Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the British government. Originally the chief officer of the Duchy of Lancaster, the estate is now run by a deputy, leaving the position of Chancellor available as an alternative Minister without Portfolio. Often the position has been given to a junior Cabinet minister with responsibilities in a particular area of policy for which there is no portfolioed department. The most recent incumbent, Alan Milburn, was given the title by Tony Blair so that he could join the Cabinet, but have no demanding government job, in order to devote his time to the Labour Party's campaign for re-election in the 2005 general election.
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1361-1803Sir Henry de Haydock 1361-1373Ralph de Ergham 1373-1377Thomas de Thelwall 16 April 1377-1378Sir John De Yerborough 1378-1382Sir Thomas Stanley 10 November 1382-29 November 1382 (pro tem)Sir Thomas Scarle 29 November 1382-October 1383Sir William Okey October 1383-1400John de Wakering 1400-1400William Burgoyne 1400-1404Sir Thomas Stanley 15 May 1404-30 March 1410John Springthorpe 30 March 1410-4 April 1413John Wodehouse 4 April 1413-10 June 1424William Troutbecke 10 June 1424-16 February 1431Walter Sherington 16 February 1431-July 3 1442William Tresham 3 July 1442-10 June 1449John Say 10 June 1449-10 June 1462Sir Richard Fowler 10 June 1462-November 3 1477Sir John Say November 3 1477-2 April 1478Thomas Thwaites 2 April 1478-7 July 1483Thomas Metcalfe 7 July 1483-13 September 1486Sir Reginald Bray 13 September 1486-24 June 1504Sir John Mordaunt 24 June 1504-3 October 1505Sir Richard Empson 3 October 1505-14 May 1509Sir Henry Marny 14 May 1509-14 April 1523Sir Richard Wingfield 14 April 1523-31 December 1525Sir Thomas More 31 December 1525-3 November 1529Sir William Fitzwilliam 3 November 1529-10 May 1533Sir John Gage 10 May 1533-1 July 1547Sir William Paget, 1st Baron Paget (1549) 1 July 1547-7 July 1552Sir John Gates 7 July 1552-1553Sir Robert Rochester 1553-1557Sir Edward Walgrave 22 June 1558-1559Sir Ambrose Cave 1559-1568Sir Ralph Sadler 16 May 1568-15 June 1587Sir Francis Walsingham 15 June 1587-1590Sir Thomas Heneage 1590-1595in commission 1595-1597Sir Robert Cecil 1597-1599in commission 1599-1601Sir John Fortescue 1601in commission 1601Sir John Fortescue 1601-1607Sir Thomas Parry 1607-1616Sir John Dacombe 1616-1618in commission 1618Sir Humphrey May 1618-1629Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh 1629-1644Francis, Lord Seymour (for the king) 1644-1645William, 1st Lord Grey of Warke and William Lenthall (for parliament) 1645-1648Sir Gilbert Gerrard 1648-1649John Bradshaw 1649-1653John Bradshaw and Thomas Fell (commissioners) 1653-1654Thomas Fell 1654-1658John Bradshaw 1658-1660William Lenthall 1660Sir Gilbert Gerrard 1660Francis Seymour, 1st Lord Seymour of Trowbridge 1660-1664Sir Thomas Ingram 1664-1672Sir Robert Carr 1672-1682Sir Thomas Chicheley 1682-1687in commission 1687Robert Phelipps 1687-1689Robert Bertie, 16th Baron Willoughby of Eresby 1689-1697Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford 1697-1702Sir John Leveson-Gower, 1st Lord Gower of Stittenham (1703) 1702-1706James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby 1706-1710William Berkeley, 4th Lord Berkeley of Stratton 1710-1714Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford 1714-1716Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarborough 1716-1717Nicolas Lechmere, 1st Lord Lechmere 1721-1727John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland 1727-1736George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley 1736-1743Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Lord Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe 1743-1758Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (1758) 1758-1762James Stanley, Lord Strange 1762-1771Thomas Villiers, 1st Lord Hyde of Hindon, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1776) 1771-1782John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton 1782-1783Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby 1783Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon 1783-1786Charles Jenkinson, 1st Lord Hawkesbury, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1796) 1786-1803
