title: List of mayors of Preston
text: # List of mayors of Preston
  
  The following were mayors of Preston, Lancashire, England:
  
  * 1526-27: James Walton, MP for Preston, 1529
  * 1528-31: Christopher Haydock, MP for Preston, 1529
  * 1532-33: James Walton
  * 1533-34: James Walton
  * 1535 William Wall
  * 1545 Henry Walls MP for Preston, (1545)
  * 1546-46: James Walton
  * 1566 Evan Wall
  * 1696 John Atherton
  * 1700 George Addison
  * 1701-02 Josias Gregson
  * 1702 Geoffrey Rishton
  * 1703 William Lemon
  * 1704 John Atherton
  * 1705 Thomas Winckley
  * 1706 John Chorley
  * 1707 Roger Sudell
  * 1708 George Addison
  * 1709 John Loxham
  * 1710 George Lamplugh
  * 1711 William Graddwell (Gladwell)
  * 1712 Ralph Assheton
  * 1713 Edmund Assheton
  * 1714 Lawrence Wall
  * 1715 William Lemon
  * 1716 Robert Chaddocks
  * 1717 Joseph Curtis
  * 1718 Richard Casson
  * 1719 George Lamplugh
  * 1720 William Graddwell
  * 1721-22 Edmund Assheton
  * 1722 Lawrence Wall
  * 1723 John Thornton
  * 1724 John Clayton
  * 1725 Thomas Garlicke
  * 1726 John Myers
  * 1727 Richard Addison
  * 1728 Joseph Curtis
  * 1729 Edmund Ashton (Assheton)
  * 1730 Lawrence Wall
  * 1731 Sir Edward Stanley, bart.
  * 1732: William Atherton (1703-1745)
  * 1738: William Atherton (1703-1745)
  * 1761-62: Robert Townley Parker, MP for Preston, 1837 and 1852
  * 1868-69: John James Myres, founder of Myres and Newton
  * 1873-74: John James Myres
  * 1802–03: Samuel Horrocks, MP for Preston, 1804
  * 1901-02: Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, MP for Preston, 1865 and Governor-General of Canada
  * 1902-03: Alderman E. Greenwood (Conservative)
  * 1903-04 James Craven
  * 1913-19: Harry Cartmell
  * 1934-35: Robert C. Handley
  * 1946-47: William Beckett
  * 1963-64: Cyril Evan Molyneux
  * 1964-65: Joseph Lund
  * 1965-66: William Beckett
  * 1966-67: Joseph Holden
  * 1982-83: Joseph Saul Pownall
  * 1991-92: Mary Rawcliffe
  
  ## 21st century
  
  Source: Preston City Council
  
  * 2000-01 Joseph Hood
  * 2001-02 Alan Lester Hackett
  * 2002-03 Jonathan Saksena
  * 2003-04 Neil Cartwright
  * 2004-05 Patricia Woods
  * 2005-06 Bhikhu Patel
  * 2006-07 William Tyson
  * 2007-08 Christine Abram
  * 2008-09 John Swindells
  * 2009-10 Keith Sedgewick
  * 2010-11 Albert Richardson
  * 2011-12 Bobby Cartwright
  * 2012-13 Carl Crompton
  * 2013-14 Veronica Afrin
  * 2014-15 Nicholas Pomfret
  * 2015-16 Margaret MacManus
  * 2016-17 John Collins
  * 2017-18 Brian Rollo
  * 2018-19 Trevor Hart
  * 2019-21 David Borrow
  * 2021-22 Javed Iqbal JP
  * 2022-23 Neil Darby
  