John Charles Herries
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John Charles Herries PC, known as J. C. Herries, was a British politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative cabinets in the early to mid-19th century.
John Charles Herries
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
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The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the f
John Charles Herries
…became Secretary to the First Lord of the Treasury, Commissary-General to the Army, Paymaster of the Civil List, Secretary to the Treasury (1823–1827), Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Goderich's government (1827–1828), Master of the Mint under the Duke of Wellington (1828–1830), briefly President of the Board of Trade (1830…
John Healey Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024
Budget box or Gladstone box, c. 1860
Chancellor of the Exchequer's robe now at Hughenden Manor. (Reputedly made for Pitt the Younger, it was handed down to each of his successors but kept by Disraeli, forcing Gladstone to purchase a replacement).
Bishop Walter Stapledon Exeter Cathedral