The Mayor of Gloucester is the first citizen of the City of Gloucester, England, and acts as chair of the council. The Mayor represents the Council and the City at civic, ceremonial and community events both inside the City boundaries and elsewhere.
The first recorded mayor of Gloucester was Richard the Burgess, who derived his authority from a royal order in 1228. No further use of the title is recorded until the Letters Patent of Richard III in October 1483, whereby the burgesses of Gloucester were given the right to elect their first mayor. The first mayor to be so elected was John Trye.
Richard Whittington of the parish of St Michael Paternoster Royal, City of London, was an English merchant and a politician of the late medieval period. He is also the real-life inspiration for the English folk tale Dick Whittington and His Cat. He was four times Lord Mayor of London, a member of parliament and a Sheriff of London. In his lifetime he financed a number of public projects, such as drainage systems in poor areas of medieval London, and a hospital ward for unmarried mothers. He bequeathed his fortune to form the Charity of Sir Richard Whittington which, nearly 600 years later, continues to assist people in need.
Sir William Cooke of Highnam Court in Gloucestershire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1614.
Luke Garnons was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1584 and 1601.
Thomas Machen was a mercer who was mayor of Gloucester three times and sat in the House of Commons in 1614.
Christopher Caple or Capell was an English mercer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625 and 1626.
John Browne (c1569-1639) was an English brewer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1629.
The town of Stafford, Staffordshire, England gained its mayoral charter from King James I. The first mayor was Matthew Cradock, jnr in 1614.
Major General William Selwyn was an officer in the British Army, MP and briefly Governor of Jamaica.
William Massinger (1514/15–1593/94) was an English politician.
Thomas Semys was an English politician from Gloucester.
Thomas Webb, of Gloucester, was an English merchant and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1713.
Edward Webb (1779–1839), of Adwell, near Tetsworth, Gloucestershire and 181 Piccadilly, Middlesex, was a politician.
Colonel John Selwyn of Matson, Gloucestershire,a British Army officer, courtier and politician, sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1751.
Charles Selwyn of West Sheen, Surrey, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1747.
John Parkin was the first mayor when he was elected in 1629. The first woman to serve as mayor was Winifrede Marsden in 1930. Stella Jones MBE has been mayor three times and she was also the mayoress three times when her husband Trevor was mayor.
The Howe baronetcy, of Compton in the County of Gloucester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 22 September 1660 for John Howe, Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in 1654–1655 and 1656–1658. His elder son Richard, the second baronet, was also an MP, as was his younger son John Grobham Howe. Sir Richard Grobham Howe, the third baronet, was MP for Tamworth, Cirencester and Wiltshire. Sir Emanuel Howe, 4th Baronet, became the 2nd Viscount Howe on the death of his father in 1713 and the baronetcy which he inherited in 1730 was merged with his viscountcy.
Joan Cooke was the founder of The Crypt School in Gloucester following a bequest and request by her husband who died 17 years before her.