Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the British government. Originally the chief officer of the Duchy of Lancaster , the estate is now run by a deputy, leaving the position of Chancellor available as an alternative Minister without Portfolio . Often the position has been given to a junior Cabinet minister with responsibilities in a particular area of policy for which there is no portfolioed department. The most recent incumbent, Alan Milburn , was given the title by Tony Blair so that he could join the Cabinet , but have no demanding government job, in order to devote his time to the Labour Party's campaign for re-election in the 2005 general election .
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1361-1803
Sir Henry de Haydock 1361-1373
Ralph de Ergham 1373-1377
Thomas de Thelwall 16 April 1377-1378
Sir John De Yerborough 1378-1382
Sir Thomas Stanley 10 November 1382-29 November 1382 (pro tem )
Sir Thomas Scarle 29 November 1382-October 1383
Sir William Okey October 1383-1400
John de Wakering 1400-1400
William Burgoyne 1400-1404
Sir Thomas Stanley 15 May 1404-30 March 1410
John Springthorpe 30 March 1410-4 April 1413
John Wodehouse 4 April 1413-10 June 1424
William Troutbecke 10 June 1424-16 February 1431
Walter Sherington 16 February 1431-July 3 1442
William Tresham 3 July 1442-10 June 1449
John Say 10 June 1449-10 June 1462
Sir Richard Fowler 10 June 1462-November 3 1477
Sir John Say November 3 1477-2 April 1478
Thomas Thwaites 2 April 1478-7 July 1483
Thomas Metcalfe 7 July 1483-13 September 1486
Sir Reginald Bray 13 September 1486-24 June 1504
Sir John Mordaunt 24 June 1504-3 October 1505
Sir Richard Empson 3 October 1505-14 May 1509
Sir Henry Marny 14 May 1509-14 April 1523
Sir Richard Wingfield 14 April 1523-31 December 1525
Sir Thomas More 31 December 1525-3 November 1529
Sir William Fitzwilliam 3 November 1529-10 May 1533
Sir John Gage 10 May 1533-1 July 1547
Sir William Paget , 1st Baron Paget (1549) 1 July 1547-7 July 1552
Sir John Gates 7 July 1552-1553
Sir Robert Rochester 1553-1557
Sir Edward Walgrave 22 June 1558-1559
Sir Ambrose Cave 1559-1568
Sir Ralph Sadler 16 May 1568-15 June 1587
Sir Francis Walsingham 15 June 1587-1590
Sir Thomas Heneage 1590-1595
in commission 1595-1597
Sir Robert Cecil 1597-1599
in commission 1599-1601
Sir John Fortescue 1601
in commission 1601
Sir John Fortescue 1601-1607
Sir Thomas Parry 1607-1616
Sir John Dacombe 1616-1618
in commission 1618
Sir Humphrey May 1618-1629
Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh 1629-1644
Francis, Lord Seymour (for the king ) 1644-1645
William, 1st Lord Grey of Warke and William Lenthall (for parliament) 1645-1648
Sir Gilbert Gerrard 1648-1649
John Bradshaw 1649-1653
John Bradshaw and Thomas Fell (commissioners) 1653-1654
Thomas Fell 1654-1658
John Bradshaw 1658-1660
William Lenthall 1660
Sir Gilbert Gerrard 1660
Francis Seymour, 1st Lord Seymour of Trowbridge 1660-1664
Sir Thomas Ingram 1664-1672
Sir Robert Carr 1672-1682
Sir Thomas Chicheley 1682-1687
in commission 1687
Robert Phelipps 1687-1689
Robert Bertie, 16th Baron Willoughby of Eresby 1689-1697
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford 1697-1702
Sir John Leveson-Gower, 1st Lord Gower of Stittenham (1703) 1702-1706
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby 1706-1710
William Berkeley, 4th Lord Berkeley of Stratton 1710-1714
Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford 1714-1716
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarborough 1716-1717
Nicolas Lechmere, 1st Lord Lechmere 1721-1727
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland 1727-1736
George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley 1736-1743
Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Lord Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe 1743-1758
Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (1758) 1758-1762
James Stanley, Lord Strange 1762-1771
Thomas Villiers, 1st Lord Hyde of Hindon, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1776) 1771-1782
John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton 1782-1783
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby 1783
Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon 1783-1786
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Lord Hawkesbury , 1st Earl of Liverpool (1796) 1786-1803
1803-1902
Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham 1803-1804
Henry Phipps, 3rd Baron Mulgrave 1804-1805
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 1805
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Lord Harrowby 1805-1806
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby 1806-1807
Spencer Perceval 1807-1812
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 1812
Charles Bathurst 1812-1823
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley 1823-1828
