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The Court of Aldermen is an elected body forming part of the City of London Corporation.

Presided over by the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen is made up of the 25 aldermen, one for each ward of the City of London.

The records are taken from two volumes, the first volume contains a List of Aldermen of the City of London, arranged under their respective Wards in chronological succession.

In the second volume, the records are arranged in chronologically succession order according to seniority of election, as distinct from arrangement under Wards in Volume one.