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The Royal Households of the United Kingdom consist of royal officials and the supporting staff of the British royal family, as well as the Royal Household which supports the Sovereign. Each member of the Royal Family who undertakes public duties has their own separate household. When
Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during ...
was still a Princess she married
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he served as the consort of the British monarch from E ...
on 20 November 1947. After that
marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between ...
they shared the Household of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. When she succeeded her father
George VI George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of I ...
as sovereign of the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
, she appointed a new household, known as the Household of the Sovereign 1952-2022. The Duke of Edinburgh then received a separate household upon his wife's accession, the Household of the Duke of Edinburgh until his death in 2021. With the passing of the Queen on 8 September 2022 the Household of the Sovereign passed to her son, the new King
Charles III Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person t ...
.


Great officers of the Household


Lord Chamberlain

The
Lord Chamberlain of the Household Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are ...
is the highest-ranking official of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, overseeing the departments that support and provide advice to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, while also acting as the main channel of communication between the Sovereign and the House of Lords.


Vice Chamberlain

The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household is usually a junior government whip in the British House of Commons and is the Deputy to the Lord Chamberlain. The Vice Chamberlain's main duties are to compile a daily private report for the Sovereign on the proceedings in the House of Commons and to transmit addresses from the Commons to the Sovereign and vice versa.


Lord Steward

The
Lord Steward of the Household The Lord Steward or Lord Steward of the Household is an official of the Royal Household in England. He is always a peer. Until 1924, he was always a member of the Government. Until 1782, the office was one of considerable political importance ...
manages the Treasurer of the Household and Comptroller of the Household, who rank next to him. The appointee is always a peer, and is the first dignitary of the court.


Treasurer of the Household

The
Treasurer of the Household The Treasurer of the Household is a member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The position is usually held by one of the government deputy Chief Whips in the House of Commons. The current holder of the office is Mar ...
is usually held by one of the government deputy Chief Whips in the House of Commons. The Treasurer is automatically a member of the privy council.


Comptroller of the Household

The Comptroller of the Household is nominally the second-ranking member of the Lord Steward's department after the Treasurer of the Household. In recent times, a senior government whip has invariably occupied the office. On state occasions the Comptroller, in common with certain other senior officers of the Household, carries a white staff of office, as often seen in portraits.


Master of the Horse

The
Master of the Horse Master of the Horse is an official position in several European nations. It was more common when most countries in Europe were monarchies, and is of varying prominence today. (Ancient Rome) The original Master of the Horse ( la, Magister Equitu ...
is the third dignitary of the court. It is a primarily ceremonial office, and rarely appears except on state occasions, and especially when the Sovereign is mounted. There are still several pages of honour who are nominally in the master of the horse's department. They are youths aged from twelve to sixteen, selected by the sovereign in person, to attend on him at state ceremonies.


Private Secretary's Office


Private Secretary to the Sovereign

5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, GCVO, KCB, CMG, MC


Assistant Private Secretaries

* 5 August 1952: Major Sir Michael Edward Adeane, KCVO, CB * 5 August 1952: Major Edward William Spencer Ford, CB, MVO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Martin Michael Charles Wemyss Charteris, OBE


Press Secretary

5 August 1952: Commander (S) Richard Colville, MVO, DSC, RN


Privy Purse and Treasurer's Office


Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The Queen

5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Sir James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, GCVO, KCB, CMG, OBE


Deputy Treasurer to The Queen and Secretary of the Privy Purse

5 August 1952: Commander (S) Sir
Dudley Colles Commander Sir Ernest Dudley Gordon Colles (5 April 1889 – 13 July 1976) was an Irish Royal Navy officer and courtier, who served in the Royal Households of George VI and Elizabeth II. Colles was educated at Winchester College and was commis ...
, KCVO, OBE, RN


Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse

5 August 1952: Brigadier The Right Honourable Charles George Vivian, Baron Tryon, DSO


Almonry


High Almoner

5 August 1952: The Right Reverend Edward Sydney Woods, DD, Lord Bishop of Lichfield


Sub-Almoner

5 August 1952: The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, MVO, MA


Pages of Honour

* 5 August 1952: Henry Charles Seymour, Esquire * 5 August 1952: Michael Anson, Esquire * 5 August 1952: Jonathan Sidney Peel, Esquire * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Henry George Victor John, Earl of Erne


