4. c. 60), commonly known as Hobhouse's Vestry Act (named after the Whig frontbencher Sir John Hobhouse, later created Lord Broughton), was an Act of Parliament in 1831 and was a local government overhaul which also affected the Established Church at a local level.

Where locally approved it replaced the select vestry (the local government where not an open vestry and which was in most cases a narrow oligarchy) with a non-co-opted system of vestrymen (vestry members) to be instead elected by ratepayers (male and female) who had been resident in the parish for more than a year.

The five metropolitan parishes to adopt the act were:[2] Membership of their vestries were replaced over a period of three years with a series of elections.

The Metropolis Management Act 1855 went further by abolishing the remaining select vestries of all metropolitan parishes in 1855 and extended the principle of election by ratepayers.

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