The close Corporation of Droitwich used formerly to elect two Bailiffs
and two magistrates, year by year, out of their own number; the Lords
Foley, from time to time, holding the office of Recorder. The two last
Bailiffs, for the year immediately preceding the passing of the Municipal
Reform Act, were E. B. Penrice and W. H. Ricketts, Esqs. The following
is a fist of Mayors under the Municipal Act.
1836—E. B. Penrice, Esq.
1837—John Robeson, Esq.
1838–9—E. B. Penrice, Esq.
1840—E. B. Penrice, Esq., (resigned) and S. Tombs, Esq.
1841—William Trehearn, Esq.
1842—Samuel Tombs, Esq.
1843—Edward Smith, Esq.
1844—John Pumfrey, Esq.
1845–6—T. G. Smith, Esq.
1847—Edward Smith, Esq.
1848–9–50—John Bradley, Esq.