"To do this, however, he is forced to break an engagement with a woman named Lucetta, who had nursed him when he was ill. Donald Farfrae, a young and energetic Scotsman passing through Casterbridge, helps Henchard by showing him how to salvage substandard grain he has bought. Henchard takes a great liking to the man and persuades him not to emigrate. Henchard hires him as his corn factor, rudely turning away a man named Jopp to whom he had already offered the job. Farfrae is extremely successful in the role, and increasingly outshines his employer. When he catches the eye"
"Stephen Foster (Lord Mayor of London) Sir Stephen Foster (fl. 1454) was a fishmonger and later Lord Mayor of London. He was the son of Robert Foster of London, a stockfish merchant. Elected Sheriff of London in 1444, he became Lord Mayor of London in 1454, and served as the city's Member of Parliament in King Henry VI's 13th parliament. According to historian John Strype, Foster married a widow named Agnes, who enlarged Ludgate prison (where Foster had at one time been imprisoned for debt) and improved conditions for those incarcerated therein. Agnes and Stephen Foster appear as characters in"
"commission to council–manager form. The council was then composed of seven aldermen, one of whom would be elected internally as a mayor. As well, a city manager was appointed by city council to administer its policies. The new elections were held in June 1928. In their first meeting, on 23 July 1928, council elected Robert Barrowman as their mayor. In 1961, city electors voted in favour of electing their mayor directly. In 1962, they elected Frank Sherring as mayor. Seven years later, the number of aldermen was increased from six to eight. Every four years, the City of Lethbridge holds"
"charter making it a borough with a mayor. The mayor, assisted by ten burgesses and serving for up to three years, had executive and judicial powers. The first mayor was John Lockey. In 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I, a Protestant baker from Yorkshire, George Tankerfield, was brought from London and burnt to death on Romeland for his refusal to accept the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. During the English Civil War (1642–45) the town sided with parliament but was largely unaffected by the conflict. The bridge over the River Ver in St Michael's Street, adjacent to Kingsbury"
"George Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge George Thomas Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge (13 February 1869 – 17 April 1952) was a British Conservative Party politician, most prominently in the City of London. Broadbridge was sometime Alderman of the Candlewick Ward of the City and then Sheriff of the City of London from 1933 to 1934 and became Master of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners that year. He then became Lord Mayor of London in 1936 and on leaving that office a year later, was created a baronet. He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of London"
"he married Elizabeth Luxmore (1727-1796) the daughter of Henry Luxmore of Okehampton, Devon but the couple had no children. He died in 1776 and Elizabeth continued to live at the house until her death in 1796. Christopher Lethbridge (1760-1830) became the owner of the property soon after this. It is possible that he inherited the house as he was Elizabeth’s nephew. His mother was Sibella Luxmore, Elizabeth’s sister and his father was the Reverend John Lethbridge (1723-1796) of Launceston. Christopher became a lawyer and prominent member of the community. He was Town Clerk for three periods and Mayor three times,"
"Karen Farbridge Karen J. Farbridge is a Canadian politician, the former mayor and a former city councillor of the city of Guelph, Ontario. Farbridge was born in Woking, England the oldest of three siblings. When she was three years old she moved to Canada with her family for her father's work. Her father, Joseph Farbridge, was an aeronautical engineer who moved to Canada to work with de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. Farbridge was first elected to Guelph City Council in 1994, and served until her first election as mayor in the 2000 municipal election. She served until 2003, when"
"who was father of two baronets. His daughters married John Gore, Christopher Clitherow and Anthony Abdy. Thomas Cambell Sir Thomas Cambell (c. 1536 – 13 February 1614) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1609. Cambell was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. He was auditor for the city from 1584 to 1586, from 1588 to 1590 and from 1596 to 1598 and member of the committee of the East India Company from 1500 to 1600. On 14 November 1599 he was elected an alderman of the City"
