This page is a list of Gentlemen Ushers to the British 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....

 from the Restoration

English Restoration

The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

 up to the present day. Gentlemen Ushers originally formed three classes: Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber, Gentlemen Ushers Daily Waiters, and Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters. The number of ordinary ushers of these classes were fixed at four, four, and eight, respectively, but ushers "in extraordinary" were sometimes appointed. After 1901, these distinctions between the Gentlemen Ushers were abolished, except between the ordinary and extraordinary ushers (and two "honorary" ushers in the early 20th century).

In Ordinary

Date	One	Two	Three	Four
2 June 1660	Sir John Poley	Sir William Fleming	Sir William Killigrew William Killigrew Sir William Killigrew was an English court official under Charles I and Charles II.He was the son of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse, of Kimberley, Norfolk, his wife. He was the elder brother to Thomas Killigrew...	vacant
4 June 1660				Hon. Marmaduke Darcy
2 June 1662			Sir Paul Neale
10 November 1664	Sir Robert Stapleton
12 July 1669	William Sandys William Sandys 'Waterworks Sandys' William Sandys of Fladbury was known as Waterworks Sandys to distinguish him from his cousin, the spendthrift 'Golden Sandys'...
4 February 1670	John Mitton
8 February 1670		Sir Thomas Nott Thomas Nott Sir Thomas Nott , eldest son of Roger Nott of London. He was a royalist army officer and an original fellow of the Royal Society. In 1640 he acquired the remainder of the crown lease of Twickenham Park, Middlesex which he sold in 1659....
20 December 1681		Charles Boyle
17 February 1686			Sir Edward Sutton
4 July 1687				Walter Innes
29 November 1687		Charles Goring
8 November 1688		Hon. John King
11 December 1688	vacant	vacant		vacant
14 March 1689	Sir John Elwes
27 March 1689		Henry Austen
29 March 1689				Spencer Garrard
30 July 1695			James Compton
14 July 1697				Brownlow Sherard
19 May 1700			William Wallis
19 December 1700	Sir Edward Lawrence
8 March 1702	vacant	vacant	vacant	vacant
9 July 1702	Henry Sandys	Roger Cooper	Edward Harrison	John Anderson
20 April 1703		Sir Edward Lawrence
10 December 1708			Brownlow Sherard
3 February 1719		Joseph Ashley
12 August 1728	Richard Whitworth
10 December 1728			Robert Hemmington
12 August 1729				John Cope
17 June 1732		Sir Francis Clerke, 6th Baronet
7 March 1749	Mark Anthony Saurin
30 January 1756			Joseph Hudson
20 August 1760				Richard Bagshaw
25 October 1760	vacant	vacant
12 December 1760	Cholmondeley Scot	Hamey Palmer
24 September 1766			William Hudson
27 June 1771	Edward Colman Edward Colman Edward Colman or Coleman was an English Catholic courtier under Charles II of England. He was hanged, drawn and quartered on a treason charge, having been implicated by Titus Oates in his false accusations concerning a Popish Plot...
14 November 1771		Charles Mawhood Charles Mawhood Lt. Col. Charles Mawhood was the British commander at the Battle of Princeton.His military service began with purchase of a cornetcy in 1st Dragoon Guards . He served in the Seven Years' War , initially as a Captain in the 15th Light Dragoons, then transferred to 18th Light Dragoons...
31 May 1773				Arthur Gregory
4 November 1775	Thomas Tutteridge
30 August 1780		Matthew Johnson
September 1789			Trevor Hull
1792				Thomas Sebright
5 February 1794	Richard Byron
2 March 1795				Hon. Edward Capel
14 April 1798		John Hale
29 July 1798	Robert Chester
31 October 1808				William Chester Master
7 January 1813			George Hatton
27 May 1818	Horace Seymour Horace Seymour Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour was a Peelite Member of Parliament for Lisburn, Antrim, Oxford, Bodmin and Midhurst....
10 October 1819			Henry John Hatton
25 August 1821		Henry Thomas Baucutt Mash
21 March 1823		James Russell
18 December 1830		Hon. Frederick Gerald Byng
23 March 1831	Charles Fieschi Heneage
22 March 1832			John Beaumont
12 March 1834			Sir John Mark Frederick Smith John Mark Frederick Smith Sir John Mark Frederick Smith was a British general and colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers. He was also the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chatham from 1852 to 1853 and 1857 to 1865...
2 December 1868				Algernon West Algernon West The Rt Hon Sir Algernon Edward West GCB was Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gladstone.-Biography:He was the son of Martin John West and Lady Maria Walpole, daughter of the second Earl of Orford...
14 June 1871		Henry David Erskine
3 December 1874			Sir Leopold Cust, 2nd Baronet
6 April 1875		Walter James Stopford
21 March 1878			Conway Frederick Charles Seymour
13 June 1885	Hon. William Bagot William Bagot, 4th Baron Bagot William Bagot, 4th Baron Bagot JP was a British peer and Conservative politician.Bagot was the eldest son of William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot, and his wife the Hon. Lucia Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, and was educated at Eton...
20 April 1887	Cuthbert Larking
7 May 1888				Horace Charles George West

In Extraordinary

• 2 June 1660 – bef. 5 August 1668: Sir Peter Killigrew
• 2 June 1660 – 12 July 1669: William Sandys
  William Sandys 'Waterworks Sandys'
  William Sandys of Fladbury was known as Waterworks Sandys to distinguish him from his cousin, the spendthrift 'Golden Sandys'...
  
