Local government in Northern Ireland was reorganised in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972.
 The county councils, county borough and municipal borough corporations and urban and rural district councils were replaced by twenty-six local government districts.
Birmingham ( , ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England standing on the small River Rea.
 It is the largest and most populous British city outside London, with a population of 1,101,360 in 2014.
Torbay Council is the local authority of Torbay in Devon, England.
 It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined.
 It provides a full range of local government services including Council Tax billing, libraries, social services, processing planning applications, waste collection and disposal, and it is a local education authority.
 The council appoints members to Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority and the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Panel.
 Torbay is divided into 15 wards, electing 36 councillors.
 The whole council is elected every four years with the last election taking place on 5 May 2011 and the next election scheduled for 2015.
 The council was created by the Local Government Act 1972 and replaced the Torbay Borough Council of the County Borough of Torbay.
 Since 1974 Torbay has held borough status which entitles the council to be known as Torbay Borough Council, although it has not used this name since becoming a unitary authority.
 The council is unusual in that its executive function is controlled by a directly elected mayor of Torbay, currently Gordon Oliver.
 Expenditure for the year 2013/2014 is budgeted to be £127 million.
John Joseph Powell, (September 22, 1925, Chicago, Illinois – September 24, 2009, Clarkston, Michigan) was a Jesuit priest and author, and brother of Rita Donlan and William Powell.
In Ireland, a Town Council was part of the second (or lower) tier of local government.
 Operating in smaller towns and cities, they exercised limited functions which were subsidiary to those of their relevant county council.
 The term was introduced into local government in Ireland by the Local Government Act 2001.
 From 1 January 2002 the existing Urban District Councils and boards of Town commissioners were renamed as Town councils. Additionally, the city of Kilkenny, along with the four towns of (Sligo, Drogheda, Clonmel, and Wexford) were reduced in status to the level of Town Council.
 In recognition of the previous history, the towns were permitted to use the title of "Borough Council" instead of "Town Council".
 There were 75 other town councils in addition to these five borough councils.
 Outside the towns, the county councils were solely responsible for local services.
Epsom and Ewell is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England, covering the towns of Epsom and Ewell.
 The borough was formed as an urban district in 1894, and was known as Epsom until 1934.
 It was made a municipal borough in 1937.
 The district was considered for inclusion in Greater London in 1965 but was left unaltered by the London Government Act 1963 and the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974.
 However, despite being outside modern Greater London the borough was in the Metropolitan Police District until it was transferred to Surrey Police in 2000.
 In the May 2011 elections, the borough was held by the Epsom and Ewell Residents Association with 26 seats, Liberal Democrats with 6 seats and both the Labour and Conservatives with 3 seats.
Kilkenny (Irish: "Cill Chainnigh" , meaning "church of Cainnech" ) is a city in the province of Leinster in south-east Ireland that is the county town of County Kilkenny.
 It is built on both banks of the River Nore.
 The city is administered by a borough council (and a mayor), which is a level below that of city council in the local government of the state, although the Local Government Act 2001 allows for "the continued use of the description city".
 The borough's population is 8,711, but the majority live outside the borough boundary: the 2011 Irish census gave the total population of the borough and environs as 24,423.
The County Borough of Dudley was a local government district in the English Midlands from 1865 to 1974.
 Originally a municipal borough, it became a county borough in 1889, centred on the main town centre of Dudley, along with the suburbs of Netherton and Woodside.
 Although surrounded by Staffordshire, the borough was associated with Worcestershire for non-administrative purposes, forming an exclave of the county until 1966, when it was transferred to Staffordshire after an expansion of the borough boundaries.
 Following local government reorganization in 1974, Dudley took in the boroughs of Halesowen and Stourbridge to form the present-day Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the newly formed West Midlands county.
Joseph Powell Williams (18 November 1840 – 7 February 1904) was an English Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1904.
 He was a close political associate of Joseph Chamberlain.
Hackney London Borough Council is the local government authority for the London Borough of Hackney, London, England, one of 32 London borough councils.
 The council is unusual in the United Kingdom local government system in that its executive function is controlled by a directly elected mayor of Hackney, currently Philip Glanville of the Labour Party.
 Hackney comprises 19 wards, each electing three Councillors. Following the May 2014 election, Hackney London Borough Council consists of 50 Labour Party councillors, four Conservative Party councillors and three Liberal Democrat councillors.
 The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 whereby it replaced three local authorities: Hackney Metropolitan Borough Council, Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council and Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough Council.

Question: Joseph Powell William was active in local government in a city From which borough ?
Answer: West Midlands