"James Cambell Sir James Cambell or Campbell (1570 – 5 January 1642) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1630. Cambell was the son of Sir Thomas Campbell, Alderman of the City of London, and his wife Alice Bright, daughter of Edward Bright of London. He was a grandson of Robert Campbell of Foulsham, Norfolk. Like his father, Campbell became a City merchant and joined the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. He was elected Sheriff of London in 1614 but did not take office immediately. He was Master of the Ironmongers' Company in 1615. In 1619, he"
"Postmaster General by Lord Salisbury, a post he held until early 1900, when he resigned in order to serve in the Boer War. In 1895 he also became Mayor of Sheffield; serving two terms during which he arranged the city's monumental celebrations in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Shortly thereafter he was appointed the first Lord Mayor of Sheffield, but retained the office only until November 1897. He was appointed an honorary Freeman of the City of Sheffield three years later. In November 1900 he became the first Mayor of Westminster and, at age 53, went to"
"A. G. Bainbridge Alexander Gilbert (""Buzz"") Bainbridge (1885–1936) was a theater manager who also served as the 31st mayor of Minneapolis. Bainbridge was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1885. At the age of 17 he began working as a bill poster for the Sells-Forepaugh Brothers Circus. He later advanced to working as a press agent for the Barnum & Bailey Circus. He also worked with theaters in Chicago during summers and with The 101 Ranch Wild West Show during the winter. He later relocated to Minneapolis and, from the 1920s through the 1930s, he managed the Shubert Theater. He also"
"a 14-month term as mayor. The Woodbridge Democratic Party nominated McCormac as their candidate in the special election. State Senator Joseph Vitale was appointed to serve as mayor until the special election winner was certified. McCormac took office as mayor on November 13, 2006. He is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, John McCormac John E. McCormac is an American Democratic Party politician, who is serving as the Mayor of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. He served as State Treasurer of New Jersey for four years in the cabinets of former Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey and"
"Bishop of London, nephew of John Kemp (died 1489). When Sir Thomas Kempe died c.1607 without male issue, Olantigh was sold to Sir Timothy Thornhill. In 1679 John Locke spent some time at Olantigh acting as doctor for Caleb Banks, then a guest there of Henry Thornhill. In 1711, Richard Thornhill, the grandson of Timothy Thornhill became hopelessly involved in drinking and gambling, and Olantigh was purchased in 1720 by Jacob Sawbridge, one of the directors of the South Sea Company, in the year of “The South Sea Bubble”. In 1773, John Sawbridge, the then ruling squire, became Lord Mayor"
"Frank Sherring Frank Sherring (August 7, 1914 – September 23, 2007) was an auto dealer and politician in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Sherring served as the 21st mayor of Lethbridge from 1962–1968, and he was the first mayor to be elected by the general populace rather than by Lethbridge City Council. One of Lethbridge's business parks is named after him. In 1947, Sherring and his wife Violet moved to Lethbridge, then with a population of 16,000. He started work as a gas station attendant before working for a Ford dealership where he eventually became a manager. Sherring spent much of his"
"and defeated Joe Fabbro for the mayoralty in the municipal election of December 1965. While serving as mayor, he sat on a committee of mayors appointed to study the feasibility of Northern Ontario separating from Ontario to form a new province, alongside G. W. Maybury of Kapuskasing, Ernest Reid of Fort William, Leo Del Villano of Timmins, Merle Dickerson of North Bay and Leo Foucault of Espanola. He died on October 5, 1966, after less than a year in office. Max Silverman Max Silverman (August 25, 1900 – October 5, 1966) was a Canadian ice hockey manager and politician. As"
"Roland Gwynne Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Roland Vaughan Gwynne, DSO, DL, JP (16 May 188215 November 1971), was Mayor of Eastbourne, Sussex, from 1928 to 1931. He was also a patient, close friend, and probable lover of the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. Gwynne's father made a fortune in the nineteenth century from an engineering business, Gwynnes Limited, and bought estates in Sussex with the proceeds. Gwynne's mother, May, was 41 when he was born. He was the last of nine children (though two had died). Until the age of 13, he was dressed by his mother as a girl"
