This is a list of the Mayors of Bolton in the north west of England

England

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. The office of mayor is a ceremonial, non-political post. As the borough's First Citizen, the mayor serves as the civic representative at a wide range of functions and events throughout the local authority.

The Mayors of Bolton have represented three types of local government districts. The Mayors of the Municipal Borough of Bolton

County Borough of Bolton

Bolton was, from 1838 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England, conterminate with the town of Bolton.-History:Bolton was created a free borough in 1253 when William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby granted a charter. However the borough did not develop into a self-governing...

 1838–1889, the Mayors of the County Borough of Bolton

County Borough of Bolton

Bolton was, from 1838 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England, conterminate with the town of Bolton.-History:Bolton was created a free borough in 1253 when William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby granted a charter. However the borough did not develop into a self-governing...

 1889–1974, and the present Mayors of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Bolton, but covers a far larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley and Westhoughton, and a suburban and rural element from the West Pennine...

 since 1974.

There was also a Transitional Mayor / Chairman in 1973–1974 who saw over the dissolution of the County Borough of Bolton and the foundation of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.

Municipal Borough Mayors

No.	|Party	|Terms		Charles James Darbishire	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	1838–1839	1	b.1797 – d.1874. The first Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Bolton County Borough of Bolton Bolton was, from 1838 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England, conterminate with the town of Bolton.-History:Bolton was created a free borough in 1253 when William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby granted a charter. However the borough did not develop into a self-governing... .
2		Robert Heywood	Liberal	1839–1840	1	b.1786 – d.1868. Father of John Heywood, Mayor of Bolton 1903–05
3		James Arrowsmith	Liberal	1840–1841	1	b.1791 – d.1870. Father of Peter Rothwell Arrowsmith, Mayor of Bolton 1853–55.
4		Thomas Cullen	Liberal	1841–1842	1	b.1782 – d.1859.
5		Robert Walsh	Liberal	1842–1843	1	b.1791 – d.1873.
6		Thomas Gregson	Liberal	1843–1844	1	b.1795 – d.1865.
7		John Slater	Liberal	1844–1845	1	b.1798 – d.1861.
8		Stephen Blair	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	1845–1846	1	b.1804 – d.1870. Conservative MP for Bolton Bolton (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system....  1848–52.
9		James Scowcroft	Conservative	1846–1847	1	b.1788 – d.1865.
10		Thomas Ridgeway Bridson	Conservative	1847–1848	1	b.1795 – d.1863.
11		Thomas Lever Rushton	Conservative	1848–1850	2	b.1811 – d.1883.
12		William Gray William Gray (Conservative politician) William Gray was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1874....	Conservative	1850–1852	2	b.1814 – d.1895. Conservative MP for Bolton Bolton (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system....  1857–1874.
13		John Stones	Conservative	1852–1853	1	b.c.1804 – d.1859.
14		Peter Rothwell Arrowsmith	Liberal	1853–1855	2	b.1816 – d.1890. Son of James Arrowsmith, Mayor of Bolton 1840–41.
15		James Knowles	Liberal	1855–1857	2	b.1813 – d.1886.
16		William Makant	Liberal	1857–1859	2	b.1807 – d.1880.
17		John Orton	Liberal	1859–1860	1	b.1804 – d.1870.
18		John Harwood	Liberal	1860–1861	1	b.1802 – d.1875. Brother of Richard Harwood, Mayor of Bolton 1863–64.
19		James Rawthorne Wolfenden	Liberal	1861–1863	2	b.1811 – d.1886. Brother of Charles Wolfenden, Mayor of Bolton 1875–77.
20		Richard Harwood	Liberal	1863–1864	1	b.1802 – d.1875. Brother of John Harwood, Mayor of Bolton 1860–61, and father of George Harwood George Harwood George Harwood was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician. He was born the second son of Richard Harwood who founded a firm of cotton spinners and who was at one time Mayor of Bolton and twice Mayor of Salford.... , Liberal MP for Bolton Bolton (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system....  1895–1912.
21		Richard Stockdale	Liberal	1864–1866	2	b.1809 – d.1886.
22		Dr Fergus Ferguson	Liberal	1866–1867	1	b.1805 – d.1887.
23		James Barlow	Liberal	1867–1869	2	b.1821 – d.1887.
24		Thomas Walmsley	Conservative	1869–1871	2	b.1812 – d.1890.
25		William Walter Cannon	Conservative	1871–1873	2	b.1822 – d.1903. Brother in law of Richard Stockdale, Mayor of Bolton 1864–66.
26		Jeremiah Marsden	Conservative	1873–1875	2	b.1820 – d.1877.
27		Charles Wolfenden	Conservative	1875–1877	2	b.1826 – d.1884. Brother of James Rawthorne Wolfenden, Mayor of Bolton 1861–1863
28		James Greenhalgh	Conservative	1877–1878	1	b.1822 – d.1881.
29		Peter Crook Marsden	Conservative	1878–1879	1	b.1838 – d.1913.
30		Henry Marriott Richardson	Conservative	1879–1880	1	b.c.1816 – d.1893.
31		Joseph Musgrave	Conservative	1880–1881	1	b.1812 – d.1891.
32		Thomas Glaister	Conservative	1881–1882	1	b.1829 – d.1891. Grandfather of Thomas Glaister, Mayor of Bolton 1949–48.
33		Ebenezer Green Harwood	Conservative	1882–1884	2	b.1833 – d.1902.
34		Thomas Fletcher	Conservative	1884–1887	3	b.1832 – d.1914.
35		Thomas Moscrop	Conservative	1887–1888	1	b.1811 – d.1889.
36		John Barrett	Conservative	1888–1889	1	b.1842 – d.1908.

