CAPTAIN OF THE GENTLEMEN-AT-ARMS

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The 'Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms' is a UK government post usually held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the 'Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners'.

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List of Captains of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

List of Captains of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

★ 1509: Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex

★ 1539: Sir Anthony Browne

★ 1549: John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye

★ 1550: William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton

★ 1553: Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex

★ 1558: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon

★ 1596: George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon

★ May 1603: Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland

★ 1615: Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk

★ 1616: Theophilus Howard, Lord Howard de Walden; succeeded as 2nd Earl of Suffolk 28 May 1626

★ May 1635: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury

★ 1643: Francis Leigh, 1st Baron Dunsmore, created Earl of Chichester 3 June 1644

★ temp. Charles II: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury

★ 1660: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland

★ 1661: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich

★ 1662: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland

★ 1667: John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse

★ 1672: Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg

★ 1674: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

★ 1684: Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale

★ 1687: Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon

★ temp. William III: John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace

★ 1693: Ralph Montagu, 1st Earl of Montagu

★ 1695: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans

★ 13 January 1712: Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort

★ 1714: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans

★ 1726: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, succeeded as 3rd Duke of Devonshire 4 June 1729

★ 1731: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, 4th Earl of Cork

★ 1734: John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu

★ 1740: Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton

★ 1742: Allen Bathurst, 1st Baron Bathurst

★ 1745: John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart, created Earl of Buckinghamshire 5 September 1746

★ 1756: John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton

★ 17 July 1762: George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield

★ 31 December 1772: George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe, created Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort 5 March 1781

★ 29 March 1782: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley

★ 14 May 1783: George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey

★ 31 December 1783: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, created Earl of Leicester 18 May 1784

★ 1797: George Evelyn Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth

★ 1799: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford

★ 1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield

★ 19 February 1806: George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, 4th Viscount St John

★ 19 March 1808: Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

★ 11 April 1812: James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown

★ 1827: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford

★ 8 December 1830: Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley

★ 1 May 1833: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley

★ 29 December 1834: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford

★ 6 May 1835: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley

★ 8 September 1841: John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester

★ 24 July 1846: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley

★ 27 February 1852: John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich

★ 30 December 1852: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley

★ 26 February 1858: Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot

★ 28 June 1859: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley

★ 10 July 1866: Charles Bennet, 7th Baron Ossulston

★ 20 March 1867: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter

★ 12 December 1868: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley

★ 27 December 1869: George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby

★ 20 April 1871: Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper

★ 1 January 1874: Henry Edward Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester

★ 2 March 1874: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter

★ 4 February 1875: Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury

★ 28 May 1877: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry

★ 3 May 1880: Alexander William George Duff, 6th Earl Fife

★ 21 January 1881: Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly

★ 27 June 1881: Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 3rd Baron Carrington

★ 6 July 1885: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry

★ 10 February 1886: Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley

★ 5 August 1886: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington

★ 24 November 1886: Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn

★ 11 August 1890: Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough

★ 25 August 1892: George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon

★ 13 March 1894: Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield

★ 16 July 1895: Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper

★ 18 December 1905: William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp

★ 31 July 1907: Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman

★ 26 July 1908: Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke

★ 20 November 1922: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon

★ 22 January 1924: Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore

★ 1 December 1924: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon

★ 26 June 1925: Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth

★ 1 January 1929: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan

★ 5 June 1929: ''Labour government - post vacant?''

★ 12 November 1931: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan

★ 31 May 1940: Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell

★ 21 April 1944: vacant.

★ 22 March 1945: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue

★ 4 August 1945: Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon

★ 18 October 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd

★ 5 November 1951: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue

★ 27 June 1957: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn

★ 21 October 1964: Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd

★ 29 July 1967: Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick

★ 24 June 1970: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn

★ 11 March 1974: Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies

★ 6 May 1979: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham

★ 22 May 1991: Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh

★ 16 September 1993: Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater

★ 20 July 1994: Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde

★ 6 May 1997: Denis Victor Carter, Baron Carter

★ May 2002: Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott