Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

UNITED KINGDOM, The, of Great Britain and Ireland is the official title, adopted in 1801, now applied to England, Scotland, and Ireland (see Great Britain). The total area is returned as 77,657,065 acres, or 121,339 square miles, England and Wales embracing 37,370,041 acres (whereof Wales 4,721,633), Scotland 19,467,077, and Ireland 20,819,947.

Counties. Population in 1881. M.P.S 1 1885. Counties. Population in 1881. M.P.S 1885. ENGLAND. Bedford 149,473 218,363 176,323 185,594 644,037 330,686 250,647 461,914 603,595 191,028 867,258 576,434 572,433 593,470 121,062 203,069 59,491 977,700 3,454,441 321,258 469,919 2,920,485 211,267 444,749 272,555 434,086 391,815 179,559 21,434 248,014 469,109 981,013 356,893 1,436,899 490,505 737,339 64,191 258,965 380,283 2,886,564 3 5 3 4 13 7 6 9 13 4 16 11 11 12 3 4 2 19 57 6 11 47 4 10 7 8 7 4 1 5 10 17 8 22 9 14 2 g S Berwick 35,392 17,657 38,865 25,680 75,333 76,140 389,164 43,788 171,931 266,360 38,502 90,454 34,464 6,697 42,127 904,412 43,510 10,455 61,749 13,822 129,007 263,374 78,547 53,442 25,564 112,443 23,370 38,611 1 1 2 I 1 2 6 2 4 4 1 2 1 Bute Berks Buckingham Cambridge Chester Elgin Cumberland Fife Derby Forfar Devon Haddington Dorset Durham. Gloucester Kirkcudbright 1 13 1 1 1 3 4 1 2 3 1 1 Hants Hereford Hertford Xairn Orkney and Shetland. Peebles Kent Lancaster Perth Leicester Lincoln Ross and Cromarty ... Middlesex Selkirk Norfolk. Stirling Northampton Northumberland Wigtown IRELAND. Oxford 3,735,573 421,943 163,177 46,568 129,476 141,457 495,607 206,035 272,107 418,910 84,879 242,005 201,039 75,804 99,531 72,852 90,372 180,632 164,991 61,009 77,684 245,212 87,469 102,748 73,124 132,490 111,578 199,612 197,719 112,768 71,798 123,854 70,386 70 S 3 1 2 2 9 4 5 6 2 4 4 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 3 2 2 2 Rutland Shropshire Somerset Stafford Suffolk Surrey Sussex Clare Warwick Cork Westmoreland Wilts Worcester Dublin York WALKS. Anglesey 24,613,926 51,410 o7,74(i 70,270 124,864 119,349 111,740 80,587 511,433 52,038 65,718 91,824 23,528 4iO 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 10 1 2 2 1 Kerry Kildare Kilkenny .... King s Brecon Cardigan Carmarthen Carnarvon Denbigh Flint Glamorgan Meath Merioneth Montgomery Pembroke Raduor Sllgo England and Wales... SCOTLAND. 1,360,513 30 Tyrone Waterford 25,974,439 267,990 76,468 217,519 62,736 490 4 1 4 1 Wexford Wicklow United Kingdom Argyll 5,174,836 101 Ayr ... . Banff 34,884,848 C61

The accompanying table gives the population of the counties according to the census of 1881, and their parliamentary representation as determined by the Redistribution Act of 1885. In the enumeration of the Scottish members of parliament, groups of burghs are included in the counties containing the burghs whence they are respectively named, while it is to be observed that Kinross county is united with Clackmannan, Nairn with Elgin, and Selkirk with Peebles. The addition of the nine university representatives (England, 5; Scotland, 2; Ireland, 2) brings the total membership of the House of Commons to 670.

For the Islands in the British Seas the figures are as follows:—Isle of Man—141,263 acres, population 53,558; Channel Islands—48,322 acres, population 87,702.