Peter Board

Peter Board CMG (27 March 1858 – 12 February 1945) was an Australian educationist and public servant best known for his advocacy of education reform in New South Wales.

Board was born in Wingham, New South Wales, the son of a Scottish immigrant.

He studied teaching in Sydney and later became a school inspector in country New South Wales.

In 1905 he was appointed under-secretary and director of the Department of Public Instruction, a position he would hold until 1922.

[4] Board and his wife retired to Leura, New South Wales, in the early 1920s.