Clerk of the House of Commons

Duties

Incumbent

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 Thomas 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 – Sir Robert Rogers KCB
• 2015 – Sir David Natzler KCB
• 2019 – John Benger