Lady Mayoress

plural Lady Mayoresses · plural Ladies Mayoress · plural Ladies Mayoresses

1. The wife or other official female consort of a Lord Mayor

   [His wife,] Azra, will support him as Lady Mayoress for the first six months of his term. His daughter, Aisha, will support him as Lady Mayoress for the second half of his term.

   2019, The Lord Mayor of Manchester: Councillor Abid Latif Chohan

   1 more example

   In 1904, Helen Currer Briggs, the Lady Mayoress of Leeds paved the way to providing free holidays for young children whose family income was less than a single pound. Since then it has been the right of every new Lady Mayoress to become the president of the charity.

   2016 "Our Work" Leeds Children's Charity website