First Commissioner of Works - First Commissioners of Works, 1851-1940

First Commissioners of Works, 1851-1940

Name Entered office Left office
Lord Seymour 1 August 1851 21 February 1852
Lord John Manners 4 March 1852 17 December 1852
Sir William Molesworth, Bt 5 January 1853 21 July 1855
Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt 21 July 1855 21 February 1858
Lord John Manners 26 February 1858 11 June 1859
Henry FitzRoy 18 June 1859 9 February 1860
Hon. William Cowper 9 February 1860 26 June 1866
Lord John Manners 6 July 1866 1 December 1868
Austen Henry Layard 9 December 1868 26 October 1869
Acton Smee Ayrton 26 October 1869 11 August 1873
William Patrick Adam 11 August 1873 17 February 1874
Lord Henry Lennox 21 March 1874 14 August 1876
Gerard Noel 14 August 1876 21 April 1880
William Patrick Adam 3 May 1880 1880
George Shaw-Lefevre 29 November 1881 13 February 1885
The Earl of Rosebery 13 February 1885 9 June 1885
Hon. David Plunket 24 June 1885 28 January 1886
The Earl of Morley 17 February 1886 16 April 1886
The Earl of Elgin 16 April 1886 20 July 1886
Hon. David Plunket 5 August 1886 11 August 1892
George Shaw-Lefevre 18 August 1892 18 August 1892
Herbert Gladstone 10 March 1894 21 June 1895
Aretas Akers-Douglas 4 July 1895 8 August 1902
The Lord Windsor 8 August 1902 4 December 1905
Lewis Vernon Harcourt 10 December 1905 3 November 1910
The Earl Beauchamp 3 November 1910 6 August 1914
The Lord Emmott 6 August 1914 25 May 1915
Lewis Vernon Harcourt 25 May 1915 10 December 1916
Sir Alfred Mond, Bt 10 December 1916 1 April 1921
The Earl of Crawford 1 April 1921 19 October 1922
Sir John Baird, Bt 31 October 1922 22 January 1924
Fred Jowett 22 January 1924 3 November 1924
The Viscount Peel 10 November 1924 18 October 1928
The Marquess of Londonderry 18 October 1928 4 June 1929
George Lansbury 7 June 1929 24 August 1931
The Marquess of Londonderry 25 August 1931 5 November 1931
Hon. William Ormsby-Gore 5 November 1931 16 June 1936
The Earl Stanhope 16 June 1936 27 May 1937
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt 27 May 1937 7 June 1939
Herwald Ramsbotham 7 June 1939 3 April 1940
The Earl De La Warr 3 April 1940 18 May 1940
The Lord Tryon 18 May 1940 3 October 1940

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