List_of_mayors_of_Winchelsea
Winchelsea is an historic town in East Sussex, England. There has been a Mayor of Winchelsea since Edward I granted the town the right to its own Mayor and Corporation around 1292. Records of the Mayors exist since 1295. Since[clarification needed] the Mayor has been elected annually on Easter Monday by the Freemen of the Town at an "Hundred".[1]
The corporation lost its remaining civil and judicial powers in 1886 but was preserved as a charity by an Act of Parliament in order to maintain the membership of the Cinque Port Confederation. The mayor and corporation in Winchelsea now have a largely ceremonial role, together with responsibility for the ongoing care and maintenance of the main listed ancient monuments in the town and the Winchelsea museum.
Past Mayors of Winchelsea include:
- John Salerne 1407-09 MP for Winchelsea, 1402 and 1407 and Romney, 1386, 1388 and 1391.
- Robert Sparrow 1501, 1511, 1517 and 1524 MP for Winchelsea, 1510, ?1512, ?1515 and 1523[2]
- Thomas Ashburnham 1509-10 and 1521-2.[3]
- George Lowys 1525, 1531, 1536, 1537, 1551 MP for Winchelsea, 1529 and ?1536[4]
- William Oxenbridge 1549-50.[5]
- John Bell 1535 and 1541 MP for Winchelsea, 1541[6]
- Frederick Andrew Inderwick 1892-93, 1902-03[7]
- Robert Curteis Stileman 1901-02[8]
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