Talk:Mayor of Bedford

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The first historically recorded mayor of Bedford was a certain John Slye around 1250 whose mayoral mace was actually used in battle.^[1] The first mayor of Bedford under the Municipal Corporation Act 1835 was Thomas Gwyn Elger, an architect and builder.^[2] His son the astronomer, also called Thomas Gwyn Elger, also later served as mayor.

^ Old Bedford: the town of Sir William Harper, John Bunyan and John ... - Page xviii Charles Frederick Farrar - 1926 "The Mayoral Mace, borne in state before his Worship, was for John Slye, the first Mayor of Bedford (circa 1250) his ordinary weapon of offence, wherewith he broke the heads, and very properly so, of burgess or freeman who presumed to ... so before the mace of the Mayor of Bedford they subserviently receded. But then, in a degenerate century was born the year 1835, and a radical communistic Act of Parliament was passed, the Municipal Corporations Reform Act."
^ Bedfordshire magazine - Volumes 23 à 24 - Page 181 1995 "Isaac Elger had been Mayor of Bedford in 1802 and, following in his footsteps, Thomas also took an active part in local affairs. He was for many years a trustee of the Harpur Trust and, as Mayor of Bedford in 1830, 1835 and 1838, was its ..."

WP:FORK problem here. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:43, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Old Bedford: the town of Sir William Harper, John Bunyan and John ... - Page xviii Charles Frederick Farrar - 1926 "The Mayoral Mace, borne in state before his Worship, was for John Slye, the first Mayor of Bedford (circa 1250) his ordinary weapon of offence, wherewith he broke the heads, and very properly so, of burgess or freeman who presumed to ... so before the mace of the Mayor of Bedford they subserviently receded. But then, in a degenerate century was born the year 1835, and a radical communistic Act of Parliament was passed, the Municipal Corporations Reform Act."

[2] Bedfordshire magazine - Volumes 23 à 24 - Page 181 1995 "Isaac Elger had been Mayor of Bedford in 1802 and, following in his footsteps, Thomas also took an active part in local affairs. He was for many years a trustee of the Harpur Trust and, as Mayor of Bedford in 1830, 1835 and 1838, was its ..."

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