List of members of the London School Board
This is a list of members of the London School Board . The board existed from 1870 to 1904 when the London County Council replaced it as the local education authority for the County of London .
Divisions 1870–1885
The London School Board was created by the Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75). The act provided that the "Metropolis" (that is the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works ) should be divided into ten named divisions for the elections of members to the board. The exact boundaries and numbers of members for each division were fixed by order of Education Department and approved by the Privy Council on 7 October 1870 as follows:[ 1]
Division
Contents
Number of members
City
Four
Chelsea
Four
Finsbury
The parliamentary borough of Finsbury less the detached portion of Clerkenwell (The parishes of Charterhouse , Clerkenwell , Glasshouse Yard , Gray's Inn , Islington , Liberty of the Rolls , Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place , Lincoln's Inn , St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr , St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury , St Luke , St Sepulchre and Stoke Newington ).[ 2]
Furnival's Inn and Staple Inn (including the parts in the City of London ).
Six
Greenwich
Four
Hackney
Five
Lambeth
Five
Marylebone
Seven
Southwark
Four
Tower Hamlets
The parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets (The parishes of Bow , Bromley , Holy Trinity Minories , Limehouse , Mile End New Town , Mile End Old Town , Norton Folgate , Old Artillery Ground , Poplar , Ratcliffe , St Botolph Without Aldgate , St George in the East , St Katherine by the Tower , Spitalfields , Tower of London , Old Tower Without , Wapping and Whitechapel ).[ 2]
Five
Westminster
The parliamentary borough of Westminster (The parishes of Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter , Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster , St Anne within the Liberty of Westminster , St Clement Danes , St George Hanover Square , St Martin in the Fields , St Mary le Strand , St Paul Covent Garden , Precinct of the Savoy , Westminster St James , Westminster St John the Evangelist and Westminster St Margaret ).[ 2]
Five
Members 1870–1876
Members 1876–1885
Under the terms of section 44 of the Elementary Education Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 70) casual vacancies occurring in the membership of school boards due to death or resignation were no longer filled by-elections but by co-option.[ 20]
Divisions 1885–1904
For the elections of 1885 the existing Lambeth Division was divided into two:
Lambeth, East (4 seats): the parishes of Camberwell and Newington , London, and corresponding to the parliamentary constituencies of Camberwell North , Camberwell Dulwich , Camberwell, Peckham , Newington, Walworth , Newington West .[ 36]
Lambeth, West (6 seats): the parish of Lambeth and the Wandsworth District (Battersea , Clapham , Putney , Streatham , Tooting Graveney and Wandsworth .)[ 36]
The numbers of elected members increased to fifty-five.[ 36]
Members 1885–1897
Members 1897–1904
† Elected to the London County Council on 5 March 1904.
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^ a b c d There were two individuals named William Pearce, father and son, on the London School Board. The father represented Tower Hamlets from 1870 to 1873. He was a manufacturing chemist of East India Road, Snaresbrook and Bow Common, and died on 18 June 1891[ 16] The son, born in 1853, also represented Tower Hamlets from 1876 to 1885. He was later a member of the London County Council and a member of parliament and was knighted in 1915.[ 17]