List of Members of Middlesex County Council 1889-1919

This is a List of Members of the Middlesex County Council from its creation in 1889 until its abolition in 1965.

The county council consisted of three quarters elected councillors and one quarter co-opted county aldermen. The entire body of elected councillors was elected every three years. Aldermen had a six-year term of office, thus one half of their number was elected by the councillors immediately after the triennial elections.

Elections were cancelled during the First and Second World Wars.

The county of Middlesex was divided into electoral divisions aligned with the boundaries of local district and parish councils. As there were the county saw huge increases in population over the period, the number of divisions was changed with great frequency. Each division was represented by one councillor.

A committee of magistrates was given the task of dividing the administrative county into electoral divisions. They completed their task in October 1888. The number of divisions was 54 of which 44 were urban and 10 rural. The average population per division was a little over 9,000. Although there were 54 divisions, some were grouped for the first election, held on 29 December 1888. The first elections were officially non-partisan. in some districts Unionist and Liberal associations tried to agree on a panel of candidates who would be elected unopposed. In the end there were contested elections in most divisions.

Aldermen
At the first meeting of the county council, eighteen aldermen were chosen. Ballots were then taken as to which aldermen would retire in 1891 (group 1) and which in 1894 (group 2). From 1892 all aldermen had a six-year term of office, half retiring at the same time as the election of councillors.

Group 1 (retiring in 1891)

Group 2 (retiring in 1894)