Below is a definitive list, in date order, of all those who have been Mayor of Whitworth - from 1895 to our present Mayor.
2025-2026: Mrs Janet Whitehead 2024-2025: Mr Gareth Baron 2023-2024: Mr Mike Royds 2022-2023: Mrs Janet Whitehead 2021-2022: Mrs Maureen Jones 2020-2021: Mrs Lynda I. Barnes 2019-2020: Mrs Lynda I. Barnes 2018-2019: Mrs Madeline De Souza 2017-2018: Mr Ronald Alan Neal 2016-2017: Mrs Madeline De Souza 2015-2016: Mrs Lynda I. Barnes 2014-2015: Mr James Edmund Mellor 2013-2014: Mrs Karen Ruane 2012-2013: Mr David William Barnes 2011 (until Dec 2011): Mr David George Bradbury 2011 (from Jan 2012): Mr David William Barnes 2010-2011: Mr David George Chorlton 2009-2010: Mrs Marie Gibbons 2008-2009: Mr James Edmund Mellor 2007-2008: Mrs Tina Mycock 2006-2007: Mr Thomas Aldred 2005-2006: Mrs Christine Power 2004-2005: Mr Kieran Anthony Heakin 2003-2004: Mr Ronald Alan Neal 2002-2003: Mr Ian G. Mycock 2001-2002: Mrs Christine A. Adamson 2000-2001: Mr James Grogan 1999-2000: Mr Laurence D. Harrison 1998-1999: Mr Kieran Anthony Heakin 1997-1998: Mr Paul Martin Mooney 1996-1997 : Mrs Eileen M. Kershaw 1995-1996: Mrs Christine A. Adamson 1994-1995: Mr Thomas Aldred 1993-1994: Mr James Edmund Mellor 1992-1993: Mr Vincent Raymond Clegg 1991-1992 : Mr Jimmy Grogan 1990-1991: Mr Ronald Alan Neal 1989-1990: Mr Albert Terry Bolton 1988-1989: Mr John Wilkinson 1987-1988: Mr Harold Masterson 1986-1987: Mrs Sheila Joan Brennan 1985-1986: Mr Jimmy Grogan 1984-1985: Mr Frank Duffy 1983-1984: Mrs Lily Shorrock 1982-1983: Mr Albert Terry Bolton 1981-1982: Mrs Eileen M. Kershaw 1980-1981: Mrs Mildred Crabtree 1979-1980: Mr James L. Hennigan 1978-1979: Mr Harold Masterson 1977-1978: Mrs Constance Bridge 1976-1977: Mr Geoffrey Barker 1975-1976: Mrs Eileen M. Kershaw 1974-1975: Dr John Tierney 1973 (held office until 31/3/1974; became Mayor of Whitworth 1/4/74 - 15/5/74): Mr Vincent R Clegg 1972-1973: Mr John Wilkinson 1971-1972: Mr Clifford Mills 1970-1971: Mr Henry Robert Tenny 1968-1969: Mrs Christina A. Tierney 1966-1967: Mr Frank William Walker 1964-1965: Mr Harold Smith 1962-1963: Mr Philip R. Holt 1960-1961: Mr Richard Horrocks 1958-1959: Mr Alfred Mellor 1956-1957: Mr Eric Howorth 1954-1955: Mr Jim Clegg 1954: Mr William Fitzpatrick 1952-1953: Mr Giles Holt 1950-1951: Mr Ernest Penney 1948-1949: Mr Joseph Fitton 1946-1947: Mrs Isabella Heys 1944-1945: Mr Jesse Barker 1942-1943: Mr Winston Clegg 1940-1941: Mr Sidney Crossley 1938-1939: Mrs Isabella Heys 1936-1937: Mr Jesse Barker 1934-1935: Mr John Heap 1932-1933: Mr Thomas Groarke 1930-1931: Mr Frederick Hill 1928-1929: Mr Albert Taylor 1926-1927: Mr Frederic Maden 1924-1925: Mr Grindrod Kershaw 1922-1923: Mr James William Hill 1920-1921: Mr Walter Aspinall Clegg 1918-1919: Mr Frank Holt 1916-1917: Mr John Midgley 1915-1916: Mr Algernon A. Mercer 1914-1915: Mr Jonathan Rudman Law 1913-1914: Mr James Cudworth 1910-1912: Mr George Howorth 1908-1909: Mr Handel Kay Taylor 1907-1908: Mr John Butterworth 1905-1906: Mr James Henry Heys 1903-1904: Mr William Law 1900-1902: Mr Benjamin Firth Stuttard 1898-1899: Mr James Wilkinson 1895-1897: Mr Joseph Rudman 1895: Mr John Ernest Whitworth