 He was determined that the government should provide an adequate Public Record Office and became known as the "father of record reform".As Master of the Rolls he was in effect Keeper of The Public Records.After the Public Records Act of 1838, he and his Deputy Keeper, Francis Palgrave, the full-time working head of the office, started to organise the transfer of state papers from the Tower of London, the chapter house of Westminster Abbey and elsewhere, to one single location.