WORCESTER DIVISION—Early part of present century—Thomas Bund, Esq.
1810 to 1820—Rev. Arthur Onslow, D.D., Dean of Worcester.
1820 to 1842—Rev. John Foley, Holt.
Present Chairmen (alternately)—T. G. Curtler, Esq., and Rev. John
Pearson.
HUNDRED HOUSE DIVISION—To 1834, Sir C. S. Smith, Bart.
Present Chairman—The Rev. Thomas Pearson.
PERSHORE DIVISION—1800 to 1836—Thomas Beale Cooper, Esq., M.D., Richard
Hudson, Esq., and Lieutenant General Thomas Marriott.
Present Chairman—C. E. Hanford, Esq.
BROMSGROVE DIVISION—1833 (when the Petty Sessions were first held
here)—The Hon. and Rev. Walter Hutchinson Lord Aston.
Present Chairman—The Rev. William Vernon.
EVESHAM DIVISION (formed 1842)—Thomas B. Cooper, Esq., M.D.
STOURPORT DIVISION (formed 1848)—Thomas Simcox Lea, Esq.
TENBURY DIVISION (formed 1845)—Rev. Charles Turner Farley.
BLOCKLEY DIVISION—Early part of the present century—Rev. J. R. Hall and
William Broughton, Esq.
1827 to present time—William Dickens, Esq.
DUDLEY DIVISION—1800—The Rev. Joseph Cartwright.
1811—The Rev. William Smith.
Present Chairmen—Thomas Badger, Esq., or the senior magistrate in
attendance.
DROITWICH DIVISION—Early part of the century—The Rev. J. V. Vashon and
the Hon. and Rev. Lord Aston.
1844—Rev. William Vernon.
UPTON DIVISION—18-- Rev. George Turberville.
1838—Rev. Charles Dunne.
1850—Rev. A. B. Lechmere.
In the Kidderminster, Halesowen, Northfield, and Stourbridge Divisions it
has not been the practice to appoint any permanent chairmen.