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Clerk Of The House Of Commons
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 in the House of Commons of England. The formal name for the position held by the Clerk of the House of Commons is Under Clerk of the Parliaments;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." The chief clerk of the House of Lords is the . ...
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Tom Goldsmith
Thomas Goldsmith (born 28 November 1974) is a British parliamentary official. Since 2023, he has served as Clerk of the House of Commons, the principal constitutional adviser to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Biography Goldsmith was born on 28 November 1974 in London to Thomas Henry Goldsmith and Catherine Mary Goldsmith (). He was educated at Ilford County High School, an all-boys grammar school in Ilford. He studied philosophy and politics at the University of York, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1996. Goldsmith joined the staff of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in 1996 as a clerk. He worked in procedural and committee posts such as Secretary to the House of Commons Commission, Head of the Committee Office, Clerk of Committees and Principal Clerk of the Table Office. In March 2023, his appointment as Clerk of the House of Commons was announced. He succeeded John Benger, Sir John Benger on 1 October following Benge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Henry Elsyng
Henry Elsynge (c.1606 – 30 September 1656) was an English administrator, who acted as clerk of the House of Commons, and wrote on parliamentary procedure. Life Elsynge was the eldest son of Henry Elsynge and his wife Blanche Hyett; and was baptised at St Dunstan-in-the-West on 2 March 1606. He was educated at Westminster School under L. Osbeldiston. Elsynge entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a commoner, in 1621, proceeding B.A. 1625. After he spent seven years in foreign travel, Archbishop William Laud procured him the appointment of clerk of the House of Commons. His work was significant during the Long Parliament. In December 1648, Elsynge resigned his appointment on a pretext, to avoid taking part in the proceedings against Charles I. He retired to Hounslow in Middlesex, where he died. He was buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster, on 30 September 1656. Works Elsynge was a scholarly man who numbered Bulstrode Whitelocke and John Selden among his friends. His works are: * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Lonsdale Webster
Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster (1868–1930) was a British civil servant who served as a clerk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Webster entered public service as a clerk in the General Post Office in 1887. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1912 Birthday Honours. Webster served as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1921 until his death in 1930. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1922 Birthday Honours The 1922 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were .... He was the father of the classicist T. B. L. Webster. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Webster, Thomas 1868 births 1930 deaths British civil servants Clerks of the House of Commons Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Courtenay Ilbert
Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, (12 June 1841 – 14 May 1924) was a distinguished British lawyer and civil servant who served as legal adviser to the Viceroy of India's Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England. His later career included appointments as the First Parliamentary Counsel (1899–1902) and as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1902 to 1921. Biography Early life and career Ilbert was born at Kingsbridge, Devon to the Reverend Peregrine Arthur Ilbert, rector of Thurlestone, and Rose Anne (daughter of George Welsh Owen, of Lowman Green, Tiverton, Devon). He was educated at Marlborough College (1852–60) and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he won the Hertford, Ireland, Craven, and Eldon scholarships. He took first-class honours in classical moderations and ''literae humaniores'' and was elected a fellow of Balliol in 1864, where he was Bursar from 1871 to 1874. He was President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas 1865. Legal car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Archibald Milman
Sir Archibald John Scott Milman (1834–14 February 1902) was a British civil servant who served as a clerk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Milman joined the clerical staff of the House of Commons in 1857, and in 1870 he was made second clerk assistant. He served as Clerk of the House of Commons between 1900 and 1902, but poor health led to his early retirement. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 21 January 1902. He died less than a month after leaving office and five weeks after being awarded a knighthood. He was accused by Irish nationalist MPs, including Thomas Sexton, of having too much influence over the chair during debates surrounding the Government of Ireland Bill 1893 The Government of Ireland Bill 1893 (known generally as the Second Home Rule Bill) was the second attempt made by Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to enact a system of home rule for Ireland. .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Reginald Palgrave
Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (28 June 1829 – 13 July 1904) was a British civil servant who was Clerk of the House of Commons. Life Reginald Palgrave was born in Westminster, London, the fourth son of Francis Palgrave (born Cohen) and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of banker Dawson Turner. His brothers were Francis Turner Palgrave, William Gifford Palgrave, and Inglis Palgrave. He became a solicitor in 1851; but two years later was appointed a clerk in the House of Commons, becoming clerk of the House on the retirement of Sir Erskine May in 1886. He married Grace Battley, daughter of Richard Battley, in 1857. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.) in the 1887 Golden Jubilee Honours and advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of Bath (K.C.B.) in 1892, and retired from his office in January 1900. He died in Salisbury Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Erskine May
Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough, (8 February 1815 – 17 May 1886) was a British constitutional law, constitutional theorist and Clerk of the House of Commons during the Victorian era. His seminal work, ''A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament'' (first published in 1844) has become known as ''Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice'' or simply ''Erskine May'': this parliamentary authority (book of parliamentary procedure, procedural rules) is currently in its 25th revised edition (2019) and is informally considered part of the constitution of the United Kingdom. Following his retirement as Clerk of the House of Commons in May 1886, May was created "Baron Farnborough, of Farnborough, Hampshire, Farnborough, in the Hampshire, county of Southampton" just a week before his death. Since he left no heirs, the barony became extinct, making it the second-shortest-lived peerage in British history. Biography Thomas Erskine May was born in High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Denis Le Marchant
Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet (3 July 1795 – 30 October 1874) was a British barrister, civil servant, writer and Whig politician. Background and education The member of an old Guernsey family, Le Marchant was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the second son of Major-General John Le Marchant and his wife Mary ''née'' Carey, eldest daughter of John Carey, of Guernsey. His father was killed at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812, while his elder brother Carey also died in the Peninsular War. His younger brother John Le Marchant became a distinguished colonial administrator. He was educated at High Wycombe Royal Grammar School, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1823. Career Le Marchant appeared for the petitioner in the ''Gardner Peerage Claim'' and published ''Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Gardner Peerage Claim'' in 1828. In 1830 he was appointed principal secretary to Lord Brougham, the Lord Chancellor, on the reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Henry Ley
John Henry Ley (1770 – 21 August 1850), was an English civil servant who served as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1820 to 1850. Early life He was a son of Henry Ley (1744–1824) and Mary ( Smith) Ley (1748–1834), a daughter of Capt. Smith of the Royal Navy. His sister, Mary Ley, married John Greathed Harris, FRS, and his younger brother, William Ley of Woodlands, was Assistant Clerk of the House of Commons from 1820 to 1856. His paternal grandparents were John Ley and Grace ( Grandy) Ley (a daughter of Henry Grandy, of Exeter). His family had been settled in Kenn for several generations and were "sprung from a common ancestor with the Leys, formerly Earls of Marlborough." Ley was educated as a King's Scholar at Westminster School, before being elected a Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, but "being desirous of going to Christ Church, with his contemporaries, the Westminster Students, he was entered as a Commoner of that College; he was soon after presented to a S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Sayers (caricaturist)
James Sayers (or Sayer) (1748 – April 20, 1823) was an English caricaturist . Many of his works are described in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum which has an extensive holdings of his works collected at the time of original publication by Sarah Sophia Banks. He was born at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of a merchant captain. He began as clerk in an attorney's office, and was for a time a member of the borough council. In 1780 his father's death provided him with a small fortune, and he went to London. As a political caricaturist he supported William Pitt the Younger. His plate of "Carlo Khan's triumphal entry into Leadenhall Street" was admitted by Charles James Fox, against whom it was directed, to have damaged his public image. Sayer was always at his best when attacking Fox, whose strong features he portrayed with remarkable power, always so as to make them convey expressions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Hatsell
John Hatsell (22 December 1733 – 15 October 1820) was an English civil servant, clerk of the House of Commons, and an authority on parliamentary procedure. Early life He was the son of the lawyer Henry Hatsell (1701–1762), a bencher of the Middle Temple, and his wife Penelope Robinson, daughter of Sir James Robinson of Cranford Hall, Kettering; and grandson of Sir Henry Hatsell, SL, Baron of the Exchequer (1641–1714). He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1751, graduating B.A. in 1755 and M.A. in 1760. He studied law in the Middle Temple, where he eventually became senior bencher. Clerk to the House of Commons Hatsell owed his appointment as a clerk to the House of Commons to Jeremiah Dyson, who had himself purchased the post of chief clerk in 1748. Dyson was a reformer, and Hatsell was appointed as clerk assistant in 1760 on merit and paid nothing. He was recommended for the place, on his own account, by Dyson's friend Mark Akenside. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Tyrwhitt
Thomas Tyrwhitt (; 27 March 173015 August 1786) was an English writer, classical scholar, and critic. He was best known for his edition of The Canterbury Tales in which he modernized the language and provided extensive notes as well as a glossary. Early life and education He was born in London, where he also died. He was educated at Eton College and Queen's College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1755. In 1756, he was appointed under-secretary at war, in 1762 clerk of the House of Commons. In 1768, he resigned his post, and spent the remainder of his life in learned retirement. In February 1771, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1784, he was elected a trustee of the British Museum, to which he bequeathed a portion of his valuable library. Works His principal classical works are: *''Fragmenta Plutarchi II. inedita'' (1773), from a Harleian manuscript *''Dissertatio de Babrio'' (1776), containing some fables of Aesop, hitherto unedite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
