Household of The Queen Mother

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This is an incomplete list of those who served in The Queen Mother's Household (as Duchess of York 1923-1936; Queen 1936-1952 and Queen Mother 1952-2002)

Contents 1 Comptroller 2 Equerries 2.1 Extra Equerries 2.2 Temporary Equerries 3 Ladies-in-Waiting 4 Ladies of the Bedchamber 5 Lord Chamberlain 6 Mistress of the Robes 7 Pages of Honour 8 Press Secretary 9 Private Secretaries 9.1 Assistant Private Secretaries 10 Treasurers 11 Women of the Bedchamber 11.1 Temporary Women of the Bedchamber

[edit] Comptroller

• 1952-1953: Peter Townsend
• 1953-1974: Lord Adam Gordon
• 1974-2002: Sir Alastair Aird

[edit] Equerries

• 1950-1956: Capt. Oliver Dawnay
• 1955-1956: Sir Martin Gilliat
• 1956-1984: Sir Francis Legh
• 1959-2002: Sir Ralph Anstruther, 7th Baronet
• 1968-1970: Richard Jenkins
• 1984-2002: Maj. George Seymour
• 1992-1994: Hon. Edward Dawson-Damer
• 1993-2002: Sir Alastair Aird

[edit] Extra Equerries

• 1953-2002: Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair
• 1956: Maj. George Seymour
• 1956-1962: Capt. Oliver Dawnay
• 1964-1973: Alastair Aird
• 1998-2002: Hon. Nicholas Assheton

[edit] Temporary Equerries

• 1960-1964: Alastair Aird
• 1980-1982: Ashe Winham
• 1982-1984: Hon. Jeremy Stopford
• 2000-2002: Mark Grayson

[edit] Ladies-in-Waiting

• 1932-1936: Hon. Lettice Bowlby
• 1985-2002: Jane Walker-Okeover
• 1990-2002: Lady Margaret Colville
• 1991-2002: Hon. Margaret Rhodes
• 1993-2002: Jennifer Gordon-Lennox

[edit] Ladies of the Bedchamber

• 1937–1941: Dorothy Wood, Viscountess Halifax
• 1937–1947: Mary Wilson, Baroness Nunburnholme
• 1937–1972: Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
• 1937–1994: Patricia Smith, Viscountess Hambleden
• 1945–1967: Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech (extra 1941-1945)
• 1947–1979: Katharine Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough
• 1973–2002: Elizabeth Beckett, Baroness Grimthorpe
• 1994–2002: Elizabeth Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough

[edit] Lord Chamberlain

• 1937-1965: David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
• 1965-1992: Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie
• 1992-2002: Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford

[edit] Mistress of the Robes

• 1937-1964: Helen Percy, Duchess of Northumberland
• 1964-1990: Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn
• 1990-2002: Vacant

[edit] Pages of Honour

• 1962-1964: James Charteris, Lord Neidpath
• 1964-1966: John Dalrymple-Hamilton Esq.
• 1966-1967: Lord Valentine Cecil
• 1967-1969: Richard Scott, Lord Eskdaill
• 1971-1973: Michael Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis
• 1973-1974: George Clayton Esq.
• 1975-1977: Charles Bruce, Lord Bruce
• 1977-1979: Gavin Rankin Esq.
• 1982-1984: Hon. Maurice Roche
• 1984-1986: Andrew Hope, Viscount Aithrie
• 1990-1992: John Carew-Pole Esq.
• 1999-2002: Andrew Matheson Esq.

[edit] Press Secretary

• 1956-2001: Sir John Griffin

[edit] Private Secretaries

• 1946-1951: Maj. Thomas Harvey
• 1951-1956: Capt. Oliver Dawnay
• 1956-1993: Sir Martin Gilliat
• 1993-2002: Sir Alastair Aird

[edit] Assistant Private Secretaries

• 1953-1974: Lord Adam Gordon
• 1955-1956: Martin Gilliat
• 1956-1959: Francis Legh
• 1959-1964: Sir Ralph Anstruther, 7th Baronet
• 1964-1973: Alastair Aird
• 1993-2002: Maj. George Seymour

[edit] Treasurers

• 1961-1998: Sir Ralph Anstruther, 7th Baronet
• 1998-2002: Hon. Nicholas Assheton

[edit] Women of the Bedchamber

• 1937-1960: Lady Katherine Seymour
• 1937-1961: Marion Hyde, Lady Hyde
• 1946-2001: Lady Jean Rankin
• 1951-1961: Hon. Olivia Mulholland
• 1960-1993: Ruth Burke Roche, Baroness Fermoy
• 1961-1963: Lady Mary Harvey
• 1965-2002: Dame Frances Campbell-Preston
• 1981-2002: Lady Angela Oswald

[edit] Temporary Women of the Bedchamber

• 1963-1965: Lady Caroline Douglas-Home