List of mayors of Birmingham

Lord Mayor of Birmingham
Lord Mayor of Birmingham
	Coat of arms of Birmingham
	Incumbent; Ken Wood, Conservative; since May 2024
Style	Lord Mayor
Member of	Birmingham City Council
Residence	Birmingham
Appointer	Birmingham City Council
Term length	1 Year
Formation	1838
Succession	TBC
Deputy	Chaman Lal
Website	Mayor website

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham has had a mayor (and elected council) since 1838. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor when Queen Victoria issued letters patent on 3 June 1896.^[1]

By modern convention, the Lord Mayor stands for a year, and is installed into office at the Annual Meeting of the City Council. Lord Mayors are non-political and non-executive during their term of office and act as chair of the council. As the First Citizen of Birmingham, the Lord Mayor represents not only the city but also the people of Birmingham. The honour of being Lord Mayor is now usually alternated between the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Groups. In normal circumstances the Lord Mayor becomes Deputy Lord Mayor for the following year.^[2]

Mayors of Birmingham

1838–1895

No.	Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	William Scholefield	1838–1839	1	Second son of Joshua Scholefield, one of Birmingham's first MPs when the town was enfranchised in 1832.
2	Philip Henry Muntz	1839–1840	2	Councillor, alderman, mayor, justice of the peace and representative of Birmingham in Parliament.
3	Samuel Beale	1841	1	MP for Derby between 1857–65. Unitarian.
4	James James	1842	1
5	Thomas Weston	1843	1	Unitarian
6	Thomas Phillips	1844	1
7	Henry Smith	1845	1
8	Robert Martineau	1846	1
9	Charles Geach	1847	1	Founder of the Birmingham & Midland Bank
10	Samuel Thornton	1848	1
11	William Lucy	1849–1850	2
12	Henry Smith	1851	1
13	Henry Hawkes	1852	1
14	James Baldwin	1853	1	Paper manufacturer, owner of James Baldwin & Sons, est. 1829. Unitarian.
15	John Palmer	1854	1	Unitarian
16	T P T Hodgson	1855	1
17	Sir John Ratcliff	1856–1858	3	Also Town Commissioner, Low Baliff, Town Councillor, Alderman
18	Thomas Lloyd	1859	1
19	Arthur Ryland	1860	1
20	Henry Manton	1861	1
21	Charles Sturge	1862	1	Corn merchant, brother of Joseph Sturge
22	William Holliday	1863	1
23	Henry Wiggin	1864	1
24	Edwin Yates	1865	1
25	George Dixon	1866	1	Birmingham MP, was a major proponent of education for all children.
26	Thomas Avery	1866–1867	1	Elected on the resignation of Dixon
27	Henry Holland	1868	1
28	Thomas Prime	1869	1	Silver-plater. Northwood Street. Thomas Prime & Sons.
29	G Braithwaite Lloyd	1870	1
30	John Sadler	1871	1
31	Ambrose Biggs	1872	1	Tobacco product manufacturer and retailer. Declared bankrupt in 1883. Unitarian.
32	Joseph Chamberlain	1873–1876	3	Unitarian.
33	George Baker	1876	1	Elected on the resignation of Chamberlain in June 1876. Second master of Guild of St George.
34	William Kenrick	1877	1
35	Jesse Collings	1878	1
36	Richard Chamberlain	1879–1880	2	Brother of Joseph Chamberlain
37	Thomas Avery	1881	1
38	William White	1882	1
39	William Cook	1883	1	MP for Birmingham East in 1885/1886
40	Sir Thomas Martineau	1884–1886	3
41	Maurice Pollack	1887	1
42	Richard Cadbury Barrow	1888	1
43	Francis Corder Clayton	1889–1890	2
44	Edward Lawley Parker	1891–1892	2
45	George James Johnson	1893	1
46	Thomas Stratton Fallows	1894	1
47	James Smith	1895	2

Lord Mayors of Birmingham

19th century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
1	Sir James Smith	1896	2
2	Charles Gabriel Beale	1897–1899	4	depicted in the gowns of the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
3	Samuel Edwards	1900	1