  
• 11 August 1660 – 21 April 1670?: Sir Ralph Clare
• 9 March 1661 – 29 January 1662?: Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet
• 12 November 1673 – ?: Edward Russell
• 1 February 1675 – 20 December 1681: Charles Boyle
• 19 March 1716 – ?: Frederick Henning
• 25 February 1796 – 29 July 1798: Robert Chester
• 8 August 1833 – 12 March 1834: Sir John Mark Frederick Smith
  John Mark Frederick Smith
  Sir John Mark Frederick Smith was a British general and colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers. He was also the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chatham from 1852 to 1853 and 1857 to 1865...
  
  

In Ordinary

Date	One	Two	Three	Four
June 1660	Peter Newton Peter Newton Peter Newton is an American sprint kayaker who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of sixth twice ....	Sir John Ayton	Sir Edward Carteret	Richard March
January 1661	Sir James Mercer
19 February 1671	Sir Thomas Duppa
9 March 1672				Edward Cranfield
2 October 1672		Walter Innes
15 April 1673		Charles Radley
21 January 1680		Henry Carr
4 February 1682				Brian Turner
2 March 1683			Henry Bulstrode
30 March 1685			Charles Carteret
8 August 1687				John Loving
11 December 1688		vacant	vacant	vacant
11 March 1689		Sir Fleetwood Sheppard Fleetwood Sheppard Fleetwood Sheppard was a British courtier and literary wit who was instrumental in the courts of Charles II of England and William of Orange...	Jeremiah Bubb	David Mitchell
2 March 1692			Francis Aston
27 April 1694	Jeremiah Chaplin
16 September 1698		Thomas Earle
9 July 1702		Sir William Oldes
6 June 1710				Sir William Sanderson, 1st Baronet
14 June 1715			Sir Charles Dalton Charles Dalton Sir Charles Dalton was a Prince Edward Island businessman, politician and philanthropist.Charles Dalton was born at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, the son of Patrick Dalton and Margaret McCarthy. He first worked as a farmer and then a druggist...
24 March 1716	Sir Thomas Brand
24 November 1718		Mark Anthony Saurin
17 May 1727				Henry de Sauniers
11 June 1727		vacant		vacant
11 September 1727		James Stewart
15 May 1728				Sir Henry Bellenden
29 April 1743		Henry de Sauniers
7 September 1747			Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet
3 July 1750			John Playters Playters Baronets The Playters Baronetcy, of Sotterley in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 13 August 1623 for Thomas Playters and was the last baronetcy created by King James I. The second Baronet was Vice-Admiral of Suffolk between 1640 and 1649. The fifth Baronet...
12 April 1759			William Fitzherbert
25 October 1760	vacant	vacant
12 December 1760	Sir Septimus Robinson Septimus Robinson Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Septimus Robinson was a British Army officer who became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.-Career:...	George Davis
30 May 1761				Lindley Simpson
23 December 1763			Edward Sneyd
22 July 1765		Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet was a courtier who became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.-Career:Born the son of Sir William Molyneux, 6th Baronet and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, Francis Molyneux was appointed gentleman usher daily waiter to the Queen in 1761 and...
16 September 1765	Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet Sir William FitzHerbert, 1st Baronet was the first baronet Fitzherbert of Tissington. He was a lawyer and recorder for Derby. He was an usher to George III. He owned a number of plantations for sugar and coffee in Jamaica and Barbados.-Biography:...
9 July 1782				George Anne Cooke
21 December 1782			Vere Warner
March 1788	Hale Young Wortham
27 July 1802				Thomas Osmer
10 June 1812		Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Thomas Tyrwhitt (MP) Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt was Member of Parliament for Okehampton.-Career:Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and after serving as private secretary to the Prince of Wales, Tyrwhitt was elected Member of Parliament for Okehampton in 1796...
28 July 1812			William Fenton Scott
28 March 1813			George Hamilton Seymour George Hamilton Seymour Sir George Hamilton Seymour GCB, GCH, PC was a British diplomat.Seymour was the son of Lord George Seymour and Isabella, daughter of Reverend the Honourable William Hamilton. He married the Honourable Gertrude, daughter of General Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, in 1831. They had several children....
14 August 1816				Thomas Ramsden
3 March 1820	Sir Thomas Baucutt Mash
23 July 1822				William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington was an Anglo-Irish nobleman notorious for his dissipated lifestyle.-Ancestry:...
1824				Thomas Ramsden
25 July 1832		Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Baronet Sir Augustus Clifford, 1st Baronet Admiral Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Baronet, CB, MP was a British Royal Navy officer, court official, and usher of the Black Rod.-Naval career:...
21 October 1836			John Lyster
10 January 1837	Sir William Martins
May 29, 1840			Sir Henry William des Voeux, 3rd Baronet
February 1, 1859			Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane Spencer Ponsonby-Fane Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby, later Ponsonby-Fane, GCB ISO was an English cricketer and civil servant.He was born in 1824 in Mayfair, the sixth son of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough.-Cricket:...
8 September 1860				Edward Hamilton Anson
10 June 1874	Charles Edmund Phipps
1 October 1876	Alpin Macgregor
17 March 1877		Sir William Thomas Knollys
7 July 1883		Sir James Robert Drummond James Robert Drummond Admiral Sir James Robert Drummond GCB was a British naval officer who commanded several ships in the Black Sea Fleet during the Crimean War and who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from 1874 to 1877 before going on to be Fourth Naval Lord.-Naval career:Born the second of the eight children of...
16 December 1895		Sir Michael Biddulph Michael Biddulph (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph KCB was a British Army officer who became Black Rod.-Military career:...
14 November 1899	Hon. Charles Eliot

Supernumerary

• 8 June 1660 – ?: Clement Sanders
• 14 July 1660 – ?: Roger Gardiner
• 27 July 1660 – ?: Ralph Wakerlin
• 3 October 1661 – ?: George Hopton

