Clerk Marshal
The Clerk Marshal (also spelled Clerk Martial) was an official of the British Royal Household in the department of the Master of the Horse.{{cite book | title=The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies: For the Year .... 1833 | year=1833 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=seU9AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA127 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=2-PA127}} From the Restoration the office was held with that of Avenor until the latter post was abolished in 1793. The office of Clerk Marshal was then combined with that of First or Chief Equerry until 1874.{{London Gazette|issue=24121|page=3965|date=11 August 1874}} From 1841 the holder was a member of the Government, but the office ceased to be a political one from 1866.Chris Cook and Brendan Keith, British Historical Facts 1830–1900, Macmillan 1975, p. 27
The duties of the Clerk Marshal were to swear in the officers of the Master of the Horse's department, and for the payment of all officers and servants.{{cite book | title=Financial Reform Tracts: Civil list | publisher=Financial Reform Association | issue=nos. 1-35 | year=1851 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9q0uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR20 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=20}} He was also responsible for submitting the accounts of the department to the Board of Green Cloth.{{cite book | last=Murray | first=J. | title=Murray's Official Handbook of Church and State: Containing the Names, Duties, and Powers of the Principal Civil, Military, Judicial, and Ecclesiastical Authorities of the United Kingdom and Colonies; with Lists of the Members of the Legislature, Peers, Baronets, &c. &c | year=1852 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ILVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=14}} Clerks Marshal were appointed in the households of other members of the Royal Family as well.
List of Clerks Marshal
= to [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] =
- 8 June 1660: George Barker
- 18 August 1660: Richard Mason
- 10 September 1671: Joseph Cragg
= to [[James II of England|James II]] =
- 21 April 1685: Thomas Morley
= to [[William III of England|William III]] and [[Mary II]] =
- 10 April 1688: William Ryder
- 12 March 1689: Anthony Rowe
- 27 April 1694: John Latton
= to [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Anne]] =
- 23 June 1702: Hugh Chudleigh
- 6 November 1707: Thomas Lister
- 12 June 1711: Conyers Darcy
= to [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] =
- 29 September 1714: Conyers Darcy
- 10 June 1717: Francis Negus
= to [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] =
- 20 June 1727: Francis Negus
- 9 September 1732: vacant
- 22 April 1734: James Lumley
- 11 March 1741: Edmund Charles Blomberg
- 8 November 1757: Courthorpe Clayton
= to [[George III]] =
- 15 December 1760: Timothy Carr
- 6 April 1771: Benjamin Carpenter (Chief Equerry from 1 January 1783)
- 9 March 1788: Philip Goldsworthy
- 6 January 1801: Robert Manners
= to the Prince Regent, later [[George IV]] =
- 24 March 1812: Benjamin Bloomfield{{London Gazette|issue=16581|page=450|date=10 March 1812}} (knighted 1815)
- 25 August 1817: Francis Thomas Hammond{{London Gazette|issue=17280|page=1829|date=26 August 1817}}{{cite book | last=Nichols | first=J. | title=The Gentleman's Magazine | publisher=R. Newton | issue=v. 189 | year=1851 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEJDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA202 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=202 |quote=He was for forty years Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal in the household of King George III. and George IV. ... }} (knighted 1819)
= to [[William IV]] =
= to Queen [[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen|Adelaide]] =
- 2 January 1846: Sir Andrew Francis Barnard{{London Gazette|issue=20557|page=9|date=2 January 1846}}
= to [[Queen Victoria]] =
- 20 July 1837: Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish{{London Gazette|issue=19524|page=1881|date=21 July 1837}}
- 10 September 1841: Lord Charles Wellesley{{London Gazette|issue=20017|page=2274|date=10 September 1841}}
- 7 July 1846: Lord Alfred Paget{{London Gazette|issue=20621|page=2534|date=10 July 1846}}
- 28 February 1852: Charles John Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross
- 30 December 1852: Lord Alfred Paget
- 26 February 1858: Lord Colville of Culross
- 1 July 1859: Lord Alfred Paget (held office until 1892)
= to [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] =
- 2 January 1842: William Wemyss{{London Gazette|issue=20057|page=2|date=4 January 1842}}
- 8 March 1853: Alexander Nelson Hood{{London Gazette|issue=21419|page=709|date=8 March 1853}}
= to [[Edward VII]] =
- 1 January 1904: Sir Stanley Calvert Clarke{{London Gazette|issue=27632|page=3|date=1 January 1904}} (also Chief Equerry until 9 October 1908{{London Gazette|issue=28184|page=7295|date=9 October 1908}})
References
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- {{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43904 |title=The stables: Avenor, Chief Equerry and Clerk Martial 1660–1837 |author=R.O. Bucholz |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=2006 |work=Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised): Court Officers, 1660–1837 |accessdate=20 August 2011 }}