• The Treasurer of the Chamber was at various points a position in the British royal household. The post of Treasurer of the Chamber first arose in the...
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    Ralph Ewens (category Household of Anne of Denmark)
    1st Baron Stanhope, who was Master of the Posts and Treasurer of the Chamber in the 1590s. Ewens was Member of Parliament for Winchelsea in 1597, and...
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    The Indiana Treasurer of State is a constitutional and elected office in the executive branch of the government of Indiana. The treasurer is responsible...
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  • John West, 6th Baron De La Warr (category Grooms of the Stool)
    George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne, an office he held until Prince George's death in 1708. He held the office of Treasurer of the Chamber to Queen...
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    John Blanke (category People of the Tudor period)
    A surviving document from the accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber records a payment of 20 shillings to "John Blanke the Blacke Trumpet" for wages...
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    William Cavendish (courtier) (category People associated with the Dissolution of the Monasteries)
    send tokens of goodwill to the Lady Mary. He was appointed Treasurer of the Chamber from 1546 to 1553 but, after an audit, was accused of embezzling a...
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    Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of Great Britain)
    Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club. Dashwood was born in Great Marlborough Street, London, in December 1708. He was the only...
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    1727, he became Treasurer of the Chamber (until 1744) and assay master of the stannaries (until 1738). He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1739...
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  • Lord Edward Russell (1642–1714) (category Members of the Parliament of England for Tavistock)
    Rotulorum of Caernarvonshire in 1689 at the Glorious Revolution, and was Treasurer of the Chamber from 1694 to 1702. He was briefly the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire...
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    Thomas Wolsey (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    died of natural causes before he could be beheaded. Wolsey made changes to the taxation system, devising, with treasurer of the Chamber John Heron, the "Subsidy"...
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  • 1640–1644, and Treasurer of the Chamber, 1660–1679 Edward Griffin, 1st Baron Griffin of Braybrooke, British Treasurer of the Chamber, 1679–1689 Edward...
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    Brian Tuke (category Clerks of the Parliaments)
    his account books as treasurer of the chamber survives. In February 1530-1 Edward North was associated with him in the clerkship of parliaments, and in...
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    Jewel House (category History of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    Jewels and Plate, or Keeper of the Jewel House. He was also Treasurer of the Chamber, a division of the Royal Household of the monarch. In this position...
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    Charles Townshend (category Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain)
    was ruled by William Pitt the Elder, the lucrative office of treasurer of the chamber was given to Townshend, but he retired the following Spring and George...
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  • The Master of the Revels was the holder of a position within the English, and later the British, royal household, heading the "Revels Office" or "Office...
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    chamber to the Prince of Wales from 1749 to 1751. At the 1754 British general election, Dodington was returned for Melcombe Regis. He was Treasurer of...
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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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    The King's Wardrobe, together with the Chamber, made up the personal part of medieval English government known as the King's household. Originally the...
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    1st Marquess of Downshire, PC (30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793), known as the 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the 1st Earl of Hillsborough...
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    return to office Elliot was Treasurer of the Chamber in the Royal Household from 1762 to 1770. He was appointed Treasurer of the Navy in 1770 in Lord North's...
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    of Cornwall and Treasurer of the Chamber. He was succeeded by his nephew Henry Robartes 3rd Earl of Radnor who died unmarried in Paris in 1741. The title...
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  • Edward Griffin (MP) (category Members of the Middle Temple)
    Downton in the Long Parliament and sat until he was disabled on 5 February 1644. Following the Restoration, Griffin was Treasurer of the Chamber from 1660...
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  • John Heron (courtier) (category Court of Henry VIII)
    came to prominence as Treasurer of the Chamber under Henry VII and Henry VIII between 1492 and 1521. He was also Chamberlain of the Exchequer from 1495...
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    as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served...
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  • Mother of the Maids, were imprisoned in the Tower of London. Elizabeth Chamber of Stonor, to the consorts of Henry VIII. Mistress Marshall, household of Anne...
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    as an error in the Chamber Accounts. W. W. Greg suggested the following explanation: "[T]he accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber show payments to...
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    The master of the treasury or treasurer (German: Königlicher Ober-Schatzmeister or Tarnackmeister, Hungarian: tárnokmester, Latin: magister tavarnicorum...
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    son, the fifth Baronet, served as Treasurer of the Chamber, as Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners and as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk...
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  • Rowland Gwynne (category Members of the Parliament of England for Bere Alston)
    was Treasurer of the Chamber, a minor Court office, 1689–93, and in good standing with William III of Orange. After William's death he was one of the first...
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    The funeral directors to the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom are selected and appointed by the Lord Chamberlain's Office. Usually...
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