Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard& Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords |
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 The Earl of Courtown since 13 July 2016 |
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| Style | The Right Honourable |
| Appointer | Prime Minister |
| Formation | 1485 |
| First holder | John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford |
The Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a UK Government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The present Captain is The 9th Earl of Courtown, who was appointed to the position in the May ministry in July 2016.
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1485–present
15th century
- 1485: John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
- 1486–1509: Sir Charles Somerset (created Baron Herbert 26 November 1506)
16th century
- 1509: Sir Thomas Darcy
- 1509: Sir Henry Marney
- 1512: Sir Henry Guildford
- 1513: Sir John Gage
- 1516: Sir Henry Marney
- 1530: Sir William Kingston
- 1539: Sir Anthony Wingfield
- 1550: Sir Thomas Darcy (created Baron Darcy of Chiche 5 April 1551)
- 1551: Sir John Gates
- 1553: Sir Henry Jerningham
- 1557: Sir Henry Bedingfield
- 1558: Sir Edward Rogers
- 1558: Sir William St Loe
- 1566: Sir Francis Knowlys
- 1572: Sir Christopher Hatton
- 1586: Sir Henry Goodier
- 1586: Sir Walter Raleigh
- 1592: John Best (During Raleigh's imprisonment in the Tower)
- 1597–1603: Sir Walter Raleigh
17th century
- 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)
- 1632: George Hay
- 1635: The Earl of Morton
- 1644: The Earl of Norwich
- 1649: Interregnum
- 1660: The Earl of Norwich
- 1662: The Viscount Grandison
- 1689–1702: Viscount Mandeville (succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683)
18th century
The 4th Earl of Chesterfield, who served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1723 to 1725.
- 1702: Marquess of Hartington
- 1707: The Viscount Townshend
- 1711: The Lord Paget (created Earl of Uxbridge 19 October 1714)
- 1715: The Earl of Derby
- 1723: Lord Stanhope
- 1725: The Earl of Leicester
- 1731: The Earl of Ashburnham
- 1733: The Earl of Tankerville
- 1737: The Duke of Manchester
- 1739: The Earl of Essex
- 1743: The Lord Berkeley of Stratton
- 1746: The Viscount Torrington
- 1747: The Viscount Falmouth
- 1782: The Duke of Dorset
- April 1783: The Earl of Cholmondeley
- 16 December 1783: The Earl of Aylesford
19th century
- 1804: Hon. Thomas Pelham (styled Lord Pelham from January 1805)
- 1804: The Earl of Macclesfield
- 1 December 1830: The Marquess of Clanricarde
- 16 July 1834: The Earl of Gosford
- 29 December 1834: The Earl of Courtown
- 23 April 1835: The Earl of Gosford
- 5 August 1835: The Earl of Ilchester
- 6 July 1841: The Earl of Surrey
- 8 September 1841: The Marquess of Lothian
- 15 January 1842: The Earl of Beverley
- 24 July 1846: The Viscount Falkland
- 11 February 1848: The Marquess of Donegall
- 27 February 1852: The Lord de Ros
- 30 December 1852: The Viscount Sydney
- 17 March 1858: The Lord de Ros
- 28 June 1859: The Earl of Ducie
- 10 July 1866: The Earl Cadogan
- 22 December 1868: The Duke of St Albans
- 2 March 1874: The Lord Skelmersdale
- 3 May 1880: The Lord Monson
- 27 June 1885: The Viscount Barrington
- 10 February 1886: The Lord Monson
- 5 August 1886: The Earl of Kintore
- 29 January 1889: The Earl of Limerick
- 25 August 1892: The Lord Kensington
- 16 July 1895: The Earl of Limerick
- 26 August 1896: The Earl Waldegrave
20th century
- 8 December 1905: The Duke of Manchester
- 12 April 1908: The Lord Allendale
- 2 October 1911: The Earl of Craven
- 9 June 1915: The Lord Suffield
- 21 May 1918: The Lord Hylton
- 22 January 1924: The Lord Loch
- 1 December 1924: The Lord Desborough
- 4 June 1929: The Lord Loch
| Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Ministry | Ref. | ||
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| Donald Howard The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal |
November
1931 |
January
1934 |
Conservative | National Government II | ||
| Arthur Chichester The Lord Templemore |
January
1934 |
August
1945 |
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| National Government III
(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
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| National Government IV
(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
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| Chamberlain (War Ministry)
(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
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| Churchill (War Ministry) | ||||||
| Churchill (Caretaker) | ||||||
| Alexander Walkden The Lord Walkden |
August
1945 |
July
1949 |
Labour | Attlee I | ||
| George Shepherd The Lord Shepherd |
July
1949 |
October
1949 |
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| George Lucas The Lord Lucas of Chilworth |
October
1949 |
March
1950 |
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| George Bingham The Earl of Lucan |
March
1950 |
June
1951 |
Attlee II | |||
| George Archibald The Lord Archibald |
June
1951 |
November
1951 |
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| William Onslow The Earl of Onslow |
November
1951 |
October
1960 |
Conservative | Churchill III | ||
| Eden | ||||||
| Macmillan I | ||||||
| Macmillan II | ||||||
| Peter Legh The Lord Legh |
October
1960 |
September
1962 |
Macmillan II | |||
| John Goschen The Viscount Goschen |
September
1962 |
December
1964 |
Macmillan II | |||
| Douglas-Home | ||||||
| Frank Bowles The Lord Bowles |
December
1964 |
June
1970 |
Labour | Wilson II | ||
| John Goschen The Viscount Goschen |
June
1970 |
November
1971 |
Conservative | Heath | ||
| Bertram Bowyer The Lord Denham |
November
1971 |
March
1974 |
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| David Kenworthy The Lord Strabolgi |
March
1974 |
May
1979 |
Labour | Wilson III | ||
| Wilson IV | ||||||
| Callaghan | ||||||
| Andrew Hill The Lord Sandys |
May
1979 |
October
1982 |
Conservative | Thatcher I | ||
| David Cunliffe-Lister The Earl of Swinton |
October
1982 |
September
1986 |
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| Thatcher II | ||||||
| Thatcher III | ||||||
| Andrew Davidson The Viscount Davidson |
September
1986 |
December
1991 |
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| Major I | ||||||
| Michael Bowes-Lyon The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne |
December
1991 |
July
1994 |
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| Major II | ||||||
| Arthur Gore The Earl of Arran |
July
1994 |
January
1995 |
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| Richard Fletcher-Vane The Lord Inglewood |
January
1995 |
July
1995 |
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| Nicholas Cavendish The Lord Chesham |
July
1995 |
May 1997 |
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| Andrew McIntosh The Lord McIntosh of Haringey |
May 1997 |
June 2003 |
Labour | Blair I | ||
21st century
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Ministry | Ref. | ||
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Bryan Davies The Lord Davies of Oldham |
June 2003 |
May 2010 |
Labour | Blair II | ||
| Blair III | |||||||
| Brown | |||||||
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David Shutt The Lord Shutt of Greetland |
May 2010 |
May 2012 |
Liberal Democrat | Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.) |
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Richard Newby The Lord Newby |
May 2012 |
May 2015 |
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John Gardiner The Lord Gardiner of Kimble |
May 2015 |
July 2016 |
Conservative | Cameron II | ||
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Patrick Stopford The Earl of Courtown |
July 2016 |
Incumbent | May I | |||
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| Johnson II | |||||||
| Truss | |||||||
| Sunak | |||||||
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