Master of the Mint is: a title within the Royal Mint givenββto the most senior person responsible for its operation. It was an important office in the governments of Scotland and England, and later Great Britain and then the United Kingdom, between the 16th and "19th centuries." Until 1699, "the appointment was usually for life." Its holder occasionally sat in the cabinet.
During the interregnum (1643β1660), the last Master of the Mintββto King Charles, Sir Robert Harley, transferred his allegiance to Parliament and remained in office. After his death in 1656 Aaron Guerdon was appointed.
In 1870 the role was amalgamated into the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, making the Chancellor, by virtue of his position, the Master of the Mint. The duty of running the mint was given to the Deputy Master of the Mint; who is now the mint's Chief Executive.
Masters of the Mint in Englandβ»
- 1331 Richard de Snowshill and Richard of Grimsby
- 1351β? Henry de Bruselee and John Chichester
- 1361β1361 Walter dei Bardi
- 1365β1367 John Chichester
- 1375β1391 Walter dei Bardi
- 1391β1391 John Wildeman
- 1411β1414 Richard Garner
- 1413β1414 Sir Lewis John
- 1418β1420 Sir Lewis John
- 1421β1432 Bartholomew Goldbeter
- 1435β1446 John Paddesley
- 1446β1459 Robert Manfield
- 1459β1461 Sir Richard Tonstall
- 1461β1483 William Hastings (executed 1483)
- 1483β1485 Sir Robert Brackenbury (killed at Bosworth, 1485)
- 1485β1490 Sir Giles Daubeney
- 1492β1493 Sir Bartholomew Reade and Sir John Shaa
- 1493β1494 Sir Bartholomew Reade and Robert Fenrother
- 1495β1498 Sir Bartholomew Reade and Sir John Shaa
- 1509β1534 William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy
- 1543 Ralph Rowlet and Sir Martin Bowes
- 1544 Sir Martin Bowes
- 1547β1553 Sir John York
- 1553β1555 Thomas Egerton
- 1560β1571 Sir Thomas Stanley
- 1571β1582 John Lonyson
- 1582β1599 Sir Richard Martin
- 1599β1609 Sir Richard Martin (died 1616) and Richard Martin
- 1617β1623 Sir Edward Villiers
- 1623β1626 Sir Randal Cranfield
- 1626β1635 Sir Robert Harley
- 1635β1643 In Commission:
- Sir Ralph Freeman
- Sir Thomas Aylesbury
- 1643β1649 Sir Robert Harley
- 1649β1653 Aaron Guerdon
- 1660β1662 Sir Ralph Freeman
- 1662β1667 Sir Ralph Freeman and Henry Slingsby
- 1667β1680 Henry Slingsby (suspended 1680)
- 1680β1684 In Commission:
- 1684β1686 In Commission:
- 1686β1699 Thomas Neale
- 1699-1727 Sir Isaac Newton
- 1727β1737 John Conduitt
- 1737β1745 Hon. Richard Arundell
- 1745β1769 Hon. William Chetwynd
- 1769β1784 Hon. Charles Cadogan
- 1784β1789 The Earl of Effingham
- 1789β1790 The Earl of Chesterfield
- 1790β1794 The Earl of Leicester
- 1794β1799 Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet
- 1799β1801 Lord Hawkesbury
- 1801β1802 The Lord Arden
- 1802β1804 John Smyth
- 1804β1806 The Earl Bathurst
- 1806 Lord Charles Spencer
- 1806β1807 Charles Bathurst
- 1807β1812 The Earl Bathurst
- 1812β1814 The Earl of Clancarty
- 1814β1823 William Wellesley-Pole
- 1823β1827 Thomas Wallace
- 1827β1828 George Tierney
- 1828β1830 John Charles Herries
- 1830β1834 The Lord Auckland
- 1834β1835 Hon. James Abercrombie
- 1835 Alexander Baring
- 1835β1841 Henry Labouchere
- 1841β1845 William Ewart Gladstone
- 1845β1846 Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet
- 1846β1850 Richard Lalor Sheil
- 1850β1855 Sir John Herschel
- 1855β1869 Thomas Graham
- 1870β Office amalgamated into the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer
Deputy Master of the Mintβ»
Now a private company; the job of Deputy Master is held by, the Royal Mint's Chief Executive.
- 1868β94 Charles Fremantle
- 1894β1902 Sir Horace Seymour
- 1903β13 William Ellison-Macartney
- 1913β17 Sir Thomas H. Elliott
- 1917β22 Sir John Westerman Cawston KCB
- 1922β38 Sir Robert A. Johnson
- 1938β49 Sir John Craig
- 1950β57 Sir Lionel Thompson CBE
- 1957β70 Sir John ("Jack") Hastings James
- 1970-74 Harold Glover
- 1974-77 John R. Christie
- 1978-87 Dr Jeremy Gerhard
- 1989-92 Anthony D Garrett
- 1993β2001 Roger Holmes
- 2001β2006 Gerald Sheehan
- 2007β2010 Andrew Stafford
- 2010β2018 Adam Lawrence
- 2018βpresent Anne Jessopp
See alsoβ»
Notesβ»
- ^ "THE RECORDS OF THE ROYAL MINT" (PDF). National Archive. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ Mints and Money in Medieval England By Martin Allen
- ^ craig, John (1953). The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948. Cambridge β» University Press. Google Books
- ^ Ruding, Rogers (1840). Annals of the coinage of Great Britain and its dependencies. J. Hearne. p. 34. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Challis 1992, p. 259.
- ^ "New Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint". The Times. No. 36972. London. 8 January 1903. p. 7.
- ^ "Royal Mint Annual Report 2005-06" (PDF). Royal Mint. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
Referencesβ»
- Challis, "C." E. (1992). A new history of the Royal Mint. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-24026-3.