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The Paymaster of the Forces was a position in the British government. The office was responsible for part of the financing of the army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
, and was noted as one of the most lucrative positions in the British government.

It was occasionally a cabinet-level post in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and many future prime ministers served as Paymaster. The position was abolished in 1836.








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The Paymaster of the Forces was a position in the British government. The office was responsible for part of the financing of the army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
, and was noted as one of the most lucrative positions in the British government.

It was occasionally a cabinet-level post in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and many future prime ministers served as Paymaster. The position was abolished in 1836.

Paymasters of the Forces, 1661-1836

  • Stephen Fox
    Stephen Fox

    Sir Stephen Fox , was an England politician....
     1661-1676
  • Sir Henry Puckering Newton 1676-1679
  • Sir Stephen Fox
    Stephen Fox

    Sir Stephen Fox , was an England politician....
     1679-1680
  • Nicholas Johnson and William Fox 1680-1682
  • Charles Fox 1682-1685
  • Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh
    Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh

    Richard Jones was the eldest son of Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh and Katherine Boyle, daughter of the Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork who counted amongst her brothers the chemist Robert Boyle and Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery who was a prominent politician in Cromwellian and Restoration times....
     1685-1702
  • John Howe 1702-1714
  • Robert Walpole
    Robert Walpole

    Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of Great Britain , known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     1714-1715
  • Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln
    Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln

    Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of Great Britain was the son of Francis Clinton, 6th Earl of Lincoln and his second wife Susan Penniston, daughter of Anthony Penniston....
     1715-1720
  • Robert Walpole
    Robert Walpole

    Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of Great Britain , known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     1720-1721
  • Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis 1721-1722
  • Spencer Compton, 1st Lord Wilmington
    Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

    Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of Great Britain was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death....
     1722-1730
  • Henry Pelham
    Henry Pelham

    Henry Pelham was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 27 August 1743 until his death in 1754....
     1730-1743
  • Thomas Winnington
    Thomas Winnington

    Thomas Winnington , of Stanford Court, was an English politician.Winnington was the son of Salwey Winnington of Stanford Court, Member of Parliament for Bewdley , and grandson of Francis Winnington, who had been Solicitor General for England and Wales in the 1670s....
     1743-1746
  • William Pitt the Elder 1746-1755
  • Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington
    Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington

    Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington Privy Council of Ireland was an British peerage, the son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard.On September 2 1725, he married Lady Grace Fitzroy, daughter of Charles Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Southampton and they had seven children....
     and Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
    Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull

    Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull Privy Council of Great Britain was a Scotland peer and United Kingdom politician.Hay sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 1741 until 1758....
     1755-1756
  • Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
    Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull

    Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull Privy Council of Great Britain was a Scotland peer and United Kingdom politician.Hay sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 1741 until 1758....
     and Thomas Potter 1756-1757
  • Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
    Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland

    Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, Privy Council of Great Britain was a leading Kingdom of Great Britain politician of the eighteenth century. He identified primarily with the Whig faction....
     1757-1765
  • Charles Townshend
    Charles Townshend

    Charles Townshend , was born at his family's seat of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. He was a politician and the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey , daughter and heiress of Edward Harrison of Ball's Park, near Hertford, a lady who rivalled her son in brilliancy of wit and frankness of expression....
     1765-1766
  • Frederick North, Lord North
    Frederick North, Lord North

    Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Kingdom of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782....
     and George Cooke 1766-1767
  • George Cooke
    George Cooke

    George Cooke may refer to:* George Cooke , English barrister* Sir George Cooke, 3rd Baronet , MP for Aldborough 1698?1700* George Frederick Cooke , English actor...
     and Thomas Townshend
    Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney

    Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney , was a British politician who held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century....
     (later Viscount Sydney) 1767-1768
  • Richard Rigby
    Richard Rigby

    Richard Rigby , was an England civil servant and politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland and Paymaster of the Forces. Rigby accumulated a fortune serving the Crown and politician wheeler-dealers in the dynamic 18th century parliament, and this money eventually ended up endowing the Pitt Rivers Museum....
     1768-1782
  • Edmund Burke
    Edmund Burke

    Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosophy who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the British Whig Party party....
     1782
  • Isaac Barré
    Isaac Barré

    Isaac Barr? was a United Kingdom soldier and politician....
     1782-1783
  • Edmund Burke
    Edmund Burke

    Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosophy who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the British Whig Party party....
     1783-1784
  • William Wyndham Grenville 1784-1789
  • Constantine John Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave, and James Graham, Marquess of Graham
    James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose

    James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle was a Scottish nobleman and statesman.Known before his succession to the ducal title in 1790 as Marquess of Graham, he was Member of Parliament for Richmond from 1780, and for Great Bedwyn from 1784 to 1790....
     1789-1791
  • Dudley Ryder
    Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby

    Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a prominent United Kingdom politician of the Pittite faction and the Tory party....
     and Thomas Steele
    Thomas Steele (politician)

    Thomas Steele was a United Kingdom politician at the turn of the nineteenth century.After Westminster School and Cambridge, he was elected as MP for Chichester in 1780, holding the seat until 1807....
     1791-1800
  • Thomas Steele
    Thomas Steele (politician)

    Thomas Steele was a United Kingdom politician at the turn of the nineteenth century.After Westminster School and Cambridge, he was elected as MP for Chichester in 1780, holding the seat until 1807....
     and George Canning
    George Canning

    George Canning was a British statesman and politician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and briefly Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     1800-1801
  • Thomas Steele
    Thomas Steele (politician)

    Thomas Steele was a United Kingdom politician at the turn of the nineteenth century.After Westminster School and Cambridge, he was elected as MP for Chichester in 1780, holding the seat until 1807....
     and Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie
    Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie

    Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie King's Counsel , was a politician.Douglas was educated at the Universities of Aberdeen and Leyden. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1771, was called to the Bar in 1776, and became K.C....
     1801-1803
  • George Rose
    George Rose

    George Rose was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician.Born in Brechin, Scotland, Rose was the son of the Reverend David Rose of Lethnet, by Margaret, daughter of Donald Rose of Wester Clune....
     and Lord Charles Henry Somerset 1804-1806
  • Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Earl Temple
    Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

    Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos Knight of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was the son and successor of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham and the grandson of prime minister George Grenville....
    , and Lord John Townshend
    Lord John Townshend

    Lord John Townshend Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as the Honourable John Townshend until 1787, was a United Kingdom Whig Party Member of Parliament....
     1806-1807
  • Charles Long
    Charles Long

    "Colonel" Charles "Chuck" Long is the founder of the America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Association. Long is best known as the operator of two controversial and short-lived youth boot camps in Arizona based on the Buffalo Soldiers, African American cavalry regiments of the 19th century, and the teachings of fundamentalist Christia...
     and Lord Charles Henry Somerset 1807-1813
  • Charles Long
    Charles Long

    "Colonel" Charles "Chuck" Long is the founder of the America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Association. Long is best known as the operator of two controversial and short-lived youth boot camps in Arizona based on the Buffalo Soldiers, African American cavalry regiments of the 19th century, and the teachings of fundamentalist Christia...
     and Frederick John Robinson
    Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

    Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon Privy Council of the United Kingdom , Frederick John Robinson until 1827, The Viscount Goderich 1827–1833, and The Earl of Ripon 1833 onwards, was a United Kingdom statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ....
     1813-1817
  • Charles Long
    Charles Long

    "Colonel" Charles "Chuck" Long is the founder of the America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Association. Long is best known as the operator of two controversial and short-lived youth boot camps in Arizona based on the Buffalo Soldiers, African American cavalry regiments of the 19th century, and the teachings of fundamentalist Christia...
     1817-1826
  • William Vesey Fitzgerald
    William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey

    William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey and 1st Baron FitzGerald, Privy Council of Ireland was an Ireland statesman.He first entered parliament in 1820 as a member of parliament for Clare , which constituency he represented until 1828....
     1826-1828
  • John Calcraft 1828-1830
  • Lord John Russell
    John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

    John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Order of the Garter, Order of St Michael and St George, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an England British Whig Party and Liberal Party politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....
     1830-1834
  • Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt. 1834-1835
  • Sir Henry Parnell, Bt
    Henry Brook Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton

    Henry Brook Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Sir Henry Parnell, 4th Baronet, from 1812 to 1841, was a Whig Party politician in the United Kingdom....
     1835-1836


See also


  • Master-General of the Ordnance
    Master-General of the Ordnance

    The Master-General of the Ordnance was a very senior United Kingdom military position before 1855, when the Board of Ordnance was abolished. Usually held by a serving General , the Master-General of the Ordnance was responsible for all British artillery, military engineers, fortifications, military supplies, transport, field hospitals and mu...
  • British Army
    British Army

    The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
  • Paymaster-General
    Paymaster-General

    HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom. When the post is held by a minister in HM Treasury it ranks third in the Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury....