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Election to Leith Burgh Council was held on 6 November 1894, alongside the municipal elections across Scotland, and the wider British local elections...

Royal Burgh of Aberdeen absorbed Aberdeenshire burghs of Old Aberdeen burgh (burgh of barony 1489, police burgh 1860), Woodside (police burgh 1860) in...

Police Act 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 22) Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55) Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60) Electric Lighting...

municipalities have existed in the form of burgh, royal burgh, cities and, currently most common, local councils. Between 1855 and 1975, valuation rolls...

shoreline of Leith and 26 mi (42 km) inland, as the crow flies, from the east coast of Scotland and the North Sea at Dunbar. While the early burgh grew up...

University Dallas sought re-election at the Dysart Burghs FitzHarris sought re-election at Horsham List of ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of Great...

police burgh was a Scottish burgh which had adopted a "police system" for governing the town. They existed from 1833 to 1975. The first police burghs were...

the council's involvement in the Rye House plot. Baird had a quarrel with James Rocheid, which was played out during the burgh council elections this...

as Hadintunshire. Three of the county's towns were designated as royal burghs: Haddington, Dunbar, and North Berwick. As with the rest of Lothian, it...

The 1874 Falkirk Burghs by-election was fought on 26 March 1874. The byelection was fought due to the disqualification of the incumbent Liberal MP, John...

The 1894 Montgomery by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 29 March 1894 for the British House of Commons constituency of Montgomeryshire...

Glasgow (1894) Historical Preface to the Glasgow Publications (1897) Miscellany of the Scottish Burgh Records Society (1881) Edinburgh and Leith Post Office...

A 1894 by-election was held for the British House of Commons constituency of Sheffield Attercliffe on 5 July 1894. It was the first parliamentary election...

years in opposition since the 1951 election. Wilson became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Rosebery in 1894. Both major parties had changed leadership...

Vict. c. lxxii) Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 52) Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55) Public Health (Scotland)...

Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Chèitinn) is a coastal town, parish and historic royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth, 9.5 miles northwest of Edinburgh...

invitation to fight the by-election for Labour. But Solly’s acceptance may have been premature because Leeds Trade Council were unable to approve him...

absorbs the burgh of Leith. 5 December – Scotland votes against prohibition generally, although about 40 districts vote in favour. First council houses in...

by-election Irish Nationalist loss, gained by Labour.1 1928 Halifax by-election Speaker loss, gained by Labour.2 1921 Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election Coalition...

Darien Scheme bankrupted the landowners who had invested, though not the burghs. Nevertheless, the nobles' bankruptcy, along with the threat of an English...