Well, it is a bit about semantics.
The question was indeed "how many volunteer battalions" and I was unsure if the OP meant functionality or designations. Thus my remark was more a pointer to the fact that some volunteer battalions stayed designated as RVC (and later as VRC). Thus to enable the OP to decide for himself if he wants to include that one in his count or not.
And as you can see on the page I linked to,, it says in the first paragraph:
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In 1881 at the creation of the two battalion, territorial related, regular regiments, the Rifle Volunteers were added to those regiments as volunteer battalions. This can be seen in the first column.
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