List of chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom. Michael Gove has been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 24 July 2019.
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster (1361–1644)
Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | |
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Sir Henry de Haydock | 1361 | 1373 |
Ralph de Ergham Bishop of Sarum (–1400) [Note 1] |
1373 | 16 April 1377 |
Thomas de Thelwall (–1382) |
16 April 1377 |
1378 |
Sir John De Yerborough | 1378 | 10 November 1382 |
Sir Thomas Stanley pro temp. |
10 November 1382 |
29 November 1382 |
Sir Thomas Scarle | 29 November 1382 |
October 1383 |
Sir William Okey | October 1383 |
1400 |
John de Wakering | 1400 | 1400 |
William Burgoyne | 1400 | 15 May 1404 |
Sir Thomas Stanley | 15 May 1404 |
30 March 1410 |
John Springthorpe | 30 March 1410 |
4 April 1413 |
John Wodehouse | 4 April 1413 |
10 June 1424 |
William Troutbecke | 10 June 1424 |
16 February 1431 |
Walter Sherington | 16 February 1431 |
3 July 1442 |
William Tresham MP for Northamptonshire (1404–1450) |
3 July 1442 |
10 June 1449 |
John Say MP for Cambridgeshire (–1478) |
10 June 1449 |
10 June 1462 |
Sir Richard Fowler Chancellor of the Exchequer (c. 1425–1477) [Note 2] |
10 June 1462 |
3 November 1477 |
Sir John Say MP for Cambridgeshire (–1478) |
3 November 1477 |
2 April 1478 |
Thomas Thwaites Chancellor of the Exchequer (c. 1435–1503) |
2 April 1478 |
7 July 1483 |
Thomas Metcalfe (–c. 1504) |
7 July 1483 |
13 September 1486 |
Sir Reginald Bray (c. 1440–1503) |
13 September 1486 |
24 June 1503 |
Sir John Mordaunt (–c. 1505) |
24 June 1503 |
3 October 1505 |
Sir Richard Empson (c. 1450–1510) |
3 October 1505 |
14 May 1509 |
Sir Henry Marney (c. 1447–1523) |
14 May 1509 |
14 April 1523 |
Sir Richard Wingfield (c. 1469–1525) |
14 April 1523 |
31 December 1525 |
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) |
31 December 1525 |
3 November 1529 |
Sir William Fitzwilliam (c. 1490–1542) |
3 November 1529 |
10 May 1533 |
Sir John Gage (1479–1556) |
10 May 1533 |
1 July 1547 |
William Paget 1st Baron Paget Secretary of State (1506–1563) [Note 3] |
1 July 1547 |
7 July 1552 |
Sir John Gates MP for Essex (1504–1553) |
7 July 1552 |
1553 |
Sir Robert Rochester MP for Essex (c. 1516–1561) |
1553 | 1557 |
Sir Edward Waldegrave MP for Essex (c. 1516–1561) |
22 June 1558 |
1559 |
Sir Ambrose Cave MP for Warwickshire (–1568) |
1559 | 16 May 1568 |
Sir Ralph Sadler MP for Hertfordshire (1507–1587) |
16 May 1568 |
15 June 1587 |
Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary of State (c. 1532–1590) |
15 June 1587 |
1590 |
Sir Thomas Heneage MP for Essex (1532–1595) |
1590 | 7 October 1595 |
Seal in commission | 1595 | 1597 |
Sir Robert Cecil Secretary of State Lord Privy Seal (1563–1612) [Note 4] |
8 October 1597 |
1599 |
Seal in commission | 1599 | 16 September 1601 |
Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer MP for Middlesex (c. 1531–1607) [Note 5] |
16 September 1601 |
23 December 1607 |
Sir Thomas Parry MP for Berkshire (1541–1616) [Note 6] |
December 1607 |
May 1616 |
Sir John Dacombe (1570–1618) |
27 May 1616 |
January 1618 |
Sir Humphrey May MP for Leicester (1573–1630) [Note 7] |
23 March 1618 |
16 April 1629 |
Edward Barrett 1st Baron Barrett of Newburgh (1581–1645) |
16 April 1629 |
10 February 1644 |
Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (c. 1590–1664) [Note 8] |
1644 | 1645 |
Chancellors serving Parliament and the Commonwealth
William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke & William Lenthall (commission) |
(Lenthall) | 10 February 1644 | 1648 |
Gilbert Gerard | 1648 | 1 August 1649 | |
John Bradshaw | 1 August 1649 | 1653 | |
John Bradshaw & Thomas Fell (commissioners) |
(Bradshaw) | 1653 | 1654 |
Thomas Fell | 1654 | 1658 | |
John Bradshaw | 1658 | 1659 | |
William Lenthall | 1659 | 1659 | |
Gilbert Gerard | 14 May 1659 | 9 July 1659 |
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster (1660–present)
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 17th century
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | |
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Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (c. 1590–1664) |
9 July 1660 |
21 July 1664 | |
Sir Thomas Ingram MP for Thirsk (1614–1672) |
21 July 1664 |
22 February 1672 | |
Sir Robert Carr MP for Lincolnshire (c. 1637–1682) |
22 February 1672 |
21 November 1682 | |
Sir Thomas Chicheley (1614–1699) |
21 November 1682 |
1687 | |
Robert Phelips (1619–1707) |
May 1687 |
March 1689 | |
Robert Bertie Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1660–1723) |
21 March 1689 |
4 May 1697 | |
Thomas Grey 2nd Earl of Stamford (c. 1654–1720) |
4 May 1697 |
12 May 1702 |
