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Chancellor and Under-Treasurer
of HM Exchequer
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg
Chancellor Rishi Sunak (cropped).jpg
Incumbent
Rishi Sunak

since 13 February 2020 (2020-02-13)
Her Majesty's Treasury
StyleMr Chancellor
(informal)
The Right Honourable
(UK and the Commonwealth)
StatusGreat Office of State
Member ofCabinet
Privy Council
National Security Council
Reports toThe Prime Minister
Residence
[1]
SeatWestminster
AppointerThe Crown
on advice of the Prime Minister
Term lengthAt Her Majesty's pleasure
Formation22 June 1316
First holderHervey de Stanton
in the Kingdom of England only
DeputyChief Secretary to the Treasury
Salary£71,090 (excluding £81,932 salary as Member of Parliament (MP))
Website{{URL|example.com|optional display text}}

The chancellor of the Exchequer,[lower-alpha 1] often abbreviated to the chancellor,[2] is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Her Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet and is third in the ministerial ranking, behind the prime minister and deputy prime minister.[3]

Responsible for all economic and financial matters, the role is equivalent to that of a finance minister in other countries. The chancellor is now always Second Lord of the Treasury as one of at least six Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, responsible for executing the office of the Treasurer of the Exchequer – the others are the Prime Minister and Commons government whips. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for the prime minister also to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer if he sat in the Commons; the last chancellor who was simultaneously prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer was Stanley Baldwin in 1923. Formerly, in cases when the chancellorship was vacant, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench would act as chancellor pro tempore.[4] The last Lord Chief Justice to serve in this way was Lord Denman in 1834.

The chancellor is the third-oldest major state office in English and British history, and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in British politics after the prime minister. They originally carried responsibility for the Exchequer, the medieval English institution for the collection and auditing of royal revenues. The earliest surviving records which are the results of the exchequer's audit, date from 1129–30 under King Henry I and show continuity from previous years.[5] The chancellor has oversight of fiscal policy, therefore of taxation and public spending across Government departments. It previously controlled monetary policy as well until 1997, when the Bank of England was granted independent control of its interest rates.

Since 1718, all chancellors of the exchequer, except at times the lord chief justice as interim holders, have been members of the House of Commons with Lord Stanhope being the last chancellor from the House of Lords.

Second Lord of the Treasury[edit]

The holder of the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer is ex officio Second Lord of the Treasury as a member of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer.[6] As Second Lord, his official residence is 11 Downing Street in London, next door to the residence of the first lord of the Treasury (a title that has for many years been held by the prime minister), who resides in 10 Downing Street. While in the past both houses were private residences, today they serve as interlinked offices, with the occupant living in an apartment made from attic rooms previously resided in by servants.

Since 1827, the chancellor has always simultaneously held the office of Second Lord of the Treasury when that person has not also been the prime minister.

Roles and responsibilities[edit]

A previous chancellor, Robert Lowe, described the office in the following terms in the House of Commons, on 11 April 1870: "The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man whose duties make him more or less of a taxing machine. He is entrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can."

Fiscal policy[edit]

The chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury which sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual chancellor depends on his personal forcefulness, his status within his party and his relationship with the prime minister. Gordon Brown, who became chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party. Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in the same position throughout his ten years as prime minister; making Brown an unusually dominant figure and the longest-serving chancellor since the Reform Act of 1832.[7] This has strengthened a pre-existing trend towards the chancellor occupying a clear second position among government ministers, elevated above his traditional peers, the foreign secretary and home secretary.

One part of the chancellor's key roles involves the framing of the annual year budget. As of 2017, the first is the Autumn Budget, also known as Budget Day which forecasts government spending in the next financial year and also announces new financial measures. The second is a Spring Statement, also known as a "mini-Budget". Britain's tax year has retained the old Julian end of year: 24 March (Old Style) / 5 April (New Style, i.e. Gregorian). From 1993, the Budget was in spring, preceded by an annual autumn statement. This was then called Pre-Budget Report. The Autumn Statement usually took place in November or December. The 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2016 budgets were all delivered on a Wednesday, summarised in a speech to the House of Commons.

The budget is a state secret until the chancellor reveals it in his speech to Parliament. Hugh Dalton, on his way to giving the budget speech in 1947, inadvertently blurted out key details to a newspaper reporter, and they appeared in print before he made his speech. Dalton was forced to resign.[8]

Monetary policy[edit]

Although the Bank of England is responsible for setting interest rates, the chancellor also plays an important part in the monetary policy structure. He sets the inflation target which the Bank must set interest rates to meet. Under the Bank of England Act 1998 the chancellor has the power of appointment of four out of nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee – the so-called 'external' members. He also has a high level of influence over the appointment of the Bank's Governor and Deputy Governors, and has the right of consultation over the appointment of the two remaining MPC members from within the Bank.[9] The Act also provides that the Government has the power to give instructions to the Bank on interest rates for a limited period in extreme circumstances. This power has never been officially used.

Ministerial arrangements[edit]

At HM Treasury the chancellor is supported by a political team of four junior ministers and by permanent civil servants. The most important junior minister is the chief secretary to the Treasury, a member of the Cabinet, to whom the negotiations with other government departments on the details of government spending are delegated, followed by the paymaster general, the financial secretary to the Treasury and the economic secretary to the Treasury. Whilst not continuously in use, there can also be appointed a commercial secretary to the Treasury and an exchequer secretary to the Treasury. Two other officials are given the title of a Secretary to the Treasury, although neither is a government minister in the Treasury: the parliamentary secretary to the Treasury is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons; the permanent secretary to the Treasury is not a minister but the senior civil servant in the Treasury.

