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 * first meeting (of provisional council) held at Reading 31 January 1889. Lord Wantage, LL of Berks in chair. 17 aldermen elected.
 * Second meeting held on 23 February 1889. William George Mount MP elected chairman. He remained chairman until 1902, and a member of the council until his death in 1906.
 * Came into powers and held first statutory meeting on 1 April 1889.

Chairman

 * William George Mount MP 1889-1902
 * Albert Richard Tull
 * William Hew Dunn 1906-1911
 * Sir Robert Mowbray –1916 "owing to his continued illness Sir Robert Mowbray has resigned his position as chairman..."
 * James Herbert Benyon 1916–1926
 * Sir William Arthur Mount, Bt 1926–1930.
 * Vacant 1930–1931
 * Thomas Skurray 1931–1938
 * Arthur Thomas Loyd 1938–1944
 * Sir George Mowbray, 5th Bt 1944–1946 (in 1946)
 * Sir Henry Benyon, Bt. 1948–1949
 * Herbert James Thomas 1947–1954
 * Sir George Mowbray, 5th Bt 1960–1965 (2nd term)
 * Air Commodore Louis Walter Dickens. (Knighted 1968) 1965–1968
 * Derrick Aylmer Frederick Henry Howard Hartley Russell (in 1969 and 1971) 1967-1970??
 * Alderman Richard Seymour (in 1973)

Headquarters
Meeting originally held at the Assize Courts in Reading. In 1909 it was decided to build offices for the county council at The Forbury to the ddesigns of Messrs Warwick and Hall.