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 .
Name Established Richmond Municipality 24 April 1855 Richmond Town Council 28 September 1872 Richmond City Council 17 February 1882
Chairman (1856–1862)[ edit ] # Chairman Term 1 H Miller 1856–1858 2 P Johnson 1858–1859 3 G Coppin 1859–1861 4 J Russell 1861–1862
# Mayor Term 6 Philip Johnson 1862–1863 7 Hutton Oddy 1863–1864 8 Joseph Bosisto 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 Charles Smith 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 Samuel Vincent Winter 1881–1882 22 John A. B. Koch 1882–1883 23 John Adam 1883–1884 24 John C. Winn 1884–1885 25 John McRae 1885–1886 26 George Henry Bennett 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 Patrick O'Connor 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 Gordon Webber 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 Bert Cremean 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 Patrick Sheehy 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 Tom Bolger 1950–1951 82 Patrick Sheehy 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 Jack O'Connell 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 Jack O'Connell 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)[ edit ] 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]
# Mayor Term 112 Malcolm Graham 1988–1989 113 Jack Softley 1989–1990 114 Maureen Breen 1990–1991 115 Sang Nguyen 1991–1992 116 Rosemary Mason 1992–1993 117 Maureen Breen 1993–1994
City of Yarra mayors (from 1996)[ edit ] ^ "THE MAYOR AND MAYORESS OF RICHMOND" . Richmond Guardian . 2 September 1905. Retrieved 24 August 2023 . ^ Luke Slattery (8 April 1988). "Democracy returns to Richmond". The Age . Melbourne, VIC. p. 11.