The Controller of Victualling Accounts also called Comptroller of Victualling Accounts[1] was a civilian officer in the Royal Navy who was also a principal member of the Navy Board from 1667 until 1796, he was responsible for examining the accounts of bills made out by the Victualling Board on behalf of the Navy Board.[2] He was based at the Navy Office. He superintended the Office for Examining Victualling Accounts
Office of the Controller of Victualling Accounts | |
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Department of the Admiralty | |
Member of | Navy Board (1667-1796) |
Appointer | Prime Minister Subject to formal approval by the King-in-Council |
Term length | Not fixed |
Inaugural holder | Sir William Penn |
Formation | 1667-1796 |
The post was created in 1667 to relieve the Comptroller of the Navy of one of his original duties, when the Victualling Board was established in 1683 the controller remained responsible for examining all invoices and payments made of the new board until 1796, when the Navy Board was reconstituted: and the post of the three Controllers of Accounts were abolished along with the Clerk of the Acts. In 1832 when the Navy Board was abolished the responsibility for victualling accounts was absorbed by the Office of Comptroller of Victualling and Transports under the Board of Admiralty until 1869 then that office was also abolished the replaced by the Victualling Department.
Comptroller of Storekeepers Accounts Charles. Cornwall.
George Marsh 1722-1800, Commissioner of the Navy https://jjhc.info/marshgeorge1800