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HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located When the post is held by a minister in HM Treasury it ranks third in the Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all Economic and Financial The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the second most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The longest holder of the post was Dawn Primarolo, whose portfolio consisted of the workings of HM Revenue and Customs, formerly Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise, bureaucratically separate from the Treasury. Dawn Primarolo (born 2 May 1954 in London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament representing Bristol South. The Inland Revenue was until April 2005 a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including

The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the positions of Paymaster of the Forces, Treasurer of the Navy, Paymaster and Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital and Treasurer of the Ordnance. Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap The Paymaster of the Forces was a British government position The Treasurer of the Navy was an office in the British government between the mid-16th and early 19th century The Treasurer of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance, the office being created in 1670 From 1848 to 1868, the post was held concurrently with that of Vice-President of the Board of Trade. The office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade was a junior ministerial position in the government of the United Kingdom.

The Paymaster General is in charge of the Office of HM Paymaster General, which holds accounts at the Bank of England on behalf of Government departments and selected other public bodies. The Bank of England (formally the Governor and Company of the Bank of England) is a state-owned institution and the Central bank of the United Kingdom Funds which are made available from the Consolidated Fund are then channelled into OPG accounts, from where they are used by the relevant body. Consolidated Fund or the Consolidated Revenue Fund is the term used for the main Bank account of the government in many of the countries in the Commonwealth of

OPG operates a full range of accounts and banking transaction services, including cheque and credit, BACS and CHAPS services for its customers via an electronic banking system. BACS (originally an Acronym for Bankers' Automated Clearing Services) is a United Kingdom scheme for the electronic processing of financial transactions The Clearing House Automated Payment System or CHAPS is a British company established in London in 1984 which offers same-day sterling Integration of OPG accounts with commercial banks is provided by Xafinity Paymaster.

The incumbent Paymaster General is Tessa Jowell, who is also responsible for the 2012 Olympics and is Minister for London; as she is a Cabinet Office minister, an Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury has also been appointed. Tessa Jowell (born 17 September 1947 in London) is a British Politician. The Minister for London is a United Kingdom ministerial post that is part of the government of London. The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury is one of the most junior ministerial posts in the UK Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary

