Past Mayors of Accrington 1878 -1973
ACCRINGTON MAYORS:
Mayors were elected in the month of November until 1949 when May became the time of election as it is now.
1878 – 1890 : John Emanuel Lightfoot
1880 – 1882 : James Barlow
1882: John Emanuel Lightfoot
1883 – 1886: William Smith
1886 – 1888: William Entwistle
1888 – 1890: Thomas Hindle
1890 – 1893: Thomas Whittaker
1893 – 1895: Frederick N Haywood
1895 – 1898: Williamson Lee
1890 – 1900: John S Highman
1900 – 1901 : D L Sprake
1901 – 1902 : James Cunliffe
1902 – 1903 : Thomas Broughton
1903– 1904: John Duckworth
1904 – 1906 : William Horrocks Rawson
1906 – 1908 : T. E. Highman
1908 – 1909 : J C Lufton
1909 – 1910 : T E Nuttall
1910 – 1912 : A S Bury
1912 – 1915 : John Harwood
1915 – 1916 : John Barlow
1916 – 1917 : James Henry Lupton
1917 – 1919 : Dr Counsell Dewhurst
1919 – 1920 : David Walton Muffit
1920 – 1922: James Waddington
1922 – 1923 : Edward Woolley
1922 – July 1925: Frederick Lord. Died in Office, July 1925
July 1925 – 1927 : Charles Wilkinson
1927 – 1928 : T E Higham
1928 – Feb 1930 : Richard Watson. Died in office, Feb 1930
March 1930 – 1931 : James Stanley Snell
1931 – 1933 : Richard Ingram Constantine
1933 – 1935 : Andrew Wilkinson
1935 – 1937 : George Hartley Ellis
1937 – 1938 : Ernest Moorhouse
1938 – 1939 : Ralph Albert Johnson
1939 – 1940 : John Lord
1940 – 1941 : Joseph Seedal Hargreaves
1941 – 1942 : Amos Wade
1942 – 1943 : Samual Turnell Pilkington
1943 – 1944 : Fred Arnett
1944 – 1945 : George Edwin Slack
1945 – 1946 : Charles Myall
1946 1947: Leslie Ranson
1947 – May 1949: Harold Johnson
1949 – 1950 : William Wiggins Cocker
1950 – 1951 : William Brownbill
1951 – 1952 : Dr Albert Campbell
1952 – 1953 : Arnold Brown
1953 – 1954 : Mrs Grace Rothwell
1954 – 1955 : Michael Walsh
1955 – 1956 : Walter Taylor Marriott
May 1956 – June 1956 : William Howson. Died in Office June 1956
June 1956 – 1957 : William Ridehalgh
1957 – 1958 : George Walker
1958 – 1959 : Mrs Alice Haines
1959 – 1960 : James Hodson
1960 – 1961 : Nicholas Bentley
1961 – 1962 : Wilfred Wallwork
1962 – 1963 : John Allon Duckworth
1963 – 1964 : John Riley
1964 – 1965 : Herbert Taylor
1965 – 1966 : John William Chadwick
1966 – 1967 :James Pollard
1967 – 1968 :Arthur Marsh
1968 – 1969 : James Madden
May 1969 – June 1969 : Thomas J Barrow. Died in office on 6 June 1969
June 1969 – 1970 : Kenneth John Marsden
1970 – 1971 : Alan Smith Benson
1971 – 1972 : George Gordon Smith
1972 – 1973 : Robert Rigg
1973 – 1974 : William Parkinson