Richard Tilbrook

Richard James Tilbrook (born 11 April 1962) is a British civil servant and Clerk of the Privy Council.

Education Tilbrook was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, leaving the school in 1979, and went on to read classics at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he gained a First and sang counter-tenor in the Chapel Choir.

Career The public and members of the Accession Council watching the proclamation of the new king in Friary Court at St James's Palace. After university, Tilbrook joined GCHQ as a codebreaker before being seconded to the Cabinet Office to write intelligence-based assessments for the Joint Intelligence Committee. He later moved to the Department for International Development.

In 2020 he took up positions running the British honours system as the Prime Minister's Appointments Secretary advising the prime minister on the appointment of bishops, deans and lord-lieutenants, and serving as Clerk of the Privy Council.

In his role as Clerk of the Privy Council, he played a key role at the Accession Council where Charles III was proclaimed King. The following text, which was published as a supplement to The London Gazette of 12 September, was read by Tilbrook as the clerk of the Accession Council:

Personal life Tilbrook is a communicant Anglican, worshipping at St Andrew's Church, Naunton, in the Diocese of Gloucester.

Tilbrook's school, the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, awarded him their King’s Tie "for his outstanding public service and support for the RGS".