Government department

Office of Works (HM Office of Works)

London, United Kingdom

Government department in London. 4 people in the register connected with it.

History

1933
As First Commissioner of Works, William Ormsby-Gore authorised Sir Charles Peers, Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments, to visit Cyprus and make recommendations. For financial reasons the visit took place only in spring 1934, after Peers had retired.
CyprusWilliam Ormsby-Gore Charles Peers Stanley-Price 2025
1934
Office of Works foreman J. E. Bowler, selected in Yorkshire by John Hilton with Ormsby-Gore's help, arrived in Nicosia three weeks after Hilton for the new Department of Antiquities (due to function from 1 January 1935). Hilton found the Italian restoration approach 'entirely repugnant to the Office of Works ideology'. Peers's recommendations 'amounted to the imposition of the complete range of Office of Works practice and principles'.
NicosiaJohn Hilton J. E. Bowler Charles Peers Stanley-Price 2025
1936
Ormsby-Gore left the Office of Works for the Colonial Office as Secretary of State (May 1936). C. A. Raleigh Radford was strongly endorsed by Peers for the Cyprus directorship on the strength of his Office of Works experience.
LondonWilliam Ormsby-Gore Stanley-Price 2025

4 people

Charles Peersofficial (1910–c. 1933) · Inspector of Ancient Monuments 1910; Chief Inspector 1913 until retirementSir Charles Reed Peers… 1953, p. 2 Stanley-Price 20251910
William Ormsby-Goreofficial (1931 – May 1936) · First Commissioner of WorksStanley-Price 20251931
C. A. Raleigh Radfordofficial (1936–1936)Stanley-Price 20251936
J. E. Bowlerstaff (by 1934) · foreman, recruited in Yorkshire by HiltonStanley-Price 2025

1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
2.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
3. (1953). “Sir Charles Reed Peers (obituary notice)”. The Antiquaries Journal 33. Online