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The first Commissioners for Public Baths and Washhouses,
appointed in November, 1889, were Messrs. A. R. Chamberlayne,
H. C. Dove, J. T. Johnson, G. Lancaster, Jno. Lawrence, J. H. Mote,
and Samuel Rayson. In November, 1890, Messrs. Lancaster and Mote
retired, pursuant to the 9 & 10 Vic., c. 74, by effluxion of time, and on
December 5th, the vacancies were filled up by the re-election
of Mr. Lancaster and the election of Mr. G. S. Elliott in the place of
Mr. Mote.
The following Vestrymen resigned their seats during the year:
Mr. A. R. Chamberlayne... Ward 1, Upper Hollowav.
„ John Richardson ... Ward 2, Lower Holloway,
,, J. R. "W ard ... ... ,, ,, ,, ,,
„ J. Douglass Mathews Ward 6, St. Mary's.
The following Vestrymen became disqualified :—
Mr. Alfred G. Aaron ... Ward 3, Highbury.
„ Otto Strauss „ „ „
„ Wm. Dobbs Ward 4, Thornhill.
The death of Sir James Tyler, which occurred on April 5th, 1890,
was a loss not only to the Parish but to the Metropolis. Sir James
was a Justice of the Peace for the Finsbury Division. It is not in that
capacity however that he will be best remembered. His munificent
donations to the Orphan Working Home at Haverstock Hill and to
numerous other charities will constitute a more lasting record. It was
characteristic of the man that a promise of £1,000 towards the endowment
of a Technical Institute in the Parish, made some years since
in the Vestry Hall, should have been remembered and performed
upon his death-bed, a cheque for the amount having been signed and
forwarded through his brother to the Honorary Secretary but a few
days before he passed away.
The Parish has lost another of its oldest and most respected
inhabitants by the death of Mr. Jacob Vincent of 24, Highbury-place,
for many years a member of the Board of Trustees and subsequently of
the Vestry. Mr. Vincent was of Huguenot descent. He was born
in London in 1802. For twenty years he was an active and
useful member of the Islington Vestry and the bosom friend of