Clerk of the Crown in Chancery Totally Explained

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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. As a separate office however, the Clerk is head of the Crown Office, which has custody of the Great Seal of the Realm, and has certain administrative functions in connection with the courts and the judicial process. The Clerk initiates a parliamentary election in a constituency by sending an Election Writ to the Returning Officer, and receives all ballot papers and ballot stubs after the election is complete; these are retained for a year.

List of Clerks of the Crown in Chancery (incomplete)

the Honourable Alexander Allan 2004-
Sir Hayden Phillips, GCB 1998-2004
Sir Thomas Legg, KCB QC 1989-
Sir Derek Oulton, GCB QC 1982-1989
Sir Wilfrid Bourne, KCB QC 1977-1982
Sir Denis Dobson, KCB OBE 1968-1977
Sir George Coldstream, KCB KCVO QC 1954-1968
The Honourable Sir Albert Napier, KCVO 1944-1954
Sir Claud Schuster, GCB CVO QC 1915-1944
Sir Kenneth Muir Mackenzie -1915

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