Master of the Faculties
The Master of the Faculties is a judicial officer in the
Functions
The Master of Faculties has retained his or her historical responsibility with respect to public notaries in
solicitors, so would carry out these functions in that capacity, and thus be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority).[7]
The Master of Faculties also has responsibility for the issue of
Lambeth degrees.[9]
Public notaries in some
Queensland, Australia,[11] are still appointed through the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, though in all other Australian States and Territories they are appointed by the relevant Supreme Court.[citation needed
]
History
Following the
See of Rome". This included the power to appoint notaries in the ecclesiastical courts and the office of commissarie developed into that of the Master of the Faculties.[9]
The Master was formerly the principal officer of the
Court of Faculties, one of the ecclesiastical courts, and also had the power, under the 1533 Act to:[citation needed
]
- Create rights as to monuments, and rights of burial places;[citation needed] or
- Grant licences such as a exhume bodies buried in a church cemetery.[citation needed]
List of Masters of the Faculties
 |
- Sir Charles Caesar (1638–1642)
- Robert Aylett (1642-?)
- ...
- Sir John Birkenhead
- ...
- Henry Paman (1684–1689)[12]
- Sir Charles Hedges (1689–1714)
- ...
- Rt Revd Samuel Halifax(1770–1790)
- Lord Stowell(1790-?)
- ...
- John Nicoll (1838–1841[13]
- Sir John Dodson (1841–1857)
- Stephen Lushington (1858–1873)
- Sir Robert Phillimore QC (1873–1875)
- Lord Penzance(1875–1898)
- Sir Arthur Charles (1898–1903)
- Sir Lewis Dibdin QC (1903–1934)
- Sir Philip Wilbraham Baker Wilbraham, Bt(1934–1955)
- Sir Henry Willink QC (1955–1971)
- Walter Wigglesworth QC (1971–1972)
- Sir Harold(Pecker) Kent QC (1972–1976)
- Revd Kenneth Elphinstone QC (1977–1980)
- Sir John Owen QC (1980–2000)
- Sheila Cameron QC (2000–2009)
- Charles George QC (2009–2020)[14]
- Morag Ellis QC (2020–present)[15]
References
- ^ Halsbury 1273
- ^ Coke, E. Institutes of the Lawes of England 4 337
- ^ Burn, R. The Ecclesiastical Law, 4th ed., 2
- ^ Public Notaries Act 1801 41 Geo. 3 UK c. 79
- ^ 6 & 7 Vict. c. 90
- ^ "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, section 57". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ a b "What is a Notary? - Functions". The Notaries Society. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ "Explanatory Notes to Legal Services Act 2007". Office of Public Sector Information. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
- ^ a b "About the Faculty Office". The Faculty Office. 2007. Archived from the original on 21 March 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
- ^ "Welcome to the New Zealand Society of Notaries". Society of Notaries of New Zealand. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "What is the Notary Public?". The Society of Notaries of Queensland Inc. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "John Nicholl". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. 1959. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ "Congratulations to Charles George QC". Faculty Office. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Our People – The Master". Faculty Office. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
Bibliography
- Ayliffe, J. Parergon juris canonici anglicani: or, A commentary, by way of supplement to the canons and constitutions of the Church of England 384
- Brooks, C. W.; et al. (1991). Notaries Public in England and Wales since the Reformation. Norwich: Erskine Press.
- ISBN 0-19-822352-8.
- Lord Mackay of Clashfern (ed.) (1997) Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th ed. Vol.14, "Ecclesiastical Law", 1273
- — 4th ed. reissue Vol.33 "Notaries", 702