Raised in Eastpointe, Douglas A. Brook ( b. 1944 ) was United States Assistant Secretary of the Army ( Financial Management and Comptroller ) from 1990 to 1992 and Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( Financial Management and Comptroller ) from 2007 to 2009.

Howe felt constantly undermined by Charles Middleton, the Comptroller of the Navy.

He was ' bred for the sea ' and served as an officer in various naval ships in the 1630s and commanded HMS Mary Rose before becoming Comptroller of the Navy in 1641.

In 1802 James Meek married Down's daughter and settled in the town, James Meek was appointed the Comptroller of Victuals to the Royal Navy in 1832, he was knighted, and died in Ilfracombe 1852.

In the reorganisation of the Admiralty by Order in Council of 14 January 1869, the Comptroller of the Navy was given a seat on the Board of Admiralty as the Third Naval Lord and Comptroller of the Navy.

In 1869, the post of Storekeeper-General of the Navy was abolished and its duties merged into those of the Comptroller of the Navy.

* 2002-2003 Richard Greco, Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( Financial Management and Comptroller ) 2004-06

Even in the digital age, public servants tend to work with both paper documents and computer files ( pictured here is Stephen C. Dunn, Deputy Comptroller for the US Navy )

In 1775, at the outbreak of the American War of Independence, Middleton was given a guardship at the Nore, a Royal Navy anchorage in the Thames Estuary, and was subsequently appointed Comptroller of the Navy in 1778, a post he held for twelve years.

* Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( Financial Management and Comptroller )

The NHQ function also includes the Judge Advocate General Corps of Navy, and the Comptroller of Civilian Personnel, the Hydrographer of the Navy ( HPN ) of the Hydrographic Corps ; the Engineer-in-Chief of Naval Engineering Corps ( NEC ):

*( US DoD Comptroller ) Navy Working Capital Fund

Petty, formerly the Deputy Comptroller of the U. S. Air Force, was selected as the Director with Mr. Edward T. Cook, formerly Director of Contract Audit for the Navy, selected as the Deputy Director.

Another brother Sir Henry Martin ( 1735-1794 ) was for many years naval commissioner at Portsmouth and Comptroller of the Royal Navy.

In 1770 Commodore Palliser was appointed Comptroller of the Navy, and in that same year was elected an elder brother of the Trinity House, which oversees British lighthouses and provides general expertise to the government on naval matters.

He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( Financial Management and Comptroller ) from 1954 to 1957.

He was Assistant Secretary of the Navy ( Financial Management and Comptroller ) from 1957 to 1959.

Edward's finances had been ably managed by Sir Dighton Probyn, Comptroller of the Household, and had benefited from advice from Edward's Jewish financier friends, such as Ernest Cassel, Maurice de Hirsch and the Rothschild family.

Sir Thomas was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Master of the Wards, and Comptroller to King Henry VIII.

* Accounts of the Comptroller, Sir Duncan Forestar, 1495 – 1499, Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, vol.

Famed Arctic explorer, Admiral Sir William Edward Parry was appointed as Comptroller of Steam Machinery and Packet Service in April 1837.

The development was chiefly the work of Col. ( later Sir ) William Congreve, son of the Comptroller of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, who set on a vigorous research and development programme at the Arsenal's laboratory ; after development work was complete, the rockets were manufactured in quantity further north, near Waltham Abbey, Essex.

* Sir Thomas Parry, Comptroller of the Household to Elizabeth I

His father, Sir John Suckling, was Secretary of State under James I and Comptroller of the Household of Charles I, and his mother was Elizabeth Cranfield, sister of Sir Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex.

The death of Sir William Chambers brought him the post of Surveyor General and Comptroller of the Works in 1796.

Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, sixth son of the fourth Earl, was for many years Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1901.

The main part of the house was extensively enlarged around 1630 by Sir William Pitt, Comptroller of the Household to King James I.

* Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston, GCVO, MC, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's office

He was son of Lt. General Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet, the Comptroller of the Royal Laboratories at the Royal Arsenal and raised in Kent, England.

That Peter had two sons, Sir Peter, the Advocate General for Ireland and Sir Phineas Pett, Master Shipwright at Chatham, who was knighted in 1680, and who was the Comptroller of Stores, and resident Commissioner at Chatham, and who is further to be distinguished from the Commissioner Peter Pett's brother Phineas, a clerk of the check at Chatham.

** Phineas, Sir, Comptroller of His Majesty's Store Accounts, knighted 1680

His eldest son Vesey John Dawson was a Major-General in the Army while his second son Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson was a Brigadier-General in the Army as well as Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department.

But as Monck was practically retired from public life, control of the Treasury commission was taken up by Sir Thomas Clifford ( Comptroller and soon Treasurer of the Household ) and Anthony Ashley Cooper ( Chancellor of the Exchequer ).

When the Liberals came to power in December 1905 under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Elibank was appointed Comptroller of the Household, a post he retained when H. H. Asquith became Prime Minister in April 1908, and then served as Under-Secretary of State for India between 1909 and 1910.

Sir John Richard Pestell, KCVO ( 21 November 1916 – 5 July 2005 ) was Private Secretary and Comptroller to the Governor of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1969.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Andrew Charles Ford, KCVO ( born 5 February 1957 ) is a retired British Army officer, now holding the office of Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, from 6 January 2006.

The third and last Lowther to own the property, another Sir William, died childless before the age of thirty and left the estate to his cousin Lord George Augustus Cavendish, a younger son of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire, who served for a time as Comptroller of the Royal Household, and in his old age became Father of the House of Commons.

He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.

The most notable example of systems analysis was the Planning, Programming and Budgeting System ( PPBS ) instituted by United States Department of Defense Comptroller Charles J. Hitch.

He won a Charles Dick Medal of Merit in 2004 for this initiative, thus becoming the last Marylander to win this award which was previously awarded to U. S. Rep. Beverly Byron ( 1992 ), State Senator John Astle ( 1993 ), U. S. Senator Barbara Mikulski ( 1994 ), U. S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett ( 1998 ) and State Del ( now State Comptroller ) Peter Franchot ( 1999 ).

It was created in 1940 for Charles Kerr, who had previously represented Montrose Burghs in the House of Commons, and served as Chief Whip for the National Liberal Party, a government whip and Comptroller of the Household in the National Government.

He was New York State Comptroller from 1907 to 1908, elected in 1906, but defeated for re-election in 1908 by Republican Charles H. Gaus.

In the 1986 Supreme Court decision Bowsher v. Synar, the Court struck down the law stating, in part, that the provision granting executive power to Comptroller General Charles Arthur Bowsher, a legislative branch officer, did " violate the Constitution's command that Congress play no direct role in the execution of the laws.

On July 17, 1875 the individual members of the Board of Public Works — Governor James Black Groome, Treasurer Barnes Compton, and Comptroller Levin Woolford — filed suits of libel against Charles C. and Albert K. Fulton, proprietors of the Baltimore American, claiming $ 20, 000 each in damages.

One of those who felt so was Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, who thus chose John Vanbrugh, not Talman as his architect for Castle Howard ; ( Vanburgh had also been Talman's replacement as Comptroller of the Royal Works in May 1702.