List of mayors of Canterbury (New South Wales)

People who served as the mayor of the City of Canterbury are:

This section is an excerpt from City of Canterbury (New South Wales) § Mayors.[edit]
Mayor Party Term start Term end Time in office Notes
  John Sproule Independent 16 June 1879 10 February 1880 239 days [1]
  John Campbell Sharp Independent 10 February 1880 19 February 1883 3 years, 9 days [2][3][4]
  Thomas Austen Davis Independent 19 February 1883 14 February 1884 360 days [5]
  Benjamin Taylor Independent 14 February 1884 3 February 1886 1 year, 354 days [6][7]
  James Slocombe Independent 3 February 1886 13 February 1888 2 years, 10 days [8][9]
  John Campbell Sharp Independent 13 February 1888 24 August 1889 1 year, 192 days [10][11]
  James McBean Independent 24 August 1889 12 February 1890 172 days
  James Charles Stone Independent 12 February 1890 11 February 1891 364 days [12]
  John Quigg Independent 11 February 1891 19 February 1892 1 year, 8 days [13]
  Patrick Joseph Scahill Independent 19 February 1892 15 February 1895 2 years, 361 days [14]
  Sydney Robert Lorking Independent 15 February 1895 16 February 1899 4 years, 1 day [15]
  George Wallace Nicoll Independent 16 February 1899 16 February 1900 1 year [16][17]
  Jeffrey Denniss Independent 16 February 1900 11 February 1904 3 years, 360 days [18][19]
  Benjamin Taylor Independent 11 February 1904 16 February 1906 2 years, 5 days [20][21]
  Jeffrey Denniss Independent 16 February 1906 10 February 1908 1 year, 359 days [22]
  John Edward Draper Independent 10 February 1908 February 1910 2 years [23][24]
  John McCulloch Independent February 1910 February 1911 1 year [25]
  Patrick Joseph Scahill Independent February 1911 February 1912 1 year [26]
  John Edward Draper Liberal Reform February 1912 10 February 1913 1 year [27]
  George Frederick Wells Hocking Labor 10 February 1913 March 1914 1 year [28][29][30]
  James Augustus Wilson Labor March 1914 February 1917 2 years [31]
  Arthur Preston Independent February 1917 February 1920 3 years [32]
  George Frederick Wells Hocking Labor February 1920 11 December 1922 2 years, 304 days [33][34]
  John Henry Ewen Citizens' Progress Party 11 December 1922 7 December 1925 2 years, 361 days [35][36]
  Norman Rydge Labor 7 December 1925 20 December 1926 1 year, 13 days [37]
  Eric Howard Stephenson Labor 20 December 1926 19 December 1927 364 days [38]
  Asa North Labor 19 December 1927 10 December 1928 357 days [39]
  George Harold Bramston Citizens' Progress Party 10 December 1928 8 January 1932 3 years, 29 days [40][41]
  Stanley Parry Independent 8 January 1932 August 1947 15 years, 211 days [42][43]
  Harold McPherson   7 August 1947 December 1948 1 year, 121 days [44]
  Colin Williams   December 1948 6 December 1949 1 year
  Samuel Warren   6 December 1949 December 1951 2 years [45]
  Herbert Reuben Thorncraft   6 December 1951 December 1953 2 years
  George Herbert Mulder Labor December 1953 December 1956 3 years
  Stanley Charles Reuben Squire   December 1956 December 1957 1 year
  R. J. Schofield Independent December 1957 December 1958 1 year
  Stanley Charles Reuben Squire   December 1958 10 December 1959 1 year
  R. J. Schofield Independent 10 December 1959 December 1962 3 years [46]
  Ronald Gordon Pate   December 1962 8 December 1963 1 year
  James Schofield Scott Labor 8 December 1963 10 December 1965 2 years, 2 days [47]
  Alfred James Pate Independent 10 December 1965 December 1967 2 years [48]
  James William Eccles   5 December 1967 December 1968 1 year [49]
  Allan Mulder Labor 8 December 1968 December 1969 1 year
  James William Eccles   December 1969 December 1970 1 year
  James Beaman   December 1970 September 1971 281 days
  Colin Gordon Williams   September 1971 September 1976 5 years
  John Mountford Labor September 1976 October 1980 4 years, 30 days
  Kevin Moss Labor October 1980 September 1987 6 years, 335 days
  John Gorrie Labor September 1987 September 1995 8 years
  Kayee Griffin Labor September 1995 January 2004 8 years, 122 days
  Robert Furolo Labor January 2004 21 October 2011 7 years, 273 days [50]
  Brian Robson Labor 1 November 2011 12 May 2016 4 years, 193 days [51]
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