County Borough Mayors

No.	|Party	|Terms		John Barrett	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	1889–1890	1	b.1842 – d.1908. The first Mayor of the County Borough of Bolton County Borough of Bolton Bolton was, from 1838 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England, conterminate with the town of Bolton.-History:Bolton was created a free borough in 1253 when William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby granted a charter. However the borough did not develop into a self-governing... .
2		Matthew Fielding	Conservative	1890–1891	1	b.1848 – d.1915.
3		William Nicholson	Conservative	1891–1894	3	b.1825 – d.1915.
4		Lt Col. Sir Benjamin Alfred Dobson	Conservative	1894–1898	4	b.1847 – d.1898. Knighted on the 21 July 1897. Died in office.
5		William Nicholson	Conservative	1898–1899	2	b.1825 – d.1915. Acted as caretaker mayor in 1898, and re-elected the same year.
6		John Edwin Scowcroft	Conservative	1899–1901	2	b.1845 – d.1901. Died in office.
7		William Nicholson	Conservative	1901	1	b.1825 – d.1915. Acted again as caretaker mayor in 1901.
8		John Miles	Conservative	1901–1903	2	b.1841 – d.1917.
9		John Heywood	Conservative	1903–1905	2	b.1849 – d.1910. Son of Robert Heywood, Mayor of Bolton 1839–40.
10		Colonel George Hesketh	Conservative	1905–1906	1	b.1853 – d.1930. Appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire High Sheriff of Lancashire The High Sheriff of Lancashire is an ancient officer, now largely ceremonial, granted to Lancashire, a county in North West England. High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown, in England and Wales...  in 1918.
11		Thomas Barlow Tong	Conservative	1906–1908	2	b.1850 – d.1917. Uncle of Walter Wharton Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1940–41.
12		William Henry Brown	Conservative	1908–1909	1	b.1850 – d.1931.
13		Joseph Tyas Cooper	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	1909–1911	2	b.1852 – d.1929.
14		James Young	Conservative	1911–1913	2	b.1861 – d.1917.
15		John Turner Brooks	Conservative	1913–1914	1	b.1836 – d.1918.
16		James Seddon	Conservative	1914–1916	2	b.1856 – d.1923.
17		Sir Knowles Edge	Liberal	1916–1918	2	b.1854 – d.1931. Knighted on the 12 August 1919. Father of Sir William Edge William Edge (politician) Sir William Edge, 1st Baronet was a British Liberal, later National Liberal politician and businessman.-Early life:... , Liberal MP for Bolton Bolton (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system....  1916–23.
18		Lord Leverhulme William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician....	Independent	1918–1919	1	b.1851 – d.1925. Created Baron Leverhulme in 1917, and Viscount Leverhulme in 1922. He is the only mayor who was not a councillor.
19		Robert Parkinson	Conservative	1919–1921	2	b.1862 – d.1936.
20		William Russell	Conservative	1921–1922	1	b.1859 – d.1937. Conservative MP for Bolton Bolton (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system....  1922–23.
21		Alfred Potts	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	1922–1923	1	b.1867 – d.1945.
22		Edmund Aspinall	Conservative	1923–1924	1	b.1858 – d.1940.
23		John Fletcher Steele	Liberal	1924–1925	1	b.1867 – d.1941.
24		Percy Knott	Conservative	1925–1926	1	b.1865 – d.1943.
25		Sir Thomas Evans Flitcroft	Liberal	1926–1928	2	b.1861 – d.1938. Knighted in the King's Birthday Honours Queen's Birthday Honours The Queen's Birthday Honours is a part of the British honours system, being a civic occasion on the celebration of the Queen's Official Birthday in which new members of most Commonwealth Realms honours are named. The awards are presented by the reigning monarch or head of state, currently Queen...  list 1913.
26		Frank Cheadle	Labour	1928–1929	1	b.1885 – d.1940.
27		Robert Edwards Roberts	Conservative	1929–1930	1	b.1876 – d.1944.
28		Henry Warburton	Liberal	1930–1931	1	b.1865 – d.1936. Nephew of Thomas Warburton, founder of Warburtons Warburtons Warburtons is a British baking firm based founded by Thomas Warburton in 1876 in Bolton, then in Lancashire, now in Greater Manchester, England. For much of its history Warburtons only had bakeries in Lancashire and it remains a family-owned company....  the bakers.
29		George Sykes	Conservative	1931–1932	1	b.c.1874 – d.1958.
30		Samuel Lomax	Labour	1932–1933	1	b.1871 – d.1944.
31		Dr Ernest Monks	Conservative	1933–1934	1	b.1871 – d.1941. Father of Dr John Richard Monks, Mayor of Bolton 1970–71.
