Britain's Paymaster General resigned Wednesday after a parliamentary committee accused him of lying _ handing a new blow to Prime Minister John Major's unpopular Conservative government.
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The ex-officio chairman of the board is HM Paymaster General ( whose predecessor Sir Stephen Fox was instrumental in founding the Hospital in the seventeenth century ).
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Bartlett's daughter Mary Hamlin Bartlett ( 1858 1896 ) married Joseph Adams Smith, who became Paymaster General of the Navy and a notable lecturer on naval history.
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After the unit had been mustered, the Paymaster General refused to recognize the status of the newly formed regiment, and paid them the same rate as infantry.
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When Wilson was succeeded by James Callaghan in 1976, she became Secretary of State for Education and Paymaster General, holding both cabinet positions at the same time.
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Macmillan appointed Maudling to the post of Paymaster General and spokesman in the Minister of Information, confirmed to the Press that France would reject the Maudling plan.
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By this stage Newcastle's brother Henry Pelham had attained the lucrative position of Paymaster General, and had effectively replaced Townshend as the third man of the government.
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The resignation of Paymaster General David Heathcoat-Amory, the Treasury's fourth-ranking official, was a new embarrassment to Major, whose unpopular party is sharply divided over closer links with Europe.
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He was appointed Clerk to the Paymaster General by 1702, was Deputy Paymaster General from 1714 to 1720 and Deputy Cofferer of the Household by 1730 until his death.
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In public relations terms, it ranked with Paymaster General Robinson's recent unveiling of a plan to put a 50, 000-pound ( dlrs 82, 500 ) ceiling on tax-free savings.
