The Comptroller of the Household is an ancient position in the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 royal household, currently the second-ranking member of the Lord Steward

Lord Steward

The Lord Steward or Lord Steward of the Household, in England, is an important official of the Royal Household. He is always a peer. Until 1924, he was always a member of the Government...

's department, and often a cabinet member. He was an ex officio member of the Board of Green Cloth

Board of Green Cloth

The Board of Green Cloth was a board of officials belonging to the Royal Household of England and Great Britain. It took its name from the tablecloth of green baize that covered the table at which its members sat....

, until that body was abolished in the reform of the local government licensing in 2004. The Comptroller had a white staff of office, usually seen in portraits–and so was a counterpart to Black Rod

Black Rod

The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, generally shortened to just Black Rod, is an official in the parliaments of several Commonwealth countries. The position originates in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

.

History

"Comptroller

Comptroller

A comptroller is a management level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.In British government, the Comptroller General or Comptroller and Auditor General is in most countries the external auditor of the budget execution of the...

" is the archaic spelling of "controller", recorded since c.1500 (in a number of British titles, later also in the USA). The variant in spelling results from the contaminating influence (so-called popular etymology) of French compte "account".

In modern times, the Comptroller has become a less prominent position in British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 politics. He is one of the Government whips

Whip (politics)

A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...

 in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

, and his responsibilities for the Royal Household

Royal Household

A Royal Household in ancient and medieval monarchies formed the basis for the general government of the country as well as providing for the needs of the sovereign and his relations....

 are now purely nominal, except being occasionally called upon to act as an usher at Royal Garden Parties. The current Comptroller of the Household is Alistair Carmichael

Alistair Carmichael

Alexander Morrison "Alistair" Carmichael is a Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament for the Scottish seat of Orkney and Shetland since the 2001 general election.-Early life:...

.

15th century

• 1460: Thomas Charlton
  Thomas Charlton (speaker)
  Thomas Charlton was Speaker of the House of Commons of England in 1454 .He was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Charlton of Hillingdon , landowner and MP....
  
  
• 1461–?: Sir John Scott
  John Scott of Scott's Hall
  Sir John Scott was Warden of the Cinque Ports.Sir John was born at his family home of Scott's Hall at Brabourne in Kent, England . He was the grandfather of Sir William Scott...
  
  
• 1471-1475: Sir William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal
• 1475-1481: Sir Robert Wingfield
• 1481-1483: Sir William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal
• 1483-1485: Sir Robert Percy of Scotton
• 1485–1489: Sir Richard Edgecumbe
• 1489?–1492: Sir Roger Tocotes
• 1492–1494: vacant
• 1494–1506: Sir Richard Guildford

16th century

• 1507–1509: Sir John Hussey
• 1509–1519: Sir Edward Poynings
  Edward Poynings
  Sir Edward Poynings KG was an English soldier, administrator and diplomat, Lord Deputy of Ireland under King Henry VII of England.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sir Thomas Parr
  Sir Thomas Parr
  Sir Thomas Parr was an English knight, courtier and Lord of the Manor of Kendal in Westmorland during the Tudor period. He is best known as the father of Catherine Parr, queen consort of England and the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII.-Life:Thomas was the son of Sir William Parr of Kendal...
  
  
• 1519–1521: Sir Thomas Boleyn
• 1521–1532: Sir Henry Guildford
  Henry Guildford
  Sir Henry Guildford was an English courtier of the reign of Henry VIII, master of the horse and comptroller of the royal household.-Life:...
  
  
• 1532–1537: William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
  William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
  Sir William Paulet was an English Secretary of State and statesman who attained several peerages throughout his lifetime: Baron St John , Earl of Wiltshire , and Marquess of Winchester .-Family origins and early career in Hampshire:William Paulet was eldest son of Sir John Paulet of...
  
  
• 1537–1539: John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford
  John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford
  John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, KG, PC, JP was an English royal minister in the Tudor era. He served variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal....
  
  
• 1539–1540: Sir William Kingston
  William Kingston
  Sir William Kingston was an English courtier, soldier and administrator. He was the Constable of the Tower of London during much of the reign of Henry VIII. Among the notable prisoners he was responsible for were Queen Anne Boleyn, and the men accused of adultery with her.-Life:He was of a...
  
