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Chairmen of Woollahra (1860 - 1867)
1860 - George Thornton
1861 - Samuel Thompson
1862 - Richard Holdsworth
1863 - John Valentine Gorman
1864 - Joseph Trickett
1865 - Charles Martyn
1866 - Daniel Bulman
1867 - Randolph Nott
Mayors of Woollahra (1868 - present)
1868-1871 - M. Consett Stephen
1871 - Daniel Bulman
1872 - Walter Friend
1873 - William Teale
1874 - Benjamin Cocks
1875-1877 - John V. Barnard
1877 - James Sutherland Mitchell
1878 - William Adams Brodribb
1879-1881 - William Joseph Trickett
1881-1886 - Robert Butcher
1886-1888 - William Joseph Trickett
1888-1890 - John Cash Neild
1890-1899 - Thomas Magney
1899 - David Davis
1900-1909 - William H. Latimer
1910 - Thomas Christie Fairweather
1911-1914 - Thomas Magney
1914-1916 - Leo Whitby Robinson
1916-1917 - George Dyson
1918-1920 - William H. Latimer
1921-1922 - James Polidore Bradley
1923-1925 - William Frederick Foster
1923 - Thomas Christie Fairweather (acting)
1926-1929 - Leo Whitby Robinson
1930-1931 - George Slater Grimley
1932-1935 - Hugh Latimer
1936 - Keith Denis Manion
1937 - Arthur Griffith
1938-1939 - George Slater Grimley
1940 - John Douglas Lesingham Gaden
1941 - Lyle Howard Marshall Moore
1942 - Keith Denis Manion
1943 - Aubrey Erskine Smith
1944 - Leon Samuel Snider
1945-1946 - George Slater Grimley
1947 - Reginald Rosborough Thornton
1948 - Leslie Edye Duff
1949-1951 - Hugh Latimer
1952 - William Frederick Arthur Harvey
1953 - Chester William Davies
1954 - Leslie Edye Duff
1955 - John Esler Calwell
1956 - Hugh Carlyle Foster
1957 - Norman Ernest Mills
1958 - William Frederick Arthur Harvey
1959 - A. D. Frost
1960 - John Esler Calwell
1961 - Allan Charles Murchison
1962 - Maxwell Elliott Lawrence
1963 - Allan Charles Murchison
1964 - Maxwell Elliott Lawrence
1965 - Graham John Crouch
1966 - Maxwell Elliott Lawrence
1967 - Allan Charles Murchison
1968 - Graham John Crouch
1969 - Andrew Midwood Clayton
1970 - Grosvenor Charles Thomas Burfitt-Williams
1971 - David L. Parker
1972 - John William O'Brien
1973 - Thomas O'Loghlen Reynolds
1974 - Michael Keith Fosbery Bray
1975 - Graham John O'Neill
1976 - John W. O'Brien
1977 - Michael Keith Fosbery Bray
1978 - Anthony Wentworth Perry
1979 - Brenda Somerville (Dutchie) Backhouse
1980 - Francis Patrick Donohoe
1981 - Charles Bernard Alexander Widdy
1982 - David Fulton Rofe
1983 - Judith Ann May
1984-1985 - John Mungo MacCallum
1986 - Hylda Ann Rolfe
1987 - Charles Bernard A. Widdy
1988 - Susan Margaret Collett
1989 - Elaine Armgard Cassidy
1990 - Hylda Ann Rolfe
1991 - Peter Edward King
1992 - Catherine Elizabeth Lemech
1993-1994 - Andrew Briger
1995 - David Willoughby Leach
1996 - Neville Gruzman
1997-1998 - Greg James Medcraft
1998 - Mairaed Bilmon
1999 - Andrew Petrie
2000 - Christopher J. Dawson
2001-2004 - John Comino
2004 - Geoffrey Rundle
2005 - Andrew Petrie
2006 - Keri Huxley
2007 - Geoffrey Rundle
2008-2009 - Andrew Petrie
2010 - Isabelle Shapiro
2011 - Susan Wynne
2012 - Andrew Petrie
2013-2017 - Toni Zeltzer
2017-2019 - Peter M Cavanagh
2019-present - Susan Wynne
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