Clerks

Clerks to the Company since 1666

• 1666 Robert Strugnell
• 1675 George Daggett
• 1718 Thomas Jackson
• 1726 Walter Hutchins
• 1733 John Leadbeater
• 1747 John Leadbeater (son of the above)
• 1755 Samuel Coates
• 1778 Benjamin Parkes
• 1787 Benjamin Parkes (son of the above)
• 1795 Thomas Edward Sherwood
• 1832 Thomas Edward Sherwood and Joseph Sherwood (son) were Joint Clerks
• 1844 Joseph Eldin Moulden
• 1850 Sydney Smith
• 1869 John Rippon Heron
• 1877 Wynne Edwin Baxter
• 1906 Benjamin Francis Popham
• 1925 William Robert Starkie
• 1942 Leonard Fisher Robson (later Clerk Emeritus)
• 1958 Edward Howard Newcome Wright
• 1963 Arnold George Warham Scott
• 1966 Michael John Burke
• 1972 Franklin Edwin Birch (later Clerk Emeritus)
• 1982 Howard William Hancock Ellis
• 1998 Charlotte Clare Clifford




Current Clerk

• 2023 Valerie Ann Gaisford-St Lawrence