Current Mayor
Elisabeth Roberts
Many families of children and young people with autism and other neurological conditions, will know Elisabeth for her work through Jigsaw Community, which provides a variety of support for families across Shrewsbury and Shropshire.
She has advocating voluntarily, for children who have been unable to access both suitable education and the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, now called BeeU, whilst also providing interventional support for young people who needed to talk.
Her own twins now 20 years old, are both autistic and are the reason why Elisabeth turned in this direction, after her son specifically was repeatedly failed within both services, and the heart-breaking attempt to take his own life at just 6 years old after being illegally expelled from school.
The experiences Elisabeth had, fighting alone for basic services for her children, gave her the knowledge and understanding on how to provide the emotional support that she wished that she had, whilst also providing the theoretical information that many more families’ have needed and still do.
Attending Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital, CCG & SSSFT meetings each month, to bring forward the lived experiences of children and their families, to their public meetings was the only way that Elisabeth felt those who could provide better services, would act.
Since being elected to Shrewsbury Town Council in 2021, Elisabeth has worked on youth services, the recreation and leisure committee and has helped Harlescott Grange Community Hub develop, which in turn supports the community fantastically by its residents.
During the last 2 years, Elisabeth set up and ran the Shrewsbury and Surrounding Villages Mutual Aid Group. She set up the link between CoOp and vulnerable residents, for them to order essential supplies and then organised to transport the supplies to the door. This proved to be a valuable service, not just for the supplies, but the 10 minute conversation that developed between volunteers and those who were isolated from loved ones.
Elisabeth works in education, supporting pupils who have a barrier to education and really enjoys developing the positive relationships with pupils and helping to close that barrier, whilst these amazing pupils in turn educate the educators.
Elisabeth grew up in Dorset through social services care, which was hard, however, developed a determined resilience to succeed.
As she left care and went on to train as a riding instructor, she experienced prejudice during training, because of her background and was laughingly informed that she would amount to nothing.
So decided to move further north and settled on Shrewsbury, going on to train as a dental nurse working in Shrewsbury Prison and a variety of clinics.
Then went onto to university after completing an Access to Higher Education certificate, to train as a radiographer so that she could work around her children and the rest has been briefly explained.
To those who think a child from social services care can amount to nothing, think again, they can do so much more and there are many of us who can be shown as an example.
I am very proud to be a part of Shrewsbury community, my adopted home and my year as Shrewsbury Mayor, will concentrate on bringing all communities together, as we saw at the beginning of the pandemic.
I will also have my three wonderful children join me and represent Shrewsbury youth and also supporting mental health.
Deputy Mayor
Becky Wall
