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.

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

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

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