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So there was a Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex prior to that? Even the Lord Lieutenant's website says it was just Sussex until 1974, when it was split into Lord Lieutenants for East and West Sussex. My essential point being that one of the definitions of county seems to be the area that a Lord...

Ah, I have (alas) been mislead by contradictory pieces of information on Wikipedia and other explanations of the Acts. While it says the East Sussex was not created a lieutenancy area until 1997, it also says there has been a Lord Lieutenant since 1974. So it would appear it didn't exist a...

Ah, interestingly, East Sussex County Council seems to have existed before East Sussex did (sort of). From 1889 East Sussex was an administrative county, while the lieutenancy area was still Sussex. In 1974 (based on the 1972 Local Government Act) it became a non-metropolitan county, which seems...

Yup. Brighton and Hove is in the Historical County of Sussex, and in the Ceremonial County of East Sussex. I believe East Sussex as a formal county was created in the 70s? It appears the Ceremonial County didn't exist until 1997 though.