Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board


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.
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.

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Local Government Board, 1871-1919

NameEntered officeLeft office
J. T. Hibbert18711874
Clare Sewell Read18741876
Thomas Salt18761880
J. T. Hibbert18801883
George W. E. Russell18831885
The Earl Brownlow18851886
Jesse Collings18861886
William Copeland Borlase18861886
Walter Long18861892
Sir Walter Foster18921895
Thomas Wallace Russell18951900
John Grant Lawson19001905
Arthur Frederick Jeffreys19051905
Walter Runciman19051907
Thomas James Macnamara19071908
Charles Masterman19081909
Herbert Lewis19091915
William Hayes Fisher19151917
Stephen Walsh19171919
Hon. Waldorf Astor1919June 1919