First Class Clerks 1856-70

Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 1, Treasury Officials 1660-1870. Originally published by University of London, London, 1972.

Citation:

'First Class Clerks 1856-70', in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 1, Treasury Officials 1660-1870, ed. J C Sainty( London, 1972), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol1/p71 [accessed 16 November 2024].

This grade was created in 1856. The number of First Class Clerks was then fixed at ten. It was reduced to nine in 1857, to eight in 1859 and to seven in 1861. A supernumerary First Class Clerk was appointed in 1866, the number returning to seven in 1868. (fn. 1) The salary scale attached to the grade in 1856 was £700 rising by annual increments of £25 to £900. (fn. 2)

LIST OF APPOINTMENTS



1856	4 July	Drummond, S.
1856	4 July	Gordon, Sir A. C. D.
1856	4 July	Shelley, S.
1856	4 July	Byron, F.
1856	4 July	Waller, A.
1856	4 July	Stronge, C. W.
1856	4 July	Wilbraham, R. W.
1856	4 July	Law, W.
1856	4 July	Cole, J. H.
1856	4 July	Collier, J. P.
1857	5 Sept.	Jones, L. A.
1859	24 Dec.	Fitzgerald, F.
1860	18 Dec.	Buckland, E. C.
1862	9 Dec.	Dawson, F.
1865	17 Aug.	Clerke, Sir W. H.
1866	3 July	Barrington, C. G. (fn. 3)
1867	21 June	Plunkett, Hon. E. L.
1867	21 June	Blackwood, S. A.
1869	30 Dec.	Murray, H. H.