  
• 1540–1547: Sir John Gage
  Sir John Gage
  Sir John Gage KG was an English courtier during the Tudor period. He held a number of offices, including Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , Comptroller of the Household , Constable of the Tower and Lord Chamberlain .-Early life and family:Gage was born in 1479 at Burstow in Surrey...
  
  
• 1547–1550: William Paget, 1st Baron Paget
  William Paget, 1st Baron Paget
  William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert , was an English statesman and accountant who held prominent positions in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1550–1552: Sir Richard Wingfield
• 1552–1553: Sir Richard Cotton
  Sir Richard Cotton
  Sir Richard Cotton , was a courtier in the court of Henry VIII of England.He came from Shropshire and began his career as a lawyer before entering the king's service. The king granted him property in Bedhampton, Hampshire and Bourne, Lincolnshire.-References:* Birkbeck, J.D. A History of Bourne.*...
  
  
• 1553–1557: Sir Robert Rochester
  Robert Rochester
  Sir Robert Rochester K.G. was an English Catholic and employee of Mary I.-Life:Rochester was born at Terling, Essex, England, the third son of John Rochester of Terling and Grisold, daughter of Walter Writtle, of Bobbingworth...
  
  
• 1557–1558: Sir Thomas Cornwallis
• 1558–1559: Sir Thomas Parry
  Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household)
  Sir Thomas Parry was a Comptroller of the Household to the English Queen Elizabeth I.He was knighted by Elizabeth at her accession in 1558, and held the offices of royal steward, Cofferer, Privy Counselor, Comptroller of the Household , Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries , Member of...
  
  
• 1559–1568: Sir Edward Rogers
  Edward Rogers (comptroller)
  Sir Edward Rogers was an English gentleman who served as an Officer of State in various capacities during the Tudor period. He rose to become Comptroller and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to Elizabeth I of England from 1560 to 1568.-Life:...
  
  
• 1568–1570: vacant
• 1570–1590: Sir James Croft
  James Croft
  Sir James Croft PC , Lord Deputy of Ireland and MP for Herefordshire in the Parliament of England.He was born the second but eldest surviving son of Richard Croft of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, inheriting the estate on his father's death in 1562.He was elected seven times as knight of the shire ...
  
  
• 1590–1596: vacant
• 1596–1600: William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury
  William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury
  Sir William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury, KG, PC was an English nobleman at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and King James...
  
  

17th century

• 1616–1618: Sir Thomas Edmonds
• 1618–1622: Sir Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland
  Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland
  Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland ; son of a Hertfordshire knight; said to have studied at Oxford; served abroad; gentleman of the bedchamber to King James I; K.B., 1608; controller of the household, 1617-21; created Viscount Falkland in the Scottish peerage, 1620; lord-deputy of Ireland, 1622;...
  
   (so created 1620)
• 1622–1627: Sir John Suckling
  John Suckling (politician)
  Sir John Suckling was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1626.Suckling was the son of Robert Suckling mayor and MP of Norwich and his wife Elizabeth Barwick, daughter of William Barwick. He entered Gray's Inn on 22 May 1590. He was elected...
  
  
• 1627–1629: Sir John Savile, created a baron in 1628.
• 1629–1639: Henry Vane the Elder
  Henry Vane the Elder
  Sir Henry Vane, the elder was an English politician and secretary of state.-Origins and education:Vane was born on 18 February 1589, the eldest son of Henry Vane or Fane of Hadlow, Kent, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Roger Twysden of East Peckham, Kent...
  
  
• 1639–1641: Sir Thomas Jermyn
• 1641–1643 : Sir Peter Wyche
  Peter Wyche (Ambassador)
  Sir Peter Wyche was a London merchant and English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1627-1641.-Career:Sir Peter was the sixth son of Richard Wyche and Elizabeth Saltonstall, daughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall , Lord Mayor of London.He was knighted by King Charles I on 16 December 1626...
  
  
• 1643: Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton
• 1660–1662: Sir Charles Berkeley
  Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge
  Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1668....
  
  
• 1662–1666: Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet
• 1666–1668: Sir Thomas Clifford
  Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
  Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , English statesman and politician, was created the first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh on 22 April 1672 for his suggestion that the King supply himself with money by stopping, for one year, all payments out of the Exchequer.He was born in Ugbrooke,...
  
