Membership and Terms of Reference
The royal commission was appointed on 27 March 1893, the members being:
- Leonard Henry Courtney, (chairman) Liberal Unionist member of parliament for Bodmin, who had held a number of junior ministerial posts in the Second Gladstone Ministry.
- Sir Thomas Henry Farrer, Bt., London County Council alderman, former deputy chairman of the LCC and member of the Progressive grouping. He was elevated to the peerage as Baron Farrer later in 1893.
- Robert Durning Holt, Mayor of Liverpool. In August 1893 he became the city's first Lord Mayor
- Henry Homewood Crawford, Solicitor to the Corporation of the City of London
- Edward Orford Smith, Town Clerk of Birmingham. Smith had led the campaign to obtain city status for Birmingham in 1889.
The secretary to the commission was George Edward Yorke Gleadowe.
The terms of reference were:
..to consider the proper conditions under which the amalgamation of the City and County of London can be effected, and to make specific and practical proposals for that purpose.
The commission's quorum was set at three members, and it was given full power to call witnesses and examine books, documents, registers and records. They were also permitted to visit and personally inspect any place in the United Kingdom that they deemed expedient.
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