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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
| Name | Entered office | Left office | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lord Seymour of Trowbridge | 9 July 1660 | 21 July 1664 | ||
| Sir Thomas Ingram | 21 July 1664 | 22 February 1672 | ||
| Sir Robert Carr | 22 February 1672 | 21 November 1682 | ||
| Sir Thomas Chicheley | 21 November 1682 | January 1687 | Tory | |
| in commission | January 1687 | 1687 | ||
| Robert Phelipps | 1687 | December 1688 | ||
| Robert Bertie from 1690, the Lord Willoughby de Eresby | 21 March 1689 | 4 May 1697 | Whig | |
| Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford | 4 May 1697 | 12 May 1702 | Whig | |
| Sir John Gower from 1703, the Lord Gower | 12 May 1702 | 10 June 1706 | Tory | |
| The Earl of Derby | 10 June 1706 | 21 September 1710 | Whig | |
| The Lord Berkeley of Stratton | 21 September 1710 | 6 November 1714 | Tory | |
| The Earl of Aylesford | 6 November 1714 | 12 March 1716 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Scarborough | 12 March 1716 | 19 June 1717 | Whig | |
| The Lord Lechmere | 19 June 1717 | 17 July 1727 | Whig | |
| The Duke of Rutland | 17 July 1727 | 21 May 1735 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Cholmondeley | 21 May 1735 | 22 December 1742 | Whig | |
| The Lord Edgcumbe | 22 December 1742 | 27 February 1759 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Kinnoull | 27 February 1759 | 13 December 1762 | Whig | |
| Lord Strange | 13 December 1762 | 14 June 1771 | Whig | |
| The Lord Hyde from 1776, the Earl of Clarendon | 14 June 1771 | 17 April 1782 | Tory | |
| The Lord Ashburton | 17 April 1782 | 29 August 1783 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Derby | 29 August 1783 | 31 December 1783 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Clarendon | 31 December 1783 | 6 September 1786 | Tory | |
| The Lord Hawkesbury from 1796, the Earl of Liverpool | 6 September 1786 | 11 November 1803 | Tory | |
| The Lord Pelham | 11 November 1803 | 6 June 1804 | Tory | |
| The Lord Mulgrave | 6 June 1804 | 14 January 1805 | Tory | |
| The Earl of Buckinghamshire]] | 14 January 1805 | 10 July 1805 | Tory | |
| The Lord Harrowby | 10 July 1805 | 12 February 1806 | Tory | |
| The Earl of Derby | 12 February 1806 | 30 March 1807 | Whig | |
| Spencer Perceval | 30 March 1807 | 23 May 1812 | Tory | also Chancellor of the Exchequer and, from 1809, First Lord of the Treasury |
| The Earl of Buckinghamshire | 23 May 1812 | 23 June 1812 | Tory | |
| Charles Bathurst | 23 June 1812 | 13 February 1823 | Tory | |
| The Lord Bexley | 13 February 1823 | 26 January 1828 | Tory | |
| The Earl of Aberdeen | 26 January 1828 | 2 June 1828 | Tory | |
| Charles Arbuthnot | 2 June 1828 | 25 November 1830 | Tory | |
| The Lord Holland | 25 November 1830 | 14 November 1834 | Whig | |
| Charles Williams-Wynn | 26 December 1834 | 8 April 1835 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Holland | 23 April 1835 | 31 October 1840 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Clarendon | 31 October 1840 | 23 June 1841 | Whig | |
| Sir George Grey | 23 June 1841 | 30 August 1841 | Whig | |
| Lord Granville Somerset | 3 September 1841 | 27 June 1846 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Campbell of St Andrews | 6 July 1846 | 6 March 1850 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Carlisle | 6 March 1850 | 21 February 1852 | Whig | |
| Robert Christopher | 1 March 1852 | 17 December 1852 | Conservative | |
| Edward Strutt | 3 January 1853 | 21 June 1854 | Whig | |
| The Earl Granville | 21 June 1854 | 30 January 1855 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Harrowby | 31 March 1855 | 7 December 1855 | Whig | |