In Extraordinary

• 16 June 1675 – 24 November 1680: Henry Bulstrode
• 29 July 1715 – 24 March 1716: Thomas Brand

In Ordinary

Date	One	Two	Three	Four	Five	Six	Seven	Eight
7 June 1660	Richard Bagnall	vacant	vacant	vacant	vacant	vacant	vacant	vacant
8 June 1660		Nicholas Levett Levett Levett is an Anglo-Norman territorial surname deriving from the village of Livet-en-Ouche, now Jonquerets-de-Livet, in Eure, Normandy. Ancestors of the earliest Levett family in England, the de Livets were lords of the village of Livet, and undertenants of the de Ferrers, among the most powerful of...
11 June 1660			Edward Bowman	Francis Bowman	Nathaniel Darrell	William Chamberlain
14 June 1660							Thomas Duppa
20 June 1660								Paul French
29 January 1661					Robert Barcroft
11 October 1662							vacant
29 July 1664					Henry Barcroft
16 August 1664							Ralph Whistler
10 April 1665						Timothy Stanney
19 May 1665					Thomas Bambriggs
20 August 1666					Peter Watson
19 April 1669						Henry Jeyne
16 December 1670						Essex Strode
18 May 1672								Thomas Benbowe
29 September 1673								Nathaniel Hammond
4 November 1673					Humphrey Graves
1 June 1674				Jeremiah Bubb
3 March 1675						John Baggalley
16 December 1676					John Packer
2 August 1677	Jeremiah Chaplin
16 September 1677						John Fenn
1 September 1679			Charles Richards
23 April 1681						Thomas Granger
20 July 1682		Rose Peterman
19 September 1683								Clement King
14 December 1683						Noel Glover
25 January 1684								William Savage
6 January 1685					Robert Abbott
6 February 1685		vacant	vacant			vacant	vacant	vacant
18 May 1685		Nathaniel Hammond
12 May 1686			James Austin
24 May 1686						Denis Carney
30 May 1686							Joseph Ronkhe
31 May 1686								Robert Wigmore
27 December 1686					Hoyle Walsh
20 March 1687					John Marshall
3 December 1687			James Meyrick		Thomas Wyvill
7 July 1688								Robert Jegon
11 December 1688					vacant	vacant	vacant
20 February 1689					Henry Coling
7 March 1689						Francis Aston
13 March 1689				Alexander Griffith
2 April 1689		Robert Murray					William Smith
18 June 1689		Anthony Murray
29 November 1690			John Ward
20 March 1691								William Awnsham
6 April 1691				William Prewett
27 February 1692		David Carbonell
2 March 1692						Anthony Murray
3 March 1692	Alexander Marriott
20 August 1692					Richard Ellis
13 July 1693							Nicholas King
5 November 1693			Thomas Earle
10 December 1694					Alexander Pyle
18 March 1695		Henry Godfrey
25 November 1695						Edward Patriarch
6 November 1696							Jeremy Bird
3 November 1697						Sands Chapman
14 July 1698			Tobiah Humphreys
12 February 1699				Robert Barry
29 November 1699						John Edlyne
3 May 1700					Marmaduke Beling
16 June 1700				John Farey
9 July 1702	Charles Dalton Charles Dalton Sir Charles Dalton was a Prince Edward Island businessman, politician and philanthropist.Charles Dalton was born at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, the son of Patrick Dalton and Margaret McCarthy. He first worked as a farmer and then a druggist...			Charles Bressey	Henry Gardie			John Pinckney
20 December 1706						Thomas Ogle
13 June 1707							Thomas Hutton
7 June 1710	Francis Coxeter
26 February 1711						Sir Clement Clerke, 3rd Baronet
23 June 1714			James Ede
20 June 1715						Charles Ottway
9 November 1719				Charles Bodens
21 March 1720						William Castle
18 April 1721		John Phillips
31 July 1722						Langham Edwards
7 August 1722			Robert Tripp
17 May 1727					James Eckersall		vacant 21 Sep 1725
9 October 1727	George Coke	Isaac Didier				John Goodwin	Sir Everard Buckworth, 3rd Baronet
4 March 1731	John Jenkins
1 October 1731								James Calthorpe James Calthorpe James Calthorpe, DL was a British politician and courtier.Calthorpe was born at Elmswell, Suffolk and was the eldest son and heir of Christopher Calthorpe and his wife, Elizabeth, née Kettleborough...
24 January 1736						William Kellet
4 December 1736		Francis Boggest
31 October 1738				George Bodens
23 January 1741	George Anne Cooke
14 January 1742							Joseph Hudson
6 February 1746						Charles Maddockes
22 July 1747								Lawrence Wright
4 February 1754					Matthias Cocksedge
21 February 1754					Leathes Johnston
7 February 1757						Thomas Evans
7 May 1757							Robert Jackson	Richard Poley
13 May 1758			William Wilkinson
9 July 1759							Robert Griffin
9 May 1760		John Fremantle
7 November 1761			Thomas Cox
24 November 1764			Frederick Chapman
5 February 1765							Edward Mainwaring
15 June 1765					William Plaxon
21 May 1767						John Larpent
8 February 1770								William Newton
22 January 1771								Francis Bartlam
23 July 1774						Edward Whitehouse
5 September 1776								Henry Baines
8 February 1779	John Welsh
7 June 1779				Edmund Armstrong
20 April 1782		John Edward Fremantle
17 October 1782					Charles Moore
5 December 1782								John Savile Dobyns
4 April 1783							James Meller
1788					Robert Browne
5 February 1794				Robert Chester
6 February 1797				Thomas Osmer
29 July 1798							William Lewis
6 March 1801	Thomas Baucutt Mash
27 July 1802				James Singer Burton
22 March 1805		Hon. Heneage Legge Heneage Legge (1788–1844) The Honourable Heneage Legge , was a British Member of Parliament.Legge was the second son of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, by Lady Frances, daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford...
20 March 1806						John Bowdler John Bowdler the Younger John Bowdler the Younger , was an English author and solicitor.-Early life:Bowdler was the younger son of John Bowdler the elder. He was born in London on 2 February 1783. He was educated at Winchester, and in 1798 was placed in a London solicitor's office...
20 August 1808			Edward Ash
2 February 1815						William Bernard Clarke
6 January 1819				Samuel Randall
4 March 1820	Henry Meynell
11 March 1829								William Martins
30 March 1829			Sir John Strachan, 10th Baronet
23 March 1831	Thomas Shiffner
23 April 1833	Henry William Greville Henry William Greville Henry William Greville , was an English diarist.Greville, youngest son of Charles Greville, grandson of the fifth Lord Warwick, by Lady Charlotte Cavendish Bentinck, eldest daughter of William Henry, third duke of Portland, born on 28 Oct. 1801, was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church,...
20 May 1833						John George Green
4 April 1836					John Lyster
21 October 1836					Hon. William FitzGerald-de Ros William FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros General William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros of Helmsley, PC, DL , was a British soldier and Conservative politician...
10 January 1837								Charles Diggle
11 June 1838							Alfred Montgomery
7 June 1839					Edward Hobhouse
27 December 1844		Hon. Mortimer Sackville-West Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville , was a British peer and court official.Sackville-West was the fourth son of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr, and Elizabeth Sackville, 1st Baroness Buckhurst, younger daughter and co-heir of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset...
1 March 1852		Wilbraham Taylor
13 July 1852				Henry Sykes Stephens
24 February 1854			Robert Tench Bedford
22 May 1854					George Howard Vyse
26 June 1862						William Ross
27 October 1862								Charles Gudgeon Nelson
9 March 1868			Francis Knollys
1 March 1873	Raglan George Henry Somerset
2 February 1874						Charles Wylde
29 August 1878				Arthur John Loftus
28 April 1883				Hon. Henry Julian Stonor
21 January 1884						Hon. Aubrey FitzClarence
4 June 1890					Charles James Innes Ker
1 May 1892								Arthur Collins Arthur Collins Arthur Francis Collins was an American singer who recorded a significant number of early records. With tenor singer Byron G...
18 May 1895		Brook Taylor
15 April 1896							Hon. Arthur Hay
27 November 1899			Wyndham Frederick Tufnell

