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Paymaster General

The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the positions of Paymaster Of The Forces , Treasurer Of The Navy , Paymaster And Treasurer Of Chelsea Hospital and Treasurer Of The Ordnance .

From 1848 to 1868, the post was held concurrently with that of Vice-President Of The Board Of Trade .

Former holders of this post:

Sir Henry Parnell, Bt 1836-1841

Edward John Stanley 1841

Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt 1841-1845

William Bingham Baring 1845-1846

Thomas Babington Macaulay 1846-1848

The Earl Granville 1848-1852

The Lord Stanley Of Alderley 1852

The Lord Colchester 1852

The Lord Stanley Of Alderley 1853-1855

Edward Pleydell Bouverie 1855

Robert Lowe 1855-1858

The Earl Of Donoughmore 1858-1859

Lord Lovaine 1859

James Wilson 1859

William Francis Cowper 1859-1860

Sir William Hutt 1860-1865

George Joachim Goschen 1865-1866

William Monsell 1866

Sir Stephen Cave 1866-1868

The Earl Of Dufferin 1868-1872

Hugh Childers 1872-1873

William Adam 1873-1874

Sir Stephen Cave 1874-1880

The Lord Wolverton 1880-1885

The Earl Beauchamp 1885-1886

The Lord Thurlow 1886

The Earl Beauchamp 1886-1887

The Earl Brownlow 1887-1889

The Earl Of Jersey 1889-1890

The Lord Windsor 1890-1892

Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne 1892-1895

The Earl Of Hopetoun 1895-1899

The Duke Of Marlborough 1899-1902

Sir Savile Crossley 1902-1905

Richard Causton (1st Baron Southwark after 13 July 1910 ) 1905-1910

The Lord Ashby St. Ledgers 1910-1912

The Lord Strachie 1912-1915

The Lord Newton 1915-1916

Arthur Henderson 1916

Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett 1916-1919

Sir John Tudor Walters 1919-1922

Office vacant 1922-1923

Neville Chamberlain 1923

Sir William Joynson-Hicks 1923

Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923-1924

Harry Gosling 1924

Office vacant 1924-1925

The Duke Of Sutherland 1925-1928

The Earl Of Onslow 1928-1929

The Lord Arnold 1929-1931

Office vacant 1931

Sir Tudor Walters 1931

The Lord Rochester 1931-1935

Lord Hutchison 1935-1938

Earl Of Munster 1938-1939

Earl Winterton 1939

Office vacant 1939-1940

Viscount Cranborne 1940

Office vacant 1940-1941

The Lord Hankey 1941-1942

Sir William Jowitt 1942

The Lord Cherwell 1942-1945

Office vacant 1945-1946

Arthur Greenwood 1946 - 1947

Hillary Marquand 1947-1948

The Viscount Addison 1948-1949

Lord Macdonald Of Gwaenysgor 1949-1951

The Lord Cherwell 1951-1953

The Earl Of Selkirk 1953-1955

Office vacant 1955-1956

Sir Walter Monckton 1956-1957

Reginald Maudling 1957-1959

The Lord Mills 1959-1961

Henry Brooke 1961-1962

John Boyd-Carpenter 1962-1964

George Wigg 1964-1967

Office vacant 1967-1968

The Lord Shackleton 1968

Judith Hart 1968-1969

Harold Lever 1969-1970

The Viscount Eccles 1970-1973

Maurice Macmillan 1973 - 1974

Edmund Dell 1974 - 1976

Shirley Williams 1976 - 1979

Angus Maude 1979 - 1981

Francis Pym 1981

Cecil Parkinson 1981 - 1983

Office vacant 1983-1984

John Selwyn Gummer 1984 - 1985

Kenneth Clarke 1985 - 1987

Peter Brooke 1987 - 1989

The Earl Of Caithness 1989-1990

Richard Andrew Ryder 1990

The Lord Belstead 1990-1992

Sir John Cope 1992-1994

David Heathcoat-Amory 1994 - 1996

David Willetts 1996

Michael Bates 1996-1997

Geoffrey Robinson 1997 - 1998

Dawn Primarolo 1999-

''See also:'' Paymaster Of The Forces .

Related positions elsewhere:

Minister Of National Revenue (Canada)

President Of The Treasury Board (Canada)

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Office of the Paymaster General