List of mayors of Barnsley

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Henry Richardson, first Mayor of Barnsley, 1869 Henry Richardson first Mayor of Barnsley.jpg
Henry Richardson, first Mayor of Barnsley, 1869
Sam Jones, son of a miner, was Barnsley's first socialist mayor Sam Jones 1920-1922.jpg
Sam Jones, son of a miner, was Barnsley's first socialist mayor

The Mayor of Barnsley is a ceremonial post held by a member of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, elected annually by the Council. The post was previously given to members of the Municipal Borough of Barnsley from 1869 to 1912, and to members of the County Borough of Barnsley from 1913 to 1974.

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Some notable mayors

The first mayor of Barnsley was Henry Richardson, in 1869; he had been "instrumental in the founding of the Borough." [2] 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." [3] 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 World War II. 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. [4]

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

  1. Journal of Barnsley Family History Society vol23 no.2 April 2015, p.21: "Councillor Sam Jones" by Jane Ainsworth:
  2. Visitor UK: Timeline history of Barnsley
  3. The Age 16 November 1956 p3 col2: UK mayor bored by royal pictures
  4. Barnsley Chronicle 28 March 2008: Flashback to the day Edward Sheerien opened
  5. 1 2 3 The full list of Mayors of Barnsley is engraved on the marble walls of the entrance to Barnsley Town Hall
  6. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Saturday 09 January 1875 p10 col2: Death of the first mayor of Barnsley
  7. 1 2 Sheffield Evening Telegraph, Tuesday 05 November 1895 p3 col3: Death of Mr. John Tyas of Barnsley
  8. Visitor UK: Barnsley
  9. Barnsley Chronicle, etc., Saturday 20 March 1886 p8 col3: Funeral of the late Ald. Newman
  10. Sheffield Independent, Saturday 13 March 1886 p15 col7: Death of Ald C. Newman of Barnsley
  11. Graces Guide: Richard Carter (1818–1895)
  12. Sheffield Independent, Friday 27 September 1895 p6 col3: Death of a former mayor of Barnsley at Harrogate
  13. Heritage Inspired: St Mary's Church Barnsley
  14. Leeds Times – Saturday 06 April 1878 p5 col6: Barnsley, sudden death of the mayor of Barnsley
  15. Sheffield Evening Telegraph, Thursday 04 September 1890 p4 col1: Death of Mr Benjamin Marshall of Barnsley
  16. Sheffield Evening Telegraph, Wednesday 03 April 1907 p5 col5: Death of Mr Charles Brady JP, Barnsley's most prominent magistrate
  17. National Archives: Barnsley Archive
  18. Sheffield Evening Telegraph, Wednesday 13 September 1893 p3 col4: Death of Mr Aldermen Thomas Marsden JP of Barnsley
  19. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Friday 17 June 1892 p7 col4: Death of Mr. Alderman Wood of Barnsley
  20. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Monday 09 July 1906 p7 col5: Dr John Blackburn Barnsley
  21. A Barnsley Historian's View: WWI soldier's story
  22. Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 08 March 1899 p6 col7: Obituary Dr Halton JP Barnsley
  23. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Friday 07 March 1902 p7 col7: Obituary, Ald. Woodcock of Barnsley
  24. 1 2 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 24 March 1931 p4 col4: Death of Mr C. Wray, freeman and former mayor of Barnsley
  25. Barnsley Chronicle, etc., Saturday 07 March 1908 p8 col8: Death of Mr T. Wilkinson JP
  26. For clock donated by Wilkinson, see File:Former Ebenezer Methodist Chapel Barnsley.jpg, church was demolished to make way for a road
  27. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 20 January 1941 p5 col5: Former mayor of Barnsley
  28. "Election of Mayors". The Times. No. 36922. London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
  29. 1 2 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 09 May 1938 p5 col3: Ald. W.E. Riley OBE, "father" of modern Barnsley, 50 years' unbroken service
  30. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 02 January 1935 p5 col7: Former mayor of Barnsley, death of Mr John Shaw Rose
  31. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 05 September 1936 p9 col1: Mr Edmund J.F. Rideal, leading figure in Barnsley, former mayor of the borough
  32. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 18 November 2017. Births Mar 1868 Walker Henry Milnes Wortley 9c 197. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 18 November 2017. Deaths Dec 1945 Walker Henry M. 77 Penistone 9c 287.
  33. Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 19 October 1929 p10 col5: Six new Barnsley JPs
  34. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Saturday 12 June 1920 p4 col3: Yorkshire, Barnsley's loss, death of Coun. J.H. Cotterill, ex-mayor of the Borough
  35. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 14 February 1928 p3 col3: Former mayor, death of Alderman W.G. England of Barnsley
  36. Leeds Mercury, Thursday 19 August 1937 p7 col4: Mr Henry Holden, death of former mayor of Barnsley
  37. Sheffield Independent, Thursday 19 August 1937 p4 col4: Mr Henry Holden, death of former mayor of Barnsley
  38. Sheffield Independent, Monday 02 September 1935 p7 col1: Mr Sam Jones dead, Barnsley's first Labour mayor
