The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government...
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included the Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. Before the establishment of a standing army or navy, the Ordnance Office...
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Royal Army Service Corps (category Ordnance (stores) units and formations)
Department of the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, who took over as Controller-in-Chief. The Department of the Surveyor General of the Ordnance retained the Control...
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Charles Richard Fox (category British Army generals)
Member of Parliament for the east London constituency of Tower Hamlets in 1841 and served until 1847. Fox was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1841...
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Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote (redirect from Baron Northcote of Exeter)
elected to the House of Commons in 1880, and served as Financial Secretary to the War Office (1885–86) and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance (1886–88) during...
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The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions...
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Rufane Shaw Donkin (category British Army lieutenant generals)
1837 he sat in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in 1835 became Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. He was elected...
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Lieutenant-General) of the Ordnance (deputy to the Master and second-in-command of the corps) And four heads of department: Surveyor (later Surveyor-General) of...
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Jonas Moore (category English surveyors)
mathematician, surveyor, ordnance officer, and patron of astronomy. He took part in two of the most ambitious English civil engineering projects of the 17th century:...
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Adye (1819—1900), Surveyor-General of the Ordnance Brigadier Monowar Khan Afridi (1900—1968), Indian Medical Service Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Agnew...
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Shepherdess Alexander Ross (British Army officer) (1742–1827), Surveyor-General of the Ordnance Alexander Ross (fur trader) (1783–1856), Canadian fur trader...
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Thomas Lascelles (engineer) (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
Royal Engineer and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1742 to 1750. He died in November 1751. The Lascelles were part of a network of mercantile interests...
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Jonathan Peel (category British Army lieutenant generals)
brother as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1841 to 1846 and was Secretary of State for War (with a seat in the cabinet) under the Earl of Derby between...
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Tory politician. A General in the British Army, he served as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under Lord Liverpool (1820–27) and, after succeeding a cousin...
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Herbert Taylor (British Army officer) (redirect from Herbert Taylor (Major General))
Major-General in 1813, and a Lieutenant-General in 1825. He was Master of St Katherine's Hospital, Regent's Park, and Master Surveyor and Surveyor-General of...
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Robert Cavendish Spencer (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
on 4 November 1830; he had just been recalled to the United Kingdom as surveyor-general of the ordnance. He was unmarried. He was buried in Malta. A memorial...
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John Armstrong (British Army officer) (redirect from John Armstrong (surveyor))
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance; on his recommendation, the Ordnance Service was divided in 1716 into artillery and sappers or engineers, later the Royal...
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George Berkeley (British Army officer) (redirect from George Berkeley (general))
Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1848 and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1852. He was given the colonelcy of the 81st Regiment of Foot in 1844...
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the general election and to be elected. Chichester was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under the Duke of Richmond as Master-General of the...
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Alexander Ross (British Army officer) (category Scottish generals)
nominated Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in succession to George Cranfield Berkeley. Ross was promoted lieutenant-general on 29 April 1802 and general on 1...
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The Ministry of All the Talents was a national unity government in the United Kingdom formed by William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, on his appointment...
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Lord Eustace Cecil (category British Army personnel of the Crimean War)
from the army in 1863. In 1874, Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin D'Israeli appointed Cecil to be the second Surveyor General of the Ordnance, the Secretary...
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Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 1742–1750 Thomas Lascelles (died 1697), English Member of Parliament Thomas Lascelles (1624–1658), officer in the Commonwealth’s...
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Charles Ligar (category Surveyors General of Victoria)
(1811–1881) was an Ordnance Survey surveyor, Surveyor General of New Zealand and Surveyor General of Victoria (then a colony, now a state of Australia). Charles...
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James Murray Hadden (category British Army major generals)
Major-General James Murray Hadden (baptised 23 January 1757 – 29 October 1817) was a British Army officer and surveyor-general of the ordnance. A son of Captain...
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Edward Owen (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
promotion to rear admiral in 1825, he was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1827, made a member of the Lord High Admiral's Council in 1828 and was...
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James Luttrell (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Dover)
political career, voting mainly in the government interest. He was appointed to the post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, holding it along with his parliamentary...
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Kenwood House (category Museums in the London Borough of Camden)
the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, William Bridges, who demolished the house and rebuilt it; the original brick structure remains intact under the...
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Guy Dawnay (politician) (category Deputy Lieutenants of the North Riding of Yorkshire)
the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1885 to 1886. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the...
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Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918)
Exchequer Caused by Peel's appointment as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance and Pollock's appointment as Attorney General for England and Wales Wells and Sweeting...
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