Printed and Published at the Dover Express Works. 1916.

TO BE FORMATTED

ANNALS OF DOVER.
SECTION SIX.
THE MAYORS AND THEIR TIMES.
XII. FROM THE WIDENING OF BIGGIN STREET TO THE PIER VIADUCT. 1894 TO 1914.

This last stage is so well within living memory that it
can hardly be treated as history. The retrospect is so
short that any judgment formed upon it might be crude.
Abandoning criticism, it may be remarked that this stage
brings us (tor the present) to the end of a Roll of Mayors
which, probably, no Municipality in the Kingdom could
surpass. The individual Mayors make a total of 281, the
period which the Roll covers from Domesday being 828
years.
1895 Matthew Pepper (271) 1896 Henry M. Baker (272)

(271) Matthew iPepper was elected Mayor in the year 1895, and
he was at the sama time Chairman of the Dover Board of Guardians.
This Mayor's ancctors had filled the offices of Mayor, Town Clerk,
and Clerk to the Court of Brotherhood and Ghiestling.

(272) Henry Minter Baker, a Man of Kent, a wholesale grocer,
farmer, hop-grower, and horse breeder, was in the Civic chair when
the system of electric trams was inaugurated in Dover, he driving
the first car on the opening day from Buckland to the Pier. Queen
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee was celebrated with great spirit during
his Mayoralty.

1897 W. H. Crundall 1898 W. H. Crundall

1899 W. H. Crundall 1900 W. J. Barnes (273)

(273) William James Barnes was a chemist. He was Mayor on
the occasion of the death of Queen Victoria and the Proclamation of
Edward VII.

1901 H. Martyn Mowll (-"74) 1903 Fredk. G. Wright (275)

(274) Henry Martyn Mowll, a solicitor and Register of Dover
Harbour, was one of the Barrens of tlic Cinque Ports who attended
the Coronation of Edward VI 1 . He is one of the leading antiquarians
of Dover, and his library probably contains an unsurpassed collection
of books, prints, and manuscripts relating to Dover and the district.

(275) Frederick George Wright was an ironmonger, of the firm
of Messrs. Wright Brothers. The principle public event of his
Mayoralty, which commenced November, 1902, was the landing at
Dover of M. Loubet, the President of the French Republic; and the
principle Municipal event was the tran -^er of the Electricity Under-
taking from the Electric Light Company to the Corporation.
1903 A. T. Walmisley (276)

W. H. Crundall

(276) Arthur Thomas Walmisley, c!;osen Mayor in November,
1903, was Engineer of Dover Harbour. He, for many years, was



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President of the Dover Institute, and for several years the lecturer of
Gi-esham Ck)ll€ge.

1904 W. H. Crundall 1905 W. W. Burkett (277)

(277) William Wood Burkett, a baker and confectioner, euo
ceeded during his Mayoralty in raising a thousand pounds for the
benefit of Dover Hospital.

1906 George F. Raggett (278) 1907 Walter Emden (279)

(278) George Francis Raggett, a retired Naval ofiQoer, made his
Mayoralty memorable by undertaking arrangements for commencing
a County Cricket Week in Dover on a permanent basis.

(279) Walter Emden, who was Mayor from November, 1907,
to November, igio, differed from all other Mayors of Dover in that
he was not a member of the Town Council, having been chosen under
the special provision contained in the 15th Section of the Municipal
Corporations Act of 1882, which allows a burgess not a member of
the Town Council to be chosen Mayor when duly qualified. He had
previously been Mayor of Westminster, and) as Mayor of Dover he
was very energetic in many ways, more especially in promoting the
Dover Pageant, held during his first Mayoralty.

1908 Walter Emden 1909 Walter Emden

1 910 W. H. Crundall 1911 William Bromley (280)

(280) William Bromley, builder, was Mayor two years, from
November, 191 1, to November, 1913. In his first Mayoralty additional
Parliamentary powers were obtained for carrying out a new streete'
scheme, known as "The Pier Viaduct," together with a Pier Housing
Scheme, which had stood over since 1895, when the Corporation
purchased from the Harbour Board, with the intention of improve-
ment,a large insanitary area in the Pier District. In his second
Mayoralty a little of the work was done, but, owing to the War
breaking out in the following year, this, like many other public worka,
was much delayed.

1912 William Bromley 1913 Edwin W. T. Farley (281)

(281) Edwin Wood Thorp Farley, on commencing his Mayoralty in
November, 1913, found the Town Council committed to the Pier
Viaduct Undertaking, which was not at all popular. Mr. Farley was
the first Mayor of Dover of recent years elected independent of

"Party" politics, the elections of 1913 having returned a majority
of those pledged to independence of " Party " politics in Municipal

affairs. Afterwards Mr. Farley was re-elected on November 9th, 1914,

and again in 191 5.

1 914 Edwin W. T. Farley 1915 Edwin W. T. Farley