List of members of London County Council 1937–49

This is a list of councillors and aldermen elected to the London County Council from 1937 to 1949.

Elections of all councillors on the London County Council were scheduled to be held every three years. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, the elections due in 1940 were cancelled. Vacant seats were filled by co-option under the terms of the emergency Local Elections and Register of Electors (Temporary Provisions) Act 1939 until the electoral cycle was resumed in 1946.

The size of the council was 124 councillors and 20 aldermen. The councillors were elected for electoral divisions corresponding to the parliamentary constituencies that had been created by the Representation of the People Act 1918, with two councillors for each division. Aldermen were elected by the council itself, and served for a six-year term of office. Half of the aldermen were chosen every three years at the first meeting of the newly elected council. Like the councillors, vacancies on the aldermanic bench thereafter were filled by co-option during the war.

Councillors 1937 - 1949

Electoral division	Elected 4 March 1937[1]	Party		Co-opted under the Local Elections and Register of Electors (Temporary Provisions) Act 1939	Party		Elected 7 March 1946[2]	Party
City of London	Angus Newton Scott (resigned 17 July 1941)		Municipal Reform	Arthur Charles Bonsor (23 September 1941)		Municipal Reform	Arthur Charles Bonsor		Conservative
	Percy Simmons (died 19 September 1939)		Municipal Reform	Harold Webbe (6 February 1940)		Municipal Reform	Harold Webbe		Conservative
	George Henry Wilkinson (created baronet 1941) (resigned 23 February 1944)		Municipal Reform	Harry Twyford (7 March 1944)		Municipal Reform	Seymour Howard		Conservative
	William Wilson Grantham (died 18 February 1942)		Municipal Reform	John Musker (21 April 1942)		Municipal Reform	John Musker (resigned 13 October 1947) Angus Mackinnon (elected unopposed 19 October 1947)		Conservative
Battersea North	Francis Douglas		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Douglas Prichard		Labour
	Ewart Culpin		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	J. S. Wilkie (died 23 July 1947) Marjorie McIntosh (elected 23 October 1947)		Labour
Battersea South	Charles James Allpass		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	David Rapoport		Labour
	Viscount Curzon		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Dorothy Archibald		Labour
Bermondsey Rotherhithe	Albert Charles Starr		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Albert Charles Starr		Labour
	James Allan Gillison[3]		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	James Allan Gillison		Labour
Bermondsey West	Eveline Lowe		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Reg Goodwin		Labour
	Ada Salter (resigned 6 October 1941)		Labour	Leslie Davison (resigned 14 August 1944) Edward Snowdon (appointed 10 October 1944)		Labour	Edward Snowdon		Labour
Bethnal Green North East	Rachel Susanna Keeling Resigned 19 March 1941		Labour	Wyndham Deedes Co-opted 29 July 1941		Labour	Helen Bentwich ‡		Labour
	Thomas Dawson		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Ronald McKinnon Wood		Labour
Bethnal Green South West	John Edward Anthony King		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Percy Harris		Liberal
	Reginald Stamp		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Edward Martell		Liberal
Camberwell Dulwich	Frederick Charles Eaton (died 17 October 1938)[4] Charles Pearce (elected unopposed 24 November 1938)		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Charles Pearce		Conservative
	Viscount Sandon (resigned 1940)		Municipal Reform	Frank Griffiths Woollard (appointed 6 February 1940)		Municipal Reform	Frank Griffiths Woollard		Conservative
Camberwell North	Charles Ammon		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Richard Samuel Griffith		Labour
	Cecil Manning		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Cecil Manning		Labour
Camberwell North West	Frederick George Burgess		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Frederick George Burgess		Labour
	Freda Corbet		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Freda Corbet		Labour
