In the United Kingdom, there are at least five Secretaries to the Treasury, officials officially acting as secretaries to the Treasury board. The origins of the office are unclear, although it probably originated during Lord Burghley's tenure as Lord Treasurer in the 16th century. The number of secretaries was expanded to two by 1714 at the latest. The new eastern entrance to HM Treasury HM Treasury (Her/His Majestys Treasury) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for and putting into effect the UK Governments financial and economic policy. ... William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1521–4 August 1598), was an English politician, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign. ... The Lord High Treasurer bears a white staff as his symbol of office. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... // Events August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. ...

One of the present-day secretaries, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons, and another, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, is not a minister but a senior civil servant. The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures assigned to an elected member whose task is to administer the whipping system that ensures that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A minister or a secretary is a politician who heads a government ministry or department (e. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

The remaining three secretaries, while of relatively modern origin, actually attend to Treasury business. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is probably the most direct descendant of the earliest single Secretary – unlike the others, the Chief Secretary is often of Cabinet rank. The position is one of the more recent, having been created in 1961. The Chief Secretary is followed, in order of precedence at the Treasury, by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a junior position in the British Cabinet. ... In the Politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body comprised of government officials chosen by the Prime Minister. ... Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a junior Ministerial post in the UK Treasury. ... This article is about various offices in the government of the United Kingdom. ...

Phillip Oppenheim was briefly Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 1996 to 1997, although that office has not been seen before or since. Phillip Oppenheim (born March 20, 1956) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Amber Valley constituency from 1983 until electoral defeat in 1997. ...

The other, more senior, Treasury ministers are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Paymaster General. From time to time, generally when a minister from a government department other than the Treasury is Paymaster General, there has been a Treasury Minister of State. The Rt. ... Paymaster-General is a ministerial position in the UK. The portfolio consists of the workings of HM Revenue and Customs, formerly HM Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise, and reports to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. ... Minister of State is a title borne by officials in certain countries governed under the parliamentary system. ...

Secretaries to the Treasury, 1760–1852

• James West and Samuel Martin 1760–1762
• Samuel Martin and Jeremiah Dyson 1762–1763
• Jeremiah Dyson and Charles Jenkinson 1763–1764
• Charles Jenkinson and Thomas Whateley 1764–1765
• William Mellish and Charles Lowndes 1765–1766
• Grey Cooper and Thomas Bradshaw 1766–1770
• Sir Grey Cooper and John Robinson 1770–1782
• Henry Strachey and Edward Chamberlain 1782
• Henry Strachey and Richard Burke 1782
• Thomas Orde and George Rose 1782–1783
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Richard Burke 1783
• George Rose and Thomas Steele 1783–1791
• George Rose and Charles Long 1791–1801
• John Hiley Addington and Nicholas Vansittart 1801–1802
• Nicholas Vansittart and John Sargent 1802–1804
• William Huskisson and William Sturges Bourne 1804–1806
• Nicholas Vansittart and John King 1806
• Nicholas Vansittart and William Henry Fremantle 1806–1807
• William Huskisson and Henry Wellesley 1807–1809
• Richard Wharton and Charles Arbuthnot 1809–1814
• Charles Arbuthnot and Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1814–1823
• Stephen Rumbold Lushington and John Charles Herries 1823–1827
• John Charles Herries and Joseph Planta 1827
• Joseph Planta and Thomas Frankland Lewis 1827–1828
• Joseph Planta and George Robert Dawson 1828–1830
• Thomas Spring Rice and Edward Ellice 1830–1832
• Thomas Spring Rice and Charles Wood 1832–1834
• Charles Wood and Francis Thornhill Baring 1834
• Sir George Clerk and Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1834–1835
• Francis Thornhill Baring and Edward J. Stanley 1835–1839
• Edward J. Stanley and Robert Gordon 1839–1841
• Richard More O'Ferral and Sir Denis Le Marchant 1841–1844
• Sir George Clerk and John Young 1844–1845
• John Young and Edward Cardwell 1845–1846
• Henry Tufnell and John Parker 1846–1849
• Henry Tufnell and William Goodenough Hayter 1849–1850
• William Goodenough Hayter and George Cornewall Lewis 1850–1852

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Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury, 1852–present

• William Forbes Mackenzie 1852
• William Goodenough Hayter 1853–1858
• Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe 1858–1859
• Henry Brand 1859–1866
• Thomas Edward Taylor 1866–1868
• George Grenfell Glynn 1868–1873
• Arthur Wellesley Peel 1873–1874
• William Hart Dyke 1874–1880
• Lord Richard Grosvenor 1880–1885
• Aretas Akers-Douglas 1885–1886
• Arnold Morley 1886
• Aretas Akers-Douglas 1886–1892
• Edward Marjoribanks 1892-1894
• Thomas Edward Ellis 1894-1895
• Sir William Hood Walrond 1895-1902
• Sir Alexander Acland Hood 1902-1905
• George Whiteley 1905-1908
• Joseph Pease 1908-1910
• Master of Elibank 1910-1912
• Percy Holden Illingworth 1912-1915
• John William Gulland 1915
• Lord Edmund Talbot 1915-16 (Conservative, jointly)
• John William Gulland 1915-16 (Liberal, jointly)
• Lord Edmund Talbot 1916-21 (Conservative, jointly)
• Neil Primrose 1916-17 (Liberal, jointly)
• Frederick Guest 1917-21 (Liberal, jointly)
• Leslie Wilson 1921- 1922 (Conservative, jointly)
• Charles McCurdy 1921-22 (Liberal, jointly)
• Leslie Wilson 1922-1923
• Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1923-1924
• Ben Spoor 1924
• Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1924-1929
• Tom Kennedy 1929–31
• David Margesson 1931–1940
• Sir Charles Edwards 1940–42 (Labour, jointly)
• James Gray Stuart 1941–45 (Conservative, jointly)
• William Whiteley 1942–51 (Labour, jointly until 1945)
• Patrick Buchan-Hepburn 1951–55
• Edward Heath 1955–1959
• Martin Redmayne 1959–64
• Ted Short 1964–66
• John Silkin 1966–69
• Bob Mellish 1969–70
• Francis Pym 1970–1973
• Humphrey Atkins 1973–1974
• Bob Mellish 1974–1976
• Michael Cocks 1976–1979
• Michael Jopling 1979–1983
• John Wakeham 1983–1986
• David Waddington 1986–1989
• Timothy Renton 1989–1990
• Richard Ryder 1990–1995
• Alastair Goodlad 1995–1997
• Nick Brown 1997–1998
• Ann Taylor 1998–2001
• Hilary Armstrong 2001–2006
• Jacqui Smith 2006–

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Other Secretaries to the Treasury, 1852–present

• See:
  • Chief Secretary to the Treasury
  • Financial Secretary to the Treasury
  • Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is a junior position in the British Cabinet. ... Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a junior Ministerial post in the UK Treasury. ... This article is about various offices in the government of the United Kingdom. ...

See also

• Lord High Treasurer