January 25, 2024
GB Free Front. Sir George Clerk to Winchester. 1824
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Now, with all that talk about devolution, we won’t get into an argument about whether there ever was a period of Scottish Enlightenment .... The history books are pretty clear that there was, and the Clerk family of Penicuik were major contributors in the first half of the 18 th century. A hundred years down the line, George Clerk who became the 6 th Baronet at the young age of 11 in 1798, carved out an equally impressive parliamentary career for himself. Sir George Clerk Bt Clerk (1787 – 1867), sat as Member of Parliament for Edinburghshire from 1811 to 1832 and again from 1835 to 1837, for Stamford from 1838 to 1847 and then for Dover from 1847 to 1852. He served as one of the Commissioners of Weights and Measures from 1818 to 1821. He held political office as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1819 to 1830 (from 1827 to 1828 he was a member of the Council of the Lord High Admiral (The Duke of Clarence), as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 5 August to 22 November 1830, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from November 1834 to April 1835, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from September 1841 to February 1845. In 1845 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint, posts he held until the fall of the Tory administration in 1846. He was also
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