...Education Department was first constituted by an Order in Council, appointing a Committee of the Privy Council to " superintend the application of any sums...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education." But down to the year 1870, the part of the State in the work of education was confined to the distribution...

...the third of a series of consolidating measures. The first of these, in 1839, was the formation of a Committee of Council to "superintend the application...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education." A grant of £20,000 ($100,000) had been voted annually by Parliament since 1833 for purposes of education....

...Spring Rice, Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer, be, and they are hereby appointed, a Committee to superintend the application of any sums voted by...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education. (Signed) CC GREVILLE. (2) ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Court of Buckingham Palace, 3rd June, 1839. PRESENT,...

...thus expressed: That the Scheme proposed for the guidance of the Committee of Privy Council appointed to superintend the application of any sums voted by...Parliament for the purpose of promoting Public Education is on many accounts highly objectionable. That not only ought the basis of Education to be laid in...

...almost continuously discussed. The appointment in 1839 of a committee of the privy council on education to ' superintend the application of any sums voted...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education ' was an assumption of direct responsibility by the state which promised to have far-reaching consequences....

...almost continuously discussed. The appointment in 1839 of a committee of the privy council ou education to 'superintend the application of any sums voted...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education ' was an assumption of direct responsibility by the state which promised to have far-reaching consequences....

...almost continuously discussed. The appointment in 1839 of a committee of the privy council on education to "superintend the application of any sums voted...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education" was an assumption of direct responsibility by the state which promised to have far-reaching consequences....

...Privy Council on Education," consisting of four Ministers of the Crown, whose function it should be "to superintend the application of any sums voted...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education. ' ' The policy of the Government in creating this Committee was briefly outlined in a letter written...

...Education Created. — At this juncture there 'was created a Committee of the Privy Council on Education "to superintend the application of any sums voted...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education." The creation of the Committee of Council on Education was a political move to enable the Government...

...building of schools. These grants were administered by the Treasury. An Order in Council appointed a Committee of Council " to superintend the application...Parliament for the purpose of promoting public education." Mr. Kay Shuttleworth (1839), "to whom more than to any other man we owe National Education," became...