Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 8, Foreign Office Officials 1782-1870. Originally published by University of London, London, 1979.
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'Second Class Clerks 1822-57 ', in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 8, Foreign Office Officials 1782-1870, (London, 1979) pp. 22. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol8/p22 [accessed 26 April 2024]
Second Class Clerks 1822-57
The grade of Second Class Clerk was created in March 1822 when provision was made for four such Clerks with salaries of £350 rising by annual increments of £15 to £545. (fn. 1) In May 1822 two supernumeraries were added to the grade. (fn. 2) In 1824 the number was fixed at six with no supernumeraries. (fn. 3) It was raised to seven in 1827, to ten in 1839 and to fourteen in 1854. (fn. 4) In 1857 the Second Class Clerks then in office were distributed amongst the two newly created grades of Assistant Clerk and First Class Junior Clerk.
| 1822 | 28 March | Byng, Hon. F. G. |
| 1822 | 28 March | Rolleston, H. J. |
| 1822 | 28 March | Jackson, J. |
| 1822 | 28 March | Turner, W. |
| 1822 | 29 May | Scheener, E. (fn. 5) |
| 1822 | 29 May | Lenox Conyngham, G. (fn. 6) |
| 1823 | 10 Oct. | Scheener, E. |
| 1824 | 5 Jan. | Lenox Conyngham, G. |
| 1824 | 5 Jan. | Bankhead, C. |
| 1824 | 5 April | Staveley, T. |
| 1824 | 5 April | Ward, T. L. |
| 1826 | 5 Jan. | McMahon, E. |
| 1827 | 5 Jan. | Stapleton, A. G. |
| 1827 | 5 July | Mellish, R. C. |
| 1830 | 5 July | Mildmay, H. C. St. J. |
| 1830 | 5 July | Hammond, E. |
| 1834 | 16 May | Turner, A. |
| 1839 | 5 April | Oom, A. K. |
| 1839 | 5 July | Stopford, W. B. |
| 1839 | 5 July | Murray, J. |
| 1839 | 5 July | Scott, C. |
| 1841 | 16 Aug. | Forster, H. F. |
| 1841 | 21 Aug. | Dawkins, C. G. A. |
| 1841 | 21 Aug. | Taylor, B. |
| 1841 | 29 Oct. | Blackburn, J. E. |
| 1843 | 11 April | Huskisson, W. M. |
| 1843 | 7 Aug. | Coles, A. L. |
| 1844 | 9 March | Backhouse, G. C. |
| 1845 | 12 Dec. | Wylde, W. H. |
| 1846 | 6 Jan. | Wellesley, R. G. |
| 1846 | 26 June | Spring Rice, Hon. T. C. W. |
| 1849 | 14 Jan. | Alston, F. B. |
| 1851 | 1 Oct. | Ponsonby, Hon. S. C. B. |
| 1851 | 18 Nov. | Hole, J. B. |
| 1852 | 14 Dec. | Bidwell, J. |
| 1852 | 16 Dec. | Morier, G. |
| 1854 | 10 April | Staveley, T. G. |
| 1854 | 1 July | Pennell, J. C. |
| 1854 | 1 July | Woodford, J. W. G. |
| 1854 | 1 July | Gifford, Hon. E. S. |
| 1854 | 1 July | Synge, W. W. F. |
| 1854 | 1 July | Cavendish, F. W. H. |
| 1855 | 1 Jan. | Wolff, H. D. |
| 1856 | 1 Jan. | Wylde, W. H. (fn. 6) |
| 1856 | 1 Dec. | Vivian, Hon. H. C. |
| 1857 | 13 March | Dashwood, J. E. B. |