Chairmen and Mayors of Farnworth
| Chairmen of Farnworth Local Board, 1863–1898 |
- 1863 – 67: Alfred Barnes (Lib)
- 1867 – 68: David Crossley
- 1868 – 69: John Hindley
- 1869 – 70: Alfred Topp (Lib)
- 1870 – 72: William Barton Whittam
- 1872 – 75: John Greenhalgh
- 1875 – 78: Alfred Topp (Lib)
- 1878 – 80: Alfred Barnes (Lib)
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- 1880 – 81: William Barton Whittam
- 1881 – 85: James Nuttall
- 1885 – 86: Joseph Winter
- 1886 – 87: George Foster
- 1888 – 94: John Clelland Clarke
- 1895 – 97: Nathaniel Nicholson
- 1897 – 98: Thomas Ivers (Lib)
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| Chairmen of Farnworth Urban District Council, 1899–1939 |
- 1899 – 1901: William Sumner
- 1901 – 04: Alfred Topp (Lib)
- 1904 – 06: Thomas Ivers (Lib)
- 1906 – 09: Thomas Stanley (Con)
- 1909 – 12: Frederick Whittaker
- 1912 – 14: Charles Young
- 1914 – 15: William Boyes Richardson
- 1915 – 19: James Stones (Con)
- 1919 – 21: John Chadwick (Lab)
- 1921 – 23: Charles S. Jackson
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- 1923 – 25: Richard H. Cunliffe (Lib)
- 1925 – 26: Thomas White
- 1926 – 28: Walter Robert Winter (Lab)
- 1928 – 30: Harry Barnes
- 1930 – 32: Rev John Wilcockson (Lab)
- 1932 – 33: George Tomlinson (Lab)
- 1934 – 36: James Stevenson
- 1936 – 37: Samuel Taylor (Lib)
- 1938 – 39: Alfred Jones
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| Mayors of the Municipal Borough of Farnworth, 1939–1974 |
- 1939 – 40: Rev John Wilcockson (Lab)
- 1940 – 41: James Stevenson, JP
- 1941 – 42: Alfred Jones, JP, OBE
- 1942 – 43: William McManus
- 1943 – 44: John Heathcoate
- 1944 – 45: Jesse Seddon, JP, MC
- 1945 – 46: Richard Ralphson
- 1946 – 47: Harold Greenwood Holland
- 1947 – 49: James A. Dean
- 1949 – 50: William Welsby (Lab)
- 1950 – 51: John Brooks (Lab)
- 1951 – 52: George H Wilson (Lib)
- 1952 – 53: Richard Matthews (Lab)
- 1953 – 54: Harold Armitage (Lab)
- 1954 – 55: Robert Neary, JP
- 1955 – 56: James Melville White
- 1956 – 57: James Wilfred Geere
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- 1957 – 58: John Glanville Seddon
- 1958 – 59: George Benyon
- 1959 – 60: John Higgins
- 1960 – 61: Albert Samuel Royse (Con), JP, MBE
- 1961 – 62: Herbert Brindle
- 1962 – 63: Philip Smith
- 1963 – 64: Phillip Norfield
- 1964 – 65: Sydney Stout
- 1965 – 66: George Kenyon Brown (Lab)
- 1966 – 67: Norman Topping (Lab)
- 1967 – 68: Charles Brendan Callaghan
- 1968 – 69: Lawrence Francis Cunliffe (Lab)
- 1969 – 70: Joseph Wild (Lab)
- 1970 – 71: Leonard Haslam
- 1971 – 72: William Hardman (Lab)
- 1972 – 73: Elizabeth Brown (Lab)
- 1973 – 74: Joseph Kenneth Flanagan
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