Secretary to the Treasury
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- This article is about various offices in the government of the United Kingdom. For the American cabinet post, see United States Secretary of the Treasury.
In the United Kingdom, there are at least five Secretaries to the Treasury, officials officially acting as secretaries to the Treasury board. The origins of the office are unclear, although it probably originated during Lord Burghley's tenure as Lord Treasurer in the 16th century. The number of secretaries was expanded to two by 1714 at the latest.
One of the present-day secretaries, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons, and another, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, is not a minister but a senior civil servant.
The remaining three secretaries, while of relatively modern origin, actually attend to Treasury business. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is probably the most direct descendant of the earliest single Secretary – unlike the others, the Chief Secretary is of Cabinet rank – and is followed in order of precedence by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
Phillip Oppenheim was briefly Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 1996 to 1997, although that office has not been seen before or since.
The other, more senior, Treasury ministers are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Paymaster General. From time to time, generally when a minister from a government department other than the Treasury is Paymaster General, there has been a Treasury Minister of State.
See also Lord High Treasurer.
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Secretaries to the Treasury, 1760–1852
- James West and Samuel Martin 1760–1762
- Samuel Martin and Jeremiah Dyson 1762–1763
- Jeremiah Dyson and Charles Jenkinson 1763–1764
- Charles Jenkinson and Thomas Whateley 1764–1765
- William Mellish and Charles Lowndes 1765–1766
- Grey Cooper and Thomas Bradshaw 1766–1770
- Sir Grey Cooper and John Robinson 1770–1782
- Henry Strachey and Edward Chamberlain 1782
- Henry Strachey and Richard Burke 1782
- Thomas Orde and George Rose 1782–1783
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Richard Burke 1783
- George Rose and Thomas Steele 1783–1791
- George Rose and Charles Long 1791–1801
- John Hiley Addington and Nicholas Vansittart 1801–1802
- Nicholas Vansittart and John Sargent 1802–1804
- William Huskisson and William Sturges Bourne 1804–1806
- Nicholas Vansittart and John King 1806
- Nicholas Vansittart and William Henry Fremantle 1806–1807
- William Huskisson and Henry Wellesley 1807–1809
- Richard Wharton and Charles Arbuthnot 1809–1814
- Charles Arbuthnot and Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1814–1823
- Stephen Rumbold Lushington and John Charles Herries 1823–1827
- John Charles Herries and Joseph Planta 1827
- Joseph Planta and Thomas Frankland Lewis 1827–1828
- Joseph Planta and George Robert Dawson 1828–1830
- Thomas Spring Rice and Edward Ellice 1830–1832
- Thomas Spring Rice and Charles Wood 1832–1834
- Charles Wood and Francis Thornhill Baring 1834
- Sir George Clerk and Sir Thomas Fraser Fremantle 1834–1835
- Francis Thornhill Baring and Edward J. Stanley 1835–1839
- Edward J. Stanley and Robert Gordon 1839–1841
- Richard More O'Ferral and Sir Denis Le Marchant 1841–1844
- Sir George Clerk and John Young 1844–1845
- John Young and Edward Cardwell 1845–1846
- Henry Tufnell and John Parker 1846–1849
- Henry Tufnell and William Goodenough Hayter 1849–1850
- William Goodenough Hayter and George Cornewall Lewis 1850–1852
Financial Secretaries to the Treasury, 1852–present
- George Alexander Hamilton 1852
- James Wilson 1853–1858
- George Alexander Hamilton 1858–1859
- Samuel Laing 1859
- Frederick Peel 1859–1865
- Hugh Childers 1865–1866
- George Ward Hunt 1866–1868
- George Sclater-Booth 1868
- Acton Smee Ayrton 1868–1869
- James Stansfeld 1869–1871
- William Edward Baxter 1871–1873
- John George Dodson 1873–1874
- William Henry Smith 1874–1877
- Frederick Arthur Stanley 1877–1878
- Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson 1878–1880
- Lord Frederick Cavendish 1880–1882
- Leonard Henry Courtney 1882–1885
- John Tomlinson Hibbert 1885
- Sir Henry Thurstan Holland 1885
- Sir Matthew White Ridley 1885–1886
- William Lawies Jackson 1886
- Henry Hartley Fowler 1886
- William Lawies Jackson 1886–1891
- William Gorst 1891–1892
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- Joseph Austen Chamberlain 1901–1902
- Victor Cavendish 1903–1905
- Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot 1903–1906
- Walter Runciman 1907–1908
- Sir Francis Dyke Acland 1908–1911
- Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman 1912–1914
- Edwin Samuel Montagu 1914–1915
- Sir Francis Dyke Acland 1915
- Edwin Samuel Montagu 1915–1916
- Stanley Baldwin 1917–1921
- Sydney Arnold 1921
- Edward Hilton Young 1921–1922
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- Sir William Joynson-Hicks 1923
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- William Graham 1924
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- Frederick Pethick-Lawrence 1929–31
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- Leslie Hore-Belisha 1932–1934
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- William Morrison 1935–1936
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- William Glenvil Hall 1945–51?
