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Head of the Exchequer of Ireland
The Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland was the head of the
Exchequer of Ireland and a member of the
Dublin Castle administration under the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the
Kingdom of Ireland. In early times the office was sometimes called the Chancellor of the Green Wax. In the early centuries, the Chancellor was often a highly educated
cleric with knowledge of Finance. In later centuries, when sessions of
Parliament had become regular, the Chancellor was invariably an
MP in the
Irish House of Commons.
Walter de Kenley (died 1308), Chancellor from 1292 until his death, was both a
judge of the
Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) and a distinguished
military commander who gave good service against the
Gaelic clans of
County Wicklow.
The office was separate from the
judicial role of
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, although in the early centuries, the two offices were often held by the same person; on other occasions, the Chancellor was second Baron of the
Exchequer. The first Chancellor appears to have been
Thomas de Chaddesworth,
Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, in 1270. Like de Kenley, he was a judge of the
Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), not the Court of Exchequer.
Although the Kingdom of Ireland merged with the
Kingdom of Great Britain in 1801 under the
Acts of Union 1800 to form the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Exchequer of Ireland did not merge with the
Exchequer of Great Britain until 1817. The last separate Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland was
William Vesey-FitzGerald.
List of chancellors
- 1270
Thomas de Chaddesworth
- 1292
Walter de Kenley, or Kenleye
- 1308
Walter de Thornbury
- 1309 William de Clere (died before taking up office). Brother of
Nicholas de Clere,
Lord Treasurer of Ireland.
- 1309–1310:
John de Hotham
- 1310
Nicholas de Balscote
- 1326
Adam de Harvington (or Herwynton)
- 1328
Thomas de Montpellier
- 1330
Henry de Thrapston
- 1333
Thomas de Brayles
- 1334
Robert le Poer
- 1344
William de Bromley
- 1346
Robert de Emeldon
- 1350
John de Pembroke
- 1374
John de Karlell
- 1376
Thomas Bache
- 1385 William FitzWilliam
- 1388
John de Troye
- 1391
Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston
- Robert de Herford (temp.
Richard II)
- 1399: Hugh Banent, or Bavent, also
Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper
- c.1419-23:
Robert Dyke, first term
- 1424:
Sampson d'Artois
- c.1425-30 Robert Dyke, second term
- 1431: John Blaketoun
- 1436: Robert Cowdrey
- 1446: John Hardwick
- 1461: Robert Norreys
- 1478
Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth
- 1487
Walter Ivers
- 1495: Edward Barnewall
- 1521
Patrick Bermingham
- 1532:
Richard Delahide
- 1535:
John Alan
- 1536:
Thomas Cusack
- 1561:
Henry Draycott
- 1572:
Robert Dillon
- 1577:
John Bathe
- 1586–1589:
Sir Edward Waterhouse
- 1589: Sir George Clive
- 1590:
Thomas Molyneux
- 1596:
Sir Richard Cooke
- 1612: Sir Dudley Norton
- 1616:
Henry Holcroft
- 27 October 1617: Thomas Hibbotts
- Henry Holcroft (in reversion after Hibbotts)
- 1634:
Sir Robert Meredyth
- 1668:
Richard Jones
- 1674:
Sir Charles Meredyth
- 1687:
Bruno Talbot (Jacobite)
- 1690:
Sir Charles Meredyth
- 1695:
Philip Savage
- 1717:
Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet
- 1733:
Henry Boyle
- 1735:
Marmaduke Coghill
- 1739:
Henry Boyle
- 1754:
Arthur Hill
- 1755:
Henry Boyle
- 1757:
Anthony Malone
- 1761:
Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet
- 1763:
William Gerard Hamilton
- 1782:
George Ponsonby
- 23 April 1784:
John Foster
- 17 September 1785:
Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet
- 27 January 1799:
Isaac Corry
- 9 July 1804:
John Foster
- 24 February 1806:
Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet
- 30 April 1807:
John Foster
- 1811:
William Wellesley-Pole
- 11 August 1812:
William Vesey-FitzGerald
- 1816:
Nicholas Vansittart (
Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain from 1812)
- Irish Exchequer abolished 1817
References
- Haydn's Book of Dignities (1851)
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