Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
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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.
List of Clerks of the Crown in Chancery (incomplete)
- the Honourable Alex 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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