He was the father of 1 ) Ashley Cowper, Clerk of Parliaments; 2 ) William Cowper, Clerk of Parliaments, the father of a ) Hertfordshire for many years.
12.
He was also Private Secretary to Premier Sir John Hall, Clerk of Parliaments, and for 45 years he was the Legislative Council's Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
13.
His third son Ashley was also clerk of parliament and a barrister, and the father of Theodora Cowper ( with whom the poet fell in love ) and Harriot Cowper ( Lady Hesketh ).
14.
He accepted the latter, and remained Clerk of the Assembly until April 1882, when he was appointed Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliaments, a post which he resigned in 1891.
15.
Not long before the overthrow of his party, an order in Parliament was made on 13 May 1659, that ?0 be given to John Phelps for his services as clerk of Parliament, and the money was paid soon afterwards.
16.
The House agreed a motion " " to record its high sense of the faithful services rendered by the late Major Francis Eastwood Campbell as Clerk of the House of Representatives and Clerk of Parliaments for 35 years " ".
17.
Thus, defamation proceedings cannot be brought against a member of the public on the basis of statements in a written representation sent by him to a select committee of Parliament in response to an invitation that the Clerk of Parliament has issued.
18.
The bill is considered has having been read after the MP introducing it has read aloud its long title and laid a copy of it on the Table of the House, and the Clerk of Parliament has read out its short title.
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It begins with the Speaker's procession, during which the Serjeant-at-Arms enters the chamber of the House bearing the Mace of Parliament on his right shoulder ahead of the Speaker, the Clerk of Parliament, and the Clerk's assistants.
20.
Tompson was then appointed third clerk in the Legislative Council of New South Wales, rose to be clerk of parliaments in the legislative council, and, in 1860, clerk of the legislative assembly, where he was much liked by members as a courteous and obliging officer.