Lord Chamberlain's Office


Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office

5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, GCVO, MC


Assistant Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office

5 August 1952: Brigadier Sir Norman Wilmshurst Gwatkin, KCVO, DSO


Royal Mews Department


Crown Equerry

5 August 1952: Colonel Sir Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh, KCVO


Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps

5 August 1952: Major-General Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones, CMG, CBE, MC


Vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps

5 August 1952: Marcus John Cheke, Esquire, CVO


Assistant Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps

5 August 1952: Captain Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, Bt, CVO


The Master of the Household's Department


Master of the Household

* 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Sir Piers Walter Legh, GCVO, CMG, CIE, OBE


Lords in Waiting

* 5 August 1952: Colonel the Right Honourable Clive, Baron Wigram, GCB, GCVO, CSI (Permanent) * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Rowland Thomas, Earl of Cromer, GCB, GCIE, GCVO (Permanent) * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable John, Earl of Eldon, KCVO * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Wentworth Henry Canning, Viscount Allendale, KG, CB, CBE, MC * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Frederick Winston Furneaux, Earl of Birkenhead. * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable George Nigel, Earl of Selkirk, GBE, AFC * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Alexander David Frederick, Baron Lloyd, MBE


Equerries


Equerries

* 5 August 1952: Captain Sir Harold George Campbell, KCVO, DSO, RN * 5 August 1952: Major Sir Michael Edward Adeane, KCVO, CB


Temporary Equerries

* 5 August 1952: Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC * 5 August 1952: Captain Edward John Spencer, Viscount Althorp * 5 August 1952: Captain the Right Honourable Patrick Terence William Span, Baron Plunket


Extra Equerries

* 5 August 1952: Colonel Sir John Renton Aird, Bt, MVO, MC * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Sir James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, GCVO, KCB, CMG, OBE * 5 August 1952: Commander Peter William Beckwith Ashmore, MVO, DSC, RN * 5 August 1952: Admiral the Honourable Sir
Hubert George Brand Admiral Sir Hubert George Brand, (20 May 1870 – 14 December 1955) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. Background Brand was the second son of Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, Governor ...
, GCB, KCMG, KCVO * 5 August 1952: Commander Colin Buist, MVO, RN * 5 August 1952: Admiral Sir
Henry Tritton Buller Admiral Sir Henry Tritton Buller, (30 October 1873 – 29 August 1960) was a Royal Navy officer, who commanded the Royal Yacht from 1921 to 1931. He served as an Extra Equerry to King George V, and, from 1932 till his death, he was a Groom-in-Wa ...
, GCVO, CB * 5 August 1952: Brigadier-General Sir Smith Hill Child, Bt, GCVO, CB, CMG, DSO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive, GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Rowland Thomas Baring, Earl of Cromer, GCB, GCIE, GCVO * 5 August 1952: Colonel Sir Arthur Edward Erskine, GCVO, DSO * 5 August 1952: Admiral the Honourable Sir
Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh Admiral Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, (né Meade; 3 November 1875 – 27 October 1964) was a British admiral in the Royal Navy. Biography He was born in London as Herbert Meade, the third son of the then Baron Gillford, who later became, in ...
, GCVO, CB, DSO * 5 August 1952: Air Commodore Sir Edward Hedley Fielden, KCVO, CB, DFC, AFC * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Walter Douglas Campbell Greenacre, CB, DSO, MVO * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Sir Norman Wilmshurst Gwatkin, KCVO, DSO * 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, GCB, GCVO, MC * 5 August 1952: Vice-Admiral Charles Edward Lambe, CB, CVO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Sir Piers Walter Legh, GCVO, CMG, CIE, OBE * 5 August 1952: Major the Right Honourable Thomas William Edward Coke, Earl of Leicester, MVO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas William Alexander Dalziel Mackenzie, CVO, DSO * 5 August 1952: Captain Charles Joseph Henry O'Hara Moore, CVO, MC * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel
Ririd Myddelton Lieutenant-Colonel Ririd Myddelton, MVO KStJ DL JP (25 February 1902 – 7 February 1988), was a country gentleman and one-time member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Early life Myddelton was born on 25 ...
, MVO * 5 August 1952: Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, GCVO, CB, CSI, CMG * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, GCVO, MC * 5 August 1952: Sir Arthur Horace Penn, KCVO, MC * 5 August 1952: Sir George Arthur Ponsonby, KCVO * 5 August 1952: Rear-Admiral Edward Michael Conolly Abel Smith, CB, CVO * 5 August 1952: Colonel the Right Honourable Clive Wigram, Baron Wigram, GCB, GCVO, CSI