32		John Percy Taylor	Liberal	1934–1935	1	b.1868 – d.1945. Appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire High Sheriff of Lancashire The High Sheriff of Lancashire is an ancient officer, now largely ceremonial, granted to Lancashire, a county in North West England. High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown, in England and Wales...  in 1926.
33		Benjamin Kirkman	Labour	1935–1936	1	b.c.1864 – d.1953.
34		James Alfred Russell	Conservative	1936–1937	1	b.1873 – d.1948.
35		Thomas Halstead	Labour	1937–1938	1
36		James Entwistle	Conservative	1938–1939	1
37		Charles Harold Beswick	Liberal	1939–1940	1	b.1874 – d.1945.
38		Walter Wharton Tong	Conservative	1940–1941	1	b.1890 – d.1978. Nephew of Thomas Barlow Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1906–08. Knighted on the 11 February 1955.
39		Alfred Booth Alfred Booth Alfred Booth was a British Congregational lay preacher and politician. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Bolton East from 1950 to 1951.- External links :...	Labour	1941–1942	1	b.1893 – d.1965. Labour MP for Bolton East Bolton East (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton East was a borough constituency in the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester . It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....  1950–1951.
40		James Bleakley	Conservative	1942–1943	1	b.1893 – d.1993.
41		Fred Bentley	Liberal	1943–1944	1
42		Walter Bradley	Conservative	1944–1945	1
43		Robert Demaine	Labour	1945–1946	1	b.1874 – d.1948.
44		Dr Horace Wilfred Taylor	Conservative	1946–1947	1
45		John Henry Hampson	Labour	1947–1949	2
46		Thomas Glaister	Conservative	1949–1950	1	b.1886 – d.1974. Grandson of Thomas Glaister, Mayor of Bolton 1881–82, and brother-in-law of William Wharton Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1940–41.
47		Helen Wright	Labour	1950–1951	1	b.1892 – d.1970. The first female Mayor of Bolton.
48		Thomas Parry Dunning	Conservative	1951–1952	1	b.1893 – d.1973.
49		James Vickers	Labour	1952–1953	1	b.1895 – d.1972. Awarded an OBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...  in 1966.
50		James Parkes, MBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...	Conservative	1953–1954	1	b.1893 – d.1980. Awarded an MBE in 1949.
51		Peter Flanagan	Labour	1954–1955	1	b.1887 – d.1964.
52		Stanley Entwistle	Conservative	1955–1956	1	died 1978.
53		Peter Lowe	Labour	1956–1957	1	b.1904 – d.1986.
54		Frank Young	Conservative	1957–1958	1	b.1904 – d.1977.
55		Elizabeth Ann Ashmore	Labour	1958–1959	1	b.1895 – d.1972.
56		Edwin Taylor Edwin Taylor Edwin Taylor, JP was a British master baker and politician from Bolton.-Bakery:Taylor was educated at St John's School, Wingates, and Bolton Technical College...	Conservative	1959–1960	1	b.1905 – d.1973. Conservative MP for Bolton East Bolton East (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton East was a borough constituency in the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester . It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....  1960–64.
57		James Gradwell	Labour	1960–1961	1	b.1891 – d.1972.
58		William Harold Bateson	Conservative	1961–1962	1	b.1897 – d.1967.
59		John Arthur Childs	Labour	1962–1963	1	b.1899 – d.1965.
60		Thomas Connor	Liberal	1963–1964	1
61		Harry Wood	Conservative	1964–1965	1
62		Charles Henry Lucas	Labour	1965–1966	1	Awarded a CBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...  in 1970.
63		Nora Vickers	Conservative	1966–1967	1
64		Clarence Leat	Labour	1967–1968	1	b.1892 – d.1973.
65		Ethel Maisie Ryley	Conservative	1968–1969	1
66		Herbert Glynn	Labour	1969–1970	1	b.1908 – d.1995.
67		Dr John Richard Monks, GM George Medal The George Medal is the second level civil decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.The GM was instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI. At this time, during the height of The Blitz, there was a strong desire to reward the many acts of civilian courage...	Conservative	1970–1971	1	b.1911 – d.1985. Son of Dr Ernest Monks, Mayor of Bolton 1933–34.
68		Arnold Townend	Labour	1971–1972	1
69		Alan Ellis Clarke	Labour	1972–1973	1	b.1931. Triplet Multiple birth A multiple birth occurs when more than one fetus is carried to term in a single pregnancy. Different names for multiple births are used, depending on the number of offspring. Common multiples are two and three, known as twins and triplets...  brother of Donald Stewart Clarke, Mayor of Bolton 1977–78.
70		Henry Devenish	Labour	1973–1974	1

