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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
    52 KB (7,396 words) - 19:08, 8 August 2024
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    (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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    4 April 2018. "Records of the Poor Law Commission, Poor Law Board and Poor Law Department of the Local Government Board". National Archives. Retrieved...
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    Admiralty. James Stansfeld succeeds Goschen at the Poor Law Board (which becomes the Local Government Board later that year). August 1872: Hugh Childers returns...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Trollope, 1st Baron Kesteven (1800–1874), President of the English Poor Law Board John Trollope (footballer) (born 1944), English association football...
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    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...
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