The Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King/Queen (or Financial Secretary to the King) is responsible for the financial management of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
He is assisted by the Deputy Treasurer to the King/Queen for the management of the Sovereign Grant.
He is also assisted by the Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse for semi-private concerns, such as racing stables, the Royal Philatelic Collection, Royal Ascot, the Chapel Royal, Page of Honour, Military Knights of Windsor, Royal Maundy, the Royal Victorian Order, grace and favour apartments, and the Duchy of Lancaster. These are funded from the Privy Purse, which is drawn largely from the Duchy of Lancaster. The Keeper of the Privy Purse meets the Sovereign at least weekly.
The current Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The Queen is Sir Alan Reid, GCVO. The Deputy Treasurer to the Queen & Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse is Sir Michael Stevens.
Peter Osborne 1551–1552
Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet, 1607–?
Richard Molyneux, 1st Viscount Molyneux, PC 1616?–1636
Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Ancram, PC 1636?–1639
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, KG, PC (1661–1662)
Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth, PC 1662–1665
Baptist May 1665–1685
James Graham, 1685–1689
William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, KG, PC 1689–1700
Caspar Frederick Henning, 1700–1702
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough 1702–1711
Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham 1711–1714
Caspar Frederick Henning, 1714–1727
Augustus Schutz, 1727–1757
The Honourable Edward Finch, 1757–1760
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, KG, PC 1760–1763
Sir William Breton, 1763–1773
James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan, PC 1773–1812
The Right Honourable Colonel Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet, 1812–1817
Lieutenant-General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield, GCB GCH PC 1817–1822
The Right Honourable Sir William Knighton, 1st Baronet, GCH 1821–1830
Major-General Sir William Wheatley, 1st Baronet, GCH, CB 1830–1846
George Edward Anson 1847–1849
Colonel The Honourable Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps KCB 1849–1866
General The Honourable Sir Charles Grey 1866–1867
Colonel Thomas Myddleton-Biddulph KCB 1866–1878
Major-General Sir Henry Ponsonby GCB 1878–1895
The Right Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Edwards GCVO, KCB, ISO 1895–1901
The Right Honourable General Sir Deighton Probyn, VC, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, ISO 1901–1910
The Right Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Carington GCVO KCB JP 1910–1914
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby GCB GCVO PC 1914–1935
Colonel Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram GCB GCVO CSI PC 1935–1936
Sir Frederick Ponsonby 1936
Major Sir Ulick Alexander 1936–1952
Brigadier-General Charles George Vivian Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon, GCVO, KCB, DSO, DL, OStJ 1952–1971
Major Sir Rennie Maudsley, GCVO KCB MBE 1971–1981
Sir Peter Miles, KCVO 1981–1987
Major Sir Shane Blewitt, GCVO 1988–1996
Sir Michael Peat, GCVO 1996–2002
Sir Alan Reid, GCVO 2002–
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