| Matthew Baines | 7 December 1855 | 21 February 1858 | Whig | |
| The Duke of Montrose | 26 February 1858 | 11 June 1859 | Conservative | |
| Sir George Grey | 22 June 1859 | 25 July 1861 | Liberal | |
| Edward Cardwell | 25 July 1861 | 7 April 1864 | Liberal | |
| The Earl of Clarendon | 7 April 1864 | 3 November 1865 | Liberal | |
| George Goschen | 26 January 1866 | 26 June 1866 | Liberal | |
| The Earl of Devon | 10 July 1866 | 26 June 1867 | Conservative | |
| John Wilson-Patten | 26 June 1867 | 7 November 1868 | Conservative | |
| Thomas Taylor | 7 November 1868 | 1 December 1868 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Dufferin from 1871, the Earl of Dufferin | 12 December 1868 | 9 August 1872 | Liberal | |
| Hugh Childers | 9 August 1872 | 30 September 1873 | Liberal | |
| John Bright | 30 September 1873 | 17 February 1874 | Liberal | |
| Thomas Taylor | 2 March 1874 | 21 April 1880 | Conservative | |
| John Bright | 28 April 1880 | 25 July 1882 | Liberal | |
| The Earl of Kimberley | 25 July 1882 | 28 December 1882 | Liberal | |
| John Dodson | 28 December 1882 | 29 October 1884 | Liberal | |
| George Trevelyan | 29 October 1884 | 9 June 1885 | Liberal | |
| Henry Chaplin | 24 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 | Conservative | |
| Edward Heneage | 6 February 1886 | 16 April 1886 | Liberal | |
| Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth | 16 April 1886 | 20 July 1886 | Liberal | |
| The Viscount Cranbrook | 3 August 1886 | 16 August 1886 | Conservative | |
| Lord John Manners from 1888, the Duke of Rutland | 16 August 1886 | 11 August 1892 | Conservative | |
| James Bryce | 18 August 1892 | 28 May 1894 | Liberal | |
| The Lord Tweedmouth | 28 May 1894 | 21 June 1895 | Liberal | |
| The Viscount Cross | 29 Jun 1895 | 4 July 1895 | Conservative | |
| Sir Henry James from 1895, the Lord James of Hereford | 4 July 1895 | 8 August 1902 | Conservative | |
| Sir William Walrond | 8 August 1902 | 4 December 1905 | Conservative | |
| Sir Henry Fowler | 10 December 1905 | 13 October 1908 | Liberal | |
| The Lord FitzMaurice | 13 October 1908 | 25 June 1909 | Liberal | |
| Herbert Samuel | 25 June 1909 | 14 February 1910 | Liberal | |
| Joseph Pease | 14 February 1910 | 23 October 1911 | Liberal | |
| Sir Charles Hobhouse | 23 October 1911 | 11 February 1914 | Liberal | |
| Charles Masterman | 11 February 1914 | 3 February 1915 | Liberal | |
| Edwin Montagu | 3 February 1915 | 25 May 1915 | Liberal | |
| Winston Churchill | 25 May 1915 | 25 November 1915 | Liberal | |
| Herbert Samuel | 25 November 1915 | 11 January 1916 | Liberal | |
| Edwin Montagu | 11 January 1916 | 9 July 1916 | Liberal | |
| Thomas McKinnon Wood | 9 July 1916 | 10 December 1916 | Liberal | |
| Sir Frederick Cawley | 10 December 1916 | 10 February 1918 | Liberal | |
| The Lord Beaverbrook | 10 February 1918 | 4 November 1918 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Downham | 4 November 1918 | 10 January 1919 | Conservative | |
| The Earl of Crawford | 10 January 1919 | 1 April 1921 | Conservative | |
| The Viscount Peel | 1 April 1921 | 7 April 1922 | Conservative | |
| Sir William Sutherland | 7 April 1922 | 19 October 1922 | Liberal | |
| The Marquess of Salisbury | 24 October 1922 | 25 May 1923 | Conservative | |
| John Davidson | 25 May 1923 | 22 January 1924 | Conservative | |
| Josiah Wedgwood | 22 January 1924 | 3 November 1924 | Labour | |
| The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | 10 November 1924 | 19 October 1927 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Cushendun | 19 October 1927 | 4 June 1929 | Conservative | |
| Sir Oswald Mosley | 7 June 1929 | 19 May 1930 | Labour | |
