This is a list of the mayors of Bolton in the north west of England. The office of Mayor is a ceremonial, non-political post. As the Borough's First Citizen, the mayor serves as the civic representative at a wide range of functions and events throughout the local authority.

The mayors of Bolton have represented three types of local government districts. The mayors of the Municipal Borough of Bolton 1838–1889, the mayors of the County Borough of Bolton 1889–1974, and the present mayors of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton since 1974.[1][2]

There was also a transitional mayor / chairman in 1973–1974 who saw over the dissolution of the County Borough of Bolton and the foundation of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.[3]

Mayors of Bolton

Municipal borough mayors

No.MayorPartyTenureTermsNotes
1 Charles James Darbishire Liberal 18381839 1 b.1797 d.1874. The first Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Bolton.
2 Robert Heywood Liberal 18391840 1 b.1786 d.1868. Father of John Heywood, Mayor of Bolton 1903–05.
3 James Arrowsmith Liberal 18401841 1 b.1791 d.1870. Father of Peter Rothwell Arrowsmith, Mayor of Bolton 1853–55.
4 Thomas Cullen Liberal 18411842 1 b.1782 d.1859.
5 Robert Walsh Liberal 18421843 1 b.1791 d.1873.
6 Thomas Gregson Liberal 18431844 1 b.1795 d.1865.
7 John Slater Liberal 18441845 1 b.1798 d.1861.
8 Stephen Blair Conservative 18451846 1 b.1804 d.1870. Conservative MP for Bolton 1848–52.
9 James Scowcroft Conservative 18461847 1 b.1788 d.1865.
10 Thomas Ridgeway Bridson Conservative 18471848 1 b.1795 d.1863.
11 Thomas Lever Rushton Conservative 18481850 2 b.1811 d.1883.
12 William Gray Conservative 18501852 2 b.1814 d.1895. Conservative MP for Bolton 1857–1874.
13 John Stones Conservative 18521853 1 b.c.1804 d.1859.
14 Peter Rothwell Arrowsmith Liberal 18531855 2 b.1816 d.1890. Son of James Arrowsmith, Mayor of Bolton 1840–41.
15 James Knowles Liberal 18551857 2 b.1813 d.1886.
16 William Makant Liberal 18571859 2 b.1807 d.1880.
17 John Orton Liberal 18591860 1 b.1804 d.1870.
18 John Harwood Liberal 18601861 1 b.1802 d.1875. Brother of Richard Harwood, Mayor of Bolton 1863–64.
19 James Rawthorne Wolfenden Liberal 18611863 2 b.1811 d.1886. Brother of Charles Wolfenden, Mayor of Bolton 1875–77.
20 Richard Harwood Liberal 18631864 1 b.1802 d.1875. Brother of John Harwood, Mayor of Bolton 186061, and father of George Harwood, Liberal MP for Bolton 1895–1912.
21 Richard Stockdale Liberal 18641866 2 b.1809 d.1886.
22 Dr Fergus Ferguson Liberal 18661867 1 b.1805 d.1887.
23 James Barlow Liberal 18671869 2 b.1821 d.1887.
24 Thomas Walmsley Conservative 18691871 2 b.1812 d.1890.
25 William Walter Cannon Conservative 18711873 2 b.1822 d.1903. Brother in law of Richard Stockdale, Mayor of Bolton 1864–66.
26 Jeremiah Marsden Conservative 18731875 2 b.1820 d.1877.
27 Charles Wolfenden Conservative 18751877 2 b.1826 d.1884. Brother of James Rawthorne Wolfenden, Mayor of Bolton 1861–1863.
28 James Greenhalgh Conservative 18771878 1 b.1822 d.1881.
29 Peter Crook Marsden Conservative 18781879 1 b.1838 d.1913.
30 Henry Marriott Richardson Conservative 18791880 1 b.c.1816 d.1893.
31 Joseph Musgrave Conservative 18801881 1 b.1812 d.1891.
32 Thomas Glaister Conservative 18811882 1 b.1829 d.1891. Grandfather of Thomas Glaister, Mayor of Bolton 1949–48.
33 Ebenezer Green Harwood Conservative 18821884 2 b.1833 d.1902.
34 Thomas Fletcher Conservative 18841887 3 b.1832 d.1914.
35 Thomas Moscrop Conservative 18871888 1 b.1811 d.1889.
36 John Barrett Conservative 18881889 1 b.1842 d.1908.

