List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

Lord Mayor of Adelaide
since November 2022
StyleThe Right Honourable
the Lord Mayor of Adelaide[1]
TypeLord Mayor
Member ofAdelaide City Council
SeatAdelaide, South Australia
AppointerElectors: City of Adelaide
Term length4 years (Renewable indefinitely)
Constituting instrumentCity of Adelaide Act 1998 (SA) s 21
PrecursorMayor of the City of Adelaide (1840-1919)
FormationOctober 1919
First holderJames Hurtle Fisher (as Mayor)
Charles Richmond Glover (as Lord Mayor)
DeputyDeputy Lord Mayor
Salary$195,851 (2022)[2]
WebsiteLord Mayor's Website

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Adelaide, a local government area of South Australia.[3]

The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of nineteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation, followed by the councillors' election of a mayor. The first mayor was James Hurtle Fisher and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.[4]

Mayors (1840–1919)

Mayoral Order Mayor Term Image
1 James Hurtle Fisher 1840–1842
2 Thomas Wilson 1842–1843
3 City managed as Government Department 1843–1849
4 City managed by Commissioners 1849–1852
5 James Hurtle Fisher 1852
6 James Hurtle Fisher 1852–1854
7 Joseph Hall 1854–1855
8 John Lazar 1855–1858
9 William Sabben 1858–1859
10 Edmund William Wright 1859
11 Edward Glandfield 1859–1862
12 Thomas English 1862–1863
13 Samuel Goode 1863–1864
14 William Townsend 1864–1866
15 Henry Robert Fuller 1866–1869
16 Judah Moss Solomon 1869–1871
17 Adolph Heinrich Friedrich Bartels 1871–1873
18 William Dixon Allott 1873–1874
19 John Colton 1874–1875
20 Caleb Peacock 1875–1877
21 Henry Scott 1877–1878
22 William Christie Buik 1878–1879
23 Edwin Thomas Smith 1879–1882
24 Henry Robert Fuller 1882–1883
25 William Bundey 1883–1886
26 Edwin Thomas Smith 1886–1887
27 Sir Edwin Thomas Smith 1887–1888
28 James Shaw 1888–1889
29 Lewis Cohen 1889–1890
30 Frederick William Bullock 1891–1892
31 Charles Willcox 1892–1894
32 Charles Tucker 1894–1898
33 Arthur Wellington Ware 1898–1901
34 Lewis Cohen 1901–1904
35 Theodore Bruce 1904–1907
36 Frank Johnson 1907–1909
37 Lewis Cohen 1909–1911
38 Sir John Lavington Bonython[5] 1911–1913
39 Alfred Allen Simpson 1913–1915
40 Isaac Isaacs 1915–1917
41 Charles Richmond Glover 1917–1919

Lord mayors (since 1919)

The Official styled title of the Lord Mayor of Adelaide is The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide.

The styled title The Right Honourable, (which has no connection with the privy council) attaches to the title of Lord Mayor, and not to their names, and is relinquished upon leaving office.

Lord Mayoral Order Mayoral Order Lord Mayor Term Image
1 41 Charles Richmond Glover 1919
2 42 Frank Beaumont Moulden 1919–1921
3 43 Lewis Cohen 1921–1923
4 44 Charles Richmond Glover 1923–1925
5 45 Wallace Bruce 1925–1927
6 46 Sir John Lavington Bonython 1927–1930
7 47 Charles Richmond Glover 1930–1933
8 48 Jonathan Robert Cain 1933–1937
9 49 Arthur Barrett 1937–1941
10 50 Arden Seymour Hawker 1941–1943
11 51 Reginald Walker 1943–1946
12 52 John McLeay 1946–1949
13 53 Arthur Ernest William Short 1949[6]
14 54 John McLeay 1949–1950
15 55 Arthur Rymill 1950–1953
16 56 John Scott Philps 1954–1957
17 57 Lancelot Morton Spiller Hargrave 1957–1960
18 58 Charles John Glover, Sir John Glover[7] 1960–1963
19 59 James Campbell Irwin 1963–1966
20 60 Walter Lewis Bridgland 1966–1968
21 61 Robert Evelyn Porter 1968–1971
22 62 William Hubert Hayes 1971–1973
23 63 Robert Wyndham Clampett 1973–1975
24 64 John Justin Roche 1975–1977
25 65 George Joseph 1977–1979
26 66 James Vincent Seaton Bowen 1979–1981
27 67 Arthur John Watson 1981–1983
28 68 Wendy Chapman 1983–1985
29 69 James Bickford Jarvis 1985–1987
30 70 Steve Condous 1987–1993
31 71 Henry Jacques Ninio 1993–1997
31 72 Jane Lomax-Smith 1997–2000
33 73 Alfred Huang 2000–2002
34 74 Michael Harbison 2002–2010
35 75 Stephen Yarwood 2010–2014
36 76 Martin Haese 2014–2018
37 77 Sandy Verschoor 2018–2022
38 78 Jane Lomax-Smith 2022–present

See also

References

  1. ^ "Address mayors and members of local governments with the correct title". Commonwealth Style Manual. Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  2. ^ Australia, Remuneration Tribunal of South (22 February 2021). "Local Government Elected Members & CEOs". Remuneration Tribunal of South Australia. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  3. ^ "Lord Mayors and Mayors of the City of Adelaide" (PDF). adelaidecitycouncil.com.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2013.
  4. ^ "History of the Council". adelaidecitycouncil.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013.
  5. ^ Until the widower Bonython remarried in December 1912, his sister Mrs H. A. Parsons served as acting Mayoress at official functions.
  6. ^ A. E. W. Short died within 3 weeks of assuming office
  7. ^ Glover (Family); Glover, Charles Peter, 1828–1881; Glover, Hannah, 1830–1913; Glover, C.R.J. (Charles Richmond John), 1870–1936; Glover, Charles John, Sir, 1902–1969; Glover, C. J. M (1840), Glover family, retrieved 16 August 2019{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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