"John E. Kerrigan John E. Kerrigan (October 1, 1908 – May 2, 1987) was the acting Mayor of Boston in 1945 after then-Mayor Maurice J. Tobin became Governor of Massachusetts. Kerrigan was born on October 1, 1908, and was a graduate of South Boston High School. He began serving on the Boston City Council in 1933. He was council president in 1938, 1944, and 1945. He also served one term in the Massachusetts Senate, 1939–1941. As president of the Council in 1945, Kerrigan became acting Mayor of Boston upon the inauguration of Maurice J. Tobin, who had been mayor since"
"became a member of the committee of the East India Company again until 1607 and was governor of the East India Company for 1603 and 1604. He was knighted on 26 July 1603. In 1604 he was Master of the Ironmongers Company. In 1609, he was elected Lord Mayor of London. He became alderman for Bread Street in 1610 and for Coleman Street in 1611. In 1613 he was Master of the Ironmongers Company again. Cambell married Alice Bugle, daughter of Edward Bugle, merchant of London. He was the father of James Cambell Lord Mayor in 1629 and Robert Cambell"
"home town of Cromer, under the management of the Goldsmiths' Company. Bartholomew Reade Sir Bartholomew Reade (or Rede; d. 1505) was an English goldsmith and politician who served as Lord Mayor of London. Reade was born in Cromer, Norfolk. His parents were Roger Reade (d. 1470) and his wife Catherine, and he had at least two siblings, John and Simon. He was already well-established in London by 1486, when he is mentioned in his mother's will as a ""citizen and goldsmith of London"". Reade, a goldsmith, was for several years the Master of the Mint. Along with Lord Daubeney, he"
"and Coleman Street between 1546–1558, Sheriff of London in 1545–1546, and Lord Mayor of London in 1552-1553. Knighted on 11 April 1553, he was one of the City fathers who signed the letters patent of King Edward VI which passed the crown to the Protestant Lady Jane Grey. Though consequently treated with some suspicion under the Catholic sovereigns Philip and Mary after Jane's execution, there is no evidence that he had strong Protestant sympathies but was merely acting in the interests of the City and its élite. Regarded by some as a stern moralist, he died on 18 February 1558"
"Guy Padgett Guy V. Padgett III (born 1977) is a former American municipal politician from Wyoming. A member of the Casper, Wyoming City Council from 2003 to 2009, he was mayor of Casper from 2005 to 2006. He is a Democrat. He came out as gay while on the city council in 2003, becoming the state's first openly gay elected official. Despite Wyoming's reputation for being politically conservative and the murder of Casper native Matthew Shepard in nearby Laramie in 1998, Padgett was unanimously elected mayor by the council in 2005. He reportedly enjoyed great popularity among his constituents, including"
"elected alderman of Castle Baynard Ward, removing to Candlewick Ward on 10 July 1576. He became Sheriff of the City of London on 1 August 1575, and was chosen Lord Mayor on 29 September 1583. On 14 December he asked Francis Walsingham to prevent carriers travelling in the suburbs of London by packhorse or cart on the sabbath-day. On 31 December he informed the council that he had committed to Bridewell Irish beggars found in the streets of London, and asked that they might be sent back to Ireland and no more permitted to come to London. More than once"
"London. He was defeated in London at the general election in September 1780, but one of his successors, John Kirkman, who died on the day when the polls closed and had been returned posthumously. Sawbridge was returned without a contest at the resulting by-election in November 1780, and was re-elected in 1784 and 1790, holding the seat until his death on 21 February 1795, aged 62. However, he was less active in the parliament of 1790 and was paralysed in the last three years of his life He was a Sheriff of London in 1770 and elected Lord Mayor of"
"first member of the Metropolitan Council to ascend to the office of Mayor. Mayor Barry was sworn in on September 25, 2015 along with the 2015-2019 members of the Metropolitan Council. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Member resigned or died before the next election date. On December 18, 2004, Chester Hughes died from brain cancer. C. Whitson and Tommy Bradley resigned on September 20, 2005 and March 16, 2006, respectively. Michael Kersetter resigned April 5, 2006 to run for a seat on the Metro school board. Chester Hughes was replaced by Walter Hunt. Jim Hodge replaced Michael Kerstetter. Robert Duvall replaced Tommy Bradley. Emily"
"became extinct on his death. Edward Carbutt Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt, 1st Baronet (22 July 1838 – 8 October 1905) was an English mechanical engineer and a Liberal politician. He served as President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers . Carbutt was the youngest son of Francis Carbutt (1792–1874) of Chapel Allerton in Leeds. He was a linen and cloth merchant who became a justice of the peace, Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1848/1849, and a director of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway. Edward Carbutt went into business as a mechanical engineer in Leeds. When he was 24 (circa 1862)"
