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Chancellors from 1559 to present
Below is a list of Chancellors of the Exchequer from 1559 to present.
You can view biographies for all of the Chancellors in our interactive explorer.
16th Century
- Sir Richard Sackville, 1559-1566
- Sir Walter Mildmay, 1566-1589
- Sir John Fortescue, 1589-1603
17th Century
- Earl of Dunbar, 1603-1606
- Sir Julius Caesar, 1604-1614
- Sir Fulke Greville, 1614-1621
- Sir Richard Weston, 1621-1628
- Lord Barrett, 1628-1629
- Lord Cottington, 1629-1642
- Sir John Colepepper, 1642-1643
- Sir Edward Hyde, 1642-1646
- Lord Ashley, 1661-1672
- Sir John Duncombe, 1672-1676
- Sir John Ernle, 1676-1689
- Henry Booth, 1689-1690
- Richard Hampden, 1690-1694
- Charles Montagu, 1694-1699
- Sir John Smith, 1699-1701
18th Century
- Henry Boyle, 1701-1708
- Sir John Smith, 1708-1710
- Robert Harley, 1710-1711
- Robert Benson, 1711-1713
- Sir William Wyndhan, 1713-1714
- Sir Richard Onslow, 1714-1715
- Robert Walpole, 1715-1717
- Viscount Stanhope, 1717-1718
- John Aislabie, 1718-1721
- Sir John Pratt, 1721
- Sir Robert Walpole, 1721-1742
- Samuel Sandys, 1742-1743
- Henry Pelham, 1743-1754
- Sir William Lee, 1754
- Henry Bilson Legge, 1754-1755
- Sir George Lyttleton, 1755-1756
- Henry Bilson Legge, 1756-1757
- Lord Mansfield, 1757
- Henry Bilson Legge, 1757-1761
- Viscount Barrington, 1761-1762
- Sir Francis Dashwood, 1762-1763
- George Grenville, 1763-1765
- William Dowdeswell, 1765-1766
- Charles Townshend, 1766-1767
- Lord North, 1767-1782
- William Pitt the Younger, 1782-1783
- Lord John Cavendish, 1783
- William Pitt the Younger, 1783-1801
19th Century
- Henry Addington, 1801-1804
- William Pitt the Younger, 1804-1806
- Lord Henry Petty, 1806-1807
- Spender Perceval, 1807-1812
- Nicholas Vansittart, 1812-1823
- Hon. Frederick John Robinson, 1823-1827
- George Canning, 1827
- The Lord Tenterden, 1827
- John Charles Herries, 1827-1828
- Henry Goulburn, 1828-1830
- Viscount Althorp, 1830-1834
- Sir Robert Peel, Bt, 1834-1835
- Thomas Spring Rice, 1835-1839
- Francis Baring, 1839-1841
- Henry Goulburn, 1841-1846
- Sir Charles Wood, 1846-1852
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1852
- William Gladstone, 1852-1855
- Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt, 1855-1858
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1858-1859
- William Gladstone, 1859-1866
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1866-1868
- George Ward Hunt, 1868
- Robert Lowe, 1868-1873
- William Gladstone, 1873-1874
- Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bt, 1874-1880
- William Gladstone, 1880-1882
- Hugh Childers, 1882-1885
- Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, 1885-1886
- Sir William Vernon Harcourt, 1886
- Lord Randolph Churchill, 1886
- George Goschen, 1887-1892
- Sir William Vernon Harcourt, 1892-1895
- Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, 1895-1902
20th Century
- Charles Ritchie, 1902-1903
- Austen Chamberlain, 1903-1905
- H. H. Asquith, 1905-1908
- David Lloyd George, 1908-1915
- Reginald McKenna, 1915-1916
- Bonar Law, 1916-1919
- Austen Chamberlain, 1919-1922
- Sir Robert Horne, 1921-1922
- Stanley Baldwin, 1922-1923
- Neville Chamberlain, 1923-24
- Philip Snowden, 1924
- Winston Churchill, 1924-1929
- Philip Snowden, 1929-1931
- Neville Chamberlain, 1931-1937
- Sir John Simon, 1937-1940
- Sir Kingsley Wood, 1940-1943
- Sir John Anderson, 1943-1945
- Hugh Dalton, 1945-1947
- Sir Stafford Cripps, 1947-1950
- Hugh Gaitskell, 1950-1951
- Rab Butler, 1951-1955
- Harold Macmillan, 1955-1957
- Peter Thorneycroft, 1957-1958
- Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1958-1960
- Selwyn Lloyd, 1960-1962
- Reginald Maudling, 1962-1964
- James Callaghan, 1964-1967
- Roy Jenkins, 1967-1970
- Ian Macleod, 1970
- Anthony Barber, 1970-1974
- Denis Healey, 1974-1979
- Sir Geoffrey Howe, 1979-1983
- Nigel Lawson, 1983-1989
- John Major, 1989-1990
- Norman Lamont, 1990-1993
- Kenneth Clarke, 1993-1997
- Gordon Brown, 1997-2007
21st Century
- Alistair Darling, 2007-2010
- George Osborne, 2010-present
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