The President of the Local Government Board was a ministerial post, frequently a Cabinet

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 position, in the United Kingdom

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, established in 1871. The Local Government Board

Local Government Board

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 itself was established in 1871 and took over supervisory functions from the Board of Trade

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 and the Home Office

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, including the Local Government Act Office that had been established by the Local Government Act 1858, as well as the Poor Law Board

Poor Law Board

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, which it replaced. http://www.dur.ac.uk/alan.heesom/localgovernmentseminar.htm

The position was abolished in 1919, following the First World War

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, and the duties transferred to the new position of Minister of Health

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.

Presidents of the Local Government Board from 1871

• James Stansfeld 1871-1874
• George Sclater-Booth
  George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing
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   1874-1880
• John George Dodson 1880-1882
• Sir Charles Dilke
  Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet
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   1882-1885
• Arthur Balfour
  Arthur Balfour
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   1885-1886
• Joseph Chamberlain
  Joseph Chamberlain
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   1886
• James Stansfeld 1886
• Charles Thomson Ritchie 1886-1892
• Henry Fowler
  Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
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   1892-1894
• George Shaw-Lefevre
  George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley
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   1894-1895
• Henry Chaplin
  Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin
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   1895-1900
• Walter Long 1900-1905
• Gerald William Balfour 1905
• John Burns
  John Burns
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   1905-1914
• Herbert Samuel
  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
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   1914-1915
• Walter Long 1915-1916
• William Hayes Fisher
  William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham
  William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham PC, KStJ , was a British Conservative Party politician. He held office as President of the Local Government Board and Minister of Information in David Lloyd George's First World War coalition government.-Background and education:Born at Downham, Norfolk,...
  
   1916-1918
• Auckland Geddes
  Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
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   1918-1919
• Christopher Addison
  Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
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  1919

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