East Riding County Council (ERCC) was the

county council A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county. This term has slightly different meanings in different countries. Ireland The county councils created under British rule in 1899 continue to exist in Irela ...

of the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire t ...

(excluding the

county borough County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s. An equivalent te ...

Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south- ...

) from 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1974.

Chairmen

* 1889–1890: David Burton (resigned) * 1890–1891:

Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock (12 May 1849 – 15 January 1912) was a British soldier, Liberal politician and colonial administrator who was the Governor of Madras from 1891 to 1896. Early life Lawley was the son of Beilby Lawley, 2nd Bar ...

(resigned; first time) * 1891–1901:

Sir Charles Legard, 11th Baronet Sir Charles Legard, 11th Baronet (2 April 1846 – 6 December 1901) was a Conservative Party politician. Harris was elected MP for Scarborough in 1874, but was defeated at the next election in 1880. Legard become the 11th Baronet of Ganton on ...

* 1902–1912:

(second time) * 1912–1936:

Robert de Yarburgh-Bateson, 3rd Baron Deramore Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wilfrid de Yarburgh-Bateson, 3rd Baron Deramore (5 August 1865 – 1 April 1936) was a British peer and an officer in the Yorkshire Hussars. He served as Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1924 until his ...

* 1936–1968:

Sir John Dunnington-Jefferson, 1st Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Alexander Dunnington-Jefferson, 1st Baronet, DSO, DL, JP (10 April 1884 – 12 April 1979) was an English soldier, landowner and local politician. Biography John Alexander Dunnington-Jefferson was born on 10 April ...

* 1968–1974:

Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax Charles Ingram Courtenay Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, (3 October 1912 – 19 March 1980), 4th Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton, 6th Baronet Wood of Barnsley in the County of York, and 2nd Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale in the County of York, was ...

References

Former county councils of England History of the East Riding of Yorkshire 1889 establishments in England 1974 disestablishments in England {{UK-poli-stub