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The following is a list of lord chancellors and lord keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum .
England portal; Articles about people who held the office of Lord Chancellor of England before the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707. For holders of the successor office of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain see category:Lord chancellors of Great Britain
The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom.The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ranking Great Officer of State in Scotland [a] and England, [b] nominally outranking the prime minister.
List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
The chancellor, as Master of the Mint, has a robe of office, [21] similar to that of the lord chancellor (as seen in several of the portraits depicted below). In recent times, it has only regularly been worn at coronations , but some chancellors (at least until the 1990s) have also worn it when attending the Trial of the Pyx as Master of the Mint.
Lord Chancellor (1068–present) Lord President of the Council (1678–present) Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1307–present) Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (and preceding positions, 1889–2001) Minister of Technology (1964–1970) First Lord of the Admiralty (1709–1964) See also Admiralty. Paymaster General (1834–present)
Former Lord Chancellor: Lord Jackson of Peterborough: 16 November 2022 Conservative Life peer Former MP for Peterborough (2005–2017), former councilor on the Ealing Borough Council (1990–1998) Lord James of Blackheath: 9 June 2006 Conservative Life peer Corporate trouble-shooter and former agent for MI5 Lord Jamieson: 11 March 2024 Conservative
Sir Julius Caesar (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Commission of the Treasury (24 June 1613 – 11 July 1614) Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere, First Lord; Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (11 July 1614 – 1618) Commission of the Treasury (July 1618 – 14 December 1620) George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, First Lord; Francis Bacon, 1st ...