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John Murphy
1860 – 1862, 1865 – 1868
John Johnston
1862 – 1863
Francis North
1863 – 1864 (deceased 8 August 1864)
Henry Caleb Williams
1868 –1869
Harry Hooper
1869 –1870
James Foote
1870 –1871
Samuel Shenton
1871 – 1873, 1889 -1890
Thomas Pryde
1873 – 1875
R
obert Tallon
1875 – 1876, 1883 – 1884, 1895 – 1896
John MacFarlane
1876 –1877
Charles Frederick Chubb
1877 – 1888
Josiah Francis
1878 – 1880, 1884 – 1887
Peter Brown
1880 – 1881, 1887 – 1889, 1890 1891, 1900
(deceased 27 June 1900)
John Swain Willey
1881 – 1883
James McGill
1891 – 1892
Jacob Spresser
1892 – 1893
Denis Thomas Keogh
1893 – 1894
Henry E. Wyman
1894 – 1895
William Thomas Deacon
1896 – 1898, 1908 – 1909
Roderick McLeod
1898 – 1899
Thomas Baines
1899 – 1900
Michael Real
1901 – 1902
C.W.L (Louis) Heiner
1902 – 1903
William Henry Summerville
1903 – 1904
Hugh Reilly
1904 – 1905
Isaac Ham
1905 – 1906
Frederick Goleby
1906 – 1907
Alfred John Stephenson
1907 – 1908
James Cooper
1909 – 1910
Maurice Bowers
1910 – 1911
Richard P. Watson
1911 – 1912
Alfred Tully Stephenson
1912 – 1913, 1914 – 1915, 1921
– 1930, 1933 – 1938 (deceased September 1938)
Rockley Battye
1913 – 1914
Frederick George Springall
1915 – 1916
T.J. Smith
1916 – 1917
Pearson Welsby Cameron
1917 – 1918
Frank Barker
1918 – 1919
Edward John L. Easton
1919 – 1920
John F. Lobb
1920 – 1921
Oliver Perry
1930 – 1933
A.G. Sutton
1938 – 1939
J.C. Minnis
1939 – 1949
James T. Finimore
1950 – 1973
Arthur G. Hastings
1973 – 1979
Desmond A. Freeman AM
1979 – 1991
David F. Underwood
1991 – 1995
Owen John Nugent OAM
1995 – 2004
Paul Pisasale
2004 – present
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Joseph Fleming’s Bremer Mills began in the early days of free
settlement and provided flour and bran of “superior quality” at Sydney
Mill prices plus freight charges.
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Colin Peacock constructed the first racecourse in Ipswich, the Old
Grand Racecourse.
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The Queensland Times newspaper was launched as The Ipswich Herald
on 4 July 1859 by four partners Walter Gray, H.M. Cockburn, Arthur
Macalister (later Premier of Queensland) and John Rankin.
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The Ipswich Library was first established by a group of local people in
1850. It became the School of Arts Library in 1858.
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Walter Burley Griffin, better known as the architect for Canberra,
also designed a range of buildings including incinerators. Ipswich’s
Incinerator Theatre was designed by Burley Griffin with the
construction overseen by local architect George Brockwell Gill.
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Burley Griffin’s incinerator was state-of-the-art in its day and was
designed to cope with the rubbish of a city of 20,000 people. In 1969
it was converted to a theatre. The Incinerator Theatre in Ipswich hosts
Australia’s oldest play festival every May.
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John Crew Bradfield (1867 – 1943), the principal design engineer of the
Sydney Harbour Bridge, grew up in Ipswich attending Ipswich North
State School and Ipswich Grammar School.
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Descendants of one of the original petitioners, the Whitehead family
and their photographic studio are still well known in Ipswich today.
They have generously donated their photographic archive to Picture
Ipswich, the historical archive of pictures of Ipswich that is held in the
Ipswich Library.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Mayors
From John Murphy, the first Mayor elected to the municipality of Ipswich in 1860, to
the 49th Mayor of the now City of Ipswich, Paul Pisasale, the mayoral role has carried
with it the weight and responsibility of the hopes and dreams of the residents and the
issues connected with industry and growth. Their legacy is remembered throughout
the city with names gracing buildings and streets, their descendents continuing to
make valuable contributions through business and community involvement and
through their own continued passion for and commitment to the City of Ipswich.
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