List of Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom.

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 14th century

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office
	Henry de Haydock		1361	1373
	Ralph de Ergham		1373	16 April 1377
	Thomas de Thelwall		16 April 1377	1378
	John De Yerborough		1378	10 November 1382
	Thomas Stanley (pro tem)		10 November 1382	29 November 1382
	Thomas Scarle		29 November 1382	October 1383
	William Okey		October 1383	1400

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 15th century

• John de Wakering (1400 - 1400)
• William Burgoyne (1400 - 15 May 1404)
• Thomas Stanley (15 May 1404 - 30 March 1410)
• John Springthorpe (30 March 1410 - 4 April 1413)
• John Wodehouse (4 April 1413 - 10 June 1424)
• William Troutbecke (10 June 1424 - 16 February 1431)
• Walter Sherington (16 February 1431 - 3 July 1442)
• William Tresham (3 July 1442 - 10 June 1449)
• John Say (10 June 1449 - 10 June 1462)
• Richard Fowler (10 June 1462 - 3 November 1477)
• John Say (3 November 1477-2 April 1478)
• Thomas Thwaites (2 April 1478 - 7 July 1483)
• Thomas Metcalfe (7 July 1483 - 13 September 1486)
• Reginald Bray (13 September 1486 - 24 June 1503)

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 16th century

• John Mordaunt (24 June 1503 - 3 October 1505)
• Richard Empson (3 October 1505 - 14 May 1509)
• Henry Marney (14 May 1509 - 14 April 1523)
• Richard Wingfield (14 April 1523 - 31 December 1525)
• Thomas More (31 December 1525 - 3 November 1529)
• William Fitzwilliam (3 November 1529 - 10 May 1533)
• Sir John Gage (10 May 1533 - 1 July 1547)
• William Paget (1549) (1 July 1547 - 7 July 1552)
• John Gates (7 July 1552 - 1553)
• Robert Rochester (1553–1557)
• Edward Waldegrave (22 June 1558 - 1559)
• Ambrose Cave (1559 - 16 May 1568)
• Ralph Sadler (16 May 1568 - 15 June 1587)
• Francis Walsingham (15 June 1587 - 1590)
• Thomas Heneage (1590 - 7 October 1595)
• Seal in commission (1595–1597)
• Robert Cecil (8 October 1597 - 1599)
• Seal in commission (1599 - 16 September 1601)

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 17th century

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office
	John Fortescue		16 September 1601	1601
	in commission		1601	1601
	John Fortescue		1601	1607
	Thomas Parry		1607	5 June 1616
	John Dacombe & Thomas Parry		27 May 1615	5 June 1616
	John Dacombe		5 June 1616	1618
	in commission		1618	23 March 1618
	Humphrey May		23 March 1618	16 April 1629
	Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh		16 April 1629	10 February 1644
	Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge		1644	1645

Chancellors serving Parliament and the Commonwealth

	William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke & William Lenthall (commission)	(Lenthall)	10 February 1644	1648
	Gilbert Gerard		1648	1 August 1649
	John Bradshaw	75px	1 August 1649	1653
	John Bradshaw & Thomas Fell (commissioners)	75px (Bradshaw)	1653	1654
	Thomas Fell		1654	1658
	John Bradshaw	75px	1658	1659
	William Lenthall		1659	1659
	Gilbert Gerard		14 May 1659	9 July 1659

Restoration of the Monarchy

	Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge		9 July 1660	21 July 1664
	Thomas Ingram		21 July 1664	22 February 1672
	Robert Carr		22 February 1672	21 November 1682
	Thomas Chicheley		21 November 1682	1682
	vacant		1682	1687
	in commission		1687	1687
	Robert Phelips		1687	21 March 1689
	Robert Bertie, Lord Willoughby of Eresby		21 March 1689	4 May 1697
	Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford		4 May 1697	12 May 1702