  
• 1668–1672: Francis Newport, 2nd Baron Newport
  Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford
  Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford PC , styled The Honourable between 1642 and 1651, was an English soldier, courtier and Whig politician.-Background:...
  
  
• 1672–1687: William Maynard, 2nd Baron Maynard
• 1687–1688: Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave
  Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave
  Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave was an English peer and Jacobite supporter.The son of Sir Charles Waldegrave, 3rd Baronet, Waldegrave inherited his father's title in about 1684. A year earlier, on 29th November, he had married Henrietta FitzJames, an illegitimate daughter of King James II...
  
  
• 1689–1702: Thomas Wharton, 5th Baron Wharton
  Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton
  Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton PC was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton and his second wife, Jane Goodwin, only daughter of Colonel Arthur Goodwin of Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and heiress to the extensive Goodwin estates in...
  
  

18th century

• 1702–1704: Sir Edward Seymour, Bt
  Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet
  Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, 4th Baronet, MP was a British nobleman, and a Royalist and Tory politician.-Life:...
  
  
• 1704–1708: Sir Thomas Mansell, Bt
  Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel
  Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel of Margam PC , sometimes referred to as Thomas Mansell, was a Welsh peer and Member of Parliament for Cardiff and Glamorgan.-Personal history:...
  
  
• 1708: The Earl of Cholmondeley
  Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
  Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, PC , styled The Honourable from birth until 1681 and then known as Viscount Cholmondeley to 1706, was an English peer and politician....
  
  
• 1708–1709: Sir Thomas Felton, Bt
  Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet
  Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet was an English politician. He was Comptroller of the Household, Page of Honour and Master of the Household. He was Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds 29 Nov 1701 - 22 Nov 1703 and Orford 26 Feb 1690 - 2 Nov 1695. He was one of the Felton Baronets....
  
  
• 1709–1711: Sir John Holland, Bt
  Sir John Holland, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Holland, 2nd Baronet was a British politician.He was a Privy Counsellor, Comptroller of the Household and Member of Parliament for Norfolk from 17 Dec 1701 to 29 Jul 1710....
  
  
• 1711–1712: The Lord Lansdowne
  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne PC was an English poet, playwright, and politician who served as a Privy Counsellor from 1712.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1713–1714: Sir John Stonhouse, Bt
• 1714–1720: Hugh Boscawen
  Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth
  Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for Cornish constituencies from 1702 until 1720 when he was raised to the peerage.-Life:...
  
  
• 1720–1725: Paul Methuen
  Paul Methuen (diplomat)
  Sir Paul Methuen PC, KB was an English diplomat and politician.He was the son of John Methuen and was educated privately then at a Jesuit school in Paris. He went to Lisbon in 1691, when his father was appointed minister there. He gained valuable experience and the esteem of King Pedro...
  
  
• 1725–1730: Lord Finch
  Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea
  Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham, KG, PC was a British politician. Styled Lord Finch until 1730, he was the eldest son of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and his second wife Anne Hatton, daughter of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton...
  
  
• 1730–1754: Sir Conyers Darcy
  Conyers Darcy
  Sir Conyers Darcy or Darcey, KB was a British politician and courtier of the 18th century. He was a younger brother of Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness....
  
  
• 1754–1756: The Earl of Hillsborough
  Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
  Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire PC , known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era...
  
  
• 1756: Lord Hobart
  John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
  John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire was an English nobleman and politician.The son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire by his first marriage, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was Member of Parliament for Norwich from 1747–56, having also been...
  
  
• 1756–1761: The Lord Edgcumbe
  Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe
  Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe PC was a British nobleman and politician.The eldest surviving son of Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe and his wife Matilda Furnese, he was educated at Eton from 1725 to 1732...
  
  
• 1761: The Earl of Powis
  Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis
  Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis PC , known as Henry Herbert until 1743 and as The Lord Herbert of Chirbury between 1743 and 1748, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...
  
  
• 1761–1762: Lord George Cavendish
• 1762–1763: Humphry Morice
• 1763–1765: Lord Charles Spencer
  Lord Charles Spencer
  Lord Charles Spencer PC was a British politician and courtier.-Background:Spencer was the second son of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, and the Hon. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor...
  