Camberwell Peckham	Richard Sargood		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Richard Sargood		Labour
	Earl Beatty		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	James Walter Frederick Lucas		Labour
Chelsea	Basil Futvoye Marsden-Smedley		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	John Vaughan-Morgan		Conservative
	Catherine Fulford		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Catherine Fulford		Conservative
Deptford	Isaac Hayward		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Isaac Hayward		Labour
	John Speakman (died)		Labour	Ernest Sherwood (appointed 17 November 1942)		Labour	Ernest Sherwood		Labour
Finsbury	William Henry Martin		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Barbara Marian Dobb		Labour
	George Edward Hayes		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Chuni Lal Katial		Labour
Fulham East	Paul Williams		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Joan Ash		Labour
	Fred Powe		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Fred Powe		Labour
Fulham West	Christopher Lancaster		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Christopher Lancaster		Labour
	Geoffrey Weston Aplin		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Frank Banfield		Labour
Greenwich	Esther Rickards		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Harold Gibbons (died 5 June 1948) Johanna Gollogly (elected at byelection 22 July 1948)		Labour
	Bernard Sullivan		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Bernard Sullivan		Labour
Hackney Central	Bernard Homa		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Bernard Homa		Labour
	Mary O'Brien Harris (died 19 April 1938) Peggy Jay (elected at by-election 16 May 1938)		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Peggy Jay		Labour
Hackney North	Henry Edwin Goodrich		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Max Sorsby[5]		Labour
	Molly Bolton		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Molly Bolton		Labour
Hackney South	Alfred Baker (died 2 April 1943)		Labour	Giles Charles Burton (appointed 1 June 1943)		Labour	Giles Charles Burton		Labour
	Charles Latham		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	William Nichols		Labour
Hammersmith North	William Henry Church		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	James Bishop Bennie		Labour
	Thomas Henry Jones[6]		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Thomas Henry Jones		Labour
Hammersmith South	Walter Clifford Northcott		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Bill Fiske		Labour
	Bertie Jonathan Samels		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Vera Dart		Labour
Hampstead	Sydney Copeman (resigned 23 July 1945)		Municipal Reform	John Fremantle (appointed 31 July 1945)		Municipal Reform	John Fremantle		Conservative
	William Reed Hornby Steer		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	William Reed Hornby Steer		Conservative
Holborn	Alfred Walter Scott		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Alfred Walter Scott		Conservative
	Theodore Magnus Wechsler		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Theodore Magnus Wechsler		Conservative
Islington East	Day Kimball (resigned 2 March 1940)		Municipal Reform	Leslie Walker (appointed 30 April 1940)		Municipal Reform	Irene Chaplin		Labour
	Ronald Storrs (resigned 28 May 1945)		Municipal Reform	Hugh Quennell (appointed 19 June 1945)		Municipal Reform	Edwin Bayliss		Labour
Islington North	Eva Elizabeth Bull		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Eva Elizabeth Bull		Labour
	Arthur Norman Dove		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Arthur Edward Middleton		Labour
Islington South	Eric Fletcher		Labour	Eric Fletcher		Labour	Eric Fletcher		Labour
	John Dugdale (resigned 17 June 1941)		Labour	George Leonard Parker (appointed 1 July 1941)		Labour	George Percival Wright		Labour
Islington West	Alfred George Prichard (died 8 December 1945: seat remained vacant)[7]		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Albert Evans		Labour
	George Bryant Naish		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	George Bryant Naish		Labour
Kensington North	Ivan Power (resigned 18 October 1940)		Labour	Donald Daines (appointed 19 November 1940)		Labour	Leonard Foster Browne		Labour
	Helen Bentwich		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Eva Marian Hubback		Labour
Kensington South	Robert Jenkins		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Robert Jenkins		Conservative
	Angela, Countess of Limerick		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Elizabeth Evelyn Halton (Halton became known as Mrs. Pepler on her marriage in January 1947, and as Lady Pepler when her husband was knighted on 1 January 1948.)		Conservative
Lambeth Brixton	Gervas Pierrepont		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Victor Mishcon		Labour
	Barbara Lythgoe Hornby[8]		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Walter Guy Robert Boys		Labour
Lambeth Kennington	Charles Gibson		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Charles Gibson		Labour
	Amy Sayle		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Howell John Powell		Labour
Lambeth North	Will Lockyer		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Will Lockyer		Labour
	Ada Emily Gray		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Patricia Strauss		Labour
Lambeth Norwood	Joan Vickers		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Ronald Russell		Conservative
	William Francis Marchant		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Margery Thornton		Conservative
Lewisham East	Walter Richard Owen		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Walter Richard Owen		Labour
	Earl of Listowel		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Edmund Hambly		Labour
Lewisham West	Malcolm Campbell-Johnston (died 12 March 1938) Geoffrey Paul Hardy-Roberts (elected unopposed 28 April 1938)		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	George Rowland Durston Bradfield		Conservative
	Rupert Brabner (resigned 29 January 1945)		Municipal Reform	Henry Brooke (appointed 20 February 1945)		Municipal Reform	Henry A. Price		Conservative
Paddington North	Eric Hall		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	George de Swiet		Labour
	Frank Stanley Henwood		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Xenia Field		Labour
Paddington South	Harold Kenyon		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Norris Kenyon		Conservative
	Henry Gray Studholme (resigned 13 April 1945)		Municipal Reform	Ernest Hyatt (appointed 1 May 1945)		Municipal Reform	Frederick Lawrence		Conservative
Poplar, Bow and Bromley	Ethel Mary Lambert (disqualified 31 July 1945)		Labour	Edward Heslop Smith (appointed 31 July 1945)		Labour	Edward Heslop Smith (elected unopposed)		Labour
	Edward Cruse (died 15 December 1938) Thomas John Goodway (elected unopposed 16 February 1939)[9]		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Lilian Maud Sadler (elected unopposed)		Labour
Poplar South	Frederick Thomas Baldock		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Frederick Thomas Baldock		Labour
	William Henry Guy		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	William Henry Guy		Labour
St Marylebone	Frederick William Dean		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Alfred Edward Reneson Coucher		Conservative
	Ernest Sanger (died 26 December 1939)		Municipal Reform	Richard Stiles Allen (appointed 5 March 1940)		Municipal Reform	Eric Hall		Conservative
St Pancras North	George House		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	George House		Labour
	Harry Smith		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Harry Smith		Labour
St Pancras South East	Frank Lawrence Combes		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Frank Lawrence Combes Died 26 September 1948 Iris Mary Caroline Bonham Elected at byelection 18 November 1948		Labour
	David C. Webster		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	David C. Webster		Labour
St Pancras South West	Monica Felton		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Evelyn Denington		Labour
	Maurice Orbach		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Marks Ripka		Labour
Shoreditch	Santo Jeger		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Dorothy Thurtle		Labour
