List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

File:Sir James 1836.jpg

First Adelaide Mayor James Hurtle Fisher ca. 1840

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Three Aldermen who also served as Mayor:
Judah Moss Solomon (1869–71);
James Shaw (1888–9);
Frederick Bullock (1891–2)
ca. 1880

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Adelaide, a local government area of South Australia.

The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of nineteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation, followed by the councillors' election of a mayor. The first mayor was James Hurtle Fisher and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.

Mayors (1840–1919)

	Mayor	Term	Image
1		1840–1842	File:Sir James 1836.jpg
2		1842–1843
3	City managed as Government Department	1843–1849
4	City managed by Commissioners	1849–1852
5		1852
6		1852–1854
7		1854–1855
8		1855–1858
9		1858–1859
10		1859
11		1859–1862
12		1862–1863	File:Thomas English.jpeg
13		1863–1864
14		1864–1866	File:WilliamTownsend-1865-B7002.jpg
15		1866–1869	File:Henry Robert Fuller 2.jpeg
16		1869–1871	File:Judah Moss Solomon.jpeg
17		1871–1873	File:Adolph Bartels.jpeg
18		1873–1874
19		1874–1875	File:John colton.jpg
20		1875–1877	File:CalebPeacock-1878-B8767.jpg
21		1877–1878
22		1878–1879
23		1879–1882	File:ET Smith-1887-B10252.jpg
24		1882–1883
25		1883–1886	File:William Bundey (mayor).jpeg
26		1886–1887
27		1887–1888
28		1888–1889	File:JamesShaw(mayor)-1889-B6226.jpg
29		1889–1890	File:Sir Lewis Cohen.jpg
30		1891–1892	File:F.W.Bullock 1880 B16763 31.jpg
31		1892–1894	File:Sir Charles Willcox.jpg
32		1894–1898	File:CharlesTucker-1902-B6691 36.jpg
33		1898–1901	File:Arthur Wellington Ware.jpg
34		1901–1904
35		1904–1907
36		1907–1909	File:Alderman Johnson.png
37		1909–1911
38		1911–1913	File:John Lavington Bonython-1913-PRG280 1 14 296.jpg
39		1913–1915
40		1915–1917	File:IsaacIsaacs-Mayor.jpg
41		1917–1919	File:Charles Richmond John Glover.jpeg

Lord mayors (since 1919)

The Official styled title of the Lord Mayor of Adelaide is The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide.

The styled title The Right Honourable, (which has no connection with the privy council) attaches to the title of Lord Mayor, and not to their names, and is relinquished upon leaving office.

	Lord Mayor	Term	Image
41		1919	File:CharlesGlover-1919-B55002.jpg
42		1919–1921
43		1921–1923	File:Sir Lewis Cohen.jpg
44		1923–1925
45		1925–1927
46		1927–1930	File:John Lavington Bonython-1913-PRG280 1 14 296.jpg
47		1930–1933
48		1933–1937
49		1937–1941
50		1941–1943
51		1943–1946
52		1946–1949	File:JohnMcLeaySr1962.jpg
53		1949
54		1949–1950
55		1950–1953
56		1954–1957
57		1957–1960
58	, Sir John Glover	1960–1963
59		1963–1966
60		1966–1968
61		1968–1971
62		1971–1973
63		1973–1975
64		1975–1977
65		1977–1979
66		1979–1981
67		1981–1983
68		1983–1985
69		1985–1987
70		1987–1993
71		1993–1997	File:Lord Mayor Henry Ninio.jpg
72		1997–2000
73		2000–2002
74		2002–2010	File:Michael Harbison DF-SD-07-24063.jpg
75		2010–2014	File:Yarwood cropped.jpg
76		2014–2018	File:Martin Haese at the Industry Climate Change Conference 2025 07.jpg
77		2018–2022	File:Sandy Verschoor.jpg
78		2022–present

See also

• City of Adelaide
• Adelaide city centre

External links

• adelaidecitycouncil.com
• How Adelaide became a Lord Mayoralty, adelaidejmuseum.org
• Civic Leaders, adelaidejmuseum.org