Mayors of Ipswich

Mayor of Ipswich – 2000 onwards

• 2024-2025: Elango Elavalakan
• 2023-2024: Lynne Mortimer
• 2022-2023: John Cook
• 2021-2022: Elizabeth Hughes
• 2019-2021: Jan Parry
• 2018-2019: Jane Riley
• 2017-2018: Sarah Barber
• 2016-2017: Roger Fern
• 2015-2016: Glen Chisholm
• 2014-2015: Bill Quinton
• 2013-2014: Hamil Clarke
• 2012-2013: Mary Blake
• 2011-2012: John Le Grys
• 2010-2011: Jane Chambers
• 2009-2010: David Goldsmith
• 2008-2009: David Hale
• 2007-2008: Inga Elisabeth Lockington
• 2006-2007: Henry George Davies
• 2005-2006: William George Wright
• 2004-2005: Roger Edwin Fern
• 2003-2004: Penelope Kathryn Breakwell
• 2002-2003: Richard Risebrow
• 2001-2002: Maureen Carrington-Brown
• 2000-2001: Don Edwards

Mayor of Ipswich – 1950-2000

• 1999-2000: John Charles Mowles
• 1998-1999: George Hamilton Clarke MBE
• 1997-1998: Mrs Jeannette E Macartney
• 1996-1997: Philip H L Smart
• 1995-1996: Albert W Grant
• 1994-1995: Ian Roderick Grimwood
• 1993-1994: Mrs Margaret Alderton
• 1992-1993: Mrs Joan Cubbin
• 1991-1992: Kenneth Wilson
• 1990-1991: Jack West
• 1989-1990: Ms Sheila Baguley
• 1988-1989: William A Quinton
• 1987-1988: Derek Warsop
• 1986-1987: Mrs Gillian Auton
• 1985-1986: Eric Grant
• 1984-1985: Peter K Gardiner
• 1983-1984: Douglas Grimwood
• 1982-1983: Mrs Beryl James
• 1981-1982: Mrs Ann Smith
• 1980-1981: Sydney Mason
• 1979-1980: Eric Grant
• 1978-1979: Alan Seabrooke
• 1977-1978: David Myer
• 1976-1977: Hugh R Davis
• 1975-1976: Mrs Beryl James
• 1974-1975: Arthur J Lambert
• 1973-1974: Mrs Ruby Ann Skerritt
• 1972-1973: Walter Horace Mulley
• 1971-1972: Cyril George Skinner
• 1970-1971: Wallace Mortimer Morfey
• 1969-1970: Samuel William Teagar Godward
• 1968-1969: Owen Sturly Nunn / Mrs Marjorie J Nesby
• 1967-1968: Arthur J Lambert
• 1966-1967: Mrs Marjory Keeble
• 1965-1966: Victor Robert Redvers Francis
• 1964-1965: Edward Charles Grimwade
• 1963-1964: John McClennan Stewart
• 1962-1963: Arthur Vernon Bishop
• 1961-1962: Mrs Charlotte Green
• 1960-1961: Percy John Fowler
• 1959-1960: Richard James Lewis
• 1958-1959: George William Pipe
• 1957-1958: Robert Ratcliffe
• 1956-1957: Phineas Weiner Lewis
• 1955-1956: Christopher Gorden Rushen
• 1954-1955: Clifford Gerald Roper
• 1953-1954: Mrs Lesley Lewis
• 1952-1953: James Chalmers
• 1951-1952: Albert John Colthorpe
• 1950-1951: Cyril Catchpole

