Master of the Mint
Master of the Mint is a title within the Royal Mint given to the most senior person responsible for its operation. It was an important office in the governments of Scotland and England, and later Great Britain and then the United Kingdom, between the 16th and 19th centuries. Until 1699, the appointment was usually for life. Its holder occasionally sat in the cabinet.
For the chief executive of the Royal Canadian Mint, see Master of the Mint (Canada).
During the interregnum (1643–1660), the last Master of the Mint to King Charles, Sir Robert Harley, transferred his allegiance to Parliament and remained in office. After his death in 1656 Aaron Guerdon was appointed.
In 1870 the role was amalgamated into the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, making the Chancellor, by virtue of his position, the Master of the Mint. The duty of running the mint was given to the Deputy Master of the Mint; who is now the mint's Chief Executive.[1]
1331 Richard de Snowshill and Richard of Grimsby
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1351–? Henry de Bruselee and John Chichester
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1361–1361 Walter dei Bardi
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1365–1367 John Chichester
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1375–1391 Walter dei Bardi
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1391–1391 John Wildeman
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1411–1414 Richard Garner
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1413–1414 Sir Lewis John
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1418–1420 Sir Lewis John
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1421–1432 Bartholomew Goldbeter
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1435–1446 John Paddesley
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1446–1459 Robert Manfield
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1459–1461 Sir Richard Tonstall
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1485–1490 Sir Giles Daubeney
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1599–1609 (died 1616) and Richard Martin
Sir Richard Martin
1617–1623
Sir Edward Villiers
1623–1626 Sir
Randal Cranfield
1626–1635 Sir
Robert Harley
Ralph Freeman
1643–1649 Sir
Robert Harley
1649–1653
Aaron Guerdon
1660–1662 Sir
Ralph Freeman
1667–1680 (suspended 1680)
Henry Slingsby
John Buckworth
Thomas Neale
1686–1699
Thomas Neale
1699-1727
Sir Isaac Newton
1727–1737
John Conduitt
1737–1745
Hon. Richard Arundell
1784–1789
The Earl of Effingham
1789–1790
The Earl of Chesterfield
1790–1794
The Earl of Leicester
1794–1799
Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet
1799–1801
Lord Hawkesbury
1801–1802
The Lord Arden
1802–1804
John Smyth
1804–1806
The Earl Bathurst
1806
Lord Charles Spencer
1806–1807
Charles Bathurst
1807–1812
The Earl Bathurst
1812–1814
The Earl of Clancarty
1814–1823
William Wellesley-Pole
1823–1827
Thomas Wallace
1827–1828
George Tierney
1828–1830
John Charles Herries
1830–1834
The Lord Auckland
1834–1835
Hon. James Abercrombie
1835
Alexander Baring
1835–1841
Henry Labouchere
1841–1845
William Ewart Gladstone
1845–1846
Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet
1846–1850
Richard Lalor Sheil
1850–1855 Sir
John Herschel
1855–1869
Thomas Graham
1870– Office amalgamated into the office of
Chancellor of the Exchequer
1868–94 Charles Fremantle
1894–1902 Sir Horace Seymour
1913–17
Sir Thomas H. Elliott
1917–22 Sir John Westerman Cawston KCB
1922–38 Sir Robert A. Johnson
1938–49 Sir John Craig
1950–57 Sir Lionel Thompson CBE
1957–70 Sir John ("Jack") Hastings James
1970-74 Harold Glover
1974-77 John R. Christie
1978-87 Dr Jeremy Gerhard
1989-92 Anthony D Garrett
1993–2001 Roger Holmes
2001–2006 Gerald Sheehan
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2007–2010 Andrew Stafford
2010–2018 Adam Lawrence
2018–present
Anne Jessopp
Now a private company; the job of Deputy Master is held by the Royal Mint's Chief Executive.
Münzmeister
Warden of the Mint
Zarabi
Challis, C. E. (1992). . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-24026-3.