Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster
Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster is an office of the Duchy of Lancaster, in England.
Mr Paul Clarke FRICS has been Chief Executive, Clerk of the Council, Keeper of the Records and Surveyor General of the Duchy of Lancaster since 2000.[1]
Past holders of the office
- George Haydon (1545–1558)
- Richard Onslow (1561–1571)
- Sir Christopher Hatton (1571–1572)
- William Gerard (1589–1609)
- Sir Gilbert Gerard, Bt (1609–1640)
- Gilbert Gerard (1640–1653)
- Sir Gilbert Gerard (1655–1683)
- Benjamin Ayloffe (1685–1716)
- Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough (1716–1731)
- George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1747–1762)
- William Masterman (1762–1786)
- George Villiers (1786–1827)
- Frederick Dawes Danvers (c.1837)
- John Gardner Dillman Engleheart (c.1897)
- William Rose Smith (in 1906)