First Commissioner of Works

Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party 	Notes
Lord Seymour 	1 August 1851 	21 February 1852	Whig 	
Lord John Manners 	4 March 1852 	17 December 1852	Conservative 	
Sir William Molesworth 	5 January 1853 	21 July 1855 	Whig 	
Sir Benjamin Hall 	21 July 1855 	26 February 1858	Whig 	
Lord John Manners 	26 February 1858	11 June 1859 	Conservative 	
Henry Fitzroy 	18 June 1859 	22 December 1859	Liberal 	
William Cowper 	9 February 1860 	26 June 1866 	Liberal 	
Lord John Manners 	6 July 1866 	1 December 1868 	Conservative 	
Austen Layard 	9 December 1868 	26 October 1869 	Liberal 	
Acton Ayrton 	26 October 1869 	11 August 1873 	Liberal 	
William Adam 	11 August 1873 	17 February 1874	Liberal 	
Lord Henry Lennox 	21 March 1874 	14 August 1876 	Conservative 	
Gerard Noel 	14 August 1876 	21 April1 880 	Conservative 	
William Adam 	3 May 1880 	29 November 1881	Liberal 	
George Shaw-Lefevre 	29 November 1881	13 February 1885	Liberal 	
The Earl of Rosebery 	13 February 1885	9 June 1885 	Liberal 	
David Plunket 	24 June 1885 	28 January 1886 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Morley 	17 February 1886	16 April 1886 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Elgin 	16 April 1886 	20 July 1886 	Liberal 	
David Plunket 	5 August 1886 	11 August 1892 	Conservative 	
George Shaw-Lefevre 	18 August 1892 	10 March 1894 	Liberal 	
Herbert Gladstone 	10 March 1894 	21 June 1895 	Liberal 	
Aretas Akers-Douglas 	21 June 1895 	8 August 1902 	Conservative 	
The Lord Windsor 	8 August 1902 	4 December 1905 	Conservative 	
Lewis Harcourt 	10 December 1905	3 November 1910 	Liberal 	
The Earl Beauchamp 	3 November 1910 	6 August 1914 	Liberal 	
The Lord Emmott 	6 August 1914 	25 May 1915 	Liberal 	
Lewis Harcourt 	25 May 1915 	10 December 1916	Liberal 	
Sir Alfred Mond 	10 December 1916	1 April 1921 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Crawford 	1 April 1921 	19 October 1922 	Unionist 	
Sir John Baird 	31 October 1922 	22 January 1924 	Conservative 	
Frederick Jowett 	22 January 1924 	3 November 1924 	Labour 	
The Viscount Peel 	10 November 1924	18 October 1928 	Conservative 	
The Marquess of Londonderry	18 October 1928 	4 June 1929 	Conservative 	
George Lansbury 	7 June 1929 	24 August 1931 	Labour 	
The Marquess of Londonderry	25 August 1931 	5 November 1931 	Conservative 	
William Ormsby-Gore 	5 November 1931 	16 June 1936 	Conservative 	
The Earl Stanhope 	16 June 1936 	27 May 1937 	Conservative 	
Philip Sassoon 	27 May 1937 	7 June 1939 	Conservative 	
Herwald Ramsbotham 	7 June 1939 	3 April 1940 	Conservative 	
The Earl De La Warr 	3 April 1940 	18 May 1940 	National Labour	
The Lord Tryon 	18 May 1940 	3 October 1940 	Conservative 	
The Lord Reith 	3 October 1940 	11 February 1942	Non-party 	
Succeeded by the Minister of Works and Planning.