The Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer was an office in the English Exchequer

Exchequer

The Exchequer is a government department of the United Kingdom responsible for the management and collection of taxation and other government revenues. The historical Exchequer developed judicial roles...

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The Tellers of the Exchequer received any money to be paid into the Exchequer, noted the amount in a book, and sent a copy of the entry, called a Teller's Bill, to the Tally Court so that a tally could be made of it. At the end of each day, the money they had received, as determined by the Bills, was removed from their chests to be deposited in the Treasury. During the reign of Richard I

Richard I of England

Richard I was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period...

, these officials numbered ten, but by the time of Henry III

Henry III of England

Henry III was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready...

, they had been reduced to four, which number remained constant until the abolition of the office. With several other offices of the ancient Exchequer, that of Teller of the Receipt was done away with on 10 October 1834.

Tellers of the Exchequer (1660-1834)

Date	One	Two	Three	Four
1660	Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman, and diplomat. Downing Street in London is named after him. As Treasury Secretary he is credited with instituting major reforms in public finance. His influence was substantial on the passage and substance of the mercantilist...	Leonard Pinckney	John Loving	Lawrence Squibb
1661		William Pinckney
1673		Sir William D'Oyly, 2nd Baronet
1674				Thomas Vernon
1677		vacant; D'Oyly suspended
1678		(two deputies)
1680		Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet, of East Hatley was the son and heir of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet.His father worked as Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1660 until 1684. In 1680, the younger George Downing joined his father as a Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer, holding that...
1684	Simon Clifford
1685				Francis Villiers
January 1689	Thomas Howard Thomas Howard (1651-1701) Thomas Howard was the only surviving son of Sir Robert Howard of Ashtead, Surrey.He served as a Teller of the Exchequer from 1689 until his death, a post that provided him with a house at Westminster. He was Member of Parliament for Castle Rising from 1685 to 1689 and from 1698 until his death,...
April 1689		Henry Maynard
1693			Henry Carew
February 1694				John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge
October 1694		Guy Palmes Guy Palmes Sir Guy Palmes was MP for Rutland, High Sheriff of Yorkshire and Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire.- Early life :Palmes lived at Lindley, now part of Huddersfield, and at Ashwell, Rutland and married Anne, the daughter of Sir Edward Stafford....
1699			Francis Godolphin Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, PC was a British politician, styled Viscount Rialton between 1706 and 1712.-Biography:...
1701	Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet of Grange Gorman, Co. Dublin was an Irish politician.He was born in Tickencor, Co Waterford, the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Dublin, and his wife, Jane Borrowes and educated at Trnity College, Dublin....
29 June 1702	James Vernon James Vernon James Vernon was an English politician and Secretary of State for both the Northern and the Southern Departments during the reign of William III.-Origins and education:...
30 June 1702		Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet
May 1704			Thomas Coke Thomas Coke (privy counsellor) Thomas Coke was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1698 and 1715.Coke was the son of John Coke and his wife Mary Leventhorpe, daughter of Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, 4th Baronet. He was born at Melbourne, Derbyshire where he was baptised on 19 February 1675....
September 1704		Francis Robartes Francis Robartes Francis Robartes FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1673 and 1718....
1706			Peregrine Bertie Peregrine Bertie (junior) Peregrine Bertie DL was a British politician, the second son of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey.Educated at the Middle Temple in 1679, Bertie first entered the House of Commons in 1685 in Boston, alongside his brother, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, and generally inclined towards the Tories...
13 October 1710	John Smith John Smith (Chancellor of the Exchequer) John Smith was an English politician, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.Smith's father was also called John Smith and he had a sister called Anne, who became Lady Dashwood. He was educated St John's College, Oxford, was at the Middle Temple and was first elected a Member of Parliament...
31 October 1710		Russell Robartes
1711			George Hay, Viscount Dupplin George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull was a British peer and diplomat.He was the son of Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull....
July 1712	Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel of Margam PC , sometimes referred to as Thomas Mansell, was a Welsh peer and Member of Parliament for Cardiff and Glamorgan.-Personal history:...
December 1712				vacant
1713				Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, 3rd Earl of Desmond was a British peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Viscount Feilding from 1675 to 1685....
6 November 1714	John Smith John Smith (Chancellor of the Exchequer) John Smith was an English politician, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.Smith's father was also called John Smith and he had a sister called Anne, who became Lady Dashwood. He was educated St John's College, Oxford, was at the Middle Temple and was first elected a Member of Parliament...	John West, 6th Baron De La Warr
January 1715			Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet -Life:Mostyn was born on 31 July 1673. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 2nd Baronet, of Mostyn in Flintshire, north Wales, and inherited the title on the death of his father in 1692. He attended the University of Oxford, matriculating from Jesus College in 1690. He was elected as MP...
7 November 1715		Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow PC was a British Whig Member of Parliament, known as Sir Richard Onslow, 2nd Baronet from 1688 until 1716. He served as the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1708 until 1710 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1714 until 1715...		Lord William Powlett Lord William Powlett Lord William Powlett was the younger son of Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton. He served as Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1689 until 1710, for Lymington from 1710 until 1715, and again for Winchester from 1715 until his death...
1716			Richard Hampden Richard Hampden (1674-1728) Richard Hampden PC was an English politician, the son of John Hampden.He sat for Wendover from 1701 to 1708, 1713 to 1714 and 1722 to 1728, and Buckinghamshire from 1708 to 1710, 1715 to 1722, and 1727 to 1728. In 1718, he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Treasurer of the Navy, an...
21 March 1718		Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington PC , styled The Honourable from 1675 until 1716, was an English peer, barrister and Whig politician.-Background:...	Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow commissioned the building of Clandon Park in the 1730s.He became 2nd Baron Onslow on the death of his father, Richard Onslow, in 1717...
1719		George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, FRS was an English peer and astronomer.Styled Viscount Parker from 1721 to 1732, he was Member of Parliament for Wallingford from 1722 to 1727, but his interests were not in politics...
October 1723	vacant
1724	George Treby
1727	Thomas Townshend Thomas Townshend (MP) The Honourable Thomas Townshend was a long-standing British Member of Parliament.Townshend was the second son of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, from his first marriage to the Hon. Elizabeth Pelham...
1729				Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet
1738				Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke FRS , and eldest son of the 1st earl, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.In 1741 he became a fellow of the Royal Society...
1741			Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole
1757			James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave KG PC FRS was a British statesman.The eldest son of the 1st Earl Waldegrave, Waldegrave was educated at Westminster and Eton and he inherited his father's titles in 1741...
April 1763			Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington was a British politician.He was elected a Member of Parliament for Hampshire on 30 March 1768, and sat until succeeding as Earl of Northington on 14 January 1772, when he moved to the House of Lords. He was made a Knight of the Thistle on 18 August 1773...
May 1763		George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, KG, PC was a British statesman. He was the second son of George Grenville and a brother of the 1st Baron Grenville.-Career:...
1766	John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden
July 1786			Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow PC, KC was a British lawyer and Tory politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers.- Early life:...
August 1786				Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst PC, KC , known as the Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, was a British lawyer and politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1771 to 1778.-Background and education:...
1794				vacant
1806			Hon. William Eden William Frederick Elliot Eden William Frederick Elliot Eden was a British soldier, politician and Member of Parliament, serving as Teller of the Exchequer.-Life:...
1810			Charles Philip Yorke Charles Philip Yorke Charles Philip Yorke PC, FRS, FSA , was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804.-Background:...
1813		Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval (junior) Spencer Perceval was a British Member of Parliament, the eldest son of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval and Jane Wilson....
April 1834			Charles William Manningham