Clerk of The Parliaments - Office Holders

Office Holders

Term Name Notes
?1280-1290 John Kirkby
1290-1314 Gilbert of Rothbury
1315 Robert of Ashby
1316- William of Airmyn
c1327-post 1334 Henry of Edenstowe
c1340-1346 Thomas of Brayton
in office 1351 & 1352 John of Coddington
in office 1377 Geoffrey Martin
in office 1377 Edmund Brudenell
?1372-1386 Richard de Ravenser
?c1381 John de Waltham
ante 1384-1394 John de Scarle
1394-1414 John Rome
1414-1423 John Frank
1424-1436 William Prestwyke
1437-1438 John Bate
1438-1447 Thomas Kirkby
1447-1470 John Fawkes
1470-1471 Baldwin Hyde
1471-1483 John Gunthorpe
1483-1485 Thomas Hutton
1485-1496 John Morgan
1496-1509 Richard Hatton
1509-1523 John Taylor
1523-1531 Brian Tuke
1531-1540 Edward North
1540-1541 Thomas Soulemont
1541-1543 William Paget
NA Thomas Knight
1550-1551 John Mason
1574-NA Francis Spelman
1574-1597 Anthony Mason
1597-1609 Thomas Smith Knighted 1603
1609-1621 Robert Bowyer
1621-1635 Henry Elsynge
1635-1637 Thomas Knyvett
1637-1638 Daniel Bedingfield
1638-1644 John Browne
1644 Edward Norgate
1649-1660 Henry Scobell
1660-1691 John Browne
1691-1716 Matthew Johnson
1716-1740 William Cowper
1740-1788 Ashley Cowper
1788-1818 George Rose
1818-1855 George Henry Rose
1855-1875 John Shaw-Lefevre
1875-1885 William Rose
1885-1917 Henry Graham
1917-1930 Arthur Thring
1930-1934 Edward Alderson
1934-1949 Henry Badeley
1949-1953 Robert Overbury
1953-1959 Francis Lascelles
1959-1963 Victor Goodman
1963-1974 David Stephens
1974-1983 Peter Henderson
1983-1990 John Sainty
1991-1997 Michael Wheeler-Booth
1997-13 July 2003 Michael Davies
14 July 2003-3 November 2007 Paul Hayter
4 November 2007-15 April 2011 Michael Pownall
16 April 2011 – present David Beamish

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