	Henrietta Girling		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Henrietta Girling		Labour
Southwark Central	Harry Day (died 16 September 1939)		Labour	Ernest George Saunders (appointed 5 March 1940)		Labour	Albert Gates		Labour
	David Arlott		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	John J. Keen		Labour
Southwark North	Charles Brook (resigned 3 March 1942)		Labour	Thomas George Gibbings (appointed 21 April 1942)		Labour	Thomas George Gibbings		Labour
	James Hyndman MacDonnell		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	James Hyndman MacDonnell		Labour
Southwark South East	George Russell Strauss		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Albert Bernard Kennedy		Labour
	Lewis Silkin		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Mary Ormerod		Labour
Stepney, Limehouse	Richard Coppock		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Richard Coppock		Labour
	Monica Whately		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Louise Reeve		Labour
Stepney, Mile End	Somerville Hastings		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Ted Bramley		Communist
	Daniel Frankel		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Jack Gaster		Communist
Stepney, Whitechapel and St George's	Morry Davis (disqualified 11 January 1945)[10]		Labour	Richard Clements (appointed 17 April 1945)		Labour	Richard Clements		Labour
	John Richard Anthony Oldfield		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Jack Oldfield		Labour
Stoke Newington	Mark Auliff		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Mark Auliff		Labour
	Catherine Jefferies		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Reginald Pestell		Labour
Wandsworth, Balham and Tooting	Stephen Benson (resigned 18 February 1942)		Municipal Reform	Harold William Hayden (appointed 10 March 1942)		Municipal Reform	Eleanor Kathleen Goodrich		Labour
	George Doland (resigned 4 April 1940)		Municipal Reform	William Charles Bonney (appointed 30 April 1940)		Municipal Reform	Albert Samuels		Labour
Wandsworth, Central	George Welsh Currie (resigned 27 December 1939)		Labour	John William Bowen (appointed 5 March 1940)		Labour	John William Bowen		Labour
	Eleanor Joan Clara Nathan (Lady Nathan from 1940)		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Lady Nathan		Labour
Wandsworth, Clapham	Bertram Mills (died 16 April 1938)		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Labour	Leslie Banks		Labour
	John Rose Battley (elected at by-election 19 May 1938)		Labour
	John Leigh		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Alfred Bransom		Labour
Wandsworth, Putney	Robert Taylor		Municipal Reform	Viscount Cranley (appointed 5 March 1940) Succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Onslow 9 June 1945		Municipal Reform	Earl of Onslow		Municipal Reform
	Arthur Bellamy (resigned 16 February 1940)		Municipal Reform	Herbert Ryan (appointed 5 March 1940)		Municipal Reform	Herbert Ryan		Municipal Reform
Wandsworth, Streatham	J. Elliott Mark		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Frank Henry Campbell (Died 17 November 1948: seat remained vacant)[11]		Conservative
	Frederic Bertram Galer (Knighted as Sir Bertram Galer 1939)[12]		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Bertram Galer		Conservative
Westminster, Abbey	Samuel Gluckstein		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Samuel Gluckstein		Conservative
	Frank Rye		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Frank Rye		Conservative
Westminster, St George's	Florence Barrie Lambert (Dame from 1938)[13]		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Henry Brooke		Conservative
	Edmund Walter Hanbury Wood		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Anthony Kershaw		Conservative
Woolwich, East	Reginald H. Pott		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Reginald H. Pott (elected unopposed)		Labour
	Henry Berry		Labour	NO CHANGE		Labour	Henry Berry (elected unopposed)		Labour
Woolwich, West	Francis William Beech		Municipal Reform	NO CHANGE		Municipal Reform	Edwin Thomas Lamerton		Labour
	James Harry Millar (resigned 25 July 1945)		Municipal Reform	Stanley Charles Camps Harris (appointed 31 July 1945)		Municipal Reform	Ethel Maud Newman		Labour

