List of mayors of Subiaco

Subiaco council chambers

The City of Subiaco is a local government area in Perth, Western Australia. It was established on 10 April 1896 as the Subiaco Road Board, with a chairman elected by the board members as its leader. The first chairman was Charles Hutt, who was the secretary of the Subiaco Progress Association. By the end of 1896, the population of the Subiaco Road District was above 2000, allowing the Road Board to apply to become a municipality. The government granted the request, and so the Municipality of Subiaco was gazetted on 26 March 1897. The first mayor of the Municipality of Subiaco was Henry Doyle.[1][2] By 1952, the Municipality of Subiaco had reached a high enough population that it was eligible to become a city. Thus, on 8 February 1952, the City of Subiaco was gazetted.[1][3]

The longest serving mayor is Joseph Abrahams, who served from 1949 to 1974.[4]

Evelyn Parker, who was mayor from 1975 to 1977, was Western Australia's first woman mayor. She was honoured with the naming of the Evelyn H Parker Library in 1990.[5][6]

Subiaco Road Board

Chairman Term Notes Ref
Charles Hart 1896–1897 Secretary of the Subiaco Progress Association [2]

Municipality of Subiaco

Henry Daglish was the Mayor of Subiaco, Premier of Western Australia, and the member for Subiaco
Mayor Term Notes Ref
Henry Doyle 1897–1898 Chair of the Subiaco Board of Health [2][7]
Charles Hart 1898–1899 [8]
Austin Bastow 1899–1902 [9][10][11]: 4 
Henry Daglish 1902–1904 Member for Subiaco from 24 April 1901 to 3 October 1911
Premier of Western Australia from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905
Honoured with the naming of the suburb of Daglish 		[12]
John Henry Prowse 1904–1905 Later served as the member for Swan and Forrest in the Parliament of Australia [13][14]
Austin Bastow 1905–1907 [10][11]: 4 
Henry Daglish 1907–1908 Member for Subiaco from 24 April 1901 to 3 October 1911
Honoured with the naming of the suburb of Daglish 		[12]
Thomas Harold "Shirley" White 1908–1910 [15][16]
James Chesters 1910–1912 [11]: 10 
Joseph Duffell 1912–1915 Member for the Metropolitan-Suburban Province from 22 May 1914 to 21 May 1926 [17][18]
James Theophilus Guy 1915–1916 [19]
William John Berryman 1916–1917 [20]
Lionel Boas 1917–1920 [21][22]
William John Berryman 1920–1921 [20][23]
Walter Richardson 1921–1922 Member for Subiaco from 12 March 1921 to 8 April 1933 [24][25]
Arthur Keene 1922–1923 [26][27]
Roland Astill Robinson 1923–1926 [28][29]
John Charles Roydhouse 1926–1929 [11]: 54 [30][31]
G. H. Olney 1929–1931 [31]
H. L. Downe 1931–1936 [32][33]
Walter Richardson 1936–1943 Member for Subiaco from 12 March 1921 to 8 April 1933 [34][35]
J. P. Bathgate 1943–1949 [35][36]
Joseph H. Abrahams 1949–1952 [37]

City of Subiaco

Mayor Term Notes Ref
Joseph H. Abrahams 1952–1974 Longest serving mayor of Subiaco, at 25 years [37]
Evelyn Helena Parker 1974–1977 First woman mayor in Western Australia; second in Australia
Honoured with the naming of the Evelyn H Parker Library in 1990 		[5][6][38][39][40]
Alf Fernihough 1977–1978 [41]
Richard Diggins 1978–1989 [42][43]
Helen Passmore 1989–1994 [44][45][46]
Tony Costa 1994–2005 [47][48]
Heather Henderson 2005–2017 Chose not to contest 2017 election [49][50][51]
Penny Taylor 2017–2021 Chose not to contest 2021 election [52][53][54]
David McMullen 2021–present [55][56]

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