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