  39. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 02 September 1935 p7 col5: Mr Sam Jones, first Socialist mayor of Barnsley
  40. Barnsley war memorials project: Monk Bretton Cemetery, image of his (and his family's) gravestone
  41. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 21 November 2017. Deaths Mar 1956 Wood George F. 86 Barnsley 2b 36
  42. United Kingdom Census 1911 Milliner, fancy draper, shopkeeper
  43. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 25 July 1955 p7 col8: Mr H. Foulstone
  44. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 21 November 2017. Deaths Jun 1944 Broley John F. 71 Barnsley 9c 179
  45. Liverpool Echo, Friday 21 April 1944 p4 col7: Footballery, then mayor
  46. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 21 November 2017. Deaths Jun 1958 SHeerien Edward 79 Barnsley 2b 6
  47. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 25 January 1954 p3 col7: Former MP for Bansley dies at 75, Mr R J Soper
  48. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 16 February 1954 p3 col4: Mr Robert J. Plummer
  49. Tamworth Herald, Saturday 25 June 1938 p4 col5: Death of Mr Herbert Smith, former president of the Miners' Federation
  50. Leeds Mercury, Monday 27 November 1933 p6 col2: Barnsley's boot fund
  51. Sheffield Independent, Tuesday 05 July 1938 p4 col6: Former mayor of Barnsley Mr B.F Canter dies after operation
  52. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Friday 02 April 1948 p4 col4: Pit boy became miners' president, Ald. Joseph Jones dies aged 57
  53. Leeds Mercury, Wednesday 15 September 1937 p5 col3: Barnsley's next mayor, Ald. A. Wright accepts invitation
  54. Sheffield Independent, Wednesday 14 September 1938 p7 col1: Barnsley's next mayor, an engine driver
  55. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 08 April 1944 p5 col8: Former mayor of Barnsley
  56. Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian, Saturday 15 April 1944 p4 col5: Ex-mayor of Barnsley
  57. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 08 November 1939 p6 col6: New mayor, signalman following engine-driver
  58. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 17 November 1941 p6 col2: Barnsley's vicar-mayor
  59. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 25 February 1947 p4 col.4: Alderman the Rev. D. Allott
  60. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 09 September 1942 p5 col6: Barnsley's next mayor
  61. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Thursday 26 August 1948 p4 col2: Ald. T.W. Richardson
  62. Yorkshire Evening Post, Thursday 26 August 1948 p4 col5: Ald. T.W. Richardson ex-mayor of Barnsley dead
  63. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 13 September 1944 p3 col2: Barnsley mayoral invitation
  64. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 12 September 1945 p6 col6: The next mayor
  65. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 10 November 1945 p8 col5: Ald. A. Dunk elected at Barnsley
  66. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 11 September 1946 p6 col6: Barnsley mayoralty
  67. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 10 September 1947 p4 col4: Barnsley's choice
  68. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 09 March 1949 p4 col8: Pitworker to be mayor with photo
  69. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 15 March 1950 p6 col.8: Barnsley invitation to Ald. W. Leach
  70. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 13 March 1951 p6 col3: Barnsley mayoralty
  71. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 12 March 1952 p8 col3: To be mayor of Barnsley
  72. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Wednesday 20 May 1953 p9 col3: Barnsley's 17th successive socialist mayor
  73. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 19 October 1954 p5 col1: Royal visit to the West Riding
  74. Birmingham Daily Post, Wednesday 09 February 1955 p5 col8: Coun. James Henry Foster
  75. Northern Whig, Friday 16 November 1956 p2 col1: Lady mayor moved royal pictures
  76. Leeds Mercury, Wednesday 11 April 1934 p7 col.5: Mystery of girl's death
  77. Birmingham Daily Post, Thursday 05 February 1959 p37 col8: Mayor's aid for parents
  78. Birmingham Daily Post, Wednesday 26 October 1960 p6 col4: Exiles' return
  79. The National Archives: Dancer family papers A/1361/F
  80. Barnsley Chronicle 30 April 2009: From the Barnsley Chronicle
  81. We are Barnsley: Former Barnsley mayor and councillor dies
  82. Barnsley News and Sport: Council pays tribute to former mayor
  83. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 22 November 2017. Births Sep 1941 Mathers Brian H., mother nee Wilson Barnsley 9c 495
  84. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 23 May 2018: Barnsley welcomes new mayor for 2018/19
  85. "Barnsley welcomes new Mayor for 2019/20". Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. Barnsley MBC. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  86. "A warm welcome back to Cllr Makinson as the Mayor of Barnsley for 2021-22". barnsley.gov.uk. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

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