Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty

History

Responsibilities

• All proposals for new and unusual expenditure
• All questions involving reference to the treasury financially
• Accounts cash, store, and dockyard expense.
• Contract business except as dealt with by the controller
• Finance
• Estimates
• Exchequer and audit department—questions with
• Expenditure generally
• General labour questions, including annual petitions
• Payment of hire of ships
• Purchases and sales of naval and victualling stores
• Purchase and sale of ships
• Purchase and sale of stores generally.
• Questions involving reference to the treasury financially, except as provided for under civil lord

  Office holders

Secretaries to the Lords Admiral, Admiralty, Committees and Commissions

• Sir Edward Nicholas, 1625–1638
• Sir Thomas Smith, 1638–1645
• William Jessop and Robert Coytmore,, 1645–1652
• Robert Blackborne, 1652– July 1660

  Secretaries to the Admiralty

• 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 24 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

• 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

• 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

Departments under the office

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