Lord High Treasurer

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The lord high treasurer (also referred to as lord treasurer and as lord high treasurer and treasurer of the exchequer) was an English government position and subsequently a British government position since the Acts of Union of 1707 between England and Scotland. A holder of the post would have been the third-highest-ranked Great Officer of State in England, below the lord high steward and the lord high chancellor of Great Britain. The lord high treasurer functioned as the head of His Majesty's Treasury. The office has, since the resignation of Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury in 1714, been vacant. Although the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created in 1801, it was not until the Consolidated Fund Act 1816 that the separate offices of lord high treasurer of Great Britain and lord high treasurer of Ireland were united into one office as the "lord high treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" on 5 January 1817. Section 2 of the Consolidated Fund Act...

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