The following were
mayors
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of
Preston, Lancashire
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, England:
*1526-27:
James Walton, MP for Preston, 1529
*1528-31:
Christopher Haydock, MP for Preston, 1529
*1532-33:
James Walton
*1533-34:
James Walton
*1535 William Wall
*1545
Henry Walls MP for Preston, (1545)
*1546-46:
James Walton
*1566 Evan Wall
*1696 John Atherton
*1700 George Addison
*1701-02 Josias Gregson
*1702 Geoffrey Rishton
*1703 William Lemon
*1704 John Atherton
*1705 Thomas Winckley
*1706 John Chorley
*1707 Roger Sudell
*1708 George Addison
*1709 John Loxham
*1710 George Lamplugh
*1711 William Graddwell (Gladwell)
*1712 Ralph Assheton
*1713 Edmund Assheton
*1714 Lawrence Wall
*1715 William Lemon
*1716 Robert Chaddocks
*1717 Joseph Curtis
*1718 Richard Casson
*1719 George Lamplugh
*1720 William Graddwell
*1721-22 Edmund Assheton
*1722 Lawrence Wall
*1723 John Thornton
*1724 John Clayton
*1725 Thomas Garlicke
*1726 John Myers
*1727 Richard Addison
*1728 Joseph Curtis
*1729 Edmund Ashton (Assheton)
*1730 Lawrence Wall
*1731 Sir Edward Stanley, bart.
*1732:
William Atherton
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Early life
Atherton was born in Orange, Connecticut, the son ...
(1703-1745)
*1738:
William Atherton
William Atherton Knight (born July 30, 1947) is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in ''Die Hard'' and its sequel and Walter Peck in ''Ghostbusters''.
Early life
Atherton was born in Orange, Connecticut, the son ...
(1703-1745)
*1761-62:
Robert Townley Parker
Robert Townley Parker (1793–1879) was a Unionist Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of Preston.
He was the son of Thomas Townley Parker, Esq. of the cadet brand of the Towneley family of Towneley ...
, MP for Preston, 1837 and 1852
*1868-69: John James Myres, founder of Myres and Newton
*1873-74: John James Myres
*1802–03:
Samuel Horrocks
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...
, MP for
Preston, 1804
*1901-02:
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, (15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908) styled as Hon. Frederick Stanley from 1844 to 1886 and as The Lord Stanley of Preston between 1886 and 1893, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Ki ...
, MP for Preston, 1865 and
Governor-General of Canada
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*1902-03: Alderman E. Greenwood (Conservative)
*1903-04 James Craven
*1913-19:
Harry Cartmell
Sir Harry Cartmell (18 March 1857 – 11 May 1923) was an English solicitor who served as Mayor of Preston, from 1913 to 1919, during the whole period of the First World War. He was the author of ''For Remembrance'', published in 1919, which wa ...
*1934-35:
Robert C. Handley["Labour Mayor for Preston", '']Manchester Guardian
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'', 29 September 1934
*1946-47: William Beckett
*1963-64:
Cyril Evan Molyneux
*1964-65:
Joseph Lund
*1965-66: William Beckett
*1966-67:
Joseph Holden
*1982-83:
Joseph Saul Pownall
*1991-92:
Mary Rawcliffe
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Biography
Mary Heller was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 29, 1942. In 1987 she appeared with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Beethoven ...
21st century
Source
Preston City Council*2000-01 Joseph Hood
*2001-02 Alan Lester Hackett
*2002-03 Jonathan Saksena
*2003-04 Neil Cartwright
*2004-05 Patricia Woods
*2005-06 Bhikhu Patel
*2006-07 William Tyson
*2007-08 Christine Abram
*2008-09 John Swindells
*2009-10 Keith Sedgewick
*2010-11 Albert Richardson
*2011-12 Bobby Cartwright
*2012-13 Carl Crompton
*2013-14 Veronica Afrin
*2014-15 Nicholas Pomfret
*2015-16 Margaret MacManus
*2016-17 John Collins
*2017-18 Brian Rollo
*2018-19 Trevor Hart
*2019-21 David Borrow
*2021-22 Javed Iqbal JP
*2022-23 Neil Darby
References
Preston
Lancashire-related lists
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