The Church of England Ecclesiastical Household comprises the College of Chaplains, and the associated Chapel Royal, the Royal Almonry Office, various Domestic Chaplains, and service Chaplains.
The College of Chaplains is under the Clerk of the Closet, an office dating from 1437. It is normally held by a diocesan bishop, who may however remain in office after leaving his see. The current clerk is Richard Jackson, Bishop of Hereford. The Deputy Clerk of the Closet, a new office dating only from 1677, is Paul Wright, Domestic Chaplain to the Sovereign and Sub-dean of the Chapel Royal and the sole full-time clerical member of the household. The sub-dean is assisted by Priests-in-Ordinary to the Sovereign.
The Clerk of the Closet is responsible for advising the Private Secretary to the Sovereign on the names for candidates to fill vacancies in the Roll of Chaplains to the Sovereign. He presents bishops for homage to the sovereign; examines any theological books to be presented to the sovereign; and preaches annually in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. He receives a salary of £7 a year.
Some three or four chaplains are appointed annually, and one is kept vacant for the sovereign's own choosing.
The College of Chaplains consists of those appointed chaplain to the monarch. They are honorary chaplains who do not fulfill any formal duties. They preach once a year in the Chapel Royal.
During the reign of Queen Victoria, there were 36 Chaplains-in-Ordinary and a number of honorary chaplains. A new appointment as chaplain would traditionally be made among the honorary chaplains. Upon his accession in 1901, Edward VII reduced the number of chaplains-in-ordinary to 12 and removed the prerequisite that a chaplain need previously have been appointed an honorary chaplain.
Chaplains appointed as a bishop or to other senior church positions leave the household.
Chaplains in Ordinary
[edit]- Charles Wesley, D.D. 1847 - 14 September 1859[2]
- Augustus Frederick Phipps 18 June 1847 – 27 January 1896[3][4]
- John Barlow ? – 1867 (resigned)[5]
- Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton 1866 – ?[6]
- Edward Meyrick Goulburn – 1866 (resigned, appointed Dean)[7]
- William Henry Brookfield 1 January 1867 – ? (replacing Goulburn)[7]
- William Thomas Bullock 13 September 1867 – ? (replacing Barlow)[5]
- Francis Byng 1872 – 1889 (resigned)
- Francis Pigou, Rural Dean, Vicar of Doncaster 4 July 1874 – ?)[8]
- James Moorhouse, Rural Dean, Vicar of Paddington 4 July 1874 – 1876 (resigned, appointed a bishop)[8]
- Edward Benson, Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral 11 October 1875 – 1877 (resigned, appointed a bishop)[9]
- George Granville Bradley, 14 September 1876 – ?[10]
- William Henry Bliss, 8 November 1876 – ?[11]
- Henry John Ellison, Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Vicar of Windsor 26 December 1879 – 25 December 1899 (deceased)[12][13]
- John Llewelyn Davies, Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone 10 February 1881 – ?[14]
- Thomas Teignmouth Shore, Vicar of Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair 20 September 1881 – 22 January 1902[15]
- Arthur Robins, Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Windsor 10 October 1882 – 1899 (deceased)[16]
- John Blakeney, Archdeacon of Sheffield, Prebend of York 3 January 1890 – 12 January 1895 (replacing Byng), (deceased)[17]
- Thomas Blundell Hollinshead Blundell, M.A., Rector of Halsall, Ormskirk 31 December 1895 – 1901[18]
- W. Rogers – 1896 (deceased)[19]
- James Welldon 1892 – 6 December 1898 (resigned, appointed a bishop)[20]
- Clement Smith, Rector of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 2 March 1896 – 22 January 1901 (replacing Rogers)[19]
- Alfred Ainger 2 March 1896 – 22 January 1901 (replacing Phipps)[19]
- Arthur Lyttelton, 1896 – 6 December 1898 (appointed a bishop)[20]
- John Henry Joshua Ellison, Vicar of Windsor 1896 – 22 January 1901
- Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, MA, Rector of St George's, Bloomsbury 13 December 1897 – (replacing John Neale Dalton)[21]
