Клерк Короны в Канцелярии: История и Функции

Senior British civil servant
the office based in Great Britain

The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Great Britain is a senior civil servant who is the head of the Crown Office. The Crown Office, a section of the Ministry of Justice, has custody of the Great Seal of the Realm, and has certain administrative functions in connection with the courts and the judicial process, as well as functions relating to the electoral process for House of Commons elections, to the keeping of the Roll of the Peerage, and to the preparation of royal documents such as warrants required to pass under the royal sign manual, fiats, letters patent, etc.

The position evolved from the mediaeval office of the Chancery. The first individual known to be designated as Clerk of the Crown in Chancery was Benedict Normanton in 1331. After 1384, it became common for two persons to hold the clerkship in two separate offices, and in some cases two persons held one of the offices in survivorship. they must take an oath before assuming the office, which is now administered by the Lord Chancellor.

Since 1885, the office of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery has been combined with that of Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Ministry of Justice). The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery is appointed by the Monarch under the royal sign manual. though they are now kept locally by the registration officer for each area (and retained for a year). The Clerk issues election writs to all constituencies whenever the King makes a proclamation summoning a new parliament, and issues an election writ to a specific constituency whenever that constituency's seat is certified as vacant. The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery also prepares a Return Book, listing the names of all those who are returned as members of the House of Commons in a general election, and delivers that book to the Clerk of the House of Commons on the first day of a new parliament.

+ Clerk of the Crown in Chancery # Portrait Namegroup=Table Term of officegroup=Table Office Concurrent office(s) 1 Benedict Normanton 1331 1350 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery — 2 John (de) Tamworth 1350 13741376 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery — 3 Geoffrey Martin 1376 1396 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery — 34 John Yorke 1801 — 38 Leonard Edmunds 1834 1848 Clerk of the Crown — 43 Sir Claud Schuster 1915 1944 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 44 Sir Albert Napier 1944 1954 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery — 45 Sir George Coldstream 1954 1968 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 46 Sir Denis Dobson 1968 1977 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 47 Sir Wilfrid Bourne 1977 1982 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 48 Sir Derek Oulton 1982 1989 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 49 Sir Thomas Legg 1989 1998 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 50 Sir Hayden Phillips 1998 2004 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery Permanent Secretary 51 Sir Alexander Allan 2004 2007 Clerk of the Crown in ChanceryAlexander Alan retired to assume the chairmanship of the [[Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom) 52 Sir Suma Chakrabarti 2007 2012 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery Permanent Secretary 53 Dame Ursula Brennan 2012 2015 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 54 Sir Richard Heaton 2015 2020 Clerk of the Crown in Chancery — Ceri King 2020 2020 Clerk of the Crown in ChanceryCeri King was the Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Chancery at the time of Sir Richard Heaton's resignation. She resumed that role after Antonia Romeo was appointed. — 55 Antonia Romeo 2021 Incumbent Clerk of the Crown in Chancery Permanent Secretary

The office of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery was carried over to Canada. From 1791 to 1866, there were Clerks for both Lower Canada and Upper Canada. They carried out electoral functions similar to the British Clerk. Following Confederation in 1867, the federal government established the position of Clerk of the Crown to oversee elections. The office was amalgamated into the position of Chief Electoral Officer in 1920.