X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Exchequer


1834 in the United Kingdom

The Exchequer is abolished as a revenue collecting department of the British government.

Benjamin Wrench

Benjamin Wrench (1778–1843), was an actor, born in 1778 in London, where his father occupied ‘a lucrative appointment in the Exchequer.’ He seems to have been grandson of Sir Benjamin Wrench, M.D., of Norwich (d. 1747, aged 82) (see Notes and Queries, 5th ser. v. 48).

Exchequer

The term Court of the Exchequer was only used of the Exchequer department during the Scottish administration of Oliver Cromwell, between 1655 and 1659.

Ida Cockayne

Ida married Sir John Cockayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom she had six children.

Stapleford, Hertfordshire

The placename occurs as Stapelford in an Exchequer document of 1210, lending weight to Walter William Skeat's suggestion that the ford site was marked by an upright stake, in Anglo-Saxon stapel.

Stop of the Exchequer

The Great Stop of the Exchequer or Stop of the Exchequer was a repudiation of state debt that occurred in England in 1672 under the reign of Charles II of England.

Uvedale Tomkins Price

Uvedale Tomkins Price was the younger son of Robert Price, Baron of the Exchequer, by his wife Lucy Rodd, heiress of the Foxley estate at Yazor in Herefordshire.


Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer

The office originated in early times as the clerk of the Lord High Treasurer at the Receipt of the Exchequer.

Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable

The structures now located at El Portal were originally built in Bagby, and were moved from that location in 1966 when the townsite was to be inundated by the filling of Lake McClure behind New Exchequer Dam.

Baron Abinger

It was created on 12 January 1835 for the prominent lawyer and politician Sir James Scarlett, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

Belhaven, Scotland

, (d. 24 June 1709), a Writer (solicitor), Justice of the Peace, and Clerk to the Exchequer, was the first to change his designation from 'of Belhaven & West Barns' to 'of Beilmouth', and had descendants with Jacobite sympathies, his third wife being an Ogilvie.

Bexley Township

His cousin, Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer - known commonly as Lord or Baron Bexley - was a colleague of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, after whom Eldon Township is named.

Chris Gent

From October 2005 to October 2006 he served on the Tax Reform Commission, established by the then Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP.

Christopher Musgrave

Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet (1631–1704), Tory politician and MP, teller of the Exchequer

Conservative Research Department

Former CRD advisers in the Cabinet include Prime Minister, David Cameron, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Oliver Letwin and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.

Daniel Wray

In 1741 Philip and his brother, Charles Yorke, brought out the first volume of the Athenian Letters, to which Wray contributed under the signature ‘W.’ In 1745 Philip Yorke appointed Wray his deputy teller of the exchequer, an office which he continued to hold until 1782.

Despencer

Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer (1708–1781), English rake, politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, founder of the Hellfire Club

Dorneywood

In 2010, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, took occupancy of the house.

Edinburgh Labour Students

Catherine McKinnell MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North and Shadow Exchequer Secretary

Exchequer of Chester

The Exchequer of Chester was a fiscal court based in the County Palatine of Chester.

Forrest Capie

In 1999, Capie was appointed by Francis Maude

George Downing

Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet (c. 1656–1711), Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer

Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft

He was Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling in 1964, continuing under James Callaghan until 1966, when he became an Under-Secretary to the Treasury.

In My Time of Dying

"In My Time of Dying" was played during Led Zeppelin's 1975 and 1977 concert tours, where Robert Plant sarcastically dedicated the song to the British Labour Party's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, for the tax exile issues the band was facing.

IR35

On 15 June 2009 in the House of Commons Labour MP Terry Rooney (Bradford North) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer "how many investigations concerning IR35 were launched in each of the last five years; and how many of them resulted in

James Dennis

James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton (1721–1782), lord chief baron of the Exchequer in Ireland

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

Salisbury was part of two parliamentary deputations which called on the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, in the autumn of 1936 to remonstrate with them about the slow pace of British rearmament in the face of the growing threat from Nazi Germany.

John Bourchier

John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (1467–1533), one of Henry VIII's Chancellors of the Exchequer

John Brancastre

He was included among the keepers of the great seal by Thomas Duffus Hardy, under the dates of 1203 and 1205; but Edward Foss gave reasons for believing that the subscriptions to charters supposed to be attached by him as keeper were only affixed in the capacity of a deputy, or a clerk in the exchequer or in the chancery.

John Fortescue

John Fortescue of Salden (1531/1533–1607), third Chancellor of the Exchequer of England

Judicature Acts

However, after the deaths of Lord Chief Baron Kelly (on 17 September 1880), and Lord Chief Justice Cockburn (on 10 November 1880), the Common Pleas and Exchequer divisions were consolidated (by an Order in Council of 10 December 1880) with the King's Bench division into a single division, under the presidency of the Lord Chief Justice of England, to whom, by the Judicature Act 1881 s.

Leasowe

The ceiling of the Star Chamber at the Palace of Westminster was brought to the castle in 1836 along with panelling and other furnishings after the old exchequer buildings were demolished.

Lindi St Clair

In June 1991, she was involved in a controversy when Norman Lamont, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, was investigated for using taxpayers' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning Miss Whiplash, who was using a flat he owned (the Treasury contributed £4,700 of the £23,000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister).

Lord Mayor's Day

The new office holder being ' presented ' to the Lord Chief Justice and the other senior judges (originally the Barons of the Exchequer, now represented by the Queen's Remembrancer).

M4 relief road

On 2 April 2013 it was reported that the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was likely to give support to the scheme in the Autumn Statement and various newspapers reporting that it would be tolled.

Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca

In 1825, he was named Governor-General of the Philippines, arriving at Manila in October, and by a royal order also took possession of the intendancy of exchequer.

Michael Hicks Beach

Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn (1837–1916), 9th Baronet, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1885–1886 & 1895–1902, Conservative leader in the House of Commons 1885–1886

Pinarayi Vijayan

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India report said that the deal Vijayan had struck as electricity minister in 1998 with Lavalin, a Canadian firm, for the repair of three generators, was a huge fraud and had cost the state exchequer a staggering Rs 3.76 billion.

Publication of Domesday Book

In March 1767 Charles Morton (1716–1799), a librarian at the British Museum, was put in charge of the scheme; a fact which caused resentment towards him from Abraham Farley, a deputy chamberlain of the Exchequer who for many years had controlled access to Domesday Book in its repository at the Chapter House, Westminster, and furthermore had been involved in the recent Parliament Rolls printing operation.

Richard Brooke

Richard Broke (died 1529), also written Richard Brooke, baron of the Exchequer

Richard Onslow

Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow (1654–1717), Speaker of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer, grandson of the above

Standish O'Grady

Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore (1766-1840), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland

Swaran Singh

He was a member of the eminent persons group on South Africa sponsored by the Commonwealth Institute that consisted of Malcolm Fraser who had been Prime Minister of Australia for eight years, General Obasanjo of Nigeria, Lord Barber who had been Edward Heath's Chancellor of the Exchequer and was also chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank, Dame Nita Barrow, Reverend Scott and John Malecela, a Tanzanian former government minister.

Thomas Madox

Thomas Madox (1666 – 13 January 1727) was a legal antiquary and historian, known for his publication and discussion of medieval records and charters; and in particular for his History of the Exchequer, tracing the administration and records of that branch of the state from the Norman Conquest to the time of Edward II.

Thomas Newport

Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington (c. 1655–1719), English MP for Ludlow, Winchelse, (Much) Wenlock and Teller of the Exchequer

Tim Spanton

The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, invited Spanton to his home near Edinburgh and later wrote an article for The Sun in which he praised Spanton's efforts and those of other supporters of Live 8(2).

Treasury view

In the United Kingdom, the staff of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, notably Ralph George Hawtrey and Frederick Leith-Ross, argued against increased spending by putting forward the "Treasury view".

William Barrington

William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington (1717–1793), British MP for Berwick and for Plymouth, Secretary at War and Chancellor of the Exchequer

William Wyndham

Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (1687–1740), of Orchard Wyndham, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1713–1714, Member of Parliament for Somerset, 1710–1740

Wormsley Park

The house and estate was passed to his grandson John Scrope a baron of the Exchequer and as Scrope died without issue, his estate of Wormsley passed to the descendants of his sister Anne (died 1720), who had married Henry Fane of Brympton.


see also