Transitional Mayor

No.	|Party	|Terms		John Collins Hanscomb John Hanscomb John Collins Hanscomb C.B.E., M.A. is a retired Conservative politician from the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.-Early life and family:...	Conservative	1973–1974	1	Chairman (1973–1974) and Transitional Mayor (1974) during the dissolution of the County Borough and the foundation of the Metropolitan Borough.

Metropolitan Borough Mayors

No.	|Party	|Terms		Doris Berry	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	1974–1975	1	b.1912 – d.1992. The first Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton Metropolitan Borough of Bolton The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Bolton, but covers a far larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley and Westhoughton, and a suburban and rural element from the West Pennine... .
2		John Arthur Foster	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	1975–1976	1	b.1927 – d.2010.
3		James Rigby	Conservative	1976–1977	1	b.1918 – d.1998.
4		Donald Stewart Clarke	Labour	1977–1978	1	b.1931 – d.2005. Triplet Multiple birth A multiple birth occurs when more than one fetus is carried to term in a single pregnancy. Different names for multiple births are used, depending on the number of offspring. Common multiples are two and three, known as twins and triplets...  brother of Alan Ellis Clarke, Mayor of Bolton 1972–73.
5		Adam Hibbert	Conservative	1978–1979	1	b.1910 – d.1992.
6		Elizabeth Olwen Hamer	Labour	1979–1980	1	b.1928 – d.1995.
7		James Smith	Conservative	1980–1981	1	b.1912 – d.1994.
8		Joseph Wild	Labour	1981–1982	1	b.1916 – d.1994.
9		John Collins Hanscomb John Hanscomb John Collins Hanscomb C.B.E., M.A. is a retired Conservative politician from the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.-Early life and family:... , CBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...	Conservative	1982–1983	1	b.1924. Previously Chairman / Transitional Mayor 1973–74. Awarded a CBE in December 1980.
10		Alan Samuel Brigg	Labour	1983–1984	1	b.1911 – d.1988.
11		Barbara Annette Hurst	Conservative	1984–1985	1	b.1919 – d.2001. Awarded an MBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...  in 1993.
12		William Hardman	Labour	1985–1986	1	b.1939 – d.1999.
13		Arthur Poulsom	Conservative	1986–1987	1	b.1913 – d.1988.
14		William Arthur Robinson	Labour	1987–1988	1	b.1923 – d.1990
15		Brian Melvyn Allanson	Conservative	1988–1989	1	b.1927.
16		Kenneth MacIvor	Labour	1989–1990	1	b.1925 – d.2004.
17		Geoffrey Smith	Conservative	1990–1991	1	b.1945.
18		Gerald Riley	Labour	1991–1992	1	b.1929
19		Ernest Crook	Conservative	1992–1993	1	b.1927.
20		Campbell Jocelyn H Benjamin, OBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...	Labour	1993–1994	1	b.1914 – d.2004. The first black Mayor of Bolton. Awarded an OBE in 1996.
21		Thomas Anderton	Labour	1994–1995	1	b.1924.
22		Frank Alan Rushton	Conservative	1995–1996	1	b.1934.
23		Eric Johnson	Labour	1996–1997	1	b.1923. Also was Mayor of Blackrod Blackrod Blackrod is a settlement and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north-northeast of Wigan and west of Bolton and, according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, has a population of 5,300....  1988–89 and 1993–94.
24		Peter Gareth Birch	Labour	1997–1998	1	b.1948 – d.2001.
25		Peter Louis Finch	Labour	1998–1999	1	b.1937. Also was Mayor of Westhoughton Westhoughton Westhoughton is a town and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is southwest of Bolton, east of Wigan and northwest of Manchester....  1986–87.
26		John Monaghan	Labour	1999–2000	1	b.1936 – d.2008. Also was Mayor of Blackrod Blackrod Blackrod is a settlement and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north-northeast of Wigan and west of Bolton and, according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, has a population of 5,300....  1992–93 and 1997–98.
