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 Encyclopedia: Chancellor of the Exchequer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The office should not be confused with that of the Lord High Chancellor or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
The position of Chancellor of the Exchequer is considered one of the four great offices of state.
One of the Chancellor's key roles involves the framing of the annual "Budget", which is revealed in a speech to the House of Commons.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chancellor-of-the-Exchequer   (1224 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When the greatest of these, Lord Godolphin, was ejected from office, five commissioners to the treasury were appointed (August 10, 1710); among them was Harley as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It was the aim of the new chancellor to frame an administration from the moderate members of both parties, and to adopt with but slight changes the policy of his predecessors; but his efforts were doomed to disappointment.
He rearranged the nations finances, and continued to support her generals in the field with ample resources for carrying on the campaign, though his emissaries were in communication with the French king, and were settling the terms of a peace independently of England's allies.
www.ipedia.com /robert_harley__1st_earl_of_oxford_and_mortimer.html   (1564 words)

  
 Canadian Chess
According to him, this was the set his ancestor, General Sir John Hale, "and General Wolfe played with on their way over to the taking of Quebec" in 1759.
Here is John Cleeve's selection of his best game, chosen in an interview with Jonathan Berry that was published in En Passant #100.
Inventor of the Magnus Smith trap in the Sicilian Defence
www.ncf.carleton.ca /~bw998/canchess.html   (7602 words)

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