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 18th century
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 19th century
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 20th century
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Concurrent office(s) | Party | Prime Minister | |||
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir William Hood Walrond Bt PC MP for Tiverton (1849–1925) |
11 August 1902 |
4 December 1905 |
Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Arthur Balfour Coalition | ||
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir Henry Fowler GCSI MP for Wolverhampton East (1830–1911) |
10 December 1905 |
13 October 1908 |
Liberal | style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Henry Campbell-Bannerman | ||
rowspan="7" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | H. H. Asquith | |||||||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Edmond Fitzmaurice 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846–1935) |
13 October 1908 |
25 June 1909 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Herbert Samuel MP for Cleveland (1870–1963) |
25 June 1909 |
14 February 1910 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Jack Pease MP for Rotherham (1860–1943) |
14 February 1910 |
23 October 1911 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Hobhouse TD MP for Bristol East (1862–1941) |
23 October 1911 |
11 February 1914 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Masterman (1873–1927) [Note 17] |
11 February 1914 |
3 February 1915 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Edwin Samuel Montagu MP for Chesterton (1879–1924) |
3 February 1915 |
25 May 1915 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Winston Churchill MP for Dundee (1874–1965) |
25 May 1915 |
25 November 1915 |
rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | H. H. Asquith (War coalition) | |||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Herbert Samuel MP for Cleveland (1870–1963) |
25 November 1915 |
11 January 1916 |
Postmaster-General | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Edwin Samuel Montagu MP for Chesterton (1879–1924) |
11 January 1916 |
9 July 1916 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Thomas McKinnon Wood MP for Glasgow St Rollox (1855–1927) |
9 July 1916 |
10 December 1916 |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Frederick Cawley MP for Prestwich (1850–1937) |
10 December 1916 |
10 February 1918 |
rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Lloyd George (Coalition) | |||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | | Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964) |
10 February 1918 |
4 November 1918 |
Minister of Information | Conservative | |||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Hayes Fisher 1st Baron Downham (1853–1920) |
4 November 1918 |
10 January 1919 |
Conservative | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Lindsay 27th Earl of Crawford KT PC (1871–1940) |
10 January 1919 |
1 April 1921 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Peel 2nd Viscount Peel GCSI TD PC (1867–1937) |
1 April 1921 |
7 April 1922 |
Minister of Transport | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir William Sutherland KCB MP for Argyllshire (1880–1949) |
7 April 1922 |
9 October 1922 |
Liberal | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Gascoyne-Cecil 4th Marquess of Salisbury KG GCVO CB PC DL (1861–1947) |
24 October 1922 |
25 May 1923 |
Lord President of the Council | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Bonar Law | |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | J. C. C. Davidson CH CB MP for Hemel Hempstead (1889–1970) |
25 May 1923 |
22 January 1924 |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Stanley Baldwin | |||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Josiah Wedgwood DSO PC DL MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme (1872–1943) |
22 January 1924 |
3 November 1924 |
Labour | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Ramsay MacDonald | ||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Robert Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood KC PC (1864–1958) |
10 November 1924 |
19 October 1927 |
Conservative | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Stanley Baldwin | ||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Ronald McNeill 1st Baron Cushendun PC (1861–1934) |
19 October 1927 |
4 June 1929 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir Oswald Mosley Bt MP for Smethwick (1896–1980) |
7 June 1929 |
19 May 1930 |
responsibility for unemployment | Labour | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Ramsay MacDonald | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Clement Attlee MP for Limehouse (1883–1967) |
