{{Short description|none}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} [[File:Cardiff City Hall cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Cardiff City Hall]] This is a '''list of mayors of Cardiff''', Wales. The first mayor recorded for Cardiff was in 1126 though the title was generally given to the Constable or military governor of Cardiff Castle.<ref name="CC Lord Mayor History">[https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/Your-Council/Lord-Mayor/History/Pages/default.aspx Lord Mayor – A History], Cardiff Council webpages, last update 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2017.</ref> The first ''elected'' Mayor of Cardiff took office in 1835 (elected by the members of the council), the same year the first council elections were held.<ref name="CC Lord Mayor History" /> When Cardiff was granted city status in 1905 the post holder was given the title Lord Mayor<ref name="CC Lord Mayor History" /> (Welsh: ''Arglwydd Faer''). The Lord Mayor of Cardiff is considered to be the first citizen of Wales and since 1956 has enjoyed the style of The Right Honourable.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40911/page/6041|title=Page 6041 | Issue 40911, 26 October 1956 | London Gazette |website=Thegazette.co.uk|access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref>
==History== The first mayor of Cardiff is listed by the County Borough Records as Ralph "Prepositus de Kardi" who took up office in 1126. In 1835, Thomas Revel Guest became the first elected mayor of Cardiff when the first council elections were held. When Cardiff was granted city status in 1905 Cardiff's First Citizen became lord mayor. Robert Hughes, the mayor in 1904, was re-elected to become Cardiff's first lord mayor in the following year. The lord mayor was granted the right to the style "The Right Honourable." The lord mayor now bears the style "The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Cardiff".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2872,4951,5030&id=4158&Positioning_Article_ID=&Language=&parent_directory_id=2865&d1p1=1 |title=Lord Mayor – A History |publisher=Cardiff Council |access-date=18 August 2007 |archive-date=26 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926220809/http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2872,4951,5030&id=4158&Positioning_Article_ID=&Language=&parent_directory_id=2865&d1p1=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1999 a new system was introduced whereby the leader of the council could also serve as mayor for the duration of the council without re-election. This led to Russell Goodway serving as both council leader and mayor from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 the mayoralty reverted to a separate role, elected annually.<ref name="cc mayor list">{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.gov.ukobjview.asp?Object_ID=11776&|title=(List of) Lord Mayors of Cardiff|publisher=Cardiff Council|access-date=19 December 2011}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
The official residence of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff was the Mansion House, Cardiff, although the Lord Mayors have not lived there since 1971.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Waldram|first1=Hannah|title=Council to market one of its oldest buildings for venue hire|url=https://www.theguardian.com/cardiff/2011/apr/07/cardiff-council-mansion-house|access-date=23 August 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 August 2011|location=London}}</ref>
==Elected mayors since 1835== The years given are for when each mayor took office. Most mayoral terms extended into the following year. * 1836: Thomas Revell Guest, from 1 January<ref name="BHO Cardiff Mayors">[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=48213#s3 Mayors and other secular officials], British History Online, information reproduced from ''Cardiff Records: Volume 5'' edited by John Hobson Matthews (1905) pp. 508–548. Retrieved 8 December 2016.</ref> Also Judge of the Borough Court of Record.<ref name="CC Lord Mayor History" /> * 1836: Charles Crofts Williams, from 9 November<ref name="BHO Cardiff Mayors" /> * 1837: Henry Morgan * 1838: Charles Crofts Williams * 1839: Richard Reece * 1840: David Evans * 1841: James Lewis * 1842: Charles Crofts Williams * 1843: John Moore * 1844: William Jonas Watson, who died in office in October but was not immediately replaced<ref name="BHO Cardiff Mayors" /> * 1845: Richard Reece * 1846: James Lewis * 1847: Richard Lewis Reece * 1848: Walter Coffin, later a member of parliament for Cardiff * 1849: Charles Vachell<ref name="BHO Cardiff Mayors"/> * 1850: William Bird * 1851: Griffith Phillips * 1852: William Williams * 1853: John Batchelor, a Liberal mayor dubbed "Friend of Freedom"<ref>David James [https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2010/01/18/friend-of-freedom-facing-capture-91466-25622923/ ''Friend of freedom facing capture''], South Wales Echo, 18 January 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2011.