The Receiver General of Jamaica was the public official in

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

responsible for receiving and disbursing money of the

Government of Jamaica Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those ...

. The receiver was able to appoint a number of deputies to work on his behalf.

List of Receivers General of Jamaica

Note: This list is incomplete. Dates are dates of life, not dates in office unless otherwise stated. * James Knight (fl. 1725–1745) * Thomas Graham"The Letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765-1775"
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Betty Wood Betty C. Wood (23 February 1945 – 3 September 2021) was a British historian and academic, who specialised in early American history, Atlantic history, social history, and slavery in eighteenth and early nineteenth century. She was a Fellow of ...

''et al'' in * Robert Graham (c.1735-1797), appointed 1752. * James Mitchell (1796) *

William Mitchell (1742–1823) William Mitchell (1742–1823) was a British planter, attorney and official in Jamaica, where he was known as "King Mitchell" for his many interests in plantations. He was also a Member of Parliament at Westminster, and West India Interest activis ...

Hinton East Hinton East (died 1792) was a Jamaican creole of English parents who was a member of House of Assembly of Jamaica The House of Assembly was the legislature of the British colony of Jamaica. It held its first meeting on 20 January 1664 at Spanish ...

"Planters, Farmers and Gardeners in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica"
by Douglas Hall in *

Jasper Hall Jasper Hall (died 1778) was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1778. He was also the Receiver General of Jamaica and the owner of the Hectors River plantation.

(died 1798) *

Charles Sackville-Germain, 5th Duke of Dorset Charles Sackville-Germain, 5th Duke of Dorset, KG, PC (27 August 176729 July 1843), known as Charles Sackville between 1767 and 1770, as Charles Germain between 1770 and 1785, and as The Viscount Sackville between 1785 and 1815, was a British ...

(1767–1843), in office 1776–1815

References

Political office-holders in Jamaica Colony of Jamaica Receiver Generals of Jamaica Taxation in Jamaica Economic history of Jamaica {{Jamaica-stub