The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 was a member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 assigned to assist the Board of Trade

Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions...

 and its President with administration and liaison with Parliament. It replaced the Vice-President of the Board of Trade

Vice-President of the Board of Trade

The office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade was a junior ministerial position in the government of the United Kingdom. The office was created in 1786 and abolished in 1867. From 1848 onwards the office was held concurrently with that of Paymaster-General...

.

From September 1953, a more senior ministerial post, the Minister of State for Trade

Minister of State for Trade

The Minister of State for Trade is an executive position in the Government of the United Kingdom, in both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

 also existed. At times, the Parliamentary Secretary post was then filled by a member of the House of Lords.

On 20 October 1970, the Board of Trade was merged with the Ministry of Technology

Minister of Technology

The Minister of Technology was a position in the government of the United Kingdom, sometimes abbreviated as "MinTech". The Ministry of Technology was established by the incoming government of Harold Wilson in October 1964 as part of Wilson's ambition to modernise the state for what he perceived to...

 to create the modern Department of Trade and Industry. The role of Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade therefore ceased to have practical application beyond that date. The closest successor can be found in the role of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries

Parliamentary Secretary

A Parliamentary Secretary is a member of a Parliament in the Westminster system who assists a more senior minister with his or her duties.In the parliamentary systems of several Commonwealth countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, it is customary for the prime minister to...

 to the Department of Trade and Industry.

For more on the duties and appointment of the position, see Parliamentary Secretaries for an overview.

Past Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Trade

1868-1871 George Shaw-Lefevre

George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley

George John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley PC, DL was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster General and President of the Local Government Board.-Background and...

1871-1874 Arthur Wellesley Peel

Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel

Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel PC , was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1895...

1874-1875 George Cavendish-Bentinck

George Cavendish-Bentinck

George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck PC, JP , was a British barrister and Conservative politician. An MP from 1859 to 1891, he served under Benjamin Disraeli as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1874 to 1875 and as Judge Advocate General from 1875 to 1880.-Background and...

1875-1878 Edward Stanhope

Edward Stanhope

Edward Stanhope was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background and education:Born in London, Stanhope was the second son of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, by his wife Emily Harriet, daughter of General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet...

1878-1880 John Gilbert Talbot

John Gilbert Talbot

John Gilbert Talbot PC , was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background:Talbot was the son of the Honourable John Chetwynd-Talbot, fourth son of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot...

1880-1882 Evelyn Ashley

Evelyn Ashley

Evelyn Melbourne Ashley PC , was British barrister and Liberal politician. He was private secretary to Lord Palmerston and later published a biography of him...

1882-1885 John Holms

John Holms

John Holms JP, DL , was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician.-Background:Holms was the son of James Holms of Sancel Bank, Paisley, and his wife Janet Love, daughter of James Love, of Paisley. His brother William Holms was MP for Paisley.-Career:Holms was a partner in W. Holms Bros,...

1885-1888 Baron Henry de Worms

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS , known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

1888-1889 Earl of Onslow

William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow GCMG, PC was a British Conservative politician. He held several governmental positions between 1880 and 1905 and was also Governor of New Zealand between 1889 and 1892....

1889-1892 The Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh KT GCMG GCVO PC DL JP was a Scottish Unionist politician, banker and statesman, who took a leading part in the affairs of the Church of Scotland...

1892-1895 Thomas Burt

Thomas Burt

Thomas Burt PC was a British trade unionist and one of the first working-class Members of Parliament.-Career:...

1895-1902 The Earl of Dudley

William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley

William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ, PC, TD, DL , styled Viscount Ednam before 1885, was a British Conservative politician...

1902-1905 Andrew Bonar Law

1905-1909 Hudson Kearley

Hudson Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport

Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport, PC, DL was a British grocer and politician. He founded the International Tea Company's Stores, became the first chairman of the Port of London Authority, and served as Minister of Food Control during World War I.-Early life and business...

1909-1911 Harold Tennant

Harold Tennant

Harold John "Jack" Tennant PC was a Scottish Liberal politician. He served as Secretary for Scotland under his brother-in-law H. H...

