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...

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (PLAA) known widely as the New Poor Law, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whig government...

English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief in England and Wales that developed out of the codification of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws in 1587–1598...

A poor law union was a geographical territory, and early local government unit, in Great Britain and Ireland. Poor law unions existed in England and Wales...

The Poor Law Commission was a body established to administer poor relief after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. The commission was made...

authorities that administered Poor Law in the United Kingdom from 1835 to 1930. Boards of guardians were created by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, replacing...

Mr. Canning was once asked by Mr. Tierney why he did not touch the Poor Law? To which question Mr. Canning replied:— "Why do not Governments decide offhand...

functions of the Poor Law Board, which was abolished. In 1919 the LGB was converted into a new department called the Ministry of Health. The board was headed...

by the early 1830s the established system of poor relief was proving to be unsustainable. The New Poor Law of 1834 attempted to reverse the economic trend...

Poor Law policy after the New Poor Law concerns the time period c. 1847–1900 after the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act until the beginnings...

The Scottish poor laws were the statutes concerning poor relief passed in Scotland between 1579 and 1929. Scotland had a different poor law system to England...

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...

(1869–71) and President of the Poor Law Board (1871) before being appointed the first President of the Local Government Board (1871–74 and 1886). Stansfeld...

Admiralty. James Stansfeld succeeds Goschen at the Poor Law Board (which becomes the Local Government Board later that year). August 1872: Hugh Childers returns...

of the Anti-Corn Law League, until its repeal in 1846. Lord Palmerston appointed him to the cabinet as president of the Poor-Law Board in 1859. His Public...

The following article presents a timeline of the poor law system in England from its origins in the Tudor and Elizabethan era to its abolition in 1948...

Secretary for Ireland Thomas Milner Gibson – President of the Board of Trade and of the Poor Law Board Sir George Grey – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster...

of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1866 to 1867 and as President of the Poor Law Board from 1867 to 1868. Devon was the eldest son of William Courtenay, 10th...

exposed serious defects in the administration of the English 'New Poor Law' (the Poor Law Amendment Act). It led to significant changes in its central supervision...

Thurles Poor Law Union, was an Irish Poor law union officially declared on 28 March 1839. It covered an area of 195 square miles (510 km2), mostly in...

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 106) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, sponsored by Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl...

The Irish poor laws were a series of acts of Parliament intended to address social instability due to widespread and persistent poverty in Ireland. While...

by Lord John Russell in 1846, and became the first President of the Poor Law Board the following year. Buller died in office in London in November 1848...

Minister without Portfolio. Hardy's replacement as President of the Poor Law Board is not in the cabinet. September 1868: The Earl of Mayo leaves the cabinet...

Trollope, 1st Baron Kesteven (1800–1874), President of the English Poor Law Board John Trollope (footballer) (born 1944), English association football...

John Trollope, 1st Baron Kesteven (1800–1874), former President of the Poor Law Board John Lightfoot Trollope (1897–1958), British First World War flying...

felt the Poor Law reform of 1834 should have provided for the management of poor law relief by salaried officers controlled from a central board, with the...

an abolitionist and prominent in the "anti-Poor Law" resistance to the implementation of the "New Poor Law" of 1834. Most notably, as his sobriquet of...

Newport Poor Law Union was a health and social security organisation in Newport, Monmouthshire and surrounding parishes. It was formed on 1 August 1836...

1871, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board and then became Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. In 1873 to 1874, he was patronage...