The passing of the 1836 Births and Deaths Registration Act created the office of registrar general and a line of subordinate roles, such as superintendent registrar, deputy registrar and registrar. Thomas Henry Lister was the first registrar general of England and Wales from the time he established the system of civil registration in 1836 until his death in 1842. The Online Historical Population Reports website notes that Lister was not a good administrator and upon his death it was discovered that the General Register Office was corrupt, inefficient and overstaffed (see http://www.histpop.org/). The second registrar general, Major Graham, restored the integrity of the department by sacking those charged with embezzlement, using pre-printed registers to save money and introducing new regulations to improve the efficiency of running the GRO. He retired in 1880 and Brydges P. Henniker was appointed as registrar general.