Treasurer of the Chamber

The Treasurer of the Chamber was a position in the British royal household, separated in 1485 from that of the Master of the Jewel Office, situated within the Privy Chamber department of the Lord Steward. It was an important office of finance established by King Henry VII (1485-1509) to administer his new secretive and highly efficient system identified and named "Chamber Finance" by 20th-century historians, which sought to mirror the operation of the Exchequer, which was inefficient and subject to parliamentary overview. The office was abolished in 1782.

Treasurers of the Chamber

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• Sir John Merston 1445–1448
• Richard Merston 1453–1446
• Sir Thomas Lovell 1485–1492
• Sir John Heron 1492–1521
• vacant
• Henry Wyatt 1524–1528
• Brian Tuke 1528–1545
• Sir Anthony Rous 1545–1546
• Sir William Cavendish 1546–?1558
• John Mason 1558–1566
• Sir Francis Knollys 1567–1570
• Sir Thomas Heneage 1570–1595
• John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope 1596–1616
• Sir William Uvedale
• Interregnum 1649-1660
• Sir Edward Griffin 1660–1679
• Edward Griffin 1679–1689
• Sir Rowland Gwynne 1689–1692
• vacant
• Lord Edward Russell 1694–1702
• John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge 1702–1712
• John West, 6th Baron De La Warr 1713–1714
• Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor 1714–1720
• Henry Pelham 1720–1722
• Charles Stanhope 1722–1727
• John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart 1727–1744
• Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd Baronet 1744–1746
• Richard Arundell 1746–1755
• Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough 1755–1756
• Charles Townshend 1756–1761
• Sir Francis Dashwood, Bt 1761–1762
• Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet 1762–1770
• George Rice 1770–1779
• Lord Charles Spencer 1779–1782

See also

• History of the English fiscal system

Sources

• Treasurers of the Chamber 1660–1782
• Richardson, W.C., Tudor Chamber Administration 1485-1547, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1952.