- Source: Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases
The post of Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks and Chases was an office under the English (later the United Kingdom) Crown, charged with the management of Crown lands. The office was at one time divided between surveyors south and north of the River Trent, but in the 18th century, the two posts were combined. In 1810, by the Crown Lands Act 1810 (50 Geo. 3. c. 65), later amended by the Crown Lands Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 50), the functions of the post were merged with those of the Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown and became the responsibility of a new body, the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues.
Surveyors General of Woods, Forests, Parks and Chases
1607 (or 1608) John Taverner
1608 Thomas Morgan
1608 Thomas Morgan & Robert Tresswell (jointly)
16— Robert Tresswell
16— Andrew Tresswell
1667 — Tresswell
1667 Thomas Agar & John Madden (jointly)
1680 Thomas Agar & Charles Strode (jointly)
1688 Philip Riley
1701 Thomas Hewett
1702 Edward Wilcox
1714 Thomas Hewett
1716 Edward Younge
1720 Charles Withers
1736 Francis Whitworth
1742 Henry Legge
1745 John Phillipson
1756 John Pitt
1763 Sir Edmond Thomas
1767 John Pitt
1786 John Robinson
1803 Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie
1806 Lord Robert Spencer
1807 Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie
References
R.B. Pugh: The Crown Estate – an Historical Essay, London, The Crown Estate, 1960
Annual Report of Commissioners of Woods & Forests 1811
The Crown Estate publication scheme: website consulted January 2007