Royal Academy of Arts to that drawn up by Cheere in 1755. It was Sir William Chambers, a prominent architect and head of the British government's architects' department, the Office of Works, who used his connections with George III to gain royal patronage and financial support for the Academy in 1768. The painter Joshua Reynolds was made its first president, and Francis Milner Newton was elected the first secretary, a post he held for two decades until his resignation in 1788. The instrument of foundation, signed by George III on 10 December 1768, named 34 founder members and allowed for a total membership of
National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine school was built own functionalism-styled building in place of the NASU acclimatization garden. With the fall of the Soviet Union, property of the Communist Party was confiscated and the school's building was transferred under the administration of Kiev University. In 1992 the former Higher Party School was converted into the Institute of State Administration and Self-administration of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine which in 1995 was replaced by the Ukrainian Academy of State Administration of President of Ukraine. National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine The National Academy of State Administration () of the President of Ukraine