focus Books, 1993....	1902 - 1903
40	Samuel Edward Lees	1904
41	Allen Arthur Taylor	1905 - 1906
42	Sir Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes (Sydney mayor) Sir Thomas Hughes was the Lord Mayor of The City of Sydney and served as Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson from 1906-1929.-References:A singular success : Washington H. Soul Pattinson, 1872-1993 / edited by Kathy Shand. Double Bay, NSW : Focus Books, 1993....	1907 - 1908
43	Allen Arthur Taylor	1909 - 1912
44	George Thomas Clarke	1912
45	Sir Arthur Cocks Arthur Cocks (Australian politician) Sir Arthur Alfred Clement Cocks KBE was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...	1913
46	Richard Watkins Richards Richard Watkins Richards Sir Richard Watkins Richards was Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1914–1915 and 1919–1920.Richards was born in Wales in 1863 and came to New South Wales as a child...	1914 - 1915
47	Richard Meagher Richard Meagher Richard Denis Meagher MLA was an Australian solicitor and was Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1916 to 1917.-Early life:...	1916 - 1917
48	James Joynton Smith James Joynton Smith Sir James John Joynton Smith KBE, commonly referred to as simply Joynton Smith was an Australian hotelier, racecourse and newspaper owner, and Lord Mayor of Sydney....	1918
49	John English	1919
50	Sir Richard Watkins Richards Richard Watkins Richards Sir Richard Watkins Richards was Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1914–1915 and 1919–1920.Richards was born in Wales in 1863 and came to New South Wales as a child...	1919 - 1920
51	William Patrick Fitzgerald	1920
52	William Lambert William Lambert (Australian politician) William Henry Lambert was an Australian politician and unionist, serving for one term as Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1921.-Early life:...	1921
53	William Percy McElhone	1922
54	David Gilpin	1923 - 1924
55	Patrick Vincent Stokes	1925 - 1926
56	John Harold Mostyn	1927

Commissioners (1928-1930)

Commissioners	Term
E.P. Fleming	1928 - 1930
J. Garlick	1928 - 1930
H.E. Morton	1928 - 1930
Gordon Bennett Gordon Bennett (Australian soldier) Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO, VD , Australian soldier, served in both World War I and World War II...	1928 - 1930

Lord Mayors (1930-1967)

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#	Lord Mayor Lord Mayor The Lord Mayor is the title of the Mayor of a major city, with special recognition.-Commonwealth of Nations:* In Australia it is a political position. Australian cities with Lord Mayors: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Sydney, and Wollongong...	Term
57	E.S. Marks	1930
58	Joseph Jackson Joseph Jackson (Australian politician) Joseph Jackson was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1922 until 1956...	1931
59	Sir Samuel Walder	1932
60	R.C. Hagon	1933
Sir Alfred L. Parker	1934 - 1935
62	Arthur McElhone	1935
63	Archibald Howie	1936 - 1937
64	Sir Norman L. Nock	1938 - 1939
65	Stanley S. Crick	1940 - 1942
66	R.J. Bartley	1943 - 1944
67	W. Neville Harding	1945
68	R.J. Bartley	1946 - 1948
69	Ernest Charles O'Dea Ernest Charles O'Dea Ernest Charles O'Dea was an Australian trade union official, Labor Party politician, Lord Mayor of Sydney and Member of the New South Wales Parliament....	1949 - 1952
70	Pat Hills	1953 - 1956
71	Harry Jensen Harry Jensen Henry Frederick Jensen, usually called Harry Jensen was an Australian ALP politician, who served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 until 1981...	1957 - 1965
72	John Armstrong John Armstrong (Australian politician) John Ignatius Armstrong, AC was an Australian politician and federal minister.Armstrong was born in the Sydney suburb of Ultimo and ducated at St Bede's School, Pyrmont, and Marist Brothers' High School, Darlinghurst...	1966 - 1967

Commissioners (1967-1969)

