List of Mayors for Blackburn and Darwen

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Mayors Borough of Blackburn with Darwen

Mayors for the County Borough of Blackburn

No	Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	William Henry Hornby Senior	1851-52	1	First Mayor of the Borough
2	Robert Hopwood	1852-53	1
3	Thomas Dugdale	1853-55	2
4	William Hoole	1855-56	1
5	William Pilkington	1856-58	2
6	John Baynes	1858-59	1
7	James Cunningham	1859-60	1
8	Thomas Thwaites	1860-61	1
9	R. H. Hutchinson	1861-62	1
10	J. B. S. Sturdy	1862-63	1
11	Thomas Lund	1863-64	1
12	William Stones	1864-65	1
13	James Thompson	1865-66	1
14	John Dean	1866-67	1
15	John Smith	1867-69	2
16	Thomas Hartley Pickup	1869-71	2
17	Thomas Bury	1871-72	1
18	John Thompson	1872-73	1
19	John Pickop	1873-74	1
20	William Coddington	1874-75	1	Received Baronetcy 1896
21	Robert Parkinson	1875-76	1
22	William Henry Hornby Jnr.	1876-77	1	Received Baronetcy 1899. MP for Blackburn 1886-1910
23	James Dickinson	1877-78	1
24	Adam Dugdale	1878-80	2
25	Henry Harrison	1880-81	1
26	John Lund	1881-82	1
27	James Hoyle	1882-84	1
28	George Whitley	1884-85	1
29	Thomas Farrer Baynes	1885-86	1
30	Edgar Appleby	1886-88	2
31	John Rutherford	1888-89	1
32	Thomas Higson	1889-90	1
33	James Nuttall Boothman	1890-92	2
34	Herbert James Whitley	1892-93	1
35	Thomas Mitchell Eccles	1893-94	1
36	Robert Thomas Eastwood	1894-96	2
37	Fredrick Baynes	1896-97	1
38	Robert Carr Radcliffe	1897-98	1
39	Ely Heyworth	1898-99	1
40	Edwin Hamer	1899-1900	1	Knighted 1914
41	William Tattersall	1900-01	1
42	Sir William Henry Hornby Jnr.	1901-02	1	See No. 22
43	Walter Farnworth	1902-03	1	Died 16 April 1903
44	William Tattersall	1903	1	Elected 29 April 1903
45	John Henry Hartley	1903-04	1
46	James Kay	1904-05	1
47	Franklin Talbot Thomas	1905-11	6	Longest serving Mayor
48	Samuel Crossley	1911-13	2
49	John Higginson	1913-14	1
50	William Thompson	1914-15	1
51	Alfred Nuttall	1915-17	2	Died 21 August 1917
52	William Thompson	1917	1	Elected 30 August 1917
53	Lawrence Cotton	1917-21	3	Died 7 May 1921
54	Joseph Fielding	1921-22	1	Elected 19 May 1921
55	Thomas Ramsey	1922-24	2
56	James Stanworth	1924-26	2
57	Sir William Forrest O.B.E.	1926-27	1	Knighted June 1925. Received OBE 1920
58	John Aspden Ormerod	1927-29	2
59	Luke Bates	1929-31	2	O.B.E. and first Labour Mayor
60	William Kenyon	1931-33	2
61	Charles Albert Critchley	1933-35	2
62	William Coupe	1935-36	1
63	William Hammond	1936-37	1
64	James Fryars	1937-38	1
65	Francis John Greaves	1938-39	1
66	Edward Porter	1939-40	1
67	Walter Tempest	1940-41	1	Died 26 May 1941
68	Edward Porter	1941	1	Elected 5 June 1941
69	Doctor Bernard Worden	1941-42	1
70	James Fish	1942-43	1
71	George Hindle	1943-44	1
72	Earnest Holden	1944-45	1
73	John Charnley	1945-46	1
74	Sarah Buckley	1946-47	1	First lady Mayor of Blackburn
75	Robert Sugden	1947-48	1
76	Ronald Henry George Horne	1949-50	1
77	John Beardsworth	1950-51	1
78	William Hare	1951-52	1
79	John Shorrock	1952-53	1
80	Robert Weir	1953-54	1
81	John Stirrup	1954-55	1
82	Houghton Johnson	1955-56	1
83	William Alfred Henshall M.C.	1956-57	1
84	Herbert Vaughan Dowdall	1957		Died 17 December 1957
85	William Alfred Henshall M.C.	1958	1	Elected 2 January 1958
86	George Haworth	1958-59	1
87	John Makinson Lomax	1959-60	1
88	James Whithead	1960-61	1
89	George Gillibrand	1961-62	1
90	Margaret McNamee	1962-63	1
91	Frank Wilkinson	1963-64	1
92	Francis W. Bramwell	1964-65	1
93	Lawrence Edwards	1965-66	1
94	Edith Railton	1966-67	1
95	Florence G. Lewis	1967-68	1
96	Arthur Rigby	1968-69	1
97	Edmund Gregson	1969-70	1
98	Albert Lord	1970-71	1
99	John Simpson	1971-72	1
100	Thomas Ellis	1972-73	1
101	Dr. David B. Murray	1973-74	1

