Treasurer of the Household

The Treasurer of the Household is a member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The position is usually held by one of the government deputy Chief Whips in the House of Commons. The current holder of the office is Marcus Jones MP.^[1]

The position had its origin in the office of Treasurer (or Keeper) of the Wardrobe and was ranked second after the Lord Steward. The office was often staffed by the promotion of the Comptroller of the Household. On occasion (e.g. 1488–1503) the office was vacant for a considerable period and its duties undertaken by the Cofferer of the Household. By the end of the 17th century the office of Treasurer was more or less a sinecure,^[2] and in the 18th and 19th centuries it was usually occupied by peers who were members of the Government.^[3] The Treasurer was automatically a member of the privy council.^{[citation needed][when?]} They were a member of the Board of Green Cloth until that was abolished by reform of local government licensing in 2004 under section 195 of the Licensing Act 2003.

On state occasions, the Treasurer of the Household (in common with certain other senior officers of the Household) carries a white staff of office.^[4]

Treasurers of the Household

15th century

• John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft 1406–1408^[5]
• Roger Leche 1413–1416^[6]
• Walter Beauchamp 1421–1430
• Sir John Tyrrell of Heron May 1431 – April 1437
• John Popham 1437–1439^[7]
• Sir Roger Fiennes 1439–1446^[8]
• John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton 1446–1453^[9]
• Sir Thomas Tuddenham 1458^[10]
• Sir John Fogge 1461–1468^[11][12]
• Sir John Howard 1468–1474.^[13]
• Sir John Elrington 1474–1483
• Sir William Hopton 1483–1484
• Sir Richard Croft 1484–1488
• vacant 1488 on: office performed by cofferers:
  • John Payne 1488–1492
  • William Fisher 1492–1494
  • William Cope 1494-?1508 (died 1513)

16th century

• Sir Andrew Windsor 1513
• Sir Thomas Lovell 1502 (by)-c. 1519
• Sir Edward Poynings 1519–1521
• Sir Thomas Boleyn 1521–1525
• Sir William FitzWilliam 1525–1537
• Sir William Paulet 1537–1539
• Sir Thomas Cheney 1539–1558
• Sir Thomas Parry 1559–1560
• vacant 1560–1570
• Sir Francis Knollys 1570–1596
• The Lord North 1596–1600

17th century

• vacant 1600–1602
• Sir William Knollys 1602–1616
• The Lord Wotton 1616–1618
• Sir Thomas Edmonds 1618–1639
• Sir Henry Vane 1639–1641
• The Viscount Savile 1641–1649
• Sir Frederick Cornwallis 1660–1663
• The Viscount Fitzhardinge 1663–1668
• Sir Thomas Clifford 1668–1672
• The Lord Newport 1672–1686
• The Earl of Yarmouth 1686–1689
• The Earl of Bradford 1689–1708

18th century

• The Earl of Cholmondeley 1708–1712
• The Lord Lansdown 1712–1714
• The Earl of Cholmondeley 1714–1725
• Paul Methuen 1725–1730
• The Lord Bingley 1730–1731
• The Lord De La Warr 1731–1737
• The Earl FitzWalter 1737–1755
• The Lord Berkeley of Stratton 1755–1756
• The Viscount Bateman 1756–1757
• The Earl of Thomond 1757–1761
• The Earl of Powis 1761–1765
• Lord Edgcumbe 1765–1766
• John Shelley 1766–1777
• The Earl of Carlisle 1777–1779
• The Lord Onslow 1779–1780
• Viscount Cranborne 1780–1782
• The Earl of Effingham 1782–1783
• Charles Francis Greville 1783–1784
• The Earl of Courtown 1784–1793
• Viscount Stopford 1793–1806

19th century

• Lord Ossulston 1806–1807
• Viscount Stopford 1807–1812
• Viscount Jocelyn 1812
• Lord Charles Bentinck 1812–1826
• Sir William Henry Fremantle 1826–1837
• The Earl of Surrey 1837–1841
• Hon. George Byng 1841
• Earl Jermyn 1841–1846
• Lord Robert Grosvenor 1846–1847
• Lord Marcus Hill 1847–1852
• Lord Claud Hamilton 1852
• The Earl of Mulgrave 1853–1858
• Lord Claud Hamilton 1858–1859
• Viscount Bury 1859–1866
• Lord Otho FitzGerald 1866
• Lord Burghley 1866–1867
• Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert 1867–1868
• The Lord de Tabley 1868–1872
• The Lord Poltimore 1872–1874
• The Lord Monson 1874
• Earl Percy 1874–1875
• Lord Henry Thynne 1875–1880
• The Earl of Breadalbane 1880–1885
• Viscount Folkestone 1885–1886
• The Earl of Elgin 1886
• Viscount Folkestone 1886–1891
• Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox 1891–1892
• The Earl of Chesterfield 1892–1894
• Arthur Brand 1894–1895
• The Marquess of Carmarthen 1895–1896
• Viscount Curzon 1896–1900

