Title: Chancellor of the Exchequer Content: The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the head of the government treasury and the chief executive of HM Treasury who is a high ranking minister in the government of the United Kingdom. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, sometimes shortened to The Chancellor, is responsible for Britain's money and economy. Other well-known Chancellors of the Exchequer include Robert Peel, Winston Churchill, Denis Healey, Geoffrey Howe, George Osborne and Philip Hammond. == List of the Chancellors of the Exchequer == === Chancellors of the Exchequer of England === * Sir John Baker (date is not known) * Sir Walter Mildmay (1559–1589) * Sir John Fortescue (1589–1603) * George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar (1603–1606) * Sir Julius Caesar (1606–1614) * Sir Fulke Greville (1614–1621) * Sir Richard Weston (1621–1628) * Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh (1628–1629) * Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington (1629–1642) * Sir John Culpepper (1642–1643) * Sir Edward Hyde (July 19, 1642 - 1646) * Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (May 13, 1661 - November 22, 1672) * Sir John Duncombe (November 22, 1672 - May 2, 1676) * Sir John Ernle (May 2, 1676 - April 9, 1689) * Henry Booth, 2nd Baron Delamere (April 9, 1689 - March 18, 1690) * Richard Hampden (March 18, 1690 - May 10, 1694) * Charles Montagu (May 10, 1694 - June 2, 1699) * John Smith (June 2, 1699 - March 27, 1701) * Henry Boyle (March 27, 1701 - April 22, 1708) === Chancellors of the Exchequer of Great Britain === Many Chancellors were also Prime Minister for some or all of the time they were Chancellor. These are shown with a * * John Smith (April 22, 1708 - August 11, 1710) * Robert Harley (August 11, 1710 - June 4, 1711) * Robert Benson (June 4, 1711 - August 21, 1713) * Sir William Wyndham (August 21, 1713 - October 13, 1714) * Sir Richard Onslow (October 13, 1714 - October 12, 1715) * Robert Walpole (October 12, 1715 - April 15, 1717) * James Stanhope, 1st Viscount Stanhope (April 15, 1717 - March 20, 1718) * John Aislabie (March 20, 1718 - January 23, 1721) (resigned) * Sir John Pratt (February 2, 1721 - April 3, 1721) * Sir Robert Walpole (April 3, 1721 - February 12, 1742)* * Samuel Sandys (February 12, 1742 - December 12, 1743) * Henry Pelham (December 12, 1743 - March 8, 1754)* * Sir William Lee (March 8, 1754 - April 6, 1754) * Henry Bilson Legge (April 6, 1754 - November 25, 1755) * Sir George Lyttelton (November 25, 1755 - November 16, 1756) * Henry Bilson Legge (November 16, 1756 - April 13, 1757) * William Murray, 1st Baron Mansfield (April 13, 1757 - July 2, 1757) * Henry Bilson Legge (July 2, 1757 - March 19, 1761) * William Wildman Barrington-Shute, 2nd Viscount Barrington (March 19, 1761 - May 29, 1762) * Sir Francis Dashwood (May 29, 1762 - April 16, 1763) * George Grenville (April 16, 1763 - July 16, 1765)* * William Dowdeswell (July 16, 1765 - August 2, 1766) * Charles Townshend (August 2, 1766 - September 4, 1767) (died in office) * Frederick North, Lord North (September 11, 1767 - March 27, 1782)* (From 1770) (resigned) * Lord John Cavendish (March 27, 1782 - July 10, 1782) * William Pitt (July 10, 1782 - March 31, 1783) (resigned) * Lord John Cavendish (April 2, 1783 - December 19, 1783) * William Pitt (December 19, 1783 - March 14, 1801)* === Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom === * Henry Addington (March 14, 1801 - May 10, 1804)* * William Pitt (May 10, 1804 - January 23, 1806)* (died in office) * Lord Henry Petty (February 5, 1806 - March 26, 1807) * Spencer Perceval (March 26, 1807 - May 12, 1812)* (From 1809) (assassinated) * Nicholas Vansittart (May 12, 1812 - January 31, 1823) * Frederick John Robinson (January 31, 1823 - April 20, 1827) * George Canning (April 20, 1827 - August 8, 1827)* (died in office) * Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (August 8, 1827 - September 3, 1827) * John Charles Herries (September 3, 1827 - January 26, 1828) * Henry Goulburn (January 26, 1828 - November 22, 1830) * John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp (November 22, 1830 - November 14, 1834) * Lord Denman served as Chancellor pro tem (November 15 1834 - December 15 1834) * Sir Robert Peel (December 2, 1834 - April 8, 1835)* * Thomas Spring Rice (April 18, 1835 - August 26, 1839) * Sir Francis Thornhill Baring (August 26, 1839 - August 30, 1841) * Henry Goulburn (September 3, 1841 - June 27, 1846) * Sir Charles Wood (July 6, 1846 - February 21, 1852) * Benjamin Disraeli (February 27, 1852 - December 17, 1852) * William Ewart Gladstone (December 28, 1852 - February 28, 1855) * Sir George Cornewall Lewis (February 28, 1855 - February 21, 1858) * Benjamin Disraeli (February 26, 1858 - June 11, 1859) * William Ewart Gladstone (June 18, 1859 - June 26, 1866) * Benjamin Disraeli (July 6, 1866 - February 29, 1868) * George Ward Hunt (February 29, 1868 - December 1, 1868) * Robert Lowe (December 9, 1868 - August 11, 1873) * William Ewart Gladstone (August 11, 1873 - February 17, 1874)* * Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (February 21, 1874 - April 21, 1880) * William Ewart Gladstone (April 28, 1880 - December 16, 1882)* * Hugh Childers (December 16, 1882 - June 9, 1885) * Sir Michael Hicks Beach (June 24, 1885 - January 28, 1886) * Sir William Vernon Harcourt (February 6, 1886 - July 20, 1886) * Lord Randolph Churchill (August 3, 1886 - December 22, 1886) (resigned) * George Joachim Goschen (January 14, 1887 - August 11, 1892) * Sir William Vernon Harcourt (August 18, 1892 - June 21, 1895) * Sir Michael Hicks Beach (June 29, 1895 - August 11, 1902) * Charles Thomson Ritchie (August 11, 1902 - October 9, 1903) * Austen Chamberlain (October 9, 1903 - December 4, 1905) * Herbert Henry Asquith (December 10, 1905 - April 12, 1908) * David Lloyd George (April 12, 1908 - May 25, 1915) * Reginald McKenna (May 25, 1915 - December 10, 1916) * Andrew Bonar Law (December 10, 1916 - January 10, 1919) * Austen Chamberlain (January 10, 1919 - April 1, 1921) * Sir Robert Stevenson Horne (April 1, 1921 - October 19, 1922) * Stanley Baldwin (October 27, 1922 - August 27, 1923)* (From May 22, 1923) * Neville Chamberlain (August 27, 1923 - January 22, 1924) * Philip Snowden (January 22, 1924 - November 3, 1924) * Winston Churchill (November 6, 1924 - June 4, 1929) * Philip Snowden (June 7, 1929 - November 5, 1931) * Neville Chamberlain (November 5, 1931 - May 28, 1937) * Sir John Allsebrooke Simon (May 28, 1937 - May 12, 1940) * Sir Kingsley Wood (May 12, 1940 - September 24, 1943) * Sir John Anderson (September 24, 1943 - July 26, 1945) * Hugh Dalton (July 27, 1945 - November 13, 1947) (resigned) * Sir Stafford Cripps (November 13, 1947 - October 19, 1950) * Hugh Gaitskell (October 19, 1950 - October 26, 1951) * Rab Butler (October 28, 1951 - December 20, 1955) * Harold Macmillan (December 20, 1955 - January 13, 1957) * Peter Thorneycroft (January 13, 1957 - January 6, 1958) (resigned) * Derick Heathcoat-Amory (January 6, 1958 - July 27, 1960) * Selwyn Lloyd (July 27, 1960 - July 13, 1962) * Reginald Maudling (July 13, 1962 - October 16, 1964) * James Callaghan (October 16, 1964 - November 30, 1967) * Roy Jenkins (November 30, 1967 - June 19, 1970) * Iain Macleod (June 20, 1970 - July 20, 1970) (died in office) * Anthony Barber (July 25, 1970 - March 4, 1974) * Denis Healey (March 5, 1974 - May 4, 1979) * Sir Geoffrey Howe (May 4, 1979 - June 11, 1983) * Nigel Lawson (June 11, 1983 - October 26, 1989) (resigned) * John Major (October 26, 1989 - November 28, 1990) * Norman Lamont (November 28, 1990 - May 27, 1993) * Kenneth Clarke (May 27, 1993 - May 2, 1997) * Gordon Brown (May 2, 1997 - June 27, 2007) * Alistair Darling (June 28, 2007 - 11 May 2010) * George Osborne (11 May 2010 - 13 July 2016) * Philip Hammond (13 July 2016 - 24 July 2019) *Sajid Javid (24 July 2019 - 13 February 2020) (resigned) *Rishi Sunak (13 February 2020 - 5 July 2022) (resigned) *Nadhim Zahawi (5 July 2022 - 6 September 2022) *Kwasi Kwarteng (6 September 2022 - 14 October 2022) (resigned) *Jeremy Hunt (14 October 2022 - Present)