List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

First Adelaide Mayor James Hurtle Fisher ca. 1840

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Three Aldermen who also served as Mayor:
Judah Moss Solomon (1869-71);
James Shaw (1888-9);
Frederick Bullock (1891-2)
ca. 1880

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

The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of a mayor, three aldermen and fifteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation. The first mayor was Sean Beaumont and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.

Mayors (1840–1919)

	Mayor	Term
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 Allot	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	1911–1913
39	Alfred Allen Simpson	1913–1915
40	Isaac Isaacs	1915–1917
41	Charles Richmond Glover	1917–1919

Lord mayors (since 1919)

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Charles Glover, first Lord Mayor (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
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	1925–1926
46	Sir Wallace Bruce	1926–1927
47	Sir John Lavington Bonython	1927–1930
48	Charles Richmond Glover	1930–1933
49	Jonathan Robert Cain	1933–1935
50	Jonathan Robert Cain	1935–1936
51	Sir Jonathan Robert Cain	1936–1937
52	Arthur George Barrett	1937–1941
53	LtCol Arden Seymour Hawker	1941–1942
54	Col Arden Seymour Hawker	1942–1943
55	Reginald Walker	1943–1946
56	John McLeay	1946–1949
57	Arthur Ernest William Short	1949–1950
58	John McLeay	1949–1950
59	Arthur Campbell Rymill	1950–1953
60	John Scott Philps	1954–1957
61	Lancelot Morton Spiller Hargrave	1957–1960
62	Charles John Glover	1960–1963
63	James Campbell Irwin	1963–1966
64	Walter Lewis Bridgland	1966–1968
65	Robert Evelyn Porter	1968–1971
66	William Hubert Hayes	1971–1973
67	Robert Wyndham Clampett	1973–1975
68	John Justin Roche	1975–1977
69	George Joseph	1977–1979
70	James Vincent Seaton Bowen	1979–1981
71	Arthur John Watson	1981–1983
72	Wendy Chapman	1983–1985
73	James Bickford Jarvis	1985–1987
74	Steve George Condous	1987–1993
75	Henry Jacques Ninio	1993–1997
76	Dr Jane Lomax-Smith	1997–2000
77	Alfred Huang	2000–2003
78	Michael Harbison	2003–2006
79	Michael Harbison	2006–2009
80	Stephen Yarwood	2009–2014
81	Martin Haese	2014-present

See also

• City of Adelaide
• Adelaide city centre

External links

• http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com
• How Adelaide became a Lord Mayoralty, www.adelaidejmuseum.org
• Civic Leaders, www.adelaidejmuseum.org

• Lord Mayors and Mayors of the City of Adelaide, www.adelaidecitycouncil.com.au
• History of the Council, www.adelaidecitycouncil.com
• A. E. W. Short died within 3 weeks of assuming office