Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

One holder at a time · 136 terms · 1783–present

Current holder

Previous holders 135

Darren Jones 2025–2026 Pat McFadden 2024–2025 Nadhim Zahawi 2022 Kit Malthouse 2022 Steve Barclay 2021–2022 Michael Gove 2019–2021 David Lidington 2018–2019 Patrick McLoughlin 2016–2018 Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford 2013–2014 Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde 2010–2013 Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon 2009–2010 Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon 2009–2010 Liam Byrne 2008–2009 Ed Miliband 2007–2008 Hilary Armstrong 2006–2007 John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness 2005 Alan Milburn 2004–2005 Alan Milburn 2004–2005 Gus Macdonald 2001–2003 Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling 1998–1999 David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere 1997–1998 David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere 1997–1998 Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman 1995–1997 Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman 1995–1997 William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill 1992–1994 William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill 1992–1994 Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking 1989–1990 Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree 1988–1989 Kenneth Clarke 1987–1988 Norman Tebbit 1985–1987 Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield 1983–1984 Cecil Parkinson 1982–1983 Francis Pym 1981 Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester 1974–1979 John Davies 1972–1974 Geoffrey Rippon 1970–1972 Anthony Barber 1970 George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth 1969–1970 Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton 1967–1969 George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth 1966–1967 Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby 1964–1966 John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham 1963–1964 Iain Macleod 1961–1963 Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton 1957–1961 George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk 1955–1957 Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton 1952–1955 Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton 1951–1952 A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough 1950–1951 Hugh Dalton 1948–1950 Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford 1947–1948 John Hynd 1945–1947 Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter 1945 Ernest Brown 1943–1945 Duff Cooper 1941–1943 Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey 1940–1941 George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon 1940 William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil 1939–1940 Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 1937–1939 J. C. C. Davidson 1931–1937 Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian 1931 Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede 1931 Clement Attlee 1930–1931 Oswald Mosley 1929–1930 Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun 1927–1929 Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood 1924–1927 Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood 1924 J. C. C. Davidson 1923–1924 James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury 1922–1923 William Sutherland 1922 William Peel, 1st Earl Peel 1921–1922 David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford 1919–1921 Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham 1918–1919 Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook 1918 Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley 1916–1918 Thomas McKinnon Wood 1916 Edwin Montagu 1916 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1915–1916 Winston Churchill 1915 Edwin Montagu 1915 Charles Masterman 1914–1915 Charles Hobhouse 1911–1914 Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford 1910–1911 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1909–1910 Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice 1908–1909 Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton 1905–1908 William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran 1902–1905 Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford 1895–1902 R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross 1895 Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth 1894–1895 James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce 1892–1894 John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland 1886–1892 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook 1886 Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth 1886 Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage 1886 Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin 1885–1886 Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet 1884–1885 John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton 1882–1884 John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1882 John Bright 1880–1882 Thomas Edward Taylor 1874–1880 John Bright 1873–1874 Hugh Childers 1872–1873 Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava 1868–1872 Thomas Edward Taylor 1868 John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh 1867–1868 William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon 1866–1867 George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen 1866 George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1864–1865 Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell 1861–1864 Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet 1859–1861 James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose 1858–1859 Matthew Talbot Baines 1855–1858 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby 1855 Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1854–1855 Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper 1853–1854 Robert Nisbet-Hamilton 1852 George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle 1850–1852 John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell 1846–1850 Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet 1841 George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1840–1841 Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland 1835–1840 Charles Williams-Wynn 1834–1835 Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland 1830–1834 Charles Arbuthnot 1828–1830 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1828 Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley 1823–1828 Charles Bathurst 1812–1823 Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 1812 Spencer Perceval 1807–1812 Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby 1806–1807 Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby 1805–1806 Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 1805 Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave 1804–1805 Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester 1803–1804 Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby 1783

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