There only became a need to use a term such as "lieutenancy area" once the post-1974 counties ceased to be the main model of local government in England and Wales. The 1974 pattern of local government was that the whole of England and Wales consisted of a top layer of counties, with a second...
Before 1997, there were certainly separate Lords Lieutenants for East and West Sussex. One of the Lords Lieutenants for East Sussex was Admiral Sir Lyndsey Bryson, who lived in Dyke Road Avenue and who had a daughter who was one of the blonde bimbos in the Philadelphia ads. The office of the...
East Sussex County Council was created by virtue of the Local Government Act 1888. Before that, the counties were administered by the unelected Courts of Quarter Sessions, one of which was based in Lewes and another in Chichester. Unified government of Sussex as a single entity didn't survive...