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Mayors of Bedford: 20th Century

2000                Hazel Mary Mitchell   

1999                Carole Maxwell Ellis  

1998                Anthony Victor Ruffin          

1997                Frank Garrick 

1996                Apu Bagchi    

1995                Malcolm Evans          

1994                Derek Alan Jones       

1993                Derek Alan Jones       

1992                Victor George Brandon         

1991                Janice Vera Lennon   

1990                Ray Lawrence Oliver 

1989                Sylvia Anne Gillard   

1988                Elizabeth Jane Luder 

1987                William Astle 

1986                William Astle 

1985                Brian Frank Dillingham         

1984                Victor Storrow           

1983                George Barry Wake   

1982                George Alfred Senior (died in office)

1981                Victor John Wisson    

1980                Douglas Michael Bygrave (died in office)

1979                David Cayley Lennox-Lamb 

1978                Paul James Hooley     

1977                Nora Margaret Polhill

1977                Thomas Robert Donnelly (died in office)

1976                Thomas Robert Donnelly       

1975                Gilbert Cecil White Beazley  

1974                Brian Frank Dillingham (following Local Government reorganisation)

1973                Graham Monro Bates 

1972                Henry Rischmiller      

1971                Winifred Mary Fowler           

1970                Ronald Arthur Whittingham  

1969                William Jarvis Martin 

1968                Kenneth John Robert Birtwistle        

1967                Ronald Sharman        

1966                Thomas Barratt Wooliscroft  

1965                Ronald Arthur Whittingham  

1964                George Reginald Bailey         

1963                George Reginald Bailey         

1962                Alan Godfrey Dawes 

1961                Alan Herbert Randall 

1960                Alan Herbert Randall 

1959                Charles Naylor Barrott (died in office)

1958                Albert Arthur Jones   

1957                Albert Arthur Jones   

1956                Ronald George Gale  

1955                Ronald George Gale  

1954                Clement Alexander Edward Charles Howard           

1953                Clement Alexander Edward Charles Howard           

1952                Cyril Wickings-Smith

1951                Richard Turner           

1950                Richard Turner           

1949                Alfred Leonard Nicholls        

1948                Alfred Leonard Nicholls

1947                Alfred Leonard Nicholls (term of office extended by Local Government Act 1948)

1946                John Albert Canvin    

1945                John Albert Canvin    

1944                John Albert Canvin    

1943                Frederick Arthur Rickard      

1942                Frederick Arthur Rickard      

1941                Albert Maurice Dudeney       

1940                Albert Maurice Dudeney       

1939                Archibald Braggins    

1938                Archibald Braggins    

1937                William Ernest Sowter           

1936                Williarn Ernest Sowter           

1935                Horace Richard Neate

1934                Horace Richard Neate

1933                Horace Richard Neate           

1932                Samuel Blackwell Morling

1931                George Hayward Wells         

1930                Samuel Blackwell Morling

1929                Samuel Blackwell Morling     

1928                Gilbert Henry Barford           

1927                William Nicholls         

1926                Gilbert Henry Barford            

1925                Gilbert Henry Barford            

1924                Gilbert Henry Barford            

1923                Gilbert Henry Barford

1922                Gilbert Henry Barford           

1921                William Nicholls        

1920                William Ernest Sowter           

1919                William Ernest Sowter           

1918                Frederic Rich Hockliffe         

1917                Harry Browning         

1916                Frederic Rich Hockliffe         

1915                Frederic Rich Hockliffe         

1914                Harry Browning         

1913                Harry Browning         

1912                Harry Browning         

1911                William Roff  

1910                John Basil Hope         

1909                Henry William Longhurst      

1908                Edward Lavender Moulton   

1907                Samuel Leach Kilpin  

1906                George Haynes          

1905                George Haynes          

1904                Henry Burridge          

1903                Edward Lavender Moulton   

1903                George Royle  (8th June)

1902                Hedley Baxter (resigned 28 May 1903)

1901                Geoffrey Howard