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Sir Stephen Fox worked at the Clerk of the Green Cloth for almost 30 years, his last 18 as First Clerk.

The Clerk of the Green Cloth was a position in the British Royal Household. The clerk acted as secretary of the Board of Green Cloth, and was therefore responsible for organising royal journeys and assisting in the administration of the Royal Household. From the Restoration, there were four clerks (two clerks and two clerks comptrollers). Two additional clerks comptrollers were added in 1761, but one of these was redesignated a clerk in 1762.

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Clerk of the Green Cloth

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The Clerk of the Green Cloth was a position in the British Royal Household. The clerk acted as secretary of the Board of Green Cloth, and was therefore...

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Board of Green Cloth

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The Board of Green Cloth was a board of officials belonging to the Royal Household of England and Great Britain. It took its name from the tablecloth of...

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Lord Steward

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the clerks of the Green Cloth in the Household Book of Queen Elizabeth. The authority and roll of the office has to an extant superseded that of the Lord...

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Palace of Whitehall

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II's Clerk of the Green Cloth, obtained permission from the Office of Works in the 1660s to build additions to the three rooms he was assigned. By the time...

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Thomas Browne

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Elizabeth, was the daughter of Henry Birkenhead, Clerk of the Green Cloth to Elizabeth I of England and Clerk of the Crown for the counties of Cheshire and...

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Henry Firebrace

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Parliament throughout the era of the English Civil Wars. He later served Charles II as a Clerk of the Green Cloth and was knighted about 1685. The Firebrace family...

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Stonhouse baronets

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sometime Clerk of the Green Cloth. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Abingdon. The third Baronet also represented Abingdon in the House of Commons...

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Francis Quarles

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of royal service. His great-grandfather, George Quarles, was Auditor to King Henry VIII, and his father, James Quarles, was Clerk of the Green Cloth,...

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William Thynne

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daughter of William Bond, clerk of the green cloth, was sole executrix and chief legatee. The overseers were Sir Edmund Peckham, cofferer of the king's...

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George Bridges Brudenell

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1768. At the 1768 general election he returned to Rutland where he became MP without opposition. He was appointed Clerk of the Green Cloth in 1768 and...

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Lovell Stanhope

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appointed Clerk of the Green Cloth. Stanhope died unmarried on 19 September 1783. "STANHOPE, Lovell (1720-83), of Winchester, Hants". History of Parliament...

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Finchcocks

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above the front door. Edward was Clerk of the Green Cloth - a secretary to the board that was responsible for organising royal journeys and auditing the Royal...

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Master of the Revels

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The Master of the Revels was the holder of a position within the English, and later the British, royal household, heading the "Revels Office" or "Office...

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Eleanor Bull

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at St Mary-le-Bow, London. He held the post of sub-bailiff at Sayes Court and worked for the Clerk of the Green Cloth. He died in 1590. After her husband's...

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John Grey

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British politician and Clerk of the Green Cloth John Grey (British Army officer, died 1856), former Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army John Grey (land...

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Funeral directors to the Royal Household

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The funeral directors to the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom are selected and appointed by the Lord Chamberlain's Office. Usually...

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