Municipal Borough of Richmond

The Municipal Borough of Richmond or Richmond Municipal Borough was a municipal borough in Surrey, England from 1890 to 1965. History The borough was created in 1890 under a Royal Charter, covering the civil (and also the ecclesiastical) parish of Richmond St Mary Magdalene. This soon expanded with consent from Surrey County Council in 1892 to cover the parishes of Kew, Petersham and most of Mortlake. John Whittaker Ellis was its first mayor, and he purchased and provided the site in Richmond for a town hall; the street in which it is located is named Whittaker Avenue after him. Under the Local Government Act 1894, the Mortlake civil parish was split, with the majority covering outside the borough becoming the west of the Barnes Urban District and the rest remaining and forming a new North Sheen civil parish. In 1933 the borough was the main recipient of the land and main settlement in the defunct Ham Urban District, which had been an urban district since 1894.