</ref> * 1854: David Lewis * 1855: Charles Vachell * 1856: Sydney Dan Jenkins * 1857: Charles Crofts Williams * 1858: Charles Crofts Williams * 1859: William Alexander * 1860: Charles Williams David * 1861: Charles Williams David<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Matthews |first=John Hobson |title=CARDIFF RECORDS BEING MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. |date=1903 |publisher=ORDER OF THE CORPORATION AND SOLD BY HENRY SOTHERAN & Co.. |location=London |publication-date=1903 |pages=441-445 |language=English}}</ref> * 1862: John Bird<ref name=":0" /> * 1863: John Bird * 1864: James Pride * 1865: William Bradley Watkins * 1866: Charles Williams David * 1867: Richard Lewis Reece * 1868: Thomas Evans * 1869: Edward Whiffen * 1870: Charles Williams David * 1871: Charles Williams David * 1872: Henry Bowen * 1873: William Vachell<ref name="BHO Cardiff Mayors"/> (father of Ada Vachell)<ref>Elizabeth Baigent, 'Vachell, Ada Marian [Sister Ada] (1866–1923)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59841, accessed 8 Oct 2016]</ref> * 1874: Daniel Jones * 1875: Daniel Jones * 1876: Joseph Elliott * 1877: William Taylor * 1878: Daniel Lewis * 1879: John MacConnochie * 1880: Rees Jones * 1881: Alfred Thomas<ref name="BHO Cardiff Mayors" /> ''or'' Sir Alfred Gaius Augustus Stone<ref name="CC Mayor PDF">LORDMAYORS OF CARDIFF.pdf (accessed at [http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2872,4951,5030&parent_directory_id=2865 Lord Mayor – A History]), Cardiff Council website www.cardiff.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2011.</ref> * 1882: Sir Alfred Gaius Augustus Stone<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1883: Robert Bird - Father of (Sir) Charles Bird, Lord Mayor in 1910 * 1884: Andrew Fulton * 1885: David Edgar Jones MD<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1886: Sir Morgan Morgan (knighted while in office) * 1887: Thomas Windsor Jacobs * 1888: David Jones * 1889: William Sanders * 1890: John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of Bute * 1891: Thomas Rees * 1892: William Edmund Vaughan * 1893: William John Trounce * 1894: Patrick William Carey * 1895: Robert George, Baron Windsor * 1896: Ebenezer Beavan * 1897: Joseph Ramsdale * 1898: Thomas Morel<ref name="BHO Cardiff Mayors" /> ''or'' Thomas More<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> {knighted in 1899<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27097|page=4277|date=11 July 1899}}</ref>) * 1899: Samuel Arthur Brain, founder of Brains Brewery in 1882<ref>[http://www.sabrain.com/about-us/interactive-timeline/1903 The Beginning] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204234750/http://www.sabrain.com/about-us/interactive-timeline/1903 |date=4 December 2014 }}, Brains website. Retrieved 30 December 2011.</ref> * 1900: Thomas Andrews – Cllr John Jenkins, a councillor for 10 years, had initially been elected to the post. It was the first time the position of mayor had been offered to a Labour councillor. However, Jenkins refused the post and left the council chamber. Andrews was elected following a second vote.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Mayoral Bother at Cardiff – Passionate Scenes in the Council Chamber – Mr. John Jenkins Refuses Office|url=http://search.findmypast.com/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000104%2f19001103%2f022 |work=Western Mail |date=3 November 1900 |page=5 |access-date=27 March 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> * 1901: Frank John Beavan<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Election of Mayors |date=11 November 1901 |page=7 |issue=36609}}</ref> * 1902: Edward Thomas (Liberal party)<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Election of Mayors |date=11 November 1902 |page=12 |issue=36922}}</ref> * 1903: John Jenkins<ref>{{cite book|last1=Haworth|first1=Alan|last2=Hayter|first2=Dianne|title=Men Who Made Labour|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uimPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA107|access-date=26 March 2017|date=22 April 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-39048-8|page=107}}</ref> * 1904: Robert Hughes