The chancellor is obliged to be a member of the Privy Council, and thus is styled the Right Honourable (Rt. Hon.). Because the House of Lords is excluded from financial matters by tradition confirmed by the Parliament Acts, the office is effectively limited to members of the House of Commons; apart from the occasions when the lord chief justice of the King's Bench has acted as interim chancellor. The last peer to hold the office was Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (at that time only a Baron, Lord Delamer) from 9 April 1689 to 18 March 1690. The chancellor holds the formerly independent office of Master of the Mint as a subsidiary office.[10]

Perquisites of the office[edit]

Official residence[edit]

The chancellor of the Exchequer has no official London residence as such but since 1828 in his role as Second Lord of the Treasury he lives in the second lord's official residence, No. 11 Downing Street.[11] In 1997, the then first and second Lords, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown respectively, swapped apartments, as the Chancellor's apartment in No. 11 was bigger and thus better suited to the needs of Blair (who had children living with him, including one born during his tenure) than Brown who was at that stage unmarried.

Dorneywood[edit]

Dorneywood is the summer residence that is traditionally made available to the chancellor, though it is the prime minister who ultimately decides who may use it. Gordon Brown, on becoming chancellor in 1997, refused to use it and the house, which is set in 215 acres (87 ha)[12] of parkland, was allocated to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. It reverted to the chancellor in 2007, then Alistair Darling.[13]

Budget box[edit]

Budget box or Gladstone box, c. 1860

The chancellor traditionally carries his Budget speech to the House of Commons in a particular red Despatch Box. The chancellor's red briefcase is identical to the briefcases used by all other government ministers (known as ministerial boxes or "Despatch Boxes") to transport their official papers but is better known because the chancellor traditionally displays the briefcase, containing the Budget speech, to the press in the morning before delivering the speech.

The original Budget briefcase was first used by William Ewart Gladstone in 1853 and continued in use until 1965 when James Callaghan was the first chancellor to break with tradition when he used a newer box. Prior to Gladstone, a generic red Despatch Box of varying design and specification was used. The practice is said to have begun in the late 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth I's representative Francis Throckmorton presented the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, with a specially constructed red briefcase filled with black puddings.[citation needed]

In July 1997, Gordon Brown became the second chancellor to use a new box for the Budget. Made by industrial trainees at Babcock Rosyth Defence Ltd ship and submarine dockyard in Fife, the new box is made of yellow pine, with a brass handle and lock, covered in scarlet leather and embossed with the Royal cypher and crest and the Chancellor's title. In his first Budget, in March 2008, Alistair Darling reverted to using the original budget briefcase and his successor, George Osborne, continued this tradition for his first budget, before announcing that it would be retired due to its fragile condition.[14] The key to the original budget box has been lost.[15]

Budget tipple[edit]

By tradition, the chancellor has been allowed to drink whatever they wish while making the annual Budget Speech to parliament. This includes alcohol, which is otherwise banned under parliamentary rules.

Previous chancellors have opted for whisky (Kenneth Clarke), gin and tonic (Geoffrey Howe), brandy and water (Benjamin Disraeli and John Major), spritzer (Nigel Lawson) and sherry and beaten egg (William Gladstone).[16]

The recent chancellors, Philip Hammond, George Osborne, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown,[17] opted for water. In fact Darling drank what was named "Standard Water" in reference to, and support of, the London Evening Standard newspaper's campaign to have plain tap water available in restaurants at no charge to customers.[18]

Robe of office[edit]

The chancellor has a robe of office,[19] similar to that of the lord chancellor (as seen in several of the portraits depicted below). In recent times, it has only regularly been worn at coronations, but some chancellors (at least until the 1990s) have also worn it when attending the Trial of the Pyx as Master of the Mint. According to George Osborne, the robe (dating from Gladstone's time in office, and worn by the likes of Lloyd George and Churchill)[20] 'went missing' during Gordon Brown's time as chancellor.[21]

List of chancellors of the Exchequer[edit]

Chancellors of the Exchequer of England (c. 1221 – c. 1558)[edit]

Chancellor of the Exchequer of England
Portrait Name Term of office Monarch
(Reign)
No image.svg Eustace of Fauconberg
Bishop of London
(died 1228)
c. 1221 N/A Henry III
Coat of Arms of England (-1340).svg
(1216–1272)
No image.svg John Maunsell
Secretary of State
(1190/95–1265)
c. 1234 N/A
Ralph de Leicester before 1248
Edward of Westminster 1248 N/A
Albric de Fiscamp before 1263
No image.svg John Chishull
Lord Chancellor[1221 1]
(died 1280)
1263 1265
No image.svg Walter Giffard
Bishop of Bath and Wells
(c. 1225 – 1279)
1265 1266
No image.svg Godfrey Giffard
Lord Chancellor
(c. 1235 – 1302)
1266 1268
No image.svg John Chishull
Lord Chancellor
(died 1280)
1268 1269
No image.svg Richard of Middleton
Archdeacon of Northumberland
(died 1272)
1269 1272
Roger de la Leye before 1283
Geoffrey de Neuband Edward I
Coat of Arms of England (-1340).svg
(1272–1307)
Philip de Willoughby 1283 1305
No image.svg Sir John Benstead
KB

Secretary of State
(c. 1275 – 1323/24)
1305 1306
No image.svg John Sandale
Bishop of Winchester
(died 1319)
c. July
1307
1308 Edward II
Coat of Arms of England (-1340).svg
(1307–1327)
John of Markenfield 1309 1312
No image.svg John Hotham
Bishop of Ely
(died 1337)
1312 1316
No image.svg Hervey de Stanton
(1260–1327)
1316 c. 1323
BishopWalterStapledon ExeterCathedral.JPG Walter de Stapledon
Lord High Treasurer
(1261–1326)
1323 c. 1324
No image.svg Hervey de Stanton
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
(1260–1327)
1324 c. January
1327
No image.svg Adam de Harvington
(c. 1270 – c. 1345)
c. January
1327
1330 Edward III
Coat of Arms of Edward III of England (1327-1377) (Attributed).svg
(1327–1377)
[1221 2]
No image.svg Robert Wodehouse
(died 1346)
1330 1331
Chichestercathedralrobertstratfordtomb.jpg Robert de Stratford
Bishop of Chichester
(c. 1292 – 1362)
1331 1334
John Hildesle c. 1338 N/A
William de Everdon 1341 N/A
William Askeby
Archdeacon of Northampton
1363 N/A
No image.svg Sir Robert de Ashton
(died 1385)
1375 c. June
1377
Sir Walter Barnham c. June
1377
c. September
1399
Richard II
Coat of Arms of Richard II of England (1377-1399).svg
(1377–1399)
No image.svg Henry Somer
MP for Middlesex
(c. 1370 – 1450)
1410 1437 Henry IV
Coat of Arms of Henry IV of England (1399-1413).svg
(1399–1413)
Henry V
Coat of Arms of Henry IV & V of England (1413-1422).svg
(1413–1422)
Henry VI
Coat of Arms of Henry VI of England (1422-1471).svg
(1422–1461)
[1221 3]
No image.svg John Somerset
(died 1454)
1441 1447
No image.svg Sir Thomas Browne
MP for Dover
(1402–1460)
1440? 1450?
No image.svg Thomas Witham
(c. 1420 – 1489)
1454 N/A
No image.svg Thomas Thwaites
(c. 1435–1503)
c. March
1461
N/A Edward IV
Coat of Arms of Edward IV of England (1461-1483).svg
(1461–1470)
No image.svg Thomas Witham
(c. 1420 – 1489)
1465 1469
Sir Richard Fowler
(c. 1425 – 1477)
1469 c. April
1471
Henry VI
Coat of Arms of Henry VI of England (1422-1471).svg
(1470–1471)
No image.svg Thomas Thwaites
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
(c. 1435–1503)
c. April
1471
c. April
1483
Edward IV
Coat of Arms of Edward IV of England (1461-1483).svg
(1471–1483)
William Catesby, memorial brass.jpg Sir William Catesby
Speaker of the House of Commons
(1450–1485)
c. April
1483
c. 1484 Edward V
Coat of Arms of Edward V of England (1483).svg
(1483)
[1221 4]
Richard III
Coat of Arms of Richard III of England (1483-1485).svg
(1483–1485)
Sir Thomas Lovell, bronze medallion.jpg Sir Thomas Lovell
Speaker of the House of Commons[1221 5]
(died 1524)
c. August
1485
1524 Henry VII
Coat of Arms of Henry VII of England (1485-1509).svg
(1485–1509)
Henry VIII
Coat of Arms of England (1509-1554).svg
(1509–1547)
[1221 6]
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners by Ambrosius Benson.jpg John Bourchier
2nd Baron Berners
PC

(1467–1533)
1524 1533?
Cromwell,Thomas(1EEssex)01.jpg Thomas Cromwell
1st Earl of Essex
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Secretary of State
(c. 1485 – 1540)
12 April
1533
10 June
1540
Sir John Baker
MP for Kent
(1488–1558)
1545 c. November
1558
SirJohnBaker.jpg
Edward VI
Coat of Arms of England (1509-1554).svg
(1547–1553)
[1221 7]
Mary I
Coat of Arms of England (1554-1558).svg
(1553–1558)
^† Died in office.
  1. Served until 1264.
  2. Lord Lancaster served as Regent of England during the minority of Edward III.
  3. The Regency government led by the Regency Council governed England during the minority of Henry VI.
  4. The Duke of Gloucester served as Regent of England during the reign of Edward V.
  5. Served until 1488.
  6. Margaret Beaufort served as Regent of England during the minority of Henry VIII.
  7. The Duke of Somerset and Duke of Northumberland served as Regent of England respectively during the reign of Edward VI.

Chancellors of the Exchequer of England (c. 1558 – 1708)[edit]

Chancellor of the Exchequer of England[22]
Portrait Name[lower-alpha 2]
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Monarch
(Reign)
Ref.
No image.svg Sir Richard Sackville
MP for Sussex
(c. 1507 – 1566)
February
1559
21 April
1566
Elizabeth I
Coat of Arms of England (1558-1603).svg
(1558–1603)
[22]
Walter Mildmay.jpg Sir Walter Mildmay
MP for Northamptonshire
(c. 1523 – 1589)
1566 31 May
1589
[22]
Sir John Fortescue by Sidney Hunt.jpg Sir John Fortescue
(c. 1531 – 1607)
1589 1603 [22]
James I
Coat of Arms of England (1603-1649).svg
(1603–1625)
George Home 1st Earl of Dunbar.jpg The Right Honourable
George Home
1st Earl of Dunbar
PC

(c. 1556 – 1611)
24 May
1603
April
1606
[22]
Unknown man, formerly known as Sir Julius Caesar from NPG.jpg Sir Julius Caesar
MP for Middlesex
(1557/1558–1636)
11 April
1606
1614 [22]
Fulkegrevillee.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Fulke Greville
KB

