The rank and duties of the Director varied over the decades according to how broadly the term "artillery" was defined by the War Office.
In 1895, in the reorganisation of that year, the Branch became an independent department within the War Office, and the post of Director of Artillery lapsed.
Thereafter the Master-General of the Ordnance became responsible for all duties relating to military stores (other than building, railway and transport, medical and veterinary stores), while the Quartermaster-General took over from the Master-General of the Ordnance responsibility for all duties in connection with building works.
[2] In 1942 the post of the (by then) Director of Royal Artillery was revived within the War Office, in the department of the Assistant-Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
This continued as a general staff post into the post-war period, and thereafter in the unified Ministry of Defence after 1964.