| Clement Attlee | 23 May 1930 | 13 March 1931 | Labour | |
| The Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede | 13 March 1931 | 24 August 1931 | Labour | |
| The Marquess of Lothian | 25 August 1931 | 10 November 1931 | Liberal | |
| John Davidson | 10 November 1931 | 28 May 1937 | Conservative | |
| The Earl Winterton | 28 May 1937 | 29 January 1939 | Conservative | |
| William Morrison | 29 January 1939 | 3 April 1940 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Tryon | 3 April 1940 | 14 May 1940 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Hankey | 14 May 1940 | 20 July 1941 | Non-party | |
| Duff Cooper | 20 July 1941 | 11 November 1943 | Conservative | |
| Ernest Brown | 11 November 1943 | 25 May 1945 | National Liberal | |
| Sir James Salter | 25 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | Non-party | |
| John Hynd | 4 August 1945 | 17 April 1947 | Labour | |
| The Lord Pakenham | 17 April 1947 | 31 May 1948 | Labour | |
| Hugh Dalton | 31 May 1948 | 28 February 1950 | Labour | |
| The Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough | 28 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 | Labour | |
| The Viscount Swinton | 31 October 1951 | 24 November 1952 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Woolton from 1953, the Viscount Woolton | 24 November 1952 | 20 December 1955 | Conservative | |
| The Earl of Selkirk | 20 December 1955 | 13 January 1957 | Conservative | |
| Charles Hill | 13 January 1957 | 9 October 1961 | Conservative | |
| Iain Macleod | 9 October 1961 | 20 October 1963 | Conservative | |
| The Viscount Blakenham | 20 October 1963 | 18 October 1964 | Conservative | |
| Douglas Houghton | 18 October 1964 | 6 April 1966 | Labour | |
| George Thomson | 6 April 1966 | 7 January 1967 | Labour | |
| Frederick Lee | 7 April 1967 | 6 October 1969 | Labour | |
| George Thomson | 6 October 1969 | 19 June 1970 | Labour | |
| Anthony Barber | 20 June 1970 | 28 July 1970 | Conservative | |
| Geoffrey Rippon | 28 July 1970 | 5 November 1972 | Conservative | |
| John Davies | 5 November 1972 | 4 March 1974 | Conservative | |
| Harold Lever | 5 March 1974 | 4 May 1979 | Labour | |
| Norman St John-Stevas | 5 May 1979 | 5 January 1981 | Conservative | |
| Francis Pym | 5 January 1981 | 27 October 1981 | Conservative | |
| The Baroness Young | 27 October 1981 | 6 April 1982 | Conservative | |
| Cecil Parkinson | 6 April 1982 | 11 June 1983 | Conservative | |
| The Lord Cockfield | 11 June 1983 | 11 September 1984 | Conservative | |
| The Earl of Gowrie | 11 September 1984 | 3 September 1985 | Conservative | |
| Norman Tebbit | 3 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 | Conservative | |
| Kenneth Clarke | 13 June 1987 | 25 July 1988 | Conservative | |
| Tony Newton | 25 July 1988 | 25 July 1989 | Conservative | |
| Kenneth Baker | 24 July 1989 | 28 November 1990 | Conservative | |
| Chris Patten | 28 November 1990 | 10 April 1992 | Conservative | |
| William Waldegrave | 10 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 | Conservative | |
| David Hunt | 20 July 1994 | 5 July 1995 | Conservative | |
| Roger Freeman | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | Conservative | |
| David Clark | 3 May 1997 | 27 July 1998 | Labour | |
| Jack Cunningham | 27 July 1998 | 11 October 1999 | Labour | |
| Mo Mowlam | 11 October 1999 | 11 June 2001 | Labour | |
| The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston | 11 June 2001 | 13 June 2003 | Labour | |
| Douglas Alexander | 13 June 2003 | 8 September 2004 | Labour | |
| Alan Milburn | 8 September 2004 | 6 May 2005 | Labour | |
| John Hutton | 6 May 2005 | 2 November 2005 | Labour | |
| vacant | 2 November 2005 | present |