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Changes in the Personnel of the Board,
Considerable changes have taken place in the Membership
of the Board during the year under review. At the
election of Members in June, 1894, Messrs. Edward Angel,
Alfred Barter, James Lawrence Graydon, Walter
Hazell, M.P., Henry Stalker Crawford, Samuel Cousins
and Henry Cooper Latreille, were elected in the place of
Messrs, Sidney Ashley, John Henry Coulson, John Johnson,
Charles Dibdin, Henry O. Gilbert, George Pearce and
Samuel J. Thacker.
The names of two Members have been removed by
death, viz:—Messrs. H. F. Jackson and A. C. Ranyard,
L.C.C., and during the year Mr. Wyatt Papworth, who
was for many years a Member of the Board, passed away.
The Work of the Year,
An endeavour will be made in the ensuing pages of this
Report to summarise very briefly some of the most
important matters that have been brought under the
consideration of the Board. There are, however, of course,
an enormous number of matters of detail, many of which
involve much time and consideration, but which in themselves
are not of sufficient importance to justify their
taking a place in the Annual Report.
The Chairman of the Board.
The Local Government Act, 1894, directed every District
Board at the first meeting after the annual election of
Members to elect a Chairman for the year. At the first
meeting of the Board after the election of Members in
June, 1894, George Philip Willoughby, Esq., was elected
the first Chairman.