City of Armidale
The City of Armidale was a
Armidale
from 1863 to 2000.
It was proclaimed as the Municipality of Armidale on 13 November 1863 by Governor Sir John Young.[1] The first aldermen were elected at a public meeting in the Armidale courthouse in December 1863, and the first mayor elected in January 1864.[2] The number of aldermen was increased from six to nine in September 1868.[3]
It became the City of Armidale when it was deemed to be a city in March 1885.[4] The boundaries of the city were expanded in 1960 to include areas formerly part of the surrounding Dumaresq Shire.[5]
The City of Armidale was amalgamated with
Armidale Dumaresq Council on 21 February 2000.[6]
Mayors of Armidale
The mayors of the municipality were:[2][7]
- George Allingham (1863-1864)
- Thomas Bryan Fitzgerald (1865)
- John Moore (1866)
- Thomas Bryan Fitzgerald (1867-1868)
- James McLean (1869)
- Thomas John Oliver (1870)
- Bernard Naughten (1870)
- Peter Speare (1871)
- Bernard Naughten (1872)
- John Moore (1873-1875)
- James E. Salmon (1876)
- William Proctor (1877-1879)
- Alexander Richardson (1880-1881)
- John Moore (1882-1885)
- Albert W. Simpson (1886)
- George Holmes (1887)
- William Butler (1888)
- John Trim (1889)
- Charles Wilson (1890)
- William Drew (1891-1892)
- William Murray (1893)
- Charles Wilson (1894-1895)
- George Wigan (1896-1897)
- John B. Fitzgerald (1898-1899)
- David P. Claverie (1900-1901)
- Charles Wilson (1902)
- William H. Watson (1903)
- William Cyril Higinbotham (1904)
- David P. Claverie (1905)
- James Jones (1906)
- William Cyril Higinbotham (1906)
- James Jones (1906-1907)
- James P. Bonnar (1907)
- Charles Wilson (1908)
- Walter J. Hawke (1909)
- William Curtis (1910)
- Walter David Solomons (1911-1912)
- James A. Glass (1912)
- Sydney Kearney (1913)
- Herbert W. Lane (1914-1915)
- William Curtis (1916)
- Alfred Purkiss (1917-1918)
- Walter J. Hawke (1919)
- William Curtis (1920)
- Alfred Purkiss (1921-1922)
- Morgan Stephens (1923-1927)
- Alleine Horner Fletcher (1928)
- William H. Watson (1929-1932)
- Moses H. O’Connor (1933-1937)
- William H. McBean (1938-1941)
- Dalrymple D. H. Fayle (1942)
- Leonard E. Dawson (1943-1944)
- Dalrymple D. H. Fayle (1945-1948)
- Leonard E. Dawson (1949-1950)
- William P. Ryan (1951)
- Thomas Monckton (1952)
- William P. Ryan (1953)
- Davis Hughes (1954-1956)
- Cyril Carey (1957)
- Percy G. Love (1958-1961)
- Lloyd St Clair Piddington (1963-1968)
- John W. Failes (1969-1972)
- Douglas Hewitt (1973-1974)
- Peter Poggioli (1975-1977)
- Douglas Hewitt (1978-1979)
- Claude Cainero (1979-1983)
- Douglas Hewitt (1983-1986)
- Antony C. Deakin (1987)
- Rosemary Leitch (1988-1993)
- Joe Harrold (1994-1995)
- Richard Torbay (1996-2000)
References
- New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 226. New South Wales, Australia. 17 November 1863. p. 2483. Retrieved 24 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b "Municipality of Armidale". Armidale Regional Council. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 241. New South Wales, Australia. 30 September 1868. p. 3357. Retrieved 24 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 122. New South Wales, Australia. 20 March 1885. p. 1881. Retrieved 24 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales. No. 161. New South Wales, Australia. 18 December 1970. p. 5036. Retrieved 24 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Local Government Act 1993. Proclamation (25)". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 18 February 2000. p. 1279. Retrieved 14 January 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Armidale City Council". Armidale Regional Council. Retrieved 24 August 2021.