Former Mayors
Year | Name |
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2021 - 2022 | Julian Dean |
2020 - 2021 | Gwen Burgess |
2019 - 2020 | Phil Gillam |
2018 - 2019 | Peter Nutting |
2017 - 2018 | Jane Mackenzie |
2016 - 2017 | Ioan Jones |
2015 - 2016 | Miles Kenny |
2014 - 2015 | Beverley Baker |
2013 - 2014 | Jon Tandy |
2012 - 2013 | Keith Roberts |
2011 - 2012 | Tony Durnell |
2010 - 2011 | Kathleen Owen |
2009 - 2010 | Alan Townsend |
2008 - 2009 | Anne Chebsey |
2007 - 2008 | John Cooke |
2006 - 2007 | Roger Evans |
2005 - 2006 | David Farmer |
2004 - 2005 | Miles Kenny |
2003 - 2004 | Eileen Dorothy Sandford MBE |
2002 - 2003 | George Henry Mills Richey |
2001 - 2002 | Charles Forshaw |
2000 - 2001 | John Peter Jones |
1999 - 2000 | Reginald Jones |
1998 - 1999 | Judith Anne Williams |
1997 - 1998 | Peter Ernest Dunham |
1996 - 1997 | Keith Brennand |
1995 - 1996 | George Spencer Adams |
1994 - 1995 | John William Leonard Pritchard |
1993 - 1994 | Leslie Norman Morris |
1992 - 1993 | David Howell Pritchard Davies |
1991 - 1992 | Charles Vickerton Forbes |
1990 - 1991 | Beryl Jane Coward, J.P. |
1989 - 1990 | Vincent William Charles Evason |
1988 - 1989 | Vernon Thomas Bushell, J.P. |
1987 - 1988 | Derek Thomas Preece, J.P. |
1986 - 1987 | Noel Richards, J.P. |
1985 - 1986 | Edward Thomas Bissell Butcher |
1984 - 1985 | Fred Jones, J.P. |
1983 - 1984 | George Eric Carder |
1982 - 1983 | Norman Wordsworth Hoyle |
1981 - 1982 | Stanley George Parker |
1980 - 1981 | Mrs. Jean Mary Marsh |
1979 - 1980 | Bernard George Lingen, M.B.E. J.P. |
1978 - 1979 | George Thomas Ihler Marston |
1977 - 1978 | William Marsh |
1976 - 1977 | Mrs. Winifred Rosa Jones |
1975 - 1976 | Miss Zillah Hughes |
1974 - 1975 | Thomas Gregory Ryder, M.B.E. |
1973 - 1974 | Alfred Hector Edwards |
1972 - 1973 | William Reginald George Farr |
1971 - 1972 | Mrs. Edith Mary Parsonage |
1970 - 1971 | Victor James Pierce |
1969 - 1970 | Mrs. Gwendoline Iona Dyas |
1968 - 1969 | John Frederick Burgess |
1967 - 1968 | Joseph Dennis Pursell |
1966 - 1967 | Mrs. Ethel Marian Lancaster |
1965 - 1966 | Henry Rhodes Beckett |
1964 - 1965 | Frank Ellis |
1963 - 1964 | Thomas Cecil Bowdler, J.P. |
1962 - 1963 | William Sydney Osbourne |
1961 - 1962 | Reginald John Hector Edwards |
1960 - 1961 | Benjamin Roger Huckfield |
1959 - 1960 | Arnold Hughes Howl |
1958 - 1959 | Mrs. Constance Emily Thickpenny |
1957 - 1958 | John Henry Tittensor Smout |
1956 - 1957 | Mrs. Eleanor Mary Cock |
1955 - 1956 | Llewellyn Tudor Owen |
1954 - 1955 | Ellis Jones |
1953 - 1954 | James Samuel McNamara |
1952 - 1953 | Colonel John Milns West, C.B.E., T.D., D.L. |
1951 - 1952 | Arthur Herbert Jones |
1950 - 1951 | Arthur Herbert Jones |
1949 - 1950 | Ernest James Thomas Perks |
1948 - 1949 | Leonard James Tilling |
1947 - 1948 | Leonard James Tilling |
1946 - 1947 | Reginald Henry Urwick, M.D. |
1945 - 1946 | Alfred Bennett |
1944 - 1945 | Harry Steward |
1943 - 1944 | Harry Steward |
1942 - 1943 | Harry Steward |
1941 - 1942 | Harry Steward |
1940 - 1941 | Harry Steward |
1939 - 1940 | Harry Steward |
1938 - 1939 | Harry Steward |
1937 - 1938 | Harry Steward |
1936 - 1937 | Francis Smout |
1935 - 1936 | Charles Beddard |
1934 - 1935 | Charles Beddard |
1933 - 1934 | Mrs. Marian Wallace Cock |
1932 - 1933 | Richard Mansell |
1931 - 1932 | Richard Mansell |
1930 - 1931 | William Maynard How |
1929 - 1930 | William Gowen Cross |
1928 - 1929 | Charles Samuel Woollam |
1927 - 1928 | John Henry Perks |
