List of mayors of Bradford

This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the city of Bradford.After having elected a mayor since 1847 Bradford was awarded the dignity of a Lord Mayoralty by letters patent dated 16 September 1907.[1] At the time, it was the seventh most populous borough in England and Wales, and the second largest in area, and thus the largest municipality without a Lord Mayor.[2] When Bradford became a metropolitan borough in 1974 the honour was confirmed by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.[3] Source:[4] First Asian (Pakistani) Lord Mayor in UK
Sir John Arthur Godwin First Lord Mayor of Bradford by James Charles
Henry Mitchell caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair , 1890
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