MP for Warwickshire[1558 3]
(1554–1628)
15 October
1614
1621 [22]
RichardWeston.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Richard Weston
KG

MP for 4 constituencies respectively
(1577 – c. 1634)
29 January
1621
15 July
1628
[22]
Charles I
Coat of Arms of England (1603-1649).svg
(1625–1649)
No image.svg The Right Honourable
Edward Barrett
1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh
PC

(1581 – c. 1645)
14 August
1628
1629 [22]
Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington from NPG.jpg The Right Honourable
Francis Cottington
1st Baron Cottington
PC

(c. 1579 – 1652)
18 April
1629
6 January
1642
[22]
1stLordColepeper.jpg Sir John Colepeper
MP for Kent
(c. 1600 – 1660)
6 January
1642
22 February
1643
[22]
WH 1st Earl of Clarendon.png The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Hyde

(1609–1674)
February
1643
1646 [22]
Vacancy during the Interregnum (1649–1660)
Portrait Name[lower-alpha 2]
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Ministry Monarch
(Reign)
Ref.
WH 1st Earl of Clarendon.png The Right Honourable
Edward Hyde
1st Baron Hyde
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(1609–1674)
1660 13 May
1661
Clarendon Charles II
Coat of Arms of England (1660-1689).svg
(1660–1685)
[22]
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.jpg The Right Honourable
Anthony Ashley Cooper
1st Baron Ashley
PC

(1621–1683)
13 May
1661
22 November
1672
[22]
Cabal
No image.svg Sir John Duncombe
MP for Bury St Edmunds
(1622–1687)
22 November
1672
2 May
1676
[22]
Danby I
Sir John Ernle
MP for 4 constituencies respectively
(1620–1697)
2 May
1676
9 April
1689
[22]
Privy Council
Chits
James II
Coat of Arms of England (1660-1689).svg
(1685–1688)
William III
&
Mary II
Coat of Arms of England (1689-1694).svg
(1689–1694)
Henrybooth.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Booth
2nd Baron Delamer
PC

(1652–1694)
9 April
1689
18 March
1690
Carmarthen–Halifax [22]
No image.svg Richard Hampden
MP for Buckinghamshire
(c. 1631 – 1695)
18 March
1690
10 May
1694
Carmarthen [22]
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg The Right Honourable
Charles Montagu
FRS

(1661–1715)
10 May
1694
31 May
1699
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Junto I [22]
William III
Coat of Arms of England (1694-1702).svg
(1694–1702)
JohnSmithSpeaker.jpg Sir John Smith
MP for Andover
(1655/56–1723)
31 May
1699
23 March
1701
Pembroke [22]
Henry Boyle
27 March
1701
22 April
1708
[22]
Henry Boyle Lord Carleton by Godfrey Kneller.jpg rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Godolphin–Marlborough
(ToryWhig)
Anne
Coat of Arms of Great Britain (1707-1714).svg
(1702–1714)
  1. Served until 1589 during the 9th Parliament of Queen Elizabeth I.
  2. Served from 1601 prior to the Golden Speech.
  3. Served during the 3rd Parliament of King James I in 1621.
  4. Elected to a new constituency in the 1695 general election.
  5. Elected to a new constituency in the 1705 general election.

Chancellors of the Exchequer of Great Britain (1708–1817)[edit]

Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain[22]
Portrait Name[lower-alpha 2]
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Party Ministry Monarch
(Reign)
Ref.
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color;" | JohnSmithSpeaker.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir John Smith

MP for Andover
(1655/56–1723)
22 April
1708
11 August
1710
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Godolphin–Marlborough
(ToryWhig)
Anne
Coat of Arms of Great Britain (1707-1714).svg
(1702–1714)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Robert Harley Chancellor of the Exchequer by Kneller.jpg The Right Honourable
Robert Harley

MP for Radnor
(1661–1724)
11 August
1710
4 June
1711
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Tories rowspan=4 | Oxford–Bolingbroke [22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color;" | Bingley.jpg The Right Honourable
Robert Benson

MP for York
(c. 1676 – 1731)
4 June
1711
21 August
1713
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory [22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border-bottom:none;" | Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Bt by Jonathan Richardson.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir William Wyndham
Bt

MP for Somerset
(c. 1688 – 1740)
21 August
1713
13 October
1714
Template:Party shading/Tories rowspan=2 | Tory [22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border-top:none" | George I
Coat of Arms of Great Britain (1714-1801).svg
(1714–1727)
[1708 1]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | 1stLordOnslow.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Richard Onslow
Bt

MP for Surrey
(1654–1717)
13 October
1714
12 October
1715
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs rowspan=2 | Townshend [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Robertwalpole cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Robert Walpole

MP for King's Lynn
(1676–1745)
12 October
1715
15 April
1717
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg The Right Honourable
James Stanhope
1st Earl Stanhope
PC

(c. 1673 – 1721)
15 April
1717
20 March
1718
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs | Stanhope–Sunderland I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | JohnAislabie.jpg The Right Honourable
John Aislabie

MP for Ripon
(1670–1742)
20 March
1718
23 January
1721
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs rowspan=2| Stanhope–Sunderland II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir John Pratt by Michael Dahl.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir John Pratt

Lord Chief Justice
(1657–1725) (interim)
2 February
1721
3 April
1721
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
height=20 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border-bottom: none" | Robertwalpole cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Robert Walpole
1st Earl of Orford
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MP for King's Lynn[1708 2]
(1676–1745)
3 April
1721
12 February
1742
rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Walpole–Townshend [22]
height=20 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border: none" | George II
Coat of Arms of Great Britain (1714-1801).svg
(1727–1760)
height=20 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border: none" | Template:Party shading/Whigs | Walpole
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | 1stLordSandys.jpg The Right Honourable
Samuel Sandys

