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	Office-Holders: Paymaster of Forces
		The office of Paymaster of the Forces was abolished in 1836.
		Paymaster of the Forces Abroad 1702 - 14
		From 1702 to 1714 there was a distinct Paymaster of the Forces Abroad, appointed in the same manner as the Paymaster, with a salary of 10 shillings a day.
	www.history.ac.uk /office/paymaster.html (905 words)

	WILLIAM BLOUNT
		Although a regimental paymaster was not a commissioned officer with command responsibility on the battlefield, Blount served under a warrant on the regimental staff and drew the same pay and allowances as a captain.
		For the next three years he remained intimately involved in the demanding task of recruiting and reequipping forces to be used in support both of Washington's main army in the north and of separate military operations in defense of the southern tier of states.
		Once again the state was forced to join its neighbors in the difficult task of raising new units, this time to counter a force of British, Hessian, and Loyalist troops under General Charles Cornwallis.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/blount.htm (1778 words)

	Paymaster > Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Paymaster's believes that the Governments personal account model can be made to work and that the 0.3% annual management charge is achievable
		Paymaster is one of the largest providers of outsourced financial services in the UK, covering pensions administration, pensions payroll and annuity services.
		Paymaster is a major provider of pensions administration and payroll services for some of the largest schemes in the UK.
	www.paymaster.co.uk (207 words)

	PRO Records Information Leaflet No. 123 - British Army Pension Records
		The origins of the Paymaster General of the Forces can be found in the Treasurers of War of the parliamentary army, of which there were two from 1649 onwards.
		Charles II appointed the Paymaster General of the Forces as receiver general and treasurer of the monies raised.
		The Paymaster General's duties, originally confined to the pay and pensions of the armed services, were extended to cover the payment of retired pay and pensions to officers of the Armed services and their widows and dependants and pensions bourne on the Consolidated Fund.
	barns.ill.fr /hewat/ri123.htm (5904 words)

	Henry Balnaves
		He took no part in the murder of Beton, but was one of the most active defenders of the castle of St. Andrews.
		He was made English paymaster of the forces in St. Andrews.
		When that castle surrendered to the French in July Balnaves was taken prisoner to Rouen.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Henry_Balnaves.html (590 words)

	Paymaster safe
		This paymaster’s safe was used by David Gribben during his service in the United States Army.
		Gribben was appointed from New York as a major, and paymaster, and volunteered on October 20, 1864.
		The safe, consisting of green painted metal panels with handles on either side and a large, heavy lock at the top, was manufactured by Herring and Company, New York.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /soldiering_paymaster_safe.html (71 words)

	Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The accession of George I (1714) returned the Whigs to power, and Walpole served variously as paymaster of the forces, first lord of the treasury, and chancellor of the exchequer (1715) under his brother-in-law, Viscount Townshend, and James Stanhope (later 1st Earl Stanhope).
		In 1739, however, the war party forced him into the War of Jenkins’s Ear (1739–41; see Jenkins’s Ear, War of), which in turn involved Britain in a general European war (see Austrian Succession, War of the).
		Military reverses increased the opposition, and Walpole was forced to resign in 1742.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wa/WalpoleR.html (765 words)

	Denbury Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Paymaster has a communications centre to enable them to deal with your enquiry as quickly as possible.
		If you still receive Children's Forces Family Pension, either in your own right or on behalf of a child over age 17, you must let Paymaster know immediately if that child prematurely leaves the original course of full time education for which the benifit was authorised.
		Sometimes Paymaster is asked by charitable, commercial or other organisations to forward details of their services to pensioners.
	www.denburydays.co.uk /pension.htm (1018 words)

	Paymaster-General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the post is a Treasury minister, the HM Revenue and Customs department is bureaucratically separate from the Treasury.
		The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the positions of Paymaster of the Forces, Treasurer of the Navy, Paymaster and Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital and Treasurer of the Ordnance.
		From 1848 to 1868, the post was held concurrently with that of Vice-President of the Board of Trade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paymaster-General (179 words)

	Presidio La Bahia - The Angel Of Goliad
		She is often referred to as the wife of Captain Telesforo Alavéz who was commander of Mexican Centralista forces in the Copano and Victoria region under Gen.
		As paymaster of the army, Captain Alavez was one of the few officers in position to be encumbered by a family.
		In the Texan Campaign, "He assisted in the action of Puerto de Copano, in March, 1836, and performed the duties of Paymaster of the forces." As of December 31, 1837, he was rated as thirty-four years of age, married, and a resident of Toluca.
	www.presidiolabahia.org /angel_of_goliad.htm (5044 words)

	Paymaster of the Forces: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Paymaster of the Forces was a British government position.
		It was occasionally a cabinet-level post in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and many future prime ministers served as Paymaster.
		The office was responsible for part of the financing of the army.
	www.encyclopedian.com /pa/Paymaster.html (182 words)

	Citizen Smash - The Indepundit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AMERICAN FORCES IN IRAQ captured one Ba'athist leader Wednesday and are closing in on another, AP reports.
		U.S. forces moved a step closer to the most wanted man in Saddam Hussein's regime Wednesday, detaining his four nephews in a pre-dawn raid and capturing another top fugitive thought to be a paymaster in the anti-U.S. insurgency.
		U.S. officials have described al-Muhammad, a former regional party leader in Karbala, as the paymaster for insurgent forces in Anbar, Iraq's largest province which includes such hotspots as Fallujah and Ramadi.
	www.lt-smash.us /archives/002528.html (292 words)

	Index Ca-Ce
		The major part of the armed forces were engaged in policing the colonies and fighting guerrilla wars at an enormous cost to the nation.
		Forces generated by mistakes made before his time proved to be the undoing of this talented and intelligent man, who was also known for his paintings and oceanographical studies.
		De Gaulle gave him the command of the French forces in the Syrian campaign in 1941 and he was delegate-general of Syria and Lebanon in 1941-43 where his tact and negotiating ability took some of the edge off quarrels between the British and Free French.
	www.rulers.org /indexc1.html (18895 words)

	The Eve of the Revolution: Chapter Two
		Grosvenor Bedford's was not of the best; and on any consideration of the matter from the point of view of revenue only, Grenville might well have turned his attention to a different class of officials; for example, to the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, Mr.
		Rigby, who was also Paymaster of the Forces, and to whose credit there stood at the Bank of England, as Mr.
		A good man of business, called upon to manage the King's affairs, was likely to find many obstacles in the way of depriving the Paymaster of the Forces of his customary sources of income, and Mr.
	www.historycarper.com /resources/teotr/chap2.htm (4416 words)

	Frederick, Lord North (1732 -- 1792) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		North was appointed Joint Paymaster of the Forces in Chatham's ministry and became a Privy Counsellor in 1766.
		Lord North also faced problems in Ireland, being forced to implement measures to relax restrictions on Irish trade in 1779.
		North was threatened by the mob during the Gordon Riots of 1780 and finally he was allowed by the king to resign office in March 1782.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/history/pms/north.html (899 words)

	WALPOLE, Robert @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
		Paymaster of the Forces (Oct 1714 - 1715, Jun 1720 - 1721)
		He then took advantage of party divisions to oppose the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts (1718) and went on to defeat the Peerage Bill in the Commons (1719).
		In 1720 he rejoined the government as Paymaster of the Forces.
	www.archontology.org /nations/uk/bpm/walpole.php (599 words)

	Robert Walpole Summary
		His administrative skills having been noticed, Walpole was promoted by Lord Godolphin (the Lord High Treasurer and leader of the Cabinet) to the position of Secretary at War in 1708; for a short period of time in 1710, he also simultaneously held the post of Treasurer of the Navy.
		Robert Walpole became a Privy Councillor and rose to the position of Paymaster of the Forces in a Cabinet nominally led by Lord Halifax, but actually dominated by Lord Townshend (Walpole's brother-in-law) and James Stanhope.
		This defeat led Lord Stanhope and Lord Sunderland to reconcile with their opponents; Walpole returned to the Cabinet as Paymaster of the Forces, and Townshend was appointed Lord President of the Council.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Walpole (5045 words)

	Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In India, 1834-38, as a member of the supreme council of the East India Company he reformed the Indian educational system and composed a legal code for the colony.
		On his return to England, Macaulay devoted himself to writing history, but returned to public office as secretary of war (1839-41), paymaster of the forces (1846-47), and member of Parliament (1839-47, 1852-56).
		In 1857 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-macaulayt.html (372 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Edmund Burke: On Taste
		American affairs continued to engage the attention of Parliament, and throughout the struggle with the colonies Burke's voice was constantly raised on behalf of a policy of conciliation.
		With the aid of his disciple, C. Fox, he forced the retirement of Lord North, and when the Whigs came into power in 1782 he was made paymaster of the forces.
		The excellence and force of a composition must always be imperfectly estimated from its effect on the minds of any, except we know the temper and character of those minds.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1756burke-taste.html (3036 words)

