Technical Education Board organization

“It called for the creation of a Technical Education Board, upon which only twenty places would be reserved for councillors while fifteen went to outside interests.…”

“Quintin Hogg, Sidney's rival of a year earlier, proposed that Webb be elected chairman and this was carried unanimously.…”

“He served in this capacity until 1898 and during the first two years of the board's life he also belonged to seven of its key sub-committees.…”

“Llewellyn Smith's services were retained by inducing the council to nominate him a member of board.…”

“Beatrice's old friend and collaborator Ella Pycroft was placed in change of the domestic economy classes for girls...…”

“It survived until March 1904 when the Education Committee under the London Education Act of 1903 superseded the board.…”

“with the foundation of the London School of Economics, the board was at hand to give its aid.…”

“Battersea Polytechnic was to get a grant in exchange for establishing a college for the teachers with a view to a continuous extension of the movement.…”

“Four years later he was boasting that London's capacity-catching machine was 'the greatest the world had ever seen'.…”

“It was not until Sidney and Beatrice had left the country that his successor as chairman of the TEB, a moderate, applied under the revised education code to be recognised as the sole recipient in London of grants from the Science and Art De…”