The Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues were officials under the

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Crown, charged with the management of Crown lands. Their office were customarily known as the Office of Woods. Under the Act of Parliament 14 and 15 Vict Cap 42 they took over from the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings those functions which related to the revenue-earning parts of the Crown lands. In 1924 the royal forests including the New Forest and

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were transferred from the Office of Woods to the new

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, and the title of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues was changed to Commissioners of Crown Lands.

Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues

*1851 Hon. Charles Alexander Gore &

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*1851 Hon. Charles Alexander Gore & Hon. James Howard *1882 Hon. Charles Alexander Gore & Sir Henry Loch *1884 Hon. Charles Alexander Gore & George Culley *1885 Robert Kingscote & George Culley *1893 Robert Kingscote &

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*1895

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*1908

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*1912 Sir Stafford Howard retired and his duties were shared between the

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and G Leveson Gower until 1924.

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