Cofferer of the Household
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The Cofferer of the Household was formerly an office in the British Royal Household.
The holder had special charge over other officers of the household and was an officer of state and a member of the Privy Council and the Board of Green Cloth.
Sir Henry Cocks was a cofferer to Queen Elizabeth I, and Sir Thomas Parry from 1548-58.
The office was suppressed in 1782.
[edit] Office-Holders
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- William Ashburnham (1660–1679)
- Henry Brouncker, 3rd Viscount Brouncker (1679–1685)
- Sir Peter Apsley (1685–1689)
- Francis Newport, 1st Viscount Newport (1689–1702)
- Sir Benjamin Bathurst (1702–1704)
- Francis Godolphin, Viscount Rialton (1704–1711)
- Samuel Masham (1711–1714), Lord Masham from 1712.
- Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin (1714–1723)
- William Pulteney (1723–1725)
- Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln (1725–1728)
- vacant (1728–1730)
- Horace Walpole (1730–1741)
- Thomas Winnington (1741–1744)
- Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1744)
- Edmund Waller (1744–1747)
- Henry Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln (1747–1754)
- Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet (1754–1756)
- Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (1756–1761)
- Hon. James Grenville (1761)
- Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond (1761–1765)
- Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough (1765–1766)
- Hans Stanley (1766–1774)
- Jeremiah Dyson (1774–1776)
- Hans Stanley (1776–1780)
- Francis Seymour-Conway, Viscount Beauchamp (1780–1782)
