Office of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty Charles Ross
Formation 1830–1964
The Civil Lord of the Admiralty [1] Office of the Civil Lord of Admiralty also referred to as the Department of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty was a member of the Board of Admiralty who was responsible for managing the Royal Navy's supporting civilian staff, the works and buildings departments and naval lands from 1830 to 1964.
History From 1709 the board of admiralty usually had a minimum of two Civil Lord Commissioners, however, there was not a settled arrangement for the distribution of duties amongst the members of the Board. In 1805 the First Lord of the Admiralty Charles Middleton, the Lord Barham , began a period of reform of the commissioners responsibilities during his tenure.[2]
In 1830 when Sir James Graham was appointed First Lord he also underwent further re-organising of the board following the abolition of the Navy Board each of the members were given particular responsibility for different areas of naval administration from this year it was fixed in principle that, other than the First Lord, there should be four Naval Lords; and one Civil Lord who was added in 1832. This arrangement was subject to minor variations. In 1834-5 there were three Naval and two Civil Lords.[3]
Between 1830 and 1868 he had main responsibility for Naval Finance, this however changed when
Parliamentary Secretary was re-designated the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary.
[4] In January 1869 the civil lord through an order in Order in Council
[5] was designated an assistant to the First Lord of the Admiralty. These orders usually had a much wider remit in that they outlined the general regulations of governance of the Naval Service.
In March 1872 another order in council .
Responsibilities The Civil Lord assisted the First Lord in political and parliamentary duties, between 1830 and 1964 his remit changed from time to time but generally included the following responsibilities:[7] [8]
Deal with all special questions relating to the retirements, pay, and allowances of naval and marine officers and men.
Direct Civil Engineering Works.
Manage all Admiralty buildings including repairs and the construction as well as the storing of building materials that were within the Works Department.
Manage business within the Greenwich Hospital Department.
Manage compassionate allowances, the admiralty charitable fund, the allowances to ministers of religion, the various Dockyard and Marine Schools.
Manage leasing arrangements in regards to coastguard stations.
Superintendence of all Admiralty works and labour services.
Superintend all civilian staff at naval establishments, including: classifications, appointments, promotions, pay, allowances, and pensions, excluding appointments and promotions in London, and of professional officers of the Controller's Department of Dockyards.
Superintends the Contracts Department.
Superintends the Department of the Accountant General of the Navy. (in 1932 this department is abolished its financial functions were merged within the Department of the Permanent Secretary . Civil Lords of the Admiralty Included:[9] [10]
Mr. Charles Ross
MP, July 1830 – May 1832
Henry Labouchere, the Lord Taunton , June 1832 – December 1834Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Lord Ashley , December 1834 – March 1834 (held jointly with Maurice Fitzgerald) Sir Maurice FitzGerald , December 1834 – March 1835 (held jointly with Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley)
Archibald Primrose, the Lord Dalmeny , 1835 – July 1841Mr. Henry Lowry-Corry , 1841–1845
Mr. Henry FitzRoy , 1845–1846
Mr. William Fraser Cowper , 1846–1854
Sir Robert Peel , 1855–1857
Mr. Thomas George Baring
, 1857–1858
Algernon Percy, the Lord Lovaine , 1858–1859Rt Hon: Frederick Lygon , March–April 1859
Mr. Samuel Whitbread , June 1859 – March 1863
Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire , March–April 1863Mr. James Stansfeld , May 1863 – April 1864
Mr. Hugh Childers , 1864–1865
Mr. Henry Fenwick , January–April 1866
Captain John Hay , April–May 1866
Lord George Shaw-Lefevre
, May–July 1866
Sir Charles du Cane
, 1866–1867
Frederick, the Lord Stanley of Preston , 1868Sir George Otto Trevelyan , 1868–1870
Robert Haldane-Duncan, Earl of Camperdown , 1870–1874Sir Massey Lopes , 1874–1880
Mr. William Caine, 1884–1885
Mr. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett , 1885–1885
Mr. Robert Abercromby, 1886–1886
Mr. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett , 1886–1892
Mr. Edmund Robertson , 1892–1895
Mr. Austen Chamberlain , 1895–1900
Colonel Arthur Lee , 1903–1905
Mr. George Lambert , 1905–1915
Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell
, 1921–1922
Mr. Frank Hodges, 1924–1924
Rt Hon George Hall , 1929–1931
Mr. Kenneth Lindsay , 1935–1937
Mr. John Llewellin, 1937–1939
Sir Austin Hudson , 1939–1942
Mr. Stoker Edwards , 1945–1951
Mr. Simon Wingfield-Digby 1951-1957
Hon. Thomas Galbraith, 1957–1959
Mr. Ian Orr-Ewing , 1959–1963
Mr. John Hay , 1963–1964 Departments under the civil lord Included:
References
. ^ Sainty, J. C. "Lord High Admiral and Commissioners of the Admiralty 1660–1870, British History Online" . www.british-history.ac.uk . University of London, London, 1975, pp. 18–31. Retrieved 7 March 2017 . ^ Sainty, J. C. "Lord High Admiral and Commissioners of the Admiralty 1660–1870, British History Online" . www.british-history.ac.uk . University of London, London, 1975, pp. 18–31. Retrieved 7 March 2017 . . ^ The Orders in Council for the Regulation of the Naval Service . H.M. Stationery Office. 1873. pp. 254–256.^ Archives, The National. "Admiralty October–December:"Distribution of Business." . discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . National Archives, 1872, ADM 1/6313. Retrieved 5 March 2017 . ^ Archives, The National. "Admiralty October–December:"Distribution of Business." . discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk . National Archives, 1874, ADM 1/6313. Retrieved 5 March 2017 . ^ "Greene, Sir William Graham (Secretary of the Admiralty), orders and circulars on changes in administration in the Admiralty, 1884–1917" . collections.rmg.co.uk . National Maritime Museum, GEE/2.^ "Civil Lord of Admiralty" . Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . Retrieved 5 March 2017 .^ Davis, Peter. "Commissioners of the Admiralty 1828 – 1899" . pdavis.nl . Peter Davis, 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2017 .
Attribution Primary source for this article is by Harley Simon, Lovell Tony, (2016), Civil Lord of the Admiralty, dreadnoughtproject.org, http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org .
Sources Admiralty. Return "of the Distribution of Business under the Lords of the Admiralty under the Old and New Arrangement for conducting the business of the Department." H.C. 84, 1869. Copy in Greene Papers. National Maritime Museum. GEE/2.
Hansard (1803–2005), Offices, Civil Lord of Admiralty, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/offices/civil-lord-of-admiralty .
The Orders in Council for the Regulation of the Naval Service. Vol. III. London: For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1873. External links
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