Gentlemen Ushers

* 5 August 1952: Captain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd, MVO, MC * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Valentine Bache de Satge, CMG, CVO, DSO * 5 August 1952: Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley, KCMG, CVO * 5 August 1952: Colonel Geoffrey Ronald Codrington, CB, CMG, CVO, DSO, OBE, TD * 5 August 1952: Captain William Duncan Phipps, MVO, RN * 5 August 1952: Captain (S) Sir Frank Todd Spickernell, KBE, CB, DSO, RN * 5 August 1952: Captain Philip Lloyd Neville, RN * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Guy Elland Carne Rasch, CVO, DSO * 5 August 1952: Air Vice-Marshal Sir George Ranald Macfarlane Reid, KCB, DSO, MC


Extra Gentlemen Ushers

* 5 August 1952: Major Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur D'Arcy * 5 August 1952: Gordon Bannerman, Bt, KCVO, CIE * 5 August 1952: Group Captain Sir Louis Greig, KBE, CVO * 5 August 1952: Major the Honourable John Spencer Coke, CVO * 5 August 1952: Captain Charles Alexander Lindsay Irvine, CVO, OBE * 5 August 1952: Sir John Hanbury-Williams * 5 August 1952: Sir John Berkeley Monck, GCVO, CMG * 5 August 1952: Sir
Algar Henry Stafford Howard Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard (7 August 1880 – 14 February 1970) was a senior British Army officer and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He served as the Garter Principal King of Arms from 1944 to 1950 before ...
, KCB, KCVO, MC, TD * 5 August 1952: Captain Andrew Vavasour Scott Yates, RN * 5 August 1952: Major Thomas Cockayne Harvey, CVO, DSO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Edward Packe, CVO, OBE


Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State

5 August 1952: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sheridan Barratt, KCB, CMG, MC


Ecclesiastical Household


College of Chaplains


Clerk of the Closet

5 August 1952: The Right Reverend
Percy Mark Herbert The Right Reverend Percy Mark Herbert (24 April 1885 – 22 January 1968) was the first Bishop of Blackburn from 1927 then Bishop of Norwich from 1942 to 1959. He was the Clerk of the Closet from 1942–63. An active Freemason, he was Provin ...
, DD, Lord Bishop of Norwich.


Deputy Clerk of the Closet

5 August 1952: The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, MVO, MA


Chaplains

* 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon
Travers Guy Rogers Travers Guy Rogers MC (1876–1967) was an author and priest in the Church of England who became a chaplain to King George V in 1918. Career He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was awarded BA in 1898 and BD in 1901. In 1899 he r ...
, MC, BD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Charles Earle Raven, DD, DSC * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Arthur Rowland Harry Grant, CVO, TD, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon William John Telia Phythian Phythian-Adams, DSO, MC, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Philip Thomas Byard Clayton, CH, MC, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Leonard Martin Andrews, CVO, MBE, MC, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Henry Spencer Stephenson, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Frank Hay Gillingham, BA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Thomas Malcolm Layng, CBE, MC, MA. * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Henry Edward FitzHerbert, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Sidney Ernest Swann, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Reginald French, MC, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Ellis Foster Edge Partington, MC, MA * 5 August 1952: The Venerable Frederick Boreham, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon John McLeod Campbell, MC, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, KCVO, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Arthur Stretton Reeve, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Robert Reginald Churchill, CBE, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Humphrey Gordon Barclay, CVO, MC * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Ralph Creed Meredith, MA * 5 August 1952: The Venerable Charles Henry Ritchie, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Prebendary Walter Gordon Arrowsmith, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Prebendary Hubert Harold Treacher * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Ian Hugh White-Thomson, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Prebendary George Frederick Saywell, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Eric Symes Abbott, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Wallace Harold Elliott, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Ralph Layard Whytehead, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Peter Llewellyn Gillingham, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Lewis Mervyn Charles Edwards. * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Leslie George Mannering, MC, MA * 5 August 1952: The Venerable
Arthur Selwyn Bean Arthur Selwyn Bean (23 April 1886-4 July 1981) was Archdeacon of Manchester from 1934 to 1966. He was educated at Christ’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1910. After a curacy in Rugby he held inc ...
, MBE, BD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon John Farquhar Richardson, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Robert Wright Stopford, CBE., DCL, MA


