Henry Richardson first Mayor of Barnsley

The Mayor of Barnsley is a ceremonial post held by a member of

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, elected annually by the Council. The post was previously given to members of the

Municipal Borough Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in S ...

of Barnsley from 1869 to 1912, and to members of the

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of Barnsley from 1913 to 1974.

Some notable mayors

The first mayor of Barnsley was Henry Richardson, in 1869; he had been "instrumental in the founding of the Borough." The first female mayor, elected by a labour-controlled council, was Mary Brannon in 1956. After her election, she removed seven pictures of the Royal Family from the mayoral parlour, and replaced them with local scenes created by art students. Brannon said, "I got bored stiff with the sameness of the photographs." It was Brannon who on 6 May 1957 opened the Edward Sheerien Secondary Modern School, the first of its kind to be built in the borough since

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. In 1929 Sheerien had also been mayor, and the school was named after him with respect to his "great services to the borough," including over 25 years' duty on the education committee.''Barnsley Chronicle'' 28 March 2008: Flashback to the day Edward Sheerien opened
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List of mayors of the Municipal Borough of Barnsley

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List of mayors of the County Borough of Barnsley

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List of mayors of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley

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Notes and references

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Ceremonial officers in the United Kingdom