Under the Municipal Corporation Reform Act, the mayor and sheriff are chosen by the sixteen aldermen and forty-eight councillors, the former from amongst themselves, on the ninth of November, and they enter upon their office on that day.
| 1836.
| T. O. Springfield (Jan.)
| Horatio Bolingbroke
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| 1836.
| Thos. Brightwell (Nov.)
| John Bateman
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| 1837.
| Samuel Shalders Beare
| John Francis
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| 1838.
| John Marshall
| Henry Woodcock
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| 1839.
| Philip J. Money
| John Barwell
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| 1840.
| Edward Willett
| Richard Coaks
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| 1841.
| John Marshall
| William Storey
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| 1842.
| Samuel Mitchell
| William Freeman
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| 1843.
| William Freeman
| George L. Coleman
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| 1844.
| Sir Wm. Foster, Bart.
| John Betts
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| 1845.
| John Betts
| Jeremiah Colman
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| 1846.
| Jeremiah Colman
| Charles Winter
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| 1847.
| George L. Coleman
| James Watson
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| 1848.
| Samuel Bignold
| Robert Chamberlin
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| 1849.
| Henry Woodcock
| James Colman
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| 1850.
| Henry Woodcock
| Edward Blakely
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| 1851.
| Charles Winter
| Robert Wiffen Blake
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| 1852.
| Richard Coaks
| George Womack
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| 1853.
| Sir Samuel Bignold, Kt.
| Henry Birkbeck
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| 1854.
| Robert Chamberlin
| Robert John Harvey Harvey
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| 1855.
| John G. Johnson
| Timothy Steward
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| 1856.
| Robert Chamberlin
| Robert Seaman
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| 1857.
| Edward Field
| Charles Crawshay
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| 1858.
| George Middleton
| Henry Staniforth Patteson
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| 1859.
| Jacob Henry Tillett
| J. Underwood
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| 1860.
| W. J. Utten Browne
| Donald Dalrymple
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| 1861.
| John Oddin Taylor
| Arthur J. Cresswell
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| 1862.
| Henry Stan. Patteson
| Jeremiah James Colman
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| 1863.
| Osborn Springfield
| Frederick Brown
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| 1864.
| Charles Edw. Tuck
| Charles Jecks
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| 1865.
| Wm. Peter Nichols
| William J. Cubitt
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| 1866.
| Frederick E. Watson
| W. H. Clabburn
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| 1867.
| Jeremiah Jas. Colman
| Robert Fitch
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| 1868.
| Edward K. Harvey
| John Robison
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Recorders of Norwich
| 1521.
| William Elys
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| 1522.
| John Spelman
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| 1563.
| Thomas Gawdy, sen.
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| 1576.
| Francis Windham
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| 1582.
| Edward Coke
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| 1595.
| Robert Houghton
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| 1603.
| John Silver (Deputy)
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| 1612.
| Richard Gwynne
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| 1648.
| Samuel Smith
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| 1649.
| Erasmus Earl
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| 1663.
| Francis Cory
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| 1677.
| Francis Bacon
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| 1680.
| John Norris
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| 1683.
| William Earl of Yarmouth
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| 1684.
| John Warkehouse, (Deputy)
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| 1688.
| Robert Davy
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| 1703.
| Stephen Gardiner
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| 1727.
| Richard Berney
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| 1737.
| Robert Britiffe
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| 1743.
| William Brooke
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| 1752.
| Edward Bacon
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| 1783.
| John Chambers
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| 1788.
| Henry Partridge
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| 1801.
| Charles Harvey
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| 1826.
| Robert Alderson
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| 1831.
| Isaac Preston Jermy
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| 1848.
| Michael Prendergast
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| 1859.
| Peter F. O’Malley
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The Recorder, whose office is held for life, must be a Barrister; he formerly assisted as Chief Judge in the Mayor’s Court, and was one of the council for the city.
By the Corporation Reform Act the Recorder is sole judge at the Quarter Sessions for the borough and city, and is no longer a member of the corporate body.
Stewards of Norwich.
1521. | Francis Moundford | 1691. | Arthur Branthwayt |
1536. | Edmund Grey | 1703. | Richard Berney |
1555. | Richard Catlyn | 1727. | William Brooke |
1563. | John Bleverhasset | 1743. | Francis Larwood |
1585. | Robert Houghton | 1750. | Edward Bacon |
1595. | Henry Hobart | 1752. | Charles Buckle |
1618. | William Denny | 1781. | John Chambers |
1648. | Erasmus Earl | 1783. | Charles Harvey |
1650. | Charles Geo. Cocke | 1803. | William Firth |
1663. | William Watts | 1807. | Robert Alderson |
1677. | John Norris | 1826. | Isaac Preston |
1680. | John Mingay | 1831. | Fitzroy R. Kelly |
1688. | Robert Ward | |
The Steward, who must have been a barrister, was appointed for life; he assisted as Chief Judge in the Sheriffs’ Court, and was one of the council for the city. By the Corporation Reform Act the office of Steward was abolished in 1835.
CHAPTER III.
Ecclesiastical.