List of Paymasters General

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Henry Brook Parnell 1st Baron Congleton PC ( 3 July 1776 &ndash 8 June 1842) known as Sir Henry Parnell 4th Baronet, Edward John Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley ( 13 November 1802 &ndash 16 June 1869) entered the House of Commons as Whig Sir Edward Knatchbull 9th Baronet, PC, FRS ( 20 December 1781 &ndash 24 May 1849) was a British Conservative William Bingham Baring 2nd Baron Ashburton PC (June 1799 &ndash 23 March 1864) was the son of the Hon Granville George Leveson Gower 2nd Earl Granville KG, PC ( 11 May 1815 &ndash 31 March 1891) was a British Edward John Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley ( 13 November 1802 &ndash 16 June 1869) entered the House of Commons as Whig Charles Abbot 2nd Baron Colchester ( 12 March 1798 &ndash 18 October 1867) known as Charles Abbot before 1829 was a British Edward John Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley ( 13 November 1802 &ndash 16 June 1869) entered the House of Commons as Whig Edward Pleydell-Bouverie (26 April 1818 – 1889 was a British politician Robert Lowe 1st Viscount Sherbrooke PC ( 4 December 1811 – 27 July 1892) British and Australian Richard John Hely-Hutchinson 4th Earl of Donoughmore PC ( 4 April 1823 &ndash 22 February 1866) was a British Conservative Algernon George Percy 6th Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC (20 May 1810&ndash2 January 1899 was a British Conservative Politician James Wilson ( June 3, 1805 &ndash August 11, 1860) was a Scottish hat maker politician and economist as well as the founder of William Francis Cowper-Temple 1st Baron Mount Temple ( December 13, 1811 &ndash October 16, 1888) known as William Francis Cowper Sir William Hutt KCB, MA (1791&ndash1882 was a British MP who was heavily involved in the colonization of New Zealand and South Australia George Joachim Goschen 1st Viscount Goschen ( 10 August 1831 &ndash 7 February 1907) was a British Statesman and William Monsell 1st Baron Emly, PC ( 21 September 1812 &ndash 20 April 1894) was the President of the Board of Health of Sir Stephen Cave GCB PC ( December 28 1820 &ndash June 6 1880) was an English politician Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (21 June Hugh Culling Eardley Childers ( 25 June 1827 &ndash 29 January 1896) was a British and Australian Liberal William Patrick Adam PC ( 1823 - 24 May 1881) was a British Liberal politician Sir Stephen Cave GCB PC ( December 28 1820 &ndash June 6 1880) was an English politician David Robert Plunket 1st Baron Rathmore PC QC ( December 3, 1838 – August 22, 1919) was an Irish politician George Grenfell Glyn 2nd Baron Wolverton, PC ( 10 February 1824 &ndash 6 November 1887) was a British Liberal Frederick Lygon 6th Earl Beauchamp, PC ( 10 November 1830 – 19 February 1891) was the son of the 4th Earl Beauchamp. Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce 5th Baron Thurlow, PC, DL ( 5 December, 1838 – 12 March, 1916) was a British Frederick Lygon 6th Earl Beauchamp, PC ( 10 November 1830 – 19 February 1891) was the son of the 4th Earl Beauchamp. Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust 3rd Earl Brownlow, GCVO, PC (19 August 1844 – 17 March 1921 was a British Conservative politician Victor Albert George Child Villiers 7th Earl of Jersey, GCB, GCMG, PC ( March 20 1845 &ndash May 31 1915) was Robert George Windsor-Clive 1st Earl of Plymouth, GBE, CB, PC, ( 27 August 1857 &ndash 6 March 1923) was an Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne PC ( 22 October 1833 &ndash 22 November 1903) was a British Liberal politician John Adrian Louis Hope 1st Marquess of Linlithgow KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (25 September 1860 - 29 February 1908 known as Viscount Aithrie Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, KG ( 13 November 1871 &ndash 30 June 1934) became the 9th Duke of Marlborough upon Savile Brinton Crossley 1st Baron Somerleyton, GCVO, PC ( June 14, 1857 &ndash February 25, 1935) known as Sir Savile Richard Knight Causton 1st Baron Southwark (1843 &ndash 23 February 1929) PC DL was a British Liberal Party politician Baron Southwark was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 13 July 1910 for the departing Paymaster-General, Richard Causton Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Ivor Churchill Guest 1st Viscount Wimborne ( 16 January 1873 &ndash 14 June 1939) was a British politician and one of the last Lords Lieutenant Edward Strachey 1st Baron Strachie PC ( 30 October 1858 – 25 July 1936) known as Sir Edward Strachey 4th Baronet, from Thomas Wodehouse Legh 2nd Baron Newton, PC, DL ( 18 March, 1857 – 21 March, 1942) was a British diplomat Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935 was a British union leader politician Disarmament advocate and the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett ( 13 February 1847 &ndash 30 July 1919) was a Liberal Party politician in England. Sir John Tudor Walters, PC (1868 &ndash July 16, 1933) was a Liberal Politician in the United Kingdom. Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 &ndash 9 November 1940 was a British Conservative Politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom William Joynson-Hicks 1st Viscount Brentford (23 June 1865 – 8 June 1932 popularly known as Jix, was a British Conservative Party politician most Maj Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter ( 26 March 1873 &ndash 27 May 1937) was a British Conservative Party politician George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower 5th Duke of Sutherland, PC, KT ( August 29 1888 &ndash February 1 1963) was the Richard William Alan Onslow 5th Earl Onslow GBE PC ( 23 August 1876 &ndash 9 June 1945) was a British peer Sydney Arnold 1st Baron Arnold ( 13 January 1878 &ndash 3 August 1945) was a British Liberal Party politician who later Ernest Henry Lamb 1st Baron Rochester, CMG ( September 4, 1876 &ndash January 13, 1955) was a British Liberal Major General Robert Hutchinson 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose KCMG CB DSO PC ( 5 September 1873 &ndash Geoffrey William Richard Hugh FitzClarence 5th Earl of Munster KBE PC ( 17 February 1906 &ndash 26 August 1975) was a Edward Turnour 6th Earl Winterton PC ( 4 April 1883 &ndash 26 August 1962) known as Viscount Turnour until 1907 was Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG PC ( August 27, 1893 &ndash February 23, 1972) was a Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC ( 1 April 1877 &ndash 26 January 1963 William Allen Jowitt 1st Earl Jowitt, PC, ( 15 April 1885 &ndash 16 August 1957) was a British Lawyer and Frederick Alexander Lindemann 1st Viscount Cherwell PC CH was an English Physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British For the US congressional representative from Indiana see Arthur H Hilary Adair Marquand PC ( 24 December 1901 &ndash 6 November 1972) was a British Labour Party politician Christopher Addison 1st Viscount Addison, KG, PC (19 June 1869 &ndash 11 December 1951 was a British Medical doctor and Politician Gordon Macdonald 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor PC (1885&ndash1966 was a British politician and Newfoundland 's final British governor Frederick Alexander Lindemann 1st Viscount Cherwell PC CH was an English Physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British Group Captain the Rt Hon George (Geordie Nigel Douglas-Hamilton 10th Earl of Selkirk, KT, GCMG, GBE, AFC, Walter Turner Monckton 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC ( January 17, 1891 &ndash January 9 Reginald Maudling (7 March 1917 - 14 February 1979 was a British Politician known for his intellectual brilliance political pragmatism and easygoing nature Percy Herbert Mills 1st Viscount Mills ( 4 January 1890 - 10 September 1968) was an English Politician. Henry Brooke Baron Brooke of Cumnor CH ( 9 April 1903 &ndash 29 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter Baron Boyd-Carpenter PC ( 2 June 1908 &ndash 11 July 1998) was a British Conservative politician George Edward Cecil Wigg Baron Wigg PC ( November 28, 1900 &ndash August 11, 1983) was a British politician who only Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton Baron Shackleton, KG OBE PC ( July 15, 1911 &ndash September 22, 1994) Judith Hart Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC ( 18 September 1924 &ndash 8 December 1991) was a British (Norman Harold Lever Baron Lever of Manchester, PC ( 15 January 1914 &ndash 6 August 1995) was a Barrister and Labour David McAdam Eccles 1st Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC ( September 18, 1904 &ndash February 24, 1999) was a Maurice Victor Macmillan Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden PC ( 27 January 1921 &ndash 10 March 1984) was a British Conservative Edmund Emanuel Dell PC ( August 15 1921 &ndash October 28 1999) was a British politician and businessman Shirley Williams Baroness Williams of Crosby PC (born 27 July 1930) is a British Politician and academic Angus Edmund Upton Maude Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon (8 September 1912 &ndash 9 November 1993 was a Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member Francis Leslie Pym Baron Pym MC, PC ( 13 February 1922 – 7 March 2008) was a British Conservative Party Cecil Edward Parkinson Baron Parkinson, PC (born 1 September 1931 in Carnforth, Lancashire) is a British Conservative politician John Selwyn Gummer MP (born 26 November 1939) is a British politician and Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke QC MP (born 2 July 1940) is a British Politician. Peter Leonard Brooke Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, CH, PC (born 3 March 1934 is a British politician a former Conservative Malcolm Ian Sinclair 20th Earl of Caithness, PC (born 3 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and member of the Richard Andrew Ryder Baron Ryder of Wensum, OBE, PC (born 4 February 1949) is a British Conservative Party politician John Julian Ganzoni 2nd Baron Belstead, PC ( 30 September, 1932 - 3 December, 2005) was a British Conservative politician John Ambrose Cope Baron Cope of Berkeley, PC (born 13 May 1937) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. David Philip Heathcoat-Amory MP (born 21 March 1949 British Politician, Accountant and Farmer. David Linsay Willetts (born 9 March 1956 is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Havant, in the United Kingdom. Geoffrey Robinson (born 25 May 1938 in Sheffield) has been a British Member of Parliament for Coventry North West a safe Dawn Primarolo (born 2 May 1954 in London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament representing Bristol South. Tessa Jowell (born 17 September 1947 in London) is a British Politician.
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