1803-1902Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham 1803-1804Henry Phipps, 3rd Baron Mulgrave 1804-1805Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 1805Dudley Ryder, 2nd Lord Harrowby 1805-1806Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby 1806-1807Spencer Perceval 1807-1812Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 1812Charles Bathurst 1812-1823Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley 1823-1828George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1828Charles Arbuthnot 1828-1830Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland 1830-1834Charles Watkins Williams Wynn 1834-1835Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland 1835-1840George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1840-1841Sir George Grey, Bt 1841Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset 1841-1846John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews 1846-1850George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle 1850-1852Robert Adam Christopher 1852Edward Strutt 1852-1854Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1854-1855Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby 1855Matthew Talbot Baines 1855-1858James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose 1858-1859Sir George Grey, Bt 1859-1861Edward Cardwell 1861-1864George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1864-1866George Joachim Goschen 1866William Reginald Courtenay, 21st Earl of Devon 1866-1867John Wilson-Patten 1867-1868Thomas Edward Taylor 1868Frederick Temple Blackwood, 5th Lord Dufferin, 1st Earl of Dufferin (1871) 1868-1872Hugh Culling Eardley Childers 1872-1873John Bright 1873-1874Thomas Edward Taylor 1874-1880John Bright 1880-1882John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1882John George Dodson 1882-1884George Otto Trevelyan 1884-1885Henry Chaplin 1885-1886Edward Heneage 1886Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth 1886Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook 1886Lord John Manners 1886-1892James Bryce 1892-1894Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth 1894-1895Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross 1895Sir Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford (1895) 1895-1902
1902 to presentSir William Hood Walrond 1902-1905Sir Henry Hartley Fowler 1905-1908Edmund George Petty FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice 1908-1909Herbert Samuel 1909-1910Joseph Albert Pease 1910-1911Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse 1911-1914Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman 1914-1915Edwin Samuel Montagu 1915Winston Churchill 1915Herbert Samuel 1915-1916Edwin Samuel Montagu 1916Thomas McKinnon Wood 1916Sir Frederick Cawley 1916-1918William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook 1918William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham 1918-1919David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres 1919-1921William Robert Wellesley, 2nd Viscount Peel 1921-1922Sir William Sutherland 1922James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury 1922-1923JCC Davidson 1923-1924Josiah Wedgwood 1924Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1924-1927Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun 1927-1929Sir Oswald Mosley 1929-1930Clement Attlee 1930-1931Arthur Augustus William Harry, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede 1931Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian 1931JCC Davidson 1931-1937Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 1937-1939William Shepherd Morrison 1939-1940George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon 1940Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey 1940-1941Alfred Duff Cooper 1941-1943Ernest Brown 1943-1945Sir James Arthur Salter 1945John Burns Hynd 1945-1947Francis Aungier Pakenham, 1st Baron Pakenham 1947-1948Hugh Dalton 1948-1950Lord Alexander 1950-1951Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton 1951-1952Frederick James Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton (Viscount 1953) 1952-1955George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk 1955-1957Charles Hill 1957-1961Iain Macleod 1961-1963John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham 1963-1964Douglas Houghton 1964-1966George Morgan Thompson 1966-1967Frederick Lee 1967-1969George Morgan Thompson 1969-1970Anthony Barber 1970Geoffrey Rippon 1970-1972John Davies 1972-1974Norman Harold Lever 1974-1979Norman Arthur Francis St John-Stevas 1979-1981Francis Pym 1981Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young 1981-1982Cecil Parkinson 1982-1983Lord Cockfield 1983-1984Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie 1984-1985Norman Beresford Tebbit 1985-1987Kenneth Clarke 1987-1988Tony Newton 1988-1989Kenneth Baker 1989-1990Chris Patten 1990-1992William Waldegrave 1992-1994David Hunt 1994-1995Roger Freeman 1995-1997David Clark 1997-1998Jack Cunningham 1998-1999Mo Mowlam 1999-2001Lord Macdonald of Tradeston 2001-2003Douglas Alexander 2003-2004Alan Milburn 2004-
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