	Burke, Edmund. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		At a time when political allegiances were based largely on family connections and patronage and political opposition was generally regarded as factionalism, Burke, in his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), became the first political philosopher to argue the value of political parties.
		He called for a limitation of crown patronage (so-called economical reform) and as paymaster of the forces (1782–83) in the second Rockingham ministry was able to enact some of his proposals.
		He was also interested in reform of the East India Company and drafted the East India Bill presented (1783) by Charles James Fox.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Burke-Ed.html (619 words)

	The Rise and Fall of James Brydges, Duke of Chandos
		He rose by force of personality, administrative ability and the favor of the Duke of Marlborough to become Paymaster of the Forces Abroad during the War of the Spanish Succession.
		The Paymaster was able to speculate with the monies he received, and by the time he left the post in 1713 Brydges had accumulated a fortune estimated at £600,000, a sum having in the year 1713 the same purchasing power as £58 million, or $95 million today.
		When the South Sea Company had been set up in 1711, it was granted a monopoly on trade with all Spanish territories, South America and the west coast of North America.
	www.baroquemusic.org /chandos.html (1298 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Britain pays wages of thousands of demobbed Iraqi soldiers
		The decision to pay the soldiers is motivated partly by humanitarian concern for thousands of families but there is also the unspoken desire to reduce the threat of the Shi'ite population in the south taking up weapons against British soldiers as some Sunnis have done against US forces.
		The British forces are wary of the "de-Ba'athification order", saying that if interpreted too strictly many Iraqis could, in Brig Bradshaw's words, "become embittered against coalition forces".
		A major with the Desert Rats has become southern Iraq's chief paymaster, after UK forces secured the vaults of the central bank in Basra and moved large amounts of money to a secure military base before looters could reach it.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/18/wirq18.xml (528 words)

	Maxims And Reflections Of Burke; preface
		Though Burke was forced from the seat in 1780 his hustings speeches at Bristol have ever since been the classic pronouncement on the duty of the representative.
		Of an age of great statesmen, and of the many who filled greater positions, Burke almost alone survives as a living force to this generation Chatham, Pitt, Fox, North, and many others, have left their record of mighty or momentous deeds in our national biography and history.
		Yet this pre-eminent statesman was never in the Cabinet, and never occupied an official station higher than that of Paymaster of the Forces.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/burkee/maxims/preface.htm (1259 words)

	ongoing · Iraq: Blame it on Lawrence's Bosses
		Lawrence was sent on a mission to evaluate Hussain's sons as alternative leaders, and it became obvious that Faisal, the fellow in the picture, had charisma, brains, energy, and integrity, and he was selected as the recipient of British largesse.
		Lawrence attached himself to Feisal's forces as paymaster, assistant evangelist, and explosives expert.
		The combination of decent British generalship, Feisal's charisma, and Lawrence's co-ordination turned out to be a winner, and the British and Arab forces, after the daring guerilla capture of Aqaba, rolled through Jerusalem, Damascus, and by late 1918 were pushing at the borders of Turkey.
	www.tbray.org /ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/05/Lawrence (945 words)

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		Correspondence from Jonathan Trumbull's term as Paymaster of the forces for the New York department, including letters to and from Elisha Phelps, Alexander McDougall, John Winslow, Jed Huntington, Roger Sherman, and David Trumbull.
		Correspondence from Jonathan Trumbull's term as Paymaster of the forces for the New York department and Comptroller of the U.S. treasury, including letters to and from Charles Thompson, John Winslow, Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., David Trumbull, John Pierce, Roger Sherman, and Sam Huntington.
		Series consists of receipts, accounts, and bills, most of which were created during Trumbull's time as Paymaster for the New York forces and Comptroller for the U.S. Treasury.
	www.chs.org /library/ead/htm_faids/trumj1809.htm (1469 words)

	RBS: Our Online Archive Guide - John and Henry Drummond
		Title: Records of John and Henry Drummond, as Contractors to the Treasury as Paymaster to His Majesty’s Forces in North America, 1767-83.
		The supply and payment of men was at first effected by the commander-in-chief drawing bills of exchange directly upon the paymaster general in England.
		These monies were converted into Spanish and Portuguese coin and paid over, as called for, to the deputy paymasters in the colonies.
	www.tribwatch.com /DrumRoyalBank.htm (526 words)

	Cobden, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, Vol. I, Free Trade, Speech 4: Library of Economics ...
		Baronet the Paymaster of the Forces (Sir E. Knatchbull), and of the hon.
		And this proposition rests on more than the admission of the Paymaster of the Forces, or of the hon.
		Baronet very near him—I mean the Paymaster of the Forces (Sir E. Knatchbull).
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Cobden/cbdSPP4.html (5339 words)

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