Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board
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subordinate to the President of the Local Government Board
President of the Local Government Board
The President of the Local Government Board was a ministerial post, frequently a Cabinet position, in the United Kingdom, established in 1871. The Local Government Board itself was established in 1871 and took over supervisory functions from the Board of Trade and the Home Office, including the...
. The Local Government Board
Local Government Board
The Local Government Board was a British Government supervisory body overseeing local administration in England and Wales from 1871 to 1919.The LGB was created by the Local Government Board Act 1871 The Local Government Board (LGB) was a British Government supervisory body overseeing local...
itself was established in 1871 and was took in supervisory functions from the Board of Trade
Board of Trade
The Board of Trade is a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions...
and the Home Office
Home Office
The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security, and order. As such it is responsible for the police, UK Border Agency, and the Security Service . It is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such as drugs,...
, including the Local Government Act Office that had been established by the Local Government Act 1858. http://www.dur.ac.uk/alan.heesom/localgovernmentseminar.htm
The position was abolished in June 1919, following the First World War
World War I
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, and the duties transferred to the new position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health was a junior ministerial office in the United Kingdom Government.The Ministry of Health was created in 1919 as a reconstruction of the Local Government Board...
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Parliamentary Secretaries to the Local Government Board, 1871-1919
| Name | Entered office | Left office |
|---|---|---|
| J. T. Hibbert | 1871 | 1874 |
| Clare Sewell Read Clare Sewell Read Clare Sewell Read was a British agriculturist and Conservative politician.-Early life:He was born in 1826 in Ketteringham, Norfolk, and was the eldest son of George Read of Barton Bendish Hall, and his wife Sarah Anne, daughter of Clare Sewell... |
1874 | 1876 |
| Thomas Salt Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet , was a British banker and Conservative politician.His grandfather John Stevenson Salt, , married Sarah Stevenson, the granddaughter of John Stevenson, founder in 1737 of a banking company in Stafford... |
1876 | 1880 |
| J. T. Hibbert | 1880 | 1883 |
| George W. E. Russell | 1883 | 1885 |
| The Earl Brownlow Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow Adelbert Wellington Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow GCVO, PC, VD, DL, JP , was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician.-Background and education:... |
1885 | 1886 |
| Jesse Collings Jesse Collings Jesse Collings was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.-Background:... |
1886 | 1886 |
| William Copeland Borlase William Copeland Borlase William Copeland Borlase FSA was an antiquarian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1887 when he was ruined by bankruptcy and scandal.... |
1886 | 1886 |
| Walter Long | 1886 | 1892 |
| Sir Walter Foster Balthazar Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston PC FRCP was a British doctor and politician.-Early life and education:... |
1892 | 1895 |
| Thomas Wallace Russell Sir Thomas Wallace Russell, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Wallace Russell, 1st Baronet PC , was an Irish politician and agrarian agitator. Born at Cupar, Fife, Scotland, he moved to County Tyrone at the age of eighteen... |
1895 | 1900 |
| John Grant Lawson Sir John Grant Lawson, 1st Baronet Sir John Grant Lawson, 1st Baronet was a British Unionist politician.At the 1892 general election, Lawson was elected as Member of Parliament for the Thirsk and Malton division of the North Riding of Yorkshire... |
1900 | 1905 |
| Arthur Frederick Jeffreys Arthur Frederick Jeffreys Arthur Frederick Jeffreys PC , of Burkham House in Hampshire, was a British Conservative politician.Jeffreys was the son of Arthur Jeffreys, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, who had emigrated to Australia in 1839... |
1905 | 1905 |
| Walter Runciman Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford PC was a prominent Liberal, later National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom from the 1900s until the 1930s.-Background:... |
1905 | 1907 |
| Thomas James Macnamara Thomas James Macnamara Thomas James Macnamara PC , was a British teacher, educationalist and Liberal politician.-Education:Macnamara was born in Montreal, Canada, the son of a soldier originally from County Clare in Ireland. His family returned to Britain in 1869 and Macnamara was educated first at the Depot School in... |
1907 | 1908 |
| Charles Masterman | 1908 | 1909 |
| Herbert Lewis Herbert Lewis Sir John Herbert Lewis GBE, PC was a British Liberal politician.-Background and education:Born at Mostyn Quay, Flintshire, Lewis was one of five sons of Enoch Lewis and Elizabeth Roberts. He was educated at McGill University and Exeter College, Oxford.-Political career:Lewis was the first Chairman... |
1909 |
1915 |
| William Hayes Fisher William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham PC, KStJ , was a British Conservative Party politician. He held office as President of the Local Government Board and Minister of Information in David Lloyd George's First World War coalition government.-Background and education:Born at Downham, Norfolk,... |
1915 | 1917 |
| Stephen Walsh | 1917 |
1919 |
| Hon. Waldorf Astor Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor was an American-born British politician and newspaper proprietor.-Early life:... |
1919 |
June 1919 |