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...
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offices of Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain (who in turn held the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain) and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland...
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Lord High Treasurer of Ireland was the head of the Exchequer of Ireland, and chief financial officer of the Kingdom of Ireland. The designation High was...
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The Treasurer was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland. The full title of the post was Lord High Treasurer...
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This is a list of lord high treasurers of England and later of Great Britain. Nigel, nephew of Roger, Bishop of Salisbury (c. 1126 – 1133) Adelelm, nephew...
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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...
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offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland in commission. The office of Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain...
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Lords Commissioners of the Treasury (redirect from Lord of the treasury)
exercising the office of Lord High Admiral until 1964, when the Queen resumed the office). These offices (excluding Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, which went...
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century, a position of Lord High Treasurer was used on several occasions as the third great officer of the Crown. Now the title First Lord of the Treasury is...
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The Lord High Treasurer (Swedish: riksskattmästare) was a highly prominent member of the Swedish Privy Council between 1602 and 1684, excluding periods...
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Parliament, and led the High Court of Chancery. After the English Reformation, the chancellor's power shifted to the Lord High Treasurer. After 1721, the office...
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(lord high treasurer, 1547–1549), served as lord protector to his young nephew King Edward VI; William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (lord high treasurer,...
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Officers of State, ranking below the Lord High Treasurer but above the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Lord President usually attends and is responsible...
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Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington (category Lord High Treasurers of Ireland)
appointed Lord High Treasurer of Ireland. In 1698, he inherited his grandfather's titles of Earl of Burlington and Earl of Cork and was appointed a Lord of the...
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Exchequer of Pleas (section Treasurer)
partially thanks to the Lord High Treasurer. Although the Lord Chancellor was more traditionally important, the Lord High Treasurers from 1547 to 1612 were...
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Harrison. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 6 (Edinburgh, 1905), pp. 24, 79, 88, 92 Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 6 (Edinburgh...
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William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester (category Lord High Treasurers of England)
1572), styled Lord St John between 1539 and 1550 and Earl of Wiltshire between 1550 and 1551, was an English Lord High Treasurer, Lord Keeper of the Great...
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November 1552 he was an auditor of the treasurer's account. Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, appointed lord treasurer in April 1554, delegated the entire...
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diplomatic strategy that ultimately defeated Louis XIV; third, as lord high treasurer, he worked to make the Treasury more efficient and attempted to weed...
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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (category Lord High Treasurers)
Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime...
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stopping, for one year, all payments out of the Exchequer. He was Lord High Treasurer from 28 November 1672 to June 1673, when, as a Roman Catholic, he...
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The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State...
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Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (redirect from Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and Earl of Dorset)
Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer. Thomas Sackville was born at Buckhurst, in the parish of Withyham...
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William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (category Lord High Treasurers of Ireland)
occasions, but declined each offer. He was Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and Governor of Cork, and Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire. In 1782, he was made...
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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (redirect from William Cecil, Lord Burghley)
her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer (redirect from Second Lord of the Treasury)
second lord of the Treasury as one of at least six lords commissioners of the Treasury, responsible for executing the office of the Treasurer of the Exchequer –...
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High Chancellor (Swedish: rikskansler) Lord High Treasurer (Swedish: riksskattmästare) The title meant no particular assignment until 1614, when Lord...
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John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester (category Lord High Treasurers of England)
an English nobleman and scholar who served as Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Constable of England and Lord Deputy of Ireland. He was known as "the Butcher...
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Robert Hales (category Lord High Treasurers of England)
Hospitaller of England, Lord High Treasurer, and Admiral of the West. He was killed in the Peasants' Revolt. In 1372 Robert Hales became the Lord/Grand Prior of...
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the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 6 (HM General Register House: Edinburgh, 1905), pp. 298, 380-381, 390. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of...
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