The Civic Mayor of the City of Doncaster Council of Doncaster | |
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Incumbent since May 2025Tim Needham | |
Style | His/Her Worship |
Residence | Doncaster Mansion House |
Appointer | City of Doncaster Council |
Term length | 1 Year (Unable to run for a Consecutive Second Term) |
Inaugural holder | Charles Theobald |
Formation | 1900 |
Succession | Election by the Council |
Deputy | Deputy Civic Mayor |
Salary | No Salary |
Website | Office of the Civic Mayor |
The Civic Mayor of Doncaster is the ceremonial leader of the City of Doncaster Council. The civic mayor is appointed annually from the members of City of Doncaster Council and serves for one municipal year.
The first mayor of Doncaster, in 1493, was a Thomas Pigborne. [1] The first mayor of the Borough of Doncaster under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 was Sir William Bryan Cooke, 8th baronet of Wheatley. [2] One of the later 19th-century mayors was Charles Verity, who served from 1881 to 1882. [3] The role was reconstituted on 1 April 1974 to cover the larger Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. On 18 May 2018 history was made when Councillor Majid Khan became the first ethnic minority Mayor of Doncaster. [4]
Since May 2002 there has also been a directly elected mayor of Doncaster and in May 2012, voters decided in a referendum to keep the position. [5]
Source: Doncaster History
Councillor Duncan Anderson, Labour member for the Hatfield Ward, is the new Civic Mayor of Doncaster
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