List of lord mayoralties and lord provostships in the United Kingdom

This is a list of lord mayoralties and lord provostships in the United Kingdom. The dignity of having a lord mayor as civic head is granted to certain districts enjoying city status in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. In Scotland the similar office of lord provost is reserved for the convener of the four largest cities.

Confirmed to metropolitan borough by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.

Confirmed to non-metropolitan district by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.

Confirmed to metropolitan borough by letters patent dated 25 June 1974.

Confirmed to metropolitan borough by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.

Confirmed to non-metropolitan district by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.

Confirmed to non-metropolitan district by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.

Confirmed to non-metropolitan district by letters patent dated 1 April 1974.

Confirmed to metropolitan borough by letters patent dated 28 May 1974.

Confirmed to non-metropolitan district by letters patent dated 28 May 1974.

Reconfirmed by letters patent to unitary authority dated 1 April 1996.

† The Lord Provostships of the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow were confirmed to the new local authorities formed by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

The most ancient lord mayors and lord provosts (London, York and Edinburgh) had established the right to the use of the honorific prefix "the right honourable" (The Rt Hon.) by the seventeenth century. When new lord mayoralties were created in the 1890s it was not clear if they also enjoyed this privilege. When the grant of a lord mayor was made to Liverpool and Manchester in 1893, Sir Albert William Woods, Garter Principal King of Arms, was of the opinion that

...the chief magistrates of those cities on which the dignity was conferred should be able to use the prefix of "right honourable" in the same way as London had done from time immemorial.

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