Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Royal Navy)

United Kingdom Office of the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
Flag of the Secretary to the Admiralty
Ministry of Defence
Style	The Right Honourable (Formal prefix) Secretary to the Admiralty
Member of	British Cabinet Board of Admiralty
Seat	Westminster, London
Appointer	The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	1625-1959
First holder	Robert Blackborne
Final holder	Charles Ian Orr-Ewing
Website	www.gov.uk

The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty ^[1] also known as the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Board of Admiralty ^[2] was a position on the Board of Admiralty and civil officer of the British Royal Navy. It was usually filled by a Member of Parliament although he attended Board of Admiralty meetings informally he was not made a full member of that Board until 1929,^[3] he served as the deputy to the First Lord of the Admiralty in Parliament, he was mainly responsible for all Naval Accounts, Estimates, Expenditure, Finance and Spending proposals from 1625 until 1959.

History

The office was originally created in 1625 with the post holders holding titles under various names such as Secretaries to the Lords Admiral, Admiralty, Committees and Commissions. In July 1660 the post of Secretary to the Admiralty was formally created which lasted until 18 June 1763 when the office was then restyled First Secretary to the Admiralty this remained in place until 1870 when the First Secretary was renamed Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty,^[4] while the office of Second Secretary to the Admiralty was renamed Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty. In 1886, the Parliamentary Secretary was renamed Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. In 1929 the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary is made a full member of the Board of Admiralty. In 1930, the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary served dully as Civil Lord to the Board of Admiralty. In 1959 the office of Parliamentary and Financial Secretary was abolished with the approval of parliament. In 1964 the Admiralty and thus Board of Admiralty was also abolished and merged into a new larger Ministry of Defence under the control of the Minister of State and Under-Secretary of State for the Navy.

Office holders

Secretaries to the Lords Admiral, Admiralty, Committes and Commissions

Included:^[5]^[6]^[7]
Notes: From 1645 until 1652 there were two joint secretaries.

Sir Edward Nicholas, 1625–1638
Sir Thomas Smith, 1638–1645
William Jessop and Robert Coytmore, (jointly), 1645-1652
Robert Blackborne, 1652– July 1660^[8]

Secretaries to the Admiralty

Included:^[9]^[10]^[11]

Sir William Coventry, July 1660–September 1667
Matthew Wren, September 1667–July 1672
Sir John Werden, July 1672 1667–June 1673
Samuel Pepys, June 1673–May 1679
Thomas Hayter May 1679–February 1680
John Brisbane, February 1680–May 1684
Samuel Pepys, May 1684–March 1689
Phineas Bowles, March 1689–January 1690
James Southerne, January 1690–August 1694
William Bridgeman, August 1694–26 September 1698 joint with Josiah Burchett until 24th June 1698
Josiah Burchett,26 September 1698 – 20 May 1702
George Clarke,20 May 1702– 25 October 1705 joint with Josiah Burchett
Josiah Burchett, 25 October 1705 – 29 April 1741
Thomas Corbett, 1741–1751 joint with Josiah Burchett until 14 October 1742
John Clevland, 30 April 1751 – 18 June 1763

First Secretaries to the Admiralty

Included:^[12]^[13]

Philip Stephens, 18 June 1763 – 3 March 1795
Evan Nepean, 3 March 1795 – 21 January 1804
William Marsden, 24 January 1804 – 24 June 1807
Hon. William Wellesley Pole, 24 June 1807 – 12 October 1809
John Wilson Croker, 12 October 1809 – 2 May 1827

Notes: The Board of Admiralty commission ceased and came under the control of the Lord High Admirals Council from 1827 to 1828.

Hon. George Elliot, 1828–1834
George Robert Dawson, 1834–1835
Charles Wood, 1835–1839
Richard More O'Ferrall, 1839–1841
John Parker, 1841
Hon. Sidney Herbert, 1841–1845
Hon. Henry Lowry-Corry, 1845–1846
Henry George Ward, 1846–1849
John Parker, 1849–1852
Augustus Stafford, 1852
Ralph Bernal Osborne, 1853–1858
Hon. Henry Lowry-Corry, 1858–1859
Lord Clarence Paget, 1859–1866
Hon. Thomas Baring, 1866
Lord Henry Lennox, 1866–1868
William Edward Baxter, 1868–1871

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Admiralty

George Shaw-Lefevre, 1871–1874
Hon. Algernon Egerton, 1874–1880
George Shaw-Lefevre, 1880
George Trevelyan, 1880–1882
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1882–1884
Thomas Brassey, 1884–1885
Charles Ritchie, 1885–1886

Parliamentary and Financial Secretaries to the Admiralty

J. T. Hibbert 1886
Arthur Forwood 1886–1892
Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bt, 1892–1895
William Ellison-Macartney 1895–1900
H. O. Arnold-Forster 1900–1903
E. G. Pretyman 1903–1905
Edmund Robertson 1905–1908
Thomas Macnamara 1908–1920
Sir James Craig, Bt 1920–1921
Leo Amery 1921–1922
Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1922–1923
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923–1924
Charles Ammon 1924
J. C. C. Davidson 1924–1926
Cuthbert Headlam 1926–1929
Charles Ammon 1929–1931
The Earl Stanhope 1931
Lord Stanley 1931–1935
Sir Victor Warrender, Bt 1935
Lord Stanley 1935–1937
Geoffrey Shakespeare 1937–1940
Sir Victor Warrender, Bt 1940–1945
John Dugdale 1945–1950
James Callaghan 1950–1951
Allan Noble 1951–1955
George Ward 1955–1957
Christopher Soames 1957–1958
Robert Allan 1958–1959
Charles Ian Orr-Ewing 1959

office abolished on 16 October 1959

Departments under the office

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy
Department of the Director of Contracts
Contracts and Purchase Department

References

↑ Hamilton, C. I. (2011). The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927. Cambridge University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9781139496544.
↑ O'Brien, Phillips Payson (1998). British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900-1936. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 12–13. ISBN 9780275958985.
↑ O'Brien, Phillips Payson (1998). British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900-1936. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 13. ISBN 9780275958985.
↑ Historical Table of Changes in Government Organisation. Organisation and Methods Division, H.M. Treasury,. 1957. p. 15.
↑ Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: T. Dalton. p. 2. ISBN 0900963948.
↑ Lords, Great Britain House of (1642). Journals of the House of Lords. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 357.
↑ Winfield, Rif (2010). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. p. xxiii. ISBN 9781783469246.
↑ Tomalin, Claire (2002). Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
↑ Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: T. Dalton. p. 18. ISBN 0900963948.
↑ Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: T. Dalton. p. 34. ISBN 0900963948.
↑ Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: T. Dalton. p. 52. ISBN 0900963948.
↑ Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: T. Dalton. p. 69. ISBN 0900963948.
↑ Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: T. Dalton. p. 91. ISBN 0900963948.

Sources

Haydn, Joseph; Ockerby, Horace (1890). The Book of Dignities; containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Diplomatic, Heraldic, Judicial, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Naval, and Military, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time. London: W. H. Allen & Co. pp. 186–187.
Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: Terence Dalton Ltd, Suffolk, England, ISBN 0900963948.

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