Former mayors, 1981-1990 | Kirklees Council

Councillor Thomas Patrick O'Donovan, B.A. (Hons), 1990 - 1991

Party: Labour
Term of Office:1990 - 1991
Mayoress:Mrs Eileen O'Donovan
Deputy Mayor:Councillor John P. Howarth
Charity Appeal:In aid of Kirkwood Hospice and Martin House Hospice for children.

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Party: Conservative
Term of Office:1988 - 1989
Mayoress:Miss Pamela Baguley
Deputy Mayor:Councillor L. Drake
Charity Appeal: In aid of Kirklees Children in Need with the aim of raising Â£50,000.

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Served twenty six years as a councillor.
Employed as a woollen manufacturer for Ben Hall and Son Limited.
Started off in the Liberal Party but elected as a Conservative in 1967.
Went on to occupy all of the main positions in the Conservative Group on Kirklees Metropolitan Council including Chief Whip, Deputy Leader and Leader.
Served as Chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Authority.

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Born in Hemsworth.
Member of the former Dewsbury Health Authority.
Closely involved with fostering and adoption committees.
Chairman of the Kirklees Social services Committee.
Served as Mayoress to Councillor Marjorie Fisher.
Deputy Chairman of Social Services Committee.
While serving as Mayor of Kirklees she was honoured to meet Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at a function in Ripon.
Died in 1998.

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The Mayor's Appeal resulted in a lock on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal near Firth Street being named the Stanley Dawson Lock in his honour (see photograph above).
Worked as a machine tool fitter at David Brown Gears Ltd of Lockwood for fifty one years.
President of the Crosland Moor Community Centre.
Governor of various schools.
Had five children.
Prior to joining the Labour party, he was a member of the Independent Labour Party which finally united with the Labour Party in 1975.
During the 1930s he was a clerk at the Check Office.
He was elected to the County Borough of Huddersfield Council in 1964, lost his seat in 1967 but was subsequently re-elected in 1971.
Elected to both Kirklees Metropolitan Council and West Yorkshire County Council in 1973.
Lost his Kirklees seat in 1976 and his West Yorkshire seat in 1977 but was re-elected to Kirklees in 1979.
Served as Deputy Chairman of the Development Services Committee.
President of Lockwood's Old Folks' Treat and the Crosland Moor Community Association.
Chairman of Thornton Lodge Gala Committee and the Environmental Health Committee.
Previously served on Batley Municipal Borough Council.
Died in 1991.

Party: Labour
Term of Office:1983 - 1984
Deputy Mayor:Councillor Bernard Murphy
Charity Appeal: In aid of a coronary machine for Staincliffe Hospital in Batley.

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One of the first to volunteer for military service in 1939, joining the Royal Air Force Regiment and then transferring to the Coldstream Guards.
Served for seven years on Batley Municipal Borough Council.
Ran a greengrocer's and worked for British Relay Service Ltd, a broadcasting company.
Director of the Rugby League Football Club and served as Umpire for Dewsbury and District Cricket League for thirty years.
Member of the Royal Air Force Association.
Died aged seventy nine in 2003.

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Born in Dewsbury and attended Wheelwright Grammar School.
Worked as a train driver for British Railways and spent fifty years at David Brown Gears Ltd.
A committed Christian Whitley Parish Church.
Elected to the County Borough of Dewsbury Council in 1962 and served continuously until its abolition.
National organiser for the Association of Councillors and Secretary of the North - East branch since 1969.
Appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1967 and served as Deputy Chairman of the Dewsbury Bench.
Served as Chairman of Kirklees Metropolitan District Council in 1976.
Chairman of the Kirklees Finance Committee, Resources and Dewsbury Partnership.
Lost his seat on Kirklees Metropolitan Council in 1976 but was re-elected in 1979.
Elected to the West Yorkshire County Council.
Branch Secretary of the Associated Society of Steam Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.