Supernumerary

• 14 September 1664 – ?: John Mercer
• 10 March 1665 – ?: Samuell Price
• 23 March 1666 – ?: Francis Burghill
• 16 March 1669 – ?: William Batterlee
• 10 July 1671 – ?: Francis Harris
• 17 July 1671 – ?: George Sanderson
• 23 July 1673 – ?: Thomas Skarlett

In Extraordinary

• 14 July 1660 – ?: John Cleeland
• 21 December 1660 – ?: Thomas Webb
• 14 February 1661 – ?: William Wakerfield
• 6 May 1661 – 10 July 1671?: Francis Harris
• 14 May 1662 – ?: Samuell Norrice
• 2 July 1662 – ?: James Bridgman
• 30 August 1662 – ?: Charles Gouldsmyth
• 30 September 1662 – ?: Isaack Page
• 2 February 1663 – ?: William Mercer
• 27 February 1663 – ?: John Rowe
• 28 February 1663 – ?: Martin Trott
• 9 March 1663 – ?: John Taylor
• 2 April 1663 – ?: Nicholas Coleburne
• 3 April 1663 – ?: Anderson Achley
• 6 July 1663 – ?: John Colemore
• 29 July 1663 – ?: William Rattrey
• 10 December 1663 – ?: James Jenever
• 27 January 1664 – ?: Uriah Babbington
• 20 August 1664 – ?: John Boys
• 20 August 1664 – ?: John Backhouse
• 12 November 1664 – 23 July 1673?: Thomas Skarlett
• 6 February 1665 – ?: Joshua Meriton
• 24 June 1665 – ?: Edward Bedill
• 9 December 1665 – ?: Henry Pate
• 19 January 1666 – aft. 1680?: Robert Marriell
• 1 March 1666 – ?: Edmund Cowse
• 6 March 1666 – ?: Daniell Skymer
• 5 May 1718 – 9 November 1719: Charles Bodens
• 11 December 1719 – 7 August 1722: Robert Tripp
• 5 February 1861 – 5 January 1882: John George Green

Extra Gentleman Ushers

Extra Gentleman Ushers gazetted without indicating them to be daily or quarterly waiters.

• 9 January 1850 – 1 March 1852: Wilbraham Taylor
• 5 April 1855 – ?: Norman Hilton Macdonald
• 8 December 1857 – 1 February 1859: Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby
  Spencer Ponsonby-Fane
  Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby, later Ponsonby-Fane, GCB ISO was an English cricketer and civil servant.He was born in 1824 in Mayfair, the sixth son of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough.-Cricket:...
  
  
• 13 July 1892 – 1901?: Hon. Alexander Nelson Hood
  Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814-1904)
  General Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 4th Duke of Bronté GCB was a British soldier and courtier....
  
  
• 1 January 1899 – 27 November 1899: Wyndham Frederick Tufnell

In Ordinary

• 23 July 1901 – 1 December 1915?: Hon. Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane
• 23 July 1901 – 16 September 1925: Hon. Arthur Hay
• 23 July 1901 – 11 February 1911: Hon. Otway Frederick Seymour Cuffe
• 23 July 1901 – 7 February 1902: Hon. Aubrey FitzClarence
• 23 July 1901 – 1935?: Hon. Henry Julian Stonor
• 23 July 1901 – 26 January 1909: John Palmer Brabazon
• 23 July 1901 – 21 November 1911: Arthur Collins
  Arthur Collins
  Arthur Francis Collins was an American singer who recorded a significant number of early records. With tenor singer Byron G...
  
