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Lists of office holders

Chairmen of Horwich Local Board

Chairmen of Horwich Local Board
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	William Greenhalgh	Conservative	1872–1882	His brother was James Greenhalgh who served as Mayor of Bolton, 1877-78.
	John Longworth	—	1882–1884
	Thomas Mason	Liberal	1884–1888
	Joseph Howarth	Conservative	1888–1889
	John Longworth	—	1889–1894	Last Chairman of Horwich Local Board
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Chairmen of Horwich Urban District Council

Chairmen of Horwich Urban District Council
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	John Longworth	—	1894–1896	First Chairman of Horwich Urban District Council
	Thomas Bancroft Greenhalgh	Conservative	1896–1897
	Frank Morton Palmer	Conservative	1897–1899
	James Dougill	Liberal	1899–1900
	John Fletcher	Conservative	1900–1903
	John Dickinson	Conservative	1903–1905
	William Lewtas Longworth	Conservative	1905–1906
	Edwin Barnes	Liberal	1906–1907
	William Rostron Pickup	Conservative	1907–1908
	Francis Thornham	Liberal	1908–1909
	Farnham Slade	—	1909–1910
	Charles Herbert Field	Conservative	1910–1911
	Jonas Fearnhead	Labour	1911–1912
	Charles Edward Harrop	Liberal	1912–1914
	James Henry Riley	Conservative	1914–1915
	John German Dickinson	Conservative	1915–1916	1st term
	Frank Coupe Ashton	Liberal	1916–1917
	William Wasden Glover	Conservative	1917–1918
	Richard Crowther	—	1918–1919
	Arthur Walton Ainsworth	Conservative	1919–1920
	William Job Slater	Liberal	1920–1921
	Henry Carter	Conservative	1921–1922	1st term
	Thomas Wright (I)	Conservative	1922–1923
	Alfred Jones	Conservative	1923–1924
	William Gittins Fearnhead	Labour	1924–1925	1st term
	Frank Taylor	Labour	1925–1926
	James Carr	Independent	1926–1927	1st term
	William Chipchase	Labour	1927–1928
	Roscoe Taylor	Conservative	1928–1929
	Thomas Shorrocks	Conservative	1929–1930
	William Gittins Fearnhead	Labour	1930–1931	2nd term
	John German Dickinson	Conservative	1931–1932	2nd term
	David Thomas Smith	Conservative	1932–1933
	Henry Carter	Conservative	1933–1934	2nd term
	John Augustine Kilcoyne	Labour	1934–1935
	John Henry Shaw	Labour	1935–1936
	William James Roskelly	Liberal	1936–1937
	Wilfred Tomkinson	Conservative	1937–1938	1st term
	Thomas Wright (II)	Labour	1938–1939
	William Taylor	Conservative	1939–1940
	William Edwin W. Flockton	Labour	1940–1941	1st term
	Paul Fairclough	Conservative	1941–1942
	James Carr	Independent	1942–1943	2nd term
	Joseph William Slater	Independent	1943–1944
	Philip Cannell	Labour	1944–1945
	Henry Johnson Close	Labour	1945–1946
	Martha Jane Downes	Labour	1946–1947
	William Edwin W. Flockton	Labour	1947–1948	2nd term
	Mary Ellen Welch	Labour	1948–1949
	Henry Almond	Labour	1949–1950	1st term
	Wilfred Tomkinson	Conservative	1950–1951	2nd term
	William Lawson Whitehead	Liberal	1951	He died in office and his duties for the remainder of the term were undertaken by the previous Chairman, Wilfred Tomkinson.
	Leonard Rimmer	—	1952–1953
	Ernest Blackburn	Labour	1953–1954
	James Hargreaves	Labour	1954–1955
	John Fairclough	Conservative	1955–1956
	John Orr Bennett	Conservative	1956–1957	1st term
	Arthur Sharples	Conservative	1957–1958
	Edwin Toohey	Labour	1958–1959	1st term
	Joseph Moran	Labour	1959–1960
	William Edwin W. Flockton	Labour	1960–1961	3rd term
	Wilfred Tomkinson	Conservative	1961–1962	3rd term
	Henry Almond	Labour	1962–1963	2nd term
	John Leech	Labour	1963–1964
	John Orr Bennett	Conservative	1964–1965	2nd term
	Edwin Toohey	Labour	1965–1966	2nd term
	James McBurnie	Labour	1966–1967
	Peter Scannell Hewitt	Liberal	1967–1968
	Frank Robert Yardley	Independent	1968–1969
	Ellis Dobson	Labour	1969–1970	Afterwards, Member of Bolton Council, representing the Horwich North, Central and East ward 1973–1978.
	Leslie George Fearnhead	Independent	1970–1971
	Eileen Kay	Liberal	1971–1972
	Alan Oakley	Labour	1972–1973
	Albert James Ratcliffe	Liberal	1973–1865	Last Chairman of Horwich Urban District Council. Was Mayor-elect of Horwich in 1980, but died shortly before he was due to take office.
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Chairmen of Kearsley Local Board

