On 19 August 1886 Cambridge was proclaimed a borough and the first mayor, John Gwynneth presided over the first Cambridge Borough Council meeting on 7 September 1886.

103 years later Mrs Pat Allan as Mayor held the last Cambridge Borough Council meeting before integrating into the Waipa District Council 1 November 1989.

Below is an index of Cambridge Borough Mayors and their dates in office.

 

Mayor	Dates in Office
John Gwynneth	1886-1887
James Hally	1887-1888
Archibald Clements	1888-1889
John Hessell Priestley	1889-1891
James Webber	1891-1892
James Shiner Bond	1892-1894
Arthur Bach	1895-1898
William Francis Buckland	1898-1903 and 1905-1910
Thomas Wells	1903-1905
George Dickinson	1910-1913
Mervyn Wells	1913-1917
Edward John Wilkinson	1917-1921
Sam Lewis	1921-1923
Charles Herman Priestley	1923-1925 and 1929-1938
Thomas Francis Richards	1925-1929
Edgar J James	1938-1944
Walter Moore	1944-1947
Kenneth Louis Wilkinson	1947-1953 and 1956-1962
Henry Charles Tod - MBE	1953-1956
Walter Milicich	1962-1965
James Graham Allan	1965-1969 and 1977-1980
Norm Hunt	1969-1977 and 1983-1985
Ray Milton Webb	1980-1983
Patricia C Allan QSM	1985-1989

 

Researched and written by Eris Parker
Ref: Cambridge Museum Archives

 

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