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35-616: The administrative county of Cardigan and its local authority, the Cardiganshire County Council was established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 . The first elections were held in January 1889. The council was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974. The Ceredigion District Council operated between 1974 and 1996 as a district within the new Dyfed County Council . As

70-413: A county borough did not have a separate commission of assize , oyer and terminer and jury service, or gaol delivery, it was deemed to be part of one or more adjoining counties for those purposes. The Act also provided for certain financial adjustments between county boroughs and adjoining counties. The Act did not in terms affect the status of cities and towns which were counties corporate . Most of

105-520: A distinct county), were to become part of the county where they were situated. Section 49 allowed for the creation by provisional order of a Council for the Scilly Islands to be established as a unitary authority outside the administrative county of Cornwall. This was duly formed in 1890 as the Isles of Scilly Rural District. There were 36 urban sanitary districts which straddled counties prior to

140-401: A population as 50,000, but which had very peculiar claims. He referred to the counties of cities. [...] Two or three of these cities had so small a population that he did not propose to deal with them in this way. The best course was to give the names of the cities which he proposed to include. They were Exeter, Lincoln, Chester, Gloucester, Worcester, and Canterbury." The effect of these changes

175-686: A preferential tariff, leading to his sacking by Balfour in September 1903. Ritchie's son in law, the Scottish architect Mervyn Macartney , built a country house for Ritchie, Welders House , in the Buckinghamshire village of Jordans . On 22 December 1905, he was created a peer as Baron Ritchie of Dundee , of Welders in the Parish of Chalfont St Giles in the County of Buckingham. However, he

210-453: A ratio of "not more than" one alderman to six councillors. The councillors appointed the council's "Chairman instead of mayor" and Vice Chairman, who had a one-year term of office and could be reappointed. As to natural persons section 1 of the Act states every such council shall "consist of the chairman, aldermen, and councillors". The Chairman would upon (this ex officio , by virtue of office)

245-509: A result of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 , which came into force on 1 April 1996, a new unitary authority of Cardiganshire was established with boundaries identical to those of the previous county council. During the period, Liberal candidates won large majorities at each election and Conservative support was limited to some of the towns and areas where local gentry continued to gain some personal support. The leadership of

280-423: A single county. The ten cities first identified to be dealt with as separate counties were Liverpool , Birmingham , Manchester , Leeds , Sheffield , Bristol , Bradford , Nottingham , Kingston-on-Hull , and Newcastle upon Tyne . Existing urban and rural sanitary districts, created in 1872, were to be redesignated as urban and rural districts. Urban such districts that straddled counties became destined for

315-524: A tacit acceptance by the Liberals that the Conservatives be allocated a number of aldermanic seats. It was nearly ten years, however, before the council had a Conservative chairman: J.C. Harford of Falcondale, who was elected on a motion moved by Peter Jones. By the early years of the twentieth century much of the earlier enthusiasm had become dissipated and many members attended only a few meetings

350-517: A year. In the early years the county council held their meetings at Lampeter Town Hall . The county council established offices for county officials and their departments at the former town hall in Aberaeron in 1910 and it was not until 1950 that the council established a permanent base at Swyddfa'r Sir in Aberystwyth . Some departments, including the departments of the county surveyor and

385-572: The 1886 general election , a Conservative administration headed by Lord Salisbury was formed. However the Conservatives did not have a majority of seats and had to rely on the support of the Liberal Unionist Party . As part of the price for this support the Liberal Unionists demanded that a bill be introduced placing county government under the control of elected councils, modelled on the borough councils introduced by

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420-495: The Cinque Ports and Staffordshire Potteries were not successful. The normal population threshold for county borough status was lowered twice, firstly to 100,000, then to 50,000. A number of smaller counties corporate were also given county borough status. Mr Ritchie conceded on 8 June: "Now that they had gone down so far in population as 50,000 there arose a question as to the admission of boroughs which had not so large

