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President of the Board of Trade

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The president of the Board of Trade is head of the Board of Trade. A committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, it was first established as a temporary committee of inquiry in the 17th century that evolved gradually into a government department with diverse functions.[1] The current holder of the post is Jonathan Reynolds,[2] who is concurrently the secretary of state for business and trade.

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The idea of a Board of Trade was first translated into action by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 when he appointed his son Richard Cromwell to head a body of Lords of the Privy Council, judges and merchants to consider measures to promote trade. Charles II established a Council of Trade on 7 November 1660, followed by a Council of Foreign Plantations on 1 December that year. The two were united on 16 September 1672 as the Board of Trade and Plantations.

After the Board was re-established in 1696, there were 15 (and later 16) members of the Board – the 7 (later 8) great officers of state, and eight unofficial members, who did the majority of the work. The senior unofficial board member was the board president, commonly known as the first lord of trade. The board was abolished on 11 July 1782, but a Committee of the Privy Council was established on 5 March 1784 for the same purposes. On 23 August 1786, a new committee was set up, more strongly focused on commercial functions than the previous boards of trade. At first, the president of the Board of Trade only occasionally sat in the Cabinet. Still, from the early 19th century, it was usually a cabinet-level position.

In 2020, there was an unusual appointment of a deputy president to assist the president. Still, the holder remained only an adviser to the Board.[3] This appears to have been a one-off appointment, and this role no longer exists.[4] However, the president was previously assisted by the vice president.[5]

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List of presidents of the Board of Trade

First Lord of Trade (1672–1782)

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President of the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations (1784–1786)

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President of the Board of Trade (1786–1963)

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President of the Board of Trade (1963–present)

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Jonathan ReynoldsKemi BadenochAnne-Marie TrevelyanLiz TrussLiam FoxGreg ClarkSajid JavidVince CableJohn Hutton, Baron Hutton of FurnessAlistair DarlingAlan JohnsonPatricia HewittStephen ByersPeter MandelsonMargaret BeckettIan LangMichael HeseltinePeter LilleyNicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of LiddesdaleDavid Young, Baron Young of GraffhamPaul ChannonLeon BrittanNorman TebbitCecil ParkinsonArthur Cockfield, Baron CockfieldJohn BiffenJohn NottJohn Smith (Labour Party leader)Edmund DellPeter ShorePeter Walker, Baron Walker of WorcesterJohn Davies (British businessman)Michael Noble, Baron GlenkinglasRoy MasonAnthony CroslandDouglas JayEdward HeathFrederick ErrollReginald MauldingDavid Eccles, 1st Viscount EcclesPeter ThorneycroftHartley ShawcrossHarold WilsonStafford CrippsHugh DaltonJohn Jestyn LlewellinOliver LytteltonAndrew Rae DuncanOliver StanleyWilliam GrahamSidney WebbPhilip Cunliff-ListerStanley BaldwinRobert HorneAuckland GeddesAlbert StanleyWalter RuncimanJohn BurnsSydney BuxtonWinston ChurchillDavid Lloyd GeorgeJames Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of SalisburyGerald BalfourCharles RitchieJames BryceMichael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St AldwynFrederick Stanley, 16th Earl DerbyA. J. MundellaEdward StanhopeJoseph ChamberlainDudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of HarrowbyCharles Adderley, 1st Baron NortonChichester Parkinson-FortescueJohn BrightCharles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of RichmondStafford Northcote, 1st Earl of IddesleighThomas Milner GibsonRichard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of DonoughmoreEdward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of AlderleyEdward CardwellJ. W. HenleyGeorge Villiers, 4th Earl of ClarendonJames Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of DalhousieWilliam Ewart GladstoneHenry LabouchereAlexander Baring, 1st Baron AshburtonCharles Poulett ThomsonGeorge Eden, 1st Earl of AucklandJohn Charles HerriesWilliam Vesey-FitzGeraldCharles Grant, 1st Baron GlenelgWilliam HuskissonF. J. RobinsonRichard Trench, 2nd Earl of ClancartyHenry Bathurst, 3rd Earl BathurstWilliam Eden, 1st Baron AucklandJames Graham, 3rd Duke of MontroseCharles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of LiverpoolThomas Townshend, 1st Viscount SydneyThomas Robinson, 2nd Baron GranthamFrederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleGeorge Germain, 1st Viscount SackvilleRobert Nugent, 1st Earl NugentWilliam Legge, 2nd Earl of DartmouthWills Hill, 1st Marquess of DownshireWilliam Petty, 2nd Earl of SHelburneCharles TownshendSamuel Sandys, 1st Baron SandysGeorge Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of HalifaxJohn Monson, 1st Baron MonsonBenjamin Mildmay, 1st Earl FitzwalterThomas Fane, 6th Earl of WestmorlandRobert Darcy, 3rd Earl of HoldernessHenry Howard, 6th Earl of SuffolkWilliam Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of StrattonFrancis North, 2nd Baron GuilfordCharles Finch, 4th Earl of WinchilseaThomas Thynne, 1st Viscount WeymouthThomas Grey, 2nd Earl of StamfordJohn Egerton, 3rd Earl of BridgewaterAnthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

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  1. Formerly MP for Clare, William Vesey-FitzGerald was briefly not sitting as an MP after the defeat in by-election of Clare and before the by-election of Newport (Cornwall).
  2. Appointed by the Privy Council in error, and held the post for four days before the mistake was rectified.[7][8][9]

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