"Kathleen Ollerenshaw Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, (née Timpson; 1 October 1912 – 10 August 2014) was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. Born Kathleen Mary Timpson in Withington, Manchester, where she attended Lady Barn House School (1918–1926). She was a grandchild of the founder of the Timpson shoe repair business, who had moved to Manchester from Kettering and established the business there by 1870. Deaf since the age of eight, her fascination with mathematics was inspired by her"
"accident into the River Thames from a house on (or near) London Bridge at an early age. The hero of this story (first published from family tradition by John Strype in 1720), who dived in and rescued her, was Hewett's apprentice Edward Osborne (c.1530–1592), whose service to him began in 1544 or 1545, becoming free in 1553. Hewett therefore laid the foundations of Osborne's future success. Augustine Hynde, slightly junior to Hewett, became Master of the Company in August 1545 and was chosen alderman in April 1546. Tolous, who should have been the first Clothworker Lord Mayor, died in 1548,"
"mayoralties of both Tunbridge Wells and Kensington. He was also elected to the London County Council as one of the ""Moderates"" (linked to the Conservatives) who opposed the ""Progressive"" (linked to the Liberals) majority. He served as Deputy Chairman of the council in 1903–04, and was leader of the ""Municipal Reform Party"" (the more active title assumed by the Moderates) in 1907 when, in a bitterly fought election, they won a remarkable majority against what they denounced as the Progressives' extravagance and wastefulness. After forming the first Municipal Reform administration, he served as Chairman of the council in 1908–09. He"
"Thomas Cambell Sir Thomas Cambell (c. 1536 – 13 February 1614) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1609. Cambell was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. He was auditor for the city from 1584 to 1586, from 1588 to 1590 and from 1596 to 1598 and member of the committee of the East India Company from 1500 to 1600. On 14 November 1599 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Bridge Without ward and elected Sheriff of London for 1602. In 1601 he"
"director of the Suspension Bridge Bank, which failed in 1844. He was later named Indian superintendent. He died at Queenston, Canada West. He was the father of Dr James Thorburn. David Thorburn (politician) David Thorburn (1790 – November 1862) was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in Upper Canada. He represented 3rd Lincoln in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1835 to 1844 as a Reformer. He was born in Roxburghshire and came to Upper Canada in 1817. He served in the militia and was a justice of the peace for the Niagara District. After the election of John"
"the following Mayoral year. He was a Colonel in the Honourable Artillery Company from 1795 till hs death. He died in 1805 at his home in Upper Homerton, Middlesex. He had married Margaret, the daughter of Isaac Roberdeau of Spitalfields, and had a son and 3 daughters. Paul Le Mesurier Paul Le Mesurier (23 February 1755 – 9 December 1805) was a Guernsey-born merchant, shipowner, director of the East India Company, a Member of Parliament and the Lord Mayor of London. He was born the son of John Le Mesurier, the hereditary Governor of Alderney. In 1776 he went into"
"Christopher Lethbridge (d.1670) Christopher Lethbridge (died 1670) of Exeter in Devon, was Mayor of Exeter in 1660, and is one of the ""Worthies of Devon"" of the biographer John Prince, (1643–1723). His mural monument survives in St Mary Arches Church in Exeter. He was born at Walson, an estate listed in the Domesday Book of 1066, in the parish of Clannaborough, north of Okehampton and Crediton in Devon. The parish of Clannaborough adjoined on the south-west to the parishes of Bow, alias Nymet Tracy, and of Broad Nymet, of which latter he was lord of the manor at his death."
"Josiah Trowbridge Josiah Trowbridge (1785–1862) was mayor of Buffalo, New York, serving in 1837. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts on September 29, 1785. In 1808 or 1809, he was licensed to practice as a physician and began work in Weathersfield, Vermont. He arrived at Buffalo in 1811. During the War of 1812, he joined the Buffalo Light Artillery Company and tended to the wounded during the first assault on Black Rock and during the burning of the village on December 31, 1813, Trowbridge was one of the last to leave, helping to secure the safety of the women and"