455-663: The House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was raised to the peerage . He served as Home Secretary from 1900 to 1902 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1902 to 1903. Ritchie was born at Dundee , Scotland, the third son of Elizabeth (née Thomson), daughter of James Thomson, and William Ritchie, of Rockhill near Broughty Ferry , Forfarshire . His father was head of the firm of William Ritchie & Sons, of London and Dundee, East India merchants, jute spinners and manufacturers. The Ritchie family had long been connected with

490-683: The London County Council . In Lord Salisbury's later ministries, as member for Croydon (1895–1906), he was President of the Board of Trade (1895–1900) and Home Secretary (1900–1902); and when Sir Michael Hicks-Beach retired in August 1902, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Balfour's cabinet. In his earlier years he had been a fair-trader and he was strongly opposed to Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain's movement for

525-720: The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 . Accordingly, the Local Government (England and Wales) Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 19 March 1888, by the President of the Local Government Board , Charles Ritchie . The Bill proposed the creation of elected county councils to take over the administrative functions of the magistrates of the Quarter Sessions courts, that ten large cities should be "counties of themselves" for

560-702: The Tower Hamlets . In 1885, he was made secretary to the Admiralty , and from 1886 to 1892 was President of the Local Government Board in Lord Salisbury's second administration, sitting as member for St George in the East . He was responsible for the Local Government Act 1888 , instituting county councils; and a large section of the Conservative party always owed him a grudge for having originated

595-596: The historic counties of England and Wales . A county council was to be formed for each of the ridings of Yorkshire and the three divisions of Lincolnshire ( Holland , Kesteven and Lindsey ). In addition a new County of London was to be formed from the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works . This would have led to the creation of fifty-seven county councils. The boundaries of the counties were to be those used for parliamentary purposes, adjusted to include urban sanitary districts on county borders within

630-412: The "selected councillors" became "county aldermen". The government withdrew the sections relating to the creation of district councils, which were eventually brought into existence by the Local Government Act 1894 . Members of both houses made representations on behalf of counties and boroughs, and this led to an increase in the number of local authorities. Attempts to create administrative counties for

665-488: The Act. These included: County borough corporations also exercised these powers, in addition to those of a municipal borough. Control of the county police was to be exercised jointly by the quarter sessions and the county council through a standing joint committee. The committees were replaced by police authorities by the Police Act 1964 . Counties were also used as areas for administering justice and organisation of

700-588: The Militia Act 1882 which was left in force, with the exception that if the boundaries of an administrative county changed then so too did any lieutenancy, shrieval or judicial area to match. Whilst schedule 3 of the Act identified that four of the county boroughs (Bristol, Great Yarmouth, Stockport and York) should be deemed to lie in more than one county for the purposes of the Act, those purposes did not include lieutenancy, but were instead concerned with certain financial matters. For lieutenancy purposes, Bristol

735-621: The Welsh councillors business should be transacted in Welsh as well as in English. He proceeded to propose the Aberystwyth tradesmen Peter Jones, elected to represent rural Trefeurig as chair. The Earl of Lisburne seconded this proposal. Despite the fiery rhetoric at this initial election and at later contests, the Conservatives' willingness to accept the Liberal triumph was met in return with

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770-458: The act coming into force. Under Section 50 of the act, each such district was transferred in its entirety to the county which had the majority of the district's population at the 1881 census, leading to the changes set out in the table below. Charles Thomson Ritchie Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee , PC (19 November 1838 – 9 January 1906) was a Scottish businessman and Conservative politician who sat in

805-541: The council was composed mainly of prosperous middle class tradesmen, professionals and nonconformist ministers. The first election was held in 1889 and the Liberal Party held a large majority of the seats down to the First World War, reflecting its dominance over the politics of the county. The first meeting of the council was a notable watershed, as Morgan Evans of Oakford proposed that in fairness to

