First Lord of the Treasury that office; in this case, the Second Lord of the Treasury usually served as Chancellor. As of 1841, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has always been Second Lord of the Treasury when he was not also Prime Minister. By convention, the other Lords Commissioners of the Treasury are also Government Whips in the House of Commons. 10 Downing Street is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, and not of the Prime Minister. Chequers, a country house in Buckinghamshire, is the official country residence of the Prime Minister, used as a weekend and holiday home, although the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury Robert Walpole as the inaugural holder), it has been typical for the incumbent to assume also the position of First Lord of the Treasury. None of the other Lords of the Treasury work for the Treasury in a substantive sense. Rather they are government whips, given nominal positions in the Treasury to enable them to be suitably remunerated as members of Her Majesty's Government. The flexibility of the Commission of the Lord High Treasurer is suitably flexible for the government's whip operation because there are no fixed number of spaces on the Commission. Ironically however the Chief Whip himself is