The Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland was the head of the

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and a member of the

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under the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Kingdom of Ireland. In early times the title was sometimes given as 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

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had become regular, the Chancellor was invariably an MP in the

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. The office was separate from the

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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

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. The first Chancellor appears to have been Thomas de Chaddesworth,

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, in 1270. He was a judge but of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), not the Exchequer. Although the Kingdom of Ireland merged with the

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in 1801 under the

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to form the

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, the Exchequer of Ireland did not merge with the

of Great Britain until 1817. The last separate Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland was

William Vesey-FitzGerald Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1818 – 28 June 1885), was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1858 and 1859 and as Governor o ...

List of chancellors

* 1270 Thomas de Chaddesworth * 1292 Walter Kenley * 1308

Walter de Thornbury Walter de Thornbury (died 1313) was an English-born statesman and cleric in 14th century Ireland who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. His efforts to secure confirmation of his election as Archbishop of Dublin were cut short by his d ...

* 1309 William de Clere (died before taking up office) * 1309–1310: John de Hotham * 1310 Nicholas de Balscote * 1326 Adam de Harvington (or Herwynton) * 1328

Thomas de Montpellier Thomas de Montpellier, or de Monte Pessulano (died after 1347) was a fourteenth-century Anglo- French judge and Crown official, much of whose career was spent in Ireland. He held a number of important lay and clerical offices including Dean of S ...

* 1330

Henry de Thrapston Henry de Thrapston (died c.1333) was an English cleric, judge and Crown official who spent most of his career in Ireland, where he became Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and Archdeacon of Cork. He was born at Thrapston in Northamptonshi ...

* 1333

Thomas de Brayles Thomas de Brayles (died after 1339) was a senior judge and Crown official in fourteenth century England. He spent part of his career in Ireland, where he became Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and a Baron of the Court of Exchequer. He was a ...

* 1334

Robert le Poer Robert le Poer (died c.1346) was an Irish judge and Crown official who held the offices of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. Family Francis Elrington Ball, in his definitive study of the pre-1921 Irish judi ...

* 1344

William de Bromley William de Bromley was a 14th-century dignitary in Ireland. He was probably originally from Cheshire. He acted as an attorney to Elizabeth, Countess of Ormond. He was prebendary of Lusk, County Dublin. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ir ...

* 1346

Robert de Emeldon Robert de Emeldon (died 1355) was an English-born Crown official and judge who spent much of his career in Ireland. He held several important public offices, including Attorney-General for Ireland, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and Chief Baron o ...

* 1350

John de Pembroke John de Pembroke (died after 1377) was a Welsh-born judge who held several senior offices in Ireland, including that of Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland.Ball p.79 He was born in Pembrokeshire. Nothing is known of his family. He was in the ...

* 1374

John de Karlell John de Karlell (died 1393) was an English-born cleric, civil servant and judge in fourteenth-century Ireland. He served as second Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and as Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer. He became Chancellor of St Patrick's Ca ...

* 1376 Thomas Bache * 1385 William FitzWilliam * 1388

John de Troye John de Troye (died 1371) was a Welsh-born Crown official and judge in fourteenth century Ireland, who held the offices of Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and Lord Treasurer of Ireland.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' ...

* 1391

Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston (died 1396) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, statesman and judge of the fourteenth century. He held several senior judicial offices including, for a brief period, that of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was the foun ...

* 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: James Blakeney * 1436: Robert Cowdrey * 1461: Robert Norreys * 1478

Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth (born c.1435 – died before 1488) was a leading statesman in 15th-century Ireland who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Through his second marriage, he was a close connection to the new Tudor dyna ...

* 1487 Walter Ivers * 1495: Edward Barnewall * 1521 Patrick Bermingham * 1532:

Richard Delahide Richard Delahide (died 1540) was an Irish judge of the sixteenth century, who held the offices of Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. His career was seriously damaged by the Rebellion of Silken Thomas, ...

* 1535:

John Alan Sir John Alan (also spelt Alen or Alleyn; c. 1500 – 1561) was a leading English-born statesman in sixteenth century Ireland. He was a member of the Irish House of Commons, and held the offices of Master of the Rolls in Ireland, Chancellor of the ...

* 1536: Thomas Cusack * 1561:

Henry Draycott Henry Draycott (c. 1510–1572) was an English-born Crown official and judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, who held a number of senior Government offices, including Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Despite his apparent lack of legal qualifi ...

* 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 Holcrofte * 27 October 1617: Thomas Hibbotts ** Henry Holcrofte (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 Philip Savage (February 1644 – July 1717) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who was Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Biography Savage was born in Dublin, the only son of Valentine Savage and Anne Haughton. He was educated at Trinit ...

* 1717:

Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet (c. 1675 – 23 February 1733) was a Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He is now chiefly remembered for building Belle Isle Castle. The Gore Baronetcy, of Magherabegg in the County of Donegal, was created in the ...

* 1733: Henry Boyle * 1735:

Marmaduke Coghill Marmaduke Coghill (1673–1738) was a member of Parliament for Dublin University, judge of the Prerogative Court and Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Biography Coghill was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of John Coghill of Knaresborough, Y ...

* 1739: Henry Boyle * 1754: Arthur Hill * 1755: Henry Boyle * 1757:

Anthony Malone Anthony Malone (5 December 1700 – 8 May 1776) was an Irish lawyer and politician. Life The eldest son of Richard Malone of Baronston (or Baronstown) House, Ballynacarrigy, County Westmeath, who was a barrister like his three eldest sons, and ...

* 1761: Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet * 1763: William Gerard Hamilton * 1782:

George Ponsonby George Ponsonby (5 March 17558 July 1817), was a British lawyer and Whig politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. Background and education Ponsonby was the second surviving so ...

* 23 April 1784: John Foster * 17 September 1785:

Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet (25 December 1744 – December 1801) was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament. Biography A Church of Ireland landowner, his family had originally migrated to Ireland from Congleton in Cheshire. Although not fro ...

* 27 January 1799: Isaac Corry * 9 July 1804: John Foster * 24 February 1806:

Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet (24 October 1756 – 9 February 1843) was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Life Born on 24 October 1756, he was the son of Simon Newport, a banker at Waterford ...

* 30 April 1807: John Foster * 1811: William Wellesley-Pole * 11 August 1812:

* 1816: Nicholas Vansittart ( Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain from 1812) *''Irish Exchequer abolished 1817''

References

*''Haydn's Book of Dignities'' (1851)

List of chancellors

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