The Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper was a civil servant within the Irish Chancery in the Dublin Castle administration. His duties corresponded to the offices...
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department of the chancery, now abolished. The clerk, also known as warden of the hanaper, was paid fees and other moneys for the sealing of charters,...
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Hanaper: Clerk of the Crown for Northern Ireland: Clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Canada: Sainty, John Christopher (April 2001). Clerk of the Crown...
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Representative peer (redirect from Parliament and the Peerage)
the removal of the electoral mechanism for the election could be rebutted, as the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper did...
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Christopher Fitzsimon (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922))
Fitzsimon held the lucrative office of Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper. The Times, Ireland, 11 August 1856 The Times, Ireland, 17 January 1832 The Times, O'Connell...
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Edward King (British poet) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
John was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and MP for Roscommon, a valued servant of the Crown and a major landowner. Edward was one of nine children: his...
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Ellen Fitzsimon (category People from the Iveragh Peninsula)
of Glencullen, County Dublin, who was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and MP for County Dublin. The couple had 13 children: Thomas Fitzsimon, died in infancy...
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Patrick Cogley (category Masters of the Rolls in Ireland)
of 10 marks a year, but he stepped down from that office after only three months when he was appointed Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, or Chief Clerk...
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Daniel O'Connell (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Clare constituencies (1801–1922))
accepted, in 1853, a sinecure position as "Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper" at Dublin Castle. An article appearing in The Times on Christmas Day, 1845 created...
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Herford (temp. Richard II) 1399: Hugh Banent, or Bavent, also Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper c.1419-23: Robert Dyke, first term 1424: Sampson d'Artois c...
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William Halsey (judge) (category Chief Justices of Munster)
for the district of Waterford. In 1655 he was appointed to the Commission for the Peace for County Wexford. He acted as Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in...
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (category Fellows of the British Academy)
Edgeworth, joint Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in 1606, who inherited a fortune from his brother Edward Edgeworth, Bishop of Down and Connor. Richard...
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Ralph Smith Cusack (category Burials at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium)
William Cusack, a Dublin surgeon, and Elizabeth Bernard. He held the sinecure office of Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper 1858-80. He was educated at Trinity...
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John King (died 1637) (category Members of the Privy Council of Ireland)
1603, he held the office of Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper for life: from 1606 he held it jointly with Francis Edgeworth, ancestor of the celebrated Edgeworth...
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William Domville (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Dublin constituencies)
(1583–1637), son of William Domville of Lyme and Mary Mere, had moved to Ireland where he became Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, and, after an unsuccessful...
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subsequently held the office of Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper of Ireland between 1797 and 1806. In 1800, he was created Viscount Limerick of the City of Limerick...
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Stephen Roche (Attorney-General) (category Members of the Privy Council of Ireland)
1425 he was appointed to the senior position of Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, with the same fee as his predecessor, John Passavant, i.e. 100 shillings...
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Robert King (Roundhead) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating information from the Dictionary of National Biography Index and Epitome)
Irish soldier and statesman. He was the eldest son of Sir John King (died 1637), Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and MP for County Roscommon, and his wife Catherine...
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Sir Compton Domvile, 2nd Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Dublin constituencies)
the son of Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Baronet and in 1721 he inherited his father's baronetcy. Between 1721 and 1768 Domvile was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper...
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Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Baronet (category Members of the Privy Council of Ireland)
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773. In 1787 he was appointed a Privy Counsellor and from 1788 to 1795 was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in the Irish...
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Donegal, and Monaghan) The election details were given by Orders in Council on 22 April 1921, which made the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper the electoral...
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Edward Edgeworth (category Bishops of Down and Connor)
brother Francis, who was appointed joint Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in Ireland in about 1606 and held the office until about 1620. Francis founded...
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outgoing Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, informed Hugh Kennedy, the incoming Attorney General of Ireland, that "he had handed over the Great Seal of Ireland...
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John Rawson, 1st Viscount Clontarf (category Members of the Privy Council of Ireland)
after 1554) of Kilteel, Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, and brother of Sir John Alan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and had at least one daughter, Eleanor...
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William Sutton (lawyer) (category Barons of the Irish Exchequer)
appointments seem to have been as Clerk of the Markets for County Meath in 1432, and then Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in 1431 or 1432. He was appointed...
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Treasurer of Ireland 1450 John Chevir, later Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1461 Patrick Cogley (exchanged the position for Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper) 1461...
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Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Ireland. Roads Department (formerly Ministry of Transport). Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper so far as concerned with...
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies)
Crown and Hanaper in 1606, who inherited a fortune from his brother Edward Edgeworth, Bishop of Down and Connor. A Trinity College, Dublin and Corpus...
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Thomas de Everdon (category Masters of the Rolls in Ireland)
received custody of his lands at Moylagh, County Meath, during the minority of the heir. He was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper (Chief Clerk in Chancery) in...
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Nicholas de Meones (category Justices of the Irish King's Bench)
well-to-do Dublin family, the Passevaunts. John Passavaunt was appointed Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in 1410. Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921...
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