Treasurer of Ceylon

Treasurer of Ceylon
Treasurer of Ceylon
Member of	the Executive Council
Appointer	Governor of British Ceylon
Formation	1809
First holder	Robert Boyd
Abolished	1932
Succession	Financial Secretary of Ceylon

The Treasurer of Ceylon was one of six offices that held a seat in the Executive Council of Ceylon.[1]

The post of Treasurer of Ceylon was replaced by the that of Financial Secretary of Ceylon in 1932, as one of three officers of state of the Board of Ministers of the State Council of Ceylon under recommendations of the Donoughmore Commission.[2][3]

List of Treasurers

Data based on:

John Ferguson, Ceylon in the "jubilee Year"., J. Haddon and Co.,1887[4]
Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources, Plâté limited, 1924[5]

#	Treasurer	Took office	Left office	Appointed by
1	Robert Boyd	1809	1812	Thomas Maitland
2	John William Carrington	1812	1816	Robert Brownrigg
3	Thomas Eden	1816	1822	Robert Brownrigg
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	Edward Barnes
8	George Turnour	1 February 1841	1843	James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie
9	Francis James Templer	1 November 1843		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	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	H. Hay Cameron	11 June 1901	1904
20	Hilgrove Clement Nicolle	6 September 1904	1908	Henry Arthur Blake
21	Bernard Senior	12 December 1908	1922	Henry McCallum
22	Wilfred Wentworth Woods	22 February 1922	1931	William Manning

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. 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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