- John Jacob Astor 1951–1953
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- Enoch Powell 1957–58
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- Patrick Jenkin 1970–1972
- Terrence Higgins 1972–1974
- John Gilbert 1974
- Robert Sheldon 1974–1979
- Nigel Lawson 1979–1981
- Nicholas Ridley 1981–1983
- John Moore 1983–1986
- Norman Lamont 1986–1989
- Peter Lilley 1989–1990
- Francis Maude 1990–1992
- Stephen Dorrell 1992–1994
- George Young 1994–1995
- Michael Jack 1995–1997
- Dawn Primarolo 1997–1999
- Stephen Timms 1999–2001
- Paul Boateng 2001–2002
- Ruth Kelly 2002–2004
- Stephen Timms 2004–2005
- John Healey 2005–
Economic Secretaries to the Treasury, 1981–present
- John Bruce-Gardyne 1981–1983
- John Moore 1983
- Ian Stewart 1983–1987
- Peter Lilley 1987–1989
- Richard Ryder 1989
- John Maples 1989–1992
- Anthony Nelson 1992–1995
- Angela Knight 1995–1997
- Helen Liddell 1997–1998
- Patricia Hewitt 1998–1999
- Melanie Johnson 1999–2001
- Ruth Kelly 2001–2002
- John Healey 2002–5
- Ivan Lewis 2005–
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury, 1852–present
- William Forbes Mackenzie 1852
- William Goodenough Hayter 1853–1858
- Sir William George Hilton Jolliffe 1858–1859
- Henry Bouverie William Brand 1859–1866
- Thomas Edward Taylor 1866–1868
- George Grenfell Glynn 1868–1873
- Arthur Wellesley Peel 1873–1874
- William Hart Dyke 1874–1880
- Lord Richard Grosvenor 1880–1885
- Aretas Akers-Douglas 1885–1886
- Arnold Morley 1886
- Aretas Akers-Douglas 1886–1892(?)
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- Joceline Bagot 1897–1898
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- Charles McCurdy c1920 (jointly)
- Sir George Younger c1920 (jointly?)
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- Ben Spoor 1924
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- Tom Kennedy 1929–31
- David Margesson 1931–1940
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- Sir Charles Edwards 1940–42 (jointly)
- James Gray Stuart 1941–45 (jointly)
- William Whiteley 1942–51 (jointly until 1945)
- Patrick Buchan-Hepburn 1951–55
- Edward Heath 1955–1959
- Martin Redmayne 1959–64
- Ted Short 1964–66
- John Silkin 1966–69
- Bob Mellish 1969–70
- Francis Pym 1970–1973
- Humphrey Atkins 1973–1974
- Bob Mellish 1974–1976
- Michael Cocks 1976–1979
- Michael Jopling 1979–1983
- John Wakeham 1983–1986
- David Waddington 1986–1989
- Timothy Renton 1989–1990
- Richard Ryder 1990–1995
- Alastair Goodlad 1995–1997
- Nick Brown 1997–1998
- Ann Taylor 1998–2001
- Hilary Armstrong 2001–