County borough mayors

No.MayorPartyTenureTermsNotes
1 John Barrett Conservative 18891890 1 b.1842 d.1908. The first Mayor of the County Borough of Bolton.
2 Matthew Fielding Conservative 18901891 1 b.1848 d.1915.
3 William Nicholson Conservative 18911894 3 b.1825 d.1915.
4 Lt Col. Sir Benjamin Alfred Dobson Conservative 18941898 4 b.1847 d.1898. Knighted on the 21 July 1897. Died in office.
5 William Nicholson Conservative 18981899 2 b.1825 d.1915. Acted as caretaker Mayor in 1898, and re-elected the same year.
6 John Edwin Scowcroft Conservative 18991901 2 b.1845 d.1901. Died in office.
7 William Nicholson Conservative 1901 1 b.1825 d.1915. Acted again as caretaker Mayor in 1901.
8 John Miles Conservative 19011903 2 b.1841 d.1917.[4][5]
9 John Heywood Conservative 19031905 2 b.1849 d.1910. Son of Robert Heywood, Mayor of Bolton 1839–40.
10 Colonel George Hesketh Conservative 19051906 1 b.1853 d.1930. Appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1918.
11 Thomas Barlow Tong Conservative 19061908 2 b.1850 d.1917. Uncle of Walter Wharton Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1940–41.
12 William Henry Brown Conservative 19081909 1 b.1850 d.1931.
13 Joseph Tyas Cooper Liberal 19091911 2 b.1852 d.1929.
14 James Young Conservative 19111913 2 b.1861 d.1917.
15 John Turner Brooks Conservative 19131914 1 b.1836 d.1918.
16 James Seddon Conservative 19141916 2 b.1856 d.1923.
17 Sir Knowles Edge Liberal 19161918 2 b.1854 d.1931. Knighted on the 12 August 1919. Father of Sir William Edge, Liberal MP for Bolton 1916–23.
18 Lord Leverhulme Independent 19181919 1 b.1851 d.1925. Created Baron Leverhulme in 1917, and Viscount Leverhulme in 1922.[6] He is the only Mayor who was not a Councillor.
19 Robert Parkinson Conservative 19191921 2 b.1862 d.1936.
20 William Russell Conservative 19211922 1 b.1859 d.1937. Conservative MP for Bolton 1922–23.
21 Alfred Potts Labour 19221923 1 b.1867 d.1945.
22 Edmund Aspinall Conservative 19231924 1 b.1858 d.1940.
23 John Fletcher Steele Liberal 19241925 1 b.1867 d.1941.
24 Percy Knott Conservative 19251926 1 b.1865 d.1943.
25 Sir Thomas Evans Flitcroft Liberal 19261928 2 b.1861 d.1938. Knighted in the King's Birthday Honours list 1913.
26 Frank Cheadle Labour 19281929 1 b.1885 d.1940.
27 Robert Edwards Roberts Conservative 19291930 1 b.1876 d.1944.
28 Henry Warburton Liberal 19301931 1 b.1865 d.1936. Nephew of Thomas Warburton, founder of Warburtons the bakers.
29 George Sykes Conservative 19311932 1 b.c.1874 d.1958.
30 Samuel Lomax Labour 19321933 1 b.1871 d.1944.