Commissioners	Term
Vernon Treatt Vernon Treatt Sir Vernon Haddon Treatt KBE, MM, QC was an Australian lawyer, soldier, Rhodes Scholar and politician. Born in Singleton, New South Wales and educated at Shore School, Treatt interrupted his studies at the University of Sydney to enlist at the outbreak of the First World War... (Chief)	1967 - 1969
John Shaw John Shaw (public servant) John Alexander Lachlan Shaw CBE, DSO was a New South Wales public servant.John Shaw was born on 26 August 1902 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, the son of John and Alice Shaw. He attended Sydney Technical High School and thereafter studied civil engineering at the University of Sydney... (Deputy Chief)	1967 - 1969
William Pettingell William Walter Pettingell Sir William Walter Pettingell CBE was an Australian businessman notable for his services to government and finance....	1967 - 1969

Lord Mayors (1969-1987)

#		Party	Term
73	Sir Laurence Emmet McDermott	Civic Reform	1969—1972
74	David Griffin David Griffin (Australian) Sir David Griffin was an Australian lawyer and businessman, and the Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1972 to 1973. He was a prisoner of war at Changi in Singapore during World War II, and a poet....	Civic Reform	1972—1973
75	Sir Nicholas Shehadie Nicholas Shehadie Sir Nicholas Michael Shehadie, AC, OBE KStJ is the former Lord Mayor of Sydney and a former national representative rugby union captain, who made thirty career Test appearances...	Civic Reform	1973—1975
76	Leo Port	Civic Reform	1975 - 1978
77	Nelson Meers Nelson Meers Nelson John Meers AO was Lord Mayor of Sydney between 1978 and 1980. He holds a degree in law from the University of Sydney.Prior to his term as Lord Mayor, Meers established an extensive commercial and defamation practice as a partner of two leading international law firms...	Civic Reform	1978 - 1980
78	Doug Sutherland	Civic Reform	1980 - 1987

Administrator (1987)

Administrator	Term
Sir Eric Neal Eric Neal Sir Eric James Neal AC CVO was the Governor of South Australia 1996-2001, Commissioner of Sydney from 1987 to 1988, and until the start of 2010, the Chancellor of Flinders University....	1987

Commissioners (1987-1988)

Commissioners	Term
Sir Eric Neal (Chief) Eric Neal Sir Eric James Neal AC CVO was the Governor of South Australia 1996-2001, Commissioner of Sydney from 1987 to 1988, and until the start of 2010, the Chancellor of Flinders University....	1987 - 1988
Sir Nicholas Shehadie (Deputy Chief) Nicholas Shehadie Sir Nicholas Michael Shehadie, AC, OBE KStJ is the former Lord Mayor of Sydney and a former national representative rugby union captain, who made thirty career Test appearances...	1987 - 1988
Norman Oakes	1987 - 1988

Lord Mayors (1989-2004)

#		Party	Term
79	Jeremey Bingham	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1989—1991
80	Frank Sartor Frank Sartor Francesco Ernest 'Frank' Sartor JP a former Australian politician, was New South Wales Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health between 2009 and 2011. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Rockdale for the...	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1991—2003
81	Lucy Turnbull Lucy Turnbull Lucinda Mary "Lucy" Turnbull, née Hughes AO , a former Australian politician and former Lord Mayor of Sydney, is a prominent Australian business leader and company director. Turnbull was the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney, between 2003 and 2004 and was Deputy Lord Mayor, between 1999 and 2003...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	2003—2004

Commissioners (2004)

	Party	Term
Tony Pooley	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	2004—2004
Garry Payne		2004—2004
Lucy Turnbull Lucy Turnbull Lucinda Mary "Lucy" Turnbull, née Hughes AO , a former Australian politician and former Lord Mayor of Sydney, is a prominent Australian business leader and company director. Turnbull was the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney, between 2003 and 2004 and was Deputy Lord Mayor, between 1999 and 2003...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	2004—2004

Lord Mayors (2004-present)

#	Mayor		Party	Term
82		Clover Moore Clover Moore Clover Moore , is an Australian politician, the Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Sydney. Moore is the first publicly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney. Prior to the 2007 NSW state election, she...	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	2004—present

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