UK GOVERNMENT OFFICE

13-May-1661	22-Nov-1672	Anthony Ashley Cooper	1st Earl of Shaftesbury
22-Nov-1672	2-May-1676	Sir John Duncombe
2-May-1676	9-Apr-1689	Sir John Ernle
9-Apr-1689	18-Mar-1690	Henry Booth	2nd Baron Delamere
18-Mar-1690	10-May-1694	Richard Hampden
10-May-1694	2-Jun-1699	Charles Montagu
2-Jun-1699	27-Mar-1701	John Smith
27-Mar-1701	22-Apr-1708	Henry Boyle
22-Apr-1708	11-Aug-1710	John Smith
11-Aug-1710	4-Jun-1711	Robert Harley
4-Jun-1711	21-Aug-1713	Robert Benson
21-Aug-1713	13-Oct-1714	Sir William Wyndham
13-Oct-1714	12-Oct-1715	Sir Richard Onslow
12-Oct-1715	15-Apr-1717	Robert Walpole
15-Apr-1717	20-Mar-1718	James Stanhope	1st Viscount Stanhope
20-Mar-1718	23-Jan-1721	John Aislabie
2-Feb-1721	3-Apr-1721	Sir John Pratt
3-Apr-1721	12-Feb-1742	Robert Walpole
12-Feb-1742	12-Dec-1743	Samuel Sandys
12-Dec-1743	8-Mar-1754	Henry Pelham
8-Mar-1754	6-Apr-1754	Sir William Lee
6-Apr-1754	25-Nov-1755	Henry Bilson Legge
25-Nov-1755	16-Nov-1756	Sir George Lyttelton
16-Nov-1756	13-Apr-1757	Henry Bilson Legge
13-Apr-1757	2-Jul-1757	William Murray	1st Baron Mansfield
2-Jul-1757	19-Mar-1761	Henry Bilson Legge
19-Mar-1761	29-May-1762	William Wildman Barrington-Shute	2nd Viscount Barrington
29-May-1762	16-Apr-1763	Sir Francis Dashwood
16-Apr-1763	16-Jul-1765	George Grenville
16-Jul-1765	2-Aug-1766	William Dowdeswell
2-Aug-1766	4-Sep-1767	Charles Townshend
11-Sep-1767	27-Mar-1782	Frederick North	Lord North
27-Mar-1782	10-Jul-1782	Lord John Cavendish
10-Jul-1782	31-Mar-1783	William Pitt the Younger
2-Apr-1783	19-Dec-1783	Lord John Cavendish
19-Dec-1783	14-Mar-1801	William Pitt the Younger
14-Mar-1801	10-May-1804	Henry Addington
10-May-1804	23-Jan-1806	William Pitt the Younger
5-Feb-1806	26-Mar-1807	Lord Henry Petty
26-Mar-1807	12-May-1812	Spencer Perceval
12-May-1812	31-Jan-1823	Nicholas Vansittart
31-Jan-1823	20-Apr-1827	Frederick John Robinson
20-Apr-1827	8-Aug-1827	George Canning
8-Aug-1827	3-Sep-1827	Charles Abbott	1st Baron Tenterden
3-Sep-1827	26-Jan-1828	John Charles Herries
26-Jan-1828	22-Nov-1830	Henry Goulburn
22-Nov-1830	14-Nov-1834	John Charles Spencer	Viscount Althorp
15-Nov-1834	15-Dec-1834	Lord Denman	(Chancellor pro tem)
2-Dec-1834	8-Apr-1835	Robert Peel
18-Apr-1835	26-Aug-1839	Thomas Spring Rice
26-Aug-1839	30-Aug-1841	Sir Francis Thornhill Baring
3-Sep-1841	27-Jun-1846	Henry Goulburn
6-Jul-1846	21-Feb-1852	Sir Charles Wood
27-Feb-1852	17-Dec-1852	Benjamin Disraeli