MP for Worcester
(1695–1770)
12 February
1742
12 December
1743
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Carteret [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border:none" |​ Henry Pelham by William Hoare.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Pelham
FRS

MP for Sussex
(1694–1754)
12 December
1743
8 March
1754
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border:none" | Template:Party shading/Whigs | Broad Bottom
(I & II)
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir William Lee by C.F. Barker cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir William Lee

Lord Chief Justice
(1688–1754) (interim)
8 March
1754
6 April
1754
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Newcastle I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | HenryBilsonLegge.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Bilson-Legge
FRS

MP for Orford
(1708–1764)
6 April
1754
25 November
1755
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Lyttlelton.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir George Lyttelton
Bt

MP for Okehampton
(1709–1773)
25 November
1755
16 November
1756
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | HenryBilsonLegge.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Bilson-Legge

MP for Orford
(1708–1764)
16 November
1756
13 April
1757
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs rowspan=2 | Pitt–Devonshire [22]
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | William Murray, Earl of Mansfield LCJ.jpg The Right Honourable
William Murray
1st Earl of Mansfield
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

Lord Chief Justice
(1705–1793) (interim)
13 April
1757
2 July
1757
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
Template:Party shading/Whigs | 1757 Caretaker
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border-bottom:none" | HenryBilsonLegge.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Bilson-Legge

(1708–1764)
2 July
1757
19 March
1761
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Pitt–Newcastle [22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border-top:none" | George III
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1801-1816).svg
(1760–1820)
[1708 4]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | 2ndViscountBarrington.jpg The Right Honourable
William Barrington
2nd Viscount Barrington
PC

MP for Plymouth
(1717–1793)
19 March
1761
29 May
1762
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Francis Baron le Despencer by Nathaniel Dance-Holland.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Francis Dashwood
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
(1708–1781)
29 May
1762
16 April
1763
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Bute
(ToryWhig)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | George Grenville (1712–1770) by William Hoare (1707-1792) Cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
George Grenville

MP for Buckingham
(1712–1770)
16 April
1763
16 July
1765
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Grenville
(WhigTory)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | No image.svg The Right Honourable
William Dowdeswell

MP for Worcestershire
(1721–1775)
16 July
1765
2 August
1766
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs | Rockingham I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Townshend after Reynolds.jpg The Right Honourable
Charles Townshend

MP for Harwich
(1725–1767)
2 August
1766
4 September
1767
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Chatham
(WhigTory)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border:none" |​ Nathaniel Dance Lord North cropped cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Frederick North
Lord North
KG

MP for Banbury
(1732–1792)
11 September
1767
27 March
1782
rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory [22]
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border:none" | Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Grafton
Template:Party shading/Tories | North
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Lord John Cavendish by GD Tomlinson.jpg The Right Honourable
Lord John Cavendish

MP for York
(1732–1796)
27 March
1782
10 July
1782
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs | Rockingham II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | William Pitt the Younger.jpg The Right Honourable
William Pitt the Younger

MP for Appleby
(1759–1806)
10 July
1782
31 March
1783
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Shelburne
(WhigTory)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Lord John Cavendish by GD Tomlinson.jpg The Right Honourable
Lord John Cavendish

MP for York
(1732–1796)
2 April
1783
19 December
1783
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Fox–North [22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Pitt the Younger.jpg The Right Honourable
William Pitt the Younger

(1759–1806)
19 December
1783
14 March
1801
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Tories | Pitt I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry Addington by Beechey.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Addington

MP for Devizes
(1757–1844)
14 March
1801
10 May
1804
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Tories | Addington [22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | William Pitt the Younger.jpg The Right Honourable
William Pitt the Younger

MP for Cambridge University
(1759–1806)
10 May
1804
23 January
1806
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Tories | Pitt II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Lord-ellenborough.jpg The Right Honourable
Edward Law
1st Baron Ellenborough
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

Lord Chief Justice
(1750–1818) (interim)
23 January
1806
5 February
1806
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | All the Talents
(WhigTory)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Henry Walton (1746-1813) - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne - NPG 178 - National Portrait Gallery.jpg The Right Honourable
Lord Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice

MP for Cambridge University
(1780–1863)
5 February
1806
26 March
1807
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Spencer PercevalCE.jpg The Right Honourable
Spencer Perceval
KC

MP for Northampton
(1762–1812)
26 March
1807
11 May
1812
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Tories | Portland II [22]
Template:Party shading/Tories | Perceval
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Nicholas Vansittart by William Owen.jpg The Right Honourable
Nicholas Vansittart

(1766–1851)
9 June
1812
12 July
1817
Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Tories | Liverpool [23]
  1. Lord Parker served as Regent of Great Britain from 1 August to 18 September 1714.
  2. Elevated to the Peerage of Great Britain on 6 February 1742.
  3. Elected to a new constituency in the Hampshire by-election.
  4. The Prince of Wales served as Prince Regent from 5 February 1811.
  5. Elected to a new constituency in the 1784 general election.
  6. Elected to a new constituency in the 1812 general election.

Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom (1817–present)[edit]

Although the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland had been united by the Acts of Union 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. III c. 67), the Exchequers of the two Kingdoms were not consolidated until 1817 under 56 Geo. III c. 98.[24][25] For the holders of the Irish office before this date, see Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland.

Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom[22]
Portrait Name[lower-alpha 2]
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Party Ministry Monarch
(Reign)
Ref.
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border-bottom: none;" | Nicholas Vansittart by William Owen.jpg The Right Honourable
Nicholas Vansittart
FRS

MP for Harwich
(1766–1851)
12 July 1817 31 January 1823 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Tories rowspan=3 | Liverpool George III
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1801-1816).svg
(1760–1820)
[1817 1]
[22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border-top: none;" | George IV
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1816-1837).svg
(1820–1830)
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color;" | Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon by Sir Thomas Lawrence cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Frederick John Robinson

MP for Ripon
(1782–1859)
31 January 1823 27 April 1827 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory [26]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color;" | George Canning by Richard Evans - detail.jpg The Right Honourable
George Canning
FRS

MP for Seaford
(1770–1827)
27 April 1827 8 August 1827 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Canning
(CanningiteWhig)
[27]
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | Lord Tenterden LCJ by William Owen.jpg The Right Honourable
Charles Abbott
1st Baron Tenterden
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

Lord Chief Justice
(1762–1832) (interim)
8 August 1827 5 September 1827 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Goderich N/A
style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" | John Charles Herries.jpg The Right Honourable
John Charles Herries

MP for Harwich
(1778–1855)
5 September 1827 26 January 1828 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory [28]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border-bottom:none" | HenryGoulburn.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Goulburn
FRS

MP for Armagh
(1784–1856)
26 January 1828 22 November 1830 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Wellington–Peel [22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border-top:none" | William IV
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1816-1837).svg
(1830–1837)
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | JC Spencer, Viscount Althorp by HP Bone cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
John Spencer
Viscount Althorp
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

22 November 1830 14 November 1834 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs | Grey [22]
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Melbourne I
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman by Sir Martin Archer Shee crop.jpg The Right Honourable
Thomas Denman
1st Baron Denman
PC

Lord Chief Justice
(1779–1854) (interim)
14 November 1834 15 December 1834 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Tories | Wellington Caretaker N/A
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Peel by RR Scanlan detail.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Peel
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for Tamworth
(1788–1850)
15 December 1834 8 April 1835 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Peel I [22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border-bottom:none" | 1stBaronMonteagle.jpg The Right Honourable
Thomas Spring Rice

MP for Cambridge
(1790–1866)
18 April 1835 26 August 1839 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Melbourne II [22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color; border-top:none" | Victoria
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1837-1952).svg
(1837–1901)
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook by Sir George Hayter.jpg The Right Honourable
Francis Baring

MP for Portsmouth
(1796–1866)
26 August 1839 30 August 1841 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | HenryGoulburn.jpg The Right Honourable
Henry Goulburn
FRS

MP for Cambridge University
(1784–1856)
3 September 1841 27 June 1846 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Peel II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | 1stViscountHalifax.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Charles Wood
Bt

MP for Halifax
(1800–1885)
6 July 1846 21 February 1852 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs | Russell I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Disraeli.jpg The Right Honourable
Benjamin Disraeli

MP for Buckinghamshire
(1804–1881)
27 February 1852 17 December 1852 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Who? Who? [22]
style="background-color:Template:Peelite/meta/color" | WE Gladstone robed NPG.jpg The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone

MP for Oxford University
(1809–1898)
28 December 1852 28 February 1855 Template:Party shading/Peelite | Peelite Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Aberdeen
(PeeliteWhig)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Bt.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Bt

MP for Radnor
(1806–1863)
28 February 1855 21 February 1858 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig Template:Party shading/Whigs | Palmerston I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Disraeli.jpg The Right Honourable
Benjamin Disraeli

MP for Buckinghamshire
(1804–1881)
26 February 1858 11 June 1859 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Derby–Disraeli II [22]
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | WE Gladstone robed NPG.jpg The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone

18 June 1859 26 June 1866 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Palmerston II [22]
Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Russell II
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Disraeli.jpg The Right Honourable
Benjamin Disraeli

MP for Buckinghamshire
(1804–1881)
6 July 1866 29 February 1868 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Derby–Disraeli III [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Right Honourable
George Ward Hunt

MP for North Northamptonshire
(1825–1877)
29 February 1868 1 December 1868 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke by George Frederic Watts.jpg The Right Honourable
Robert Lowe

MP for London University
(1811–1892)
9 December 1868 11 August 1873 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | WE Gladstone robed NPG.jpg The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone

MP for Greenwich
(1809–1898)
11 August 1873 17 February 1874 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Stafford Northcote
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for North Devonshire
(1818–1887)
21 February 1874 21 April 1880 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Disraeli II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | WE Gladstone robed NPG.jpg The Right Honourable
William Ewart Gladstone

MP for Midlothian
(1809–1898)
28 April 1880 16 December 1882 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hugh Childers, Lock & Whitfield woodburytype, 1876-83 crop.jpg The Right Honourable
Hugh Childers

MP for Pontefract
(1827–1896)
16 December 1882 9 June 1885 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | St Aldwyn Michael Edward Hicks-Beach (1st Earl).jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Michael Hicks Beach
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for Bristol West
(1837–1916)
24 June 1885 28 January 1886 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Salisbury I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir William Harcourt.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir William Harcourt
QC

MP for Derby
(1827–1904)
6 February 1886 20 July 1886 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone III [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Randolph churchill.jpg The Right Honourable
Lord Randolph Churchill

MP for Paddington South
(1849–1895)
3 August 1886 22 December 1886 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) rowspan=2 | Salisbury II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | George Goschen by Bassano.jpg The Right Honourable
George Goschen
DL