31 Dr Ernest Monks Conservative 19331934 1 b.1871 d.1941. Father of Dr John Richard Monks, Mayor of Bolton 1970–71.
32 John Percy Taylor Liberal 19341935 1 b.1868 d.1945. Appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1926.
33 Benjamin Kirkman Labour 19351936 1 b.c.1864 d.1953.
34 James Alfred Russell Conservative 19361937 1 b.1873 d.1948.
35 Thomas Halstead Labour 19371938 1
36 James Entwistle Conservative 19381939 1
37 Charles Harold Beswick Liberal 19391940 1 b.1874 d.1945.
38 Walter Wharton Tong Conservative 19401941 1 b.1890 d.1978. Nephew of Thomas Barlow Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1906–08. Knighted on the 11 February 1955.
39 Alfred Booth Labour 19411942 1 b.1893 d.1965. Labour MP for Bolton East 1950–1951.
40 James Bleakley Conservative 19421943 1 b.1893 d.1993.
41 Fred Bentley Liberal 19431944 1
42 Walter Bradley Conservative 19441945 1
43 Robert Demaine Labour 19451946 1 b.1874 d.1948.
44 Dr Horace Wilfred Taylor Conservative 19461947 1
45 John Henry Hampson Labour 19471949 2
46 Thomas Glaister Conservative 19491950 1 b.1886 d.1974. Grandson of Thomas Glaister, Mayor of Bolton 1881–82, and brother-in-law of William Wharton Tong, Mayor of Bolton 1940–41.
47 Helen Wright Labour 19501951 1 b.1892 d.1970. The first female Mayor of Bolton.
48 Thomas Parry Dunning Conservative 19511952 1 b.1893 d.1973.
49 James Vickers Labour 19521953 1 b.1895 d.1972.
50 James Parkes, Conservative 19531954 1 b.1893 d.1980.
51 Peter Flanagan Labour 19541955 1 b.1887 d.1964.
52 Stanley Entwistle Conservative 19551956 1 died 1978.
53 Peter Lowe Labour 19561957 1 b.1904 d.1986.
54 Frank Young Conservative 19571958 1 b.1904 d.1977.
55 Elizabeth Ann Ashmore Labour 19581959 1 b.1895 d.1972.
56 Edwin Taylor Conservative 19591960 1 b.1905 d.1973. Conservative MP for Bolton East 1960–64.
57 James Gradwell Labour 19601961 1 b.1891 d.1972.
58 William Harold Bateson Conservative 19611962 1 b.1897 d.1967.
59 John Arthur Childs Labour 19621963 1 b.1899 d.1965.
60 Thomas Connor Liberal 19631964 1
61 Harry Wood Conservative 19641965 1
62 Charles Henry Lucas Labour 19651966 1 Awarded a CBE in 1970.
63 Nora Vickers Conservative 19661967 1
64 Clarence Leat Labour 19671968 1 b.1892 d.1973.
65 Ethel Maisie Ryley Conservative 19681969 1
66 Herbert Glynn Labour 19691970 1 b.1908 d.1995.[7]
67 Dr John Richard Monks Conservative 19701971 1 b.1911 d.1985. Son of Dr Ernest Monks, Mayor of Bolton 1933–34.
68 Arnold Townend Labour 19711972 1
69 Alan Ellis Clarke Labour 19721973 1 b.1931. Triplet brother of Donald Stewart Clarke, Mayor of Bolton 1977–78.
70 Henry Devenish Labour 19731974 1 b.1926 d.2010.