Chapels Royal


Dean

5 August 1952: The Right Reverend and Right Honourable John William Charles Wand, DD, Lord Bishop of London.


Sub-Dean

5 August 1952: The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, MVO, MA


Priests

* 5 August 1952: The Reverend Cyril Moxon Armitage, MVO, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Erik Francis Donne, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend George Ernest Sage, MA


Deputy-Priests

* 5 August 1952: The Reverend Michael Ridley, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Canon Anthony Lewis Elliott Williams, MA * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Cyril Theodore Henry Dams, MA


Honorary Priest

5 August 1952: The Reverend Trevitt Reginald Hine-Haycock, MVO, MA


Organist, Choirmaster and Composer at Her Majesty's Chapels Royal

5 August 1952: Edgar Stanley Roper, Esquire, CVO, MusD


Domestic Chaplains

* 5 August 1952: The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, MVO, MA (Buckingham Palace) * 5 August 1952: The Right Reverend Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton, MA, Dean of Windsor (Windsor Castle) * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Hector David Anderson, MVO, BD (Sandringham)


Chaplain, Royal Chapel, Windsor Great Park

5 August 1952: The Reverend Peter Llewellyn Gillingham, MA


Chaplain, Hampton Court Palace

5 August 1952: The Reverend Prebendary Herbert Harris, MA


Organist, Hampton Court Palace

5 August 1952: William James Phillips, Esquire, Mus.Doc.


Chaplains in Scotland

* 5 August 1952: The Very Reverend Charles Laing Warr, KCVO, DD, LLD * 5 August 1952: The Very Reverend James Hutchison Cockburn, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson, DD * 5 August 1952: The Very Reverend John Baillie, DD, DLitt, LLD * 5 August 1952: The Very Reverend William White Anderson, MC, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Thomas Bentley Stewart Thomson, MC, TD, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Professor James Pitt Watson, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend Professor James Stuart Stewart, DD * 5 August 1952: The Reverend John Annand Fraser, MBE, TD, DD


Domestic Chaplain

5 August 1952: The Reverend John Lamb, CVO, BD (Balmoral).


Medical Household


Physicians

* 5 August 1952: Horace Evans, 1st Baron Evans, GCVO, MD, FRCP (died 26 October 1963).
London Gazette
', 17 March 1964 (issue 43273), p. 2387
* 5 August 1952: Sir John Weir, GCVO, MB, ChB, FFHom (retired 31 December 1968).
London Gazette
', 31 December 1968 (issue 44755), p. 13919
* 5 August 1952: Sir Ronald Bodley Scott, KCVO, MA, BM, BCh, DM, FRCP (until 1973). * 17 March 1964: William Neville Mann, MD, FRCP (succeeding Lord Evans; resigned 20 March 1970).
London Gazette
', 31 March 1970 (issue 45070), p. 3645
* 31 December 1968: Margery Grace Blackie, CVO, MD, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, FFHom (retired 31 October 1980).
London Gazette
', 31 October 1980 (issue 48358), p. 15107
* 20 March 1970: Richard Ian Samuel Bayliss, MD, FRCP (until 1982). * December 1974: Sir John Charles Batten, KCVO, MD, BS, FRCP (until 1989).
London Gazette
', 17 December (issue 46436), p. 12887
* 31 October 1980: Charles Kennedy Elliott, MB, MRCGP, FFHom (retired 20 March 1986).
London Gazette
', 9 May 1986 (issue 50513), p. 6351
* 2 January 1982: Anthony Michael Dawson, MD, BS, FRCP (until 1993).
London Gazette
', 5 January 1982 (issue 48853), p. 163
* 20 March 1986: Ronald William Davey, LVO, MD, FFHom, AKC (until 2001). * 1993: Richard Paul Hepworth Thompson, DM, FRCP (until 2005)."Thompson, Sir Richard (Paul Hepworth)"
''Who's Who 2016'' (online edition), Oxford University Press, November 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
* 2001: Peter Anthony Goodwin Fisher, MA, MB, BChir, FFHom, FRCP, FRSocMed (died 15 August 2018). * 2005: Professor John Cunningham, CVO, BA, BM, BCh, DM, FRCP (until 2014). * 2014: Professor Sir Huw Thomas, KCVO, FRCP.


