Totnes, Devon, England received its first borough charter from King John and the recorded list of mayors dates from 1359. The town was incorporated in 1505 with a governing structure consisting of a mayor, recorder and a single council of burgesses. A further charter in 1596 concentrated power in the hands of the town's leading merchants, redefining the corporation as a governing body of 14 ‘masters’, including the mayor, with an inferior council of 20 burgesses. The masters filled vacancies in their ranks by co-option and nominated the mayoral candidates. 1687 Robert Symons
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| - Totnes, Devon, England received its first borough charter from King John and the recorded list of mayors dates from 1359. The town was incorporated in 1505 with a governing structure consisting of a mayor, recorder and a single council of burgesses. A further charter in 1596 concentrated power in the hands of the town's leading merchants, redefining the corporation as a governing body of 14 ‘masters’, including the mayor, with an inferior council of 20 burgesses. The masters filled vacancies in their ranks by co-option and nominated the mayoral candidates. 1687 Robert Symons (en)
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| - Totnes, Devon, England received its first borough charter from King John and the recorded list of mayors dates from 1359. The town was incorporated in 1505 with a governing structure consisting of a mayor, recorder and a single council of burgesses. A further charter in 1596 concentrated power in the hands of the town's leading merchants, redefining the corporation as a governing body of 14 ‘masters’, including the mayor, with an inferior council of 20 burgesses. The masters filled vacancies in their ranks by co-option and nominated the mayoral candidates. The following have been mayors of Totnes:
* 1396–98: Walter Browning (MP for Totnes), 1388
* 1399–1400: Walter Browning
* 1401–03: Walter Browning
* 1517-1518: John Giles
* 1535-37: Christopher Savery
* 1548-49: Christopher Savery
* 1556-57: Christopher Savery
* 1585–86: Nicholas Ball
* 1589–90: Nicholas Hayman
* 1593–94: Leonard Darr
* 1598–99: Philip Holditch (MP for Totnes, 1601)
* 1605–06: Christopher Wise
* 1612-13: Richard Rodd
* 1620: Richard Lee (d.1620)
* 1621–22: Christopher Wise
* 1623–24: Philip Holditch II (son of Philip Holditch above, MP for Totnes, 1626)
* 1638–39: Philip Holditch II 1687 Robert Symons
* 1718–19: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
* 1737–38: Nicholas Trist (High Sheriff of Devon, 1708)
* 1754-55: Benjamin Babbage (grandfather of Charles Babbage)
* 1780–81: William Adams (MP for Plympton Erle 1796–1801 and Totnes 1801–11)
* 1788–89: William Adams
* 1797–98: William Adams
* 1866–67: Thomas Edward Owen
* 1870–1871: Robert W.Chaster
* 1872: Robert Bourne
* 1873: James Smith Rose
* 1874–1875: Jeffery Michelmore
* 1876–1877: Joseph Roe
* 1878: John P.F.P.Haines
* 1879: Jeffery Michelmore
* 1880–1881: Edward Harris
* 1882–84: Frederick Bowden
* 1902-03: Dr. J. G. Gibson
* 1945–1946: Lilley Ramsden (1st Female Mayor of Totnes)
* 1950–51: Charles Stanley Jacka
* 1970–71: Jean M Gilbert (en)
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