In
1696 William III agreed to the request from Parliament to establish
a Board of Trade. It was argued that Britain needed a specialized
department that would be able to make better provision for commerce.
In 1733 William Kent was commissioned to
build offices for the Board of Trade. The Treasury in Whitehall was
completed in 1736. The Treasury was enlarged by Sir
John Soane in 1827 and Sir Charles Barry
in 1844.
Rudolf
Ackermann, Board of Trade, from Microcosm of London (1808)
(1)
William Pyne, The
Microcosm of London (1808)
The
Board of Trade consists of a committee of the privy council, composed
of all the great officers of state. The business is principally conducted
by the president, deputy president, and the chief of the clerks. It
is, properly speaking, a board of reference, to which all difficult
or doubtful cases relative to trade or our colonial possessions, exclusive
of the East Indies, are referred. The apartments which are occupied
by this Board of Trade, are in the northern part of the old building
called the Treasury, in Whitehall.
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