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At his Harrogate funeral his hearse was followed by "an exceedingly large concourse of townspeople", and his hearse was headed by the police, and followed by members of the town council, the legal profession and the medical profession, 100 members of the Conservative Club, the Primrose League, the borough justices, the mayor of Harrogate, and ...
Robert Ackrill (1817–1894), who was the editor, then owner, of the Harrogate Herald newspaper, and several others. It was Ackrill who, in 1884 as Charter Mayor, met Harrogate's Charter of Incorporation on its train from London, and brought it in celebratory procession to the town centre, formally allowing the town to form its own borough council.
The Borough of Harrogate was a local government district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England, from 1974 to 2023. Its council was based in the town of Harrogate , but it also included surrounding settlements, including the cathedral city of Ripon , and almost all of the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty .
Ackrill was involved in the initial stages of the setting up of Harrogate Borough Council, and as Charter Mayor he met the train bringing its Charter of Incorporation from London, as part of a local celebration. He was a Provincial Grand Officer of the Freemasons for the West Riding. He was a public speaker who influenced local affairs, having ...
He joined his father, Alderman James Simpson, at Harrogate Borough Council in 1887, was made an alderman in 1898, [15] and remained a member for 34 years, He was four times mayor of Harrogate, during the periods 1895–1896, and 1901–1902 (as mayor for the coronation year of Edward VII), [15] and thrice deputy mayor, and in 1923 was elected ...
In 2000 at Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate, a 99-year-old, 2-metre (6.6 ft) high monument fell and killed Reuben Powell aged six years. [5] [9] Harrogate Council responded by contacting those owners of graves who were traceable to ask them to secure their standing stone memorials. Between 2006 and 2010, 6,000 standing monuments with untraceable ...
Richard Ellis JP (November 1820 – 21 August 1895) was an English builder, property developer, alderman, mayor, and a public benefactor to his town. The son of a blacksmith, he was a self-made man who started as a joiner and became a rich developer who joined High and Low Harrogate into a single town, helped obtain a Charter of Corporation, and promoted the erection of civic buildings ...
For his services as a historian, Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate by Harrogate Borough Council in 1996, when he was also given honorary membership of The Harrogate Club. He was involved in the inception of the Harrogate Brown Plaque Scheme, and was influential in the listing of many Harrogate buildings.