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 incomplete?
