Clerk of the House of Commons

For the Canadian official, see Clerk of the House of Commons (Canada).

Under Clerk of the Parliaments
Incumbent Robert Rogers since 1 October 2011
Residence	Outbuilding, Palace of Westminster
Appointer	Elizabeth II as Sovereign
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.

1 List of Clerks of the House of Commons
2 References
3 External links

List of Clerks of the House of Commons

14th century

1363 — Robert de Melton
1385 — John de Scardeburgh

15th century

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

16th century

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

17th century

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

18th century

1727 — Edward Stables
1732 — Nicholas Hardinge
1748 — Jeremiah Dyson
1762 — Thomas Tyrwhitt
1768 — John Hatsell

19th century

1820 — John Henry Ley
1850 — Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bt
1871 — Sir Erskine May
1886 — Sir Reginald Palgrave

20th century

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

21st century

2003 — Sir Roger Sands KCB
2006 — Sir Malcolm Jack KCB
2011 — Robert Rogers

References

^ "Clerk of the House and Chief Executive". parliament.uk. 1 October 2011. http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/principal/clerk-commons/.
^ 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."

External links

Information sheet - Clerk of the House - UK Parliament website


House of Commons		House of Lords
Speaker	John Bercow	Lord Speaker	The Baroness D'Souza
Leader of the House of Commons	Sir George Young, Bt.	Leader of the House of Lords	The Lord Strathclyde
Serjeant at Arms	Jill Pay	Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod	Lt-Gen. David Leakey
Clerk of the House and Chief Executive	Robert Rogers	Clerk of the Parliaments	David Beamish