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The Treasurer of the Navy was an office in the British
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....
 government between the mid-16th and early 19th century. The office-holder was responsible for the financial maintenance of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
. The office was a political appointment, and frequently was held by up-and-coming young politicians who would later go on to hold more important positions. The post was abolished in 1836 and its functions incorporated into those of the 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....
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The Treasurer of the Navy was an office in the British
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....
 government between the mid-16th and early 19th century. The office-holder was responsible for the financial maintenance of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
. The office was a political appointment, and frequently was held by up-and-coming young politicians who would later go on to hold more important positions. The post was abolished in 1836 and its functions incorporated into those of the 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....
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Treasurers of the Navy: 1546–1835


  • Sir William Russell and Henry Vane
    Henry Vane the Younger

    Sir Henry Vane , son of Henry Vane the Elder, served as a statesman and Member of Parliament in a career spanning England and Massachusetts. A constant theme of his life was religious tolerance....
     1639-1642
  • Sir William Russell and Sir John Penington
    John Penington

    Sir John Penington, , was an English admiral who served under Charles II of England,...
     (Royalist
    Cavalier

    Cavalier was the name used by Roundheads for a Royalist supporter of Charles I of England during the English Civil War . Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander of much of Charles I's cavalry, is often considered an archetypical Cavalier....
    ) 1642-1646
  • Sir William Russell (Royalist) 1646-1654
  • Sir Henry Vane (Parliamentary) 1645-1650
  • Richard Hutchinson (Parliamentary) 1651-1660
  • Sir George Carteret
    George Carteret

    Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet , son of Elias de Carteret, was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer of the Navy....
     1660-1667
  • Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey
    Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey

    Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey Privy Council of England was an Anglo-Irish royalist statesman. He rose to the position of Lord Privy Seal, and had several styles throughout his lifetime: The Hon....
     1667-1668
  • Sir Thomas Osborne
    Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds

    Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds , English statesman, commonly known also by his earlier title of Earl of Danby, served in a variety of offices under Kings Charles II of England and William III of England of England....
     and Sir Thomas de Littelton, Bt
    Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet

    Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet , often Thomas de Littleton, was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman. He was the son of Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet and his wife and cousin Anne Littleton....
     1668-1671
  • Sir Thomas Osborne 1671-1673
  • Edward Seymour
    Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet

    Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet was a Cavalier and Tory politician....
     1673-1681
  • Anthony Carey, 5th Viscount Falkland 1681-1689
  • Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford
    Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford

    Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, Privy Council of England was the First Lord of the Admiralty under William III of England....
     1689-1699
  • Sir Thomas de Littleton
    Thomas de Littleton

    Sir Thomas de Littleton , was an England judge and legal writer....
     1699-1710
  • 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....
     1710-1711
  • Charles Caesar
    Charles Caesar (Treasurer of the Navy)

    Charles Caesar was an British Member of Parliament and a lawyer, a British Tory Party and a Jacobitism.Caesar was a member of the Middle Temple....
     1711-1714
  • John Aislabie
    John Aislabie

    John Aislabie or Aslabie was a United Kingdom politician, notable for his involvement in the South Sea Bubble and for creating the water garden at Studley Royal Water Garden....
     1714-1718
  • Richard Hampden
    Richard Hampden (1674-1728)

    Richard Hampden Privy Council of Great Britain was an England politician, the son of John Hampden .He sat for Wendover from 1701 to 1708, 1713 to 1714 and 1722 to 1728, and Buckinghamshire from 1708 to 1710, 1715 to 1722, and 1727 to 1728....
     1718-1720
  • George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington
    George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington

    George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, Order of the Bath Privy Council of Great Britain was a British Admiral and statesman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries....
     1720-1724
  • Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington 1724-1734
  • Arthur Onslow
    Arthur Onslow

    Arthur Onslow was an England politician. He was the elder son of Foot Onslow and his wife Susannah.Onslow was born in Kensington and educated at The Royal Grammar School, Guildford and Winchester College and matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1708, although he took no degree....
     1734-1742
  • Thomas Clutterbuck 1742
  • Sir Charles Wager
    Charles Wager

    Sir Charles Wager was a British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty between 1733 and 1742.He was grandson of John Wager, mariner of Rochester, Kent in Kent, and son of Charles Wager , captain in the Navy, and Prudence Goodsonn....
     1742-1743
  • Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet
    Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet

    Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet was a United Kingdom politician and long-serving Member of Parliament, eventually serving as Father of the House....
     1743-1744
  • George Bubb Dodington 1744-1749
  • Henry Legge
    Henry Legge

    Henry Legge may be:*Henry Bilson Legge , English statesman*Sir Henry Charles Legge , Paymaster of the Household to King George V...
     1749-1754
  • George Grenville
    George Grenville

    George Grenville , was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     1754-1756
  • George Bubb Dodington 1756
  • George Grenville
    George Grenville

    George Grenville , was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     1756-1762
  • William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington 1762-1765
  • Richard Howe, 4th Viscount Howe
    Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe

    Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe Order of the Garter was a Kingdom of Great Britain admiral, notable in particular for his service during the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars....
     1765-1770
  • Sir Gilbert Elliot
    Gilbert Elliot

    Gilbert Elliot may refer to:* Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto, , British politician and diplomat* Sir Gilbert Elliot , MP for Roxburghsire 1708?1715...
     1770-1777
  • Welbore Ellis 1777-1782
  • Isaac Barré
    Isaac Barré

    Isaac Barr? was a United Kingdom soldier and politician....
     1782
  • Henry Dundas 1782-1783
  • Charles Townshend
    Charles Townshend, 1st Baron Bayning

    Charles Townshend, 1st Baron Bayning Privy Council of Great Britain , was a United Kingdom politician.Bayning was the only son of the Hon. William Townshend , third son of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend....
     1783-1784
  • Henry Dundas 1784-1800
  • 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....
     1800-1801
  • Charles Bragge
    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....
     1801-1803
  • 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....
     1803-1804
  • 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....
     1804-1806
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright and British Whig Party statesman....
     1806-1807
  • 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....
     1807-1818
  • 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 ....
     1818-1823
  • William Huskisson
    William Huskisson

    William Huskisson , was a United Kingdom statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool . He is best known today, however, as the world's first widely-reported railway casualty....
     1823-1827
  • Charles Grant
    Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg

    Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a Scotland politician and colonial administrator.Early years...
     1827-1828
  • William Vesey Fitzgerald 1828-1830
  • Thomas Frankland Lewis 1830
  • Charles Poulett Thomson
    Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham

    Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was the first Governor of the united Province of Canada.He was the son of John Buncombe Poulett Thomson, a London merchant....
     1830-1834
  • William Lowther, Viscount Lowther
    William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale

    William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Royal Society , was an England Conservative Party politician....
     1834-1835
  • Sir Henry Parnell 1835-1836