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 Local Government Act Office, which had been established by the Local Government Act 1858, as well as the Poor Law Board, which it replaced.

The position was abolished in 1919, following the First World War, and the duties transferred to the new position of Minister of Health.

List of presidents of the Local Government Board (1871–1919)

+President of the Local Government Board Portrait NameConstituency Term of office Political party Government Ref James StansfeldMP for Halifax August1871 March1874 Liberal Gladstone I George Sclater-BoothMP for Northern Hampshire March1874 May1880 Conservative Disraeli II John George DodsonMP for Scarborough May1880 1882 Liberal Gladstone II Sir Charles Dilke2nd BaronetMP for Chelsea 1882 1885 Liberal Arthur BalfourMP for Manchester East 1885 1886 Conservative Salisbury I Joseph ChamberlainMP for Birmingham West 1886 1886 Liberal Gladstone III James StansfeldMP for Halifax 1886 1886 Liberal Charles RitchieMP for Tower Hamlets, St George Division 1886 1892 Conservative Salisbury II Henry FowlerMP for Wolverhampton East 1892 1894 Liberal Gladstone IV George Shaw-LefevreMP for Bradford Central 1894 1895 Liberal Rosebery Henry ChaplinMP for Sleaford 1895 1900 Conservative Salisbury(Cons.–Lib.U.) Walter LongMP for Bristol South 1900 1905 Conservative Balfour(Cons.–Lib.U.) Gerald BalfourMP for Leeds Central 1905 11 December1905 Conservative John BurnsMP for Battersea 11 December1905 1914 Liberal(Lib-Lab) Campbell-Bannerman Asquith Herbert SamuelMP for Cleveland 1914 1915 Liberal Walter LongMP for Strand 1915 1916 Conservative Asquith Coalition(Lib.–Cons.–Lab.) David Alfred Thomas1st Baron Rhondda 13 December1916 1917 Liberal Lloyd George(I & II)(Lib.–Cons.–Lab.) William Hayes FisherMP for Fulham 2 July1917 1918 Conservative Auckland GeddesMP for Basingstoke 1918 1919 Conservative Christopher AddisonMP for Shoreditch 1919 1919 Liberal(Coalition)

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