Physicians to the Household

* 17 March 1964: Richard Ian Samuel Bayliss, MD, FRCP (promoted 20 March 1970). * 20 March 1970: John Charles Batten, MD, BS, FRCP (promoted December 1974). * December 1974: Anthony Michael Dawson, MD, BS, FRCP (promoted 2 January 1982). * 2 January 1982: Richard Paul Hepworth Thompson, DM, FRCP (promoted 1993).


Physician-Paediatrician

* 5 August 1952: Wilfrid Percy Henry Sheldon, MD, FRCP (1 January 1972).
London Gazette
', ssue 45565), p. 99
* 1 January 1972: Philip Rainsford Evans, CBE, MSc, MD, ChB, FRCP (until 1976).


Extra Physicians

* 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder, GCVO, MD, BSc, FRCP * 5 August 1952: Sir
Henry Letheby Tidy Sir Henry "Harry" Letheby Tidy (28 October 1877 – 3 June 1960) was a British physician and gastroenterologist. Biography After education at Winchester College and then at New College, Oxford, he studied medicine at the London Hospital and g ...
, KBE, MD, FRCP * 5 August 1952: Sir Daniel Thomas Davies, KCVO, MD, BSc, FRCP


Sergeant-Surgeon

* 5 August 1952: Sir Arthur Espie Porritt, KCMG, CBE., MB, MCh, FRCS * 1 September 1967: Sir Ralph Marnham, KCVO, MChir, FRCS
The London Gazette
', 1 September (issue 44400), p. 9597
* 1 January 1972: Sir Edward Grainger Muir, MS, FRCS
The London Gazette
', 11 January 1972 (issue 45571), p. 357
* 20 March 1973: Sir Edward Tuckwell, KCVO, MCh, FRCS
The London Gazette
', 20 March 1973 (issue 45933), p. 3645
* 12 May 1975: Sir Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery, KCVO, MD, MChir, FRCS, LRCP
The London Gazette
', 13 May 1975 (issue 46572), p. 6195
* 29 April 1983: William Willatt Slack, Esquire, MCh, FRCS
The London Gazette
', 29 April 1983 (49335), p. 5865
* 23 February 1990: John Leonard Dawson, CVO, MS, FRCS
The London Gazette
', 23 February 1990 (issue 52058), p. 2495
* 22 February 1991: Barry Trevor Jackson, MS, FRCS (retired 2001).
The London Gazette
', 22 February 1991 (issue 52456), p. 2873
''Appendix to the Court Circular'', 3 December 2001 * 3 December 2001: Adam Anthony Murless Lewis, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCSE (retired 1 November 2006). * 4 January 2007: Roger Henry Vickers, MA, BM, BCh, FRCS (until 2010).''Appendix to the Court Circular'', 4 January 2007 * 25 July 2010: Professor Sir George Hamilton, MD, FRCS.''Appendix to the Court Circular'', 3 June 2010 *10 August 2016: Mr Satya Bhattacharya FRCS LVO


