Junior Clerks 1822-57

Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 8, Foreign Office Officials 1782-1870. Originally published by University of London, London, 1979.

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'Junior Clerks 1822-57', in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 8, Foreign Office Officials 1782-1870, (London, 1979) pp. 23. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol8/p23 [accessed 19 March 2024]

Junior Clerks 1822-57

The grade of Junior, or Third Class, Clerk was created in 1822 when provision was made for five such Clerks with salaries of £150 rising by annual increments of £15 to £300. (fn. 1) The number was increased to six in 1824 and to seven in 1825; reduced to six in 1827; and again increased to seven in 1839, to ten in 1854 and to twelve in 1856. (fn. 2) In 1857 the Junior Clerks then in office were distributed amongst the two newly created grades of First Class Junior Clerk and Second Class Junior Clerk.

1822 28 March Scheener, E.
1822 28 March Lenox Conyngham, G.
1822 28 March Bankhead, C
1822 28 March Staveley, T.
1822 28 March Parish, W.
1823 10 Oct. Ward, T. L.
1823 10 Oct. McMahon, E.
1824 5 Jan. Stapleton, A. G.
1824 5 Jan Milbanke, J. R.
1824 5 April Liddell, Hon. T.
1824 5 April Mellish, R. C.
1824 5 April Mildmay, H. C. St. J.
1825 5 Jan. Hammond, E.
1826 5 Jan. Turner, A.
1826 5 April Oom, A. K.
1826 5 July Hervey, Lord W.
1827 5 July Lowth, G.
1828 5 Jan. Stopford, W. B.
1830 5 July Adams, W. P.
1830 5 July Murray, J.
1834 16 May Molyneux, Hon. F.G.
1834 17 Nov. Scott, C.
1835 10 Oct. Forster, H. F.
1838 5 April Dawkins, C. G. A.
1839 5 April Taylor, B.
1839 5 July Cowper, Hon. C. S.
1839 5July Blackburn, J. E.
1839 5 July Huskisson, W. M.
1839 5 July Coles, A. L.
1839 22 Nov. Backhouse, G. C.
1841 16 Aug. Wylde, W. H.
1841 21 Aug. Wellesley, R. G.
1841 21 Aug. Spring Rice, Hon. T. C. W.
1841 29 Oct. Alston, F. B.
1843 11 April Paget, A. B.
1843 7 Aug. Ponsonby, Hon. S. C. B.
1844 9 March Hole, J. B.
1845 12 Dec. Bidwell, J.
1846 6 Jan. Morier, G.
1846 26 June Staveley, T. G.
1846 26 June Pennell, J. C
1849 14 Jan. Woodford, J. W. G.
1851 1 Oct. Gifford, Hon. E. S.
1851 18 Nov. Synge, W. W. F.
1852 14 Dec. Cavendish, F. W. H.
1852 16 Dec. Wolff, H. D.
1854 10 April Vivian, Hon. H. C.
1854 1 July Dashwood, J. E. B.
1854 1 July Cowell, A. K.
1854 1 July Kennedy, C. M.
1854 1 July Lister, T. V.
1854 1 July Anderson, H. P.
1854 1 July Abbott, C. S. A.
1854 1 Oct. Currie, P. H. W.
1854 1 Oct. Vernon, G. R.
1855 1 Jan Crichton Stuart, H.
1856 1 Dec. Stephens, F. S. M.
1856 1 Dec. Hervey, H. A. W.
1856 1 Dec. Clarke Jervoise, H. S. C.
1857 13 March Walsham, J.

Footnotes

  • 1. Order in council 28 March 1822 (PC 2/204 p. 86). The number fell to three in May 1822 when two of the Junior Clerks were appointed Supernumerary Second Class Clerks.
  • 2. FO 366/672 pp. 375, 381; FO 366/381; FO 366/394, 4 April 1825; FO 366/673 pp. 24-7, 46, 394-8, 434; order in council 3 July 1854 (FO 366/542 ff. 90-8); FO 366/449 pp. 450-6.