Royal Commission on the City of London
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This article is about the royal commission of 1853–1854. For the commission of 1893–1894, see Royal Commission on the Amalgamation of the City and County of London.
The Royal Commission on the Corporation of the City of London was a royal commission, established in 1853, which considered the local government arrangements of the City of London and the surrounding metropolitan area.[1]
Three commissioners were appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal on 20 June 1853, to enquire into the existing state of the Corporation of the city of London. The commissioners were Henry Labouchere, Sir John Patteson and George Cornewall Lewis. The secretary was J. D. Coleridge[2] The commission's report was sent to the Home Office on 28 April 1854.[3]