MAYORS OF PONTEFRACT FROM 1884 to 1973

Reproduced from:
The Mayors, Councillors, Aldermen and Members of Parliament
of the Borough of Pontefract
until the end, 1974.
John O.E. Holmes, Printer, Pontefract.

MAYORS OF PONTEFRACT

Richard Holmes’ book lists Mayors to 409, the list below completes the list to the dissolution of the Borough of Pontefract when the property and rights of the Borough were taken over by the City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.

For a time the Mayoral Chain and Mace were displayed in Pontefract Museum, but following the theft of Dewsbury’s Chain it was thought wiser to keep them secure when not in use. The Wakefield M.D.C. Mayor does use the Pontefract Chain often when in Pontefract on Mayoral business.

John O.E. Holmes, 1993.