Harrow Votes the Urban and Rural District Councils
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HARROW VOTES THE URBAN AND RURAL DISTRICT COUNCILS, 1894-1933 and THE PARISH COUNCILS, 1894-1933 Revised Edition A Handbook of Election Results Compiled and Edited by COLIN J. GRAY Abbots Langley 2020 CONTENTS Page Preface 5 Introduction 6 Party Abbreviations 9 Miscellaneous Abbreviations and Symbols 9 Explanatory Notes 10 Map 1: The Parishes of Harrow and Pinner (Late 18th Century) 12 2: The Parishes of Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore and Edgware (1835) 13 3: The Urban and Rural Districts (1910) 14 4: Boundary of Harrow-on-the-Hill Urban District with Wembley and Greenford Urban Districts 15 5: Boundary of Harrow-on-the-Hill Urban District with Uxbridge Rural District 16 6: Boundary of Harrow-on-the-Hill Urban District with Wealdstone and Wembley Urban Districts 17 7: Boundary of Harrow-on-the-Hill Urban District with Wealdstone Urban and Hendon Rural Districts 18 8: Boundary of Wealdstone Urban District with Hendon Rural District 19 HARROW-ON-THE-HILL URBAN DISTRICT ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 21 1919-1933 33 WEALDSTONE URBAN DISTRICT ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 43 1919-1933 55 HENDON RURAL DISTRICT ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 63 1919-1933 71 PINNER PARISH ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 81 1919-1933 89 HARROW WEALD PARISH ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 97 1919-1933 105 GREAT STANMORE PARISH ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 109 1919-1933 117 LITTLE STANMORE PARISH ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 121 1919-1933 129 EDGWARE PARISH ELECTION RESULTS: 1894-1918 133 1919-1931 139 [cont.... 3 Page Appendix A: Chairmen of the District Councils 144 Appendix B: Chairmen of the Parish Councils 147 Appendix C: Polling Dates of District Council Elections 152 Appendix D Dates of Parish Council Elections 153 Appendix E: Parliamentary Elections: Boundaries and Polling Dates 154 Appendix F: Parliamentary Elections: Results, 1885-1941 157 Appendix G: Members of Parliament, 1885-1941: Brief Biographies 160 Appendix H: Middlesex County Council Elections: Boundaries and Polling Dates 161 Appendix J: Middlesex County Council Elections: Results, 1889-1936 163 Appendix K: Hendon Union Board of Guardians: Election Results, 1894-1928 169 Appendix L: The 1895 Register of Electors 175 Appendix M: The 1918 Register of Electors 177 Appendix N: Local Authority Elections During the First World War 179 Appendix P: Parish Councils and their Election 180 Appendix Q: Three Wards for Pinner Parish 181 Appendix R: Pinner Local Poll (1926) 183 Appendix S: Harrow Weald Local Polls (1913, 1925 and 1927) 184 Appendix T: Great Stanmore Local Poll (1930) 186 Appendix U: Little Stanmore and Edgware Local Polls (1922-1923) 188 Appendix V: Edgware Local Poll (1927) 190 Appendix W: Names of Candidates: F.C. Gough — An Unusual Case 192 Appendix X: Register of Electors: Dates of Coming into Force 194 Appendix Y: Population Data, 1901-1931 195 Appendix Z: Discovering Old Boundaries 196 Index to Candidates: Harrow-on-the-Hill UDC Elections 218 Wealdstone UDC Elections 220 Hendon RDC Elections 222 Pinner Parish Council Elections 224 Harrow Weald Parish Council Elections 226 Great Stanmore Parish Council Elections 228 Little Stanmore Parish Council Elections 229 Edgware Parish Council Elections 231 Parliamentary, MCC and Guardians Elections 232 A Note on the Sources 234 Acknowledgements 236 4.