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.
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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. |