Her Majesty's Mails

WILLIAM AND MARY. Sir Robert Cotton; Thomas Frankland, Esq. 1690-1708 QUEEN ANNE. Sir Thomas Frankland; Sir John Evelyn 1708-1715 GEORGE I. Lord Cornwallis; James Craggs, Esq. 1715-1720 Edward Carteret, Esq.; Galfridus Walpole 1720-1733 GEORGE II. Edward Carteret, Esq.; Lord Thomas Lovel 1733-1739 Sir John Eyles; Lord Lovel 1739-1744 Lord Lovel alone (now Earl of Leicester) 1744-1759 Earl of Besborough 1759 GEORGE III. Earl of Egmont; Hon. R. Hampden 1762 Lord Hyde; Hon. R. Hampden 1763 Earl of Besborough; Lord Grantham 1765 Earl of Sandwich; Lord de Spencer 1768 Viscount Barrington; Hon. Henry Carteret 1782 Earl of Tankerville; Hon. H. Carteret 1784 Lord Carteret; Lord Walsingham 1787 Lord Walsingham; Earl of Chesterfield 1790 Earl of Chesterfield; Earl of Leicester 1794 Earl of Leicester; Lord Auckland 1798 Lord Auckland; Lord Charles Spencer 1801 Lord Spencer; Duke of Montrose 1804 Earl of Buckinghamshire; Earl of Carysfort 1806 Earl of Chichester alone 1814 Earl of Chichester; Marquis of Salisbury 1816 When the Earl of Salisbury died in 1823, a successor was not appointed, the joint office being abolished, principally through the exertions of the late Marquis of Normanby. [144] See Appendix (A). [145] For further information respecting this and all the other metropolitan offices, see Appendix (D). Extracts from the Revenue Estimates of 1864-5. [146] The closing of the Birmingham old Savings' Bank, for example, must have greatly increased the work of the central office, and this will follow as a consequence if in other large towns the example of Birmingham be followed. [147] Large as this staff undoubtedly is, it would have been larger but for timely changes in the system of keeping accounts. In 1855 the Civil Service Commission suggested various improvements in the organization, which resulted in a decrease of officers attached to some of the branches.