840-547: The counties corporate became county boroughs and therefore administrative counties of themselves, but while other county boroughs continued to be part of their existing counties for all other purposes, that did not apply to existing counties corporate. Those that did not become county boroughs became part of adjacent administrative counties but retained their existing judicial functions and shrievalties. The Act did not change which counties, ridings and counties corporate were included in each lieutenancy area; those were already set by

875-539: The county architect, remained at Aberaeron. Local Government Act 1888 The Local Government Act 1888 ( 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) was an Act of Parliament which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales . It came into effect on 1 April 1889, except for the County of London , which came into existence on 21 March at the request of the London County Council . Following

910-481: The county for the purpose of the election of county councillors became fixed, under a key definition of the Act, "as electoral divisions and not wards", and "one county councillor only shall be elected for each". Following the election, the county councillors then elected county aldermen, there being one alderman for every three councillors. The London County Council had its own section of the Act, prescribing two councillors to be elected for each Commons constituency, and

945-457: The county with the bulk of their population as at the 1881 census , by enlarging the latter. Existing rural sanitary districts so straddling were to split on county lines to form rural districts. There were a large number of changes to the Bill as it passed through parliament. The terms administrative county and county borough were introduced to designate the new areas of local government, while

980-414: The militia. The act adjusted the boundaries for the purposes of " sheriff , lieutenant , custos rotulorum , justices, militia, coroner, or other" , ensuring the judicial definitions of the counties matched groups of the administrative counties and county boroughs. The counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Sussex and Yorkshire were undivided so far as they were one county at

1015-441: The passing of the Act. The three ridings of Yorkshire and the three parts of Lincolnshire therefore retained their status. County boroughs were to be administrative counties of themselves. The Act provided that each county borough that had previously been part of a county (i.e., was not a county corporate) should continue to be part of that county for non-administrative purposes, notably judicial functions and lieutenancy. If

1050-438: The purposes of lieutenancy, a situation which persisted until the major reforms of 1974. Under section 48 of the Act all liberties and franchises, with the exception of those that became separate administrative counties, merged with the county they formed part of for parliamentary elections. The Cinque Ports , together with "the two ancient towns and their members" (which for some purposes, such as lieutenancy , were considered

1085-464: The purposes of local government and that each county was to be divided into urban and rural districts, based on existing sanitary districts , governed by a district council. The county and district councils were to consist partly of directly elected "elective councillors" and partly of "selected councillors", chosen by the elective councillors in a similar manner to aldermen in municipal boroughs . The counties to be used for local government were to be

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1120-454: The selecting of that person (co-option) be entitled to be a Justice of the Peace but needed take the oaths of that office "before acting as such justice", aside from the oath as to having local real estate as they had already met the equivalent requirement to become a councillor or alderman. The powers and responsibilities transferred from the quarter sessions to the councils were enumerated in

1155-486: The town of Dundee. His elder brother James Thomson Ritchie was Lord Mayor of London from 1903 to 1904 and was created a Baronet in 1903 (a title which became extinct on his death). Ritchie was educated at the City of London School , after which he went into the family business. On 7 December 1858, he married Margaret Ower, daughter of Thomas Ower of Perth. In 1874, he was returned to parliament as Conservative member for

1190-590: Was solely in Gloucestershire, and York was solely in the West Riding. The county borough of Great Yarmouth did straddle Norfolk and Suffolk for judicial and lieutenancy purposes after the new county councils came into force, but only for two years; it was placed entirely in Norfolk in 1891. After 1891 Stockport was therefore the only county borough to straddle two counties (Cheshire and Lancashire) for

1225-403: Was to increase the number of county boroughs from ten to fifty-nine. With a population of around 50,000 at the 1881 census, the City of London was initially proposed for county borough status. These were subject to triennial elections, the first taking place in January 1889. Those elected in 1889 were known as "provisional" councils until coming into their powers on 1 April. The divisions of

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