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The Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues were officials under the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
Crown, charged with the management of Crown lands. Their office were customarily known as the Office of Woods. Under the Crown Lands Act 1851 ( 14 & 15 Vict. c. 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 forest A royal forest, occasionally known as a kingswood (), is an area of land with different definitions in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The term ''forest'' in the ordinary modern understanding refers to an area of wooded land; however, the ...
s including the
New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featu ...
and
Forest of Dean The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the Counties of England, county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangle, triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and no ...
were transferred from the Office of Woods to the new
Forestry Commission The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England. The Forestry Commission was previously also respons ...
, 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 & Thomas Francis Kennedy *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 & Stafford Howard *1895 John Francis Fortescue Horner & Stafford Howard *1908 George Leveson-Gower & Stafford Howard *1912 Sir Stafford Howard retired and his duties were shared between the
President of the Board of Agriculture The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a United Kingdom cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The post was originally named ...
and G Leveson Gower until 1924.


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