Clerk of the Closet
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A Clerk of the Closet is a member of the clergy within the United Kingdom who is appointed to minister to the monarch of the United Kingdom.
The Tudor closet at Hampton Court Palace; the door beyond leads to the Royal Pew in the gallery of the Chapel Royal.
Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew was Bishop of Oxford from 1671 to 1674, then Bishop of Durham from 1674 to 1721. As such he was one of the longest-serving bishops of the Church of England.
Clerk of the Closet
…Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester 1685–1687 Nathaniel Crew, Dean of Chichester, Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Durham 1669–1685 Walter Blandford, Bishop of Worcester 1668–1669…
Oil painting of Crew as Bishop of Durham.
Crew's arms as Bishop of Durham Both his coronet as a Baron and the Bishop of Durham's Earl's coronet are shown