The Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance was a member of the British Board of Ordnance and the deputy of the

Master-General of the Ordnance The Master-General of the Ordnance (MGO) was a very senior British military position from 1415 to 2013 (except 1855–1895 and 1939–1958) with some changes to the name, usually held by a serving general. The Master-General of the Ordnance was ...

. The office was established in 1545, and the holder was appointed by the crown under

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. It was abolished in 1855 when the Board of Ordnance was subsumed into the

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List of Lieutenants-General of the Ordnance

* Sir Francis Fleming 1545–1558 *William Bromfield 1558–1563 * Edward Randolph 1563–1566 * Sir William Pelham 1567–1587 * Sir Robert Constable 1588–1591 * George Carew, 1st Baron Carew 1592–1608 * Sir Roger Dallison 1608–1616 * Sir Richard Moryson 1616–1625 * Sir William Harington 1625–1626 * Sir William Heydon 1626–1627 *

Sir John Heydon Sir John Heydon (died 1653) was an English Royalist military commander and mathematician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance at the outbreak of the First English Civil War. Life The second son of Sir Christopher Heydon, in 1613 he was keeper of ...

1627–1642 *

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1642–1643 (Parliamentarian) * Sir Walter Earle 1644–1648 (Parliamentarian) * Thomas Harrison 1650–1652 (Parliamentarian) * William Legge 1660–1670 * David Walter 1670–1679 * George Legge 1679–1682 * Sir Christopher Musgrave 1682–1687 * Sir Henry Tichborne, Bt 1687–1689 * Sir Henry Goodricke, Bt 1689–1702 *

John Granville, 1st Baron Granville Colonel John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge PC (12 April 1665 – 3 December 1707), styled The Honourable John Granville until 1703, was an English soldier, landowner and politician. Background and education Granville was the secon ...

1702–1705 *

Thomas Erle General Thomas Erle PC (1650 – 23 July 1720) of Charborough, Dorset, was a general in the English Army and, thereafter, the British Army. He was also a Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 16 ...

1705–1712 *

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1712–1714 *

1714–1718 *

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1718 *

Sir Charles Wills General Sir Charles Wills (October 166625 December 1741) was a professional soldier from Cornwall, who was Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and Member of Parliament for Totnes from 1718 to 1741. He began his military career in 1689, serving s ...

1719–1741 *

George Wade Field Marshal George Wade (1673 – 14 March 1748) was a British Army officer who served in the Nine Years' War, War of the Spanish Succession, Jacobite rising of 1715 and War of the Quadruple Alliance before leading the construction of bar ...

1742–1748 * Sir John Ligonier 1748–1757 *

Lord George Sackville George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, PC (26 January 1716 – 26 August 1785), styled The Honourable George Sackville until 1720, Lord George Sackville from 1720 to 1770 and Lord George Germain from 1770 to 1782, was a British soldier and p ...

1757–1759 *

John Manners, Marquess of Granby Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby, (2 January 1721 – 18 October 1770) was a Kingdom of Great Britain, British soldier and the eldest son of the John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, 3rd Duk ...

1759–1763 *

George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, PC (28 February 172414 September 1807), known as The Viscount Townshend from 1764 to 1787, was a British soldier and politician. After serving at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of t ...

1763–1767 *

Henry Seymour Conway Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721 – 9 July 1795) was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession. He ...

1767–1772 *

Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaig ...

1772–1782 *

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB PC (10 August 172912 July 1814) was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American War of Independence. Howe was one of three brot ...

1782–1804 * Sir Thomas Trigge 1804–1814 * Sir Hildebrand Oakes, Bt 1814–1822 *

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1823–1824 *

Sir George Murray Sir George Murray (6 February 1772 – 28 July 1846) was a British soldier and politician from Scotland. Background and education Murray was born in Perth, Scotland, the second son of Sir William Murray, of Ochtertyre, 5th Baronet (see Murra ...

1824–1825 *

Sir William Henry Clinton General Sir William Henry Clinton (23 December 1769 – 15 February 1846) was a British general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as well as the First Miguelist War. He was also the grandson of Admiral George Clinton and elde ...

1825–1829 *

Lord Edward Somerset General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset (19 December 17761 September 1842) was a British soldier who fought during the Peninsular War and the War of the Seventh Coalition. Life Somerset was the third son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beauf ...

1829–1830 *''vacant'' * Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross 1854–1855

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* http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/ordnance-lieutenant in the United Kingdom Senior appointments of the British Army War Office {{UK-gov-stub