First Commissioner of Works
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, 9th Earl of Elgin 1886
- David Robert Plunket 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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