Jun. clerk, treasury 1798 – 99, under clerk of revenue 1799 – 1805, asst. clerk 1805 – 11; priv. sec. to Nicholas Vansittart* as sec. to treasury 1801 – 04, to Spencer Perceval* as chan. of exchequer 1807–9 and first ld. of treasury 1809–11, to William Wellesley Pole* as chan. of exchequer [I] July – Oct. 1811; registrar and sec. to Order of Bath 1809 – 22; commissary-in-chief 1811 – 16; auditor of civil list 1816 – 23; revenue commr. [I] 1821; sec. to treasury Feb. 1823 – Sept. 1827; PC 17 Aug. 1827; chan. of exch. Sept. 1827 – Jan. 1828; master of mint Feb. 1828 – Nov. 1830; pres. bd. of trade Feb. – Nov. 1830; sec. at war Dec. 1834 – Apr. 1835; metropolitan improvement commr. 1842 – 51; pres. bd. of control Feb. – Dec. 1852.
Cornet London and Westminster light horse vols. 1803, lt. 1804, capt. 1809.
See Mem. of Public Life of John Charles Herries by his son Edward (1880), a reply to slurs which was ‘not intended for a complete biography’ (Intro. p. 8), and Oxford DNB.
HERRIES, John Charles (1778-1855)