The Clerk of the Chamber is a position within the Crown Office, a section of the Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom.
[2] After Corley in 1873, the office gained a permanent character, rather than being removed upon appointment of a new Lord Chancellor.
[4] The offices were held in conjunction until 1937, and the post of Messenger of the Greal Seal and Clerk of the Chamber have been associated ever since.
[5] The Clerk of the Chamber holds the responsibilities of the former offices of Messenger of the Great Seal and Pursebearer, though those functions have virtually become extinct.
The Clerk is now the Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and as such holds administrative duties such as assisting the Lord Chancellor in his duties which fall under the authority of the Crown Office, and to act as Registrar of the Peerage and Baronetage.