MP for St George Hanover Square
(1831–1907)
14 January 1887 11 August 1892 Template:Party shading/Liberal Unionist | Liberal Unionist [22]
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir William Harcourt.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir William Harcourt
QC

MP for Derby
(1827–1904)
18 August 1892 21 June 1895 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone IV [22]
Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Rosebery
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:none" | St Aldwyn Michael Edward Hicks-Beach (1st Earl).jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Michael Hicks Beach
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for Bristol West
(1837–1916)
29 June 1895 11 August 1902 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) rowspan=2 | Salisbury
(III & IV)

(Con.Lib.U.)
[22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:none" | Edward VII
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1837-1952).svg
(1901–1910)
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Charles Thomson Ritchie headshot.jpg The Right Honourable
Charles Ritchie

MP for Croydon
(1838–1906)
11 August 1902 9 October 1903 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Balfour [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | Austen Chamberlain MP.jpg The Right Honourable
Austen Chamberlain

MP for East Worcestershire
(1863–1937)
9 October 1903 4 December 1905 Template:Party shading/Liberal Unionist | Liberal Unionist [22]
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | H H Asquith 1908.jpg The Right Honourable
Herbert Henry Asquith
KC

MP for East Fife
(1852–1928)
10 December 1905 16 April 1908 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Campbell-Bannerman [22]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:none" | David Lloyd George 1911.jpg The Right Honourable
David Lloyd George

MP for Caernarvon Boroughs
(1863–1945)
16 April 1908 25 May 1915 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) rowspan=2 | Asquith
(I–III)
[29]
height=50 style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:none" | George V
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1837-1952).svg
(1910–1936)
style="background-color:Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Reginald McKenna photo.jpg The Right Honourable
Reginald McKenna

MP for North Monmouthshire
(1863–1943)
25 May 1915 10 December 1916 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Asquith Coalition
(Lib.Con.–et al.)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Andrew Bonar Law 02.jpg The Right Honourable
Bonar Law

(1858–1923)
10 December 1916 10 January 1919 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) rowspan=3 | Lloyd George
(I & II)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Austen Chamberlain MP.jpg The Right Honourable
Austen Chamberlain

MP for Birmingham West
(1863–1937)
10 January 1919 1 April 1921 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Horne.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Horne
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for Glasgow Hillhead
(1871–1940)
1 April 1921 19 October 1922 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" | Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233 (cropped).jpg The Right Honourable
Stanley Baldwin
JP

MP for Bewdley
(1867–1947)
27 October 1922 27 August 1923 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Law [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" |​ rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Baldwin I
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Chamberlain Neville.jpg The Right Honourable
Neville Chamberlain

MP for Birmingham Ladywood
(1869–1940)
27 August 1923 22 January 1924 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Snowden.jpg The Right Honourable
Philip Snowden

MP for Colne Valley
(1864–1937)
22 January 1924 3 November 1924 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | MacDonald I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill cph.3a49758.jpg The Right Honourable
Winston Churchill
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for Epping
(1874–1965)
6 November 1924 4 June 1929 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Baldwin II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Snowden.jpg The Right Honourable
Philip Snowden

MP for Colne Valley
(1864–1937)
7 June 1929 5 November 1931 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | MacDonald II [22]
style="background-color:Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" | Template:Party shading/National Labour | National Labour Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | National I
(N.Lab.Con.–et al.)
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border: none" | Chamberlain Neville.jpg The Right Honourable
Neville Chamberlain
FRS

MP for Birmingham Edgbaston
(1869–1940)
5 November 1931 28 May 1937 rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | National II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border: none" |​ rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | National III
(Con.N.Lab.–et al.)
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border: none" | Edward VIII
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1837-1952).svg
(1936)
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border: none" |​ George VI
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (1837-1952).svg
(1936–1952)
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | Viscount Simon.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir John Simon
Script error: No such module "Gaps".

MP for Spen Valley
(1873–1954)
28 May 1937 12 May 1940 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Liberal National | Liberal National Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | National IV [22]
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Chamberlain War
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Kingsley Wood cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Kingsley Wood

MP for Woolwich West
(1881–1943)
12 May 1940 21 September 1943 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) rowspan=2 | Churchill War
(All parties)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color; border:none" |​ John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley 1947.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir John Anderson
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MP for Combined Scottish Universities
(1882–1958)
24 September 1943 26 July 1945 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Independent
(National)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color; border:none" | Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Churchill Caretaker
(Con.Lib.N.)
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hugh Dalton.png The Right Honourable
Hugh Dalton

MP for Bishop Auckland
(1887–1962)
27 July 1945 13 November 1947 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Labour | Attlee
(I & II)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stafford Cripps 1947.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Stafford Cripps
FRS

13 November 1947 19 October 1950 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour [22]
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hugh Gaitskell 1958.jpg The Right Honourable
Hugh Gaitskell
CBE

MP for Leeds South
(1906–1963)
19 October 1950 26 October 1951 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour [22]
height=20 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-bottom:none" | Richard-Austen-Rab-Butler-1st-Baron-Butler-of-Saffron-Walden.jpg The Right Honourable
Richard Austen Butler
CH

MP for Saffron Walden
(1902–1982)
26 October 1951 20 December 1955 rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Churchill III [22]
height=20 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" | Elizabeth II
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom.svg
(1952–present)
height=20 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border-top:none" | rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Eden
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Harold Macmillan in 1942.jpg The Right Honourable
Harold Macmillan

MP for Bromley
(1894–1986)
20 December 1955 13 January 1957 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Right Honourable
Peter Thorneycroft