Chairmen of Kearsley Local Board
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	Harrison Blair	—	1865–1868	His brother was Stephen Blair who served as Mayor of Bolton (1845–46) and Member of Parliament for Bolton (1848–52).
	James Fletcher Snr	Conservative	1868–1869	1st term. His son was James Fletcher Jnr who served as Chairman of Kearsley Urban District Council (1895–99).
	Samuel Gee	Liberal	1869–1870
	Edward Pilkington	—	1870–1871	1st term
	Joseph Grimshaw	—	1871–1872
	John Lever	—	1872–1877
	James Fletcher Snr	Conservative	1877–1881	2nd term
	Edward Pilkington	—	1881–1882	2nd term
	John William Watkinson	—	1882–1895
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Chairmen of Kearsley Urban District Council

Chairmen of Kearsley Urban District Council
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	James Fletcher Jnr	Conservative	1895–1900
	Joseph Openshaw	Conservative	1900–1905
	Francis Shippobottom	—	1905–1913
	Stanley Pickering	Conservative	1913–1915
	Robert Lucas	Conservative	1915–1917
	James Howard	Conservative	1917–1919
	Edward Gittins	Liberal	1919–1921
	James Barrett	Labour	1921–1922
	Charles Frederick Howard	Conservative	1922–1926
	Nathan Wardle	Conservative	1926–1928
	John Shepherd	Conservative	1928–1930
	Tom Young Martin	Conservative	1930–1931
	Samuel Street	—	1931–1932	1st term
	Arthur Munroe Holden	Conservative	1932–1933
	Walter Holehouse	Labour	1933–1934	1st term
	Randolph Churchill Smith	Conservative	1934–1935
	Annie M. Hogg	Conservative	1935–1936	2nd term
	Albert Plant	—	1936–1937
	Richard Matthews	Labour	1937–1938	1st term
	James Ernest Robey	—	1938–1939
	John Cranshaw	Conservative	1939–1940
	Joseph Harold Brooks	Liberal	1940–1941
	Sydney John Morgan	Conservative	1941–1942
	John Martin	Labour	1942–1943	1st term
	Samuel Street	—	1943–1944	2nd term
	Raymond Tyldsley	Independent	1944–1945
	Horace Barratt	Labour	1945–1946
	Ernest Howard	Labour	1946–1947	1st term
	Walter Holehouse	Labour	1947–1948	2nd term
	Richard Matthews	Labour	1948–1949	2nd term
	Annie M Hogg	Conservative	1949–1950	1st term
	William Taylor	Labour	1950–1951	1st term
	John Martin	Labour	1951–1952	2nd term
	James Eckersley	Labour	1952–1953
	Ernest Howard	Labour	1953–1954	2nd term
	Ronald Crowther	Labour	1954–1955
	Walter Holehouse	Labour	1955–1956	3rd term
	Tom Fielding	Conservative	1956–1957
	Joe Hollinshead	Labour	1957–1958
	Betsy Ellen Taylor	Labour	1958–1959
	William Taylor	Labour	1959–1960	2nd term
	Samuel Alfred Chaloner	Labour	1960–1961
	Alexander Ward	Labour	1961–1962
	John Martin	Labour	1962–1963
	Joseph Walker	Labour	1963–1964	2nd term
	Thomas Ainsworth Pilkington	Labour	1964–1965
	Noel Alfred Tatlock	Labour	1965–1966
	Thomas Cooper	Labour	1966–1967
	John Rothwell	Liberal	1967–1968
	Alan Thomas Nowell	Liberal	1968–1969
	William Arthur Robinson	Labour	1969–1970
	Ernest George Bell	Liberal	1970–1971
	Margaret Patricia Rothwell	Liberal	1971–1972
	Raymond Cornthwaite	Labour	1972–1973
	Joseph Walker	Labour	1973–1974	1st term
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Chairmen of Little Lever Local Board

