Papers of Sir Francis Hill (1899-1980), Solicitor, Mayor of Lincoln and Chancellor of The University of Nottingham, 1768-1979 1768-1979

Association of Municipal Corporations (Great Britain)

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The Association of Municipal Corporations was formed in 1873 at a meeting of 102 representatives from 48 cities and boroughs and 58 Members of Parliament. The meeting was convened at the request of the Manchester Corporation in order to organise opposition to the Borough Funds Act 1872. It was proposed that an Association of Municipal Corporations be immediately formed, more effectively to watch over and protect the interests, rights and privileges of municipal corporations as they ...

Sir Francis Hill, 1899-1980

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Sir (James William) Francis Hill was born in Lincoln on 15 September 1899 and was educated at the City School, Lincoln and Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated MA, 1925. From 1926 he was a qualified solicitor and he became a senior partner of the solicitors firm Andrew and Company of Lincoln. Sir Francis enjoyed a long and successful career in the civic governance of the City of Lincoln, of which he was a member of the City Council 1932-1974 and Mayor 1945-1946. He became a...

International Union of Local Authorities.

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City of Lincoln Council

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Hill Sir J. W. Francis 1899-1980

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European Conference of Local Authorities

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Royal Commission on Local Government in England, 1966-1969

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University College (Nottingham)

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The mid-19th century town of Nottingham might well be called the epicentre of the movement to expand University provision in England and Wales, and yet its University's fully independent existence dates from 1948, one of the later provincial or "red-brick" universities. This delay can be attributed to its early success, to the closeness of its relationship with its city, and to relationships of rivalry and cooperation with the other cities and universities of the East Midlands. The ...

University of Nottingham.

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