Mayors of Solihull

The mayoral history of the Solihull area.

The mayoral history of the Solihull area.

Mayors of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull 1974 to date

  • 2025/2026     Annette Mackenzie
  • 2024/2025     Shahin Ashraf
  • 2023/2024     Diana Holl-Allen
  • 2022/2023     Ken Meeson
  • 2021/2022     Ken Meeson
  • 2020/2021     Stuart Davis
  • 2019/2020     Stuart Davis
  • 2018/2019     Flo Nash
  • 2017/2018     Stuart Davis
  • 2016/2017     Mike Robinson
  • 2015/2016     Glenis Slater
  • 2014/2015     Kate Wild
  • 2013/2014     Joe Tildesley
  • 2012/2013     Ken Hawkins
  • 2011/2012     Irene Chamberlain
  • 2010/2011     Ian Courts
  • 2009/2010     Norman Davies
  • 2008/2009     David Bell
  • 2007/2008     Gary Allport
  • 2006/2007     John Graham Reeve
  • 2005/2006     Alan Martin
  • 2004/2005     Sheila Pittaway
  • 2003/2004     F. Alan Nash
  • 2002/2003     Kate Wild
  • 2001/2002     Beryl Kellie
  • 2000/2001     Honor Cox
  • 1999/2000     Arthur Harper
  • 1997/1999     Peter Hogarth
  • 1995/1997     Les Kyles
  • 1994/1995     Eric Pemberton
  • 1993/1994     Peter Llewellyn
  • 1992/1993     Brian Chapple
  • 1991/1992     Ron Herd
  • 1990/1991     Kenneth Meeson
  • 1989/1990     David Wynne Rees
  • 1989/1989     Richard Lewis (Jan.1989-May 1989)
  • 1988/1988     Reginald Davies (died Nov. 1988)
  • 1987/1988     Richard Lewis
  • 1986/1987     Diana Holl-Allen
  • 1985/1986     Ron Scannell
  • 1984/1985     Geoffrey Norman Gibbons
  • 1983/1984     Miriam Harris
  • 1982/1983     Alan Morrison
  • 1981/1982     Richard Lewis
  • 1980/1981     Gordon William Roberts
  • 1979/1980     Eric Henry Collins
  • 1978/1979     Edward Barlow
  • 1977/1978     Norman Lancelot Green
  • 1976/1977     Peter Frederick Kellie
  • 1975/1976     James Augustine Battersby
  • 1974/1975     Geoffrey Norman Gibbons

Mayors of Solihull County Borough Council 1964-1974

  • 1973/1974    Audrey Emma Godderidge
  • 1972/1973    Norman Bradbeer
  • 1971/1972    Thomas William Clark
  • 1970/1971    Bernard Arthur Arrowsmith
  • 1969/1970    William Henry Pettinger
  • 1968/1969     John Charles Ledbetter
  • 1967/1968    William Ernest Cox
  • 1966/1967    Wynne Martin Thomas
  • 1965/1966    Charles Frederick Baker
  • 1964/1965    Harold Charles Taylor
  • Apr-May 1964 Harold Bernard Shaw

Mayors of Solihull Municipal Borough Council 1954-1964

  • 1963/1964    Harold Bernard Shaw
  • 1962/1963    Joseph Leslie Shepherdson
  • 1961/1962    John William Wall
  • 1960/1961    Percival Edward Lloyd-Lightfoot
  • 1959/1960    Harry William Miller
  • 1958/1959    Edgar Nathaniel Hiley
  • 1957/1958    William Edward Wright
  • 1956/1957    Hubert Moren-Brown
  • 1955/1956    James Wilfrid Davy
  • 1954/1955    Robert Douglas Cooper

Chairmen of Solihull Urban District Council 1932-1954

  • 1953/1954    Robert Douglas Cooper
  • 1951/1953    John Arthur Emlyn Jones
  • 1949/1951    Maurice Walker
  • 1947/1949    Harold Norman Cartwright
  • 1945/1947    John Norman Woollaston
  • 1943/1945    James Harold Malley
  • 1941/1943    Harold Bernard Shaw
  • 1940/1941    Heber Isaac Pedley
  • 1938/1940    Harold William Miller
  • 1937/1938    Ambrose Hopper
  • 1936/1937    Harry Walter Nock
  • 1935/1936    Robert J. Turner
  • Dec.1932/1935 Charles Robinson
  • 1932             Harry Charles Smith

Chairmen of Solihull Rural District Council 1895-1932

  • 1928/1932    David Gee
  • 1927/1928    Tertius Madeley Burman
  • 1925/1927    Joseph Garnett Seymour Browett
  • 1922/1925    Harry Walter Nock
  • 1919/1922    Harry Charles Smith
  • 1917/1919    John Thomas Benjamin Hartley
  • 1911/1917    Charles Blyth
  • 1910/1911    John Gladstone
  • 1901/1910    Tertius Madeley Burman
  • 1896/1901    Charles Burton Blyth
  • 1895/1896    Charles Madeley

Chairmen of Solihull Rural Sanitary Authority 1872-1894

  • 1889/1894    Charles Madeley
  • 1872/1889    Rev. John Howe