Mayors for the Borough of Blackburn

No	Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	Tom H. Marsh	1974-75	1
2	James H. Swanton	1975-76	1
3	Frank J. Beetham B.E.M.	1976-77	1	The British Empire Medal
4	Nancy R. Bramley	1977-78	1
5	Frank Hulme	1978-79	1
6	Rendall J. Allen	1979-80	1
7	Frank Gorton	1980-81	1
8	Reg N. S. Edwards	1981-82	1
9	James Watson	1982-83	1
10	John Tarbuck	1983-84	1
11	Clifford West	1984-85	1	The British Empire Medal
12	Eric Smith	1985-86	1
13	Michael A. Madigan	1986-87	1
14	Sylvia Liddle	1987-88	1
15	Gordon Toole	1988-89	1
16	Bill Taylor	1989-90	1	Knighted December 2003
17	Malcolm T. Doherty	1990-91	1
18	George Bramley Haworth	1991-92	1
19	Eileen Entwistle	1992-93	1
20	Paul N. Browne	1993-94	1
21	Edna Arnold	1994-95	1
22	Maureen Bateson	1995-96	1
23	Mary Leaver	1996-97	1
24	Peter Greenwood	1997-March 1998	1	CBE

Mayors for the Borough of Darwen

No	Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	William Snape	1879-81	3
2	Henry Green	1881-2	1
3	William Entwistle	1882-84	2
4	Timothy Lightbown	1884-86	2
5	Thomas Grime	1886-7	1
6	Alexander Thomas Eccles	1887-89	2
7	Ernest Morgan Davies	1889-91	2
8	Moses Duxbury	1891-92	1
9	James Cocker	1892-94	2
10	William Pickup	1894-95	1
11	Alexander Carus	1895-97	2	Order of the Knighthood of St. Gregory 1906
12	Sir Charles Huntington	1897-98	1
13	Dr. James T. Ballantyne	1898-99	1
14	John William Gillibrand	1899-1900	1
15	John Tomlinson	1900-1902	2
16	Robert Shorrock	1902-03	1
17	Ralph Yates	1903-04	1
18	James Tomlinson	1904-05	1
19	T. P. Davies	1905-06	1
20	Ralph Shorrock	1906-07	1
21	George Pickup Holden	1907-08	1
22	Alexander Thomas Eccles	1908-09	1
23	Walmsley Preston Kay	1909-11	2
24	John Pickup	1911-12	1
25	Frederick Hindle	1912-13	1
26	James Cocker	1913-15	2
27	John Tomlinson	1915-17	2
28	Walter Worth	1917-19	2
29	Thomas E. Holgate	1919-20	1
30	T. Duxbury	1920-21	1
31	Thomas W. A. Forrest	1921-22	1
32	Edmund L. Carus	1922-23	1
33	George Pickup	1923-24	1
34	Roger Marsden	1924-25	1
35	Walter Knowles	1925-27	2
36	James Cocker	1927-28	1
37	Eli Leach	1928-29	1
38	Albert Duckworth	1929-30	1
39	Walter Knowles	1930-31	1
40	William Jepson	1931-33	2
41	John Thomas Clark	1933-35	2
42	Robert Smalley Haliwell	1935-1936	1
43	John Thomas Clark	1936-37	1
44	Mrs. Alys Hindle	1937-38	1
45	John Gregory	1938-41	3
46	Dr. T. J. Costello	1938-43	2
47	Herbert D. Holland	1943-45	2
48	James Braithwaite	1945-47	2
49	Edwin Yates	1947-49	2
50	Fred Taylor	1949-50	1
51	Harry Mitchell	1950-51	1
52	Mrs. Margaret Mary Duckworth	1951-52	1
53	Thomas Taylor	1952-54	2
54	Norman Briggs	1954-55	1
55	Wilfred Conroy	1955-56	1
56	Augustine Kay	1956-57	1
57	Thomas Vincent Keelan	1957-58	1
58	Percy Seymour Hunt	1958-59	1
59	Miss Maud Broughton	1959-60	1
60	Albert Barnes	1960-61	1
61	David Davidson	1961-62	1
62	Mrs. Martha Aspden	1962-63	1
63	George William Snape	1963-64	1
64	Herbert Francis Haslam	1964-65	1
65	Arnold Preston	1965-66	1
66	Charles William Jones	1966-67	1
67	Miss Constance Marsden	1967-68	1
68	Charles Richard Grills	1968-69	1
69	John McGlynn	1969-70	1
70	Geoffrey Harwood	1970-71	1
71	Dr. Harold Lees	1971-72	1
72	Philip M. W. H. Clear	1972-73	1
73	Colin Talbot	1973-74	1

Mayors for the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen

No	Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	Florence Oldfield	1998-99	1
2	Salas R. Kiani	1999-2000	1
3	Jack Bury	2000-01	1	O.B.E.
4	John S. Williams	2001-02	1
5	Anthony Humphrys	2002-03	1
6	Michael Barrett	2003-04	1
7	David Foster	2004-05	1
8	Yusuf Jan Virmani	2005-06	1
9	Dorothy Walsh	2006-07	1
10	Maureen McGarvey	2007-08	1
11	Mohammed Khan	2008-09	1	O.B.E
12	J. H. Hirst	2009-10	1
13	Sheila Williams	2010-11	1
14	Karimeh Foster	2011-12	1
15	Zamir Khan	2012-13	1
16	Salim Mulla	2013-2014	1
17	Alan Cottam	2014-15	1
18	Faryad Hussain	2015-16	1
19	Hussain Akhtar	2016-17	1
20	Colin Rigby	2017-18	1
21	Mrs Pat McFall	2018-19	1
22	Jim Shorrock	2019-20	1
23	Iftakhar Hussain	2020-21	1
24	Derek Hardman	2021-22	1
25	Suleman Khonat	2022-23	1
26	Parwaiz Akhtar	2023 - 24	1
27	Brian Taylor	2024-25	1
28	Jacqueline Slater	2025-26	1

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