Board of Green Cloth

Board of Green Cloth

The Board of Green Cloth was a board of officials belonging to the Royal Household of England and Great Britain. It took its name from the table of green baize at which its members sat.

It audited the accounts of the Royal Household and made arrangements for royal travel. It also sat as a court upon offences committed within the verge of the palace. While it existed until modern times, its jurisdiction was more recently limited to liquor, betting and gaming licences for premises falling within the areas attached to or governed by the Royal palaces. The Board of Green Cloth disappeared in the reform of local government licensing in 2004, brought about by the Licensing Act 2003 (section 195).

The members of the Board were:
*the Lord Steward, head of the board
*the Treasurer of the Household
*the Comptroller of the Household
*the Cofferer of the Household (abolished 1782)
*Masters of the Household
*Clerks of the Green Cloth (abolished 1782 in favour of Clerks of the Household; restored 1815)
*the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.

One of the more famous members of the Board was Sir Winston Churchill, father of the first Duke of Marlborough, who was on the Board between 1664 and 1679.

External links

* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43852 Information about the Secretariat of the Board]


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