# President of the Local Government Board

The President of the Local Government Board was a ministerial post, frequently a Cabinet position, in the United Kingdom, established in 1871. The Local Government Board itself was established in 1871 and took over supervisory functions from the Board of Trade and the Home Office, including the Local Government Act Office, which had been established by the Local Government Act 1858, as well as the Poor Law Board, which it replaced.
The position was abolished in 1919, following the First World War, and the duties transferred to the new position of Minister of Health.

## List of presidents of the Local Government Board (1871–1919)

President of the Local Government Board :
| Liberal Conservative Liberal Unionist ||||||||
| Portrait | Portrait | Name Honorifics & Constituency | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Government | Ref |
| | | The Right Honourable James Stansfeld MP for Halifax | August 1871 | March 1874 | Liberal | Gladstone I | [2] [3] |
| | | The Right Honourable George Sclater-Booth FRSE MP for Northern Hampshire | March 1874 | May 1880 | Conservative | Disraeli II | |
| | | The Right Honourable John George Dodson MP for Scarborough | May 1880 | 1882 | Liberal | Gladstone II | |
| | | The Right Honourable Sir Charles Dilke Bt MP for Chelsea | 1882 | 1885 | Liberal | Gladstone II | |
| | | The Right Honourable Arthur Balfour MP for Manchester East | 1885 | 1886 | Conservative | Salisbury I | |
| | | The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain MP for Birmingham West | 1886 | 1886 | Liberal Unionist | Gladstone III | |
| | | The Right Honourable James Stansfeld MP for Halifax | 1886 | 1886 | Liberal | Gladstone III | |
| | | The Right Honourable Charles Ritchie MP for Tower Hamlets, St George Division | 1886 | 1892 | Conservative | Salisbury II | |
| | | The Right Honourable Henry Fowler MP for Wolverhampton East | 1892 | 1894 | Liberal | Gladstone IV | |
| | | The Right Honourable George Shaw-Lefevre MP for Bradford Central | 1894 | 1895 | Liberal | Rosebery | |
| | | The Right Honourable Henry Chaplin MP for Sleaford | 1895 | 1900 | Conservative | Salisbury (III & IV) (Cons.–Lib.U.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable Walter Long MP for Bristol South | 1900 | 1905 | Conservative | Salisbury (III & IV) (Cons.–Lib.U.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable Walter Long MP for Bristol South | 1900 | 1905 | Conservative | Balfour (Cons.–Lib.U.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable Gerald Balfour MP for Leeds Central | 1905 | 11 December 1905 | Conservative | Balfour (Cons.–Lib.U.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable John Burns MP for Battersea | 11 December 1905 | 1914 | Liberal (Lib-Lab) | Campbell-Bannerman | |
| | | The Right Honourable John Burns MP for Battersea | 11 December 1905 | 1914 | Liberal (Lib-Lab) | Asquith (I–III) | |
| | | The Right Honourable Herbert Samuel MP for Cleveland | 1914 | 1915 | Liberal | Asquith (I–III) | |
| | | The Right Honourable Walter Long MP for Strand | 1915 | 1916 | Conservative | Asquith Coalition (Lib.–Cons.–Lab.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable The Lord Rhondda PC | 13 December 1916 | 1917 | Liberal | Lloyd George (I & II) (Lib.–Cons.–Lab.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable William Hayes Fisher MP for Fulham | 2 July 1917 | 1918 | Conservative | Lloyd George (I & II) (Lib.–Cons.–Lab.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable Auckland Geddes FRSE MP for Basingstoke | 1918 | 1919 | Conservative | Lloyd George (I & II) (Lib.–Cons.–Lab.) | |
| | | The Right Honourable Christopher Addison FRS MP for Shoreditch | 1919 | 1919 | Liberal (Coalition) | Lloyd George (I & II) (Lib.–Cons.–Lab.) | |