Year 1883 - 1884	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	Presented by The Overseers of St Margaret’s 7 St John’s.
	D. Verity (fourth year) B. Heinemann (third year) C. C. Piper (third year) (engraving of the new Westminster Town Hall) Opened by the Duke of Bucclauch K.G High Steward of Westminster. July 19th 1883. Architects Messrs Lee & Smith. Builders. Messrs W & D McGregor. T. J. White Esq Chairman of the building Committee. W, H, Baker Esq Vice Chairman. Total Cost of Building £30332.6.2. Furniture £2923.1.11.
	Canon Furse Appointed Rector of St Johns.
	Death of HRH Prince Leopold Duke of Albany March 1884.
	Duke of Buccleuch Died April 16th 1884.
	Stewart Helder, W.M. Scudamore, Taverner Miller. T. J. Taylor. Church Wardens

Year 1884 - 1855	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1884-5 Presented by the Overseers of St Margaret’s & St John’s G. J. Lough, J. I. Butler. H.O. Hamborg, John Hayler. Soudan War.
	Death of General Gordon, January 1885, at Khartou,. Coming of Age of HRH Prince Albert Victor of Wales. 8 January 1885. HRH Prince Albert Victor initiated into Freemasonry. 17 March 1885.
	Betrothal of HRH Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg. Dynamite Explosions at the Houses of Parliament & The Tower of London January 1885. St John’s Church re-seated Mar 1885.
	Churchwardens. S. Margaret, H. A. Hunt. W. M. Scudamore. S. John. G. T. Miller. W. H. Baker

Year 1885	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	Churchwardens. St Margaret’s H.A. Hunt. C. Wright. St John’s H. Bishop. T. Helder.
	885 The Revised Bible Published.
	Opening of St John’s Garden to the Public.
	Death of Sir Moses Montefiore 28 July. Aged 1010.
	October 1st Sixpenny Telegrams came into operation.
	Death of the Earl of Shaftesbury.
	Redistribution Bill passed. June 25th. Creating the United Parishes of St Margaret & St. John into the Borough of Westminster. W. Burdett-Coutts Esq elected as its First Member November 26. Overseers. St Margaret’s G. J. Lough, J. J. Butler. St Johns. H.O. Hamborg, J. Hayler. Hen.G. Murray. Fecit

Year 1886	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	(Portrait of Lord Iddesleigh)
	The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Iddesleigh Better known as Sir Stafford Northcote...Three memorial cots for sick children permanently endowed in Westminster hospital.
	Died suddenly at the Premier’s official Residence 12th January 1887. A Nobleman & Statesman universally admired in life & lamented at Death.
	Westminster Philantrophic Society was reorganised and £143 given to the Poor. Indian & Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington opened by the Queen 4th May 1886. Closed 9th Nov. Visited by 5,550,749 people.
	Queen Victoria Jubilee celebrated in India Feb 1887. 25,000 prisoners liberated. Rateable value of the united Parishes £735,134. Amount collected in respect to Poor & General Rates £140,841.0.7?. The 1798 Colours of the Westminster Volunteers re-presented to St. Margaret’s Church. Col. Howard Vincent C.B., MP on Sunday 27th March and received by the Rector.
	The venerable Archdeacon F. W. Farrar D.D. Rector of St. Margaret’s. The Reverand Canon C. W. Furse M.A. Rector of St John’s.
	Presented by the Overseers. The Box & the cases were restored at the cost of the Overseers by Messrs Lambert of Coventry Street. Overseers 1886-7. St Margaret. John Kent. Zeph King. St John. Frederick Rose. Charles Wright. Vestry Clerk. John Edward Smith. Churchwardens. St Margaret. Henry Arthur Hunt 7 Charles Wright. St John. W. Holman Bishop & Thomas Holder.

Year 1887 - 1889	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1887 The Year of the Jubilee.
	The jubilant voice of a loyal and Mighty People is heard throughout the World Wide Empire proclaiming the completion of Queen Victoria’s fifty years reign.
	Mr Speaker and the House of Commons, conducted by the Clergy and the Churchwardens & Overseers through a guard of honour of the Queen’s Westminster Volunteers attended a Commemorative Service in St Margaret’s Church on Sunday 22nd May.

Year 1890 - 1891	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1890-91 (engravings of the Jubilee penny postage stamp and postmark, & f the North Transept of the Abbey)
	Churchwardens. St Margaret Henry Arthur Hunt. George James Lough. St John Michael Holman Bishop. Herman Olsen Hamborg. Overseers. Joseph Browne Martin. Henry Lovett Cameron.
	Zephaniah Augistine Berry. James Gibson. Vestry Clerk. Jno. Edwd. Smith. New Porch at west End of St Margaret’s church commenced.
	Restoration of North End of the Abbey completed. HMS Serpent foundered with all but three hands off the coast of Spain 10 November 1890.
	Eight weeks frost, River traffic ice-bound. A carriage & two horses driven on the Serpentine ice.

