A description of the East Riding of Yorkshire

ERY HISTORY:

This body was constituted in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act of 1888, which decreed that in every administrative county, as defined by the Act, an elective body called a County Council shall be established, which shall be entrusted with the management of the administrative and financial business of the county, hitherto transacted by the magistrates at the Quarter Sessions. Under this Act, the Ridings of Yorkshire form separate administrative counties. The East Riding is divided into forty-seven divisions, each of which elects one councillor, and the borough of Beverley four. The municipal boroughs of York and Hull are, by this Act, constituted separate administrative counties under the title of County Boroughs. Each council consists of a chairman, aldermen (one-half of whom shall retire in rotation every third year), and councillors. The Act came into operation on the first of April, 1889. The meetings are held at Beverley.

Principal Officers:

• Chairman - Sir Charles Legard, Bart.
• Vice-Chairman - Robert Stanley Scholfield. Esq.

ALDERMEN

Retire in 1891 -

• Bainton William, Beverley Park, farmer
• Broadley William Henry Harrison, Welton, Brough
• Dickson Francis, Heslington, farmer
• Hudson James, J.P., Bridlington Quay
• Reckitt James, J.P., Swanland Manor, Brough
• Saltmarshe Philip, J.P., Saltmarshe, Howden
• Ward Ziba Armitage, Crescent Hill House, Filey
• Wylie Robert, J.P., Beverley

Retire in 1894 -

• Bethell George Richd., M.P., 43 Curzon Street, Mayfair, London
• Brambles George, Bridlington Quay, merchant
• Londesborough Right Hon. the Earl of
• Haworth-Booth Benjamin Blades, J.P., Hull Bank Hall
• Coleman John, Muston Hall, York, farmer
• Legard Sir Charles, Bart., J.P., Ganton Hall
• Machell Rev. Richard Beverley, St. Martin's Rectory, York.
• Scholfield Rt. Stanley, J.P., Sand Hall, Howden

COUNCILLORS

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