  
• 1765–1774: Thomas Pelham
  Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester
  Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester PC , known as the Lord Pelham of Stanmer from 1768 to 1801, was a British Whig politician.Pelham was the son of Thomas Pelham and his wife Annetta, daughter of Thomas Bridges...
  
  
• 1774–1777: Sir William Meredith, Bt
  Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet
  Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet was a British politician of the late 18th Century, one of the Rockingham Whigs.Meredith represented Wigan in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1761, and then Liverpool until 1780. From 1765 to 1766, he briefly served as a Lord of the Admiralty...
  
  
• 1777–1779: The Lord Onslow
  George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow
  George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow PC , known as The Lord Onslow from 1776 until 1801, was a British peer and politician....
  
  
• 1779–1782: Sir Richard Worsley, Bt
  Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
  Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet was an English antiquary and politician.- Early life :Worsley was born on 13 February 1751, Appuldurcombe, the son of Sir Thomas Worsley, 6th Baronet . Worsley succeeded his father as baronet on 23 September 1768...
  
  
• 1782–1784: The Earl Ludlow
  Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow
  Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow PC , known as The Lord Ludlow between 1755 and 1760, was a British politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1782 to 1784.-Background:...
  
  
• 1784–1787: The Viscount Galway
  Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway
  Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway, PC , was a British statesman of the late 18th and early 19th ceturies...
  
  
• 1787–1790: Hon. John Villiers
  John Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon
  John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon PC , styled The Honourable until 1824, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
  
  
• 1790–1791: Hon. Dudley Ryder
  Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby
  Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, PC, FSA was a prominent British politician of the Pittite faction and the Tory party.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1791–1797: The Earl of Macclesfield
  George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
  George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield PC , styled Viscount Parker between 1764 and 1795, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...
  
  
• 1797–1804: Lord Charles Somerset
  Lord Charles Somerset
  General Lord Charles Henry Somerset PC was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator. He was governor of the Cape Colony, South Africa, from 1814 to 1826.-Background:...
  
  

19th century

• 1804–1812: Lord George Thynne
  George Thynne, 2nd Baron Carteret
  George Thynne, 2nd Baron Carteret PC , styled Lord George Thynne between 1789 and 1826, was a British Tory politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1812–1830: Lord George Beresford
  Lord George Beresford
  General Lord George Thomas Beresford GCH, PC was an Anglo-Irish soldier, courtier and Tory politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1812 to 1830.-Background:...
  
  
• 1830–1834: Lord Robert Grosvenor
  Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury
  Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury PC , styled Lord Robert Grosvenor from 1831 to 1857, was a British courtier and Whig politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household between 1830 and 1834 and as Treasurer of the Household between 1846 and 1847...
  
  
• 1834–1835: Hon. Henry Lowry-Corry
• 1835–1841: Hon. George Byng
  George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford
  George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, PC , styled Viscount Enfield between 1847 and 1860, was a British peer and Whig politician.-Background, education and military career:...
  
  
• 1841: Lord Marcus Hill
  Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys
  Arthur Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys , known as Lord Marcus Hill until 1860, was a British Whig politician.-Background:...
  
  
• 1841–1846: Hon. George Dawson-Damer
  George Dawson-Damer
  Colonel the Hon. George Lionel Dawson-Damer was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background:Dawson-Damer was a younger son of John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington, and Lady Caroline, daughter of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.-Political career:Dawson-Damer was returned to...
  
  
• 1846–1847: Lord Marcus Hill
  Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys
  Arthur Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys , known as Lord Marcus Hill until 1860, was a British Whig politician.-Background:...
  
  
• 1847–1851: Hon. William Lascelles
• 1851–1852: Earl of Mulgrave
  George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
  George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby, GCB, GCMG, PC , styled Viscount Normanby between 1831 and 1838 and Earl of Mulgrave between 1838 and 1863, was a British Liberal politician and colonial governor.-Background:Normanby was born in London, the son of Constantine Phipps, 1st...
  
  
• 1852: Hon. George Weld-Forester
  George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester
  George Cecil Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester PC , styled The Honourable George Weld-Forester between 1821 and 1874, was a British Conservative politician. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household in 1852 and from 1858 to 1859...
  
