Sir Malcolm Roy Jack KCB (born 17 December 1946)[1] was the Clerk of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 2006 to 2011.
[citation needed] He began service with the House of Commons in 1967.
He was appointed Principal Clerk in 1991 and served as secretary to the House of Commons Commission from 1995 to 2001.
[1][2] As an author on history and philosophy he has published: Corruption and Progress: the Eighteenth-Century Debate (1989), William Beckford: An English Fidalgo (1997), Sintra: A Glorious Eden (2002) and Lisbon: City of the Sea (2007) as well as essays, articles and reviews in learned and literary journals in the UK, USA and South Africa.
[4] Jack was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2011 Birthday Honours.