Search for Families of Mayors of Warwick

The search is on to find the descendants of former Mayors of Warwick so that their official photographs can be given to their families. Members of the Town Council’s volunteer group, ‘Unlocking Warwick’, have been seeking out the portraits held in store at the Jury Street Court House. Some of the pictures go back to the nineteenth century, others are more recent.

The Chair of Unlocking Warwick, David Kelham, said, “There isn’t enough wall space in the Court House to display all these photographs, so families are now invited to request the pictures of their ancestors, each one shown wearing the mayoral chain that has been handed down for hundreds of years.

Two of the pictures in the storeroom have lost their name-mounts – a lady from recent times, and a gentleman from earlier years sporting a Lincoln-style beard. Can anyone help to identify them?”

Here is a list of the named portraits. Are you related to any of them?

Jenny Clayton (1998 – 1999)

Joan Cooper (1997 – 1998)

Bryn Brewster (1994-1995)

James Molineaux Wordsworth Savory (1991 – 1992)

William Boxley (1990 – 1991)

Stanley Ransom (1989 – 1990)

Mrs. Marion Haywood (1987 – 1988)

Ray Chandley (1986 – 1987)

Gerald Brian Guest (1982 – 1983)

John Paul McCarthy (1981 – 1982)

George W.C.Wilson (1979 – 1980)

John A Morley (1978 – 1979)

W.T.(Jack) Butler (1977 – 1978)

Bryn Brewster (1976 – 1977)

Agnes Lavinia Ledds (1974 – 1975)

Alderman Donald Round (1972 – 1973)

Leo Thomas Howlett (1971 – 1972)

Ethel Anne Brown (1970 – 1971)

James Francis Wallsgrove (1966 – 1967)

Alfred Tenneson Lees (1958 – 1960)

Edward Roberts Bartlett (1956 – 1958)

Edward George Tibbits (1953 – 1956)

Thomas Taylor Bromwich (1949 – 1951)

Charles Holmes (1947 – 1949)

Herbert Joseph Ansell (1941 – 1944)

Fred Wetherell Turner (1937 – 1939)

Henry Norman Forbes (1931 – 1934)

Herbert Malins (1919 – 1920 and 1926 – 1927)

Austin Edwards (1919)

John Lloyd Evans (1912 – 1915)

Harry T. Smith-Turberville (1911 – 1912)

John Charles Purser (1907 – 1909)

James Wight Mann (1890 – 1892)

Colonel Samuel William Cooke (1888 – 1890)

If you are related to one of the former mayors and would like to claim one of the pictures for your family, contact David Kelham by email at info@unlockingwarwick.org or leave your phone number with the Visitor Information Centre (01926 492212) and David will get back to you.