 In 1860 , Terry was elected Councillor for York 's Monk Ward , a rural area close to the modern day Strays of York , as a Conservative . He would later be appointed Chairman of the York Conservative Association ( something that his grandson , Noel Goddard Terry , would also later achieve ) . Experience in local government was heightened by his election as sheriff , equivalent to a deputy mayoral position , in 1870 under Liberal MP George Leeman , who served as Member of Parliament for the City of York constituency for three years prior to his appointment as Lord Mayor . In 1874 , Terry became an Alderman of the City , granting him a seat at York 's Guildhall for debate in a then partisan chamber under the Conservatives . The party , in response to his growing popularity , allowed him to run for the Lord Mayoralty within the same year , to which he was elected by consensus , defeating the incumbent local brewer , John March . This position granted him the style the ' Right Honourable ' ( a title exclusive to the Lord Mayoralty , not the individual ) . 
