Poor Law Board
The Poor Law Board was established in the United Kingdom in 1847 as a successor body to the triumvirate of Poor Law Commissioners overseeing the administration of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. 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. The board was abolished in 1871 and replaced by the Local Government Board.
Poor Law Commissioners, 1834–1847
- Thomas Frankland Lewis 1834–1839
- John George Shaw Lefevre 1834–1841
- George Nicholls 1834–1847
- George Cornewall Lewis 1839–1847
- Sir Edmund Walker Head 1841–1847
- Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton 1845–1847
Presidents of the Poor Law Board, 1847–1871
- Charles Buller 1847–1849
- Matthew Talbot Baines 1849–1852
- Sir John Trollope 1852
- Matthew Talbot Baines 1852–1855
- Edward Pleydell Bouverie 1855–1858
- Thomas Sotheron Escourt 1858–1859
- Charles Pelham Villiers 1859–1866
- Gathorne Hardy 1866–1867
- William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon 1867–1868
- George Joachim Goschen 1868–1871
- James Stansfeld 1871