Talk:Clerk of the Privy Council (United Kingdom)

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I feel that, as it stands, the article is potentially misleading. At first glance, it looks as if William Honnyng left office on 17 November 1545, when all that happened was that he 'changed seats' when his colleague John Mason left office. I suggest that the article could be re-arranged in the same format as e.g. List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by seat. This also deals with an institution with multiple members who entered and left office at different times. Alekksandr (talk) 19:44, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So it would look something like this.

Clerks in Ordinary 1540–present[edit]

Date One Two Three Four
10 August 1540 William Paget[1]
23 April 1543 John Mason[2] William Honnyng
17 November 1545 vacant
18 December 1545 Sir Thomas Chaloner
March 1547 Thomas Smith
10 May 1548 Armagil Wade[3]
20 May 1550 William Thomas[4]
24 September 1551 Bernard Hampton[5]
12 May 1552 vacant
By 31 March 1553 vacant
19 July 1553 vacant
30 July 1553 Sir Francis Allen[5] William Smith
After 23 December 1566 vacant
1570 vacant
29 April 1571 Edmund Tremayne[6]
1572 vacant
6 July 1572 Robert Beale[6]
18 July 1576 Sir Thomas Wilkes[6] Henry Cheke
After 5 September 1581 vacant
September 1582 vacant
7 October 1584 Sir William Wade[7]
19 March 1587 Sir Anthony Ashley[8]
2 March 1598 vacant
21 April 1598 Sir Thomas Smith[6]
27 May 1601 vacant
18 June 1601 Sir Thomas Edmondes
25 May 1608 Sir Ralph Winwood[8] Sir John Corbet[5]
15 August 1609 vacant
7 September 1609 Sir Clement Edmondes[5]
27 November 1609 vacant
By 31 May 1610 vacant
22 July 1610 Sir George Calvert[9]
7 December 1611 vacant
23 August 1613 vacant
24 September 1613 Francis Cottington[10]
24 February 1614 William Trumbull[5]
16 February 1619 vacant
February 1619 Sir Albertus Morton
13 October 1622 vacant
7 November 1622 John Dickenson[5]
11 December 1622 Sir Thomas Meautys[11]
24 January 1623 Sir William Beecher
September 1635 vacant
9 October 1635 Sir Edward Nicholas[9]
By 20 January 1636 vacant
26 May 1636 Sir Dudley Carleton[12]
27 January 1641 Sir Richard Browne[13]
27 November 1641 vacant
Now done.Alekksandr (talk) 15:32, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Left office on being appointed Secretary of State
  2. ^ Left office on being appointed joint Master of the King's Post
  3. ^ Not continued by Mary I
  4. ^ "By 31 March 1553 Thomas had surrendered the clerkship" - Dakota L. Hamilton, ‘Thomas, William (d. 1554)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 accessed 20 May 2016
  5. ^ a b c d e f Died in office
  6. ^ a b c d Probably died in office
  7. ^ Resigned
  8. ^ a b Surrendered his office
  9. ^ a b Probably vacated office on appointment as secretary of state Clerks of the Privy Council 1540-1644 - A provisional list compiled by J C Sainty, April 2004
  10. ^ Probably vacated office on appointment as secretary to Prince of Wales
  11. ^ He performed the duties of his office until August 1645 when the office became virtually extinct. - The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon, 1613-1644, Page 56 - died 1649
  12. ^ Died 1654
  13. ^ In February 1641 he was sent on his first diplomatic mission as ambassador, to the queen of Bohemia and the elector palatine, who were then in the Low Countries, and in the following July he was dispatched as resident to Paris, where he was to remain until 1660. J. T. Peacey, ‘Browne, Sir Richard, baronet (1605–1683)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 13 May 2016
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