[22] Who, to the regret of all who knew his abilities, died February 1897, having exercised influence rather than achieved distinction.
[23] While he yet lives, his enduring monuments are his blocks of working men’s dwellings in the King’s Cross district and elsewhere.
[24] The guarantees against undue delegation are stringent and successful.
[25] Opinions vary as to the workability of this clause in the shape in which it left the Lords.
[26] E.g. In a typical Surrey village, where there are no Nonconformists, the Chairman is the Vicar, but of 38 Gloucestershire parishes, where dissenters abound, only in two or three.
[27] Urban District Councils have taken the place of Local Boards; they are in fact town councils of those districts which are not incorporated into municipalities.
[28] Molesworth’s History of England, vol. i. p. 19.
[29] As a fact, the County chairman is most likely a J.P. already.
[30] For valuable facts and figures, bringing this chapter down to the latest date the writer is indebted to Mr Henry Chaplin and his staff at the Local Government Board, as for much other useful help to Sir Henry Fowler, Sir Charles Dilke, the Rev. Charles Cox, D.D., and to Mr G. W. E. Russell.
[31] In addition to Sir Charles Dilke, Sir Henry Fowler and others already mentioned, the writer is indebted for invaluable help in the preparation of facts and the revision of proofs in this portion of the book to Mr W. J. Soulsby the accomplished private secretary to a succession of Lord Mayors of London.