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In 1857.
Mr. Walter Bagnall Mr. John Bennett
„ Benjamin Smith „ T. H. Lavers
„ Benjamin Parsey „ Charles Atkins
„ William Morphew „ William Goodman
In 1858.
Mr. S. Southorn Mr. Joseph Mead
Dr. Henry Greenwood „ James Belcham
Mr. Benjamin Standring „ William Kelsey
„ Charles Sewell ' „ Henry Couldery
In 1859.
Mr. Alderman Eagleton Mr. William Edgerton
„ W. H. Shove „ Thomas Tapley
„ C. B. Colchester „ Henry Robinson
,, James Brooker „ Bart. Chaundy
The following persons were at the same time appointed members
of the Board by the Vestry of Penge (Mr. Puzey having been balloted
out of office in 1857):—
Mr. Thomas Puzey. Mr. Thomas Maugham.
Mr. W. W. Stanger*
By a curious anomaly in the Act (sect. 11) three Auditors are,
on the election of Vestrymen, elected by the Ratepayers of Lewisham,
one for each ward ; and five are elected by the Ratepayers of
Penge. From the eight persons so elected three are (sect. 194)
elected by ballot by the Board as the Auditors of their accounts for
the current year. The persons elected (on the 28th November,
1855), were—
By the Blackheath Ward *Mr. R. G. Jones.
By the Sydenham Ward *Mr. Edwin Nash.
By the Lewisham Ward Mr. J. H. Morgan.
Mr. Thomas Smith.
*Mr. James Fleet.
By the Hamlet of Penge Mr. Felix T. Berry.
Mr. G. Pearson.
Mr. Stephen Cousins.
Of whom those marked thus (*) were elected by ballot as Auditors
of the accounts of the Board up to the 25th March, 1857.
*Mr. John Sinkins, Mr. W. M. Ridgway, Mr. Daniel Phillips, and Mr. James
Hoath were on the 28th April, 1857, appointed on the resignations and in the places of
Messrs. Standring, Colchester, Couldery, and Atkins. Mr. Sabin was at the same
time appointed in the place of Mr. Goodman, resigned.
Mr. Brooker was on the 20th May appointed by the united Boards of Plumstead and
Lewisham a member of the Metropolitan Board, in the place of Mr. Atkins, resigned.
Messrs. Baonall, Smith, Parsey, and Morphew were reappointed by the Vestry on
the 3rd June, 1857, and Messrs. Dodds, Lane, and Andrews were at tho same time
appointed in the places of Mr. Bennett and Mr. Lavers, who declined to be put in
nomination, and Mr. Sabin, who had become disqualified.