  
• 23 July 1901 – 1 February 1928: Sir Lionel Henry Cust
  Lionel Cust
  Sir Lionel Henry Cust, KCVO FSA was an English art historian and museum director. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1895 to 1909 and co-edited The Burlington Magazine from 1909 to 1919....
  
  
• 23 July 1901 – 30 November 1908: Montague Charles Eliot
  Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans
  Montague Charles Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans, KCVO, OBE , styled Hon. Montague Eliot from 1923 to 1942, was a British peer and courtier....
  
  
• 23 July 1901 – 1 April 1919: Sir Henry David Erskine
• 23 July 1901 – 14 November 1905: Charles James Innes-Ker
• 23 July 1901 – 7 May 1910?: Cuthbert Larking (not renewed 7 May 1910)
• 23 July 1901 – bef. 1919: Arnold Royle
• 23 July 1901 – 13 June 1903: John Ramsay Slade
• 23 July 1901 – 14 June 1908: Walter James Stopford
• 23 July 1901 – 1 April 1919: Brook Taylor
• 23 July 1901 – 24 June 1925: Horace Charles George West
• 7 February 1902 – 14 November 1905: Hon. Arthur Henry John Walsh
  Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite
  Arthur Henry John Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite, GCVO was a British peer and courtier.Walsh was the eldest son of the 2nd Baron Ormathwaite and his wife, Katherine, a daughter of the 7th Duke of Beaufort. He was educated at Eton College...
  
   (replacing FitzClarence)
• 13 June 1903 – 2 May 1927: Percy Armytage (replacing Slade)
• 14 November 1905 – 1913: Sir John Ramsay Slade (replacing Innes-Ker)
• 14 November 1905 – 18 July 1907?: Harry Lloyd-Verney (replacing Walsh)
• 18 July 1907 – 20 May 1916: Charles Windham (replacing Verney, who res. by 1 August 1907)
• 26 June 1908 – 13 October 1908: Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Cunninghame Graham (replacing Stopford)
• 13 October 1908 – 1 April 1919: Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote (replacing Graham)
• 30 November 1908 – 1 April 1919: Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis (replacing Eliot)
• 26 January 1909 – 1 April 1919: Henry Fludyer (replacing Brabazon)
• 17 June 1910 – 2 January 1911: Hon. Seymour John Fortescue (replacing Larking?)
• 2 January 1911 – 21 July 1936: Montague Charles Eliot
  Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans
  Montague Charles Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans, KCVO, OBE , styled Hon. Montague Eliot from 1923 to 1942, was a British peer and courtier....
  
   (replacing Fortescue)
• 11 February 1911 – 3 November 1924: Lord William Cecil
  Lord William Cecil
  Lord William Cecil CVO a British royal courtier and a younger son of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter.In 1892, he became a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and remained as such until her death in 1901. He was then an Extra Gentleman Usher from 1924 under King George V until his retirement in 1937. On...
  
   (replacing Cuffe)
• 13 February 1912 – 15 February 1927: John Chaytor Brinton (replacing Collins)
• 30 September 1913 – 1914: William Leslie Davidson (replacing Slade)
• 1 April 1919 – 21 July 1936: Philip Nelson-Ward
  Philip Nelson-Ward
  Admiral Philip Nelson-Ward CVO was a British Royal Navy officer and courtier.Nelson-Ward was the son of a clergyman who was a grandson of Lord Nelson through his daughter Horatia. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of thirteen. In 1882, while a Midshipman in the Bacchante class corvette HMS...
  
   (replacing Erskine)
• 1 April 1919 – 4 May 1922: The Lord Dormer (replacing Royle)
• 1 April 1919 – 14 October 1932: Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key
• 1 April 1919 – bef. 1936: Gerald Frederic Trotter (replacing Kingscote)
• 1 April 1919 – 22 April 1927: Montagu Grant Wilkinson (replacing Ellis)
• 1 April 1919 – 1 December 1931: Berkeley John Talbot Levett
  Berkeley John Talbot Levett
  Berkeley John Talbot Levett CVO , was a Major in the Scots Guards and later a Gentleman Usher for the Royal family. He was a witness in the Royal Baccarat Scandal of 1890 in which the future King Edward VII was drawn into a gambling dispute which painted him in an unflattering light.-Life and...
  
   (replacing Fludyer)
• 1 April 1919 – 24 October 1928: Henry Peter Hansell (replacing Davidson)
• 6 June 1922 – 21 May 1934: Sir Hamnet Holditch Share (replacing Dormer)
• 1 March 1924 – 21 July 1936: Louis Greig
  Louis Leisler Greig
  Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE, CVO was a British naval surgeon, courtier and intimate of King George VI, and a rugby union player.-Rugby union:...
  