Surgeons

* 5 August 1952: Professor Sir James Paterson Ross, KCVO, MS, FRCS (retired 17 March 1964).
The London Gazette
', 17 March 1964 (issue 43273), p. 2387
* 5 August 1952: Ralph Marnham, Esquire, MChir, FRCS (promoted 1 September 1967). * 17 March 1964: Edward Grainger Muir, MS, FRCS (promoted 1 January 1972). * January 1969: Edward George Tuckwell, MCh, FRCS (promoted 20 March 1973).
The London Gazette
', 21 January 1969 (issue 44771), p. 737
* December 1974: Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery, MC, MChir, FRCS, LRCP (also Surgeon to Her Majesty's Household; promoted 12 May 1975) * 12 May 1975: William Willatt Slack, MCh, FRCS (promoted 29 April 1983). * 29 April 1983: John Leonard Dawson, MS, FRSC (promoted 23 February 1990). * Roger Vickers (promoted 4 January 2007). * 4 January 2007: George Hamilton (promoted 25 July 2010).


Surgeon to Her Majesty's Household

* 17 March 1964: Edward George Tuckwell, MCh, FRCS * January 1969: Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery, MD, MChir, FRCS, LRCP * 12 May 1975: John Leonard Dawson, MS, MB, FRCS * 29 April 1983: Barry Trevor Jackson, MS, FRCS * 22 February 1991: Adam Anthony Murless Lewis, MB, FRCS * Professor George Hamilton (promoted 4 January 2007). * 4 January 2007: Mr Satyajit Bhattacharya * 10 August 2016: Mr Ian Jenkins MD FRCS


Surgeon-Gynaecologist/Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Queen

* 5 August 1952: Sir William Gilliatt, KCVO, MD, MS, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOG * 11 July 1961: Sir John Harold Peel, KCVO, FRCS, FRCOG (retired March 1973).
The London Gazette
', 11 July 1961 (issue 42409), p. 5101
* March 1973: Sir George Douglas Pinker, KCVO, FRCS(Ed.), PRCOG (retired 30 March 1990).
The London Gazette
', 30 March 1990 (issue 52093), p. 7141
* 30 March 1990: Marcus Edward Setchell, MA, FRCS, FRCOG (until 2014). * 30 June 2014: Alan Farthing (incumbent).''Appendix to the Court Circular'', 30 June 2014


Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Household

* 18 November 2008: Alan Farthing (promoted 30 June 2014). * 30 June 2008: Guy Thorpe-Beeston (incumbent).


Extra Surgeons

* 5 August 1952: Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, GCVO, CMG, MD, FRCS, FRACS * 5 August 1952: Sir James Walton, KCVO, MB, M.S., BSc, FRCS, LRCP, F.G.A. * 5 August 1952: Sir Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward, KCVO, ChM, FRCS


Extra Manipulative Surgeon

* 5 August 1952: Sir Morton Smart, GCVO, DSO, MD


Extra Surgeon-Apothecary

* 5 August 1952: Sir Frederick Stanley Hewett, KCB, KCVO, KBE, MD, MRCS, LRCP


Surgeon-Oculist/Surgeon-Oculist to the Queen

* 5 August 1952: Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, KCVO, DSc, PhD, MD, LLD, FRCS, FACS (resigned 30 April 1965).
London Gazette
', 30 April 1965 (issue 43639), p. 4211
* 30 April 1965: Allen John Bridson Goldsmith, CVO, MB, BS, FRCS, LRCP (retired 27 November 1974). * 27 November 1974: Stephen James Hamilton Miller, MD, FRCS (retired 21 July 1980).
London Gazette
', 29 November 1974 (issue 46417), p. 11997

London Gazette
', 22 August 1980 (issue 48286), p. 11941
* 21 July 1980: Sir Patrick John Holmes Sellors, KCVO, MA, BM, BCh, FRCS (retired 3 February 1999).''Appendix to the Court Circular'', 3 February 1999 * 3 February 1999: Timothy John ffytche, LVO, MB, BS, DO, FRCS (retired 7 March 2002).''Appendix to the Court Circular'', 7 March 2002 * 7 March 2002: Jonathan David Jagger, LVO, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCOphth (incumbent)."Jagger, Jonathan David"
''Who's Who 2016'' (online edition), Oxford University Press, November 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2016.


