Deputy Clerk of the Closet

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

• Rev'd Canon Paul Wright 2015–
• Rev'd Prebendary William S. Scott 2007–2015
• Rev'd Prebendary William Booth, CVO 1991–2007
• Rev'd Canon Anthony Caesar, CVO 1979–1991
• Rev'd Canon James Mansell, KCVO 1965–1979
• Rev'd Maurice Foxell, KCVO 1948–1965
• Rev'd Wallace Elliott 1941–1948
• Rev'd Launcelot Percival, KCVO 1931–1941
• Very Rev'd Frederic William Farrar, KCVO 1894–1931 (re-appointed 1901^[1])
• Rev'd Edgar Sheppard 1903-1910
• Rev'd Canon John Neale Dalton, KCVO 1897– (re-appointed 1901^[1])
• Rev'd William Rowe Jolley, KCVO ca 1901-?^[1]
• Hugh Pearson 1881–
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley −1881
• Charles Richard Sumner 1824–
• James Stanier Clarke 1816–1817
• John Fisher 1781–1785
• Robert Hay Drummond (late 1730s)
• Alured Clark 1732–
• Henry Egerton 1719–1737 (became Clerk of the Closet in 1737)
• William Wake 1689–

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