  
• 1853–1856: Viscount Drumlanrig
  Archibald Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry
  Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry PC , styled Viscount Drumlanrig between 1837 and 1856, was a Scottish Conservative Party politician...
  
  
• 1856–1858: Viscount Castlerosse
  Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare
  Valentine Augustus Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare KP, PC , styled Viscount Castlerosse from 1853 to 1871, was a British courtier and Liberal politician...
  
  
• 1858–1859: Hon. George Weld-Forester
  George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester
  George Cecil Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester PC , styled The Honourable George Weld-Forester between 1821 and 1874, was a British Conservative politician. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household in 1852 and from 1858 to 1859...
  
  
• 1859–1866: Lord Proby
• 1866–1868: Viscount Royston
  Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke
  Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke PC, DL , styled Viscount Royston until 1873, and nicknamed Champagne Charlie for his love of the high life, was a British aristocrat, Conservative politician, dandy and bankrupt.-Background:Hardwicke was the eldest son of Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl...
  
  
• 1868–1874: Lord Otho FitzGerald
  Lord Otho FitzGerald
  Lord Otho Augustus FitzGerald PC was a British soldier and Liberal politician. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household under William Gladstone between 1868 and 1874.-Background:...
  
  
• 1874–1879: Lord Henry Somerset
  Lord Henry Somerset
  Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset PC, DL, JP was a British Conservative politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household under Benjamin Disraeli between 1874 and 1879.-Background:...
  
  
• 1879–1880: Earl of Yarmouth
  Hugh Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford
  Captain Hugh de Grey Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford CB, TD, PC, JP , styled Earl of Yarmouth from 1870 to 1884, was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician...
  
  
• 1880–1885: The Lord Kensington
  William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
  William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington PC , also 1st Baron Kensington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, styled The Honourable William Edwardes between 1852 and 1872, was a British landowner and Liberal politician...
  
  
• 1885–1886: Lord Arthur Hill
• 1886: Edward Marjoribanks
  Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
  Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth KT, PC was a British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords...
  
  
• 1886–1892: Lord Arthur Hill
• 1892–1895: George Leveson-Gower
  George Leveson-Gower
  Sir George Granville Leveson-Gower KCB , was a British civil servant and Liberal politician. He held political office as Comptroller of the Household between 1892 and 1895 and later served as a Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1908 to 1924...
  
  
• 1895–1898: Lord Arthur Hill
• 1898–1905: The Viscount Valentia
  Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia
  Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia CB, KCVO, JP was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician...
  
  

20th century

• 1905–1909: Master of Elibank
• 1909–1912: The Earl of Liverpool
  Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
  -References:...
  
  
• 1912–1915: The Lord Saye and Sele
• 1915–1916: Charles Henry Roberts
  Charles Henry Roberts
  Charles Henry Roberts , was a British Liberal politician.-Background:Roberts was the son of Reverend Albert James Roberts, Vicar of Tidebrook, Sussex.-Political career:...
  
  
• 1916–1919: Sir Edwin Cornwall
  Edwin Cornwall
  Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall, 1st Baronet PC DL was an English politician and coal merchant. Cornwall was born in Lapford, Devon. At the age of thirteen he became a clerk in a coal merchant's in Hammersmith, London, and by seventeen was manager of the company's depot at Kensington. A few years later...
  
  
• 1919–1921: George Frederick Stanley
  George Frederick Stanley
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Frederick Stanley GCSI GCIE CMG was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician who served as a member of the UK Parliament for Preston and later, Willesdon East...
  
  
• 1921–1924: Harry Barnston
  Harry Barnston
  Sir Harry Barnston, 1st Baronet MA JP DL was a British Conservative politician.The son of Major William Barnston of Crewe Hill, and Mary Emma King, he was educated privately and at Christ Church, Oxford....
  
  
• 1924: John Allen Parkinson
• 1924–1928: Sir Harry Barnston
  Harry Barnston
  Sir Harry Barnston, 1st Baronet MA JP DL was a British Conservative politician.The son of Major William Barnston of Crewe Hill, and Mary Emma King, he was educated privately and at Christ Church, Oxford....
  
  
• 1928–1929: Sir William Cope
  William Cope, 1st Baron Cope
  William Cope, 1st Baron Cope , known as Sir William Cope, Bt, between 1928 and 1945, was a Welsh Conservative Party politician, who was also notable as an international rugby union player for Wales...
  