MP for Monmouth
(1909–1994)
13 January 1957 6 January 1958 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Macmillan
(I & II)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Right Honourable
Derick Heathcoat-Amory
TD

MP for Tiverton
(1899–1981)
6 January 1958 27 July 1960 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Selwyn Lloyd cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Selwyn Lloyd
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MP for Wirral
(1904–1978)
27 July 1960 13 July 1962 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" |​ The Right Honourable
Reginald Maudling

MP for Barnet
(1917–1979)
16 July 1962 16 October 1964 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [30]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" | Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Douglas-Home
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Callaghan 1970 (cropped).jpg The Right Honourable
James Callaghan

MP for Cardiff South East
(1912–2005)
17 October 1964 29 November 1967 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Wilson
(I & II)
[31]
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Roy Jenkins 1977b.jpg The Right Honourable
Roy Jenkins

MP for Birmingham Stechford
(1920–2003)
29 November 1967 19 June 1970 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour [32]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Iain Macleod crop.jpg The Right Honourable
Iain Macleod

MP for Enfield West
(1913–1970)
20 June 1970 20 July 1970 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Heath [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Right Honourable
Anthony Barber
TD

MP for Altrincham and Sale
(1920–2005)
25 July 1970 4 March 1974 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Denis Healey.jpg The Right Honourable
Denis Healey
MBE

MP for Leeds East
(1917–2015)
5 March 1974 4 May 1979 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Wilson
(III & IV)
[22]
Template:Party shading/Labour | Callaghan
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Geoffrey Howe.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Geoffrey Howe
QC

MP for East Surrey
(1926–2015)
4 May 1979 11 June 1983 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Thatcher I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" | Official portrait of Lord Lawson of Blaby crop 2.jpg The Right Honourable
Nigel Lawson

MP for Blaby
(born 1932)
11 June 1983 26 October 1989 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Thatcher II [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" |​ rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Thatcher III
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Major PM full (cropped).jpg The Right Honourable
John Major

MP for Huntingdon
(born 1943)
26 October 1989 28 November 1990 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" | Official portrait of Lord Lamont of Lerwick 2020 crop 2.jpg The Right Honourable
Norman Lamont

MP for Kingston-upon-Thames
(born 1942)
28 November 1990 27 May 1993 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Major I [22]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" |​ rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Major II
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Official portrait of Mr Kenneth Clarke crop 2.jpg The Right Honourable
Kenneth Clarke
QC

MP for Rushcliffe
(born 1940)
27 May 1993 2 May 1997 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [22]
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | GordonBrown2004.JPG The Right Honourable
Gordon Brown

2 May 1997 27 June 2007 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Blair
(I, II & III)
[22]
style="background-color:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | AlistairDarlingABr cropped.jpg The Right Honourable
Alistair Darling

MP for Edinburgh South West
(born 1953)
28 June 2007 11 May 2010 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Brown [33]
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | George osborne hi.jpg The Right Honourable
George Osborne

MP for Tatton
(born 1971)
11 May 2010 13 July 2016 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Cameron–Clegg
(Con.L.D.)
[34]
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Cameron II
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Official portrait of Mr Philip Hammond crop 2.jpg The Right Honourable
Philip Hammond

MP for Runnymede and Weybridge
(born 1955)
13 July 2016 24 July 2019 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | May I [35]
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | May II
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" | Official portrait of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP crop 2.jpg The Right Honourable
Sajid Javid

MP for Bromsgrove
(born 1969)
24 July 2019 13 February 2020 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Johnson I [36][37]
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; border:none" |​ rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Johnson II
style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Official portrait of Rishi Sunak crop 2.jpg The Right Honourable
Rishi Sunak

MP for Richmond (Yorks)
(born 1980)
13 February 2020 Incumbent rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative [38]
  1. The Prince of Wales served as Prince Regent from 5 February 1811.
  2. Elected to a new constituency in the 1832 general election.
  3. Elected to a new constituency in the 1865 general election.
  4. Elected to a new constituency in the 1918 general election.
  5. Elected to a new constituency in the 1950 general election.
  6. Elected to a new constituency in the 2005 general election.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. This is used in almost all cases, including formal uses, for example in Parliament where it is common to refer to the position as 'Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer'. An example use of the full title is on writs appointing people to offices in the Manor of Northstead or the Chiltern Hundreds.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Including honorifics and constituencies for elected MPs.

References[edit]

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  3. "Her Majesty's Government: The Cabinet". parliament.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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Further reading[edit]

  • Barber, Stephen. "'Westminster's wingman'? Shadow chancellor as a strategic and coveted political role." British Politics 11.2 (2016): 184–204.
  • Baxter, Stephen B. The Development of the Treasury, 1660–1702 (1957) online
  • Browning, Peter. The Treasury and Economic Policy: 1964–1985 (Longman, 1986).
  • Dell, Edmund. The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945–90 (HarperCollins, 1997) 619pp; 17 chapters covering the terms of each chancellor.
  • Holt, Richard. Second Amongst Equals: Chancellors of the Exchequer and the British Economy (Profile Books, 2001).
  • Jenkins, Roy. The Chancellors (1998); 497pp; covers entire career as well as term in office of 19 chancellors from 1886 to 1947.
  • Kynaston, David. The chancellor of the exchequer (T. Dalton, 1980).
  • Peden, G. CThe Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906–1959 (Oxford UP, 2000). online
  • Vincent, Nicholas C. "The Origins of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer." English Historical Review 108.426 (1993): 105–121. in JSTOR
  • Woodward, Nicholas. The management of the British economy, 1945–2001 (Manchester University Press, 2004).

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