Master of the Jewel Office
The Master of the Jewel Office was a position in the Royal Households of England and the United Kingdom. The holder was responsible for running the Jewel House, which holds the Crown Jewels. This role has, at various points in history, been called Master or Treasurer of the Jewel House, Master or Keeper of the Crown Jewels, Master or Keeper of the Regalia, and Master or Keeper of the Jewel House. In 1967, the role was combined with Resident Governor of the Tower of London.[1]
Incumbents
Masters of the Jewel Office
- 1042: Abbot and monks of Westminster Abbey
- 1216: First official Keeper of the Regalia appointed by Henry III
- 1230: Bishop of Carlisle
- 1337: John de Flete
- 1347: Robert de Mildenhall
- 1418: Thomas Chitterne
- 1445–1448: John Merston
- 1465–1483: Thomas Vaughan
- 1483–1485: Edmund Chaderton
- 1485–1486: Sir William Tyler[2]
- 1486–1524: Sir Henry Wyatt[2]
- 1524–1532: Robert Amadas
- 1532–1540: Thomas Cromwell
- 1540–1544: Sir John Williams
- 1544–1545: Sir Anthony Rous
- 1545–1557: Sir Anthony Aucher[3]
- 1558–1595: John Astley[4]
- 1595–1618: Edward Cary[5][4]
- 1618: Sir Henry Mildmay[6]
- ?: Francis Layton[7]
- 1660: Sir Gilbert Talbot
- 1691: Sir Francis Lawley
- 1697: Heneage Montagu
- 1698: Colonel Charles Godfrey
- 1704: John Charlton
- 1711: Heneage Finch
- 1716: James Brudenell
- 1730: Charles Townshend
- 1739: William Nevill
- 1744: Henry Pelham-Clinton
- 1745: John Campbell
- 1756: Sir Robert Lyttleton
- 1763: Henry Vane
In 1782, the office was closed and its duties were transferred to the Lord Chamberlain. It was revived in the 19th century.[8]
Keepers of the Jewel House
- 1800s: Lieut.-Colonel Charles Wyndham
- ?–1882: Colonel John Cox Gawler
- 1882–3: Lieut.-General George Dean-Pitt
- 1800s: Captain Arthur John Loftus
- 1800s: Lieut.-General Sir Michael Biddulph
- ?–1898: Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Middleton
- 1898: General Sir Hugh Gough
- 1909: General Sir Robert Low
- 1911: General Sir Arthur Wynne
- 1917–44: Major-General Sir George Younghusband
- 1952–68: Major-General Harvey Degge Wilmot Sitwell
For subsequent appointments see Resident Governor of the Tower of London and Keeper of the Jewel House
References
- ↑ Martin Rivington Holmes; Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell (1972). The English Regalia: Their History, Custody & Display (illustrated ed.). HM Stationery Office. p. 5.
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 Household 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.
- 1 2 Chrimes, Stanley Bertram (1972). Henry VII. London: Eyre Methuen.
- ↑ 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.)
- 1 2 Kinney, Arthur F. (1973). Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Officers, 1558-1603. North Haven, Connecticut: Shoe String Press.
- ↑ 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.)
- ↑ Sir George Younghusband (1919). The Crown Jewels of England. Cassel & Co. p. 80.
Bibliography
- Arthur Percival Newton (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.
- Sir George Younghusband (1919). "The Tower from Within". H. Jenkins: 26.
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