Mayor of New Plymouth

New Plymouth has had 27 mayors:

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	Name	Portrait	Term
1	Arthur Standish[4]		1876–1878
2	Albert Cracroft Fookes[5]		1878–1879
3	James Davidson[6]		1879–1881
4	William Bayly[7]		1881–1884
5	James Paul[8]		1884–1886
(4)	William Bayly[7]		1886–1888
6	John Barton Roy[9]		1888–1889
7	James Bellringer[10]		1889–1893
(6)	John Barton Roy[9]		1893–1897
8	Edward Dockrill[11]		1897–1903
9	Richard Cock[12]		1903–1906
(8)	Edward Dockrill[11]		1906–1908
10	Gustave Tisch[13]		1908–1911
11	George William Browne		1911–1914
12	J. E. Wilson		1914–1915
13	Charles Hayward Burgess		1915–1919
14	James Clarke		1919–1920
15	Frank Edwin Wilson[14][15]		1920–1927
16	Victor Griffiths		1927–1933
17	Everard Gilmour[16]		1933–1953
18	Edward Hill[16]		1953–1956
19	Alfred Honnor[16]		1956–1968
20	Denis Sutherland[16]		1968–1980
21	David Lean[16]		1980–1992
22	Claire Stewart[16]		1992–2001
23	Peter Tennent[16]		2001–2010
24	Harry Duynhoven[16][17]		2010–2013
25	Andrew Judd[18][16]		2013–2016
26	Neil Holdom[18][16]		2016–2025
27	Max Brough[1]		2025–present

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James Clarke died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash while in office;^[49] when the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920.^[50] Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening.^[51]

Frank Edwin Wilson died in office on 14 November 1927; the cause of death was believed to be cerebral meningitis.^[52] The deputy mayor, Victor Griffiths, was subsequently elected unopposed to the position of mayor on 6 December 1927.^[34]

Gustave Tisch also died while in office as the result of an illness.^[53]

James Bellringer died in 1901 whilst in the position of deputy mayor.^[20] Bellringer was not present at the Borough Council meeting on 10 June 1901 and, in his absence, was elected deputy mayor, due to his seniority.^[19] He died roughly a week later.