| Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard & Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords | |
|---|---|
 | |
 The Baroness Wheeler since 10 July 2024 | |
| 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.[1] The present Captain is The Baroness Wheeler, who was appointed to the position in the Starmer ministry in July 2024.
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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Donald Howard The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal |
November
1931 |
January
1934 |
rowspan="7" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative | rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |National Government II
(Con.–Lib–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
|
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Arthur Chichester The Lord Templemore |
January
1934 |
August
1945 |
|||
| rowspan=1 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|National Government III
(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
||||||
| rowspan=1 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |National Government IV
(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) | ||||||
| rowspan=1 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Chamberlain (War Ministry)
(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) | ||||||
| rowspan=1 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Churchill (War Ministry)
(Con.–Lib–Lab-Nat Lab–Nat Lib) | ||||||
| rowspan=1 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Churchill (Caretaker)
(Con.–Nat Lib-Ind) | ||||||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | Alexander Walkden The Lord Walkden |
August
1945 |
July
1949 |
rowspan="5" Template:Party shading/Labour|Labour | rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Labour|Attlee I | |
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | George Shepherd The Lord Shepherd |
July
1949 |
October
1949 |
|||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | George Lucas The Lord Lucas of Chilworth |
October
1949 |
March
1950 |
|||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | George Bingham The Earl of Lucan |
March
1950 |
June
1951 |
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour|Attlee II | ||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | George Archibald The Lord Archibald |
June
1951 |
November
1951 |
|||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | William Onslow The Earl of Onslow |
November
1951 |
October
1960 |
rowspan="7" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative | rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Churchill III | |
| rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Eden | ||||||
| rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Macmillan I | ||||||
| rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Macmillan II | ||||||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Peter Legh The Lord Legh |
October
1960 |
September
1962 |
rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Macmillan II | ||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | John Goschen The Viscount Goschen |
September
1962 |
December
1964 |
rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Macmillan II | ||
| rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Douglas-Home | ||||||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | Frank Bowles The Lord Bowles |
December
1964 |
June
1970 |
rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Labour|Labour | rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Labour |Wilson II | |
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | John Goschen The Viscount Goschen |
June
1970 |
November
1971 |
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Conservative | rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Heath | |
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Bertram Bowyer The Lord Denham |
November
1971 |
March
1974 |
|||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | David Kenworthy The Lord Strabolgi |
March
1974 |
May
1979 |
rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Labour |Labour | rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Labour |Wilson III | |
| rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Labour |Wilson IV | ||||||
| rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Labour |Callaghan | ||||||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Andrew Hill The Lord Sandys |
May
1979 |
October
1982 |
rowspan="11" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Conservative | rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Thatcher I | |
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | David Cunliffe-Lister The Earl of Swinton |
October
1982 |
September
1986 |
|||
| rowspan="1" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Thatcher II | ||||||
| rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Thatcher III | ||||||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Andrew Davidson The Viscount Davidson |
September
1986 |
December
1991 |
[2] | ||
| rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Major I | ||||||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Michael Bowes-Lyon The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne |
December
1991 |
July
1994 |
[3] | ||
| rowspan="4" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Major II | ||||||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Arthur Gore The Earl of Arran |
July
1994 |
January
1995 |
[4] | ||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Richard Fletcher-Vane The Lord Inglewood |
January
1995 |
July
1995 |
[5] | ||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | Nicholas Cavendish The Lord Chesham |
July
1995 |
May 1997 |
[6] | ||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | Andrew McIntosh The Lord McIntosh of Haringey |
May 1997 |
June 2003 |
Template:Party shading/Labour |Labour | Template:Party shading/Labour |Blair I | [7] |
21st century[]
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Ministry | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | 
|
Bryan Davies The Lord Davies of Oldham |
June 2003 |
May 2010 |
rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour | Template:Party shading/Labour |Blair II | [8] |
| Template:Party shading/Labour |Blair III | |||||||
| Template:Party shading/Labour | Brown | |||||||
| style="background-color:#FAA61A;" width=10px | " | | 
|
David Shutt The Lord Shutt of Greetland |
May 2010 |
May 2012 |
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrat | rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.) |
[9] |
| style="background-color:#FAA61A;" width=10px | " | | 
|
Richard Newby The Lord Newby |
May 2012 |
May 2015 |
[10] | ||
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | 
|
John Gardiner The Lord Gardiner of Kimble |
May 2015 |
July 2016 |
rowspan="7" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative | Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Cameron II | [11] |
| style="background-color:#0087DC;" width=10px | " | | 
|
Patrick Stopford The Earl of Courtown |
July 2016 |
July 2024 |
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | May I | [12] | |
| Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | May II | |||||||
| Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Johnson I | |||||||
| Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Johnson II | |||||||
| Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Truss | |||||||
| Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Sunak | |||||||
| style="background-color:#DC241f;" width=10px | " | | 
|
Margaret Wheeler The Baroness Wheeler |
July 2024 |
Incumbent | Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour | Template:Party shading/Labour |Starmer | [13] |
References[]
- J. Haydn, The Book of Dignities
- C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts 1830–1900
- D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000
- ↑ "Captains of the Yeoman of the Guard". http://yeomenoftheguard.com/captains.htm.
- ↑ Roth, Andrew (2012-08-27). "Viscount Davidson obituary" (in en). http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/aug/27/viscount-davidson.
- ↑ "Parliamentary career for Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne – MPs and Lords – UK Parliament" (in en). https://members.parliament.uk/member/2419/career.
- ↑ "Contact information for The Earl of Arran – MPs and Lords – UK Parliament" (in en). https://members.parliament.uk/member/3433/contact.
- ↑ "Contact information for Lord Inglewood – MPs and Lords – UK Parliament" (in en). https://members.parliament.uk/member/1980/contact.
- ↑ "Parliamentary career for Lord Chesham – MPs and Lords – UK Parliament" (in en). https://members.parliament.uk/member/3338/career.
- ↑ "Parliamentary career for The Lord McIntosh of Haringey – MPs and Lords – UK Parliament" (in en). https://members.parliament.uk/member/1885/career.
- ↑ "Lord Davies of Oldham". https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-davies-of-oldham/987.
- ↑ "Lord Shutt of Greetland". https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-shutt-of-greetland/2546.
- ↑ "Lord Newby". https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-newby/1916.
- ↑ "Lord Gardiner of Kimble". https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-gardiner-of-kimble/4161.
- ↑ "The Earl of Courtown". https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/the-earl-of-courtown/3359.
- ↑ "Ministerial Appointments: July 2024y". https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-july-2024.