[420] Sir Charles Wood, first Viscount of Halifax. Private Secretary to Earl Grey, 1830 to 1832; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1832 to 1834; Secretary to the Admiralty, 1835 to 1839; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1846 to 1852; President of the Board of Control, 1852 to 1855; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1855 to 1858; Secretary of State for India, 1859 to 1866; raised to Peerage as Viscount Halifax in 1866; Lord Privy Seal, 1870 to 1874. [421] _Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure_, 1902; q. 2,516 to 2,605. [422] _Who's Who_, 1905, Fisher, Wm. Hayes, M. P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1902-1903; Junior Lord of the Treasury, and a Ministerial Whip, 1895 to 1902; Hon. Private Secretary to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 1886 to 1887; and to Right Honorable A. J. Balfour, 1887 to 1892. [423] _Who's Who_, 1904, Murray, Sir G. H., Joint Permanent Under Secretary to the Treasury since 1903. Entered the Foreign Office, 1873; transferred to Treasury, 1880; Private Secretary to Right Honorable W. E. Gladstone and to Earl of Rosebery, when Prime Minister; Chairman Board of Inland Revenue, 1897 to 1899; Secretary to the Post Office, 1899 to 1903. [424] _Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure_, 1902; q. 1,631 to 1,673, and 1,730 to 1,732. [425] _Who's Who_, 1904, Knox, Sir Ralph H., entered War Office in 1856; Accountant-General, War Office, 1882 to 1897; Permanent Under Secretary of State for War, 1897 to 1901; a Member of the Committee which worked out Lord Cardwell's Army Reform, and of the Royal Commission on Indian Financial Relations, 1896; Civil Service Superannuations, 1902; and Militia and Volunteers, 1903. [426] _Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure_, 1902; q. 1,567 to 1,569, and 1,823 to 1,825. [427] _Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure_, 1902; q. 2,081 to 2,084. [428] In 1905 Mr. Chalmers was made Assistant Secretary to the Treasury. [429] _Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure_, 1902; q. 615 to 618. [430] _Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure_, 1892; q. 2,406 to 2,419, and 2,502. [431] _Second Report of the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments_, 1888; q. 10,683 to 10,684. [432] _Report from the Select Committee on Post Office_ (_Telegraph Department_), 1876; q. 5,397 to 5,600. [433] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, February 18, 1873, p. 632 and following. [434] _Third Report from the Select Committee on Civil Services Expenditure_, 1873; q. 4,672 to 4,768. CHAPTER XIX CONCLUSION