Treasurer of the Household: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The position of Treasurer of the Household is theoretically held by a household official of the British monarch, under control of the Lord Steward's Department, but is, in fact, a political office held by one of the government's majority whips.

Treasurers of the Household, 1500-present

• Sir Thomas Lovell 1500-1521
• Sir Thomas Boleyn 1521-1536
• Sir William Fitzwilliam 1537-1538
• Sir William Paulet 1538-1541
• Sir Thomas Cheney 1541-1553
• vacant 1553-1560
• Sir Thomas Parry 1560-?
• Sir Edward Montagu ?-1586
• Sir Francis Knollys 1586-1597
• Roger North, Lord North 1597-1601
• Sir William Knollys 1601-1616
• Edward Wotton, Lord Wotton 1616-1618
• Sir Thomas Edmonds 1618-1639
• Sir Henry Vane 1639-1641
• Thomas Savile, Viscount Savile 1641-1649
• Sir Frederick Cornwallis 1660-1663
• Charles Fitz-Harding, Viscount Fitz-Harding 1663-1668
• Sir Thomas Clifford 1668-1672
• Francis Newport, Lord Newport 1672-1686
• William, Earl of Yarmouth 1686-1689
• Francis Newport, Earl of Bradford 1689-1708
• Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley 1708-1712
• George, Earl Lansdowne 1712-1714
• Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley 1714-1725
• Paul Methuen 1725-1730
• Robert Bingley, Lord Bingley 1730-1731
• John West, Lord De La Warr 1731-1737
• Benjamin, Earl Fitzwalter 1737-1755
• John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton 1755-1756
• John, Viscount Bateman 1756-1757
• Percy, Earl of Thoomond 1757-1761
• Henry Arthur Herbert, Earl of Powis 1761-1765
• George Edgcumbe, Lord Edgcumbe 1765-1766
• John Shelly 1766-1777
• Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle 1777-1779
• George Onslow, Lord Osnlow 1779-1780
• James Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 1780-1782
• Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham 1782-1783
• Charles Greville 1783-1784
• James, Earl of Courtown 1784-1793
• James George, Viscount Stopford 1793-1806
• Charles Augustus, Lord Ossulston 1806-1807
• James George, Viscount Stopford 1807-1812
• Robert, Viscount Jocelyn 1812
• Lord William Charles Cavendish Bentinck 1812-1826
• Sir William Henry Fremantle 1826-1837
• Henry Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey 1837-1841
• George Stevens Byng 1841
• Frederick William, Earl Jermyn 1841-1846
• Lord Robert Grosvenor 1846-1847
• Lord Arthur Hill 1847-1852
• Lord Claude Hamilton 1852
• George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave 1853-1858
• Lord Claude Hamilton 1858-1859
• William Coutts Keppel, Viscount Bury 1859-1866
• Lord Otho Fitzgerald 1866
• William Alleyne Cecil, Lord Burghley 1866-1867
• Percy Herbert 1867-1868
• George, Lord de Tabley 1868-1872
• Augustus Frederick George Warwick, Lord Poltimore 1872-1874
• William John Monson, Lord Monson 1874
• Henry George Percy, Earl Percy 1874-1875
• Lord Henry Frederick Thynne 1875-1880
• Gavin Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane 1880-1885
• William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone 1885-1886
• Victor Alexander Bruce, Earl of Elgin 1886
• William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone 1886-1892(?)
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