20th century

Portrait		Name	Term of office		Party	Prime Minister
		Victor Cavendish	1900	1903	Conservative (Lib.U)		Marquess of Salisbury
							Arthur Balfour
		The Marquess of Hamilton	1903	1905
		Sir Edward Strachey, Bt	1905	1909	Liberal Party		Henry Campbell-Bannerman
							H. H. Asquith
		William Dudley Ward	1909	1912
		Hon. Frederick Edward Guest	1912	1915
		James Hope	1915	1916	Conservative (UUP)
							David Lloyd George
		James Craig	28 December 1916	22 January 1918
vacancy			22 January 1918	June 1918
		Robert Sanders	1918	1919	Conservative
		Bolton Eyres-Monsell	1919	1921
		George Gibbs	1921	1924
							Bonar Law
							Stanley Baldwin
		Thomas Griffiths	1924	1924	Labour		Ramsay MacDonald
		George Gibbs	1924	1928	Conservative		Stanley Baldwin
		George Hennessy	1928	1929
		Ben Smith	1929	1931	Labour		Ramsay MacDonald
		George Hennessy	1931		Conservative
		Sir Frederick Charles Thomson, Bt	1931	21 April 1935	Conservative (Scot.U)
		Sir Frederick Penny, Bt	1935	1937	Conservative
							Stanley Baldwin
		Sir Lambert Ward	1 June 1937	1937			Neville Chamberlain
		Arthur Hope	15 October 1937	1939
		Charles Waterhouse	11 April 1939	1939
		Hon. Robert Grimston	14 November 1939	1942
							Winston Churchill
		Sir James Edmondson	1942	1945
		George Mathers	1945	1946	Labour		Clement Attlee
		Arthur Pearson	1946	1951
		Cedric Drewe	1951	1955	Conservative		Winston Churchill
		Tam Galbraith	1955	1957			Anthony Eden
		Hendrie Oakshott	1957	1959			Harold Macmillan
		Hon. Peter Legh	1959	1960
		Edward Wakefield	1960	1962
		Michael Hughes-Young	1962	1964
							Alec Douglas-Home
		Sydney Irving	1964	1966	Labour		Harold Wilson
		John Silkin	1966
		Charles Grey	1966	1969
		Charles Richard Morris	1969	1970
		Humphrey Atkins	1970	1973	Conservative		Ted Heath
		Bernard Weatherill	1973	1974
		Walter Harrison	1974	1979	Labour		Harold Wilson
							James Callaghan
		John Stradling Thomas	1979	1983	Conservative		Margaret Thatcher
		Anthony Berry	1983
		John Cope	1983	1987
		David Hunt	1987	1989
		Tristan Garel-Jones	1989	1990
		Alastair Goodlad	14 July 1990	15 April 1992
							John Major
		David Heathcoat-Amory	1992	1993
		Greg Knight	1993	1996
		Andrew MacKay	1996	2 May 1997
		George Mudie	2 May 1997	1998	Labour		Tony Blair
		Keith Bradley	1998	2001

21st century

Portrait		Name	Term of office		Party	Prime Minister
		Keith Hill	8 June 2001	13 June 2003	Labour		Tony Blair
		Bob Ainsworth	13 June 2003	28 June 2007	Labour
		Nick Brown	28 June 2007	3 October 2008	Labour		Gordon Brown
		Tommy McAvoy	5 October 2008	11 May 2010	Labour
		Sir John Randall	11 May 2010	6 October 2013	Conservative		David Cameron
		Greg Hands	7 October 2013	11 May 2015	Conservative
		Anne Milton	11 May 2015	12 June 2017	Conservative
							Theresa May
		Julian Smith	13 June 2017	2 November 2017	Conservative
		Esther McVey	2 November 2017	9 January 2018	Conservative
		Christopher Pincher	9 January 2018	25 July 2019	Conservative
		Amanda Milling	28 July 2019	13 February 2020	Conservative		Boris Johnson
		Stuart Andrew	13 February 2020	8 February 2022	Conservative
		Christopher Pincher	8 February 2022	30 June 2022	Conservative
		Kelly Tolhurst	1 July 2022	7 September 2022	Conservative
		Craig Whittaker	8 September 2022	27 October 2022	Conservative		Liz Truss
		Marcus Jones	27 October 2022	Incumbent	Conservative		Rishi Sunak

See also

• List of Treasurers to British royal consorts

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• 1660–1837:

• Whips 1970–1997