Commissioners of Woods and Forests


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. The Crown Lands Act 1851 replaced the Commissioners with two separate commissions, 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 Acts of 1832, 1833 and 1835.

Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 1810-1851

First Commissioners are followed by the names of their co-commissioners
NameEntered officeLeft office
The Lord Glenbervie
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18101814
William Huskisson
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18141823
Charles Arbuthnot
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18231827
The Earl of Carlisle
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18271827
William Sturges Bourne
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18271828
Charles Arbuthnot
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18281828
Viscount Lowther
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18281830
Hon. George Agar-Ellis
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
18301831
Viscount Duncannon
- William Dacres Adams
- Henry Dawkins
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson
18311834
Sir John Hobhouse, Bt
- William Dacres Adams
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson
18341834
Lord Granville Somerset
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson
- Alexander Milne
- Charles Henry Somerset
18341835
Viscount Duncannon
- Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson
- Alexander Milne
18351841
The Earl of Lincoln
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore
18411846
The Viscount Canning
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore
18461846
Viscount Morpeth
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore
18461850
Lord Seymour
- Alexander Milne
- Hon. Charles Alexander Gore
- Thomas Francis Kennedy
18501851