20th century

Lord Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
John Henry Lloyd	1901-02	1
Sir Hallewell Rogers	1902–04	2	Liberal Unionist^[3]
Rowland Hill Berkeley	1904-05	1	Died 13 April 1905; a great-grandfather of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.^[4]
Charles Gabriel Beale	1905	4
Alfred John Reynolds	1905-06	1
Henry James Sayer	1906–1908	2
Sir George Hamilton Kenrick	1908-09	1
William Henry Bowater	1909–1912	4	Knighted in 1916^[5]
Ernest Martineau	1912–1914	2
William Henry Bowater	1914–1915	4	Elected on the resignation of Martineau in September 1914
Neville Chamberlain	1915–1917	2	March 1915 – December 1916 Son of Joseph Chamberlain and future Prime Minister
Arthur David Brooks	1917–1919	3
William Adlington Cadbury	1919–1921	2	Second son of Richard Cadbury
Sir David Davis	1921–1923	2
Thomas Oswald Williams	1923–1924	1
Percival Bower	1924–1926	2
Alfred Henry James	1926–1928	2
Wilfred Byng Kenrick	1928–1929	1
Martin Lewis Lancaster	1929–1930	1
Walter Willis Saunders	1930–1931	1
Sir John Bedford Burman	1931–1932	1
Horace Edward Goodby	1932–1934	2
Samuel John Grey	1934–1936	2
Harold Roberts	1936–1937	1
Ernest Robert Canning	1937–1938	1
James Crump	1938–1939	1
Theodore Beal Pritchett	1939–1940	1
Sir Wilfred Martineau	1940–1941	1
Norman Tiptaft	1941–1942	1
Walter Samuel Lewis	1942–1943	1
Lionel George Helmore Alldridge	1943–1944	1
William Theophilus Wiggins-Davies	1944–1945	1
Alan Stewart Giles	1945–1946	1
Albert Frederick Bradbeer	1946–1947	1
John Charles Burman	1947–1949	2	Son of Sir John Bedford Burman
Hubert Humphreys	1949–1950	1
Alfred Paddon-Smith	1950–1951	1
Ralph Cyril Yates	1951–1952	1
William Tegfryn Bowen	1952–1953	1
George Henry Wilson Griffith	1953–1954	1
Joseph Reginald Balmer	1954–1955	1
Arthur Lummis Gibson	1955–1956	1
Ernest William Apps	1956–1957	1
John Joseph Grogan	1957–1958	1
Donald Johnstone	1958–1959	1
John Henry Lewis	1959–1960	1
Garnet Benjamin Boughton	1960–1961	1
Eric Edward Mole	1961–1962	1
Ernest Walter Horton	1962–1963	1
Louis Glass	1963–1964	1
Frank Leslie Price	1964–1965	1
George Corbyn Barrow	1965–1966	1
Harold Edward Tyler	1966–1967	1
James Stephen Meadows	1967–1968	1
Charles Valentine George Simpson	1968–1969	1
Neville Bosworth	1969–1970	1	Leader of Birmingham City Council from 1976 to 1980 and 1982 to 1984
Stanley Bleyer	1970–1971	1
Victor Ernest Turton	1971–1972	1
Frederick Thomas Duncan Hall	1972–1973	1
Marjorie Alice Brown	1973–1974	1	The first woman to be Lord Mayor.
Eric James Eames	1974–1975	1
Albert Leslie Samuel Jackson	1975–1976	1
Harold Powell	1976–1977	1
Freda Mary Cocks	1977–1978	1
Edward Frederick Hanson	1978–1979	1
George Canning	1979–1980	1
Joseph Morris Bailey	1980–1981	1
Kenneth Benjamin Barton	1981–1982	1
Peter Hollingworth	1982–1983	1
William John Hele Sowton	1983–1984	1
Reginald John Hales	1984–1985	1
Frank William Carter	1985–1986	1
Alan Denis Martineau	1986–1987	1
Frederick James Grattidge	1987–1988	1
Harold Charles Blumenthal	1988–1989	1
Frederick John Chapman	1989–1990	1
Sir Bernard Philip Zissman ^[6]	1990–1991	1
William Henry Turner	1991–1992	1
Peter James Philip Barwell	1992–1993	1
Paul Tilsley	1993–1994	1
Sir Richard Knowles	1994-1995	1	Leader of Birmingham City Council from 1984 to 1993.
David Roy	1995–1996	1
Marion Arnott-Job	1996–1997	1
Sybil Spence	1997–1998	1	The first Black Lord Mayor.
Susan Anderson	1998–1999	1
Ian McArdle	1999–2000	1
Theresa Stewart	2000–2001	1	Leader of Birmingham City Council from 1993 to 1999.

21st century

No.	Lord Mayor	Tenure	Terms	Notes
92	Jim Whorwood	2001–2002	1
93	Mahmood Hussain	2002–2003	1
94	John Alden	2003–2004	1
95	Mike Nangle	2004–2005	1
96	John Hood	2005–2006	1
97	Mike Sharpe	2006–2007	1
98	Randal Brew	2007–2008	1
99	Chauhdry Abdul Rashid	2008–2009	1
100	Michael Wilkes	2009–2010	1
101	Len Gregory	2010–2011	1
102	Anita Ward	2011–2012	1
103	John Lines	2012–2013	1
104	Mike Leddy	2013–2014	1
105	Shafique Shah	2014–2015	1
106	Ray Hassall	2015–2016	1
107	Carl Rice	2016–2017	1
108	Anne Underwood	2017–2018	1
109	Yvonne Mosquito	2018–2019	1
110	Mohammed Azim	2019–2021	2	Served an extra year due to the COVID-19 pandemic
111	Muhammad Afzal	2021–2022	1	Sworn in 25 May 2021.^[7] He was chosen in 2020, but delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic^[8]
112	Maureen Cornish	2022–2023	1	Mayor making 24 May 2022.^[9]
113	Chaman Lal	2023–2024	1	The first Indian and Sikh descent mayor. Term started 23 May 2023^[10]
114	Ken Wood	2024–2025	1	Sworn in on 21 May 2024.^[11]