Year 1891 - 1892	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1891-2 Churchwardens. St. Margaret’s. Henry A. Hunt. Zeph King FRIBA. St John’s. M. Holman Bishop, John Hayler. Overseers. H. Lovett Cameron. C. Spencer Smith. James Gibson. Jas. Lane (died in office).
	Geo. Jno. Chapple. On January 14th 1892 HRH The Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Eldest son of HRH the Prince of Wales died at Sandringham Aged 28 years, evoking universal sorry and sympathy with Her Majesty the Queen, his bereaved parents and his affianced bride Princess May of Teck. HM the German Emperor inspected the Queen’s Westminster Volunteers at Buckingham Palace. The Corps paraded 1100 strong at 6.a.m. July 10th 1891, Lt. Col. Comt C.F. Howard Vincent C.B., M.P.
	In Memoriam The Rt. Hon W H Smith M.P. for Westminster 1868-85 and then for the Strand Division Oct 5th 1891. First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Commons etc. H. E. Cardinal Manning R.C. Archbishop of Westminster January 14th 1892. Rt. Hon. Viscount Hampden Speaker of the House of Commons 1872-84. March 14th 1892. The Free Education Act came into operation September 1st 1891. The Population of Great Britain and Ireland ascertained to be 37,740,285. Electric Lighting Installation in the main streets of Westminster. London and Paris connected by telephone April 1st 1891. Third inspection of Standards of Weights and measures deposited in House of Commons 1853 April 2nd 1892.

Year 1892 - 1893	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	(engraving of Emanuel Hospital)
	Churchwardens. St Margaret Henry A Hunt, Zeph King FRTBA.
	St John M. Holman-Bishop. Hos. Wm. Davies.
	Overseers. St Margaret. C. Spencer-Smith. Geo Frederick Danielli.
	St John. Geo John Chapple. Henry Wm. Budd.
	Emanuel Hospital founded by Anna Lady Dacre 1594. Vacated and Site sold 1893.
	Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate “Crossed the Bar” October 6th 1892 Interred in Westminster Abbey.
	General Election. Lord Salisbury’s Government defeated by a majority of 40 for Mr Gladstone and “Irish Home Rule”.
	Prince Geo Frederick of Wales created Duke of York etc. 25th May 1892.
	The “Memorials” of St. John’s Parish compiled by the Vestry Clerk Mr J.E. Smith and the work was generously acknowledged by the vestry

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Year 1893 - 1894	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1893-4 This plate was added by the Overseers for the year ending April 1894.
	St Margarets G. F. Danielli. J. Rorke.
	St Johns H.W. Budd. R.W. Jones MD.
	Marriage of HRH Prince George of Wales, Duke of York to H. Serene H. Princess Victoria of Teck 6th July 1893.
	Completion & opening of New Public Library & Public Baths & Washhouses in Great Smith Street August 1893.
	Imperial Institute South Kensington opened by Her Majesty 10th May 1893.
	Churchwardens. St Margarets. Henry A. Hunt, David Verity. St Johns. . Holman Bishop. T.W. Davies

Year 1895 - 1896	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1895-6 Churchwardens.
	St Margaret. Henry Arthur Hunt. Charles Spencer-Smith.
	St John. Thomas Davies Sewel. Col. George John Chapple.
	Overseers.
	St Margaret. Frederick Barnes. Julian Hill.
	St. John. Richard Tunstall. Charles David Steel.
	Mr Thos. Horn (Overseer 1858-61) first statutory Chairman of the Vestry and J.P. publicly presented with his portrait on his 81st birthday after more than 40 years public service to the Parish.
	Archdeacon Farrar D.D. F.R.S. Rector of St Margaret’s preferred by the Queen to the Deanery of Canterbury (July 1895) and succeeded in the Rectory by Canon Eyon.
	General Election in July. Unionist majority.
	The Commissioners of Libraries and of Baths and Wash-houses and the Burial Board dissolved and their properties and powers transferred to the Vestry under the Local Government Act 1984, March 25th 1896. Movement for the Incorporation of the United Parishes as a Municipality. Overseers first appointed by the Vestry, the power of appointment having been transferred from the Justices by the same Act March 1896.
	The large Hall of the Church House (the Church’s Memorial of the Queen’s Jubilee) opened by TRH the Duke and Duchess of York. February 1896.
	Death at Sea on 22 January 1896 of HRH Prince Henry of Battenburg, husband of Princess Beatrice while voluntarily attached to the Army in the Ashanti Expedition.

