title: Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
text: The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty  also known as the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Board of Admiralty  was a position on the Board of Admiralty and a civil officer of the British Royal Navy. It was usually filled by a Member of Parliament. Although he attended Board of Admiralty meetings informally he was not made a full member of that Board until 1929. He served as the deputy to the First Lord of the Admiralty in Parliament and was mainly responsible for all naval finance and spending proposals from 1625 until 1959.
  
  History
  The office  was originally created in 1625 with the post holders holding titles under various names such as Secretaries to the Lords Admiral, Admiralty, Committees and Commissions. In July 1660 the post of  Secretary to the Admiralty was formally created which lasted until 18 June 1763 when the office was then restyled First Secretary to the Admiralty this remained in place until 1870 when the First Secretary was renamed Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, while the office of Second Secretary to the Admiralty was renamed Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty. In 1886, the Parliamentary Secretary was renamed Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. In 1929 the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary is made a full member of the Board of Admiralty. In 1930, the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary served as Civil Lord to the Board of Admiralty. In 1959 the office of Parliamentary and Financial Secretary was abolished with the approval of parliament. In 1964 the Admiralty and thus Board of Admiralty was also abolished and merged into a new larger Ministry of Defence under the control of the Minister of State and Under-Secretary of State for the Navy.
  
  Responsibilities
  His duties have included at various times
   All proposals for new and unusual expenditure
   All questions involving reference to the treasury financially
   Accounts cash, store, and dockyard expense.
   Contract business except as dealt with by the controller
   Finance
   Estimates
   Exchequer and audit department—questions with
   Expenditure generally
   General labour questions, including annual petitions
   Payment of hire of ships
   Purchases and sales of naval and victualling stores
   Purchase and sale of ships
   Purchase and sale of stores generally.
   Questions involving reference to the treasury financially, except as  provided for under civil lord
  
  Office holders
  
  Secretaries to the Lords Admiral, Admiralty, Committees and Commissions
  Included:
  Notes: From 1645 until 1652 there were two joint secretaries.
   Sir Edward Nicholas, 1625–1638
   Sir Thomas Smith, 1638–1645
   William Jessop and Robert Coytmore, (jointly), 1645–1652
   Robert Blackborne, 1652– July 1660
  
  Secretaries to the Admiralty
  Included:
   Sir William Coventry, July 1660 – September 1667
   Matthew Wren, September 1667 – July 1672
   Sir John Werden, July 1672 1667 – June 1673
   Samuel Pepys, June 1673 – May 1679
   Thomas Hayter May 1679 – February 1680
   John Brisbane, February 1680 – May 1684
   Samuel Pepys, May 1684 – March 1689
   Phineas Bowles, March 1689 – January 1690
   James Southerne, January 1690 – August 1694
   William Bridgeman, August 1694–26 September 1698 joint with Josiah Burchett until 24 June 1698
   Josiah Burchett, 26 September 1698 – 20 May 1702
   George Clarke, 20 May 1702 – 25 October 1705 joint with Josiah Burchett
   Josiah Burchett, 25 October 1705 – 29 April 1741
   Thomas Corbett, 1741–1751 joint with Josiah Burchett until 14 October 1742
   John Clevland, 30 April 1751 – 18 June 1763
  
  First Secretaries to the Admiralty
  Included:
   Philip Stephens, 18 June 1763 – 3 March 1795
   Evan Nepean, 3 March 1795 – 21 January 1804
   William Marsden, 24 January 1804 – 24 June 1807
   Hon. William Wellesley Pole, 24 June 1807 – 12 October 1809
   John Wilson Croker, 12 October 1809 – 2 May 1827
  Notes: The Board of Admiralty commission ceased and came under the control of the Lord High Admirals Council from 1827 to 1828.
   Hon. George Elliot, 1828–1834
   George Robert Dawson, 1834–1835
   Charles Wood, 1835–1839
   Richard More O'Ferrall, 1839–1841
   John Parker, 1841
   Hon. Sidney Herbert, 1841–1845
   Hon. Henry Lowry-Corry, 1845–1846
   Henry George Ward, 1846–1849
   John Parker, 1849–1852
   Augustus Stafford, 1852
   Ralph Bernal Osborne, 1853–1858
   Hon. Henry Lowry-Corry, 1858–1859
   Lord Clarence Paget, 1859–1866
   Hon. Thomas Baring, 1866
   Lord Henry Lennox, 1866–1868
   William Edward Baxter, 1868–1871
  
  Parliamentary Secretaries to the Admiralty
   George Shaw-Lefevre, 1871–1874
   Hon. Algernon Egerton, 1874–1880
   George Shaw-Lefevre, 1880
   George Trevelyan, 1880–1882
   Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1882–1884
   Thomas Brassey, 1884–1885
   Charles Ritchie, 1885–1886
  
  Parliamentary and Financial Secretaries to the Admiralty
   J. T. Hibbert 1886
   Arthur Forwood 1886–1892
   Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bt, 1892–1895
   William Ellison-Macartney 1895–1900
   H. O. Arnold-Forster 1900–1903
  E. G. Pretyman 1903–1905
  Edmund Robertson 1905–1908
  Thomas Macnamara 1908–1920
  Sir James Craig, Bt 1920–1921
  Leo Amery 1921–1922
  Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1922–1923
  Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 1923–1924
  Charles Ammon 1924
  J. C. C. Davidson 1924–1926
  Cuthbert Headlam 1926–1929
  Charles Ammon 1929–1931
  The Earl Stanhope 1931
  Lord Stanley 1931–1935
  Sir Victor Warrender, Bt 1935
  Lord Stanley 1935–1937
  Geoffrey Shakespeare 1937–1940
  Sir Victor Warrender, Bt 1940–1945
  John Dugdale 1945–1950
  James Callaghan 1950–1951
  Allan Noble 1951–1955
  George Ward 1955–1957
  Christopher Soames 1957–1958
  Robert Allan 1958–1959
  Charles Ian Orr-Ewing 1959
  
  office abolished on 16 October 1959
  
  Departments under the office
   Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy
   Department of the Director of Contracts
   Contracts and Purchase Department
  
  See also
   Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty
   First Lord of the Admiralty
   Board of Admiralty
   British Admiralty
  
  Citations
  
  General and cited sources 
   
   Rodger, N.A.M. (1979). The Admiralty. Lavenham: Terence Dalton Ltd, Suffolk, England, .
  
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  Civil service positions in the United Kingdom
  Admiralty during World War II