- Charles Turner, Rector of St. Georges-in-the-East, London 21 April 1898 – 13 July 1898 (replacing Selwyn), (resigned, appointed a bishop)[22][23]
- Walter Lawrance, Rector of St Albans, Hertfordshire 13 July 1898 – ?[23]
- Herbert Edward Ryle, Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge 6 December 1898 – 4 January 1901 (resigned, appointed a bishop)[20][24]
- William Donne, Vicar of Wakefield 6 December 1898 – ?[20]
- Frederick Cecil Alderson 1 January 1900 – 22 January 1901 (replacing Robins)[25]
- Robert Henry Hadden 1 January 1900 – 22 January 1902 (replacing Ellison)[25]
- Robert Moberly 4 January 1901 – 22 January 1901[24]
- Alfred Ainger 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- (First name unknown) Duckworth, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- John Henry Joshua Ellison, Vicar of Windsor 23 July 1901 – 1910[26]
- James Fleming, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- Edgar C. S. Gibson, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- Charles Gore 23 July 1901 – 1 January 1902 (resigned, appointed a bishop)[26][27]
- Frederick Hervey, Canon of Norwich and Rector of Sandringham 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- Robert C. Moberly, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- Handley Moule, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge 23 July 1901 – September 1901 (resigned, appointed a bishop)[26][28]
- Thomas Teignmouth Shore, 23 July 1901 – ?[26][29]
- Clement Smith, Canon of Windsor and Rector of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 23 July 1901 – 1910[26]
- Leonard Francis Tyrwhitt, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- James Adams, Vicar of Stow Bardolph 31 October 1901 – ? (replacing Moule)[28]
- Armitage Robinson 1 January 1902 – October 1902 (replacing Gore), (resigned, appointed a dean)[27]
- Augustus Jessopp, DD, Rector of Scarning, East Dereham 15 November 1902 – (replacing Robinson)[30]
- John Cawston, Chaplain of the Fleet, dates unknown[33]
- William Henry Brookfield, Inspector of Schools 24 March 1862 – 1 January 1867[34][7]
- William Drake, Honorary Canon of Worcester, Rural Dean and Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry 24 March 1862 – ?[34]
- Lord Wriothesley Russell, Canon of Windsor, Rector of Chenies 28 March 1862 – ?[35]
- Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church 28 March 1862 – January 1898 (deceased)[35][22]
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 28 March 1862 – ?[35]
- Joseph Lightfoot, Hulsean Professor of Divinity, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge 28 March 1862 – ?[35]
- John Edward Kempe, Prebend of St Paul's Cathedral and Rector of St. James Church, Westminster 26 June 1862 – ?[36]
- George Protheroe 6 July 1865 – ?[37]
- Thomas James Rowsell, Rector of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, and St. Margaret's, Lothbury 20 January 1866 – 1869[38]
- Stopford Augustus Brooke 1 January 1867 – 1875[7]
- Francis Byng 1867–1872
- Francis Pigou, ? – 4 July 1874[8]
- James Moorhouse, ? – 4 July 1874[8]
- Edward Benson, ? – 11 October 1875[9]
- George Bradley, Master of University College, Oxford 4 July 1874 – ?[8]
- William Henry Bliss, Minor Canon of Windsor, and Rector of West Isley, Berkshire 4 July 1874 – 8 November 1876[8][11]
- Henry John Ellison, Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Windsor 11 October 1875 – 26 December 1879[9][13]
- John Llewelyn Davies, Rector of Christ Church, St. Marylebone 8 November 1876 – 10 February 1881[11][14]
- Thomas Teignmouth Shore, Vicar of Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair 2 July 1878 – 20 September 1881[39][15]
- Arthur Robins, Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Windsor, and Chaplain to Her Majesty's Household Troops 7 September 1878 – 10 October 1882[16][40]
- Edward Glyn, Vicar of Kensington 10 February 1881 – ?[14]
