1841, Sept. 3, 1845, Dec. 23, 1846, July 6, 1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28, Earl Camden. Viscount Castlereagh. Right Hon. Edward-G. Stanley. Lord Stanley. Right Hon. William- Ewart Gladstone. Right Hon. Sir John-S. Pakington, bart. [1854, June 10.-The Departments were divided.] 1880, April Under Secretaries for the War Department. Earl of Morley. Sir A.-D. Hayter, bart. (Financial.) Sir R-.W. Thompson, K.C.B. (Permanent.) Secretaries of State for the Colonies Department. 1854, June 10, 1855, May 15, The Board of Control, now Styled THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA. President. Viscount Lewisham. Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. Right Hon. Robert Dundas. Right Hon. Sir John-Cam Hobhouse, bart. Earl of Ripon. [By Act of Parliament, Session 1858.] Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India. The Earl De Grey and Ripon. Right Hon. Lord Cranborne. Right Hon. Sir Stafford-H. Northcote, bt. Marquis of Salisbury. Right Hon. Viscount Cranbrook. Marquis of Hartington. Earl of Kimberley. 1880, May 6, Mr. J. A. Godley, C.B. (Permanent.) GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA. THE COMMISSIONERS OF ROYAL PARKS, PALACES, 1850, Mar. 22, 1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28, Lord John Manners. Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bart. Right Hon. Lord John-James-Robert Manners. Right Hon. Francis-William Cowper. THE COMMISSIONERS Of woods, fORESTS, AND LAND REVENUES. 1850, Aug. 10, Hon. Charles-Alexander Gore. Sir H.-B. Loch, K.C.B. THE LORD CHANCELLOR Keeps the Great Seal, not to judge according to the common law, as other courts do, but to dispense with such parts as seem in some cases to oppress the subject; and to judge according to equity, conscience, and reason. Wherefore he is said to have two powers; one absolute, the other ordinary; the meaning of which is, he must observe the form of proceeding in other courts; yet, in his absolute power, he is not limited by the written law, but in conscience and equity. He may issue writs of habeas corpus at all times. He has power to collate to all ecclesiastical benefices in the Queen's gift, rated under 201. per annum in the Queen's Books. His oath :-To do justice to all persons, poor and rich; the Queen truly to counsel, and to keep the Queen's counsel, and not to suffer the rights of the Crown to be any ways diminished. [The Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper are the same in power and precedence. Both are appointed by the Queen's delivery of the Great Seal; they differ only in this:-the Lord Chancellor has also letters patent, the Lord Keeper has none.] 1793, Jan. 28, Earl of Rosslyn. 1801, Mar. 14, 1806, Feb. Earl of Eldon. 7, Lord Erskine. 1807, April 1, 1827, May 1, 1830, Nov. 22, Earl of Eldon. Lord Lyndhurst. Right Hon. Lord Hatherley. Right Hon. Lord Cairns, (now Earl Cairns.) THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. Right Hon. Sir William Grant. Lord Gifford. Sir John-Singleton Copley. Sir Charles-Christopher Pepys. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Sir John Mitford, knt. Sir Edward Law, knt. Hon. Spencer Perceval. 1806, Feb. 12, Sir Arthur Pigott, knt. 1807, 1812, Sept. 8, 1830, Nov. 23, 1845, July 1, 1846, July 7, 1850, July 12, 1851, Mar. 25, 1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28, 1856, Nov. 15, Sir Vicary Gibbs, knt. Sir Thomas Plumer, knt. Sir Alexander-James-Edmund Cockburn. Sir Alexander-James-Edmund Cockburn. |