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
Name Entered office Left officeJ. T. Hibbert 1871 1874 Clare Sewell Read 1874 1876 Thomas Salt 1876 1880 J. T. Hibbert 1880 1883 George W. E. Russell 1883 1885 Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow 1885 1886 Jesse Collings 1886 1886 William Copeland Borlase 1886 1886 Walter Long 1886 1892 Sir Walter Foster 1892 1895 Thomas Wallace Russell 1895 1900 John Grant Lawson 1900 1905 Arthur Frederick Jeffreys 1905 1905 Walter Runciman 1905 1907 Thomas James Macnamara 1907 1908 Charles Masterman 1908 1909 Herbert Lewis 1909 1915 William Hayes Fisher 1915 1917 Stephen Walsh 1917 1919 Waldorf Astor 1919 June 1919
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