<P> The Governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England . It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent grooming his or her successor . The Governor of the Bank of England is also Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee, with a major role in guiding national economic and monetary policy, and is therefore one of the most important public officials in the United Kingdom . </P> <P> According to the original charter of 27 July 1694 the bank's affairs would be supervised by a Governor, a Deputy Governor, and 24 directors . </P> <P> The 120th and current Governor is the Canadian Mark Carney, appointed in 2013 . He is the first non-Briton to be appointed to the post, but made a commitment to the Prime Minister to take up British citizenship . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> In office </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir John Houblon </Td> <Td> 1694--1697 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir William Scawen </Td> <Td> 1697--1699 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Nathaniel Tench </Td> <Td> 1699--1701 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Ward </Td> <Td> 1701--1703 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Abraham Houblon </Td> <Td> 1703--1705 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir James Bateman </Td> <Td> 1705--1707 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Francis Eyles </Td> <Td> 1707--1709 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Gilbert Heathcote </Td> <Td> 1709--1711 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Nathaniel Gould </Td> <Td> 1711--1713 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Rudge </Td> <Td> 1713--1715 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Peter Delme </Td> <Td> 1715--1717 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Gerard Conyers </Td> <Td> 1717--1719 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Hanger </Td> <Td> 1719--1721 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Thomas Scawen </Td> <Td> 1721--1723 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Gilbert Heathcote </Td> <Td> 1723--1725 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Thompson </Td> <Td> 1725--1727 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Humphry Morice </Td> <Td> 1727--1729 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel Holden </Td> <Td> 1729--1731 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Edward Bellamy </Td> <Td> 1731--1733 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Horatio Townshend </Td> <Td> 1733--1735 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Bryan Benson </Td> <Td> 1735--1737 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Thomas Cooke </Td> <Td> 1737--1740 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Delillers Carbonnel </Td> <Td> 1740--1741 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Stamp Brooksbank </Td> <Td> 1741--1743 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Fawkener </Td> <Td> 1743--1745 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Charles Savage </Td> <Td> 1745--1747 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Benjamin Longuet </Td> <Td> 1747--1749 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Hunt </Td> <Td> 1749--1752 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Alexander Sheafe </Td> <Td> 1752--1754 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Charles Palmer </Td> <Td> 1754--1756 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Matthews Beachcroft </Td> <Td> 1756--1758 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Merrick Burrell </Td> <Td> 1758--1760 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Bartholomew Burton </Td> <Td> 1760--1762 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Robert Marsh </Td> <Td> 1762--1764 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Weyland </Td> <Td> 1764--1766 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Matthew Clarmont </Td> <Td> 1766--1769 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Cooper </Td> <Td> 1769--1771 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Edward Payne </Td> <Td> 1771--1773 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> James Sperling </Td> <Td> 1773--1775 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel Beachcroft </Td> <Td> 1775--1777 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Peter Gaussen </Td> <Td> 1777--1779 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Daniel Booth </Td> <Td> 1779--1781 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Ewer </Td> <Td> 1781--1783 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Richard Neave </Td> <Td> 1783--1785 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> George Peters </Td> <Td> 1785--1787 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Edward Darell </Td> <Td> 1787--1789 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mark Weyland </Td> <Td> 1789--1791 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel Bosanquet </Td> <Td> 1791--1793 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Godfrey Thornton </Td> <Td> 1793--1795 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Daniel Giles </Td> <Td> 1795--1797 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Thomas Raikes </Td> <Td> 1797--1799 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel Thornton </Td> <Td> 1799--1801 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Job Mathew Raikes </Td> <Td> 1801--1802 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Joseph Nutt </Td> <Td> 1802--1804 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Benjamin Winthrop </Td> <Td> 1804--1806 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Beeston Long </Td> <Td> 1806--1808 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Whitmore </Td> <Td> 1808--1810 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Pearse </Td> <Td> 1810--1812 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Manning </Td> <Td> 1812--1814 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Mellish </Td> <Td> 1814--1816 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Jeremiah Harman </Td> <Td> 1816--1818 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> George Dorrien </Td> <Td> 1818--1820 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Charles Pole </Td> <Td> 1820--1822 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Bowden </Td> <Td> 1822--1824 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Cornelius Buller </Td> <Td> 1824--1826 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Baker Richards </Td> <Td> 1826--1828 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel Drewe </Td> <Td> 1828--1830 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Horsley Palmer </Td> <Td> 1830--1833 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Richard Mee Raikes </Td> <Td> 1833--1834 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> James Pattison </Td> <Td> 1834--1837 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Timothy Abraham Curtis </Td> <Td> 1837--1839 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir John Reid </Td> <Td> 1839--1841 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir John Pelly </Td> <Td> 1841--1842 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Cotton </Td> <Td> 1842--1845 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Benjamin Heath </Td> <Td> 1845--1847 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Robinson </Td> <Td> April--August 1847 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> James Morris </Td> <Td> 1847--1849 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Henry James Prescot </Td> <Td> 1849--1851 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Thomson Hankey </Td> <Td> 1851--1853 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Hubbard </Td> <Td> 1853--1855 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Thomas Matthias Weguelin </Td> <Td> 1855--1857 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sheffield Neave </Td> <Td> 1857--1859 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Bonamy Dobrée </Td> <Td> 1859--1861 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Alfred Latham </Td> <Td> 1861--1863 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Kirkman Hodgson </Td> <Td> 1863--1865 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Henry Lancelot Holland </Td> <Td> 1865--1867 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Thomas Newman Hunt </Td> <Td> 1867--1869 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Robert Wigram Crawford </Td> <Td> 1869--1871 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> George Lyall </Td> <Td> 1871--1873 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Benjamin Buck Greene </Td> <Td> 1873--1875 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Hucks Gibbs </Td> <Td> 1875--1877 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Edward Howley Palmer </Td> <Td> 1877--1879 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John William Birch </Td> <Td> 1879--1881 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Henry Grenfell </Td> <Td> 1881--1883 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> John Saunders Gilliat </Td> <Td> 1883--1885 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> James Pattison Currie </Td> <Td> 1885--1887 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mark Collet </Td> <Td> 1887--1889 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Lidderdale </Td> <Td> 1889--1892 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> David Powell </Td> <Td> 1892--1895 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Albert George Sandeman </Td> <Td> 1895--1897 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Hugh Colin Smith </Td> <Td> 1897--1899 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel Steuart Gladstone </Td> <Td> 1899--1901 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Augustus Prevost </Td> <Td> 1901--1903 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel Morley </Td> <Td> 1903--1905 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Alexander Falconer Wallace </Td> <Td> 1905--1907 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Middleton Campbell </Td> <Td> 1907--1909 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Reginald Eden Johnston </Td> <Td> 1909--1911 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Alfred Clayton Cole </Td> <Td> 1911--1913 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Lord Cunliffe </Td> <Td> 1913--1918 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Brien Cokayne </Td> <Td> 1918--1920 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Montagu Norman </Td> <Td> 1920--1944 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Lord Catto </Td> <Td> 1944--1949 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Lord Cobbold </Td> <Td> 1949 - 1961 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Lord Cromer </Td> <Td> 1961--1966 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Leslie O'Brien </Td> <Td> 1966--1973 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Gordon Richardson </Td> <Td> 1973--1983 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Robin Leigh - Pemberton </Td> <Td> 1983--1993 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Edward George </Td> <Td> 1993--2003 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sir Mervyn King </Td> <Td> 2003--2013 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mark Carney </Td> <Td> since July 2013 </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Who has been appointed governor of bank of england