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Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, the mayor of Bedford came into office on 29 September. The first mayor of the reformed corporation came into office on 1 January 1836, and subsequent mayors on 9 November. After the Local Government Act, 1948, and the Local Government Act, 1972, the
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284:1892–93: Frederick Augustus Blaydes
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68:Joshua Hawkins - Mayor of Bedford
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248:1879–80: John Elworthy Cutcliffe
191:1857–58: George Handscomb Miller
440:painting of James Thomas Hobson
245:1878–79: Thomas Gwyn Empy Elger
221:1872–73: Frederick Thomas Young
126:, MP for Bedford, 1417 and 1427
18:The first known reference to a
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370:Thomas, Laura (25 May 2000).
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177:Fellow of the Royal Society
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455:Painting of Joshua Hawkins
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168:1829–30: Sir William Long
55:List of Mayors of Bedford
45:non-metropolitan district
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197:1862–63: Robert Couchman
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