WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, BOARD OF

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WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, BOARD OF , an administrative department in

England

ENGLAND
ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

. In 1832 the public works and buildings of

Great

GREAT

Britain were for the first time placed under the

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a
counter
- COUNTER
roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

of a responsible minister of the crown, and were assigned to the commissioners of

woods

WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

and forests. In. 1851 the .department of public works was erected into a board under the name of

Office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

of Works and Public Buildings. The first

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

of works is the head of the board, and has the custody of the royal palaces and parks and of all public buildings not specially assigned to other departments; he is a member of the government and frequently has a seat in the cabinet.

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