Secretary to the Treasury
In the
United Kingdom, there are two
Secretaries to the Treasury, officials officially acting as secretaries to the treasury board. In fact, one of the secretaries, the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, is in fact the Chief
Whip in the
House of Commons. The other, the
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, actually attends to treasury business.
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.
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 Thurston Holland 1885
- Sir Matthew White Ridley 1885-1886
- William Lawies Jackson 1886
- Henry Hartley Fowler 1886
- William Lawies Jackson 1886-1892(?)
- incomplete
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(?)
- incomplete