Royal Warrant - Appointing the Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons [2019-05-09]

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Title

Royal Warrant - Appointing the Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons [2019-05-09]

Subject

Parliament
House of Commons

Description

Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II appointing Sarah Davies as Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons.

Creator

Queen Elizabeth II

Source

FOI request

Date

2019-05-09

Contributor

T. Onslow

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(Sgd.) Elizabeth R

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sarah Davies,

Greeting!

WHEREAS the office of Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons is now vacant by the appointment of Our Trusty and Well-beloved John Stuart Benger, Esquire, to the office of Under Clerk of the Parliaments:

NOW KNOW YE that We, being well satisfied of the ability and integrity of you the said Sarah Davies, do hereby in pursuance of the powers vested in Us by an Act passed in a Session of Parliament holden in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act to regulate certain offices of the House of Commons" appoint you the said Sarah Davies to be Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons in the room of the said John Stuart Benger: To have,

WARRANT appointing Sarah Davies as Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons

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hold and enjoy the said office to you the said Sarah Davies together with all Salaries, Rights and Advantages thereunto belonging under and subject to the terms and provisions of the said recited Act of Parliament or any other Act or Acts now in force relating to the same commencing on and with effect from the 29th day of April 2019.

GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James’s

the 9th day of May 2019

In the Sixty-eighth year of Our Reign

By Her Majesty’s Command

(Sgd.) David Gauke

L. S.

Countersigner

David Gauke (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)

Seal Affixed

Second Seal (Blue)

Ornamentation

Royal name and title capitalized.

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Citation

Queen Elizabeth II, “Royal Warrant - Appointing the Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons [2019-05-09],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/49.

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