Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board

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Jesse Collings, who served briefly as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in 1886. JesseCollings.jpg
Jesse Collings, who served briefly as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in 1886.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board was, from 1871 – 1919, a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom subordinate to the President of the Local Government Board. The Local Government Board itself was established in 1871 and took in supervisory functions from the Board of Trade and the Home Office, including the Local Government Act Office that had been established by the Local Government Act 1858.

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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 1874 [1] 1876 [1]
Thomas Salt 1876 1880
J. T. Hibbert 1880 1883
George W. E. Russell 1883 1885
The Earl Brownlow 1885 [2] 1886
Jesse Collings 1886 1886
William Copeland Borlase 1886 1886
Walter Long 1886 1892
Sir Walter Foster 1892 [3] 1895
Thomas Wallace Russell 1895 [4] 1900
John Grant Lawson 1900 [5] 1905 [6]
Arthur Frederick Jeffreys 1905 [6] 1905
Walter Runciman 1905 1907 [7]
Thomas James Macnamara 1907 [7] 1908 [8]
Charles Masterman 1908 [8] 1909 [9]
Herbert Lewis 1909 [10] 1915
William Hayes Fisher 1915 [11] 1917
Stephen Walsh 1917 [12] 1919 [13]
Hon. Waldorf Astor 1919 [14] June 1919

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References

  1. 1 2 "Obituary: Mr Clare Sewell Read". The Times . 23 August 1905. p. 7.
  2. ↑ "The New Administration". The Times . 3 July 1885. p. 5.
  3. ↑ "The New Ministry". The Times . 20 August 1892. p. 9.
  4. ↑ "The New Ministry". The Times . 6 July 1895. p. 13.
  5. ↑ "The Changes In The Government". The Times . 12 November 1900. p. 9.
  6. 1 2 "No. 27810". The London Gazette . 27 June 1905. p. 4472.
  7. 1 2 "Ministerial Appointments". The Times . 30 January 1907. p. 9.
  8. 1 2 "The New Ministry". The Times . 14 April 1908. p. 8.
  9. ↑ "Political Notes". The Times . 3 July 1909. p. 12.
  10. ↑ "Mr Herbert Lewis M. P.". The Times . 9 July 1909. p. 12.
  11. ↑ "Official Appointments and Notices". The Times . 11 June 1915. p. 9.
  12. ↑ "Mr Stephen Walsh M. P.". The Times . 16 July 1917. p. 9.
  13. ↑ "The New Ministry. Leave-Taking in Whitehall". The Times . 14 January 1919. p. 9.
  14. ↑ "Major Astor's New Post". The Times . 21 February 1919. p. 11.


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