27		Alan Wilkinson	Conservative	2000–2001	1	b.1948.
28		Kevan James Helsby, MBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...	Labour	2001–2002	1	b.1950. Received an MBE in the Millennium honours list. Also was Mayor of Horwich Horwich Town Council Horwich Town Council is a local authority with limited powers and covers the town and civil parish of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is made up of fourteen elected town councillors, representing six electoral wards...  1987–88 and 2004–05.
29		John Walsh, OBE Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...	Conservative	2002–2003	1	b.1952. Awarded an OBE in 1994.
30		Clifford Morris Clifford Morris Clifford Morris is a Labour politician and the current leader of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.-Early life:He was born in Bolton and married Doreen Eccles at the Hebron Hall, Mayor Street, Bolton in 1964...	Labour	2003–2004	1
31		Prentice Howarth	Labour	2004–2005	1	b.1936.
32		Frank Richard White Frank White (UK politician) Frank Richard White is a British Labour Party politician. On his second attempt, he was elected at the October 1974 general election as Member of Parliament for the marginal Bury and Radcliffe constituency. He was an assistant government whip from 1976 to 1978.White's seat was abolished by...	Labour	2005–2006	1	b.1940. Labour MP for Bury and Radcliffe Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency) Bury and Radcliffe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Bury and Radcliffe in North West England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....  1979–1983.
33		Walter Hall	Conservative	2006–2007	1	b.1935.
34		Barbara Olwyn Ronson Barbara Ronson Barbara Olwyn Ronson is a retired Liberal Democrat politician from Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.-Early life:...	Liberal Democrat Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...	2007–2008	1	b.1942. Also was Mayor of Horwich Horwich Town Council Horwich Town Council is a local authority with limited powers and covers the town and civil parish of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is made up of fourteen elected town councillors, representing six electoral wards...  1996–97.
35		Anthony Connell	Labour	2008–2009	1	b.1941.
36		Norman Critchley	Conservative	2009–2010	1	b.1938.
37		John Byrne	Labour	2010–2011	1	Councillor for the Breightmet Breightmet Breightmet is a neighbourhood of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically a township of the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the Salford hundred of Lancashire, it lies 2 miles north east of Bolton and 4 miles north-west of Bury...  ward.
38		Anthony Noel Spencer	Labour	2011–Date	1

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  , Little Lever
  Little Lever
  Little Lever is a large village within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it is southeast of Bolton, west of Radcliffe, and west-southwest of Bury....
  
  , Horwich
  Horwich
  Horwich is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is southeast of Chorley, northwest of Bolton and northwest from the city of Manchester. It lies at the southern edge of the West Pennine Moors with the M61 motorway close to the...
  
  , Westhoughton
  Westhoughton
  Westhoughton is a town and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is southwest of Bolton, east of Wigan and northwest of Manchester....
  
  , Turton, and Blackrod
  Blackrod
  Blackrod is a settlement and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north-northeast of Wigan and west of Bolton and, according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, has a population of 5,300....
  
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