Clare Sewell Read
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Clare Sewell Read was a British agriculturist and Conservative politician.
"A tenant Farmer" As depicted by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, 5 June 1875
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board was, from 1871 – 1919, a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom subordinate to the President of the Local Government Board. The Local G
Clare Sewell Read
…agricultural interests, and sought the abolition of the malt tax. In 1874 he was appointed to a junior ministerial post in the Second Disraeli ministry as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. He resigned in January 1876 in protest against the government's policy on controlling the spread of foot and mouth disease, when the government failed…
Jesse Collings, who served briefly as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in 1886.