Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston PC FRCP was a British physician and politician.
Walter Foster
"The Ilkeston Division" Foster as caricatured by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1894
Queen's College, Birmingham, a predecessor college of Birmingham University
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
Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston
…year suggested a retirement from politics, but Foster returned to Westminster in 1887, elected for Ilkeston after a by-election. In 1892, he was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, becoming the first doctor to hold a ministerial post in Britain. He organised the sanitation campaign between 1892 and 1895, which successfully prevented…
Jesse Collings, who served briefly as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in 1886.