Paymaster General

The Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ) shall provide an office with ministerial rank in the British government.

Mission and history

He is responsible for the Office of the Paymaster General (Office of HM Paymaster General (OPG ) ), holding the power of attorney over the accounts of the Government and other relevant public bodies at the Bank of England. The consolidated fund of the government is divided by him to the accounts of individual ministries and bodies. The Office of the General Paymaster operates next to some other account and transaction services of the government, such as the check and credit transactions as well as other methods such as the Bankers' Automated Clearing Services ( BACS ) and Clearing House Automated Payment System ( CHAPS ) in the electronic processing system.

If the Office of the Paymaster General by a minister at the Treasury (HM Treasury) is applied, this takes within the Treasury after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Secretary of the Treasury a third. Subordinated are the financial, economic, Treasury and Trade Secretary of the Treasury.

The Office was established in 1836 after the merger of the paymaster of the army, the Treasurer of the Navy, the number and Treasurer of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the treasurer of the supply system. Between 1848 and 1868 the office was connected with that of the Vice- President of the Board of Trade.

The Paymaster General with the longest tenure was Dawn Primarolo 1999-2007. Present Paymaster General Francis Maude is, who is also Minister for Cabinet Affairs.

The Office of HM Paymaster General was in April 2008, part of the newly established Government Banking Service, which in turn belongs to the HM Revenue & Customs ( HMRC ).

List of previous paymaster general

  • Sir Henry Parnell, Bt 1836-1841
  • Edward John Stanley 1841
  • Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet 1841-1845
  • William Bingham Baring 1845-1846
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay 1846-1848
  • The Earl Granville 1848-1852
  • The Lord Stanley of Alderley 1852
  • The Lord Colchester 1852
  • The Lord Stanley of Alderley 1853-1855
  • Edward Pleydell - Bouverie 1855
  • The Earl of Donoughmore 1858-1859
  • Lord Lovaine 1859
  • James Wilson in 1859
  • William Francis Cowper 1859-1860
  • Sir William Hutt 1860-1865
  • William Monsell 1866
  • Sir Stephen Cave 1866-1868
  • The Earl of Dufferin 1868-1872
  • Hugh Childers 1872-1873
  • William Adam 1873-1874
  • Sir Stephen Cave 1874-1880
  • David Plunket 1880
  • The Lord Wolverton 1880-1885
  • The Earl Beauchamp 1885-1886
  • The Lord Thurlow 1886
  • The Earl Beauchamp 1886-1887
  • The Earl Brownlow 1887-1889
  • The Earl of Jersey 1889-1890
  • The Lord Windsor 1890-1892
  • Charles Seale - Hayne 1892-1895
  • The Earl of Hopetoun 1895-1899
  • The Duke of Marlborough 1899-1902
  • Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton 1902-1905
  • Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark 1905-1910
  • The Lord Ashby St. Ledgers 1910-1912
  • The Lord Strachie 1912-1915
  • The Lord Newton 1915-1916
  • Arthur Henderson 1916
  • Sir Joseph Compton Rickett 1916-1919
  • Sir John Tudor Walters 1919-1922
  • Office vacant 1922-1923
  • Neville Chamberlain in 1923
  • Sir William Joynson - Hicks 1923
  • Archibald Boyd - Carpenter 1923-1924
  • Harry Gosling 1924
  • Office vacant 1924-1925
  • The Duke of Sutherland 1925-1928
  • The Earl of Onslow 1928-1929
  • The Lord Arnold 1929-1931
  • Office is not occupied in 1931
  • Sir John Tudor Walters 1931
  • The Lord Rochester 1931-1935
  • The Lord Hutchison 1935-1938
  • The Earl Winterton 1939
  • Office vacant 1939-1940
  • Viscount Cranborne 1940
  • Office vacant 1940-1941
  • The Lord Hankey 1941-1942
  • Sir William Jowitt 1942
  • The Lord Cherwell 1942-1945
  • Office vacant 1945-1946
  • Arthur Greenwood 1946-1947
  • Hilary Marquand 1947-1948
  • The Viscount Addison 1948-1949
  • The Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor 1949-1951
  • The Lord Cherwell 1951-1953
  • The Earl of Selkirk 1953-1955
  • Office vacant 1955-1956
  • Sir Walter Monckton 1956-1957
  • Reginald Maudling 1957-1959
  • The Lord Mills 1959-1961
  • Henry Brooke 1961-1962
  • John Boyd - Carpenter 1962-1964
  • George Wigg 1964-1967
  • Office vacant 1967-1968
  • The Lord Shackleton in 1968
  • Judith Hart 1968-1969
  • Harold Lever 1969-1970
  • The Viscount Eccles 1970-1973
  • Maurice Macmillan 1973-1974
  • Edmund Dell 1974-1976
  • Shirley Williams 1976-1979
  • Angus Maude 1979-1981
  • Francis Pym 1981
  • Cecil Parkinson 1981-1983
  • Office vacant 1983-1984
  • John Selwyn Gummer 1984-1985
  • Kenneth Clarke 1985-1987
  • Peter Brooke 1987-1989
  • The Earl of Caithness 1989-1990
  • Richard Ryder in 1990
  • The Lord Belstead 1990-1992
  • Sir John Cope 1992-1994
  • David Heathcoat -Amory 1994-1996
  • David Willetts 1996
  • Michael Bates 1996-1997
  • Geoffrey Robinson 1997-1998
  • Dawn Primarolo 1999-2007
  • Tessa Jowell 2007-2010
  • Francis Maude since 2010
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