Treasurer of Ceylon
The Treasurer of Ceylon was one of six offices that held a seat in the Executive Council of Ceylon.
List of Treasurers
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 by |
1 | Robert Boyd | 1809 | 1812 | Thomas Maitland |
2 | John William Carrington | 1812 | 1816 | Robert Brownrigg |
3 | Thomas Eden | 1816 | 1822 | Robert Brownrigg |
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 | Edward Barnes |
8 | George Turnour | 1 February 1841 | 1843 | James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie |
9 | Francis James Templer | 1 November 1843 | 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 | 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 | L. F. Lee | 1 April 1899 | 1899 | Joseph West Ridgeway |
18 | Charles Edward Ducat Pennycuick | 5 December 1899 | 1901 | Joseph West Ridgeway |
19 | H. H. Cameron | 11 June 1901 | 1904 | Joseph West Ridgeway |
20 | H. C. Nicolle | 6 September 1904 | 1908 | Henry Arthur Blake |
21 | Bernard Senior | 12 December 1908 | 1922 | Henry McCallum |
22 | Wilfred Wentworth Woods | 22 February 1922 | William Manning |