  
• 1929–1931: Thomas Henderson
• 1931: Goronwy Owen
• 1931–1932: Walter Rea
• 1932–1935: Sir Frederick Penny, Bt
  Frederick Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood
  Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood KCVO, JP was a British Conservative Party politician.The second son of Frederick James Penny of Bitterne in Hampshire, Penny was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton.He was a senior partner Fraser & Co., Government brokers,...
  
  
• 1935: Sir Victor Warrender, Bt
  Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield
  Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield MC , known as Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, between 1917 and 1942, was a British Conservative politician...
  
  
• 1935: George Bowyer
  George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham
  Captain George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham, MC, DL was a British Conservative Party politician.Bowyer was educated at Eton and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1910...
  
  
• 1935–1937: Sir Lambert Ward
• 1937: Sir George Frederick Davies
• 1937–1939: Charles Waterhouse
  Charles Waterhouse (English politician)
  Captain Charles Waterhouse PC MC was a British Conservative politician.-Biography:Born in Salford, the second surviving son of Thomas Crompton Waterhouse, of Lomberdale Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, he was educated at Cheltenham and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with an MA degree in...
  
  
• 1939–1940: Charles Kerr
  Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot
  Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot DSO, MC was a British politician.Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot...
  
  
• 1940–1942: William Whiteley
  William Whiteley (politician)
  William Whiteley, CH, PC, DL was the Labour Member of Parliament for Blaydon in County Durham.William Whiteley, not to be confused with the founder of the Department Store of the same name, was a Durham miner by background and lodge official also...
  
  
• 1942–1945: William John
  William John (politician)
  William John was a Welsh Labour Party politician, and a Member of Parliament for thirty years.At the Rhondda West by-election, 1920, he was elected as MP for the safe Labour constituency of Rhondda West, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1950 general election.In...
  
  
• 1945: George Mathers
  George Mathers
  George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers KT, PC, DL was a Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party politician...
  
  
• 1945: Leslie Pym
  Leslie Pym
  Leslie Ruthven Pym was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Monmouth in Wales at a by-election in 1939. He represented the constituency in the House of Commons until his death during the 1945 general election. Polling took place on 5...
  
  
• 1945–1946: Arthur Pearson
• 1946: Michael Stewart
  Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham
  Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, CH, PC was a British Labour politician and Fabian Socialist who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson.- Early life :...
  
  
• 1946–1951: Frank Collindridge
  Frank Collindridge
  Frank Collindridge was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in Barnsley, Collindridge was elected as Member of Parliament for Barnsley at a by-election in 1938, and represented the constituency until he died during the campaign for the 1951 general election in Barnsley aged 60.In...
  
  
• 1951–1954: Roger Conant
  Sir Roger Conant, 1st Baronet
  Sir Roger John Edward Conant, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament for more than 25 years between 1931 and 1959....
  
  
• 1954–1955: Tam Galbraith
  Tam Galbraith
  The Hon. Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, KBE , was a British Conservative politician....
  
  
• 1955–1957: Hendrie Oakshott
  Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott
  Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott , known as Sir Hendrie Oakshott, 1st Baronet, from 1959 to 1964, was a British Conservative Party politician....
  
  
• 1957–1958: Gerald Wills
  Gerald Wills
  Sir Gerald Wills, MBE was a British Barrister and politician who was Member of Parliament for Bridgwater from 1950 until his death....
  
  
• 1958–1959: Edward Wakefield
  Edward Wakefield
  Sir Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, 1st Baronet CIE was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician....
  
  
• 1959–1961: Harwood Harrison
  Harwood Harrison
  Sir Harwood Harrison, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Eye in Suffolk from 1951 to 1979, having first contested it in 1950....
  
  
• 1961–1964: Robin Chichester-Clark
  Robin Chichester-Clark
  Sir Robert Chichester-Clark was member of parliament for Londonderry in the British House of Commons from 1955 until February 1974, and was the only member representing Northern Ireland to be a British government minister since the Government of Ireland Act 1920.-Early life:Chichester-Clark was...
  
