Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
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The Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is presently a UK government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The present Captain is the Lord Davies of Oldham.
[edit] Captains of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1485-present
- 1486: John de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford
- 1488: Sir Charles Somerset; created Baron Herbert 26 November 1506
- 1514: Sir Henry Guilford
- 1521: Sir Henry Marney
- 1523: Sir William Kingston
- 1536: Sir Anthony Wingfield
- 1550: Sir Thomas Darcy; created Baron Darcy of Chiche 5 April 1551
- 1553: Sir Henry Jernyngham
- 1558: Sir William St Loe
- 1569: Sir Francis Knowlys
- 1578: Sir Christopher Hatton
- 1587: Sir Henry Goodier
- 1592: John Best
- 1597: Sir Walter Raleigh
- 1603: Sir Thomas Erskine; created Lord Dirletoun 8 June 1604 and Viscount Fentoun 18 March 1606
- 1617: Henry Rich; created Baron Kensington 5 March 1623 and Earl of Holland 24 September 1624
- 1625: Sir Christopher Musgrave
- 1632: George Hay, 1st Viscount Dupplin; created Earl of Kinnoull 25 May 1633
- 1635: William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton
- 1660: George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison
- 1662: Charles Goring, 2nd Earl of Norwich
- 1670: Charles Montagu, Viscount Mandeville; succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683
- 1702: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
- 1707: Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
- 1714: Henry Paget, 8th Baron Paget; created Earl of Uxbridge 19 October 1714
- 1715: James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
- 1723: Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Stanhope
- 1725: John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester
- 1731: John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham
- 1733: Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville
- 1737: William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester
- 1739: William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex
- 1743: John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton
- 1746: Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington
- 1747: Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth
- 1782: John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
- April 1783: George James Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley
- 16 December 1783: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
- 1804: The Hon. Thomas Pelham; styled Lord Pelham from January 1805
- 1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
- 1 December 1830: Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
- 16 July 1834: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
- 29 December 1834: Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
- 23 April 1835: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
- 5 August 1835: Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester
- 6 July 1841: Henry Charles Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Surrey
- 8 September 1841: John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian
- 15 January 1842: George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley
- 24 July 1846: Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
- 11 February 1848: George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall
- 27 February 1852: William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
- 30 December 1852: John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney
- 17 March 1858: William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
- 28 June 1859: Henry John Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
- 10 July 1866: Henry Charles Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan
- 22 December 1868: William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
- 2 March 1874: Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Baron Skelmersdale
- 3 May 1880: William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson
- 27 June 1885: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
- 10 February 1886: William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson
- 5 August 1886: Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
- 29 January 1889: William Hale John Charles Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
- 25 August 1892: William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
- 16 July 1895: William Hale John Charles Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
- 26 August 1896: William Frederick Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave
- 12 April 1908: Wentworth Canning Beaumont, 2nd Baron Allendale
- 2 October 1911: William George Robert Craven, 4th Earl of Craven
- 9 June 1915: Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield
- 21 May 1918: Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton
- 22 January 1924: vacant.
- 1 December 1924: William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
- 4 June 1929: vacant.
- 12 November 1931: Donald Stirling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
- 24 January 1934: Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore
- 4 August 1945: Alexander Walkden, 1st Baron Walkden
- 6 July 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
- 18 October 1949: George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth
- 5 March 1950: George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan
- 8 June 1951: George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald
- 5 November 1951: William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow
- 28 October 1960: Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton
- 6 September 1962: John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
- 28 December 1964: Francis George Bowles, Baron Bowles
- 24 June 1970: John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
- 20 November 1971: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
- 11 March 1974: David Montague de Burgh Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi
- 6 May 1979: Richard Michael Oliver Hill, 7th Baron Sandys
- 20 October 1982: David Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton
- 10 September 1986: John Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson
- 30 December 1991: Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
- 20 July 1994: Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran
- 8 July 1995: Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham
- 3 May 1997: Andrew Robert McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey
- 2003: Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham
- incomplete
Sources include:
- J. Haydn, The Book of Dignities
- C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts 1830-1900
- D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000
