- Clerk of the Privy Council (United Kingdom)
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The Clerk of the Privy Council is a civil servant in the government of the United Kingdom. He or she is the most senior civil servant in the Privy Council Office.
The office is less powerful than its Canadian equivalent; unlike the Canadian Clerk of the Privy Council, the British Clerk is not the ex officio head of the Civil Service (these functions are performed by a separate Cabinet Secretary).[1]
Clerks in Ordinary 1540–present
Date One Two Three Four 10 August 1540 William Paget 23 April 1543 John Mason William Honnyng 17 November 1545 William Honnyng vacant 18 December 1545 Sir Thomas Chaloner March 1547 Thomas Smith 10 May 1548 Armagil Wade 20 May 1550 Armagil Wade William Thomas 24 September 1551 Bernard Hampton 12 May 1552 William Thomas Bernard Hampton 19 July 1553 vacant vacant 30 July 1553 Francis Allen William Smith 1567 vacant 29 April 1571 Edmund Tremayne 6 July 1572 Robert Beale 12 October 1576 Sir Thomas Wilkes 7 October 1584 Sir William Wade 2 January 1594 Sir Anthony Ashley 21 April 1598 Sir Thomas Smith 18 June 1601 Sir Thomas Edmondes 25 May 1608 Sir Ralph Winwood John Corbett 7 September 1609 Sir Clement Edmondes 27 November 1609 vacant 22 July 1610 Sir George Calvert 7 December 1611 24 September 1613 Francis Cottington 24 February 1614 William Trumbull February 1619 Albertus Morton 7 November 1622 John Dickenson 11 December 1622 Sir Thomas Meautys 24 January 1623 Sir William Beecher 9 October 1635 Edward Nicholas 26 May 1636 Sir Dudley Carleton 27 January 1641 Richard Browne Date One Two Three Four 14 May 1649 Sir Edward Walker vacant vacant vacant 18 November 1656 Sir George Lane 27 October 1658 Sir John Nicholas 22 June 1660 Sir Richard Browne 23 September 1664 Sir Robert Southwell 24 January 1672 Sir Joseph Williamson 16 September 1674 Sir Philip Lloyd 21 February 1677 Sir Thomas Doleman 5 December 1679 Francis Gwyn 16 January 1685 William Bridgeman Philip Musgrave 6 February 1685 vacant 22 October 1686 William Bridgeman William Blathwayt 11 December 1688 vacant vacant 21 February 1689 Charles Montagu Richard Coling 24 March 1692 John Dyves 12 January 1693 William Bridgeman 27 July 1697 John Povey 18 May 1699 Edward Southwell 11 January 1705 Christopher Musgrave 2 November 1710 Sir Christopher Musgrave 12 May 1715 James Vernon 26 March 1716 Robert Hales 23 October 1717 Abraham Stanyan 3 February 1720 Temple Stanyan 22 May 1729 Walter Carey 11 February 1731 William Sharpe 21 April 1752 Gilbert West 14 April 1756 Henry Fane 6 May 1756 William Blair 19 May 1757 Francis Vernon 22 April 1762 Philip Sharpe 23 June 1764 Hon. Robert Walpole 11 September 1767 Sir Stephen Cotterell 4 December 1772 Sir George Chetwynd 1 January 1779 William Fawkener 25 August 1786 Grey Elliott June 1787 19 April 1810 abolished 8 August 1810 The Viscount Chetwynd 19 August 1811 James Buller 20 March 1821 Charles Greville 24 March 1824 abolished 15 December 1830 Hon. William Bathurst May 1859 abolished - June 1860: Sir Arthur Helps
- 17 March 1875: Charles Lennox Peel[2]
- 9 August 1898: Sir Almeric FitzRoy[3]
- 31 May 1923: Sir Maurice Hankey[4]
- 1 August 1938: Sir Rupert Howorth[5]
- 1942: Sir Eric Leadbitter
- 30 June 1951: Francis Ford Fernau
- 1953: Sir Godfrey Agnew
- 1974: Sir Neville Leigh
- c.1984: Sir Geoffrey de Deney
- 1992: Nigel Nicholls
- 1998: Alex Galloway
- 2006–present: Judith Simpson
References
- Sainty, Sir John. "Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Clerks of the Privy Council". http://www.history.ac.uk/office/privycounc_alpha.html. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ^ Comparisons between UK and Canadian Government: The Role of the Clerk of the Privy Council
- ^ London Gazette: no. 24192. p. 1685. 19 March 1875. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 26995. p. 4844. 12 August 1898. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 32829. p. 3834. 1 June 1923. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 34536. p. 4875. 29 July 1938. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
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