Lord High Treasurer of Ireland

The Lord High Treasurer of Ireland was the chief financial officer of that kingdom until the treasuries of Great Britain and Ireland were united in 1817 when it was united with the Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain by the Consolidated Fund Act 1816.^[1] The designation High was added in 1695.

Lord Treasurers of Ireland 1217–1695

1217–1232: John de St John
1232–1233: Peter de Rivaux
1233–1235: Eustace, Canon of Chichester
1235–1250: Geoffrey de Turville, Bishop of Ossory
1251–1258: Hugh de Mapilton, Bishop of Ossory
1258–1274: Hugh de Tachmon, Bishop of Meath
1274–1277: Stephen de Fulbourn, Bishop of Waterford
1277–1278: Robert de Poer
1278–1281: Stephen de Fulbourn
1281–1289: Hugh, Bishop of Meath
1289–1294: Nicholas le Clerk
1294–1300: Sir William de Essendon
1300–1304: Richard de Beresford
1304–1305: Sir William de Essendon
1305–1307: Richard de Beresford
1307–1312: Alexander de Bicknor
1312–1315: John de Leche
1315–1316:Walter de Islip
1316–1317: John de Hotham
1317–1325:Walter de Islip
1325–1326: Adam de Hermington
1326:Walter de Islip
1326–1330: Robert FitzEustace
1330–1332:Robert le Poer
1332–1334: Sir Thomas de Burgh
1334–1336: William de Cogan
1336–1337: Sir John Ellitker
1337–1340: John ap Rees/Rice
1340–1344: Hugh de Burgh
1344–1348: John de Burnham, Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
1348–1349:Robert de Emeldon
1349–1354: Hugh de Burgh
1354–1356: William de Bromley
1356–1357: John Colton Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and later Archbishop of Armagh
1357–1361: Nicholas Allen, Bishop of Meath
1361–1362: William Chernels, Bishop of Ferns
1362–1364: Thomas Minot, Prior of Mulhuddart and later Archbishop of Dublin
1364–1371: John de Troye
1371–1372: Stephen de Valle, Bishop of Meath
1372–1374: Alexander de Balscot, Bishop of Ossory
1374–1375: John Colton second term.
1375–1376: Thomas Scurlock, Abbot of St Thomas's, Dublin
1376–1385: Alexander de Balscot, Bishop of Ossory
1385–1386: William de Chambre, Archdeacon of Dublin
1386–1388: Robert Crick
1388–1392: Richard White, Prior of Kilmainham
1392–1393: Richard Mitford, Bishop of Chichester
1393–1394: John de Thorpe
1394–1395: Richard Mitford, Bishop of Chichester
1395–1396: Stephen, Abbot of St Mary's, Dublin
1396–1397: William Baltham
1397–1398: Richard Mitford, Bishop of Salisbury
1398–1399: Richard Macclesfield
1399–1400: Robert de Faryngton, or de Farrington
1400–1402: Thomas Bache, Archdeacon of Meath
1402–1409: Sir Laurence Merbury
1409–1412: William Allington
1412–1413: Sir Laurence Merbury
1413–1414: Hugh de Burgh
1414–1415: John Coryngham
1415–1417: Hugh de Burgh
1417–1421: John Swift
1421: Sir Thomas Strange
1421–1424: William Tynbegh
1424–1426: Hugh Danent
1426: Edward Dantsey, Bishop of Meath
1426–1427: John Blackston
1427–1429: Sir Nicholas Plunket
1429: Thomas de Barry, Bishop of Ossory
1429: Sir Nicholas Plunket
1429–1430: Thomas Scurlock, Prior of St Peter's, near Trim
1430–1437: Sir Thomas Strange
1437–1444: Giles Thorndon
1444–1445: William Chevir or Cheevers
1445–1446: Robert Dyche, Archdeacon of Dublin
1446–1450: Giles Thorndon
1450–1452: John Blackston
1452–1454: Sir Henry Bruin
1454–1492: Sir Rowland FitzEustace (with Sir John Wenlock 1461–1471)
1492–1494: Sir James Ormond
1494–1504: Sir Hugh Conway
1504–1514: Gerald FitzGerald
1514–1517: Christopher Fleming, 8th Baron Slane
1517–1524: John Rawson, Prior of Kilmainham
1524–1530: John Barnewall, 3rd Baron Trimlestown
1530–1532: John Rawson, Prior of Kilmainham
1532–1540: James Butler, Lord Butler
1540–1542: James Butler
1542–1553: James FitzGerald, 14th/15th Earl of Desmond
1553: Sir Edmund Rouse
1553–1558: James FitzGerald, 14th/15th Earl of Desmond
1559–1614: Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde
1616–1625: Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester
1625–1630: Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison
1631–1643: Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
1643–1660: Interregnum
1660–1695: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork

Lord High Treasurers of Ireland 1695–1793

Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington 4 May 1695 – 9 February 1704
Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton 5 May 1704 – 25 August 1715
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 25 August 1715 – 3 December 1753
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire 2 March 1754 – 2 October 1764
vacant
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire 13 March 1766 – 1793

Commissioners of the Treasury for Ireland 1793–1817

1793: Commission.
1795: Commission.
1796: Commission.
1797: Commission.
1800: Commission.
1801: Commission.
1803: Commission.
1804: Commission.
1804: Commission.
1805: Commission.
1806: Commission.
- William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
- Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet
- Maurice FitzGerald
- Sir Laurence Parsons, 5th Baronet
- Charles O'Hara
- Henry Parnell
- William Burton ^[2]
- William Elliot
1807: Commission
1810: Commission.
1811: Commission.
1812: Commission.
- John Foster
- Hon. William Wellesley-Pole
- Sir George FitzGerald Hill, 2nd Baronet
- John Maxwell-Barry
- Hon. Thomas Henry Foster
- Charles Vereker
- William Odell
1813: Commission.
1814: Commission:

The board was abolished in 1817 when the office of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland was combined with that of Lord High Treasurer.^[3]

References

↑ "Consolidated Fund Act 1816". legislation.gov.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
↑ "BURTON, William Henry (1739-1818), of Burton Hall, co. Carlow.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
↑ Consolidated Fund Act 1816, section 2.

A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland (1806)
Haydn's Book of Dignities (1894)

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