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.[citation needed] The board was abolished in 1871 and replaced by the Local Government Board.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

## Presidents of the Poor Law Board, 1847-1871

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* Charles Buller 1847-1848
* Matthew Talbot Baines 1849-1852
* Sir John Trollope, Bt 1852
* Matthew Talbot Baines 1852-1855
* Edward Pleydell Bouverie 1855-1858
* Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt 1858-1859
* Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March 1859
* Charles Pelham Villiers 1859-1866
* Gathorne Hardy 1866-1867
* William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon 1867-1868
* George Goschen 1868-1871
* James Stansfeld 1871

## Parliamentary Secretaries to the Poor Law Board, 1847-1871

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* Viscount Ebrington 1847-1851
* Ralph William Grey 1851-1852
* Frederick Knight 1852
* Grenville Berkeley 1853-1856
* Ralph Grey 1856-1858
* Frederick Knight 1858-1859
* Charles Gilpin 1859-1865
* Viscount Enfield 1865-1866
* Ralph Anstruther Earle 1866-1867
* George Sclater-Booth 1867-1868
* Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt 1868
* Arthur Peel 1868-1871

## Bibliography

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

## Further reading

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

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Poor laws of the British Isles

Poor laws by territory|

* England and Wales
* Scotland
* Ireland
* Isle of Man

Nantwich workhouse

Old Poor Law|

* Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494
* Tudor poor laws
* Poor Relief Act 1597
* Poor Relief Act 1601
* Poor Relief Act 1662
* Relief of the Poor Act 1696
* Poor Relief Act 1722
* Relief of the Poor Act 1782
* House of correction
* Overseer of the poor
* Poor rate
* Poor relief
* Buttock mail

Relief systems|

* Outdoor relief
* Speenhamland
* Labour Rate
* Roundsman
* Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor

New Poor Law|

* Royal commission (1832)
* Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
* Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845
* Less eligibility
* Workhouse
* Workhouse test
* Board of guardians
* Outdoor Labour Test Order
* Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order
* Poor law unions
* Opposition
* Book of Murder
* Scottish poorhouse

Changes after 1834|

* Poor Law Commission
* Poor Law Board
* Local Government Board
* Andover workhouse scandal
* Huddersfield workhouse scandal
* Union Chargeability Act

Decline and abolition|

* Liberal welfare reforms
* Royal Commission (1905–09)
* Majority Report
* Minority Report
* Interwar poverty
* National Assistance Act 1948

Other|

* Christmas Day in the Workhouse
* Historiography of the Poor Laws
* Timeline of the English poor law system
* Poor Relief Act
* List of poor law unions in England
* List of poor law unions in Wales
* List of Irish poor law unions

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