  
• 24 June 1925 – 13 February 1950?: Edmund Vivian Gabriel
• 16 September 1925 – 19 April 1966: Sir Humphrey Clifford Lloyd (replacing Hay)
• 15 February 1927 – 21 February 1964: Henry Valentine Bache de Satgé (replacing Brinton)
• 22 April 1927 – 21 July 1936: Sir Smith Hill Child, 2nd Baronet (replacing Wilkinson)
• 2 May 1927 – 12 January 1961: Sir Arthur Bromley, 8th Baronet (replacing Armytage)
• 1 February 1928 – 2 March 1937?: Hon. George Sidney Herbert (replacing Cust)
• 24 October 1928 – 21 July 1936: Sir Arthur D'Arcy Gordon Bannerman (replacing Hansell)
• 1 December 1931 – 7 May 1946: John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams (replacing Levett)
• 14 October 1932 – 21 November 1939: John Lamplugh Wickham (replacing Cooper-Key)
• 21 May 1934 – 1 January 1952: Frederick Edward Packe (replacing Share)
• 21 July 1936 – 5 August 1952: Charles Alexander Lindsay Irvine
• 1 March 1937 – 5 August 1952?: Russell Lister-Kaye
• 1 March 1937 – 3 August 1951: Neville Charsley Tufnell
  Neville Tufnell
  Neville Charsley Tufnell was a cricketer. Born in 1887 in Simla, Punjab, India, Tufnell played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in a not particularly notable first-class career that lasted from 1907 to 1924. He also played one Test match for England at...
  
  
• 1 March 1937 – 1 January 1967: Geoffrey Ronald Codrington
• 1 March 1937 – 17 January 1964: William Duncan Phipps
• 1 March 1937 – 1 September 1954: Sir Frank Todd Spickernell
• 1 March 1937 – 1 January 1967: Philip Lloyd Neville
• 1 March 1937 – 1 December 1938: Hon. John Spencer Coke
• 1 December 1938 – 3 September 1955?: Guy Elland Carne Rasch (replacing Coke)
• 1 January 1952 – 10 November 1959: Sir George Ranald Macfarlane Reid
  George Reid (aviator)
  Air Vice Marshal Sir George Ranald MacFarlane Reid KCB, DSO, MC & Bar was a senior officer of the Royal Air Force. He began his career in aviation in World War I with the Royal Flying Corps after transferring from the Black Watch...
  
   (replacing Packe)
• 14 November 1952 – 1 July 1969: Sir John Mandeville Hugo
• 8 May 1953 – 1 April 1967: John Sidney North FitzGerald
• bef. 1959: Frederick Robert Joseph Mack
• 10 November 1959 – 1 April 1967: Frederick George Beaumont-Nesbitt (replacing Mack)
• 10 November 1959 – 18 January 1966: Arthur Percy Ledger (replacing Reid)
• 9 May 1961 – 22 February 1995: Henry Louis Carron Greig
• 27 October 1964 – 25 July 1969: Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch
• 16 March 1965 – 28 January 1984: Michael Neville Tufnell
• 1 November 1966 – 9 June 1975: Sir James Newton Rodney Moore
• 1 November 1966 – 12 August 1979: Sir Maurice Lionel Heath
• 1 January 1967 – ?: John Arundell Holdsworth (replacing Codrington)
• 1 January 1967 – ?: William Henry Gerard Leigh (replacing Neville)
• 1 April 1967 – 1979: Sir Ronald Vernon Brockman (replacing FitzGerald)
• 3 October 1967 – 1979: Hon. Sir Peter Beckford Rutgers Vanneck
  Peter Vanneck
  Air Commodore Sir Peter Beckford Rutgers Vanneck, GBE, CB, AFC, AE, DL was a British Royal Navy officer, jet pilot, engineer, stockbroker and politician...
  
  
• 29 March 1971 – 12 July 1991: Sir Julian Paget, 4th Baronet
• ? – 20 April 1976: Sir James Bowes-Lyon
  James Bowes-Lyon
  Major-General Sir Francis James Cecil Bowes-Lyon KCVO CB OBE MC was Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.-Military career:Bowes-Lyon was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1938. He served in the Guards Armoured Division during World War II.In 1955 he became Commandant at the Guards...
  
  
• 17 February 1978 – 20 October 1989: Sir Neville Stack
  Neville Stack
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville Stack KCB CVO AFC was a senior Royal Air Force commander.-Early years:Stack was born on 19 October 1919 the son of aviation pioneer T.N. Stack. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1935 as a flight cadet at RAF College Cranwell. He gained a permanent commission on 29...
  
  
• 21 November 1978 – 14 August 1995: John Arthur Guinness Slessor
• 1 October 1979 – 1 October 1982: Sir David Williams
• ? – 1 January 1980: Sir Peter Bernard Gillett
• 1 January 1980 – 1 December 1989: Sir Desmond Hind Garrett Rice (replacing Gillett)
• 2 November 1982 – 28 June 1994: Sir Roy David Austen-Smith
• 2 November 1982 – 24 July 1994: Sir David Anning Loram
  David Loram
  Vice Admiral Sir David Anning Loram KCB CVO was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.-Naval career:...
  
  
• 1984 – 2002: Michael Ernest Barrow
• 1985 – 3 October 1999: Michael Fulford-Dobson
• 28 February 1986 – 20 August 1998: Sir Richard Maurice Hilton Vickers
  Richard Vickers
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• 20 October 1989 – 31 January 2011: Barry Hamilton Newton (replacing Stack)
• 12 July 1991 – 17 June 2004: Henry Malcolm Chitty Havergal
• 28 June 1994 – 2009: Colin Herbert Dickinson Cooke-Priest(replacing Austen-Smith)
• 10 November 1994 – 4 April 2007: David Richard Hawkins, later Hawkins-Leth (replacing Loram)
• 22 February 1995 – 1 January 2008: Brian Pennicott
• 20 August 1998 – 29 July 1999: Robert Cartwright (replacing Vickers?)
• 29 July 1999 – present: Oliver Breakwell (replacing Cartwright)
• 3 October 1999 – 31 July 2011: Paddy McKnight (replacing Fulford-Dobson)
• bef. 2002 – present: Gordon Birdwood
• bef. 2004 – present: Richard Kyle
• 2002 - present: John Hance (replacing Barrow)
• 17 June 2004 – present: George Kennedy (replacing Havergal)
• 4 April 2007 – present: David Hobart (replacing Hawkins-Leth)
• 1 January 2008 – present: Grant Baker (replacing Pennicott)
• 2009 – present: Laurie Hopkins (replacing Cooke-Priest)
• 1 February 2011 - present: Malcolm Fuller (replacing Newton)
• 1 August 2011 - present: Christopher Laurence Palmer (replacing McKnight)

