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Master of the Mint was an important office in the governments of Scotland
Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a state in North-West Europe which existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a Anglo-Scottish border to the south with the Kingdom of England, with which it was united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, in 170...
 and England
Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a state in North-West Europe. The Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and a number of smaller outlying islands?what is today the legal unit of England and Wales....
, and latterly Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Master was the highest officer in the Royal Mint
Royal Mint

The Royal Mint of the United Kingdom is the body permitted to manufacture, or mint , Coins of the pound sterling in the United Kingdom. The Mint originated over 1,100 years ago, but has functioned since 1975 as a Trading Fund, operating in much the same way as a government-owned company....
. Until 1699, appointment was usually for life. Its holder occasionally sat in the cabinet. The office was abolished as an independent position in 1870, thereafter being held as a subsidiary office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet of the United Kingdom Minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters....
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Master of the Mint was an important office in the governments of Scotland
Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a state in North-West Europe which existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a Anglo-Scottish border to the south with the Kingdom of England, with which it was united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, in 170...
 and England
Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a state in North-West Europe. The Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and a number of smaller outlying islands?what is today the legal unit of England and Wales....
, and latterly Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Master was the highest officer in the Royal Mint
Royal Mint

The Royal Mint of the United Kingdom is the body permitted to manufacture, or mint , Coins of the pound sterling in the United Kingdom. The Mint originated over 1,100 years ago, but has functioned since 1975 as a Trading Fund, operating in much the same way as a government-owned company....
. Until 1699, appointment was usually for life. Its holder occasionally sat in the cabinet. The office was abolished as an independent position in 1870, thereafter being held as a subsidiary office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet of the United Kingdom Minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters....
.

Masters of the Mint in England, 1572-1869

  • John Lonyson 1571-1582
  • Sir Richard Martin 1582-1617
  • Sir Edward Villiers
    Sir Edward Villiers

    Sir Edward Villiers was the eldest son of George Villiers and half-brother to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey and John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck....
     1617-1623
  • Sir Randal Cranfield 1623-1626
  • Sir Robert Harley
    Robert Harley (1579-1656)

    Sir Robert Harley was an England statesman who served as Master of the Mint for Charles I of England and later supported the parliamentarians during the English Civil War....
     1626-1635
  • Commission 1635-1643:
    • Sir Ralph Freeman
      Ralph Freeman

      Sir Ralph Freeman was an England structural engineer, responsible for the design of several of the world's most impressive bridges.Born in London, England, he studied at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and the City and Guilds of London Institute, and in 1901 joined Douglas Fox & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers specialising i...
    • Sir Thomas Aylesbury
  • Sir Robert Harley
    Robert Harley (1579-1656)

    Sir Robert Harley was an England statesman who served as Master of the Mint for Charles I of England and later supported the parliamentarians during the English Civil War....
     1643-1649
  • Aaron Guerdon 1649-1653
  • Sir Ralph Freeman
    Ralph Freeman

    Sir Ralph Freeman was an England structural engineer, responsible for the design of several of the world's most impressive bridges.Born in London, England, he studied at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and the City and Guilds of London Institute, and in 1901 joined Douglas Fox & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers specialising i...
     1660-1662
  • Sir Ralph Freeman
    Ralph Freeman

    Sir Ralph Freeman was an England structural engineer, responsible for the design of several of the world's most impressive bridges.Born in London, England, he studied at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and the City and Guilds of London Institute, and in 1901 joined Douglas Fox & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers specialising i...
     and Henry Slingsby 1662-1667
  • Henry Slingsby 1667-1680
  • Commission 1680-1684
    • Sir John Buckworth
    • Charles Duncombe
      Charles Duncombe

      Charles Duncombe was a leader in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.He was born in Connecticut and became a doctor in 1819. He then settled in Upper Canada, and in 1824 he established the first medical school in Upper Canada, in St....
    • James Hoare
      James Hoare

      James Edward Hoare is a British academic and historian specializing in Chinese and Korean studies, and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office....
  • Commission 1684-1686
    • Thomas Neale
      Thomas Neale

      Thomas Neale was a British projector and politician and well known in the United States as being the first equivalent to a postmaster general of the colonies....
    • Charles Duncombe
      Charles Duncombe

      Charles Duncombe was a leader in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.He was born in Connecticut and became a doctor in 1819. He then settled in Upper Canada, and in 1824 he established the first medical school in Upper Canada, in St....
    • James Hoare
      James Hoare

      James Edward Hoare is a British academic and historian specializing in Chinese and Korean studies, and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office....
  • Thomas Neale 1686-1699
  • Sir Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English people physicist, mathematician, Astronomy, Natural philosophy, Alchemy, and Theology and one of the the 100 in human history....
     1700-1727
  • John Conduitt
    John Conduitt

    John Conduitt was a Kingdom of Great Britain Parliament of Great Britain and Master of the Mint....
     1727-1737
  • Richard Arundell 1737-1745
  • William Richard Chetwynd (3rd Viscount Chetwynd
    Viscount Chetwynd