1926 - 1927 | Francis Smout |
1925 - 1926 | Richard Devereux Bromley |
1924 - 1925 | Richard Devereux Bromley |
1923 - 1924 | Robert Bates Maddison |
1922 - 1923 | Robert Bates Maddison |
1921 - 1922 | Thomas Pace |
1920 - 1921 | William Toye |
1919 - 1920 | Richard Edward Jones |
1918 - 1919 | Richard Edward Jones |
1917 - 1918 | Samuel Meeson Morris |
1916 - 1917 | Thomas Pidduck Deakin |
1915 - 1916 | William Maynard How |
1914 - 1915 | Major Charles Ralph Borlase Wingfield called for military service so Deputy Mayor Dr Edward Cureton officiated through 1914 |
1913 - 1914 | Edward Cureton |
1912 - 1913 | Charles Ralph Borlase Wingfield |
1911 - 1912 | Charles Ralph Borlase Wingfield |
1910 - 1911 | Charles Ralph Borlase Wingfield |
1909 - 1910 | Charles Ralph Borlase Wingfield |
1908 - 1909 | Benjamin Blower |
1907 - 1908 | Benjamin Blower |
1906 - 1907 | Richard Scoltock Hughes |
1905 - 1906 | Thomas Corbett |
1904 - 1905 | Richard Edward Jones |
1903 - 1904 | Henry John Hearn |
1902 - 1903 | William Francis Watkins |
1901 - 1902 | Herbert Robert Henry Southam |
1900 - 1901 | Samuel Meeson Morris |
1899 - 1900 | Richard Scoltock Hughes |
1898 - 1899 | Richard Scoltock Hughes |
1897 - 1898 | Thomas Pidduck Deakin |
1896 - 1897 | Edward Corbett |
1895 - 1896 | Edmund Cresswell Peele |
1894 - 1895 | William Maynard How |
1893 - 1894 | William Gowen Cross |
1892 - 1893 | William Lyon Browne |
1891 - 1892 | George Evans |
1890 - 1891 | Edmund Cresswell Peele |
1889 - 1890 | George Jones Holt |
1888 - 1889 | Major General The Hon. William Henry Herbert |
1887 - 1888 | Vincent Crump |
1886 - 1887 | George Butler Lloyd |
1885 - 1886 | Thomas Southam |
1884 - 1885 | Thomas Southam |
1883 - 1884 | Thomas Slaney Eyton |
1882 - 1883 | George Eddowes |
1881 - 1882 | Vice-Admiral Robert Jenkins, C.B. |
1880 - 1881 | William Hall |
1879 - 1880 | William Hall |
1878 - 1879 | William Gowen Cross |
1877 - 1878 | John Frail (died in office) |
1877 - 1878 | William Gowen Cross (elected to complete year) |
1876 - 1877 | Robert Henry Lingen Burton |
1875 - 1876 | Thomas Slaney Eyton |
1874 - 1875 | William Gowen Cross |
1873 - 1874 | Joshua Pugh White |
1872 - 1873 | Samuel Poultney Smith |
1871 - 1872 | John Loxdale |
1870 - 1871 | Thomas Southam |
1869 - 1870 | Edward Parry |
1868 - 1869 | Henry Fenton |
1867 - 1868 | Thomas Groves |
1866 - 1867 | James Bratton |
1865 - 1866 | John Thomas Nightingale |
1864 - 1865 | Thomas Southam |
1863 - 1864 | John Gregory Brayne |
1862 - 1863 | James Smith |
1861 - 1862 | William James Clement |
1860 - 1861 | Thomas William Trouncer |
1859 - 1860 | Thomas William Trouncer |
1858 - 1859 | William Burr |
1857 - 1858 | John Loxdale |
1856 - 1857 | Thomas Maynard How |
1855 - 1856 | William Harley Bayley |
1854 - 1855 | John Hazeldine |
1853 - 1854 | William Butler Lloyd (Re-elected) |
1852 - 1853 | William Butler Lloyd |
1851 - 1852 | Richard Taylor |
1850 - 1851 | John Bishton Minor |
1849 - 1850 | Edward Hughes |
1848 - 1849 | Joseph Birch |
1847 - 1848 | Robert Baugh Blakemore |
1846 - 1847 | Charles Lloyd |
1845 - 1846 | John Legh |
1844 - 1845 | Thomas Groves |
1843 - 1844 | Robert Burton |
1842 - 1843 | John Thomas Smithman Edwards |
1841 - 1842 | Thomas Jeffreys Badger |
1840 - 1841 | John Loxdale |
1839 - 1840 | William Wybergh How |
1838 - 1839 | Richard Ford |
1837 - 1838 | John Watton |
1836 - 1837 | Sir John Bickerton Williams, Knt. |
1835 - 1836 | Robert Burton (displaced as Mayor by William Hazeldine) |
1835 - 1836 | William Hazeldine |
