Totnes, Devon, England received its first borough charter from King John and the recorded list of mayors dates from 1359. The town was incorporated in 1505 with a governing structure consisting of a mayor, recorder and a single council of burgesses. A further charter in 1596 concentrated power in the hands of the town's leading merchants, redefining the corporation as a governing body of 14 ‘masters’, including the mayor, with an inferior council of 20 burgesses. The masters filled vacancies in their ranks by co-option and nominated the mayoral candidates.[1]
The following have been mayors of Totnes:
1396–98: Walter Browning (MP for Totnes), 1388 [2]
1399–1400: Walter Browning
1401–03: Walter Browning
1517-1518: John Giles[3]
1535-37: Christopher Savery[4]
1548-49: Christopher Savery
1556-57: Christopher Savery
1585–86: Nicholas Ball[5]
1589–90: Nicholas Hayman[6]
1593–94: Leonard Darr[7]
1598–99: Philip Holditch (MP for Totnes, 1601) [8]
1605–06: Christopher Wise [9]
1612-13: Richard Rodd[10]
1620: Richard Lee (d.1620)[11]
1621–22: Christopher Wise
1623–24: Philip Holditch II (son of Philip Holditch above, MP for Totnes, 1626) [12]
1638–39: Philip Holditch II
1687 Robert Symons
1718–19: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
1737–38: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
1754-55: Benjamin Babbage (grandfather of Charles Babbage)[13]
1780–81: William Adams (MP for Plympton Erle 1796–1801 and Totnes 1801–11)
1788–89: William Adams
1797–98: William Adams
1866–67: Thomas Edward Owen[14]
1870–1871: Robert W.Chaster
1872: Robert Bourne
1873: James Smith Rose
1874–1875: Jeffery Michelmore
1876–1877: Joseph Roe
1878: John P.F.P.Haines
1879: Jeffery Michelmore
1880–1881: Edward Harris
1882–84: Frederick Bowden [15]
1902-03: Dr. J. G. Gibson[16]
1945–1946: Lilley Ramsden (1st Female Mayor of Totnes)
1950–51: Charles Stanley Jacka [17]
1970–71: Jean M Gilbert [18]
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^Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "HAYMAN, Nicholas (d.1606), of Totnes; later of Dartmouth, Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
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^"RODD, Richard (-d.1633), of Totnes, Devon and Rodd, Herefs. | History of Parliament Online".
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.527, pedigree of "Lee of Pinhoe"
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