After the death of Archbishop William Markham. Venables-Vernon was nominated on 26 November 1807 as archbishop of York,[1] and was confirmed in St. James's Church, Westminster on 19 January 1808.[3] In the same year, on 20 January, he was gazetted a privy councillor, and made Lord High Almoner to George III, an office which he also held under Queen Victoria's reign.