The First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings was a position within the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and subsequent...

Parliament which led to the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works. He became First Commissioner of Works the same year and was responsible for...

for Rossendale, Lancashire, from 1904 to 1916 and served as First Commissioner of Works in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's 1905 ministry (appointed to Cabinet...

Earl of Beaconsfield) in 1880 and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year. In 1885 he became First Commissioner of Works in Lord Salisbury's first ministry...

1868 under William Ewart Gladstone, Layard was made First Commissioner of Works and sworn of the Privy Council. Layard resigned from office in 1869, on...

Fred Jowett and John Wheatley became, respectively, First Commissioner of Works and Minister of Health. The Cabinet was characterised by a moderate trade...

appointed Minister of Transport and First Commissioner of Works. In 1925, Baird was appointed Governor-General of Australia on the advice of Stanley Bruce...

government of 1924, although he served as First Commissioner of Works in the Labour government of 1929–31. After the political and economic crisis of August...

three short administrations of Lord Derby (1852, 1858–59, and 1866–68) he sat in the cabinet as First Commissioner of Works. In 1852 he was admitted to...

Prime Minister in May 1937. In June 1939 he was appointed First Commissioner of Works and sworn of the Privy Council. Ramsbotham entered the Cabinet (but...