Mayor of Ipswich – 1900-1950

• 1949-1950: Arthur James Cook
• 1947-1949: James Barry Cullingham
• 1946-1947: Mrs Mary Whitmore
• 1945-1946: Frederick Henry Warner
• 1944-1945: Sidney Charles Grimwade
• 1943-1944: Charles West English
• 1942-1943 (Dec-Nov): Owen Dudley Phillips
• 1942 (Nov-Dec): Frank John Mason
• 1940-1941: Robert Frederick Jackson
• 1938-1939: Edward Lawrence Hunt
• 1937-1938: George Underwood
• 1936-1937: Albert Victor Smith
• 1935-1936: Hubert Ernest Holland
• 1934-1935: George Ambrose Mallett
• 1933-1934: Robert Frederick Jackson
• 1931-1933: George William Senton
• 1930-1931: Sidney Charles Grimwade
• 1929-1930: Arthur Lewis Clouting
• 1928-1929: James Francis Clark Hossack
• 1927-1928: William Rowley Elliston
• 1926-1927: Charles Ernest Tempest
• 1925-1926: Kavas Jamas Badshah
• 1924-1925: Frederick William Turner
• 1923-1924: John Richard Staddon
• 1922-1923: Alfred Sizer
• 1921-1922: William Pipe
• 1920-1921: Frank John Mason
• 1919-1920: Frederick Edward Rands
• 1918-1919: Edward Colby Ransome
• 1917-1918: Henry Dixon Phillips
• 1916-1917: Valentine Desborough Colchester
• 1915-1916: Sydney Brand
• 1914-1915: John Dupois Cobbold
• 1913-1914: William Pipe
• 1912-1913: Edward Colby Ransome
• 1911-1912: Frederick Edward Rands
• 1910-1911: Philip Wyndham Cobbold
• 1909-1910: Alexander Gibb
• 1908-1909: Francis Charles Ward
• 1907-1908: Harry W Raffe
• 1906-1907: William Orford White
• 1905-1906: Bunnell H Burton
• 1904-1905: John Henry Grimwade
• 1903-1904: Frederick Bennett
• 1902-1903: William John Catchpole
• 1901-1902: Arthur Charles Churchman
• 1900-1901: William Fraser Paul

Mayor of Ipswich – 1850-1900

• 1899-1900: William Alfred Churchman
• 1898-1899: Edwin Perkins Ridley
• 1897-1898: Robert Stocker Paul
• 1896-1897: Felix Thornley Cobbold
• 1895-1896: George Francis Josselyn
• 1894-1895: John Henry Bartlet
• 1893-1894: Samuel Richard Anness
• 1892-1893: Roderick Donald Fraser
• 1891-1892: Sir Daniel Ford Goddard
• 1890-1891: Frederick Turner
• 1889-1890: Nathaniel Catchpole
• 1888-1889: John Henry Josselyn
• 1887-1888: Robert Maplestone Miller
• 1886-1887: Edward Packard Jnr
• 1885-1886: Benjamin Page Grimsey
• 1884-1885: Sterling Westhorp
• 1883: John May Jnr
• 1882-1883: Edward Rush Turner
• 1881-1882: Frederick Fish
• 1880-1881: Alfred Wrinch
• 1879-1880: David Henry Booth
• 1878-1879: Alexander Francis Nicholson
• 1877-1878: Charles Henry Cowell
• 1876-1877: Walter Turner
• 1875-1876: George Calver Mason
• 1873-1875: Dr Barrington Chevallier
• 1872-1873: Ebenezer Goddard
• 1870-1872: George Green Sampson
• 1869-1870: Edward Grimwade
• 1868-1869: Edward Packard Snr
• 1867-1868: John Patteson Cobbold
• 1866-1867: Robert Charles Ransome
• 1865-1866: Ebenezer Goddard
• 1864-1865: Samuel Harrison Cowell
• 1862-1863: George Bacon
• 1860-1861: Edward Grimwade
• 1859-1860: George Josselyn
• 1858-1859: Jeremiah Head
• 1857-1858: Ebenezer Goddard
• 1855-1857: George Christopherson
• 1854-1855: Peter Bartholomew Long
• 1853-1854: Charles Foote Gower
• 1852-1853: Samuel Harrison Cowell
• 1851-1852: George Josselyn
• 1850-1851: Peter Bartholomew Long

Mayor of Ipswich – 1836-1850

• 1849-1850: Thomas Baldock Ross
• 1848-1849: Charles Burton
• 1847-1848: John May Snr
• 1846-1847: George Green Sampson
• 1845-1846: Thomas d'Eye Burroughes
• 1844-1845: William Rodwell
• 1843-1844: William May
• 1842-1843: George Josselyn
• 1841-1842: John Chevallier Cobbold
• 1840-1841: Peter Bartholomew Long
• 1839-1840: John May Snr
• 1838-1839: George Green Sampson
• 1837-1838: Peter Bartholomew Long
• 1836-1837: Frederick Francis Seekamp
• 1836: Benjamin Brame