Sir Algernon Edward West GCB PC (4 April 1832 – 21 March 1921)[2] was an English civil servant.

He was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the order (GCB) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902,[5][6] and was invested by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 8 August 1902.

West entertained many political figures at the manor including Gladstone, Queen Victoria and Bismarck.

West was also a director of the South Eastern Railway and he caused a new station, named Wanborough but actually at Normandy, to be opened in 1891.

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