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