, Coventry's first female mayor (in 1937) wearing mayoral regalia • 1546-7:
John Harford • 1583
Henry Breres (MP for
Coventry, 1586 and 1601) • 1587
Henry Sewall (MP for Coventry, 1621) • 1606
Henry Sewall • 1609
Sampson Hopkins (MP for Coventry, 1614 and 1621) • 1631
William Jesson (MP for Coventry, 1640) • 1633
Simon Norton (MP for Coventry, 1640) • 1634
John Barker (MP for Coventry, 1640) • 1655
Robert Beake (MP for Coventry, 1654–1660) • 1834
George Eld (antiquary and editor of the
Coventry Standard) • 1835
H. Cadwallader Adams • 1858
W. Wilmot • 1861–1862
Thomas Soden • 1889–1891 Alderman Charles John Hill • 1891–1894
George Singer (founder of
Singer Cycle Company) • 1894–1903 Alderman Tomson (Liberal) • 1911–1912 William Fitzthomas Wyley (Colonel and Founder of Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists) • 1913–1914
Siegfried Bettmann (founder of
Triumph Cycle company) • 1937
Alice Arnold – trade unionist; first female mayor • 1941
Alfred Robert Grindlay (industrialist, founder of
Grindlay Peerless Cycle Company and Mayor during the
Coventry Blitz) ==Lord Mayors of Coventry==