23 May 1930 |
13 March 1931 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Arthur Ponsonby 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871–1946 |
13 March 1931 |
24 August 1931 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Philip Kerr 11th Marquess of Lothian CH (1882–1940 |
25 August 1931 |
10 November 1931 |
Liberal | style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" | | Ramsay MacDonald (1st Nat. coalition) | ||
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir John Davidson GCVO CH CB PC MP for Hemel Hempstead (1889–1970) |
10 November 1931 |
28 May 1937 |
sometime chairman of the Indian States inquiry | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" | | Ramsay MacDonald (2nd Nat. coalition) | |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Stanley Baldwin (3rd Nat. coalition) | |||||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Edward Turnour 6th Earl Winterton PC (1883–1962) |
28 May 1937 |
29 January 1939 |
Air Ministry spokesperson in the Commons (March – May 1938) | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Neville Chamberlain (4th Nat. coalition) | ||
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Morrison MC PC QC MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (1893–1961) |
29 January 1939 |
3 April 1940 |
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Minister of Food (from 4 September 1939) | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Neville Chamberlain (War coalition) | ||||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Tryon 1st Baron Tryon PC (1871–1940) |
3 April 1940 |
14 May 1940 |
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style="background-color: Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color" | | Maurice Hankey 1st Baron Hankey GCB GCMG GCVO PC (1877–1963 |
14 May 1940 |
20 July 1941 |
National | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Winston Churchill (War coalition) | ||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Duff Cooper DSO MP for Westminster St George's (1890–1954) |
20 July 1941 |
11 November 1943 |
Conservative | ||||
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | | Ernest Brown CH MC MP for Leith (1881–1962) |
11 November 1943 |
25 May 1945 |
National Liberal | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Arthur Salter GBE KCB PC MP for Oxford University (1881–1975) |
25 May 1945 |
26 July 1945 |
Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Winston Churchill (Caretaker coalition) | ||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Hynd MP for Sheffield Attercliffe (1902–1971) |
4 August 1945 |
17 April 1947 |
Minister for Germany and Austria | Labour | rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Clement Attlee | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Frank Pakenham 1st Baron Pakenham PC (1905–2001) |
17 April 1947 |
31 May 1948 |
deputy Foreign Secretary (responsibility for the British zone, Germany) | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Hugh Dalton MP for Bishop Auckland (1887–1962) |
31 May 1948 |
28 February 1950 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" | | A. V. Alexander 1st Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough CH PC (1885–1965) |
28 February 1950 |
26 October 1951 |
Labour Co-operative | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Philip Cunliffe-Lister 1st Viscount Swinton GBE CH MC PC (1884–1972) |
31 October 1951 |
24 November 1952 |
Minister of Materials | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Winston Churchill | |
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Frederick Marquis 1st Viscount Woolton CH PC (1883–1965) [Note 18] |
24 November 1952 |
20 December 1955 |
Minister of Materials (1 September 1953 – August 1954) | ||||
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Anthony Eden | |||||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Douglas-Hamilton 10th Earl of Selkirk AFC AE PC (1906–1994) |
20 December 1955 |
13 January 1957 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Hill MP for Luton (1904–1989) |
13 January 1957 |
9 October 1961 |
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Harold Macmillan | |||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Iain Macleod MP for Enfield West (1913–1970) |
9 October 1961 |
20 October 1963 |
Leader of the House of Commons | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Hare 1st Viscount Blakenham OBE PC DL (1911–1982) |
20 October 1963 |
16 October 1964 |
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords Chairman of the Conservative Party |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alec Douglas-Home | ||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Douglas Houghton CH MP for Sowerby (1898–1996) |