Extra

• 1 April 1919 – bef. 1936: Brook Taylor
• 1 April 1919 – 1935?: Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote
• 1 April 1919 – aft. 1937: Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis (d. 1953)
• 1 April 1919 – 1920: Henry Fludyer
• 3 November 1924 – 1937: Lord William Cecil
  Lord William Cecil
  Lord William Cecil CVO a British royal courtier and a younger son of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter.In 1892, he became a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and remained as such until her death in 1901. He was then an Extra Gentleman Usher from 1924 under King George V until his retirement in 1937. On...
  
  
• 16 September 1925 – bef. 1936: Hon. Arthur Hay
• 22 April 1927 – aft. 1937: Montagu Grant Wilkinson
• 2 May 1927 – bef. 1936: Percy Armytage
• 1 February 1928 – 12 October 1929?: Sir Lionel Henry Cust
  Lionel Cust
  Sir Lionel Henry Cust, KCVO FSA was an English art historian and museum director. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1895 to 1909 and co-edited The Burlington Magazine from 1909 to 1919....
  
  
• 24 October 1928 – bef. 1936: Henry Peter Hansell
• 1 December 1931 – aft. 1937: Berkeley John Talbot Levett
  Berkeley John Talbot Levett
  Berkeley John Talbot Levett CVO , was a Major in the Scots Guards and later a Gentleman Usher for the Royal family. He was a witness in the Royal Baccarat Scandal of 1890 in which the future King Edward VII was drawn into a gambling dispute which painted him in an unflattering light.-Life and...
  
  
• 14 October 1932 – bef. 1936: Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key
• 21 May 1934 – 1937: Sir Hamnet Holditch Share
• 21 July 1936 – bef. 1952: Philip Nelson-Ward
• 21 July 1936 – 27 April 1955: Sir Arthur D'Arcy Gordon Bannerman, 12th Baronet
• 1 March 1937 – 1 March 1953: Louis Greig
  Louis Leisler Greig
  Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE, CVO was a British naval surgeon, courtier and intimate of King George VI, and a rugby union player.-Rugby union:...
  
  
• 1 December 1938 – aft. 1952: John Spencer Coke
• 21 November 1939 – bef. 1952: John Lamplugh Wickham
• 7 May 1946 – aft. 1952: Sir John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams
• 1 August 1950 – aft. 1952: Sir John Berkeley Monck
• 8 December 1950 – aft. 1952: Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard
  Algar Howard
  Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard, KCB, KCVO, MC, TD was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London...
  
  
• 2 March 1951 – aft. 1952: Andrew Vavasour Scott Yates
• 2 March 1951 – aft. 1952: Thomas Cockayne Harvey
• 1 January 1952 – aft. 1952: Frederick Edward Packe
• 5 August 1952 – aft. 1952: Charles Alexander Lindsay Irvine
• 1 September 1954 – ?: Sir Frank Todd Spickernell
• 24 May 1955 – ?: Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne
• 24 May 1955 – ?: Charles Richard Britten
• 8 November 1955 – 11 September 1964: Frederic Hudd
• 8 November 1955 – 29 March 1957: Valston Eldridge Hancock
• 8 November 1955 – 6 June 1958: John Graham Hale
• 8 November 1955 – 23 April 1957: Shaukat Ali Shah
• 8 November 1955 – 1 April 1960: Christopher Fernando
• 29 March 1957 – 14 October 1958: Edmund John Buchanan Foxcroft (replacing Hancock)
• 23 April 1957 – 6 January 1961: Sultan Mohammed (replacing Shah)
• 24 May 1957 – 1961: Sir Marcus Cheke
• 6 June 1958 – 27 April 1962: John Vivian Scott (replacing Hale)
• 2 August 1958 – 9 July 1966: Sir John Dashwood, 10th Baronet
• 14 October 1958 – 5 January 1960: Robert William Knights (replacing Foxcroft)
• 10 November 1959 – 1991?: Sir George Ranald Macfarlane Reid
  George Reid (aviator)
  Air Vice Marshal Sir George Ranald MacFarlane Reid KCB, DSO, MC & Bar was a senior officer of the Royal Air Force. He began his career in aviation in World War I with the Royal Flying Corps after transferring from the Black Watch...
  
