Financial Secretary of Ceylon

Financial Secretary of Ceylon
Member ofthe Board of Ministers
AppointerGovernor of British Ceylon
Constituting instrumentDonoughmore Constitution
Formation1809
First holderRobert Boyd
(as Treasurer of Ceylon)
Final holderOliver Goonetilleke
Abolished1947
SuccessionMinister 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]

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

See also

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.


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