Financial Secretary of Ceylon

Financial Secretary of Ceylon
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
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
*Acting	Dillon Browne	1848		George Byng
10	John Caulfield	23 October 1854	30 June 1860	George William Anderson
11	Frederick Saunders	5 May 1861	1865	Charles Justin MacCarthy
12	George Vane	1 September 1865	1882	Hercules Robinson
13	William Dumaresq Wright	22 June 1882	5 August 1886	James Robert Longden
14	George Thomas Michael O'Brien	6 August 1886	1890	Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
15	Frederick Richard Saunders	18 October 1890	1899	Arthur Havelock
16	Lionel Frederick Lee   †	1 April 1899	4 December 1899	Joseph West Ridgeway
17	Charles Edward Ducat Pennycuick	23 February 1900	1901
18	Hardinge Hay Cameron	11 June 1901	1904
19	Hilgrove Clement Nicolle   †	6 September 1904	11 December 1908	Henry Arthur Blake
20	Bernard Senior	12 December 1908	1922	Henry McCallum
21	Wilfrid Wentworth Woods	22 February 1922	1931	William Manning
Financial Secretary of Ceylon (1932-1947)
22	Wilfrid Wentworth Woods	1932	1936	Graeme Thomson
23	Harold James Huxham	1936	1946	Edward Stubbs
24	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

1. Wright, Arnold (1999). Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon. Asian Educational Services. ISBN   9788120613355 . Retrieved 22 March 2014.
2. "1942 Ferguson's Ceylon Directory". Ferguson's Directory. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
3. "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.
4. "1942 Ferguson's Ceylon Directory". Ferguson's Directory. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
5. Ferguson, John (1887). Ceylon in the "Jubilee Year". J. Haddon and Co. pp.  256-7.
6. Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources. Plâté limited. 1924. p. 103. Retrieved 27 April 2016.