Chairmen of Little Lever Local Board
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	Thomas Fletcher	—	1872–1879
	Richard Hayward (I)	Conservative	1879–1881
	James Slade	—	1881–1893	Died in office
	Matthew Fletcher	—	1893–1895
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Chairmen of Little Lever Urban District Council

Chairmen of Little Lever Urban District Council
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	Matthew Fletcher	—	1895–1896
	Richard Hayward (I)	Conservative	1896–1903
	Thomas Henry Chatton	—	1903–1906	1st term
	John Heywood	Conservative	1906–1909
	William Nuttall	—	1909–1912
	John Hayward	Conservative	1912–1914
	James Yates	—	1914–1917
	William Pollitt	—	1917–1919	Died in office
	Thomas Henry Chatton	—	1919–1920	2nd term
	John Robertson	Conservative	1920–1922	1st term
	Thomas Henry Chatton	—	1922–1923	3rd term
	John Robertson	Conservative	1923–1924	2nd term
	Thomas Henry Chatton	—	1924–1926	4th term
	John Robertson	Conservative	1926–1927	3rd term
	John Pickering	—	1927–1928
	John Thomas Allen	Labour	1928–1929
	James Stevenson	Independent	1929–1930	1st term
	James Fogg	Conservative	1930–1931
	William Tatlock (II)	—	1931–1932	1st term
	William Hubbard	Labour	1932–1934
	John Groves	—	1934–1935
	James Stevenson	Independent	1935–1936	2nd term
	William Tatlock (II)	—	1936–1937	2nd term
	Richard Hayward (II)	Conservative	1937–1938	1st term
	Victor Seddon	Conservative	1938–1939
	Harry Greenhalgh Orr	Independent	1939–1940	1st term
	Albert Sunderland	Conservative	1940–1941	1st term
	William Tatlock (II)	—	1941–1942	3rd term. Died in office
	Albert Sunderland	Conservative	1942–1943	2nd term
	John Mobey	—	1943–1944	1st term
	John William Berry	—	1944–1945
	James Stevenson	Independent	1945–1946	3rd term
	Richard Hayward (II)	—	1946–1947	2nd term
	Fred Jackson	Labour	1947–1948
	Harry Greenhalgh Orr	Independent	1948–1949	2nd term
	Albert Sunderland	Conservative	1949–1950	3rd term
	Joseph Gale	Labour	1950–1951
	Harry Barnes	Conservative	1951–1952	1st term
	John Mobey	Labour	1952–1953	2nd term
	Thomas Nuttall Pendlebury	Conservative	1953–1954
	Harry Lockton	Labour	1954–1955
	Clifford Settle	—	1955–1956	1st term
	Joseph Alexander Strickland	Conservative	1956–1957
	Harry Barnes	Conservative	1957–1958	2nd term
	John Mobey	Labour	1958–1959	3rd term
	Clifford Settle	—	1959–1960	2nd term
	William Tatlock (III)	Conservative	1960–1961
	Edna Mobey	Labour	1961–1962
	Joseph Beckett Clayton	Conservative	1962–1963	1st term
	John Lawton	Conservative	1963–1964
	Isaac Hurst	Labour	1964–1965
	James Taylor Marsh	Labour	1965–1966
	Joseph Beckett Clayton	Conservative	1966–1967	2nd term
	George E. Sheard	Independent	1967–1968
	James Lees	Conservative	1968–1969	1st term
	Duncan Davies	Conservative	1969–1970
	Ronald Anderton	Conservative	1970–1971
	John Hill	Conservative	1971–1972
	James Lees	Conservative	1972–1973	2nd term
	Wilfred C. Worthington	Labour	1973–1974
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Chairmen of Westhoughton Local Board