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1828
Charles Arbuthnot 1828-1830
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland 1830-1834
Charles Watkins Williams Wynn 1834-1835
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland 1835-1840
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1840-1841
Sir George Grey, Bt 1841
Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset 1841-1846
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews 1846-1850
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle 1850-1852
Robert Adam Christopher 1852
Edward Strutt 1852-1854
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1854-1855
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby 1855
Matthew Talbot Baines 1855-1858
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose 1858-1859
Sir George Grey, Bt 1859-1861
Edward Cardwell 1861-1864
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1864-1866
George Joachim Goschen 1866
William Reginald Courtenay, 21st Earl of Devon 1866-1867
John Wilson-Patten 1867-1868
Thomas Edward Taylor 1868
Frederick Temple Blackwood, 5th Lord Dufferin, 1st Earl of Dufferin (1871) 1868-1872
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers 1872-1873
John Bright 1873-1874
Thomas Edward Taylor 1874-1880
John Bright 1880-1882
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1882
John George Dodson 1882-1884
George Otto Trevelyan 1884-1885
Henry Chaplin 1885-1886
Edward Heneage 1886
Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth 1886
Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook 1886
Lord John Manners 1886-1892
James Bryce 1892-1894
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth 1894-1895
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross 1895
Sir Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford (1895) 1895-1902
1902 to present
Sir William Hood Walrond 1902-1905
Sir Henry Hartley Fowler 1905-1908
Edmund George Petty FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice 1908-1909
Herbert Samuel 1909-1910
Joseph Albert Pease 1910-1911
Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse 1911-1914
Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman 1914-1915
Edwin Samuel Montagu 1915
Winston Churchill 1915
Herbert Samuel 1915-1916
Edwin Samuel Montagu 1916
Thomas McKinnon Wood 1916
Sir Frederick Cawley 1916-1918
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook 1918
William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham 1918-1919
David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres 1919-1921
William Robert Wellesley, 2nd Viscount Peel 1921-1922
Sir William Sutherland 1922
James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury 1922-1923
JCC Davidson 1923-1924
Josiah Wedgwood 1924
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1924-1927
Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun 1927-1929
Sir Oswald Mosley 1929-1930
Clement Attlee 1930-1931
Arthur Augustus William Harry, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede 1931
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian 1931
JCC Davidson 1931-1937
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 1937-1939
William Shepherd Morrison 1939-1940
George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon 1940
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey 1940-1941
Alfred Duff Cooper 1941-1943
Ernest Brown 1943-1945
Sir James Arthur Salter 1945
John Burns Hynd 1945-1947
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 1st Baron Pakenham 1947-1948
Hugh Dalton 1948-1950
Lord Alexander 1950-1951
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton 1951-1952
Frederick James Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton (Viscount 1953) 1952-1955
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk 1955-1957
Charles Hill 1957-1961
Iain Macleod 1961-1963
John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham 1963-1964
Douglas Houghton 1964-1966
George Morgan Thompson 1966-1967
Frederick Lee 1967-1969
George Morgan Thompson 1969-1970
Anthony Barber 1970
Geoffrey Rippon 1970-1972
John Davies 1972-1974
Norman Harold Lever 1974-1979
Norman Arthur Francis St John-Stevas 1979-1981
Francis Pym 1981
Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young 1981-1982
Cecil Parkinson 1982-1983
Lord Cockfield Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie 1984-1985
Norman Beresford Tebbit 1985-1987
Kenneth Clarke 1987-1988
Tony Newton 1988-1989
Kenneth Baker 1989-1990
Chris Patten 1990-1992
William Waldegrave 1992-1994
David Hunt 1994-1995
Roger Freeman 1995-1997
David Clark 1997-1998
Jack Cunningham 1998-1999
Mo Mowlam 1999-2001
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston 2001-2003
Douglas Alexander 2003-2004
Alan Milburn 2004-
