Past councillors

• For names of Leeds Council and committee members since 1870, see Leeds City Council: Committees books (series of small hardback volumes kept in far left corner, top shelf, above old fiche-readers) L 352.021 L517.
• The first woman elected to Leeds City Council was Gertrude Dennison for West Ward in 1921. She succeeded her husband Dr Arthur Dennison who died in 1921.