Year 1896 - 1897	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1896-7 St. Margaret. Churchwardens. Henry A. Hunt. C Spencer-Smith. Overseers Julian Hill. Louis S. Hay. St John Churchwardens. T Davies Sewell. Geo J Chapple.
	Overseers C D Steel. William Graham.
	Valuation of Government Property in Westminster finally increased to £120,000 from £43,500 in 1894 after long negotiations by Vestry.
	Petition of 5000 inhabitants of Westminster for incorporation of Westminster as a Municipality, presented to Privy Counsil January 11th 1897.
	Successful operation of the Egyptian Army under the Sirdar, Sir HH Kitchener against the Dervishes in the Soudan.
	Death at Hawarden Castle of Dr. Edw. White Benson. Archbishop of Canterbury Oct 11th. Dr. Frederick Temple, Bishop of London, appointed to the Primacy Oct 26th 1896.
	On Sept 23rd 1896 the Queen has raigned 60 years; God Save The Queen.
	Marriage of Princess Maud of Wales and Prince Charles of Denmark July The Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston U.S.A. received Queen at Windsor July 8th 1896.
	Charles Christmas Piper Esq Second Statutory Chairman of the Vestry 1895-6. Frederick Rose Esq Third Statutory Chairman of the Vestry 1896-7. The Town Hall buildings transferred from the Overseers to the Vestry and power given to the Vestry to appoint representative trustees fro parochial Charities under local Government Act 1894

Year 1897	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1897 Ornament to Lid of the Sixth Case to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of 1897 in the form of a rim and 8 strips between the existing plates on the lid.
	(round the rim) India, Hong Kong, Borneo, Labuan & Sarawak, Newfoundland, Labrador, Canada. Brit. Guiana. Brit Honduras. Bermudas. Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Leeward & Windward Islands, Barbados, New Zealand, Brit. New Guinea, Falkland Isles, Australia, Tasmania, Fiji, West Pacific Isles, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal, Zululand, Rhodesia, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Lagos, Gold Coast, Niger Coast, Royal Niger Territories, Brit. East Africa, Socotra, Zanzibar, Uganda, Brit. Central Africa, Witu, Somamiland, Aden & Perim, Mauritius, Malta, Gibraltar, Ascention, Cyprus, St Helena, Burmah, Ceylon, Straights Settlements.
	1897 Ornament to Lid of the Sixth Case to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of 1897 in the form of a rim and 8 strips between the existing plates on the lid.
	(round the rim) India, Hong Kong, Borneo, Labuan & Sarawak, Newfoundland, Labrador, Canada. Brit. Guiana. Brit Honduras. Bermudas. Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Leeward & Windward Islands, Barbados, New Zealand, Brit. New Guinea, Falkland Isles, Australia, Tasmania, Fiji, West Pacific Isles, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal, Zululand, Rhodesia, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Lagos, Gold Coast, Niger Coast, Royal Niger Territories, Brit. East Africa, Socotra, Zanzibar, Uganda, Brit. Central Africa, Witu, Somamiland, Aden & Perim, Mauritius, Malta, Gibraltar, Ascention, Cyprus, St Helena, Burmah, Ceylon, Straights Settlements.
	(on the 8 strips) On Sunday June 20th 1897 The Queen attained the 60th anniversary of Her Reign this being at the same time the longest reign re corded in the history of these realms – The Speaker and the House of Commons accompanied by the Churchwardens and Overseers attended in State a Thanksgiving service at St Margaret’s Church on Accession Day June 20th.
	On Diamond Jubilee Day June 22nd the Queen made a Royal Progress through London to see her people and personally to receive their congratulations – Her Majesty’s message to her myriad subjects flashed to every corner of her Empire was “From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them”.
	On June 24th about 300,000 of the London Poor including 6000 in Westminster were entertained at dinner by the Princess of Wales’s Fund – A Loyal and Dutiful Address to Her Majesty from the Vestry of Westminster was presented to the Prince of Wales at St James’ Palace on 21st July 1897 – India Afflicted with war, pestilence and famine.
	The Mansion House Fund $549,300 the largest ever collected (Oct 7 1897) –
	Churchwardens St Margaret. Henry A. Hunt. Chas Spencer Smith JP. St John. Col T. Davies Sewell. Dr R W Jones.
	Overseers. St Margaret. Walter Bonwick, H H Montague Smith. St John. W H Pendlebury. W. Dunham 1897-8

Year 1898 - 1899	Inscriptions	Senior Custodian	Junior Custodian	Mayor
	1898-9 This Plate was added by the Overseers for the year 1898-1899. St Margaret. Revd. Canon J Armitage Robinson SS Rector. Churchwardens Henry A Hunt, Frederick Barnes.
	Overseers H H Montague Smith Walter Bonwick. St John. Revd. Canon Basil Wilberforce DD rector.
	Churchwardens Col T Davies Sewell, Dr R W Jones.
	Overseers Wm. Dunham, W H Pendlebury.
	Gordon Avenged by Sir Herbert Kitchener Omdurman Sep 2nd 1898 (engraving of Memorial Service)
	The Memorial Service to Gordon at Kartoum. Jan 5 1899 Foundation Stone of the Gordon Memorial College Kartoum laid by Lord Cromer.
	Jan 19 1899 Reinstatement at Seville of the remains of Christopher Columbus
	Feb 23rd 1899.The London Government Bill introduced into House of Commons by the Rt. Hon. A. J Balfour MP.
	Feb 12th 1899 Foundation Stone of the Great Nile Reservoir Dam laid at Assonam by HRH The Duke of Connaught.
	May 19 1898 Death of Rt Hon E E Gladstone. Buried in Westminster Abbey May 28th.
	Dec 98-March 99. The Historic King Street disappears for the widening of Parliament Street.
	March 9th 1899 The great Central Railway London extension opened for traffic.