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History of Mayors and Lord Mayors in Sheffield
Past Mayors of Sheffield
In Sheffield, our beginnings as a Saxon settlement at the joining of the rivers Don and Sheaf, saw the siting of a Norman castle.
The community developed on the skill and fame of the blade-smiths leading to the establishment by Act of Parliament in 1624 of ‘the Company of Cutlers' in the County of Hallamshire’.
Skill in the fashioning of precious metals led to the establishment of an Assay Office in 1773. As a result of the Municipal Act of 1835, and the Act in 1839 allowing the setting up of local police forces, Sheffield had its first Council formed following an Act of Incorporation on 31 August 1843.
The Council comprised 56 members with William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield.
Past Lord Mayors of Sheffield
In 1893 the style and title of City was given by Royal Charter. The building of the present Town Hall was started in 1891 and opened by Queen Victoria on 21st May 1897. By Royal ‘Grant of the Title’ dated 12 July 1897, the title and dignity of Lord Mayor was conferred on the Chief Magistrate of the City who was, in fact, the Duke of Norfolk.