List of mayors of Derby

Names of the Mayors for the Borough of Derby from the first that was chosen on 3 July 1638 by the king's charter then granted to the town.

The two last bailiffs were the two first mayors, Mr Mellor being proclaimed 3 July 1638 to be the mayor until Michaelmas and twelve months after but he died on 5 February 1639 and Mr Hope served the year out.

[1] The chief duties of the mayor are to chair Derby Council meetings and to attend the city's remembrance event, however the ceremonial duties can be considerable.

Derby's mayor wears a ceremonial chain that has been valued at over £1,000,000.

The chain was originally worn by Chief Judges of the King's Bench.

A building known as the "Mayor's Parlour" in 1860 (demolished in the 1940s).
John Hope (d. 1819) ( Joseph Wright of Derby , ca. 1780)
Joseph Strutt, from a portrait that was in the Mayoral Gallery at the Derby Council House
Sir Henry Howe Bemrose by Ernest Townsend
"The Late Lord Roe" by Ernest Townsend
Haslam being knighted whilst mayor in 1890
William Robert Raynes by Ernest Townsend
Sir John Ferguson Bell, Mayor of Derby by Ernest Townsend
Mrs Elizabeth Petty (1875–1947) by Ernest Townsend
Ruth Skelton, Mayor of Derby in 2004
Lisa Higginbottom, Mayor of Derby in 2012
Paul Pegg, former Mayor of Derby at the Derby Book Festival in 2015