Chancellor of the Exchequeredit

From British Offices and Honours

Name	Entered office	Left office	Party	Notes
Sir Walter Mildmay	1559	1589
John Fortescue	1589	1603
The Earl of Dunbar	1603	1606
Sir Julius Caesar	1606	1614
Sir Fulke Greville	1614	1621
Sir Richard Weston	1621	1628
The Lord Barrett of Newburgh	1628	1629
The Lord Cottington	1629	1642
Sir John Culpepper	1642	1643
Sir Edward Hyde	19 July 1643	1646
The Lord Ashley from 1672, the Earl of Shaftesbury	13 May 1661	22 November 1672
Sir John Duncombe	22 November 1672	2 May 1676
Sir John Ernle	2 May 1676	2 December 1688	Tory
The Lord Delamere	9 April 1689	18 March 1690	Whig
Richard Hampden	18 March 1690	10 May 1694	Whig
Charles Montagu	10 May 1694	2 June 1699	Whig
John Smith	2 June 1699	27 March 1701	Whig
Henry Boyle	27 March 1701	22 April 1708	Whig
John Smith	22 April 1708	11 August 1710	Whig
Robert Harley	11 August 1710	4 June 1711	Tory
Robert Benson	4 June 1711	21 August 1713	Tory
Sir William Wyndham	21 August 1713	13 October 1714	Tory
Sir Richard Onslow	13 October 1714	12 October 1715	Whig
Robert Walpole	12 October 1715	15 April 1717	Whig	also First Lord of the Treasury
James Stanhope from 1717, the Viscount Stanhope	15 April 1717	20 March 1718	Whig	also First Lord of the Treasury
John Aislabie	20 March 1718	23 January 1721	Whig
Sir John Pratt	2 February 1721	3 April 1721	Whig
Robert Walpole from 1725, Sir Robert Walpole	3 April 1721	12 February 1742	Whig	also First Lord of the Treasury
Samuel Sandys	12 February 1742	12 December 1743	Whig
Henry Pelham	12 December 1743	8 March 1754	Whig	also First Lord of the Treasury
Sir William Lee	8 March 1754	6 April 1754	Whig
Henry Bilson Legge	6 April 1754	25 November 1755	Whig
Sir George Lyttelton	25 November 1755	16 November 1756	Whig
Henry Bilson Legge	16 November 1756	13 April 1757	Whig
The Lord Mansfield	13 April 1757	2 July 1757	Whig	interim; also Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
Henry Bilson Legge	2 July 1757	19 March 1761	Whig
The Viscount Barrington	19 March 1761	29 May 1762	Whig
Sir Francis Dashwood	29 May 1762	16 April 1763	Butite Whig/"Tory"
George Grenville	16 April 1763	16 July 1765	Grenvillite Whig	also First Lord of the Treasury
William Dowdeswell	16 July 1765	2 August 1766	Rockingham Whig
Charles Townshend	2 August 1766	4 September 1767	Tory
Lord North	11 September 1767	27 March 1782	Tory	also First Lord of the Treasury from 1770
Lord John Cavendish	27 March 1782	10 July 1782	Whig
William Pitt	10 July 1782	31 March 1783	Whig
Lord John Cavendish	2 April 1783	19 December 1783	Whig
William Pitt	19 December 1783	14 March 1801	Tory	also First Lord of the Treasury
Henry Addington	14 March 1801	10 May 1804	Tory	also First Lord of the Treasury
William Pitt	10 May 1804	23 January 1806	Tory	also First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Henry Petty	5 February 1806	26 March 1807	Whig
Spencer Perceval	26 March 1807	12 May 1812	also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and (from 1809) First Lord of the Treasury
Nicholas Vansittart	11 June 1812	31 January 1823	Tory
Frederick Robinson	31 January 1823	20 April 1827	Tory
George Canning	20 April 1827	8 August 1827	Tory	also First Lord of the Treasury
The Lord Tenterden	wikipedia:8 August 1827	3 September 1827	Tory	interim; also Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
John Herries	3 September 1827	26 January 1828	Tory
Henry Goulburn	26 January 1828	22 November 1830	Tory
Viscount Althorp	22 November 1830	14 November 1834	Whig
The Lord Denman	14 November 1834	15 December 1834	Whig	interim; also Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