Chairmen of Westhoughton Local Board
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	George Green	Liberal	1872–1877
	Timothy Grisdale	Conservative	1877–1879
	Peter Ditchfield	Conservative	1879–1881
	James Stott	Conservative	1881–1882
	Joseph Rothwell	Conservative	1882–1893
	John Unsworth	Liberal	1893–1894
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Chairmen of Westhoughton Urban District Council

Chairmen of Westhoughton Urban District Council
Name		Party	Tenure	Notes
	Arthur Henry Leech	—	1894–1898	1st term
	Timothy Coop	Liberal	1898–1899	1st term
	Arthur Henry Leech	—	1899–1901	2nd term
	Roger Walker	Conservative	1901–1902
	Walter Ernest Tonge	Liberal	1902–1903	1st term
	Timothy Coop	Liberal	1903–1904	2nd term
	Samuel Taylor	Liberal	1904–1905
	George Grundy	Conservative	1905–1908
	Arthur Hamer	Conservative	1908–1909
	George Gleave	Conservative	1909–1910	1st term
	Philip Westhead	Liberal	1910–1911	2nd term. Died in office
	Thomas Sinkinson	Conservative	1911–1912	1st term
	John Henry Taylor	Liberal	1912–1913
	John Cubbin	Conservative	1913–1915
	Edward Basnett	Labour	1915–1916	1st term
	Isaac Barrow	Liberal	1916–1917
	George Gleave	Conservative	1917–1919	2nd term
	Thomas Billington	Labour	1919–1922	1st term
	Peter Scholes	Liberal	1922–1923
	Thomas Sinkinson	Conservative	1923–1924	2nd term
	Joseph Hilton	Labour	1924–1925
	Walter Ernest Tonge	Liberal	1925–1926	2nd term
	James Selby Berry	Conservative	1926–1927	1st term
	Peter Westhead	Independent	1927–1928	1st term
	Hugh Greenhalgh	Labour	1928–1929
	Thomas Billington	Labour	1929–1930	2nd term
	Ralph Higham	Conservative	1930–1931
	John Gibbons	Liberal	1931–1932
	Henry Shaw	Conservative	1932–1933
	Thomas Sherrington	Labour	1933–1934
	Joseph Hilton	Labour	1934–1935
	Edward Basnett	Labour	1935–1936	2nd term
	William Lowe	Conservative	1936–1937	1st term
	John Hindley	Conservative	1937–1938
	James Selby Berry	Conservative	1938–1939	2nd term
	Jonathan Cowburn	Independent	1939–1940
	Adam Glover	Conservative	1940–1941	1st term
	Fred Howarth	Conservative	1941–1942
	James Croston Grundy	Conservative	1942–1943
	Thomas West	Labour	1943–1944	1st term
	William Thomas Sutcliffe	Conservative	1944–1945
	Richard Simkin	—	1945–1946
	William Lowe	Conservative	1946–1947	2nd term
	William Kelly	Labour	1947–1948	1st term
	Winifred Kettle	Labour	1948–1949	1st term
	Andrew Ormesher	Labour	1949–1950
	Thomas West	Labour	1950–1951	2nd term
	Winifred Kettle	Labour	1951–1952	2nd term
	William Kelly	Labour	1952–1953	2nd term
	Thomas West	Labour	1953–1954	3rd term
	Mary McIntyre	Labour	1954–1955	1st term
	Adam Glover	Conservative	1955–1956	2nd term
	Reuben Greenhalgh	Labour	1956–1957
	Winifred Kettle	Labour	1957–1958	3rd term
	Albert George Woods	Labour	1958–1959
	Fred Bolton	Labour	1959–1960
	Henry Green	Labour	1960–1961
	Elizabeth Anne Ashworth	Labour	1961–1962
	Walter Raines	Labour	1962–1963
	Charles Howarth	Conservative	1963–1964
	Adam Glover	Conservative	1964–1965
	Hugh Booth	Conservative	1965–1966
	Frank Woods	Independent	1966–1967
	Harold Battersby	Conservative	1967–1968
	James Smith	Conservative	1968–1969
	Peter Aspinall	Independent	1969–1970
	Robert Hart	Conservative	1970–1971
	Cyril John Thomas	Labour	1971–1972
	Mary McIntyre	Labour	1972–1973	2nd term
	Winifred Kettle	Labour	1973–1974	4th term
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