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Richard FitzNeal, Dean of Lincoln, Bishop of London (c. 1158 – 1189) William of Ely, Archdeacon of Cleveland (1196 – August 1215) Eustace of Fauconberg, Bishop of London (4 November 1217 – October 1228) Walter Mauclerk, Bishop of Carlisle (13 November 1228 – 14 January 1233) Peter des Rivaux, Canon of St. Paul's (14 January 1233 – 1 ...
The Lord High Treasurer was an English government position and has been a British government position since the Acts of Union of 1707. A holder of the post would be the third-highest-ranked Great Officer of State in England, below the Lord High Steward and the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain . The Lord High Treasurer functions as the head ...
The UK Treasury traces its origins to the Treasury of the Kingdom of England, founded by 1126, in the reign of King Henry I. The Treasury emerged from the Royal Household. It was where the king kept his treasures, such as in The King's Chamber. The head of the Treasury was called the Lord Treasurer.
The finances of the British royal family come from a number of sources. The British government supports the monarch and some of his family financially [ 1] by means of the Sovereign Grant, which is intended to meet the costs of the sovereign's official expenditures. [ 2] This includes the costs of the upkeep of the various royal residences ...
Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford KG (1378 – 9 August 1449) was an English knight and landowner, from 1400 to 1414 a Member of the House of Commons, of which he became Speaker, then was an Admiral and peer . He won renown in the Hundred Years' War, fighting in many engagements, including the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
St John's College, Cambridge. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603). Lord Salisbury served as the Secretary of State of England (1596–1612) and Lord High ...
v. t. e. The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom. Constitutional convention holds that the office of First Lord is held by the Prime Minister. The office is not the United Kingdom's finance minister; this role is instead held ...
In 1485 the office of Treasurer of the Chamber was separated from that of the Master of the Jewel Office, situated within the Privy Chamber department of the Lord Steward. It became an important office of finance established by King Henry VII (1485-1509) to administer his new secretive and highly efficient system identified and named "Chamber ...