- Arthur Lewis Babington Peile, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Ventnor 10 February 1881 – ?[14]
- Randall Davidson, Resident Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury 10 October 1882[16]
- Richard Gee, Vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Windsor 1884–1901[41]
- John Blakeney, Archdeacon of Sheffield, Prebend of York 1886 – 3 January 1890[17]
- James Welldon 1888–1892
- Archibald Boyd-Carpenter ? – 13 December 1897[21]
- John Fenwick Kitto, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields 3 January 1890 – 1901[17]
- John Erskine Clarke, Vicar of Battersea 27 July 1895 – 22 January 1901[42]
- Alfred Ainger, Master of the Temple 28 January 1895 – 2 March 1896[19][43]
- John Henry Joshua Ellison, Vicar of St Gabriel's, Pimlico and Vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Windsor 28 January 1895 – ?[43]
- Arthur Lyttelton, Vicar of Eccles 27 July 1895 – 1896[42]
- Clement Smith, Rector of Whippingham, Isle of Wight ? – 2 March 1896[19]
- Charles Turner ? – 21 April 1898[22]
- Walter Lawrance, Rector of St Albans, Hertfordshire ? – 13 July 1898[23]
- Herbert Edward Ryle, Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge 2 March 1896 – 6 December 1898[19][20]
- William Donne, Vicar of Wakefield 2 March 1896 – 6 December 1898[19][20]
- Charles Gore, Canon of Westminster 21 April 1898 – ?[22]
- Edward Perowne, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 21 April 1898 – ?[22]
- Robert Moberly, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford and Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology 13 July 1898 – 4 January 1901[23][24]
- Frederick Cecil Alderson, Canon of Peterborough and Rector of Lutterworth 13 December 1897 – 1 January 1900[21][25]
- Robert Henry Hadden, Vicar of St Botolph, Aldgate 13 December 1897 – 1 January 1900[21][25]
- John Stafford Northcote, Vicar of St Andrew's, Westminster, 6 December 1898 – ?[20]
- Handley Moule, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge 6 December 1898 – 22 January 1901[20]
- Henry Pereira, Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral 26 January 1900 – 22 January 1901[44]
- Owen Evans, Warden of Llandovery College 26 January 1900 – 22 January 1901[44]
- Edgar Gibson, Vicar of Leeds 4 January 1901 – 22 January 1901[24]
- John Harcourt Berry, M.A., Chaplain of the Fleet 27 March 1901 – ?[45]
- E. H. Goodwin, Chaplain to the Forces, first class 1 June 1901 – ? (in recognition of his services while Principal Chaplain to the South African Field Force)[46]
- Thomas Blundell Hollinshead Blundell, M.A., Rector of Halsall, Ormskirk 26 July 1901 – 1905, (deceased)[47]
- William Stuart Harris, M.A., Chaplain of the Fleet and Inspector of Naval Schools 26 June 1902 – ?[48]
- S. Ashley-Emery 9 September 2024 – present[52]
Priests in Ordinary
[edit]- H. G. Daniell-Bainbridge, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- H. D. Macnamara, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- H. A. Sheringham, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- R. Tahourdin, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
Honorary Priests in Ordinary
[edit]- H. Aldrich Cotton, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- E. W. Kempe, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- Edwin Price, 23 July 1901 – ?[26]
- John Swire, 23 July 1901 – May 1902[26][53]
The King's Household in Scotland (Ecclesiastical) consists of chaplains who are all ministers of the Church of Scotland.[54]
The current Dean of the Chapel Royal (since 2019) is Professor David Fergusson, who was also appointed Dean of the Thistle at the same time. Other members are the Dean of the Thistle (where held by another individual), and two Domestic Chaplains: the minister at Crathie Kirk (by Balmoral Castle) and the minister at the Canongate Kirk (by the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh). There are ten "Chaplains in Ordinary". Upon retirement the chaplains may be appointed "Extra Chaplains".
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