title: Mayor of Timaru
text: # Mayor of Timaru
  
  The mayor of Timaru is the directly elected head of the Timaru District Council, the local government authority for the Timaru District in New Zealand, which it controls as a territorial authority.
  
  ## List of officeholders
  
  There have been 40 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868. The current mayor is Nigel Bowen, who was first elected in the 2019 local elections.
  
  | | Name | Term | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Samuel Hewlings | 1868–1870 | |
  | 2 | Henry Cain | 1870–1873 | |
  | 3 | George Cliff | 1873–1875 | |
  | 4 | James Sutter | 1875–1876 | |
  | (3) | George Cliff | 1876–1879 | second term |
  | (4) | James Sutter | 1879–1882 | second term |
  | 5 | John Jackson | 1882–1886 | |
  | 6 | Moss Jonas | 1886–1888 | |
  | 7 | David Mitchell Ross | 1888–1891 | |
  | 8 | Andrew Sherratt | 1891–1893 | |
  | 9 | Jacob Hill | 1893–1896 | |
  | 10 | John James Grandi | 1896–1898 | |
  | 11 | James Stephen Keith | 1898–1899 | |
  | 12 | John Hole | 1899–1901 | |
  | 13 | Charles Macintosh | 1901–1902 | |
  | 14 | James Craigie | 1902–1912 | |
  | 15 | Tom Hawkey | 1912–1913 | |
  | 16 | William Angland | 1913–1914 | |
  | 17 | Edwin Rowland Guinness | 1914–1917 | |
  | 18 | James Maling | 1917–1919 | |
  | 19 | William Chute Raymond | 1919–1921 | |
  | 20 | Frank Rolleston | 1921–1923 | |
  | 21 | George John Wallace | 1923–1929 | |
  | (16) | William Angland | 1929–1931 | second term |
  | 22 | Thomas W. Satterthwaite | 1931–1936 | |
  | 23 | Percy Vinnell | 1936–1938 | died 1938 |
  | 24 | Percy Barnes Foote | 1938 | |
  | 25 | William Glenholme Tweedy | 1938–1942 | |
  | 26 | Stanley Hanan | 1942–1950 | died in office |
  | 27 | William Leslie Richards | 1950–1953 | |
  | 28 | Ronald Erle White | 1953–1959 | OBE 1959 |
  | 29 | Muriel Hilton | 1959–1962 | née Venn; MBE 1976 |
  | 30 | Charles Edward Thomson | 1962–1965 | |
  | 31 | Durham Robert Dowell | 1965–1971 | resigned |
  | 32 | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1971 | MNZM 1996 |
  | 33 | Charles Russell Hervey | 1971–1977 | QSO 1982 |
  | (32) | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1977–1982 | second term |
  | 34 | Mrs Helene D.L. McIver | 1982–1986 | |
  | 35 | Dave Walker | 1986–1989 | |
  | 36 | Archie Houstoun | 1989–1992 | MBE 1992 |
  | 37 | Wynne Raymond | 1992–2004 | |
  | 38 | Janie Annear | 2004–2013 | ONZM 2014 |
  | 39 | Damon Odey | 2013–2019 | |
  | 40 | Nigel Bowen | 2019–present | |
  