18 October 1964 |
5 October 1969 |
special responsibility for Social Services | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Harold Wilson | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Thomson MP for Dundee East (1921–2008) |
6 April 1969 |
24 June 1970 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Anthony Barber TD MP for Altrincham and Sale (1920–2005) |
20 June 1970 |
25 July 1970 |
responsibility for UK—EEC relations (chiefly, until 1973, negotiating entry) |
Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Edward Heath | |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Geoffrey Rippon QC MP for Hexham (1924–1997) |
28 July 1970 |
5 November 1972 | |||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Davies MBE MP for Knutsford (1916–1979) |
5 November 1972 |
4 March 1974 | |||||
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Harold Lever MP for Manchester Central (1914–1995) |
5 March 1974 |
4 May 1979 |
Labour | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Harold Wilson | ||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Callaghan | |||||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Norman St John-Stevas MP for Cambridgeshire (1929–2012) |
5 May 1979 |
5 January 1981 |
Leader of the House of Commons Minister for the Arts |
Conservative | rowspan=11 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Margaret Thatcher | |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Francis Pym MC MP for Cambridgeshire (1922–2008) |
5 January 1981 |
14 September 1981 |
Leader of the House of Commons Paymaster-General | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Janet Young Baroness Young PC DL (1926–2002) |
14 September 1981 |
6 April 1982 |
Leader of the House of Lords | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Cecil Parkinson MP for South Hertfordshire (1931–2016) |
6 April 1982 |
11 June 1983 |
Paymaster-General | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Arthur Cockfield Baron Cockfield PC (1916–2007) |
11 June 1983 |
11 September 1984 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Grey Ruthven 2nd Earl of Gowrie PC (1939–) |
11 September 1984 |
3 September 1985 |
Minister for the Arts | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Norman Tebbit CH MP for Chingford (1931–) |
3 September 1985 |
13 June 1987 |
Chairman of the Conservative Party | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Kenneth Clarke CH QC MP for Rushcliffe (1940–) |
13 June 1987 |
25 July 1988 |
Minister for Inner Cities (DTI) | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Tony Newton OBE MP for Braintree (1937–2012) |
25 July 1988 |
24 July 1989 |
Minister of State at DTI | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Kenneth Baker CH MP for Mole Valley (1934–) |
24 July 1989 |
28 November 1990 |
Chairman of the Conservative Party | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Chris Patten CH MP for Bath (1944–) |
28 November 1990 |
10 April 1992 | |||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Waldegrave MP for Bristol West (1946–) |
10 April 1992 |
20 July 1994 |
responsibility for public services and science | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Major | ||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Hunt MBE MP for Wirral West (1942–) |
20 July 1994 |
5 July 1995 |
Minister for Public Services | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Roger Freeman MP for Kettering (1942–) |
5 July 1995 |
2 May 1997 | |||||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Clark MP for South Shields (1939–) |
3 May 1997 |
27 July 1998 |
Cabinet Office Minister | Labour | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Tony Blair | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Jack Cunningham MP for Copeland (1939–) |
27 July 1998 |
11 October 1999 |
Labour | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Mo Mowlam MP for Redcar (1949–2005) |
11 October 1999 |
11 June 2001 |
Labour |
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 21st century
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Concurrent office(s) | Party | Prime Minister | |||
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Gus Macdonald Baron Macdonald of Tradeston CBE PC (1940–) |
11 June 2001 |
13 June 2003 |
Cabinet Office Minister | Labour | rowspan=6 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Tony Blair | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Douglas Alexander MP for Paisley South (1967–) |
13 June 2003 |
8 September 2004 |
Labour | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alan Milburn MP for Darlington (1958–) |
8 September 2004 |
