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• Sir Henry Brook Parnell 1835-1841
• The Lord Colchester 1852
• Lord Stanley 1853-1855
• Robert Lowe 1855-1858
• The Earl of Donoughmore 1858-1859
• George Joachim Goschen 1859-1866
• Sir Stephen Cave 1866-1868
• The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava 1868-1872
• Hugh Childers 1872-1873
• William Adam 1873-1874
• Sir Stephen Cave 1874-1880
• The Lord Wolverton 1880-1885
• The Earl Beauchamp 1885-1887
• The Earl Brownlow 1887-1889
• Earl of Jersey 1889-1890
• The Lord Windsor 1890-1892

• Duke of Marlborough 189?-1902
• Sir Savile Crossley 1902-1905
• Richard Causton (1st Baron Southwark after 13 July 1910) 1905-1910
• The Lord Ashby St. Ledgers 1910-1912
• The Lord Strachie 1912-1915
• The Lord Newton 1915-1916
• Arthur Henderson 1916
• Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett 1916-1919
• Tudor Walters 1919-1922
• Office vacant 1922-1923
• Neville Chamberlain 1923
• Sir William Joynson-Hicks 1923
• Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923-1924
• Harry Gosling 1924
• Office vacant 1924-1925
• The Duke of Sutherland 1925-1928
• The Earl of Onslow 1928-1929
• The Lord Arnold 1929-1931
• Office vacant 1931
• Sir Tudor Walters 1931
• The Lord Rochester 1931-1935
• Lord Hutchison 1935-1938
• Earl of Munster 1938-1939
• Earl WintertonEdward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton known was Viscount Turnour until 1907, ( 1883- 1962) was an Irish peer and British politician in the first half of the twentieth century who achieved the rare distinction of serving as both Baby of the House and Father o 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26
• Office vacant 1939-1940
• Viscount CranborneRobert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury KG ( August 27, 1893- February 23, 1972) was a grandson of the great 3rd Marquess. Nicknamed "Bobbety", the 5th Marquess was elected to the House of Commons in 1929, and then called up to the H 1940
• Office vacant 1940-1941
• The Lord HankeyMaurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey ( April 1 1877- January 26 1963) was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Secretary to the Cabinet and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office. 1941-1942
• Sir William Jowitt 1942Events January January 1 World War II: The word " United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. January 5 Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary ass
• The Lord CherwellProfessor Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ( 1886 1957) was a physicist who became an influential scientific adviser to the British government and a close associate of Winston Churchill. He advocated the wartime carpet bombing of Geman 1942-1945
• Office vacant 1945-1946
• Arthur GreenwoodArthur Greenwood ( 1880— 1954) became deputy leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee, with Winston Churchill appointing him to the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio in 1940. Generally seen as ineffectual, he resigned in 1943. Until the end of 1946- 1947
• Hillary Marquand 1947-1948
• The Viscount Addison 1948-1949
• The Lord Macdonald 1949-1951
• The Lord Cherwell 1951-1953
• The Earl of Selkirk 1953-1955
• Office vacant 1955-1956
• Sir Walter Monckton 1956-1957
• Reginald Maudling 1957-1959
• The Lord Mills 1959-1961
• Henry Brooke 1961-1962
• John Boyd-Carpenter 1962-1964
• George Wigg 1964-1967
• Office vacant 1967-1968
• The Lord Shackleton 1968
• Judith Hart 1968-1969
• Harold Lever 1969-1970
• The Viscount Eccles 1970-1973
• Maurice Macmillan 1973- 1974
• Edmund Dell 1974- 1976
• Shirley Williams 1976- 1979
• Angus Maude 1979- 1981
• Francis Pym 1981
• Cecil Parkinson 1981- 1983
• Office vacant 1983-1984
• John Gummer 1984- 1985
• Kenneth Clarke 1985- 1987
• Peter Brooke 1987- 1989
• The Earl of Caithness 1989-1990
• Richard Andrew Ryder 1990
• The Lord Belstead 1990-1992
• Sir John Cope 1992-1994
• Derick Heathcoat-Amory 1994- 1996
• David Willets 1996
• Michael Bates 1996-1997
• Geoffrey Robinson 1997- 1998
• Dawn Primarolo 1999-

See also: Paymaster of the Forces.