  
• 10 November 1959 – ?: Esmond Butler
• 5 January 1960 – 1960: Robert Durie (replacing Knights) (d. 1960)
• 1 April 1960 – ?: Mirisiya Ananda Jeewasoma (replacing Fernando)
• 27 May 1960 – 6 March 1962: Alister Murray Murdoch (replacing Durie)
• 6 January 1961 – ?: Irshad Ahmad Khan (replacing Mohammed)
• 24 January 1961 – ?: Sir Ivan De la Bere
• 14 November 1961 – ?: Sir Henry Austin Strutt
• 6 March 1962 – 30 September 1966: William Richard Cumming
• 27 April 1962 – 13 March 1964: Donald Geoffrey Harper (replacing Scott)
• 12 June 1962 – 27 October 1964: Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch
• 21 February 1964 – 1964: Henry Valentine Bache de Satgé
• 13 March 1964 – 23 March 1965: John Malcolm Kirk Hill (replacing Harper)
• 21 April 1964 – ?: Geoffrey Clark Hartnell
• 11 September 1964 – 22 October 1965: Alain Chartier Edmond Joly de Lotbinière (replacing Hudd)
• 23 March 1965 – 21 March 1967: Jeremy Paul Axford Commons (replacing Hill)
• 22 October 1965 – 23 August 1966: Michel de Goumois (replacing de Lotbinière)
• 18 January 1966 – ?: Arthur Percy Ledger
• 19 April 1966 – ?: Sir Humphrey Clifford Lloyd
• 23 August 1966 – ?: Jacques Claude Noiseux (replacing de Goumois)
• 30 September 1966 – 2 February 1968: Francis George Hassett (replacing Cumming)
• 1 January 1967 – ?: Geoffrey Ronald Codrington
• 1 January 1967 – ?: Philip Lloyd Neville
• 21 March 1967 – 31 July 1970: Bruce Walter Middleton (replacing Commons)
• 1 April 1967 – ?: John Sidney North FitzGerald
• 1 April 1967 – ?: Frederick George Beaumont-Nesbitt
• 2 February 1968 – 17 November 1970: Andrew Leslie Moore (replacing Hassett)
• 20 August 1968 – ?: Sir Cyril Harry Colquhoun
• 1 July 1969 – 2000: Sir John Mandeville Hugo
• 25 July 1969 – ?: Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch
• 25 November 1969 – ?: Sir John Mitchell Harvey Wilson, 2nd Baronet (d. 6 February 1975)
• 31 July 1970 – ?: Nicholas William Bridge (replacing Middleton)
• 17 November 1970 – 5 June 1971: Frank Headlam (replacing Moore)
• 5 June 1971 – 1 November 1974: William Richard Cumming (replacing Headlam)
• 1 November 1974 – 1 December 1977: John Wilkins Hubble (replacing Cumming)
• 9 June 1975 – ?: Sir Rodney Moore
  James Newton Rodney Moore
  General Sir Rodney Moore, GCVO KCB CBE DSO was a senior British Army officer.-Military career:Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, Moore was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1925. From 1942 to 1944 he was General Staff Officer 1 Guards Armoured Division...
  
  
• 20 April 1976 – ?: Sir James Bowes-Lyon
  James Bowes-Lyon
  Major-General Sir Francis James Cecil Bowes-Lyon KCVO CB OBE MC was Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.-Military career:Bowes-Lyon was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1938. He served in the Guards Armoured Division during World War II.In 1955 he became Commandant at the Guards...
  
  
• 1 December 1977 – 30 June 1981: Francis Conynghame Murray (replacing Hubble)
• 12 August 1979 – ?: Sir Maurice Lionel Heath
• 30 June 1981 – 3 August 1982: Richard Malcolm Baird (replacing Murray)
• 30 June 1981 – ?: Sir James Henry Scholtens
• 30 June 1981 – 2010: Sir Patrick Jerad O'Dea
  Patrick O'Dea
  Sir Patrick O'Dea, KCVO was a senior New Zealand public servant who was well known as the organiser of royal tours of New Zealand.-Early life:Patrick Jerad O'Dea was born in Dunedin and raised there...
  
  
• 30 June 1981 – ?: Percy Stewart Cooper
• 3 August 1982 – ?: Robert John Whitten (replacing Baird)
• 1 October 1982 – ?: Sir David Williams
• 28 January 1984 – ?: Michael Neville Tufnell
• 1984 – ?: Henry Francis Davis
• 2 December 1986 – 2009: Sir Russell Dillon Wood
• ? – 5 February 1988: Peter Volney Blackman
• 5 February 1988 – ?: David Robert Lawrence (replacing Blackman)
• 20 October 1989 – ?: Sir Neville Stack
  Neville Stack
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville Stack KCB CVO AFC was a senior Royal Air Force commander.-Early years:Stack was born on 19 October 1919 the son of aviation pioneer T.N. Stack. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1935 as a flight cadet at RAF College Cranwell. He gained a permanent commission on 29...
  
  
• 1 December 1989 – ?: Sir Desmond Hind Garrett Rice
• 12 July 1991 – ?: Sir Julian Paget, 4th Baronet
• 1 January 1993 – ?: Stanley William Frederick Martin
• 1 October 1993 – ?: John Haslam
• 1 December 1993 – 7 September 2006: Sir Norman James Blacklock
  Norman Blacklock
  Sir Norman James Blacklock KCVO OBE FRCS was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and later a consultant in urology and professor of medicine at Manchester University. He served as Medical Officer to The Queen on her overseas tours for 17 years, from 1976 to 1993...
  
  
• 28 June 1994 – ?: Sir Roy David Austen-Smith
• 24 July 1994 – ?: Sir David Anning Loram
  David Loram
  Vice Admiral Sir David Anning Loram KCB CVO was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.-Naval career:...
  
  
• 22 February 1995 – ?: Henry Louis Carron Greig
• 14 August 1995 – 2008?: John Arthur Guinness Slessor
• 1999 – present: Michael Fulford-Dobson
• 2002 – ?: Michael Ernest Barrow
• 17 June 2004 – ?: Henry Malcolm Chitty Havergal
• 4 April 2007 – present: David Hawkins-Leth
• 13 November 2007 – ?: David Swain
• 1 January 2008 – present: Brian Pennicott
• 2009 – present: Rear Admiral Colin Herbert Dickinson Cooke-Priest
• 2011 - present: Captain Paddy McKnight, RN

Honorary

• 9 July 1903 – 13 October 1908: Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote
• 11 June 1909 – 11 February 1911: Lord William Cecil
  Lord William Cecil
  Lord William Cecil CVO a British royal courtier and a younger son of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter.In 1892, he became a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and remained as such until her death in 1901. He was then an Extra Gentleman Usher from 1924 under King George V until his retirement in 1937. On...