Sir Robert Peel	15 December 1834	8 April 1835	Conservative	also First Lord of the Treasury
Thomas Spring Rice	18 April 1835	26 August 1839	Whig
Sir Francis Baring	26 August 1839	30 August 1841	Whig
Henry Goulburn	3 September 1841	27 June 1846	Conservative
Sir Charles Wood	6 July 1846	21 February 1852	Whig
Benjamin Disraeli	27 February 1852	17 December 1852	Conservative
William Gladstone	28 December 1852	28 February 1855	Peelite
Sir George Lewis	28 February 1855	21 February 1858	Whig
Benjamin Disraeli	26 February 1858	11 June 1859	Conservative
William Gladstone	18 June 1859	26 June 1866	Liberal
Benjamin Disraeli	6 July 1866	29 February 1868	Conservative
George Ward Hunt	29 February 1868	1 December 1868	Conservative
Robert Lowe	9 December 1868	11 August 1873	Liberal
William Gladstone	11 August 1873	17 February 1874	Liberal	also First Lord of the Treasury
Sir Stafford Northcote	21 February 1874	21 April 1880	Conservative
William Gladstone	28 April 1880	16 December 1882	Liberal	also First Lord of the Treasury
Hugh Childers	16 December 1882	9 June 1885	Liberal
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach	24 June 1885	28 January 1886	Conservative
Sir William Harcourt	6 February 1886	20 July 1886	Liberal
Lord Randolph Churchill	3 August 1886	22 December 1886	Conservative
George Goschen	14 January 1887	11 August 1892	Liberal Unionist
Sir William Harcourt	18 August 1892	21 June 1895	Liberal
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach	29 June 1895	11 August 1902	Conservative/Unionist
Charles Ritchie	11 August 1902	9 October 1903	Unionist
Austen Chamberlain	9 October 1903	4 December 1905	Unionist
Herbert Henry Asquith	10 December 1905	12 April 1908	Liberal
David Lloyd George	12 April 1908	25 May 1915	Liberal
Reginald McKenna	25 May 1915	10 December 1916	Liberal
Andrew Bonar Law	10 December 1916	10 January 1919	Unionist
Austen Chamberlain	10 January 1919	1 April 1921	Unionist
Sir Robert Horne	1 April 1921	19 October 1922	Unionist
Stanley Baldwin	27 October 1922	27 August 1923	Conservative	also Prime Minister from 22 May 1923
Neville Chamberlain	27 August 1923	22 January 1924	Conservative
Philip Snowden	22 January 1924	3 November 1924	Labour
Winston Churchill	6 November 1924	4 June 1929	Conservative
Philip Snowden	7 June 1929	5 November 1931	Labour/National Labour
Neville Chamberlain	5 November 1931	28 May 1937	Conservative
Sir John Simon	28 May 1937	12 May 1940	National Liberal
Sir Kingsley Wood	12 May 1940	21 September 1943	Conservative
Sir John Anderson	24 September 1943	26 July 1945	Non-party
Hugh Dalton	27 July 1945	13 November 1947	Labour
Sir Stafford Cripps	13 November 1947	19 October 1950	Labour
Hugh Gaitskell	19 October 1950	26 October 1951	Labour
Rab Butler	28 October 1951	20 December 1955	Conservative
Harold Macmillan	20 December 1955	13 January 1957	Conservative
Peter Thorneycroft	13 January 1957	6 January 1958	Conservative
Derick Amory	6 January 1958	27 July 1960	Conservative
Selwyn Lloyd	27 July 1960	13 July 1962	Conservative
Reginald Maudling	13 July 1962	16 October 1964	Conservative
James Callaghan	16 October 1964	30 November 1967	Labour
Roy Jenkins	30 November 1967	19 June 1970	Labour
Iain Macleod	20 June 1970	20 July 1970	Conservative
Anthony Barber	25 July 1970	4 March 1974	Conservative
Denis Healey	5 March 1974	4 May 1979	Labour
Sir Geoffrey Howe	5 May 1979	11 June 1983	Conservative
Nigel Lawson	11 June 1983	26 October 1989	Conservative
John Major	26 October 1989	28 November 1990	Conservative
Norman Lamont	28 November 1990	27 May 1993	Conservative
Kenneth Clarke	27 May 1993	2 May 1997	Conservative
Gordon Brown	2 May 1997	current incumbent	Labour