Deputy Clerk of the Closet
{{Short description|The Domestic Chaplain to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom}}
{{More citations needed|date=September 2014}}
{{Portal|Christianity}}
The Deputy Clerk of the Closet is the Domestic Chaplain to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The office was created in 1677. Since 1931, the Deputy Clerk is also the sub-dean of the Chapel Royal (under the Clerk of the Closet). The Deputy Clerk is the only full-time clerical member of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom.
From 1746 until 1903 there were three Deputy Clerks. By 1923 there was only one.
List of Deputy Clerks of the Closet
- Paul Wright 2015 – present
- Bill Scott 2007–2015
- William Booth 1991–2007
- Anthony Caesar 1979–1991
- James Mansel 1965–1979
- Maurice Foxell 1948–1965
- Wallace Elliott 1941–1948
- Launcelot Percival 1931–1941
- Frederic William Farrar 1894–1931 (re-appointed 1901{{London Gazette |issue=27336 |date=23 July 1901 |page=4838 }})
- Edgar Sheppard 1903–1910
- John Neale Dalton 1897– (re-appointed 1901)
- William Rowe Jolley ca 1901–?
- Charles John Vaughan 1882–1897{{London Gazette |issue=25103 |date=2 May 1882 |page=1997 }}
- Hugh Pearson 1881–1882
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 1863−1881{{cite book | last=Lodge | first=E. | title=The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire | year=1907 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_xKAQAAMAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=1649}}{{alox2|title=Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn}}
- John Merewether, Dean of Hereford 1837–1850
- Timothy Fish Foord-Bowes 1835–1837{{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-F.pdf|title=Index of officers-F|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Frederick-William Blomberg 1827–1837{{cite book | last1=de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar | first1=P. | last2=Powell | first2=R.S. | title=Right Royal Bastards: The Fruits of Passion | publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-9711966-8-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxpnAAAAMAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=138}}
- Charles Richard Sumner 1824–1826 (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff)
- Robert James Carr 1821–1824{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol11/pp247-250|title=The Chapel Royal: Clerks of the Closet | British History Online}}(afterwards Bishop of Chichester)
- James Stanier Clarke 1816–1817{{cite book | last=Nichols | first=J. | title=The Gentleman's Magazine | publisher=E. Cave | issue=v. 3; v. 157 | year=1835 | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_llgyAQAAMAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_llgyAQAAMAAJ/page/n347 328]}}
- Thomas Hughes 1808–1833
- William Cookson 1805–1820{{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-C.pdf|title=Index of officers-C|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Edward Legge 1803–1805 (later Bishop of Oxford){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-L.pdf|title=Index of officers-L|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Charles Moss 1800–1806 (afterwards Bishop of Oxford)
- Henry Majendie 1794–1800 (afterwards Bishop of Chester){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-M.pdf|title=Index of officers-M|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- William Arnald 1782–1787{{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-A.pdf|title=Index of officers-A|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- John Fisher 1781–1785{{cite book|title=Wells, Exeter, and Worcester|first=John|last = Britton|page=82}}
- William Buller 1764–1793 (afterwards Bishop of Exeter)
- Newton Ogle 1762–1781{{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-O.pdf|title=Index of officers-O|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Charles Poyntz (1761–1808){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-P.pdf|title=Index of officers-P|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Hon Frederick Keppel 1759–1762 (afterwards Bishop of Exeter){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-K.pdf|title=Index of officers-K|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Edward Townshend 1748–1758{{cite book | last=Atherton | first=I. | title=Norwich Cathedral: Church, City, and Diocese, 1096–1996 | publisher=Hambledon Press | year=1996 | isbn=978-1-85285-134-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iw0XzrlUZJ8C&pg=PA584 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=584}}
- Jonathan Shipley 1750–1760 (afterwards Dean of Winchester){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-S.pdf|title=Index of officers-S|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Lord James Beauclerk 1745–1748 (afterwards Bishop of Hereford){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-B.pdf|title=Index of officers-B|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- John Head 1745–1760
- Robert Hay Drummond 1741–1748 (afterwards Bishop of St Asaph){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-H.pdf|title=Index of officers-H|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Alured Clarke, Dean of Exeter 1734–1742{{cite book | last=Cooper | first=T. | title=A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of ... Great Britain and Ireland | publisher=Bell | year=1873 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA407 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=407}}
- Charles Naylor 1726–1738{{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-N.pdf|title=Index of officers-N|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- John Gilbert 1723–1738 (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff. Clerk of the Closet 1752–57){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-G.pdf|title=Index of officers-G|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- Gilbert Burnet 1723–1726
- Henry Egerton 1719–1723 (afterwards Bishop of Hereford. Clerk of the Closet 1735–46){{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-E.pdf|title=Index of officers-E|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- ---? Talbot 1718–1723{{cite web|url=http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/Index-T.pdf|title=Index of officers-T|accessdate= 18 April 2017}}
- ---? Torriano 1716–1718
- William Wake 1689–{{cite book | last=Davison | first=Thomas | title=Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Their Education in the University of Oxford. To which are Added the Fasti, Or Annals of the Said University. By Anthony A Wood, M. A. of Merton College. A New Edition, with Additions, and a Continuation by Philip Bliss, Fellow of St. John's College. Vol. 1.[-4.] | issue=v. 4 | year=1820 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qR4OU1JXuGkC&pg=PA342 | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=342}}
- J. Montague 1684–
- Nathaniel Crew 1667–{{cite book | last=Lawrence | first=L.A. | author2=British Numismatic Society | last3=Andrew | first3=W.G. | title=The British Numismatic Journal: Including the Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society | publisher=British Numismatic Society. | issue=v. 14 | year=1920 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzI2AQAAMAAJ | access-date=30 April 2019 | page=273}}
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book |last1=Bickersteth |first1=John |authorlink1=John Bickersteth |last2=Dunning |first2=Robert W. |title=Clerks of the Closet in the Royal Household: Five Hundred Years of Service to the Crown |publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing |location=Stroud, Gloucestershire Wolfeboro Falls, NH |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-86299-873-8 |oclc=28115550 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wCEmAAAAMAAJ |access-date=30 April 2019}}
{{British Monarchy Household}}