Chancellor of the Exchequer

Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party 	Notes
Sir Walter Mildmay 	1559 	1589 	 	
John Fortescue 	1589 	1603 	 	
The Earl of Dunbar 	1603 	1606 	 	
Sir Julius Caesar 	1606 	1614 	 	
Sir Fulke Greville 	1614 	1621 	 	
Sir Richard Weston 	1621 	1628 	 	
The Lord Barrett of Newburgh 	1628 	1629 	 	
The Lord Cottington 	1629 	1642 	 	
Sir John Culpepper 	1642 	1643 	 	
Sir Edward Hyde 	19 July 1643 	1646 	 	
The Lord Ashley laterThe Earl of Shaftesbury 	13 May 1661 	22 November 1672 	 	
Sir John Duncombe 	22 November 1672 	2 May 1676 	 	
Sir John Ernle 	2 May 1676 	2 December 1688 	Tory 	
The Lord Delamere 	9 April 1689 	18 March 1690 	Whig 	
Richard Hampden 	18 March 1690 	10 May 1694 	Whig 	
Charles Montagu 	10 May 1694 	2 June 1699 	Whig 	
John Smith 	2 June 1699 	27 March 1701 	Whig 	
Henry Boyle 	27 March 1701 	22 April 1708 	Whig 	
John Smith 	22 April 1708 	11 August 1710 	Whig 	
Robert Harley 	11 August 1710 	4 June 1711 	Tory 	
Robert Benson 	4 June 1711 	21 August 1713 	Tory 	
Sir William Wyndham, Bt. 	21 August 1713 	13 October 1714 	Tory 	
Sir Richard Onslow 	13 October 1714 	12 October 1715 	Whig 	
Robert Walpole 	12 October 1715 	15 April 1717 	Whig 	also First Lord of the Treasury
James Stanhope laterThe Viscount Stanhope of Mahon	15 April 1717 	20 March 1718 	Whig 	also First Lord of the Treasury
John Aislabie 	20 March 1718 	23 January 1721 	Whig 	
Sir John Pratt 	2 February 1721 	3 April 1721 	Whig 	
Robert Walpole laterSir Robert Walpole 	3 April 1721 	12 February 1742 	Whig 	also First Lord of the Treasury
Samuel Sandys 	12 February 1742 	12 December 1743 	Whig 	
Henry Pelham 	12 December 1743 	8 March 1754 	Whig 	also First Lord of the Treasury
Sir William Lee 	8 March 1754 	6 April 1754 	Whig 	
Henry Bilson Legge 	6 April 1754 	25 November 1755 	Whig 	
Sir George Lyttelton 	25 November 1755 	16 November 1756 	Whig 	
Henry Bilson Legge 	16 November 1756 	13 April 1757 	Whig 	
The Lord Mansfield 	13 April 1757 	2 July 1757 	Whig 	interim; also Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
Henry Bilson Legge 	2 July 1757 	19 March 1761 	Whig 	
The Viscount Barrington 	19 March 1761 	29 May 1762 	Whig 	
Sir Francis Dashwood 	29 May 1762 	16 April 1763 	Butite Whig/"Tory" 	
George Grenville 	16 April 1763 	16 July 1765 	Grenvillite Whig 	also First Lord of the Treasury
William Dowdeswell 	16 July 1765 	2 August 1766 	Rockingham Whig 	
Charles Townshend 	2 August 1766 	4 September 1767 	Tory 	
Lord North 	11 September 1767 	27 March 1782 	Tory 	also First Lord of the Treasury from 1770
Lord John Cavendish 	27 March 1782 	10 July 1782 	Whig 	
William Pitt 	10 July 1782 	31 March 1783 	Whig 	
Lord John Cavendish 	2 April 1783 	19 December 1783 	Whig 	
William Pitt 	19 December 1783 	14 March 1801 	Tory 	also First Lord of the Treasury
Henry Addington 	14 March 1801 	10 May 1804 	Tory 	also First Lord of the Treasury
William Pitt 	10 May 1804 	23 January 1806 	Tory 	also First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Henry Petty 	5 February 1806 	26 March 1807 	Whig 	
Spencer Perceval 	26 March 1807 	12 May 1812 	Tory 	also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and (from 1809) First Lord of the Treasury
Nicholas Vansittart 	11 June 1812 	31 January 1823 	Tory 	
Frederick John Robinson 	31 January 1823 	20 April 1827 	Tory 	
George Canning 	20 April 1827 	8 August 1827 	Tory 	also First Lord of the Treasury
The Lord Tenterden 	wikipedia:8 August 1827	3 September 1827 	Tory 	interim; also Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
John Charles Herries 	3 September 1827 	26 January 1828 	Tory 	
Henry Goulburn 	26 January 1828 	22 November 1830 	Tory 	
Viscount Althorp 	22 November 1830 	14 November 1834 	Whig 	
The Lord Denman 	14 November 1834 	15 December 1834 	Whig 	interim; also Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
Sir Robert Peel, Bt. 	15 December 1834 	8 April 1835 	Conservative 	also First Lord of the Treasury
Thomas Spring Rice 	18 April 1835 	26 August 1839 	Whig 	