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 18th century

Name		Portrait	Tenure	Political party
	John Leveson-Gower (created Baron Gower, 1703)		12 May 1702 – 10 June 1706	Tory
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby		75px	10 June 1706 – 21 September 1710
William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton			21 September 1710 – 6 November 1714
	Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford		6 November 1714 – 12 March 1716	Tory
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough		75px	12 March 1716 – 19 June 1717
Nicholas Lechmere (created Baron Lechmere, 1721)			19 June 1717 – 17 July 1727
	John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland		17 July 1727 – 21 May 1735	Whig
	George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley		21 May 1735 – 22 December 1742	Whig
Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe			22 December 1742 – 25 December 1758 (died)
	Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull	75px	27 February 1759 – 13 December 1762	Whig
James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange		75px	13 December 1762 – 14 June 1771
	Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon		14 June 1771 – 17 April 1782	Whig
	John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton	75px	17 April 1782 – 29 August 1783	Whig
	Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby		29 August – 31 December 1783	Whig
	Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon		31 December 1783 – 6 September 1786	Whig
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Baron Hawkesbury (created Earl of Liverpool, 1796)			6 September 1786 – 11 November 1803

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 19th century

Name		Portrait	Concurrent office(s)		Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
	Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baron Pelham				11 November 1803 – 6 June 1804	Whig		Henry Addington
	Henry Phipps, 3rd Baron Mulgrave				6 June 1804 – 14 January 1805	Tory		William Pitt the Younger
	Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire				14 January – 10 July 1805
	Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby		Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, Vienna and St Petersburg (1805)		10 July 1805 – 12 February 1806
	Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby				12 February 1806 – 30 March 1807	Whig		William Grenville (Ministry of All the Talents)
	Spencer Perceval		Chancellor of the Exchequer		30 March 1807 – 11 May 1812	Tory		William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
				Chancellor of the Exchequer Prime Minister Leader of the House of Commons (from October 1809)				Himself
	Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire		President of the Board of Control		23 May – 23 June 1812			Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Charles Bathurst			President of the Board of Control (January 1821–February 1822)		23 June 1812 – 13 February 1823	no party
	Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley				13 February 1823 – 26 January 1828	Tory
								George Canning (April–August 1827)
								F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
	George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen	75px			26 January – 2 June 1828			Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
	Charles Arbuthnot	75px			2 June 1828 – 25 November 1830
	Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland				25 November 1830 – 14 November 1834	Whig		Charles Grey
								William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
vacant					14 November – 26 December 1834			Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (Caretaker)
	Charles Williams-Wynn				26 December 1834 – 8 April 1835	Conservative		Robert Peel
	Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland				23 April 1835 – 31 October 1840	Whig		William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
	George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon		Lord Privy Seal		31 October 1840 – 23 June 1841
	George Grey				23 June – 30 August 1841
	Lord Granville Somerset	75px			3 September 1841 – 27 June 1846	Conservative		Robert Peel
	John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell				6 July 1846 – 6 March 1850	Whig		John Russell
	George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle		First Commissioner of Woods and Forests (until July 1850)		6 March 1850 – 21 February 1852
	Robert Christopher				1 March – 17 December 1852	Conservative		Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
	Edward Strutt				3 January 1853 – 21 June 1854	Whig / Radical		George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (Coalition)
	Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville				21 June 1854 – 30 January 1855	Whig
vacant					February – March 1855
	Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby				31 March – 7 December 1855			Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
	Matthew Baines	75px			7 December 1855 – 21 February 1858	Whig
	James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose				26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859	Conservative		Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
	George Grey				22 June 1859 – 25 July 1861	Whig / Liberal		Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
	Edward Cardwell				25 July 1861 – 7 April 1864	Conservative
	George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon				7 April 1864 – 3 November 1865	Liberal
vacant					3 November 1865 – 26 January 1866			John Russell
	George Goschen		Vice-President of the Board of Trade (until March 1866)		26 January – 26 June 1866	Liberal
	William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon	75px	President of the Poor Law Board (from May 1867)		10 July 1866 – 26 June 1867	Conservative		Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
	John Wilson-Patten	75px			26 June 1867 – 7 November 1868
			Chief Secretary for Ireland (from September 1868)					Benjamin Disraeli (from February 1868)
	Thomas Taylor				7 November – 1 December 1868
	Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (created Earl of Dufferin in 1871)		Paymaster-General		12 December 1868 – 9 August 1872	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone
	Hugh Childers	75px			9 August 1872 – 30 September 1873
	John Bright	75px			30 September 1873 – 17 February 1874
	Thomas Taylor				2 March 1874 – 21 April 1880	Conservative		Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield from 1876)
	John Bright	75px			28 April 1880 – 25 July 1882	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone
	John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley		Colonial Secretary		25 July – 28 December 1882
	John George Dodson	75px			28 December 1882 – 29 October 1884
	George Trevelyan				29 October 1884 – 9 June 1885
	Henry Chaplin				24 June 1885 – 28 January 1886	Conservative		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
	Edward Heneage				6 February – 16 April 1886	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone
	Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth				16 April – 20 July 1886
	Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook		Lord President of the Council		3 – 16 August 1886	Conservative		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
	John Manners (7th Duke of Rutland from 1888)				16 August 1886 – 11 August 1892
	James Bryce				18 August 1892 – 28 May 1894	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone (until March 1894)
								Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
	Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth	75px	Lord Privy Seal		28 May 1894 – 21 June 1895
	R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross				29 June – 4 July 1895	Conservative		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
	Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford				4 July 1895 – 8 August 1902	Liberal Unionist
								Arthur Balfour (from 12 July 1902)