Transitional mayor

No.MayorPartyTenureTermsNotes
1 John Collins Hanscomb Conservative 19731974 1 Councillor for Deane cum Heaton Ward. Chairman (1973–1974) and Transitional Mayor (1974) during the dissolution of the County Borough and the foundation of the Metropolitan Borough.[3]

Metropolitan borough mayors

No.MayorPartyTenureTermsNotes
1 Doris Berry Conservative 19741975 1 b.1912 d.1992. The first Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
2 John Arthur Foster Labour 19751976 1 b.1927 d.2010.
3 James Rigby Conservative 19761977 1 b.1918 d.1998.
4 Donald Stewart Clarke Labour 19771978 1 b.1931 d.2005. Triplet brother of Alan Ellis Clarke, Mayor of Bolton 1972–73.[8]
5 Adam Hibbert Conservative 19781979 1 b.1910 d.1992.
6 Elizabeth Olwen Hamer Labour 19791980 1 b.1928 d.1995.
7 James Smith Conservative 19801981 1 b.1912 d.1994.
8 Joseph Wild Labour 19811982 1 b.1916 d.1994.
9 John Collins Hanscomb Conservative 19821983 1 Councillor for Deane cum Heaton Ward b.1924 d.2019. Previously Chairman / Transitional Mayor 1973–74. Appointed a CBE in December 1980.
10 Alan Samuel Brigg Labour 19831984 1 b.1911 d.1988.
11 Barbara Annette Hurst Conservative 19841985 1 b.1919 d.2001. Awarded an MBE in 1993.[9]
12 William Hardman Labour 19851986 1 b.1939 d.1999.[10]
13 Arthur Poulsom Conservative 19861987 1 b.1913 d.1988.
14 William Arthur Robinson Labour 19871988 1 b.1923 d.1990.
15 Brian Melvyn Allanson Conservative 19881989 1 b.1927.
16 Kenneth MacIvor Labour 19891990 1 b.1925 d.2004.
17 Geoffrey Smith Conservative 19901991 1 b.1945.
18 Gerald Riley Labour 19911992 1 b.1929.
19 Ernest Crook Conservative 19921993 1 b.1927.
20 Campbell Jocelyn H Benjamin Labour 19931994 1 b.1914 d.2004. The first black Mayor of Bolton. Appointed an OBE in 1996.[11]
21 Thomas Anderton Labour 19941995 1 Councillor for Daubhill Ward b.1924.
22 Frank Alan Rushton Conservative 19951996 1 Councillor for Deane cum Heaton Ward and later for Heaton and Lostock Ward b.1934.
23 Eric Johnson Labour 19961997 1 b.1923. Also was Mayor of Blackrod 1988–89 and 1993–94.
24 Peter Gareth Birch Labour 19971998 1 b.1948 d.2001.[12]
25 Peter Louis Finch Labour 19981999 1 Councillor for Westhoughton Ward b.1937. Also was Mayor of Westhoughton 1986–87.
26 John Monaghan Labour 19992000 1 Councillor for Blackrod Ward b.1936 d.2008.[13] Also was Mayor of Blackrod 1992–93 and 1997–98.
27 Alan Wilkinson Conservative 20002001 1 Councillor for Bromley Cross Ward b.1948.
28 Kevan James Helsby Labour 20012002 1 Councillor for Horwich Ward b.1950. Received an MBE in the Millennium honours list. Also was Mayor of Horwich 1987–88 and 2004–05.[14]
29 John Walsh Conservative 20022003 1 Councillor for Astley Bridge Ward b.1952. Appointed an OBE in 1994.
30 Clifford Morris Labour 20032004 1 Councillor for Halliwell Ward.
31 Prentice Howarth Labour 20042005 1 Councillor for Great Lever Ward b.1936.
32 Frank Richard White Labour 20052006 1 Councillor for Tonge with the Haulgh Ward b.1940. Labour MP for Bury and Radcliffe 1979–1983.
33 Walter Hall Conservative 20062007 1 Councillor for Bradshaw Ward b.1935.
34 Barbara Olwyn Ronson Liberal Democrats 20072008 1 Councillor for Horwich North East Ward b.1942. Also was Mayor of Horwich 1996–97.[15]
35 Anthony Connell Labour 20082009 1 Councillor for Little Lever and Darcy Lever Ward b.1941.[16]
36 Norman Critchley Conservative 20092010 1 Councillor for Bromley Cross Ward b.1938.[17]
37 John Byrne Labour 20102011 1 Councillor for Breightmet Ward.[18]
38 Anthony Noel Spencer Labour 20112012 1 Councillor for Farnworth Ward.
39 Guy Harkin Labour 20122013 1 Councillor for Crompton Ward.[19][20]
40 Colin Shaw Conservative 20132014 1 Councillor for Heaton and Lostock Ward.[21]
41 Martin Donaghy Labour 20142015 1 Councillor for Tonge with the Haulgh Ward.[22]
42 Carole Swarbrick Liberal Democrats 20152016 1 Councillor for Smithills Ward.[23]
43 Lynda Byrne Labour 20162017 1 Councillor for Breightmet Ward.
44 Roger Hayes Liberal Democrats 20172018 1 Councillor for Smithills Ward.[24]
45 Elaine Sherrington Labour 20182019 1 Councillor for Tonge with the Haulgh Ward.
46 Hilary Fairclough Conservative 20192020 1 Councillor for Astley Bridge Ward.[25]
47 Linda Thomas Labour 20202022 2 Councillor for Halliwell Ward. Served a two-year term of office due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also was Mayor of Westhoughton 1995–96.
48 Akhtar Zaman Labour 20222023 1 Councillor for Halliwell Ward. The first Asian and Muslim mayor of Bolton.
49 Mohammed Ayub Labour 20232024 1 Councillor for Great Lever Ward.

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