1911-1915 John M. Robertson

1915-1916 E. G. Pretyman

1916-1917 George Henry Roberts

George Henry Roberts

George Henry Roberts PC was a Labour Party politician who switched parties twice.At the 1906 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Norwich...

1917-1919 George Wardle

George Wardle

George James Wardle OCH was a British politician. He was editor of the Railway Review and in 1906 was elected a Labour Member of Parliament for Stockport...

1919-1920 William Bridgeman

1920-1921 Philip Lloyd-Graeme

Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton GBE, CH, MC, PC , known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton from 1935 until 1955, was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s.-Background and early life:Born as Philip Lloyd-Graeme, he was the...

1921-1922 William Mitchell-Thomson

William Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon

William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon KBE PC , known as Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baronet, from 1918 to 1932, was a British politician....

1922-1924 Viscount Wolmer

Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne

Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, CH, PC was a British Conservative politician, known as Viscount Wolmer from 1895 to 1941....

1924-1924 A. V. Alexander

A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough

Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough KG, CH, PC was a British Labour Co-operative politician. He was three times First Lord of the Admiralty, including during the Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee.-Background:Born in Weston-super-Mare and...

1924-1928 Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick

Robert Burton-Chadwick

Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick, 1st Baronet was a shipping magnate and an English Conservative politician.Chadwick was born at Oxton, Cheshire, the son of Joseph Chadwick and Norah Irene Gibbs, being baptised with the name of Robert Chadwick...

1928-1929 Herbert Williams

1929-1931 Walter Robert Smith

Walter Robert Smith

Walter Robert Smith was a Labour Member of Parliament who represented Wellingborough and Norwich. He was an organiser with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives.- External links :...

1931-1931 Gwilym Lloyd George

Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby

Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....

1931-1932 Leslie Hore-Belisha

1931-1937 Leslie Burgin

Leslie Burgin

Edward Leslie Burgin was a British Liberal and later Liberal National politician in the 1930s.Burgin trained as a solicitor specialising in international law and served as principal and director of legal studies to the Law Society...

1937-1938 Euan Wallace

Euan Wallace

Captain David Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC was a British Conservative politician who briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II...

1938-1939 Ronald Cross

1939-1941 Gwilym Lloyd George

Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby

Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....

1941-1945 Charles Waterhouse

Charles Waterhouse (English politician)

Captain Charles Waterhouse PC MC was a British Conservative politician.-Biography:Born in Salford, the second surviving son of Thomas Crompton Waterhouse, of Lomberdale Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, he was educated at Cheltenham and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with an MA degree in...

1945-1946 Ellis Smith

Ellis Smith

Ellis Smith was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for Stoke and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1945 to 1946...

1946-1949 John Belcher

John Belcher (politician)

John William Belcher was a British Labour Party politician, the first to resign in disgrace over a political scandal.-Political career:...

1949-1950 John Edwards

1950-1951 Hervey Rhodes

Hervey Rhodes

Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, KG, DFC, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Rhodes was educated at St Mary's School, Greenfield, then at Huddersfield Technical College...

1951-1955 Henry Strauss

1955-1955 Donald Kaberry

Donald Kaberry

Donald Kaberry, Baron Kaberry of Adel, TD , known as Sir Donald Kaberry, 1st Baronet, from 1960 to 1983, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....

1955-1956 Derek Walker-Smith

Derek Walker-Smith

Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, Baron Broxbourne PC, TD, QC, Bt. , known as Sir Derek Walker-Smith, Bt., from 1960 to 1983, was a British Conservative Party politician....

1956-1958 Frederick Erroll

Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale

Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale TD PC was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

1958-1960 John Rodgers

1960-1962 Niall Macpherson

1962-1964 David Price

David Price (British politician)

Sir David Ernest Campbell Price is a British Conservative Party politician.Price was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge and Yale University. He was President of the Cambridge Union in 1948. He served with the Scots Guards during World War II, a staff officer in Trieste...

1964-1967 Lord Rhodes

1967-1967 Lord Walston

1967-1970 Gwyneth Dunwoody

Gwyneth Dunwoody

Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe from 1974 to her death in 2008...

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