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Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1687)

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Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet

18th-century English Jacobite politician

Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1740. He served as Secretary at War in 1712 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1713 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Queen…
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Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lead minister of His Majesty's Treasury

The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the…
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