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List of chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster

List of chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster

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

Oliver Dowden has been chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 25 October 2022.

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster (1361–1644)

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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 1 August 1649 1653
John Bradshaw
& Thomas Fell
(commissioners)		 (Bradshaw) 1653 1654
Thomas Fell 1654 1658
John Bradshaw 1658 1659
William Lenthall 1659 1659
Gilbert Gerard 14 May 1659 9 July 1659

Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster (1660–present)

17th century

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18th century

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19th–21st centuries

Minister in the House of Commons Minister in the House of Lords
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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Served as Bishop of Sarum from 1375.
  2. [N 2]
    Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1469 to c. April 1471.
  3. [N 3]
    Served as Secretary of State until 1548. Created Baron Paget in the peerage of England in 1549.
  4. [N 4]
    Served as Lord Privy Seal from 1598.
  5. [N 5]
    Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1603. MP for Middlesex during 1601 Parliament.
  6. [N 6]
    MP for Berkshire during the 1614 Parliament.
  7. [N 7]
    Elected to Parliament as MP for Lancaster in 1621 and 1625, and as MP for Leicester in 1624 and 1626.
  8. [N 8]
    Royalist appointee during the Oxford Parliament, re-appointed Chancellor in 1660 after the Restoration.
  9. [N 9]
    MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme until 1703; thereafter elevated to the peerage of England as Baron Gower.
  10. [N 10]
    MP for Tewkesbury until 1721; thereafter elevated to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Lechmere.
  11. [N 11]
    Commonly styled with the courtesy title Lord Strange, however neither James Smith-Stanley or his father has any right to it.
  12. [N 12]
    Baron Hyde since 1756; elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Clarendon from 1776.
  13. [N 13]
    Baron Hawkesbury since August 1786; elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Liverpool from May 1796.
  14. [N 14]
    MP for Bodmin until 1818, thereafter MP for Harwich.
  15. [N 15]
    Baron Dufferin and Claneboye since 1841. Elevated in the peerage of the United Kingdom as Earl of Dufferin in 1871.
  16. [N 16]
    MP for Melton until 1888, thereafter succeeded his brother as Duke of Rutland.
  17. [N 17]
    On appointment to office a ministerial by-election was triggered in the Bethnal Green South West constituency that Masterman had represented since 1911. Masterman unsuccessfully contested the seat, narrowly losing to the Conservative candidate. Masterman then unsuccessful stood in the 1914 Ipswich by-election. Masterman resigned as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster after failing to be returned to Parliament.
  18. [N 18]
    Baron Woolton since 1952, created Viscount Woolton in 1953.

References

    Bibliography

    • Baines, Edward (1836). The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Vol. I. London, Paris, and New York: Fisher, Son, & Co.
    • "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 6 November 2017.
    • Venning, Timothy (2005). Compendium of British Office Holders. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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