The Borough of St Leonards was a local government area in the Lower North Shore region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
It included the modern suburbs of Cammeray, Mosman, Waverton, Wollstonecraft and parts of Cremorne, Neutral Bay, North Sydney and Crows Nest.
[1] This petition was subsequently accepted and the Governor of New South Wales, Sir John Young, proclaimed the establishment of the "Municipality of St Leonards" on 31 May 1867.
[3] Edward Mawney Sayers was appointed as Returning Officer for the first election to be held on 4 July 1867.
[7] By mid-1870 a petition of 172 names was presented to the Colonial Secretary asking for the secession of the Victoria Ward and the creation of a separate borough council.