List of mayors of Richmond explained

This is a list of mayors and chairmen of the City of Richmond, a former local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and its precedents. It existed from 1855 until 1994 when it merged with the City of Collingwood and City of Fitzroy to form the new City of Yarra.

Council name

Name	Established
Richmond Municipality	24 April 1855
Richmond Town Council	28 September 1872
Richmond City Council	17 February 1882

Chairman (1856–1862)

	Chairman	Term
1	H Miller	1856–1858
2	P Johnson	1858–1859
3	G Coppin	1859–1861
4	J Russell	1861–1862

Mayors (1862–1982)

	Mayor	Term
6	Philip Johnson	1862–1863
7	Hutton Oddy	1863–1864
8		1864–1866
9	Joseph Griffiths	1866–1867
10	Cornelius Stewart	1867–1868
11	Michael Egan	1868–1869
12	James Hosie	1869–1870
13	William Gleadell	1870–1871
14	William Wallace Shelley	1871–1972
15	Henry Farmer	1872–1873
16		1873–1875
17	William Gleadell	1875–1976
18	Thomas Edward Weaver	1877–1878
19	J F Lancashire	1879–1880
20	Samuel Hartley Roberts	1880–1881
21		1881–1882
22		1882–1883
23	John Adam	1883–1884
24	John C. Winn	1884–1885
25	John McRae	1885–1886
26		1886–1887
27	W Davison	1887–1888
28	John Shanks Jenkins	1888–1889
29	Nathaniel Kingston	1889–1890
30	W Weatherill	1890–1891
31	W A Webb	1891–1892
32	George William Freeman	1892–1893
33	Charles J. Jago	1893–1895
34	Simeon Nathan	1895–1896
35		1896–1897
36	Edward White	1897–1898
37	J H Sheedy	1898–1900
38	Samuel J. Willis	1900–1901
39	Charles J. Jago	1901–1902
40	George R. Admans	1902–1903
41	Edwin Crawcour	1903–1904
42	George Laity	1904–1905
43	George Frederick Aloysius Jones[1]	1905–1906
44	Moses Alexander	1906–1907
45	George William Freeman	1907–1909
46	George Frederick Aloysius Jones	1909–1910
47	David Lloyd Davies	1910–1911
48	Moses Alexander	1911–1913
49	George R. Admans	1912–1913
50		1913–1915
51	Arthur Frederick Fear	1915–1917
52	Harry Palling	1917–1918
53	Hector Jacob Barcelo	1918–1920
54	J H Robinson	1920–1922
55	Arthur Frederick Fear	1922–1923
56	M D Kennedy	1923–1924
57	Alfred C. Mitchell	1924–1925
58	Geoffrey Daniel O'Connell	1925–1927
59	D J Murphy	1927–1928
60		1928–1929
61	Richard Henry Lightfoot	1929–1930
62	Alfred C. Mitchell	1930–1931
63	Hugh Davine	1931–1932
64	Cornelius Anthony (Con) Loughnan	1932–1933
65	C Fitzgerald	1933–1934
66	W Williams	1934–1935
67	P F Donnelly	1935–1936
68	A E Huckerby	1936–1937
69	James Loughnan	1937–1938
70	Paul J. Carroll	1938–1939
71	Richard Henry Lightfoot	1939–1940
72	D L Murphy	1940–1941
73		1941–1942
74	Ernest Patrick (Ern) Boland	1942–1943
75	James Loughnan	1943–1945
76	D L Murphy	1945–1946
77	Paul J. Carroll	1946–1947
78	R S Jackson	1947–1948
79	W Williams	1948–1949
80	P V O'Connell	1949–1950
81		1950–1951
82		1951–1952
83	Gus Coloretti	1952–1953
84	W J Moran	1953–1954
85	F R McFarlane	1954–1955
86	J R Andrews	1955–1956
87	H E Tye	1956–1957
88		1957–1958
89	David Langdon	1958–1959
90	A Bain	1959–1960
91	David Lewis	1960–1961
92	A Price	1961–1962
93	P O'Connell	1962–1963
94	James Loughnan	1963–1964
95		1964–1965
96	C T McGrath	1965–1966
97	Maurice Costello	1966–1967
98	Tom Peluso, then C W Evans	1967–1968
99	A J Brown	1968–1969
100	David Langdon	1969–1970
101	David Lewis	1970–1971
102	F J Johnson	1971–1972
103	C A Evans	1972–1973
104	James Loughnan	1973–1974
105	Ernest Bastow	1974–1975
106	H E Fletcher	1975–1976
107	F R Smith	1976–1977
108	Charles Farquhar	1977–1978
109	Geoff O'Connell	1978–1979
110	F R Smith	1979–1980
111	Geoff O'Connell	1980–1982

Commissioner (1982–1988)

In 1982, the Richmond council was sacked by the state government following a report which revealed allegations of electoral malpractice and fraud. The council was replaced by a state-appointed commissioner to administer the city in its stead until an elected council was restored in 1988.^[2]

Commissioners	Commissioner	Term
	1982–1988

Mayors (1988–1994)

	Mayor	Term
112	Malcolm Graham	1988–1989
113	Jack Softley	1989–1990
114	Maureen Breen	1990–1991
115		1991–1992
116	Rosemary Mason	1992–1993
117	Maureen Breen	1993–1994

City of Yarra mayors (from 1996)

See main article: List of mayors of Yarra.

See also

• Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
• List of mayors of Collingwood
• List of mayors of Fitzroy

External links

• Yarra City Council

References

• Richmond Chairmen and Mayors
• Machine politics, corruption and the Richmond City Council
• History of the City of Yarra, List of Former Mayors

Notes and References

1. News: 1905-09-02 . THE MAYOR AND MAYORESS OF RICHMOND . Richmond Guardian . 2023-08-24.
2. News: The Age. Melbourne, VIC. Democracy returns to Richmond. Luke Slattery. 8 April 1988. 11.