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Poor Law Board

The Poor Law Board was established in the United Kingdom in 1847 as a successor body to the Poor Law Commission overseeing the administration of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. The board was abolished in 1871 and replaced by the Local Government Board. The new body was headed by a president, and with the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer now added to the board as ex officio members.

1847-1848

Charles Buller

1849-1852

Matthew Talbot Baines

1852

Sir John Trollope, Bt

1852-1855

Matthew Talbot Baines

1855-1858

Edward Pleydell Bouverie

1858-1859

Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt

Earl of March 1859

Charles Gordon-Lennox

1859-1866

Charles Pelham Villiers

1866-1867

Gathorne Hardy

1867-1868

William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon

1868-1871

George Goschen

1871

James Stansfeld

1847-1851

Viscount Ebrington

1851-1852

Ralph William Grey

1852

Frederick Knight

1853-1856

Grenville Berkeley

1856-1858

Ralph Grey

1858-1859

Frederick Knight

1859-1865

Charles Gilpin

1865-1866

Viscount Enfield

1866-1867

Ralph Anstruther Earle

1867-1868

George Sclater-Booth

1868

Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt

1868-1871

Arthur Peel

Bibliography[edit]

Una and Her Paupers Florence Nightingale & Anon, Diggory Press ISBN 978-1-905363-22-3

(1869). Local taxation and poor law administration in great cities . Westminster: J.B. Nichols and Sons.

Rathbone, William