Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

The Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is presently a UK government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The present Captain is the Lord Davies of Oldham.

Captains of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1485-present

1486: John de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford
1488: Sir Charles Somerset; created Baron Herbert 26 November 1506
1514: Sir Henry Guilford
1521: Sir Henry Marny
1523: Sir William Kingston
1536: Sir Anthony Wingfield
1550: Sir Thomas Darcy; created Baron Darcy of Chiche 5 April 1551
1553: Sir Henry Jernyngham
1558: Sir William St Loe
1569: Sir Francis Knowlys
1578: Sir Christopher Hatton
1587: Sir Henry Goodier
1592: John Best
1597: Sir Walter Raleigh
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
1625: Sir Christopher Musgrave
1632: George Hay, 1st Viscount Dupplin; created Earl of Kinnoul 25 May 1633
1635: William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton
1660: George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison
1662: Charles Goring, 2nd Earl of Norwich
1670: Charles Montagu, Viscount Mandeville; succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683
1702: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
1707: Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
1714: Henry Paget, 8th Baron Paget; created Earl of Uxbridge 19 October 1714
1715: James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
1723: Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Stanhope
1725: John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester
1731: John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham
1733: Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville
1737: William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester
1739: William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex
1743: John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton
1746: Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington
1747: Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth
1782: John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
April 1783: George James Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley
16 December 1783: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
1804: The Hon. Thomas Pelham; styled Lord Pelham from January 1805
1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
1 December 1830: Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
16 July 1834: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
29 December 1834: Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
23 April 1835: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
5 August 1835: Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester
6 July 1841: Henry Charles Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Surrey
8 September 1841: John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian
15 January 1842: George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley
24 July 1846: Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
11 February 1848: George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall
27 February 1852: William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
30 December 1852: John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney
17 March 1858: William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
28 June 1859: Henry John Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
10 July 1866: Henry Charles Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan
22 December 1868: William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
2 March 1874: Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Baron Skelmersdale
3 May 1880: William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson
27 June 1885: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
10 February 1886: William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson
5 August 1886: Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
29 January 1889: William Hale John Charles Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
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: William Hale John Charles Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
26 August 1896: William Frederick Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave
12 April 1908: Wentworth Canning Beaumont, 2nd Baron Allendale
2 October 1911: William George Robert Craven, 4th Earl of Craven
9 June 1915: Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield
21 May 1918: Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton
22 January 1924: vacant.
1 December 1924: William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
4 June 1929: vacant.
24 January 1934: Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore
4 August 1945: Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
6 July 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
18 October 1949: George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth
5 March 1950: George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan
8 June 1951: George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald
5 November 1951: William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow
28 October 1960: Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton
6 September 1962: John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
28 December 1964: Francis George Bowles, Baron Bowles
24 June 1970: John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
20 November 1971: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
11 March 1974: David Montague de Burgh Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi
6 May 1979: Richard Michael Oliver Hill, 7th Baron Sandys
20 October 1892: David Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton
10 September 1986: John Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson
30 December 1991: Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
20 July 1994: Arthur Desmond Colqhoun Gore, 7th Earl of Arran
8 July 1995: Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham
3 May 1997: Andrew Robert McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey
incomplete

Sources include:

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

Categories: Lists of British ministers