Chancellor of the Exchequer his duty to distribute as fairly as he can." The chancellor has considerable control over other departments as it is the Treasury which sets Departmental Expenditure Limits. The amount of power this gives to an individual chancellor depends on his personal forcefulness, his status within his party and his relationship with the prime minister. Gordon Brown, who became chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party. Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in the same position throughout his ten years as prime minister; making Brown an unusually
Thomas Fanshawe (remembrancer of the exchequer) Alice, his eldest daughter by the second marriage, married Sir Christopher Hatton, a relative of the Lord Chancellor and favorite of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Christopher Hatton. Thomas Fanshawe's widow was buried at Ware on 30 May 1622. Thomas Fanshawe (remembrancer of the exchequer) Thomas Fanshawe (1533–1601), was a Member of the English Parliament during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He also held the civil service post of Queen's remembrancer of the exchequer. Fanshawe was the eldest son of John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate (near Holmesfield), Derbyshire, where he was born some time in the reign of Henry VIII, and