This is a list of mayors and lord mayors of the City of Melbourne, a local government area of Victoria, Australia.
Mayors (1842–1902)
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! No. || Mayor || Term
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|1 || Henry Condell ||1842–1844
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|2 || Henry Moor || 1844–1845
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|3 || Sir James Frederick Palmer|| 1845–1846
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|4 || Henry Moor || 1847–1848
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|6 || William Montgomerie Bell || 1848–1849
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|7 || Augustus Greeves || 1849–1850
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|8 || William Nicholson || 1850–1851
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|9 || John Thomas Smith || 1851–1853
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|10 || John Hodgson || 1853–1854
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|11 || John Thomas Smith || 1854–1856
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|12 || Peter Davis || 1856–1857
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|13 || John Thomas Smith || 1857–1858
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|14 || Henry Sallows Walsh || 1858–1859
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|15 || Richard Eades || 1859–1860
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|16 || John Thomas Smith || 1860–1861
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|17 || Robert Bennett || 1861–1862
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|18 || Edward Cohen || 1862–1863
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|19 || John Thomas Smith || 1863–1864
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|20 || George Wragg || 1864–1865
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|21 || William Bayles || 1865–1866
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|22 || William Williams || 1866–1867
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|23 || James Stewart Butters || 1867–1868
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|24 || Thomas Moubray || 1868–1869
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|25 || Samuel Amess || 1869–1870
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|26 || Thomas McPherson || 1870–1871
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|27 || Orlando Fenwick || 1871–1872
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|28 || Thomas O'Grady || 1872–1873
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|29 || John McIlwraith || 1873–1874
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|30 || James Gatehouse || 1874–1875
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|31 || Alexander Kennedy Smith || 1875–1876
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|32 || James Paterson || 1876–1877
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|33 || John Pigdon || 1877–1878
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|34 || Joseph Story || 1878–1879
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|35 || George Meares || 1879–1881
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|36 || Cornelius Job Ham || 1881–1882
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|37 || James Dodgshun || 1882–1883
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|38 || Charles Smith || 1883–1884
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|39 || Godfrey Downes Carter || 1884–1885
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|40 || James Cooper Stewart || 1885–1886
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|41 || William Cain || 1886–1887
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|42 || Sir Benjamin Benjamin || 1887–1889
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|43 || Matthew Lang || 1889–1892
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|44 || Sir Arthur Snowden || 1892–1895
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|45 || William Strong || 1895–1897
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|46 || Sir Malcolm McEacharn || 1897–1900
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|47 || Sir Samuel Gillott || 1900–1902
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Lord mayors (1902–1980)
The title of "Lord Mayor" was conferred on the position of mayor by King Edward VII on 18 December 1902.
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!No. || Lord mayor || Term
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|48 || Sir Samuel Gillott || 1902–1903
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|49 || Sir Malcolm McEacharn || 1903–1904
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|50 || Charles Pleasance || 1904–1905
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|51 || Sir Henry Weedon || 1905–1908
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|52 || James Burston || 1908–1910
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|53 || Thomas James Davey || 1910–1912
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|54 || Sir David Valentine Hennessy || 1912–1917
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|55 || Frank Stapley || 1917–1918
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|56 || William Whyte Cabena || 1918–1919
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|57 || John Aikman || 1919–1920
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|58 || Sir John Warren Swanson || 1920–1923
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|59 || Sir William Brunton || 1923–1926
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|60 || Sir Stephen Joseph Morell || 1926–1928
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|61 || Harold Daniel Luxton || 1928–1931
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|62 || Sir Harold Gengoult Smith || 1931–1934
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|63 || Sir Alexander George Wales || 1934–1937
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|64 || Edward Campbell || 1937–1938
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|65 || Sir Arthur Coles || 1938–1940
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|66 || Sir Frank Beaurepaire || 1940–1942
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|67 || Sir Thomas Sydney Nettlefold || 1942–1945
