Wikipedia: First Commissioner of Works

First Commissioner of Works
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The First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings replaced the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests in 1851. The position was frequently of cabinet level and has since been abolished

First Commissioners of Works, 1851-1937

Edward Adolphus Seymour, Lord Seymour 1851-1852

Lord John Manners 1852
Sir William Molesworth 1853-1855
Sir Benjamin Hall 1855-1858
Lord John Manners 1858-1859
Henry Fitzroy 1859-1860
Francis William Cowper 1860-1866
Lord John Manners 1866-1868
Austen Henry Layard 1868-1869
Acton Smee Ayrton 1869-1873
William Patrick Adam 1873-1874
Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox 1874-1876
Gerard James Noel 1876-1880
William Patrick Adam 1880
George John Shaw Lefevre 1880-1885
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1885
David Robert Plunket 1885-1886
Albert Edmund Morley 1886
Victor Alexander Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin 1886
David Robert Plunkett 1886-1892
George John Shaw Lefevre 1892-1894
? 1894-1895
Aretas Akers-Douglas 1895-1902
Robert Clive-Windsor, 7th Baron Windsor 1902-1905
Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1905-1910
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp 1910-1914
Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott 1914-1915
Lewis Vernon Harcourt 1915-1916
? 1916-1921
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford 1921-1924(?)
Frederick William Jowet 1924
William Wellesley Peel, Viscount Peel 1924-1928
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry 1928-1929
George Lansbury 1929-1931
? 1931
William Ormsby Gore 1931-1936
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope 1936-1937
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