Treasurer of the Household

The Treasurer of the Household is a member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The position is usually held by one of the government deputy Chief Whips in the House of Commons. The current holder of the office is Mark Tami MP.[1]

The position had its origin in the office of Treasurer (or Keeper) of the Wardrobe and was ranked second after the Lord Steward. The office was often staffed by the promotion of the Comptroller of the Household. On occasion (e.g. 1488–1503) the office was vacant for a considerable period and its duties undertaken by the Cofferer of the Household. By the end of the 17th century the office of Treasurer was more or less a sinecure,[2] and in the 18th and 19th centuries it was usually occupied by peers who were members of the Government.[3] The Treasurer was automatically a member of the privy council.[citation needed][when?] They were a member of the Board of Green Cloth until that was abolished by reform of local government licensing in 2004 under section 195 of the Licensing Act 2003.

On state occasions, the Treasurer of the Household (in common with certain other senior officers of the Household) carries a white staff of office.[4]

Treasurers of the Household

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15th century

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16th century

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17th century

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18th century

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19th century

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20th century

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Portrait Name Term of office Party Prime Minister
  Victor Cavendish 1900 1903 Conservative
(Lib.U)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Arthur Balfour
  James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton 1903 1905
  Sir Edward Strachey, Bt 1905 1909 Liberal Party Henry Campbell-Bannerman
H. H. Asquith
  William Dudley Ward 1909 1912
  Frederick Edward Guest 1912 1915
  James Hope 1915 1916 Conservative
(UUP)
David Lloyd George
  James Craig 28 December 1916 22 January 1918
vacancy 22 January 1918 June 1918
  Robert Sanders 1918 1919 Conservative
  Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1919 1921
  George Gibbs 1921 1924
Bonar Law
Stanley Baldwin
  Thomas Griffiths 1924 1924 Labour Ramsay MacDonald
  George Gibbs 1924 1928 Conservative Stanley Baldwin
  George Hennessy 1928 1929
  Ben Smith 1929 1931 Labour Ramsay MacDonald
  George Hennessy 1931 Conservative
  Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet 1931 21 April 1935 Conservative
(Scot.U)
  Sir Frederick Penny, Bt 1935 1937 Conservative
Stanley Baldwin
  Sir Lambert Ward 1 June 1937 1937 Neville Chamberlain
  Arthur Hope 15 October 1937 1939
  Charles Waterhouse 11 April 1939 1939
Robert Grimston 14 November 1939 1942
Winston Churchill
  Sir James Edmondson 1942 1945
  George Mathers 1945 1946 Labour Clement Attlee
  Arthur Pearson 1946 1951
  Cedric Drewe 1951 1955 Conservative Winston Churchill
Tam Galbraith 1955 1957 Anthony Eden
  Hendrie Oakshott 1957 1959 Harold Macmillan
  Peter Legh 1959 1960
  Edward Wakefield 1960 1962
  Michael Hughes-Young 1962 1964
Alec Douglas-Home
  Sydney Irving 1964 1966 Labour Harold Wilson
  John Silkin 1966
  Charles Grey 1966 1969
  Charles Richard Morris 1969 1970
Humphrey Atkins 1970 1973 Conservative Ted Heath
Bernard Weatherill 1973 1974
Walter Harrison 1974 1979 Labour Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
  John Stradling Thomas 1979 1983 Conservative Margaret Thatcher
Anthony Berry 1983
  John Cope 1983 1987
  David Hunt 1987 1989
  Tristan Garel-Jones 1989 1990
  Alastair Goodlad 14 July 1990 15 April 1992
John Major
  David Heathcoat-Amory 1992 1993
  Greg Knight 1993 1996
  Andrew MacKay 1996 2 May 1997
  George Mudie 2 May 1997 1998 Labour Tony Blair
  Keith Bradley 1998 2001

21st century

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Portrait Name Term of office Party Prime Minister
  Keith Hill 8 June 2001 13 June 2003 Labour Tony Blair
  Bob Ainsworth 13 June 2003 28 June 2007 Labour
  Nick Brown 28 June 2007 3 October 2008 Labour Gordon Brown
  Tommy McAvoy 5 October 2008 11 May 2010 Labour
  Sir John Randall 11 May 2010 6 October 2013 Conservative David Cameron
  Greg Hands 7 October 2013 11 May 2015 Conservative
  Anne Milton 11 May 2015 12 June 2017 Conservative
Theresa May
  Julian Smith 13 June 2017 2 November 2017 Conservative
  Esther McVey 2 November 2017 9 January 2018 Conservative
  Christopher Pincher 9 January 2018 25 July 2019 Conservative
  Amanda Milling 28 July 2019 13 February 2020 Conservative Boris Johnson
  Stuart Andrew 13 February 2020 8 February 2022 Conservative
  Christopher Pincher 8 February 2022 30 June 2022 Conservative
  Kelly Tolhurst 1 July 2022 7 September 2022 Conservative
  Craig Whittaker 8 September 2022 27 October 2022 Conservative Liz Truss
  Marcus Jones 27 October 2022 5 July 2024 Conservative Rishi Sunak
  Mark Tami 10 July 2024 Incumbent Labour Keir Starmer

See also

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References

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