Financial Secretary To The War Office

Financial Secretary to the War Office was an office of the British government, the financial secretary of the War Office department.

Date Name
5 August 1870 John Cranch Walker Vivian
15 November 1871 Henry Campbell-Bannerman
26 February 1874 Hon. Frederick Stanley
13 August 1877 Robert Loyd-Lindsay
28 April 1880 Henry Campbell-Bannerman
13 May 1882 Sir Arthur Hayter, Bt
26 June 1885 Henry Northcote
6 February 1886 Herbert Gladstone
4 August 1886 Hon. St John Brodrick
22 August 1892 William Woodall
3 July 1895 Joseph Powell-Williams
1 January 1901 Lord Stanley
12 October 1903 William Bromley-Davenport
14 December 1905 Thomas Buchanan
12 April 1908 Francis Dyke Acland
4 March 1910 Charles Mallet
31 January 1911 Francis Dyke Acland
25 October 1911 Harold Tennant
14 June 1912 Harold Baker
30 May 1915 Henry Forster
18 December 1919 Sir Archibald Williamson, Bt
1 April 1921 Hon. George Frederick Stanley
31 October 1922 Stanley Jackson
15 March 1923 Rupert Gwynne
23 January 1924 Jack Lawson
11 November 1924 Douglas King
13 January 1928 Duff Cooper
11 June 1929 Manny Shinwell
5 June 1930 William Sanders
3 September 1931 Duff Cooper
29 June 1934 Douglas Hacking
28 November 1935 Sir Victor Warrender, Bt
3 April 1940 Sir Edward Grigg
17 May 1940 Richard Law
20 July 1941 Duncan Sandys
7 February 1943 Arthur Henderson
26 May 1945 Maurice Petherick
4 August 1945 Frederick Bellenger
4 October 1946 John Freeman

The post was combined with that of Under-Secretary of State for War from 17 April 1947.

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