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
Style	The Right Honourable
First holder	James Hurtle Fisher
Website	Website

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)

	Mayor	Term	Image
1	James Hurtle Fisher	1840–1842
2	Thomas Wilson	1842–1843
3	City managed as Government Department	1843–1849
4	City managed by Commissioners	1849–1852
5	James Hurtle Fisher	1852
6	James Hurtle Fisher	1852–1854
7	Joseph Hall	1854–1855
8	John Lazar	1855–1858
9	William Sabben	1858–1859
10	Edmund William Wright	1859
11	Edward Glandfield	1859–1862
12	Thomas English	1862–1863
13	Samuel Goode	1863–1864
14	William Townsend	1864–1866
15	Henry Robert Fuller	1866–1869
16	Judah Moss Solomon	1869–1871
17	Adolph Heinrich Friedrich Bartels	1871–1873
18	William Dixon Allott	1873–1874
19	John Colton	1874–1875
20	Caleb Peacock	1875–1877
21	Henry Scott	1877–1878
22	William Christie Buik	1878–1879
23	Edwin Thomas Smith	1879–1882
24	Henry Robert Fuller	1882–1883
25	William Bundey	1883–1886
26	Edwin Thomas Smith	1886–1887
27	Sir Edwin Thomas Smith	1887–1888
28	James Shaw	1888–1889
29	Lewis Cohen	1889–1890
30	Frederick William Bullock	1891–1892
31	Charles Willcox	1892–1894
32	Charles Tucker	1894–1898
33	Arthur Wellington Ware	1898–1901
34	Lewis Cohen	1901–1904
35	Theodore Bruce	1904–1907
36	Frank Johnson	1907–1909
37	Lewis Cohen	1909–1911
38	Sir John Lavington Bonython[3]	1911–1913
39	Alfred Allen Simpson	1913–1915
40	Isaac Isaacs	1915–1917
41	Charles Richmond Glover	1917–1919

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 Mayor	Term	Image
41	Charles Richmond Glover	1919
42	Frank Beaumont Moulden	1919–1921
43	Lewis Cohen	1921–1923
44	Charles Richmond Glover	1923–1925
45	Wallace Bruce	1925–1927
46	Sir John Lavington Bonython	1927–1930
47	Charles Richmond Glover	1930–1933
48	Jonathan Robert Cain	1933–1937
49	Arthur Barrett	1937–1941
50	Arden Seymour Hawker	1941–1943
51	Reginald Walker	1943–1946
52	John McLeay	1946–1949
53	Arthur Ernest William Short	1949[4]
54	John McLeay	1949–1950
55	Arthur Rymill	1950–1953
56	John Scott Philps	1954–1957
57	Lancelot Morton Spiller Hargrave	1957–1960
58	Charles John Glover, Sir John Glover[5]	1960–1963
59	James Campbell Irwin	1963–1966
60	Walter Lewis Bridgland	1966–1968
61	Robert Evelyn Porter	1968–1971
62	William Hubert Hayes	1971–1973
63	Robert Wyndham Clampett	1973–1975
64	John Justin Roche	1975–1977
65	George Joseph	1977–1979
66	James Vincent Seaton Bowen	1979–1981
67	Arthur John Watson	1981–1983
68	Wendy Chapman	1983–1985
69	James Bickford Jarvis	1985–1987
70	Steve Condous	1987–1993
71	Henry Jacques Ninio	1993–1997
72	Jane Lomax-Smith	1997–2000
73	Alfred Huang	2000–2003
74	Michael Harbison	2003–2010
75	Stephen Yarwood	2010–2014
76	Martin Haese	2014–2018
77	Sandy Verschoor	2018–2022
78	Jane Lomax-Smith	2022–present

See also

• City of Adelaide
• Adelaide city centre

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) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

• adelaidecitycouncil.com
• How Adelaide became a Lord Mayoralty, adelaidejmuseum.org
• Civic Leaders, adelaidejmuseum.org