‡ Previously councillor for a different division. ¶ Previously an alderman.

County aldermen 1937-1949

Aldermen elected for 1934-1940 had their term of office extended until 1946; those elected for 1937-1943 had their term of office extended to 1949.[14]

Term	Alderman	Party
1934 - 1946	George Hume		Municipal Reform
1934 - 1946; 1946 - 1950	Emil Davies (died 18 July 1950)		Labour
1934 - 1946[15]	Harold Webbe (appointed a councillor February 1940)		Municipal Reform
1934 - 1946[15]	William Bennett (died 4 November 1937)		Labour
1934 - 1946[15]	Jack Percy Blake		Labour
1934 - 1946[15]	George Pearce Blizard		Labour
1934 - 1946[15]	Henry Charleton (resigned 17 December 1935)		Labour
1934 - 1946[15]	Barbara Drake		Labour
1934 - 1946[15]	William Kelly (resigned 27 July 1939)		Labour
1934 - 1946;[15] 1946 - 1952	Charles Robertson		Labour
1935 - 1942; 1946 - 1952	Ruth Dalton (in place of Charleton, 11 February 1935) (resigned 10 October 1945)		Labour
1937 - 1949[16]	Eric Ball (resigned 25 January 1946)		Municipal Reform
1937 - 1949[16]	John Hare		Municipal Reform
1937 - 1949[16]	Edward Martin (died 10 February 1946)		Municipal Reform
1937 - 1949[16]	John Martin Oakey		Municipal Reform
1937 - 1949[16]	Norah Runge		Municipal Reform
1937 - 1949[16]	Edgar John Sainsbury (died 29 January 1949)		Municipal Reform
1937 - 1949[16]	Herbert Morrison (resigned 21 November 1945)[17]		Labour
1937 - 1949[16]	Leah L'Estrange Malone		Labour
1937 - 1949[16]	John Cliff		Labour
1937 - 1949[16]	Mary Agnes Hamilton (resigned 8 March 1939)		Labour
1937 - 1946[18]	John Wilmot (in place of William Bennett, deceased)		Labour
1939 - 1949	Ethel Maud Newman (in place of Hamilton, 14 March 1939) (elected as councillor 13 March 1946)		Labour
1939 - 1941	John Thomas Scoulding (in place of Kelly, 1 August 1939) (resigned 29 April 1941)		Labour
1940 - 1946	Herbert Williams (in place of Webbe, 5 March 1940) (resigned 20 December 1944)[19]		Municipal Reform
1941 - 1946	Eddie Binks (in place of Scoulding) (29 July 1941)		Labour
1942 - 1946	Arthur Edward Middleton (in place of Dalton, 19 May 1942)[20]		Labour
1945 - 1946; 1946 - 1949	Geoffrey Hutchinson (in place of Williams, 6 February 1945) (in place of Martin 5 March 1946)		Municipal Reform
1945 - 1946; 1946 - 1952	Donald Daines (in place of Wilmot, 23 October 1945)		Labour
1945 - 1947	Lord Latham (in place of Wilmot, 4 December 1945) (resigned 19 November 1947)		Labour
1946 - 1949	Florence Barrie Lambert (in place of Ball, 5 February 1946)		Municipal Reform
1946 - 1949	Amy Sayle (in place of Newman, 19 March 1946)		Labour
1946 - 1952	Florence Cayford		Labour
1946 - 1952	Ewart Culpin (died 1 December 1946)		Labour
1946 - 1952	Walter Henry Green		Labour
1946 - 1952	Somerville Hastings		Labour
1946 - 1952	Reginald Stamp		Labour
1946 - 1952	Tom Wheeler		Labour
1946 - 1952	Harold Shearman (in place of Culpin, 17 December 1946)		Labour
1947 - 1949	Douglas Houghton (in place of Latham, 12 December 1947)		Labour
1949	Jack Cooper (in place of Sainsbury, 22 February 1949)		Labour

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8. "Deaths". The Times. 11 March 1987. p. 15.
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10. Davis had been sentenced to six months imprisonment on 28 November 1944 for alleged non-payment of a rail fare and inciting an employee of Stepney Borough Council to issue him with a false National identity Card. Geoffrey Alderman. "M. H. Davis: the rise and fall of a communal upstart". Jewish Historical Studies, vol.31. Archived from the original on 2013-12-14.
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13. "Obituary: Dame Barrie Lambert The Health Of London". The Times. 12 December 1957. p. 16.
14. Jackson, William Eric (1965). Achievement : a short history of the London County Council. London: Longmans.
15. "New L.C.C.". The Times. 15 March 1934. p. 11.
16. "The New L.C.C.". The Times. 9 March 1937. p. 13.
17. "News in Brief". The Times. 1 December 1945. p. 2.
18. "L.C.C. Estate at Tulse Hill". The Times. 24 November 1937. p. 11.
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20. "News in Brief". The Times. 20 May 1942. p. 8.