  
• 1964–1966: Charles Grey
  Charles Grey (politician)
  Charles Frederick Grey CBE was a British miner and politician; he was also an independent Methodist Minister.Grey had an elementary school education and went to work in the Durham coalfield when he left school at 14...
  
  
• 1966–1967: William Whitlock
  William Whitlock (politician)
  William Charles "Bill" Whitlock was a British Labour Party politician.Whitlock was educated at Itchen Grammar School and the University of Southampton. He volunteered for the British Army upon graduation, and soon joined the Hampshires...
  
  
• 1967–1968: William Howie
  William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon
  William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon , known as Will Howie, is a retired British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament ....
  
  
• 1968–1970: Ioan Evans
  Ioan Evans
  Ioan Lyonel Evans was a British politician. He served as a Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 until his death.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1970: Walter Elliot
• 1970–1972: Reginald Eyre
  Reginald Eyre
  Sir Reginald Edwin Eyre is a British Conservative Party politician.Eyre was educated at King Edward's Camp Hill School, Birmingham and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He contested Birmingham Northfield in 1959....
  
  
• 1972–1973: Bernard Weatherill
  Bernard Weatherill
  Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, PC, DL, KStJ was a British Conservative Party politician who became Speaker of the House of Commons.-Tailor:...
  
  
• 1973–1974: Walter Clegg
  Walter Clegg
  Sir Walter Clegg was a British Conservative politician.Clegg was educated at Bury Grammar School, Arnold School, Blackpool, and Manchester University Law School. He worked as a solicitor. In 1955 he was elected as a Lancashire County Councillor, serving until 1961.Clegg contested Ince in 1959 and...
  
  
• 1974–1978: Joseph Harper
  Joseph Harper (English politician)
  Joseph Harper was a Labour Party politician in Great Britain.He was elected as the Member of Parliament MP for Pontefract at a by-election in 1962. He was MP for the constituency and then Pontefract and Castleford until he died in office aged 64...
  
  
• 1978–1979: James Hamilton
• 1979–1981: Spencer le Marchant
  Spencer Le Marchant
  Sir Spencer Le Marchant was a British Conservative Party politician.Born in Edmonton, London, Le Marchant was educated at Eton College and was a member of the London Stock Exchange. He served as a councillor on Westminster City Council from 1956.Le Marchant contested Vauxhall at the 1966 general...
  
  
• 1981–1983: Anthony Berry
  Anthony Berry
  Sir Anthony George Berry was a British politician, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate, and a Whip in Margaret Thatcher's government...
  
  
• 1983–1986: Carol Mather
  Carol Mather
  Sir David Carol MacDonnell Mather MC , known as Carol Mather, was a British Army officer and Conservative MP, and senior government whip....
  
  
• 1986–1988: Robert Boscawen
  Robert Boscawen
  Robert Thomas Boscawen is a retired British Conservative politician.-Background and education:The son of Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, eighth Viscount Falmouth, of Tregothnan, near Truro, and a member of a very old Cornish family, Boscawen was educated at West Downs School and Eton College...
  
  
• 1988–1989: Tristan Garel-Jones
  Tristan Garel-Jones
  William Armand Thomas Tristan Garel-Jones, Baron Garel-Jones, PC is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament for Watford from 1979–97, before being made a life peer in 1997....
  
  
• 1989–1990: Alastair Goodlad
  Alastair Goodlad, Baron Goodlad
  Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad, KCMG, PC, is a British Conservative politician who served as the British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 until 2005....
  
  
• 1990: Sir George Young, 6th Baronet
  Sir George Young, 6th Baronet
  Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th Baronet is a British politician. He is currently the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal, and has served as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament since 1974, having represented North West Hampshire since 1997, and Ealing Acton before...
  
  
• 1990–1995: David Lightbown
  David Lightbown
  Sir David Lincoln Lightbown was the Conservative Member of Parliament for South East Staffordshire from 1983 until he died in office in 1995...
  
  
• 1995–1997: Timothy Wood
  Timothy Wood
  Timothy John Rogerson Wood, known as Tim Wood, is a British politician. He was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Stevenage, which he won at the 1983 general election....
  
  
• 1997–2008: Tommy McAvoy
  Tommy McAvoy
  Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy, Baron McAvoy PC is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2005 to 2010, having previously been MP for Rutherglen from 1987 to 2005...