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|68 || Sir Francis Raymond Connelly ||1945–1948
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|69 || Sir James Stanley Disney ||1948–1951
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|70 || Oliver John Nilsen || 1951–1952
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|71 || William John Brens || 1952–1953
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|72 || Robert Henry Solly || 1953–1954
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|73 || Sir Francis Palmer Selleck || 1954–1957
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|74 || Sir Frederick William Thomas || 1957–1959
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|75 || Brigadier Sir Bernard Evans || 1959–1961
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|76 || Maurice Arnold Nathan || 1961–1963
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|77 || Edward Leo Curtis || 1963–1965
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|78 || Ian Beaurepaire || 1965–1967
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|79 || Reginald Thomas Anthony Talbot || 1967–1969
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|80 || Ted Best || 1969–1971
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|81 || Alwynne Rowlands || 1971–1972
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|82 || Alan Douglas Whalley || 1972–1974
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|83 || Ron Walker || 1974–1976
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|84 || Donald Osborne || 1976–1977
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|85 || Irvin Rockman || 1977–1979
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|86 || Ralph Angelo Bernardi || 1979–1980
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|87 || John William Woodruff || 1980–1981
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Commissioners (1981–1982)
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! Commissioners || Term
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| Peter Francis Thorley (Chairman) ||rowspan=3| 1981–1982
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| Neil Smith
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| Richard Allston
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Lord mayors (1982–1993)
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!No. || Lord mayor || Term
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|88 || John William Gardner || |1982–1983
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|89 || Kevin Chamberlin || |1983–1984
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|90 || Edwin John Beacham || |1984–1985
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|91 || Thomas Simon Lynch || 1985–1986
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|92 || Trevor Huggard || 1986–1987
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|93 || Alexis Ord || 1987–1988
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|94 || Winsome McCaughey || 1988–1989
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|95 || William Deveney || 1989–1990
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|96 || Richard Wynne || 1990–1991
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|97 || Richard Meldrum || 1991–1992
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|98 || Desmond Clark || 1992–1993
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|99 || Alan Watson || 1993–1993
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Commissioners (1993–1996)
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! Commissioners || Term
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|Kevan Gosper (Chief Commissioner) ||rowspan=4| 1993–1996
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|John Rose (Deputy Chief Commissioner)
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|Catherine Walter
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|Kevin Rose
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Lord mayors (1996−present)
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!No.!!Image!!Lord Mayor!!Party!!Term start!!Term end!!Notes
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! style="background:; color:white" | 100
| align="center" | 100px
| align="center" | Ivan Deveson <br/>
| align="center" | Melbourne First
| align="center" | 26 March 1996
| align="center" | May 1999
| align="center" | Resigned
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! style="background:#888888; color:white" | 101
| align="center" | 70px
| align="center" | Peter Costigan <br/>
| align="center" | Independent
| align="center" | May 1999
| align="center" | 22 July 2001
| align="center" | Council dismissed. Did not seek re-election
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! style="background:#293F8A; color:white" | 102
| align="center" | 100px
| align="center" | John So <br/>
| align="center" | Melbourne Living
| align="center" | 22 July 2001
| align="center" | 1 December 2008
| align="center" | Retired
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! style="background:#5A83D8; color:white" | 103
| align="center" | 100px
| align="center" | Robert Doyle <br/>
| align="center" | Team Doyle
| align="center" | 1 December 2008
| align="center" | 4 February 2018
| align="center" | Resigned amid sexual harassment allegations
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! rowspan="2"; style="background:#118080; color:white" | 104
| rowspan="2"; align="center" | 100px
| rowspan="2"; align="center" | Sally Capp
| align="center" | Independent
| align="center" | 26 May 2018
| align="center" | 21 September 2020
| rowspan="2"; align="center" | Resigned after choosing not to seek re-election
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| align="center" | Team Sally Capp
| align="center" | 21 September 2020
| align="center" | 2 July 2024
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! style="background:; color:white" | 105
| align="center" | 100px
| align="center" | Nicholas Reece <br/>
| align="center" |
| align="center" | 2 July 2024
| align="center" | current
| align="center" | Incumbent
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Electoral results
2024
2020
2018 by-election
2016
See also
- Melbourne Town Hall
- List of Town Halls in Melbourne
- Local government areas of Victoria
References
- Lords Mayor of Melbourne
External links
- List of Mayors at RULERS
- Melbourne City Council