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
4 - The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 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
In July 1895 Macnamara was not quite thirty-four years old. The next general election would take place, at the latest, in seven years' time. In the meantime his responsibilities were heavy. First there were his editorial duties on the Schoolmaster and its associated papers. Since April he had been Vice-President of the Union. Also, since the previous November, he had been a member of the London School Board.
The idea of establishing the London School Board had emerged almost accidentally during the debates over the 1870 Education Act. Forster had intended to make metropolitan education the responsibility of the City Corporation, the Boards of Guardians, the vestries and the district Boards of Works. On 4 July 1870, however, William McC Torrens, the member for Finsbury, successfully introduced an amendment in favour of an elected Board for the whole of the Metropolis. Section 37 of the Act provided for the immediate establishment of the Board and the first of the elections which were to be conducted triennially under the cumulative vote (whereby each ratepayer elector, male and female, had as many votes as there were seats in the division) took place on 29 November 1870. Forty-nine members, male and female, were elected representing ten divisions: the City, Chelsea, Finsbury, Greenwich, Hackney, Lambeth, Marylebone, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Westminster. The first meeting took place in the Guildhall on 15 December. From 1871 until 1874 the Board continued to meet there; then, in October of that year, it took possession of the building designed for it on the Victoria Embankment.
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- Dr Macnamara 1861-1931 , pp. 58 - 91Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999