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London | Sutton

The County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with the City of London remaining an independent body.

In 1965 Greater London was formed, taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county) together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of Kent and Surrey.

Greater London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together with the City of London.

Sutton once lay in Surrey and is today one of the 19 boroughs making up Outer London. It lies on the south edge of the capital with the county of Surrey to its south and west and the London boroughs of Croydon to its east and Merton and Kingston-upon-Thames to its north.

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The son of a performing trapeze artist, John Major was born at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton in 1943, and was Prime Minister from 1990-97, completing one of the quickest rises to power of modern times. In 1987 he was promoted to Chief Secretary of the Treasury, before in 1989 becoming Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in quick succession and then only a year later Prime Minister when he was chosen to succeed Margaret Thatcher after she had resigned. Major went on to lead the Conservatives to a fourth election victory in 1992 before losing to Tony Blair's Labour Party in 1997.