    Viscount Chetwynd, of Bearhaven in the County of Kerry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 for Walter Chetwynd, with remainder to the issue male of his father John Chetwynd....
     in 1767) 1745-1769
  • Charles Sloane Cadogan (3rd Baron Cadogan of Oakley
    Earl Cadogan

    Earl Cadogan is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. The Cadogan family descends from Major William Cadogan, a cavalry officer in Oliver Cromwell's army....
     in 1776) 1769-1784
  • Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham 1784-1789
  • Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
    Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield

    Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield Order of the Garter was the son of Arthur Charles Stanhope, of Mansfield Woodhouse and Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Charles Headlam of Kerby, Yorkshire, and cousin, godson and, later, adopted son of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield ....
     1789-1790
  • George Townshend, 1st Earl of Leicester
    George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend

    George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend Privy Council of Great Britain Fellow of the Royal Society , known as Lord Ferrers of Chartley from 1770 to 1782 and as the Earl of Leicester from 1782 to 1807, was a United Kingdom Peerage and politician....
     1790-1794
  • Sir George Yonge
    George Yonge

    Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, Order of the Bath was a United Kingdom Secretary at War and the namesake of Toronto, Canada's Yonge Street, which was named by the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario John Graves Simcoe, in 1793....
     1794-1799
  • Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury 1799-1801
  • Charles George Perceval (1st Baron Arden in 1802) 1801-1802
  • John Smyth 1802-1804
  • Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
    Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

    Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst , was the elder son of the Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst. He was educated at Eton from 1773 to 1778 and then at Christ Church, Oxford....
     1804-1806
  • Lord Charles Spencer
    Lord Charles Spencer

    Lord Charles Spencer was a Great Britain politician.He was the second son of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. On 2 October 1762, he married Mary Beauclerk , daughter of Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere and sister of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans, by whom he had three sons.....
     1806
  • Charles Bathurst
    Charles Bathurst

    Charles Bathurst , known as Charles Bragge from 1754 to 1804, was a British politician of the early 19th century.Bathurst was the son of Charles Bragge, of Cleve Hill in Gloucestershire, and his wife Anne Bathurst, the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst....
     1806-1807
  • Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
    Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

    Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst , was the elder son of the Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst. He was educated at Eton from 1773 to 1778 and then at Christ Church, Oxford....
     1807-1812
  • Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
    Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty

    Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of Heusden Order of the Bath, Royal Guelphic Order, Privy Council of Ireland , was an Peerage of Ireland, a nobleman in the Dutch nobility, and a diplomat....
     1812-1814
  • William Wellesley-Pole
    William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington

    William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington Royal Guelphic Order Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known between 1821 and 1842 as The Lord Maryborough, was a Great Britain politician and an elder brother of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington....
     (later 1st Baron Maryborough) 1814-1823
  • George Tierney
    George Tierney

    George Tierney was an England British Whig Party politician.George Tierney was the son of Thomas Tierney, a wealthy Ireland merchant of London, who was living in Gibraltar as prize agent....
     1827-1828
  • John Charles Herries
    John Charles Herries

    John Charles Herries was an England politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative Party cabinets in the early to mid 19th century....
     1828-1830
  • George Eden, 2nd Baron Auckland
    George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

    George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, Order of the Bath , served as a politician in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as Governor-General of India....
     1830-1834
  • James Abercrombie
    James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline

    James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline , , was a barrister and Member of Parliament, and auditor to the Duke of Devonshire's estates.James was the third son of General Ralph Abercromby, who fell at the battle of Alexandria, 28 March 1801, by a daughter of John Menzies of Fernton, Perthshire....
     1834-1835
  • Alexander Baring
    Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton

    Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an England politician and financier.Alexander was the second son of Sir Francis Baring, a famous banker, and of Harriet, daughter of William Herring....
     1835
  • Henry Labouchere
    Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton

    File:Charles Baugniet00a.jpgHenry Labouchere was a prominent United Kingdom British Whig Party and Liberal Party politician of the mid-19th century....
     1835-1841
  • William Ewart Gladstone
    William Ewart Gladstone

    William Ewart Gladstone was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ....
     1841-1845
  • Sir George Clerk 1845-1846
  • Richard Lalor Sheil
    Richard Lalor Sheil

    Richard Lalor Sheil , Ireland politician, writer and orator, was born at Drumdowney, Slieverue, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The family were temporarily domiciled at Drumdowney while their new mansion at Bellevue, near Waterford was under construction....
     1846-1850
  • Sir John Herschel
    John Herschel

    Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet Royal Guelphic Order, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who in some years also did valuable botanical work....
     1850-1855
  • Thomas Graham
    Thomas Graham (chemist)

    Thomas Graham Fellow of the Royal Society was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Graham's father was a successful textile manufacturer, and wanted his son to enter into the Church of Scotland....
     1855-1869


See also

Münzmeister
Münzmeister

In medieval and early modern Germany, the M?nzmeister was the director or administrator of a mint with responsibility for the minting of coins, or specie....