- Commissioners of Woods and Forests
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The Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues were established in the United Kingdom in 1810 by merging the former offices of Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases and Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown into a three-man commission. The name of the commission was changed in 1832 to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings. In 1851 under the Acts of Parliament 14 and 15 Vict Cap 42 it was replaced by the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings and the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues dividing between them the public and the commercial functions of the Crown lands.
The hereditary land revenues of the Crown in Scotland, formerly under the management of the Barons of the Exchequer, were transferred to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings and their Successors under the Crown Lands (Scotland) Acts of 1832, 1833 and 1835.
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 1810-1851
First Commissioners are followed by the names of their co-commissioners
Name Entered office Left office The Lord Glenbervie
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1810 1814 William Huskisson
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1814 1823 Charles Arbuthnot
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1823 1827 The Earl of Carlisle
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1827 1827 William Sturges Bourne
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1827 1828 Charles Arbuthnot
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1828 1828 Viscount Lowther
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1828 1830 Hon. George Agar-Ellis
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins1830 1831 Viscount Duncannon
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson (replaced Dawkins)1831 1834 Sir John Hobhouse, Bt
- William Dacres Adams
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson1834 1834 Lord Granville Somerset
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson
- Alexander Milne
- Charles Henry Somerset1834 1835 Viscount Duncannon
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson
- Alexander Milne1835 1841 The Earl of Lincoln
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore1841 1846 The Viscount Canning
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore1846 1846 Viscount Morpeth
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore1846 1850 Lord Seymour
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore
- Thomas Francis Kennedy (replaced Milne)1850 1851 References
- R. B. Pugh, The Crown Estate – an Historical Essay, London, The Crown Estate, 1960
- Annual Report of Commissioners of Woods & Forests 1811
- The Crown Estate publication scheme: website consulted January 2007
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