John Henry Ley

John Henry Ley (1770 – 21 August 1850), was an English civil servant who served as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1820 to 1850.

"[1] Ley was educated as a King's Scholar at Westminster School, before being elected a Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, but "being desirous of going to Christ Church, with his contemporaries, the Westminster Students, he was entered as a Commoner of that College; he was soon after presented to a Studentship by Dr. Shafto, one of the Canons.

"[5] After earning his degree, he left Christ Church, and "commenced his studies for the law, in the office of Mr. Abraham Moore, an eminent special pleader, where he continued for two years, and kept his terms as Student of the Middle Temple.

[6] Hatsell and Ley divided the large income accruing to the clerks from the passage of private bills through Parliament.

[11] Ley's residence next to the Commons chamber in St Stephen's Chapel was among the parts of the old Palace of Westminster that was destroyed by fire in October 1834.