Chancellor of the Exchequer when James Callaghan was the first chancellor to break with tradition when he used a newer box. Prior to Gladstone, a generic red Despatch Box of varying design and specification was used. The practice is said to have begun in the late 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth I's representative Francis Throckmorton presented the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, with a specially constructed red briefcase filled with black puddings. In July 1997, Gordon Brown became the second chancellor to use a new box for the Budget. Made by industrial trainees at Babcock Rosyth Defence Ltd ship and submarine dockyard in Fife,
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