Totnes, Devon, England received its first borough charter from King John and the recorded list of mayors dates from 1359. The town was incorporated in 1505 with a governing structure consisting of a mayor, recorder and a single council of burgesses. A further charter in 1596 concentrated power in the hands of the town's leading merchants, redefining the corporation as a governing body of 14 ‘masters’, including the mayor, with an inferior council of 20 burgesses. The masters filled vacancies in their ranks by co-option and nominated the mayoral candidates.[1]
The following have been mayors of Totnes:
- 1396–98: Walter Browning (MP for Totnes), 1388 [2]
- 1399–1400: Walter Browning
- 1401–03: Walter Browning
- 1517-1518: John Giles[3]
- 1535-37: Christopher Savery[4]
- 1548-49: Christopher Savery
- 1556-57: Christopher Savery
- 1585–86: Nicholas Ball[5]
- 1589–90: Nicholas Hayman[6]
- 1593–94: Leonard Darr[7]
- 1598–99: Philip Holditch (MP for Totnes, 1601) [8]
- 1605–06: Christopher Wise [9]
- 1612-13: Richard Rodd[10]
- 1620: Richard Lee (d.1620)[11]
- 1621–22: Christopher Wise
- 1623–24: Philip Holditch II (son of Philip Holditch above, MP for Totnes, 1626) [12]
- 1638–39: Philip Holditch II
1687 Robert Symons
- 1718–19: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
- 1737–38: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
- 1754-55: Benjamin Babbage (grandfather of Charles Babbage)[13]
- 1780–81: William Adams (MP for Plympton Erle 1796–1801 and Totnes 1801–11)
- 1788–89: William Adams
- 1797–98: William Adams
- 1866–67: Thomas Edward Owen[14]
- 1870–1871: Robert W.Chaster
- 1872: Robert Bourne
- 1873: James Smith Rose
- 1874–1875: Jeffery Michelmore
- 1876–1877: Joseph Roe
- 1878: John P.F.P.Haines
- 1879: Jeffery Michelmore
- 1880–1881: Edward Harris
- 1882–84: Frederick Bowden [15]
- 1902-03: Dr. J. G. Gibson[16]
- 1945–1946: Lilley Ramsden (1st Female Mayor of Totnes)
- 1950–51: Charles Stanley Jacka [17]
- 1970–71: Jean M Gilbert [18]
21st century edit
- 2001–02: Pruw Boswell-Harper
- 2003–04: J.A. Westacott
- 2004–05: Jim Parkes
- 2005–07: Pruw Boswell-Harper
- 2008–09: David Horsburgh
- 2009–10: Jean Rosemary Harrop
- 2010–11: Anthony Whitty
- 2011–12: Judy Westacott
- 2012–14 Pruw Boswell-Harper
- 2014–16: Jacqui Hodgson [19]
- 2016–17 Eleanor Cohen
- 2017–18 Rosie Adam
- 2018–19 Judy Westacott
References edit
- ^ "Totnes". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ "BROWNING, Walter, of Totnes, Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "mayors of totnes - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ^ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "SAVERY, Christopher (by 1502-60), of Totnes, Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "BALL, Nicholas (d.1586), of Totnes; later of Dartington, Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "HAYMAN, Nicholas (d.1606), of Totnes; later of Dartmouth, Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ "DARR, Leonard (C.1554-1615), of Totnes afterwards of South Pool, Devon. | History of Parliament Online".
- ^ "HOLDITCH, Philip (D.c.1608), of Totnes and Blackawton, Devon. | History of Parliament Online".
- ^ "Christopher Wise (c.1566–1628), Mayor of Totnes (1605 & 1621)". Art UK. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ "RODD, Richard (-d.1633), of Totnes, Devon and Rodd, Herefs. | History of Parliament Online".
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.527, pedigree of "Lee of Pinhoe"
- ^ "HOLDITCH, Philip (by 1587-1654), of Totnes, Devon". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ "Devon Perspectives-On Charles Babbage". Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ Robert Henry Mair, The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments (London: Dean and Son, 1872), 332
- ^ "Frederick Bowden (1819–1903), Mayor of Totnes (1883)". Art UK. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
- ^ "Charles Stanley Jacka (1893–1970), Mayor of Totnes (1950–1951)". Art UK. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ "Mayor Choosing in Totnes Guildhall". Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ "Councillors". Totnes Town Council. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
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