This article needs additional citations for verification .(September 2014) |
The Deputy Clerk of the Closet is the Domestic Chaplain to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The office was created in 1677. Since 1931, the Deputy Clerk is also the sub-dean of the Chapel Royal (under the Clerk of the Closet). The Deputy Clerk is the only full-time clerical member of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom.
From 1746 until 1903 there were three Deputy Clerks. By 1923 there was only one.
The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College, Dublin.
The Dean of the Chapel Royal, in any kingdom, can be the title of an official charged with oversight of that kingdom's chapel royal, the ecclesiastical establishment which is part of the royal household and ministers to it.
The Royal Almonry is a small office within the Royal Households of the United Kingdom, headed by the Lord High Almoner, an office dating from 1103. The almoner is responsible for distributing alms to the poor.
The College of Chaplains of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is under the Clerk of the Closet, an office dating from 1437. It is normally held by a diocesan bishop, who may, however, remain in office after leaving his see. The current Clerk is James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle.
Christopher John Hill, is a retired British Anglican bishop. From 1996 to 2004, he was the Bishop of Stafford, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield. From 2004 to 2013, he was the Bishop of Guildford, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Guildford. In addition, he served as the Clerk of the Closet in the Ecclesiastical Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014.
John Monier Bickersteth was an English Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1975 to 1986, and Clerk of the Closet from 1979 to 1989.
William Boyd Carpenter was a Church of England cleric who became Bishop of Ripon and Royal Chaplain to Queen Victoria.
John Hales was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1459-1490). He was one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince (d.1723).
Edmund Lacey was a medieval Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Exeter in England.
Revd. Canon James Seymour Denis Mansel, formerly Deputy Clerk of the Closet, Sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, Sub-Almoner, and Domestic Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom 1965–79.
Roger Plumpton Wilson was Bishop of Wakefield, and later Chichester, in the mid 20th century.
John Fisher was a Church of England bishop, serving as Bishop of Exeter, then Bishop of Salisbury.
Edward Legge was an English churchman and academic. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1816 and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1817.
Robert James Carr (1774–1841) was an English churchman, Bishop of Chichester in 1824 and Bishop of Worcester in 1831.
Henry Egerton was a British clergyman from the Egerton family. He was Bishop of Hereford between 1723 and his death in 1746.
George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, known as The Lord Carpenter between 1749 and 1761, was a British peer and politician.
Lord James Beauclerk was an Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Hereford from 1746 to 1787.
Rev. Canon. James Edgar Sheppard was a Canon of Windsor from 1907 to 1921.
The Royal Households of the United Kingdom consist of royal officials and the supporting staff of the British royal family, as well as the Royal Household which supports the Sovereign. Each member of the Royal Family who undertakes public duties has their own separate household.