The committees were established by H. A. L. Fisher in 1919 when he was President of the Board of Education.
[1] The committees were abolished by the Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1987.
[2] The archives of official papers of the Burnham Committees and their Teachers' Panels are held at Warwick University library.
[3] The papers of Brian Rusbridge, who was Secretary to the Burnham and Allied Committees, are held in the Institute of Education Archives at University College London.
[4] The committees came to be known informally as "Burnham Committees" after their first chairman, Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham, and were officially renamed as such after his death in 1933.