Other defunct statewide elected offices that no longer exist include the Comptroller ( which became Controller in 1862 ), the Surveyor General ( 1849 – 1926 ), and the Clerk of the Supreme Court.

She became the Law Clerk for Mr. Justice Louis-Philippe Pigeon of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1971-1972 while completing graduate studies at the Faculty of Law ( Civil Section ) of the University of Ottawa.

In June the new county government was organized and John P. Jones became the first County Clerk.

Professor James Clerk Maxwell, the developer of electromagnetic theory, was a founder of the lab and became the first Cavendish Professor of Physics.

Once he had qualified he became assistant Town Clerk of Mackay, then Town Clerk.

William Scholefield became the first Mayor and William Redfern was appointed as Town Clerk.

The society contained a remarkable group of men who afterwards became eminent in different ways: for example, developer of classical electromagnetic theory James Clerk Maxwell and Liberal Party leader Sir William Harcourt.

Until 1971, the Clerk of the House of Commons became temporary Chairman of the House.

He entered parliament as Member for Launceston early in 1784, and his fidelity and friendship were rewarded by Pitt, who gave him a lucrative post in the court of exchequer ; in 1788 he became Clerk of the Parliaments.

He was employed at Greenwich, where in 1718 he became joint Clerk of the Works with Hawksmoor, whom he succeeded as Surveyor to the Fabric of Westminster Abbey, where he completed Hawksmoor's west tower.

An elected county council, consisting of a chairman, 10 aldermen, and 30 councillors, took over the administrative functions of the Quarter Sessions and had its meetings at the Guildhall ; but this formal change hid a great deal of continuity, as Justices of the Peace were often elected councillors, the Clerk of the Peace became the Clerk to the Council and so on.

After the accession of James I, Florio was named French and Italian tutor to Prince Henry and afterwards became a gentleman of the privy chamber and Clerk of the Closet to the Queen Consort Anne of Denmark, whom he also instructed in languages.

In 1856 he became Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons.

In December 1775, in addition to his post as the Chief Clerk in the War Office, Lewis became the Deputy-Secretary at War.

Through the efforts of Joe Carmel, Cindy S. Leach, and Gary Hahn of Legislative Computer Systems under the Clerk of the House, and Cheri Allen of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the entries of the Biographical Directory became available online during the week of November 9, 1998, at http :// bioguide. congress. gov / under the auspices of the House Legislative Resource Center and the Senate Historical Office.

He worked as a Railway Clerk there, and later moved to London where he became involved in Trade Union activities.

He was educated at Castleden Hall School, Farnborough, Hampshire and became a Bank Clerk, living in the Malverns.

He became active in politics before the war, serving as the Clerk of Prince George County.

He stayed on to work for King's successor, Louis St. Laurent, and became Clerk of the Privy Council in 1952.

He worked on a farm, and in 1883, aged 16, he began working at the post office in Wellington, where he eventually became Chief Clerk, retiring in 1918.

After the Glorious Revolution Burnet became chaplain in ordinary and Clerk of the Closet to William III.

In 1896 he became Clerk of the Surrogate Court of Ontario.

The county council's last Chief Executive, Tony Harrison, a solicitor, remained Clerk to the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester after abolition and became a director of various companies.

The Council became known as the Protector's Privy Council ; its members were appointed by the Lord Protector, subject to Parliament's approval.

More became Master of Requests in 1514, the same year in which he was appointed as a Privy Councillor, a member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

" Pitt chose for himself the office of Lord Privy Seal, which required his elevation to the House of Lords, and in August he became Earl of Chatham and Viscount Pitt.

After his resignation, he became a kōshaku ( 公爵 = prince ), Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan and one of the genrō.

Robert Walpole became a Privy Councillor and rose to the position of Paymaster of the Forces in a Cabinet nominally led by Lord Halifax, but actually dominated by Lord Townshend ( Walpole's brother-in-law ) and James Stanhope.

He also became a national figure in Ireland, becoming Privy Councillor in 1623 and an increasingly substantial scholar.

On 6 November 1772 he became a member of the Privy Council.

" From over two hundred suggestions and consultations with staff, students and local residents, communities and businesses, the University chose Anglia Ruskin University ( thus incorporating into the title the surname of John Ruskin, who founded the Cambridge School of Art in 1858, which eventually became the university ), with the new name taking effect following the approval of the Privy Council on 29 September 2005.

He succeeded his father as Baron De La Warr, in 1602, and became a member of the Privy Council.

In 1968, Strayer was made the Director of the Constitutional Law Division of the Privy Council Office and in 1974 he became Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice.

After only a few months as the Colonial Office he once again became Lord Privy Seal in April 1966.

In September of the same year, Grattan became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

When James Callaghan became Prime Minister, Smith became a Minister of State at the Privy Council Office, serving with Labour's Deputy leader, Michael Foot, the Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons.

In 1999, he was briefly a minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, before entering the cabinet later in the year as the Secretary of State for Defence, at which time he became a member of the Privy Council.

Being now a peer, Dudley became Lord Admiral and a Knight of the Garter in 1543 ; he was also admitted to the Privy Council.

Under the young King Edward VI, Guildford's father became Lord President of the Privy Council and de facto ruled England from 1550 – 1553.

In November 1999, the Privy Council approved the necessary changes to the university's Charter and Statutes and the Roehampton Institute became The University of Surrey Roehampton at the beginning of 2000.

In June 2004, the Privy Council granted Roehampton an independent university title, and it became Roehampton University from 1 August 2004.

In 1924, he became chairman of the House of Peers and was also appointed to the Privy Council.

He became a member of the Privy Council of Sweden no later than 1482, but acted in opposition to his distant kinsman Sten Sture the Elder, going as far as supporting John of Denmark.

In 1434 he became member of the Privy Council of Sweden and in October of the same year he assumed one of its most senior offices, Lord High Constable of Sweden, or Riksmarsk.

When his father-in-law Lord Grey ( see below ) became prime minister in 1830, Durham was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Lord Privy Seal.