Chancellor of the Exchequer

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*, but not the same person as the Lord Chancellor) is responsible for Britain's money and economy. 

Well-known Chancellors of the Exchequer include Robert Peel, Winston Churchill, Denis Healey, Geoffrey Howe, Gordon Brown, George Osborne, Philip Hammond and Rishi Sunak.

## 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 28, 2007)
* Alistair Darling (June 28, 2007 - 11 May 2010)
* George Osborne (11 May 2010 - 13 July 2016) (sacked)
* Philip Hammond (13 July 2016 - 24 July 2019) (resigned)
*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) (sacked)
*Jeremy Hunt (14 October 2022 - 5 July 2024)
*Rachel Reeves (5 July 2024 - Present)

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