Paymaster General - Definition and Overview

Paymaster-General is a ministerial position in UK. Former holders of this post include:

• Lord John Russell 1830-1834
• Sir Edmund Knatchbull 1834-1835
• Sir Henry Brook Parnell 1835-1841
• Edward John Stanley 1841
• Sir Edmund Knatchbull 1841-1845
• William Bingham Baring 1845-1846
• Thomas Babington Macaulay 1846-1848
• The Earl Granville 1848-1852
• The Lord Stanley of Alderley 1852
• The Lord Colchester 1852
• The Lord Stanley of Alderley 1853-1855
• Edward Pleydell Bouverie 1855
• Robert Lowe 1855-1858
• The Earl of Donoughmore 1858-1859
• Lord Lovaine 1859
• James Wilson 1859
• William Frederick Cowper 1859-1860
• Sir William Hutt 1860-1865
• George Joachim Goschen 1865-1866
• William Monsell 1866
• Sir Stephen Cave 1866-1868
• The Earl of Dufferin 1868-1872
• Hugh Childers 1872-1873
• William Adam 1873-1874
• Sir Stephen Cave 1874-1880
• The Lord Wolverton 1880-1885
• The Earl Beauchamp 1885-1886
• The Lord Thurlow 1886
• The Earl Beauchamp 1886-1887
• The Earl Brownlow 1887-1889
• The Earl of Jersey 1889-1890
• The Lord Windsor 1890-1892
• C. Seale-Hayne 1892-1895
• The Earl of Hopetoun 1895-1899
• The Duke of Marlborough 1899-1902
• Sir Savile Crossley 1902-1905
• Richard Causton (1st Baron Southwark after 13 July 1910) 1905-1910
• The Lord Ashby St. Ledgers 1910-1912
• The Lord Strachie 1912-1915
• The Lord Newton 1915-1916
• Arthur Henderson 1916
• Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett 1916-1919
• Tudor Walters 1919-1922
• Office vacant 1922-1923
• Neville Chamberlain 1923
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks 1923
• Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923-1924
• Harry Gosling 1924
• Office vacant 1924-1925
• The Duke of Sutherland 1925-1928
• The Earl of Onslow 1928-1929
• The Lord Arnold 1929-1931
• Office vacant 1931
• Sir Tudor Walters 1931
• The Lord Rochester 1931-1935
• Lord Hutchison 1935-1938
• Earl of Munster 1938-1939
• Earl Winterton 1939
• Office vacant 1939-1940
• Viscount Cranborne 1940
• Office vacant 1940-1941
• The Lord Hankey 1941-1942
• Sir William Jowitt 1942
• The Lord Cherwell 1942-1945
• Office vacant 1945-1946
• Arthur Greenwood 1946-1947
• Hillary Marquand 1947-1948
• The Viscount Addison 1948-1949
• The Lord Macdonald 1949-1951
• The Lord Cherwell 1951-1953
• The Earl of Selkirk 1953-1955
• Office vacant 1955-1956
• Sir Walter Monckton 1956-1957
• Reginald Maudling 1957-1959
• The Lord Mills 1959-1961
• Henry Brooke 1961-1962
• John Boyd-Carpenter 1962-1964
• George Wigg 1964-1967
• Office vacant 1967-1968
• The Lord Shackleton 1968
• Judith Hart 1968-1969
• Harold Lever 1969-1970
• The Viscount Eccles 1970-1973
• Maurice Macmillan 1973-1974
• Edmund Dell 1974-1976
• Shirley Williams 1976-1979
• Angus Maude 1979-1981
• Francis Pym 1981
• Cecil Parkinson 1981-1983
• Office vacant 1983-1984
• John Gummer 1984-1985
• Kenneth Clarke 1985-1987
• Peter Brooke 1987-1989
• The Earl of Caithness 1989-1990
• Richard Andrew Ryder 1990
• The Lord Belstead 1990-1992
• Sir John Cope 1992-1994
• Derick Heathcoat-Amory 1994-1996
• David Willets 1996
• Michael Bates 1996-1997
• Geoffrey Robinson 1997-1998
• Dawn Primarolo 1999-

See also: Paymaster of the Forces.