President of the Local Government Board explained

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.^[1]

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)

Portrait		Name Honorifics & Constituency	Term of office		Political party	Government	Ref
		The Right Honourable James Stansfeld MP for Halifax	August 1871	March 1874		Liberal		Gladstone I	^[2]
		The Right Honourable George Sclater-Booth 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 MP for Chelsea	1882	1885		Liberal
		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
		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 (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
		The Right Honourable John Burns MP for Battersea	11 December 1905	1914	Liberal (Lib-Lab)		Campbell-Bannerman
						Asquith
		The Right Honourable Herbert Samuel MP for Cleveland	1914	1915			Liberal
		The Right Honourable Walter Long MP for Strand	1915	1916		Conservative		Asquith Coalition (Lib.–Cons.–Lab.)
		The Right Honourable The Lord Rhondda	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
		The Right Honourable Auckland Geddes MP for Basingstoke	1918	1919		Conservative
		The Right Honourable Christopher Addison MP for Shoreditch	1919	1919		Liberal (Coalition)

References

1. Web site: Untitled Document . 2005-12-29 . 2006-05-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060517031344/http://www.dur.ac.uk/alan.heesom/localgovernmentseminar.htm . dead .
2. Web site: President of the Board of Local Government . . 8 August 2017.