Francis Thornhill Baring 	26 August 1839 	30 August 1841 	Whig 	
Henry Goulburn 	3 September 1841 	27 June 1846 	Conservative 	
Sir Charles Wood, Bt. 	6 July 1846 	21 February 1852 	Whig 	
Benjamin Disraeli 	27 February 1852 	17 December 1852 	Conservative 	
William Gladstone 	28 December 1852 	28 February 1855 	Peelite 	
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt. 	28 February 1855 	21 February 1858 	Whig 	
Benjamin Disraeli 	26 February 1858 	11 June 1859 	Conservative 	
William Gladstone 	18 June 1859 	26 June 1866 	Liberal 	
Benjamin Disraeli 	6 July 1866 	29 February 1868 	Conservative 	
George Ward Hunt 	29 February 1868 	1 December 1868 	Conservative 	
Robert Lowe 	9 December 1868 	11 August 1873 	Liberal 	
William Gladstone 	11 August 1873 	17 February 1874 	Liberal 	also First Lord of the Treasury
Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt. 	21 February 1874 	21 April 1880 	Conservative 	
William Gladstone 	28 April 1880 	16 December 1882 	Liberal 	also First Lord of the Treasury
Hugh Childers 	16 December 1882 	9 June 1885 	Liberal 	
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt. 	24 June 1885 	28 January 1886 	Conservative 	
Sir William Harcourt 	6 February 1886 	20 July 1886 	Liberal 	
Lord Randolph Churchill 	3 August 1886 	22 December 1886 	Conservative 	
George Goschen 	14 January 1887 	11 August 1892 	Liberal Unionist 	
Sir William Harcourt 	18 August 1892 	21 June 1895 	Liberal 	
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bt. 	29 June 1895 	11 August 1902 	Conservative 	
Charles Thomson Ritchie 	11 August 1902 	9 October 1903 	Conservative 	
Austen Chamberlain 	9 October 1903 	4 December 1905 	Liberal Unionist 	
Herbert Henry Asquith 	10 December 1905 	12 April 1908 	Liberal 	
David Lloyd George 	12 April 1908 	25 May 1915 	Liberal 	
Reginald McKenna 	25 May 1915 	10 December 1916 	Liberal 	
Andrew Bonar Law 	10 December 1916 	10 January 1919 	Unionist 	
Austen Chamberlain 	10 January 1919 	1 April 1921 	Unionist 	
Sir Robert Horne 	1 April 1921 	19 October 1922 	Unionist 	
Stanley Baldwin 	27 October 1922 	27 August 1923 	Conservative 	also Prime Minister from 22 May 1923
Neville Chamberlain 	27 August 1923 	22 January 1924 	Conservative 	
Philip Snowden 	22 January 1924 	3 November 1924 	Labour 	
Winston Churchill 	6 November 1924 	4 June 1929 	Conservative 	
Philip Snowden 	7 June 1929 	5 November 1931 	Labour/National Labour	
Neville Chamberlain 	5 November 1931 	28 May 1937 	Conservative 	
Sir John Simon 	28 May 1937 	12 May 1940 	National Liberal 	
Sir Kingsley Wood 	12 May 1940 	21 September 1943	Conservative 	
Sir John Anderson 	24 September 1943 	26 July 1945 	Non-party 	
Hugh Dalton 	27 July 1945 	13 November 1947 	Labour 	
Sir Stafford Cripps 	13 November 1947 	19 October 1950 	Labour 	
Hugh Gaitskell 	19 October 1950 	26 October 1951 	Labour 	
Richard Austen Butler 	28 October 1951 	20 December 1955 	Conservative 	
Harold Macmillan 	20 December 1955 	13 January 1957 	Conservative 	
Peter Thorneycroft 	13 January 1957 	6 January 1958 	Conservative 	
Derick Heathcoat-Amory 	6 January 1958 	27 July 1960 	Conservative 	
Selwyn Lloyd 	27 July 1960 	13 July 1962 	Conservative 	
Reginald Maudling 	13 July 1962 	16 October 1964 	Conservative 	
James Callaghan 	16 October 1964 	30 November 1967 	Labour 	
Roy Jenkins 	30 November 1967 	19 June 1970 	Labour 	
Iain Macleod 	20 June 1970 	20 July 1970 	Conservative 	
Anthony Barber 	25 July 1970 	4 March 1974 	Conservative 	
Denis Healey 	5 March 1974 	4 May 1979 	Labour 	
Sir Geoffrey Howe 	5 May 1979 	11 June 1983 	Conservative 	
Nigel Lawson 	11 June 1983 	26 October 1989 	Conservative 	
John Major 	26 October 1989 	28 November 1990 	Conservative 	
Norman Lamont 	28 November 1990 	27 May 1993 	Conservative 	
Kenneth Clarke 	27 May 1993 	2 May 1997 	Conservative 	
Gordon Brown 	2 May 1997 	27 June 2007 	Labour 	
Alistair Darling 	28 June 2007 	11 May 2010 	Labour 	
George Osborne 	11 May 2010 	13 July 2016 	Conservative 	
Philip Hammond 	13 July 2016 	current incumbent	Conservative