Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board
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The Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board was a ministerial post in the United Kingdom, established in 1871 and subordinate to the President of the Local Government Board. The Local Government Board itself was established in 1871 and was 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. [1]
The position was abolished in June 1919, following the First World War, and the duties transferred to the new position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.
[edit] Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, 1871-1919
- John Tomlinson Hibbert 1871-1874
- Clare Sewell Read 1874-1876
- Thomas Salt 1876-1880
- John Tomlinson Hibbert 1880-1883
- George William Erskine Russell 1883-1885
- Earl Brownlow 1885-1886
- Jesse Collings 1886
- William Copeland Borlase 1886
- Walter Hume Long 1886-1892
- ? 1892-1895
- Thomas Wallace Russell 1895-1900
- Sir John Grant Lawson 1900-1905
- Arthur Frederick Jeffreys 1905
- Walter Runciman 1905-1907
- Thomas Macnamara 1907-1908
- Charles Masterman 1908-1909
- Herbert Lewis 1909-1915
- William Hayes Fisher 1915-1917
- Stephen Walsh 1917-1919
- Waldorf Astor 1919 - June 1919
