Clerk of the House of Commons

Clerk of the House of Commons
Under Clerk of the Parliaments
Incumbent
Robert Rogers

since 1 October 2011
Residence Outbuilding, Palace of Westminster
Appointer Elizabeth II
Inaugural holder Robert de Melton
Formation 1363
first permanent appointment

The Clerk of the House of Commons is the chief executive of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and before 1707 of the House of Commons of England. The current Clerk of the House of Commons is Robert Rogers, who succeeded Sir Malcolm Jack KCB on 1 October 2011.[1]

The formal name for the position held by the Clerk of the House of Commons is Under Clerk of the Parliaments.[2] The chief clerk of the House of Lords is the Clerk of the Parliaments.

Until 1 January 2008, when the reforms to the House's governance proposed by the Tebbit Review of management and services of the House were implemented, the Clerk was the head of the Clerk's Department. He remains the principal adviser to the Speaker on the House's privileges and procedures. The Clerk's other responsibilities relate to the conduct of the business of the House and its committees. The Clerk is also accounting officer for the House.

Contents

List of Clerks of the House of Commons

14th century

  • 1363Robert de Melton
  • 1385John de Scardeburgh

15th century

  • 1414Thomas Haseley
  • 1440John Dale
  • 1461Thomas Bayen

16th century

  • 1504Thomas Hylton
  • 1510William Underhill
  • 1515Robert Ormeston
  • 1547John Seymour
  • 1570Fulk Onslow

17th century

  • 1603Ralph Ewens
  • 1611William Pinches
  • 1612John Wright
  • 1639Henry Elsyng the younger
  • 1649Henry Scobell
  • 1658John Smythe
  • 1659John Phelips
  • 1659Thomas St. Nicholas
  • 1660William Jessop
  • 1661William Goldsborough
  • 1678William Goldsborough the Younger
  • 1683Paul Jodrell

18th century

19th century

20th century

  • 1900Sir Archibald Milman KCB
  • 1902Sir Courtenay Ilbert KCB KCSI CIE
  • 1921Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster KCB
  • 1930Sir Horace Dawkins KCB MBE
  • 1937Sir Gilbert Campion GCB
  • 1948Sir Frederic Metcalfe KCB
  • 1954Sir Edward Fellowes KCB CMG MC
  • 1962Sir Barnett Cocks KCB OBE
  • 1974Sir David Lidderdale KCB
  • 1976Sir Richard Barlas KCB OBE
  • 1979Sir Charles Gordon KCB
  • 1983Sir Kenneth Bradshaw KCB
  • 1987Sir Clifford Boulton GCB
  • 1994Sir Donald Limon KCB
  • 1998Sir William McKay KCB

21st century

References

  1. ^ "Clerk of the House and Chief Executive". parliament.uk. 1 October 2011. http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/principal/clerk-commons/. 
  2. ^ Parliamentary Corporate Bodies Act 1992, section 2(2): "The individual who for the time being is by letters patent appointed to the office of the Under Clerk of the Parliaments (and who is customarily referred to as the Clerk of the House of Commons) shall be the Corporate Officer of the Commons."

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