High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Names of the Mayors for the Borough of Derby from the first that was chosen on 3 July 1638 by the king`s charter then granted to the town. The two last bailiffs were the two first mayors, Mr Mellor being proclaimed 3 July 1638 to be the mayor until Michaelmas and twelve months after but he died on 5 February 1639 and Mr Hope served the year out.