Everything about Sir George Clerk 6th Baronet totally explained
Sir George Clerk of Pennycuik, 6th Baronet (
19 November 1787 –
23 December 1867) was a British politician and
Deputy Lieutenant for
Edinburghshire.
He was the son of James Clerk, third son of the fourth baronet, by his spouse Janet, daughter of George Irving of Newton.
He was elected
Member of Parliament for
Edinburghshire from
1811 to
1832 and again from
1835–
1837, for
Stamford 1838–
1847 and then for
Dover from 1847 to
1852.
He served as one of the Commissioners of Weights and Measures,
1818 to
1821; a
Lord of the Admiralty,
1819 to
1830, and a member of the Council of the
Lord High Admiral (
The Duke of Clarence) 1827 to 1828;
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department,
5 August to
22 November 1830;
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, November
1834 to April
1835;
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, September
1841 to February
1845;
Vice-President of the Board of Trade, 1845 to
1846.
In
1845 he was sworn a member of the
Privy Council, the same year becoming
Master of the Mint.
In 1810 Sir George married the daughter of Ewan Law, Esq., a niece of the 1st
Lord Ellenborough.
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