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in the preparation of the Lists ot Voters for Member of
Parliament, the County Council, School Board and Vestry
Elections. The name of the Ward is printed on the rate
receipt of each ratepayer.
For Ecclesiastical Purposes the Parish has been subdivided
into five districts, the mother church being St.
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James's, Piccadilly, of which the Right Rev. Bishop Barry
is Rector, in succession to the Rev.. J. E. Kempe, M.A., who
has retired in consequence of advancing age.
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Representation in Parliament. —The Parish of St.
James was formerly comprised in the Parliamentary
Borough of the City of Westminster, which returned two
Members to Parliament; it now, however, forms a part of
the Borough of Strand, which returns one member, the
present representative being the Hon. W. F. D. Smith.
The Register prepared in 1895 contains the names of 3,963 '
Parliamentary electors, viz., 2 on the Scot and Lot List, 203
Lodgers, and 3,758 possessing other qualifications. There
are also 611 County Electors who have been placed on the
Register under the Local Government Act, 1888, but are
not qualified to vote for Members of Parliament.
Parliamentary voters for the county of Middlesex, in
respect of property situate wholly or in part in the Parish
of St. James, number 196.
By the Elementary Education Act, 1870, the Parish
is included in the Westminster Division of the School
Board for London. Five members of the School Board are
elected by the ratepayers of the Division, the present
members being General Sim, Mr. David Laing, Mr. William
Winnett, Rev. A. W. Oxford, and Captain Skinner.
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