Financial Secretary of Ceylon

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Financial Secretary of Ceylon
Member ofthe Board of Ministers
Appointer Governor of British Ceylon
Constituting instrument Donoughmore Constitution
Formation1809
First holder Robert Boyd
(as Treasurer of Ceylon)
Final holder Oliver Goonetilleke
Abolished1947
Succession Minister of Finance
DeputyDeputy 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]

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Departments

List of Financial Secretaries

Data based on:

#TreasurerTook officeLeft officeAppointed by
Treasurer of Ceylon (1809-1931)
1 Robert Boyd 18091812 Thomas Maitland
2 John William Carrington 18121816 Robert Brownrigg
3 Thomas Eden 18161822
4 John Drave 18221823 Edward Paget
5 William Granville 18231824 James Campbell
6 John William Carrington 18241828 Edward Barnes
7 William Granville 1 May 18281841
8 George Turnour 1 February 18411843 James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie
9 Francis James Templer 1 November 1843 Colin Campbell
10 Dillon Browne 1848 George Byng
11 John Caulfield 23 October 18541861 George William Anderson
12 Frederick Saunders 5 May 18611865 Charles Justin MacCarthy
13 George Vane 1 September 18651882 Hercules Robinson
14 William Dumaresq Wright 22 June 18825 August 1886 James Robert Longden
15 George Thomas Michael O'Brien 6 August 18861890 Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
16 Frederick Richard Saunders 18 October 18901899 Arthur Havelock
17 Lionel Frederick Lee   1 April 18994 December 1899 Joseph West Ridgeway
18 Charles Edward Ducat Pennycuick 23 February 19001901
19 H. Hay Cameron 11 June 19011904
20 Hilgrove Clement Nicolle   6 September 190411 December 1908 Henry Arthur Blake
21 Bernard Senior 12 December 19081922 Henry McCallum
22 Wilfred Wentworth Woods 22 February 19221931 William Manning
Financial Secretary of Ceylon (1932-1947)
23 Wilfred Wentworth Woods 19321936 Graeme Thomson
24 Harold James Huxham 19361946 Edward Stubbs
25 Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke 19461947 Henry Monck-Mason Moore

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