Membership and Terms of Reference
The Commission was appointed by royal warrant dated 24 October 1921. The terms of reference were:
...to inquire and report what, if any, alterations are needed in the local government of the administrative county of London and the surrounding districts, with a view to securing greater efficiency and economy in the administration of local government services and to reducing any inequalities which may exist in the distribution of local burdens as between different parts of the whole area
The members appointed were:
- James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (Chairman), former Speaker of the House of Commons
- Sir Richard Vassar Vassar-Smith Bt, chairman of Lloyds Bank (resigned December 1921)
- Sir Horace Cecil Monro KCB, former secretary of the Local Government Board
- Sir Albert Gray KCB, KC, bencher of the Inner Temple and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- Colonel Ernest Haviland Hiley CBE, former manager of New Zealand Railways Department
- George John Talbot KC, barrister, chancellor of the Dioceses of Lincoln, Ely, Lichfield and Southwark
- Neville Chamberlain, member of parliament for Birmingham, Ladywood (resigned November 1922)
- Robert Donald, journalist and former editor of the Daily Chronicle
- Edmund Russborough Turton, member of parliament for Thirsk and Malton and former member of the London County Council
- Stephen Walsh, member of parliament for Ince and former Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board
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