Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
6 - The London School Board, 1897–1900
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
The Progressive majority of the new School Board for London has a great opportunity before it', commented the Schoolmaster at the beginning of December 1897:
… an opportunity for quiet useful work of genuine educational value and of far-reaching consequences … If it desires a short life and a merry one its members will rush ahead at breakneck pace … if it desires three years hence to receive back from a grateful community the charge with which it is now entrusted … it will move forward steadily and with prudence … and it will be exceedingly chary of adding fresh burdens to those already upon the ratepayers' shoulders.
This was good advice. Few members of the new majority party were, however, disposed to take it. The new Chairman, drawn (as was now customary) from non-members, was the Progressives' candidate, Lord Reay. A descendant of the Mackays who had taken up residence in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, he had abandoned his career as a diplomat and politician there on the death of his father (a former Prime Minister) in 1875 and entered British public life. Created a peer of the United Kingdom in 1881, he had been Governor of Bombay between 1885 and 1890. Keenly interested in education, he was to use the occasion of his annual report as an opportunity not only to appraise the achievements of the Board, but also to reprove the Government for its obstruction and hostility. The Vice-Chairman, the Hon.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Dr Macnamara 1861-1931 , pp. 122 - 143Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999