==Lord mayors since 1905== * 1905: Robert Hughes, the sitting mayor who was (re)elected Lord Mayor in 1905<ref name="CC Lord Mayor History" /> * 1906: Sir William Smith Crossman (knighted while still in office by King Edward VII on his visit to Cardiff on 13 July 1907)<ref>{{Citation|author=Prof. William Rees |title=Cardiff - A History Of The City |year=1969 |chapter=The Reformed Borough, 1836-1914 |page=338 |publisher=The Corporation of the City of Cardiff}}</ref> * 1907: (Sir) Illtyd Thomas (knighted after leaving office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1908: Lewis Morgan * 1909: John Chappell * 1910: (Sir) Charles Hayward Bird (knighted after leaving office) - son of Robert Bird, Mayor in 1883.<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1911: Sir John Wesley Courtis (knighted while still in office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1912: Morgan Thomas * 1913: James Robinson * 1914: John Thomas Richards * 1915: Dr Robert James Smith * 1916: Joseph Stanfield * 1917: William Roberts * 1918: (Sir) Amos Child Kirk (knighted after leaving office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1919: George Frederick Forsdike * 1920: James Taylor * 1921: Francis Harold Turnbull * 1922: John James Edgerton Biggs * 1923: Sydney Osborne Jenkins * 1924: William Hampton Pethybridge * 1925: William Francis * 1926: William Grey * 1927: Arthur John Howell * 1928: (Sir) William Richard Williams (knighted after leaving office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1929: William Charles * 1930: Robert Gerard Hill-Snook * 1931: (Sir) Charles William Melhuish (knighted after leaving office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1932: Charles Fletcher Sanders * 1933: (Sir) Arthur Ernest Gough (knighted after leaving office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1934: John Donovan, former docker and secretary for the South Wales and Monmouthshire Area of the TGWU<ref>[http://www.southernstar.ie/Community/My-Own-Town/Son-of-evicted-farmer-who-became-Lord-Mayor-of-Cardiff-15042013.htm "Son of evicted farmer who became Lord Mayor of Cardiff"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002430/http://www.southernstar.ie/Community/My-Own-Town/Son-of-evicted-farmer-who-became-Lord-Mayor-of-Cardiff-15042013.htm |date=3 December 2013 }}, ''The Southern Star'', 15 April 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2013.</ref> * 1935: George Frederick Evans * 1936: Sir Herbert Hiles (knighted while still in office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1937: Oliver Cuthbert Purnell * 1938: William Gough Howell * 1939: Henry Johns * 1940: Charles Henry McCale * 1941: James Hellyer * 1942: James Griffiths * 1943: Frederick Jones * 1944: Walter Howell Parker * 1945: Walter Robert Wills * 1946: George James Ferguson * 1947: George James Ferguson * 1948: Richard Gruffydd Robinson * 1949: Timothy James Kerrigan * 1950: George Williams * 1951: Robert Bevan * 1952: William Henry James Muston * 1953: Sir James Patrick Collins (knighted while still in office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1954: George Llewellyn Ferrier * 1955: Frank Chapman * 1956: (Sir) Daniel Thomas Williams (knighted after leaving office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1957: John Hinds Morgan * 1958: Arthur James Williams * 1959: Helena Evans, Cardiff's first female Lord Mayor<ref>Brian Lee [http://www.walesonline.co.uk/expats/expats-newsletter/page.cfm?objectid=15864263&method=full&siteid=50082 ''100 facts you (probably) didn't know about Cardiff''], Expats Newsletter, Wales Online. Retrieved 31 December 2011.</ref> * 1960: Mary Dorothy Lewis * 1961: Edward Ewart Pearce * 1962: Clifford Arthur Bence * 1963: Charles Augustine Horwood * 1964: William John Hartland * 1965: Miriam Clarice Bryant * 1966: Herbert Edward Edmonds * 1967: Eric Charles Dolman, previously a first class cricketer * 1968: Sir James Reginald Lyons (knighted while still in office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1969: (Sir) Lincoln Hallinan (knighted after leaving office)<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 1970: Thomas Ernest Merrells * 1971: Hugh Ferguson-Jones * 1972: Winifred Rachel Mathias * 1973: Gerald Alan Smith Turnbull * 1974: Albert Arthur Huish * 1975: Sir Charles Hallinan (father of Sir Lincoln Hallinan who had preceded him as Lord Mayor in 1969) * 1976: John Iorwerth Jones * 1977: David C. Purnell * 1978: William Henry Carling * 1979: Bella Brown * 1980: John Charles Edwards * 1981: Ronald Frederick Watkiss * 1982: Philip Dunleavy (Labour), a retired post office worker * 1983: Olwen Mary Watkin * 1984: Albert William 'Bill' Buttle (Labour), a retired engine driver<ref>Phillip Nifield [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Former+Cardiff+Lord+Mayor+dies.-a098435565 ''Former Cardiff Lord Mayor dies''], South Wales Echo, 6 March 2003. Retrieved 2 January 2012.</ref> * 1985: Captain Norman Lloyd-Edwards, also Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan 1990 to 2008<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7451905.stm ''Hats off as Queen's man retires''], BBC News, 13 June 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2012.</ref> * 1986: David Myfyr Evans * 1987: Julius Hermer * 1988: William Penry Herbert * 1989: Mary Elizabeth (Beti) Jones JP, the first Girl Guide Lord Mayor of Cardiff.