Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a UK government post usually held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.

List of Captains of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

1509: Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex
1539: Sir Anthony Browne
1549: John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye
1550: William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
1553: Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
1558: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
1596: George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
May 1603: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
1615: Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
1616: Theophilus Howard, Lord Howard de Walden; succeeded as 2nd Earl of Suffolk 28 May 1626
May 1635: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
1643: Francis Leigh, 1st Baron Dunsmore, created Earl of Chichester 3 June 1644
temp. Charles II: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
1660: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland
1661: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich
1662: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland
1667: John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse
1672: Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg
1674: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
1684: Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale
1687: Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon
temp. William III: John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace
1693: Ralph Montagu, 1st Earl of Montagu
1695: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
13 January 1712: Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
1714: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
1726: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, succeeded as 3rd Duke of Devonshire 4 June 1729
1731: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, 4th Earl of Cork
1734: John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
1740: Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
1742: Allen Bathurst, 1st Baron Bathurst
1745: John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart, created Earl of Buckinghamshire 5 September 1746
1756: John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton
17 July 1762: George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
31 December 1772: George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe, created Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort 5 March 1781
29 March 1782: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
14 May 1783: George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey
31 December 1783: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, created Earl of Leicester 18 May 1784
1797: George Evelyn Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth
1799: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
19 February 1806: George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, 4th Viscount St John
19 March 1808: Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
11 April 1812: James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
1827: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
8 December 1830: Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley
1 May 1833: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
29 December 1834: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
6 May 1835: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
8 September 1841: John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester
24 July 1846: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
27 February 1852: John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich
30 December 1852: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
26 February 1858: Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot
28 June 1859: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
10 July 1866: Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville
20 March 1867: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
12 December 1868: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
27 December 1869: George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
20 April 1871: Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
1 January 1874: William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
2 March 1874: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
4 February 1875: Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury
28 May 1877: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
3 May 1880: Alexander William George Duff, 6th Earl Fife
21 January 1881: CHarles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly
27 June 1881: Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 3rd Baron Carrington
6 July 1885: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
10 February 1886: Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley
5 August 1886: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
24 November 1886: Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn
11 August 1890: Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough
25 August 1892: George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon
13 March 1894: Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
16 July 1895: Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
18 December 1905: William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
31 July 1907: Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
26 July 1908: Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
20 November 1922: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
22 January 1924: Labour government – post vacant?
1 December 1924: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
26 June 1925: Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
1 January 1929: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
5 June 1929: Labour government – post vacant?
12 November 1931: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
31 May 1940: Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell
21 April 1944: vacant.
22 March 1945: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
4 August 1945: Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
18 October 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
5 November 1951: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
27 June 1957: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
21 October 1964: Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
29 July 1967: Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick
24 June 1970: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
11 March 1974: Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies
6 May 1979: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
22 May 1991: Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh
16 September 1993: Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater
20 July 1994: Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde
6 May 1997: Denis Victor Carter, Baron Carter
May 2002: Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott