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. 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. 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.
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 Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources, Plâté limited, 1924
# Treasurer Took office Left office Appointed byTreasurer 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 ManningFinancial 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
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