1882 Liverpool School Board election

Elections to the Liverpool School Board were held on Friday 17 November 1882.

There were twenty-two candidates for the fifteen places on the school board.

Each voter had fifteen votes to cast.

After the election, the composition of the school board was:

AllegianceMembers  ±  Church of England 5 Catholic 4 Trademen 2 Nonconformist 2 Ratepayer 1 Temperance 1

* - Retiring board member seeking re-election

Elected AllegianceNameVotes Tradesmen H.S. Alpass Ratepayers' Association A. Beatty Catholic John Bligh Nonconformist Samuel Booth * Catholic Patrick Canavan Nonconformist Anne-Jane Davies Church of England H.B. Gilmoor Church of England J.R. Gaskell Church of England James Hakes * Catholic John Hand Church of England J.H. Honeyburn Tradesmen William Hood Temperance J.M. Howie Catholic William Madden Church of England Francis Mulliner * Not Elected Nonconformist William Oulton Tradesmen James Pratt Neutral R. G. Rathbone (Chair) Tradesmen John Robson Church of England Rev. Canon Rycroft Catholic Joseph Walton * Catholic Richard Yates Liverpool Daily Post November 1882

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