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The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education was a junior ministerial office in the United Kingdom Government. The Board of Education Act 1899 abolished the Committee of the Privy Council which had been responsible for education matters and instituted a new Board of Education from 1 April 1900. The Board was headed by a President. From the appointment of the Marquess of Londonderry as President in the Balfour government in August 1902 the post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Board was established.

Under the provisions of the Education Act 1944, which was promoted by James Chuter Ede as Parliamentary Secretary (with Rab Butler as President) during the Churchill war ministry, the Board was in turn replaced by the Ministry of Education in August 1944. The post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Board was accordingly replaced by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education. Chuter Ede remained in that position until the War coalition was dissolved in May 1945.^[1]

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Education, 1902-1944

Name	Entered office	Left office
Sir William Anson, Bt	11 August 1902	1905
Thomas Lough	1905	1908
Thomas McKinnon Wood	1908	1908
Charles Trevelyan	1908	1914
Christopher Addison	1914	1915
Herbert Lewis	1915	1923
Lord Eustace Percy	1923	1923
The Earl of Onslow	1923	1924
Morgan Jones	1924	1924
The Duchess of Atholl	1924	1929
Morgan Jones	1929	1931
Sir Kingsley Wood	1931	1931
Herwald Ramsbotham	1931	1935
The Earl De La Warr	1935	1936
Geoffrey Shakespeare	1936	1937
Kenneth Lindsay	1937	1940
James Chuter Ede	1940	3 August 1944