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Lord high treasurers

  • Lord High TreasurerThe English Treasury emerged around 1126 during the reign of Henry I. Financial duties separated from the role that became Lord Great Chamberlain.
  • Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of SalisburyRobert Cecil stood barely five feet tall with a spine curved by scoliosis. Queen Elizabeth I called him my pygmy while King James I nicknamed him my little…