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 20th century

Edwardian and wartime

Name		Portrait	Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
	William Walrond			8 August 1902 – 4 December 1905	Conservative		Arthur Balfour Coalition
	Henry Fowler			10 December 1905 – 13 October 1908	Liberal		Henry Campbell-Bannerman
							H. H. Asquith
	Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice	75px		13 October 1908 – 25 June 1909
	Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel			25 June 1909 – 14 February 1910
	Jack Pease			14 February 1910 – 23 October 1911
	Charles Hobhouse			23 October 1911 – 11 February 1914
	Charles Masterman			11 February 1914 – 3 February 1915
	Edwin Samuel Montagu			3 February – 25 May 1915
	Winston Churchill			25 May – 25 November 1915			H. H. Asquith (War coalition)
	Herbert Samuel		Postmaster-General	25 November 1915 – 11 January 1916
	Edwin Samuel Montagu			11 January – 9 July 1916
	Thomas McKinnon Wood	75px	Financial Secretary to the Treasury	9 July – 10 December 1916
	Frederick Cawley			10 December 1916 – 10 February 1918			David Lloyd George (Coalition)
	Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook	75px	Minister of Information	10 February – 4 November 1918	Liberal Unionist
	William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham	75px		4 November 1918 – 10 January 1919	Conservative
	David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford			10 January 1919 – 1 April 1921
	William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel		Minister of Transport	1 April 1921 – 7 April 1922
	William Sutherland			7 April – 19 October 1922
	James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury		Lord President of the Council	24 October 1922 – 25 May 1923			Bonar Law
	J. C. C. Davidson			25 May 1923 – 22 January 1924			Stanley Baldwin
	Josiah Wedgwood			22 January – 3 November 1924	Labour		Ramsay MacDonald
	Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood			10 November 1924 – 19 October 1927	Conservative		Stanley Baldwin
	Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun	75px		19 October 1927 – 4 June 1929
	Oswald Mosley		responsibility for unemployment	7 June 1929 – 19 May 1930	Labour		Ramsay MacDonald
	Clement Attlee			23 May 1930 – 13 March 1931
	Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede			13 March – 24 August 1931
	Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian			25 August – 10 November 1931	Liberal		Ramsay MacDonald (1st Nat. coalition)
	J. C. C. Davidson		sometime chairman of the Indian States inquiry	10 November 1931 – 28 May 1937	Conservative		Ramsay MacDonald (2nd Nat. coalition)
							Stanley Baldwin (3rd Nat. coalition)
	Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton	75px	Air Ministry spokesperson in the Commons (March – May 1938)	28 May 1937 – 29 January 1939			Neville Chamberlain (4th Nat. coalition)
	William Morrison			29 January 1939 – 3 April 1940
			Minister of Food (from 4 September 1939)				Neville Chamberlain (War coalition)
	George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon			3 April – 14 May 1940
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey		75px		14 May 1940 – 20 July 1941	no party		Winston Churchill (War coalition)
	Duff Cooper			20 July 1941 – 11 November 1943	Conservative
	Ernest Brown	75px		11 November 1943 – 25 May 1945	National Liberal
	Arthur Salter			25 May – 26 July 1945	Conservative		Winston Churchill (Caretaker coalition)