6 May 2005 |
Labour | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Hutton MP for Barrow and Furness (1955–) |
6 May 2005 |
2 November 2005 |
Labour | ||||
Vacant | 2 November 2005 |
5 May 2006 | ||||||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Hilary Armstrong MP for North West Durham (1945–) |
5 May 2006 |
27 June 2007 |
Cabinet Office Minister Minister for Social Exclusion |
Labour | |||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Ed Miliband MP for Doncaster North (1969–) |
28 June 2007 |
3 October 2008 |
Cabinet Office Minister | Labour | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Gordon Brown | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Liam Byrne MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill (1970–) |
3 October 2008 |
5 June 2009 |
Labour | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Janet Royall Baroness Royall of Blaisdon PC (1955–) |
5 June 2009 |
11 May 2010 |
Leader of the House of Lords | Labour | |||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Thomas Galbraith 2nd Baron Strathclyde CH PC (1960–) |
12 May 2010 |
7 January 2013 |
Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Cameron (Coalition) | ||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Jonathan Hill Baron Hill of Oareford CBE PC (1960–) |
7 January 2013 |
14 July 2014 |
Conservative | ||||
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Oliver Letwin MP for West Dorset (1956–) |
14 July 2014 |
14 July 2016 |
Minister of State for Government Policy | Conservative | |||
in charge of the Cabinet Office | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Cameron (II) | ||||||
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir Patrick McLoughlin MP for Derbyshire Dales (1957–) |
14 July 2016 |
8 January 2018 |
Chairman of the Conservative Party | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Theresa May (I) | |
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Theresa May (II) | |||||||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Lidington CBE MP for Aylesbury (1956–) |
8 January 2018 |
24 July 2019 |
Minister for the Cabinet Office | Conservative | |||
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Michael Gove MP for Surrey Heath (1967-) |
24 July 2019 |
Incumbent | Minister for the Cabinet Office (13 February 2020-) | Conservative | rowspan=1 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Boris Johnson |
Notes
- ^ Served as Bishop of Sarum from 1375.
- ^ Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1469 to c. April 1471.
- ^ Served as Secretary of State until 1548. Created Baron Paget in the peerage of England in 1549.
- ^ Served as Lord Privy Seal from 1598.
- ^ Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1603. MP for Middlesex during 1601 Parliament.
- ^ MP for Berkshire during the 1614 Parliament.
- ^ Elected to Parliament as MP for Lancaster in 1621 and 1625, and as MP for Leicester in 1624 and 1626.
- ^ Royalist appointee during the Oxford Parliament, re-appointed Chancellor in 1660 after the Restoration.
- ^ MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme until 1703; thereafter elevated to the peerage of England as Baron Gower.
- ^ MP for Tewkesbury until 1721; thereafter elevated to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Lechmere.
- ^ Commonly styled with the courtesy title Lord Strange, however neither James Smith-Stanley or his father has any right to it.
- ^ Baron Hyde since 1756; elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Clarendon from 1776.
- ^ Baron Hawkesbury since August 1786; elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Liverpool from May 1796.
- ^ MP for Bodmin until 1818, thereafter MP for Harwich.
- ^ Baron Dufferin and Claneboye since 1841. Elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Dufferin in 1871.
- ^ MP for Melton until 1888, thereafter succeeded his brother as Duke of Rutland.
- ^ On appointment to office a ministerial by-election was triggered in the Bethnal Green South West constituency that Masterman had represented since 1911. Masterman unsuccessfully contested the seat, narrowly losing to the Conservative candidate. Masterman then unsuccessful stood in the 1914 Ipswich by-election. Masterman resigned as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster after failing to be returned to Parliament.
- ^ Baron Woolton since 1952, created Viscount Woolton in 1953.
References
Bibliography
- Baines, Edward (1836). The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Vol. Vol. I. London, Paris, and New York: Fisher, Son, & Co.
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- Venning, Timothy (2005). Compendium of British Office Holders. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.