List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Adelaide, a local government area of South Australia.[1]

Lord Mayor of Adelaide
Incumbent
Jane Lomax-Smith
since November 2022
StyleThe Right Honourable
First holderJames Hurtle Fisher
WebsiteWebsite
First Adelaide Mayor James Hurtle Fisher ca. 1840
Three Aldermen who also served as Mayor:
Judah Moss Solomon (1869–71);
James Shaw (1888–9);
Frederick Bullock (1891–2)
ca. 1880

The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of nineteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation, followed by the councillors' election of a mayor. The first mayor was James Hurtle Fisher and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.[2]

Mayors (1840–1919)
MayorTermImage
1James Hurtle Fisher1840–1842
2Thomas Wilson 1842–1843
3City managed as Government Department1843–1849
4City managed by Commissioners1849–1852
5James Hurtle Fisher1852
6James Hurtle Fisher1852–1854
7Joseph Hall 1854–1855
8John Lazar1855–1858
9William Sabben1858–1859
10Edmund William Wright1859
11Edward Glandfield1859–1862
12Thomas English1862–1863
13Samuel Goode1863–1864
14William Townsend1864–1866
15Henry Robert Fuller1866–1869
16Judah Moss Solomon1869–1871
17Adolph Heinrich Friedrich Bartels1871–1873
18William Dixon Allott1873–1874
19John Colton1874–1875
20Caleb Peacock1875–1877
21Henry Scott 1877–1878
22William Christie Buik1878–1879
23Edwin Thomas Smith1879–1882
24Henry Robert Fuller1882–1883
25William Bundey1883–1886
26Edwin Thomas Smith1886–1887
27Sir Edwin Thomas Smith1887–1888
28James Shaw1888–1889
29Lewis Cohen1889–1890
30Frederick William Bullock1891–1892
31Charles Willcox1892–1894
32Charles Tucker1894–1898
33Arthur Wellington Ware1898–1901
34Lewis Cohen1901–1904
35Theodore Bruce1904–1907
36Frank Johnson1907–1909
37Lewis Cohen1909–1911
38Sir John Lavington Bonython[3]1911–1913
39Alfred Allen Simpson1913–1915
40Isaac Isaacs1915–1917
41Charles Richmond Glover1917–1919

Lord mayors (since 1919)

The Official styled title of the Lord Mayor of Adelaide is The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide.

The styled title The Right Honourable, (which has no connection with the privy council) attaches to the title of Lord Mayor, and not to their names, and is relinquished upon leaving office.

Lord MayorTermImage
41Charles Richmond Glover1919
42Frank Beaumont Moulden1919–1921
43Lewis Cohen1921–1923
44Charles Richmond Glover1923–1925
45Wallace Bruce1925–1927
46Sir John Lavington Bonython1927–1930
47Charles Richmond Glover1930–1933
48Jonathan Robert Cain1933–1937
49Arthur Barrett1937–1941
50Arden Seymour Hawker1941–1943
51Reginald Walker1943–1946
52John McLeay1946–1949
53Arthur Ernest William Short1949[4]
54John McLeay1949–1950
55Arthur Rymill1950–1953
56John Scott Philps1954–1957
57Lancelot Morton Spiller Hargrave1957–1960
58Charles John Glover, Sir John Glover[5]1960–1963
59James Campbell Irwin1963–1966
60Walter Lewis Bridgland1966–1968
61Robert Evelyn Porter1968–1971
62William Hubert Hayes1971–1973
63Robert Wyndham Clampett1973–1975
64John Justin Roche1975–1977
65George Joseph1977–1979
66James Vincent Seaton Bowen1979–1981
67Arthur John Watson1981–1983
68Wendy Chapman1983–1985
69James Bickford Jarvis1985–1987
70Steve Condous1987–1993
71Henry Jacques Ninio1993–1997
72Jane Lomax-Smith1997–2000
73Alfred Huang2000–2003
74Michael Harbison2003–2010
75Stephen Yarwood2010–2014
76Martin Haese2014–2018
77Sandy Verschoor2018–2022
78Jane Lomax-Smith2022–present

See also

References
  1. "Lord Mayors and Mayors of the City of Adelaide" (PDF). adelaidecitycouncil.com.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2013.
  2. "History of the Council". adelaidecitycouncil.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013.
  3. Until the widower Bonython remarried in December 1912, his sister Mrs H. A. Parsons served as acting Mayoress at official functions.
  4. A. E. W. Short died within 3 weeks of assuming office
  5. Glover (Family); Glover, Charles Peter, 1828–1881; Glover, Hannah, 1830–1913; Glover, C.R.J. (Charles Richmond John), 1870–1936; Glover, Charles John, Sir, 1902–1969; Glover, C. J. M (1840), Glover family, retrieved 16 August 2019{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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