The position of Treasurer of the Household is theoretically held by a household official of the British monarch, under control of the Lord Steward's Department, but is, in fact, a political office held by one of the government's majority whips.

Treasurers of the Household, 1500-present

  • Sir Thomas Lovell 1500-1521
  • Sir Thomas Boleyn 1521-1536
  • Sir William Fitzwilliam 1537-1538
  • Sir William Paulet 1538-1541
  • Sir Thomas Cheney 1541-1553
  • vacant 1553-1560
  • Sir Thomas Parry 1560-?
  • Sir Edward Montagu ?-1586
  • Sir Francis Knollys 1586-1597
  • Roger North, Lord North 1597-1601
  • Sir William Knollys 1601-1616
  • Edward Wotton, Lord Wotton 1616-1618
  • Sir Thomas Edmonds 1618-1639
  • Sir Henry Vane 1639-1641
  • Thomas Savile, Viscount Savile 1641-1649
  • Sir Frederick Cornwallis 1660-1663
  • Charles Fitz-Harding, Viscount Fitz-Harding 1663-1668
  • Sir Thomas Clifford 1668-1672
  • Francis Newport, Lord Newport 1672-1686
  • William, Earl of Yarmouth 1686-1689
  • Francis Newport, Earl of Bradford 1689-1708
  • Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley 1708-1712
  • George, Earl Lansdowne 1712-1714
  • Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley 1714-1725
  • Paul Methuen 1725-1730
  • Robert Bingley, Lord Bingley 1730-1731
  • John West, Lord De La Warr 1731-1737
  • Benjamin, Earl Fitzwalter 1737-1755
  • John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton 1755-1756
  • John, Viscount Bateman 1756-1757
  • Percy, Earl of Thoomond 1757-1761
  • Henry Arthur Herbert, Earl of Powis 1761-1765
  • George Edgcumbe, Lord Edgcumbe 1765-1766
  • John Shelly 1766-1777
  • Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle 1777-1779
  • George Onslow, Lord Osnlow 1779-1780
  • James Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 1780-1782
  • Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham 1782-1783
  • Charles Greville 1783-1784
  • James, Earl of Courtown 1784-1793
  • James George, Viscount Stopford 1793-1806
  • Charles Augustus, Lord Ossulston 1806-1807
  • James George, Viscount Stopford 1807-1812
  • Robert, Viscount Jocelyn 1812
  • Lord William Charles Cavendish Bentinck 1812-1826
  • Sir William Henry Fremantle 1826-1837
  • Henry Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey 1837-1841
  • George Stevens Byng 1841
  • Frederick William, Earl Jermyn 1841-1846
  • Lord Robert Grosvenor 1846-1847
  • Lord Arthur Hill 1847-1852
  • Lord Claude Hamilton 1852
  • George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave 1853-1858
  • Lord Claude Hamilton 1858-1859
  • William Coutts Keppel, Viscount Bury 1859-1866
  • Lord Otho Fitzgerald 1866
  • William Alleyne Cecil, Lord Burghley 1866-1867
  • Percy Herbert 1867-1868
  • George, Lord de Tabley 1868-1872
  • Augustus Frederick George Warwick, Lord Poltimore 1872-1874
  • William John Monson, Lord Monson 1874
  • Henry George Percy, Earl Percy 1874-1875
  • Lord Henry Frederick Thynne 1875-1880
  • Gavin Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane 1880-1885
  • William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone 1885-1886
  • Victor Alexander Bruce, Earl of Elgin 1886
  • William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone 1886-1892(?)
  • incomplete