| Post: | Financial Secretary |
| Body: | Ceylon |
| Member Of: | the Board of Ministers |
| Appointer: | Governor of British Ceylon |
| Constituting Instrument: | Donoughmore Constitution |
| Formation: | 1809 |
| First: | Robert Boyd (as Treasurer of Ceylon) |
| Last: | Oliver Goonetilleke |
| Abolished: | 1947 |
| Succession: | Minister of Finance |
| Deputy: | Deputy Financial Secretary |
The Financial Secretary of Ceylon was an officer of the Ceylonese Government and member of the Board of Ministers. The Treasurer of Ceylon was one of six offices that held a seat in the Executive Council of Ceylon from 1809 to 1932.[1] The post was replaced by the that of Financial Secretary in 1932, as one of three officers of state of the new Board of Ministers that replaced the Executive Council under recommendations of the Donoughmore Commission.[2] [3] The Financial Secretary was in turn replaced by the new office of the Minister of Finance in 1947 under the recommendations of the Soulbury Commission under the Ceylon Independence Act, 1947 and The Ceylon (Constitution and Independence) Orders in Council 1947.[4]
Data based on:
| Treasurer | Took office | Left office | Appointed by | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treasurer of Ceylon (1809-1931) | |||||
| 1 | 1809 | 1812 | Thomas Maitland | ||
| 2 | 1812 | 1816 | Robert Brownrigg | ||
| 3 | 1816 | 1822 | |||
| 4 | 1822 | 1823 | Edward Paget | ||
| 5 | 1823 | 1824 | James Campbell | ||
| 6 | 1824 | 1828 | Edward Barnes | ||
| 7 | 1 May 1828 | 1841 | |||
| 8 | 1 February 1841 | 31 October 1843 | James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie | ||
| 9 | 1 November 1843 | 22 October 1854 | Colin Campbell | ||
| 10 | 1848 | George Byng | |||
| 11 | 23 October 1854 | 1861 | George William Anderson | ||
| 12 | 5 May 1861 | 1865 | Charles Justin MacCarthy | ||
| 13 | 1 September 1865 | 1882 | Hercules Robinson | ||
| 14 | 22 June 1882 | 5 August 1886 | James Robert Longden | ||
| 15 | 6 August 1886 | 1890 | Arthur Hamilton-Gordon | ||
| 16 | 18 October 1890 | 1899 | Arthur Havelock | ||
| 17 | 1 April 1899 | 4 December 1899 | Joseph West Ridgeway | ||
| 18 | 23 February 1900 | 1901 | |||
| 19 | 11 June 1901 | 1904 | |||
| 20 | 6 September 1904 | 11 December 1908 | Henry Arthur Blake | ||
| 21 | 12 December 1908 | 1922 | Henry McCallum | ||
| 22 | 22 February 1922 | 1931 | William Manning | ||
| Financial Secretary of Ceylon (1932-1947) | |||||
| 23 | 1932 | 1936 | Graeme Thomson | ||
| 24 | 1936 | 1946 | Edward Stubbs | ||
| 25 | 1946 | 1947 | Henry Monck-Mason Moore |