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Chancellors of the Exchequer

Name Dates when he served Party
William Pitt the Younger 1782 - 1783 Tory
Spencer Perceval 1807 Tory
N. Vansittart June 1812 - 1823 Tory
Viscount Goderich 1823 - April 1827 Tory
George Canning April 1827 - Sept 1827 Tory
J. C. Herries Sept 1827 - Jan 1828 Tory
H. Goulburn Jan 1828 - Nov 1830 Tory
Viscount Althorp Nov 1830 - Dec 1834 Whig
Sir Robert Peel Dec 1834 - April 1835 Tory
T. Spring-Rice April 1835 - 1839 Whig
Sir F. T. Baring 1839 - Sept 1841 Whig
H. Goulburn Sept 1841 - June 1846 Tory
Sir C. Wood July 1846 - Feb 1852 Whig
Benjamin Disraeli Feb 1852 - Dec 1852 Conservative
William Gladstone Dec 1852 - Feb 1855 Liberal
Sir G. C. Lewis Feb 1855 - Feb 1858 Liberal
Benjamin Disraeli Feb 1858 - June 1859 Conservative
William Gladstone June 1859 - June 1866 Liberal
Benjamin Disraeli June 1866 - Feb 1868 Conservative
G. Ward Hunt Feb 1868 - Dec 1868 Conservative
Robert Lowe Dec 1868 - 1873 Liberal
William Gladstone 1873 - Feb 1874 Liberal
Sir Stafford Northcote Feb 1874 - April 1880 Conservative
William Gladstone April 1880 - 1882 Liberal
H. C. E. Childers 1882 - June 1885 Liberal
Sir Michael Hicks Beach June 1885 - Feb 1886 Conservative
Sir William Harcourt Feb 1886 - Aug 1886 Liberal
Lord Randolph Churchill Aug 1886 - 1887 Conservative
G. J. Goschen 1887 - Aug 1892 Conservative
Sir William Harcourt Aug 1892 - Mar 1894 Liberal
Lord Tweedmouth Mar 1894 - June 1895 Liberal
Sir Michael Hicks Beach June 1895 - July 1902 Conservative
C. T. Ritchie July 1902 - 1903 Conservative
Austen Chamberlain 1903 - Dec 1905 Conservative
Herbert Asquith Dec 1905 - April 1908 Liberal
David Lloyd-George April 1908 - May 1915 Liberal
R. McKenna May 1915 - Dec 1916 Coalition
Andrew Law Dec 1916 - Jan 1919 Conservative
A. Chamberlain Jan 1919 - April 1921 Conservative
Sir R Horne April 1921 - Oct 1922 Conservative
Stanley Baldwin Oct 1922 - Aug 1923 Conservative
Neville Chamberlain Aug 1923 - Jan 1924 Conservative
P Snowdon Jan 1924 - Nov 1924 Conservative
Winston Churchill Nov 1924 - June 1929 Conservative/Liberal
P Snowden Jan 1929 - Nov 1931 Conservative
Neville Chamberlain Nov 1931 - May 1937 Conservative
Sir J Simon May 1937 - May 1940 Conservative
Sir K Wood May 1940 - Sept 1943 Coalition
Sir J Andrew Sept 1943 - July 1945 Coalition
Hugh Datton July 1945 - Nov 1947 Labour
Sir Stafford Cripps Nov 1947 - Oct 1950 Labour
Hugh Gaitskel Oct 1950 - Oct 1951 Labour
Richard Austin Butler Oct 1951 - Dec 1955 Conservative
Harold Macmillan Dec 1955 - Jan 1957 Conservative
Peter Thorneycroft Jan 1956 - Jan 1958 Conservative
Derek Heathcote Amory Jan 1958 - July 1960 Conservative
Selwyn Lloyd July 1960 - July 1962 Conservative
Reginald Maudling July 1962 - Oct 1964 Conservative
James Callaghan Oct 1964 - Nov 1967 Labour
Roy Jenkins Nov 1967 - July 1970 Labour
Iain Macleod June 1970 - July 1970 - Died 5 weeks into office Conservative
Anthony Barber July 1970 - Mar 1974 Conservative
Denis Healy Mar 1974 - May 1979 Labour
Sir Geoffrey Howe May 1979 - June 1983 Conservative
Nigel Lawson June 1983 - Oct 1989 Conservative
John Major Oct 1989 - Nov 1990 Conservative
Norman Lamont Nov 1990 - May 1993 Conservative
Kenneth Clarke May 1993 - May 1997 Conservative
Gordon Brown May 1997 - Present Labour