Master of the Jewel Office
The Master of the Jewel Office is a position in the British Royal Household. The holders are responsible for running the Jewel Office, which holds the Sovereign's jewellery.
Incumbents
Masters of the Jewel Office
- 1445–1448: John Merston
- 1465–1483: Thomas Vaughan
- 1483–1485: Edmund Chaderton
- bef. 1509–?: Sir Henry Wyatt
- 1524–1532: Robert Amadas
- 1532–1533: Thomas Cromwell
- bef. 1545: Sir Anthony Rous
- 1545–1557 Anthony Aucher[1]
- 1558-c. 1595: John Astley
- Edward Cary (died 1618)[2]
- 1618: Sir Henry Mildmay[3]
- Francis Layton[4]
- 1660: Sir Gilbert Talbot
- 1690: Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet
- 1696: Hon. Heneage Montagu
- 1698: Col. Charles Godfrey
- 1704: John Charlton
- 1711: Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey
- 1716: Hon. James Brudenell
- 1730: Charles Townshend, Lord Lynn
- 1739: William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny
- 1744: Henry Clinton. 9th Earl of Lincoln
- 1745: John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy
- 1756: Sir Robert Lyttleton
- 1763: Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington
Keepers of the Jewel House
Since 1967 the offices of Resident Governor of the Tower of London and Keeper of the Jewel House have been combined.[5]
- 1898-1909: Sir Hugh Gough
- 1909-1911: Sir Robert Cunliffe Low
- 1911-1917: Sir Arthur Wynne
- 1936-1952: Sir George Younghusband
- 1952-1968: Hervey Sitwell
- 1968-1971: Sir Thomas Butler, 12 Bt., CVO DSO OBE JP
- 1971-1979: Sir William Raeburn
- 1979-?: Giles Mills
- ?-1989: Major-General Andrew Patrick Withy Maclellan, CB CVO MBE[6]
- 1989-?: Christopher Tyler
- 1994-2006: Major-General Geoffrey Field, CB OBE
- 2006-2011: Major-General Keith Cima, CB
- 2011–present: Colonel Richard Harrold, OBE
Notes
- ↑ Alsop, J. D. "Aucher, Sir Anthony". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Kelsey, Sean. "Cary, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4837. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Peacey, J. T. "Mildmay, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18695. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ McConnell, Anita. "Smith, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25927. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Holmes, Martin Rivington; Sitwell, Hervey Degge Wilmot (1972). The English regalia: their history, custody & display (illustrated ed.). H.M. Stationery Office. p. v.
It would perhaps be appropriate at this stage to mention that the in 1967 the Jewel House in the Tower and the staff was increased and reorganised. The Officer-in-Charge is now also the Resident Governor - the two posts having been merged under the title of Resident Governor and Keeper of the Jewel House. He is an officer of the Royal House hold and is responsible, only as far a custody of the Crown Jewels in the Tower is concerned, to the Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household who has had control of the Jewel House since 1782.
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/51821/page/8629/data.pdf
References
- Newton, Arthur Percival (July 1917). "The King's Chamber under the Early Tudors". The English Historical Review 32 (127): 348–372. doi:10.1093/ehr/XXXII.CXXVII.348. JSTOR 551043.
- Younghusband, George. "The Tower from Within". p. 26.