1834 - 1835 | Francis Knyvett Leighton (died in office) |
1834 - 1835 | Richard Drinkwater (elected to complete year) |
1833 - 1834 | John Wingfield |
1832 - 1833 | Thomas Tomlins |
1831 - 1832 | Thomas Farmer Dukes |
1830 - 1831 | Joseph Loxdale, Jnr. |
1829 - 1830 | Robert Gray |
1828 - 1829 | William Cooper |
1827 - 1828 | Thomas Du Gard, M.D. |
1826 - 1827 | Rev. Richard Corfield |
1825 - 1826 | William Brayne |
1824 - 1825 | Hon. & Rev. Richard Noel Hill |
1823 - 1824 | Jonathan Perry |
1822 - 1823 | Rice Wynne |
1821 - 1822 | Samuel Harley |
1820 - 1821 | Edward Cullis |
1819 - 1820 | Rev. Hugh Owen |
1818 - 1819 | William Egerton Jeffreys |
1817 - 1818 | Joshua Peele |
1816 - 1817 | Sir John Betton, Knt. |
1815 - 1816 | Samuel Tudor |
1814 - 1815 | Richard Phillips (died in office) |
1814 - 1815 | William Harley (elected to complete year) |
1813 - 1814 | William Coupland |
1812 - 1813 | John Lee |
1811 - 1812 | Sir John Hill, Bart. |
1810 - 1811 | Thomas Lloyd |
1809 - 1810 | Joseph Bromfield |
1808 - 1809 | Robert Pemberton |
1807 - 1808 | Charles Bage |
1806 - 1807 | William Pressick |
1805 - 1806 | William Wilson |
1804 - 1805 | Philip Michael Williams |
1803 - 1804 | Baldwin Leighton |
1802 - 1803 | Edward Burton |
1801 - 1802 | Edward Stanier |
1800 - 1801 | Richard Bratton |
1799 - 1800 | Joseph Carless |
1798 - 1799 | Nathaniel Betton |
1797 - 1798 | Joseph Loxdale |
1796 - 1797 | Henry Bevan |
1795 - 1796 | William Cludde |
1794 - 1795 | Thomas Pemberton |
1793 - 1794 | Rev. Edward Blakeway |
1792 - 1793 | Rev. John Rocke |
1791 - 1792 | Thomas Eyton |
1790 - 1791 | John Bishop |
1789 - 1790 | Bold Oliver |
1788 - 1789 | William Oakeley |
1787 - 1788 | Thomas Kynnersley |
1786 - 1787 | Richard Rocke |
1785 - 1786 | James Holt |
1784 - 1785 | Samuel Harley |
1783 - 1784 | John Oliver |
1782 - 1783 | John Flint |
1781 - 1782 | Robert Pemberton |
1780 - 1781 | Joshua Blakeway |
1779 - 1780 | Edward Cludde |
1778 - 1779 | Noel Hill |
1777 - 1778 | Charles Leighton |
1776 - 1777 | Robert Corbett |
1775 - 1776 | William Owen |
1774 - 1775 | Thomas Loxdale |
1773 - 1774 | James Winnall |
1772 - 1773 | John Vaughan |
1771 - 1772 | Edward Atkis |
1770 - 1771 | William Smith |
1769 - 1770 | William Oswell |
1768 - 1769 | Edward Vaughan |
1767 - 1768 | Thomas Wingfield |
1766 - 1767 | John Kinchant |
1765 - 1766 | Charles Bolas |
1764 - 1765 | Richard Vaughan |
1763 - 1764 | Pryce Owen |
1762 - 1763 | Robert, Lord Clive (of India) |
1761 - 1762 | Henry Adams |
1760 - 1761 | John Rocke |
1759 - 1760 | John Ashby |
1758 - 1759 | John Bennett |
1757 - 1758 | John Oliver |
1756 - 1757 | Balwyn Leighton |
1755 - 1756 | Edward Blakeway |
1754 - 1755 | John Cotton |
1753 - 1754 | Richard Jones |
1752 - 1753 | William Wynne |
1751 - 1752 | William Oswell |
1750 - 1751 | John Adams, Jnr. |
1749 - 1750 | Thomas Fownes |
1748 - 1749 | William Atkis |
1747 - 1748 | James Downes |
1746 - 1747 | Isaac Pritchard |
1745 - 1746 | John Langley |
1744 - 1745 | Francis Turner Blithe |
1743 - 1744 | Edward Elisha |
1742 - 1743 | William Turner, Jnr. |
1741 - 1742 | Trafford Barnston |
1740 - 1741 | Edward Twiss |
1739 - 1740 | Brockwell Griffiths |
1738 - 1739 | Edward Corbett |
1737 - 1738 | Robert More |
1736 - 1737 | Charles Bolas |
1735 - 1736 | Sir Richard Corbett, Bart. |
1734 - 1735 | John Rogers |
1733 - 1734 | John Lacon |
1732 - 1733 | Richard Lloyd |
1731 - 1732 | Abraham Davies |
1730 - 1731 | Richard Wollaston |
1729 - 1730 | Godolphin Edwards |
1728 - 1729 | John Fownes |