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} * 1990: John Smith (Labour) * 1991: Jeffrey Sainsbury (Conservative), came to office earlier than expected, after two nominees lost their seats in the May 1991 election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Labour sweep the city - Tory gloom as eight seats fall |newspaper=South Wales Echo |date=3 May 1991|page=3}}</ref> * 1992: Derek Allinson * 1993: Victor Riley * 1994: Ricky Ormonde * 1995: Timothy Davies * 1996: John Phillips * 1997: Max Phillips * 1998: Marion Drake * 1999: Russell Goodway (Labour). From 1999 council elections, the Leader of the council was nominated as Lord Mayor for the lifetime of the council.<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 2000: Russell Goodway * 2001: Russell Goodway * 2002: Russell Goodway * 2003: Gordon Houlston (Labour). From 2003 election, reverted to annual appointment of Lord Mayor.<ref name="CC Mayor PDF" /> * 2004: Jacqui Gasson, the city's first Liberal Democrat Lord Mayor * 2005: Freda Salway (Liberal Democrat) <ref>Phillip Nifield [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/'I+WANT+TO+BE+THE+PEOPLE'S+LORD+MAYOR..'.-a0131926609 ''I WANT TO BE THE PEOPLE'S LORD MAYOR..''], South Wales Echo, 26 April 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2012.</ref> * 2006: Gareth Neale (Conservative)<ref>{{Cite web |last=WalesOnline |date=2006-03-17 |title=MR NEALE IS YOUR NEW MAYOR (but only just...) |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/mr-neale-your-new-mayor-2349174 |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}}</ref> * 2007: Gill Bird (Labour) * 2008: Kate Lloyd (Liberal Democrat) * 2009: Brian Griffiths (Conservative) * 2010: Keith Hyde (Liberal Democrat) <ref>{{cite news|title=New Lord Mayor to be installed in city|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/New+Lord+Mayor+to+be+installed+in+city.-a0226818953|work=South Wales Echo|date=20 May 2010|access-date=10 July 2018}}</ref> * 2011: Delme Bowen, the city's first Plaid Cymru Lord Mayor * 2012: Derrick Morgan, from 27 September 2012 – between May and September 2012 the position of Lord Mayor was unfilled, while the new Labour council attempted to split the responsibilities of the mayor between two councillors. Cllr Cerys Furlong (Labour) filled the traditional mayoral role of Chair of the Council during this period.<ref>{{cite news|last=Law|first=Peter|title=Cardiff to get Lord Mayor again after Labour council U-turn|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/09/20/cardiff-to-get-lord-mayor-again-after-labour-council-u-turn-91466-31873366/|access-date=5 April 2013|newspaper=Walesonline.co.uk|date=20 September 2012}}</ref> * 2013: Derrick Morgan (Labour) <ref>Peter Law (13 March 2013) [http://yourcardiff.mediawales-1.titaninternet.co.uk/2013/03/13/lord-mayor-councillor-derrick-morgan-to-hold-his-role-for-another-year/ "Lord Mayor Councillor Derrick Morgan to hold his role for another year"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206170858/http://yourcardiff.mediawales-1.titaninternet.co.uk/2013/03/13/lord-mayor-councillor-derrick-morgan-to-hold-his-role-for-another-year/ |date=6 December 2013 }}, ''YourCardiff'' (Media Wales). Retrieved 28 November 2013.</ref> * 2014: Margaret Jones (Liberal Democrat) * 2015: David Walker (Conservative) * 2016: Monica Walsh (Labour) <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/cancer-patient-monica-walsh-becomes-11392183| title= Cancer patient Monica Walsh becomes Cardiff's Lord Mayor – and {{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|choses}} Cancer Research as her charity| date= 26 May 2016|publisher= Media Wales|access-date = 1 January 2017}}</ref> * 2017: Bob Derbyshire (Labour) * 2018: Dianne Rees (Conservative) <ref>[https://prnewslink.net/releases/18822.html Cardiff's new Lord Mayor announces chosen charity for her year in office] (press release), PR Newslink, 24 May 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.</ref> * 2019: Daniel De'Ath (Labour), Cardiff's first black mayor <ref>[https://www.cardiffnewsroom.co.uk/releases/c25/21606.html The rock n' roll secret of Cardiff's first black mayor] (press release), Cardiff Council, 23 May 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2019.</ref> * 2020–2022: Rod McKerlich (Conservative) * 2022: Graham Hinchey (Labour) * 2023: Bablin Molik (Liberal Democrat) <ref>{{cite news |title=First woman of colour made lord mayor of Cardiff |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c510n7lgkggo |access-date=8 July 2023 |work=BBC News |date=25 May 2023}}</ref> * 2024: Jane Henshaw (Labour); died in office in September<ref>{{cite news |title=Cardiff: Tributes paid after death of city's Lord Mayor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c869pyx4318o |access-date=24 September 2024 |work=BBC News |date=23 September 2024}}</ref> * 2024: Helen Lloyd Jones (Labour) * 2025: Adrian Robson (Conservative)
==See also== *Cardiff Council *Cardiff City Council *Cardiff County Borough Council *Mayors in Wales
== References == {{reflist|30em}}
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