Post-War

Name		Portrait	Concurrent office(s)		Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
	John Hynd		Minister for Germany and Austria		4 August 1945 – 17 April 1947	Labour		Clement Attlee
	Frank Pakenham, 1st Baron Pakenham		deputy Foreign Secretary (responsibility for the British zone, West Germany)		17 April 1947 – 31 May 1948
	Hugh Dalton				31 May 1948 – 28 February 1950
	A. V. Alexander, 1st Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough	75px			28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951	Labour Co-operative
	Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton		Minister of Materials		31 October 1951 – 24 November 1952	Conservative		Winston Churchill
	Frederick Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton (created Viscount Woolton, 1953)	75px	Minister of Materials (1 September 1953 – August 1954)		24 November 1952 – 20 December 1955
								Anthony Eden
	George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk				20 December 1955 – 13 January 1957
	Charles Hill				13 January 1957 – 9 October 1961			Harold Macmillan
	Iain Macleod			Leader of the House of Commons	9 October 1961 – 20 October 1963
	John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham			Deputy Leader of the House of Lords Chairman of the Conservative Party	20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964			Alec Douglas-Home
	Douglas Houghton		special responsibility for Social Services		18 October 1964 – 6 April 1966	Labour		Harold Wilson
	George Thomson				6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967
	Frederick Lee				7 January 1967 – 6 October 1969
vacant or Thomson?					6 October 1969 – 20 June 1970
	Anthony Barber		responsibility for UK—EEC relations (chiefly, until 1973, negotiating entry)		20 June – 28 July 1970	Conservative		Edward Heath
	Geoffrey Rippon				28 July 1970 – 5 November 1972
	John Davies				5 November 1972 – 4 March 1974
	Harold Lever				5 March 1974 – 4 May 1979	Labour		Harold Wilson
								James Callaghan
	Norman St John-Stevas			Leader of the House of Commons Minister for the Arts	5 May 1979 – 5 January 1981	Conservative		Margaret Thatcher
	Francis Pym	75px		Leader of the House of Commons Paymaster-General	5 January – 14 September 1981
	Janet Young, Baroness Young			Leader of the House of Lords	14 September 1981 – 6 April 1982
	Cecil Parkinson		Paymaster-General		6 April 1982 – 11 June 1983
	Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield				11 June 1983 – 11 September 1984
	Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie		Minister for the Arts		11 September 1984 – 3 September 1985
	Norman Tebbit		Chairman of the Conservative Party		3 September 1985 – 13 June 1987
	Ken Clarke		Minister for Inner Cities (DTI)		13 June 1987 – 25 July 1988
	Tony Newton		Minister of State at DTI		25 July 1988 – 24 July 1989
	Kenneth Baker		Chairman of the Conservative Party		24 July 1989 – 28 November 1990
	Chris Patten				28 November 1990 – 10 April 1992
	William Waldegrave	75px	responsibility for public services and science		10 April 1992 – 20 July 1994			John Major
	David Hunt		Minister for Public Services		20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995
	Roger Freeman				5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
	David Clark				3 May 1997 – 27 July 1998	Labour		Tony Blair
	Jack Cunningham		Cabinet Office Minister		27 July 1998 – 11 October 1999
	Mo Mowlam				11 October 1999 – 11 June 2001

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, 21st century

Name		Portrait	Concurrent office(s)		Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
	Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston		Cabinet Office Minister		11 June 2001 – 13 June 2003	Labour		Tony Blair
	Douglas Alexander				13 June 2003 – 8 September 2004
	Alan Milburn				8 September 2004 – 6 May 2005
	John Hutton				6 May 2005 – 2 November 2005
vacant					2 November 2005 – 5 May 2006
	Hilary Armstrong		Cabinet Office Minister Minister for Social Exclusion		5 May 2006 – 27 June 2007	Labour
	Ed Miliband	75px	Cabinet Office Minister		28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008			Gordon Brown
	Liam Byrne				3 October 2008 – 5 June 2009
	Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon			Leader of the House of Lords	5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
	Tom Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde	75px			12 May 2010 – 7 January 2013	Conservative		David Cameron (Coalition)
	Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford				7 January 2013 – 14 July 2014
	Oliver Letwin		Minister of State for Government Policy		14 July 2014 – present
			in charge of the Cabinet Office					David Cameron