28-Dec-1852	28-Feb-1855	William Ewart Gladstone
28-Feb-1855	21-Feb-1858	Sir George Cornewall Lewis
26-Feb-1858	11-Jun-1859	Benjamin Disraeli
18-Jun-1859	26-Jun-1866	William Ewart Gladstone
6-Jul-1866	29-Feb-1868	Benjamin Disraeli
29-Feb-1868	1-Dec-1868	George Ward Hunt
9-Dec-1868	11-Aug-1873	Robert Lowe
11-Aug-1873	17-Feb-1874	William Ewart Gladstone
21-Feb-1874	21-Apr-1880	Sir Stafford Henry Northcote
28-Apr-1880	16-Dec-1882	William Ewart Gladstone
16-Dec-1882	9-Jun-1885	Hugh Childers
24-Jun-1885	28-Jan-1886	Sir Michael Hicks Beach
6-Feb-1886	20-Jul-1886	Sir William Vernon Harcourt
3-Aug-1886	22-Dec-1886	Lord Randolph Churchill
14-Jan-1887	11-Aug-1892	George Joachim Goschen
18-Aug-1892	21-Jun-1895	Sir William Vernon Harcourt
29-Jun-1895	11-Aug-1902	Sir Michael Hicks Beach
11-Aug-1902	9-Oct-1903	Charles Thomson Ritchie
9-Oct-1903	4-Dec-1905	Austen Chamberlain
10-Dec-1905	12-Apr-1908	Herbert Henry Asquith
12-Apr-1908	25-May-1915	David Lloyd George
25-May-1915	10-Dec-1916	Reginald McKenna
10-Dec-1916	10-Jan-1919	Andrew Bonar Law
10-Jan-1919	1-Apr-1921	Austen Chamberlain
1-Apr-1921	19-Oct-1922	Sir Robert Stevenson Horne
27-Oct-1922	27-Aug-1923	Stanley Baldwin
27-Aug-1923	22-Jan-1924	Neville Chamberlain
22-Jan-1924	3-Nov-1924	Philip Snowden
6-Nov-1924	4-Jun-1929	Winston Churchill
7-Jun-1929	5-Nov-1931	Philip Snowden
5-Nov-1931	28-May-1937	Neville Chamberlain
28-May-1937	12-May-1940	John Simon
12-May-1940	24-Sep-1943	Sir Kingsley Wood
24-Sep-1943	26-Jul-1945	John Anderson
27-Jul-1945	13-Nov-1947	Hugh Dalton
13-Nov-1947	19-Oct-1950	Stafford Cripps
19-Oct-1950	26-Oct-1951	Hugh Gaitskell
28-Oct-1951	20-Dec-1955	Rab Butler
20-Dec-1955	13-Jan-1957	Harold Macmillan
13-Jan-1957	6-Jan-1958	Peter Thorneycroft
6-Jan-1958	27-Jul-1960	Derick Heathcoat-Amory
27-Jul-1960	13-Jul-1962	Selwyn Lloyd
13-Jul-1962	16-Oct-1964	Reginald Maudling
16-Oct-1964	30-Nov-1967	James Callaghan
30-Nov-1967	19-Jun-1970	Roy Jenkins
20-Jun-1970	20-Jul-1970	Iain Macleod
25-Jul-1970	4-Mar-1974	Anthony Barber
5-Mar-1974	4-May-1979	Denis Healey
5-May-1979	11-Jun-1983	Geoffrey Howe
11-Jun-1983	26-Oct-1989	Nigel Lawson
26-Oct-1989	28-Nov-1990	John Major
28-Nov-1990	27-May-1993	Norman Lamont
27-May-1993	2-May-1997	Kenneth Clarke
2-May-1997	27-Jun-2007	Gordon Brown
28-Jun-2007	11-May-2010	Alistair Darling
11-May-2010	13-Jul-2016	George Osborne
13-Jul-2016	--	Philip Hammond

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