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
Jesse Collings, who served briefly as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in 1886.
Jesse Collings was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.
A caricature of Jesse Collings in Vanity Fair, 1888. The caption was "3 acres and a cow".