100 years of Chancellors

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There have been 19 Chancellors of the Exchequer since the end of the second world war in 1945.

The longest serving of these was Gordon Brown, who delivered 11 Budget speeches between 1997 and 2007.

Here are the Chancellors since 1945 and the years in which they delivered the Budget:

1946 - 1947 Hugh Dalton

1948 - 1950 Stafford Cripps

1951 Hugh Gaitskell

1952 - 1955 Richard Butler

1956 Harold MacMillan

1957 Peter Thornycroft

1958 - 1960 Derick Heathcoat-Amory

1961 - 1962 John Selwyn-Lloyd

1963 -1964 Reginald Maudling

1965 - 1967 James Callaghan

1968 - 1970 Roy Jenkins

1971 - 1973 Anthony Barber

1974 - 1978 Dennis Healey

1979 - 1983 Geoffrey Howe

1984 - 1989 Nigel Lawson

1990 John Major

1991 - 1993 Norman Lamont

1994 - 1996 Kenneth Clarke

1997 - 2007 Gordon Brown