Financial Secretary of Ceylon
Financial Secretary of Ceylon | |
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Member of | the Board of Ministers |
Appointer | Governor of British Ceylon |
Constituting instrument | Donoughmore Constitution |
Formation | 1809 |
First holder | Robert Boyd (as Treasurer of Ceylon) |
Final holder | Oliver Goonetilleke |
Abolished | 1947 |
Succession | Minister of Finance |
Deputy | Deputy Financial Secretary |
The Financial Secretary of Ceylon was an officer of the Ceylonese Government and member of the Board of Ministers. The Treasurer of Ceylon was one of six offices that held a seat in the Executive Council of Ceylon from 1809 to 1932.[1] The post was replaced by the that of Financial Secretary in 1932, as one of three officers of state of the new Board of Ministers that replaced the Executive Council under recommendations of the Donoughmore Commission.[2][3] The Financial Secretary was in turn replaced by the new office of the Minister of Finance in 1947 under the recommendations of the Soulbury Commission under the Ceylon Independence Act, 1947 and The Ceylon (Constitution and Independence) Orders in Council 1947.[4]
Departments
- General Treasury
- Loan Board
- Government Stores Department
- Government Printing Office
- Government Assessor
- Income Tax Department
- Customs
List of Financial Secretaries
Data based on:
- John Ferguson, Ceylon in the Jubilee Year, J. Haddon and Co.,1887[5]
- Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources, Plâté limited, 1924[6]
# | Treasurer | Took office | Left office | Appointed by |
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Treasurer of Ceylon (1809-1931) | ||||
1 | Robert Boyd | 1809 | 1812 | Thomas Maitland |
2 | John William Carrington | 1812 | 1816 | Robert Brownrigg |
3 | Thomas Eden | 1816 | 1822 | |
4 | John Drave | 1822 | 1823 | Edward Paget |
5 | William Granville | 1823 | 1824 | James Campbell |
6 | John William Carrington | 1824 | 1828 | Edward Barnes |
7 | William Granville | 1 May 1828 | 1841 | |
8 | George Turnour | 1 February 1841 | 31 October 1843 | James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie |
9 | Francis James Templer † | 1 November 1843 | 22 October 1854 | Colin Campbell |
10 | Dillon Browne | 1848 | George Byng | |
11 | John Caulfield | 23 October 1854 | 1861 | George William Anderson |
12 | Frederick Saunders | 5 May 1861 | 1865 | Charles Justin MacCarthy |
13 | George Vane | 1 September 1865 | 1882 | Hercules Robinson |
14 | William Dumaresq Wright | 22 June 1882 | 5 August 1886 | James Robert Longden |
15 | George Thomas Michael O'Brien | 6 August 1886 | 1890 | Arthur Hamilton-Gordon |
16 | Frederick Richard Saunders | 18 October 1890 | 1899 | Arthur Havelock |
17 | Lionel Frederick Lee † | 1 April 1899 | 4 December 1899 | Joseph West Ridgeway |
18 | Charles Edward Ducat Pennycuick | 23 February 1900 | 1901 | |
19 | Hardinge Hay Cameron | 11 June 1901 | 1904 | |
20 | Hilgrove Clement Nicolle † | 6 September 1904 | 11 December 1908 | Henry Arthur Blake |
21 | Bernard Senior | 12 December 1908 | 1922 | Henry McCallum |
22 | Wilfred Wentworth Woods | 22 February 1922 | 1931 | William Manning |
Financial Secretary of Ceylon (1932-1947) | ||||
23 | Wilfred Wentworth Woods | 1932 | 1936 | Graeme Thomson |
24 | Harold James Huxham | 1936 | 1946 | Edward Stubbs |
25 | Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke | 1946 | 1947 | Henry Monck-Mason Moore |
See also
- Governors of British Ceylon
- Chief Secretary of Ceylon
- Legal Secretary of Ceylon
- General Officer Commanding, Ceylon
- Attorney General of Sri Lanka
- Auditor General of Sri Lanka
References
- ^ Wright, Arnold (1999). Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 9788120613355. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ "1942 Ferguson's Ceylon Directory". Ferguson's Directory. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Evolution of the Office of the Attorney General in Sri Lanka". attorneygeneral.gov.lk. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "1942 Ferguson's Ceylon Directory". Ferguson's Directory. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ Ferguson, John (1887). Ceylon in the "Jubilee Year". J. Haddon and Co. pp. 256-7.
- ^ Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources. Plâté limited. 1924. p. 103. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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- Eden
- Drave
- Granville
- Carrington
- Granville
- Turnour
- Templer
- Browne
- Caulfield
- Saunders
- Vane
- Wright
- O'Brien
- Saunders
- Lee
- Pennycuick
- Cameron
- Nicolle
- Senior
- Woods
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