1727 - 1728 | Joseph Jones |
1726 - 1727 | John Adams |
1725 - 1726 | Samuel Elisha |
1724 - 1725 | Thomas Lindop |
1723 - 1724 | Matthew Travers |
1722 - 1723 | Edward Gregory |
1721 - 1722 | Michael Brickdale |
1720 - 1721 | Thomas Morhall |
1719 - 1720 | Henry Jenks |
1718 - 1719 | Sir Charles Lloyd, Bart. |
1717 - 1718 | William Kynaston |
1716 - 1717 | Joseph Muckleston |
1715 - 1716 | Thomas Phillips |
1714 - 1715 | James Blakeway |
1713 - 1714 | Edward Jones |
1712 - 1713 | Jonathan Scott |
1711 - 1712 | William Turner |
1710 - 1711 | Walter Pateshull |
1709 - 1710 | William Clemson |
1708 - 1709 | Samuel Cook |
1707 - 1708 | John Felton (died in office) |
1707 - 1708 | William Smith (elected to complete year) |
1706 - 1707 | John Twiss |
1705 - 1706 | Thomas Bowdler |
1704 - 1705 | William Leighton |
1703 - 1704 | William Bowdler |
1702 - 1703 | Rowland Bright (died in office) |
1702 - 1703 | Thomas Harwood (elected to complete year) |
1701 - 1702 | Robert Phillips |
1700 - 1701 | John Kynaston |
1699 - 1700 | Moses Reynolds (died in office) |
1699 - 1700 | Richard Presland (elected to complete year) |
1698 - 1699 | Andrew Johnson |
1697 - 1698 | Robert Sheppard |
1696 - 1697 | John Kynaston |
1695 - 1696 | Simon Hanmer |
1694 - 1695 | Samuel Adderton |
1693 - 1694 | Arthur Tonge |
1692 - 1693 | John Hollier (It appears doubtful whether the office of Mayor was actually accepted and served.) |
1691 - 1692 | Charles Kynaston |
1690 - 1691 | Samuel Thomas |
1689 - 1690 | Jonathan Scott |
1688 - 1689 | Richard Muckleston (Elected and removed from office) |
1688 - 1689 | Roger Griffiths (Elected and removed from office) |
1688 - 1689 | Collins Woolrick (Elected and removed from office) |
1688 - 1689 | John Hill (elected to complete year) |
1687 - 1688 | Richard Sales |
1686 - 1687 | Thomas Bawdewin |
1685 - 1686 | Sir Francis Edwardes, Bart. |
1684 - 1685 | John Wood (died) |
1684 - 1685 | Robert Wood (elected to complete year) |
1683 - 1684 | Collins Woolrick |
1682 - 1683 | Edward Gosnell |
1681 - 1682 | George Llewellin |
1680 - 1681 | John Harwood |
1679 - 1680 | Arthur Hincks |
1678 - 1679 | Edward Phillips |
1677 - 1678 | Robert Forster |
1676 - 1677 | George Hosier |
1675 - 1676 | John Severne |
1674 - 1675 | William Thyme |
1673 - 1674 | Rowland Middleton |
1672 - 1673 | Samuel Jevon |
1671 - 1672 | Roger Griffiths |
1670 - 1671 | Thomas Cotton |
1669 - 1670 | Richard Taylor |
1668 - 1669 | Samuel Lloyd |
1667 - 1668 | John Harding |
1666 - 1667 | Richard Burton |
1665 - 1666 | Francis Burton |
1664 - 1665 | Edward Kynaston |
1663 - 1664 | Jonathan Langley |
1662 - 1663 | Sir Richard Prynce, Knt. |
1661 - 1662 | Richard Bagot (displaced) |
1661 - 1662 | Robert Foster (elected to complete year) |
1660 - 1661 | Andrew Vivers |
1659 - 1660 | John Walthall |
1658 - 1659 | John Betton |
1657 - 1658 | Thomas Hunt |
1656 - 1657 | John Lowe |
1655 - 1656 | Adam Webb |
1654 - 1655 | John Cooke |
1653 - 1654 | Jonathan Rowley |
1652 - 1653 | Richard Cheshire |
1651 - 1652 | Charles Benyon |
1650 - 1651 | John Prowde |
1649 - 1650 | Thomas Hayes |
1648 - 1649 | Owen George |
1647 - 1648 | Richard Llewellin |
1646 - 1647 | Thomas Knight |
1645 - 1646 | Thomas Niccols |
1644 - 1645 | Charles Benyon |
1643 - 1644 | Robert Betton, Jnr. |
1642 - 1643 | John Studley |
1641 - 1642 | Richard Gibbons |
1640 - 1641 | Hugh Harris (died 1641) |
1640 - 1641 | Thomas Wingfield (elected to complete year) |
1639 - 1640 | Robert Betton |
1638 - 1639 | Thomas Jones |