Extra Orthopaedic Surgeon

* 5 August 1952: Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, FRCS, FRACS, FACS, MChOrth, BSc


Aurist

* 5 August 1952: John Douglas McLaggan, CVO, MB, ChB, FRCS * 11 July 1961: James Cecil Hogg, Esquire, CVO, FRCS


Surgeon-Dentist

* 5 August 1952: Sir Alan Cumbrae Rose McLeod, KCVO, FDS, RCS(Eng.), DDS (retired 1 September 1975).
London Gazette
', 2 September 1975 (issue 46675), p. 11117
* 1 September 1975: Nicholas Anthony Sturridge, LDS, DDS, BDS (retired 19 July 2007).


Extra Physician to the Household

* 5 August 1952: Sir Arnold Walmsley Stott, KBE, BCh, FRCP


Surgeon-Oculist to the Household

* 5 August 1952: Allen John Bridson Goldsmith, MB, BS, FRCS, LRCP (promoted 30 April 1965). * 30 April 1965: Stephen James Hamilton Miller, MD, FRCS (promoted 27 November 1974). * 27 November 1974: Patrick John Holmes Sellors, BM, BCh, FRCS (promoted 21 July 1980). * 21 July 1980: Timothy John ffytche, FRCS, MRCS, LRCP, DO (promoted 3 February 1999). * 3 February 1999: Jonathan David Jagger, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCOphth (promoted 7 March 2002). * 1 January 2002: Veronica Mary Geneste Ferguson, LVO, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCOphth (incumbent).


Extra Surgeon-Oculist to the Household

* 5 August 1952: Frank Anderson Juler, CVO, MB, BCh, FRCS. * 30 April 1965: Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, GCVO, DSc, PhD, MD, LLD, FRCS, FRCP, FACS.


Apothecary to the Household

* 5 August 1952: Sir John Nigel Loring, KCVO, MRCS, LRCP (retired 1 October 1964).
London Gazette
', 16 October 1964 (issue 43464), p. 8725
* 1 October 1964: Sir Ralph Southward, KCVO, MB, ChB, MRCP (retired 1 January 1975).
London Gazette
', 3 January 1975 (issue 46453), p. 109
* 1 January 1975: Nigel Ralph Southward, MB, BChir, MRCP (retired 7 February 2003).''Court Circular: Sandringham, Norfolk'', 6 February 2003 * 7 February 2003: Timothy Hugh David Evans, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, DRCOG, MRCGP (incumbent).


Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Windsor

* 5 August 1952: Richard William Legerton May, MB, BCh(Cantab.), MRCS, LRCP (resigned 9 March 1965).
London Gazette
', ssue 43600), p. 2631
* 9 March 1965: John Pilkington Clayton, CVO, MA, MB, BChir, MRCS, LRCP (retired 13 July 1986).
London Gazette
', ssue 50598), p. 9349
* 13 July 1986: John Hubert Daly Briscoe, MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, DObst, RCOG (retired 29 June 1997).''Appendix to the Court Circular'', 29 June 1997 * 29 June 1997: Jonathan Holliday.


Extra Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Windsor

* 5 August 1952: Edmund Claud Maiden, CVO, MB, BChir, MRCS, LRCP


Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Sandringham

* 5 August 1952: James Lawrence Bunting Ansell, MVO, MRCS, LRCP (resigned 1 November 1965).
London Gazette
', ssue 43831), p. 11309
* 1 November 1965: Hugh Kelson Ford, CVO, MB, BS, DObst, RCOG (retired 22 February 1992). * 22 February 1992: Ian Keith Campbell, BSc, MB, BS, DRCOG, FRCGP.ssue 52845), p. 3319


Medical Household in Scotland


Physicians

* 5 August 1952: Alexander Greig Anderson, Esquire, CVO, LLD, MD, FRCP * 5 August 1952: Professor Sir John William McNee, DSO, DSc, MD, FRCP, FRSE * 5 August 1952: Professor Leybourne Stanley Patrick Davidson, MD, FRCP, FRSE


Surgeons

* 5 August 1952: Professor Sir James Rognvald Learmonth, KCVO, CBE, MB, ChM, FRCSE * 5 August 1952: George Gordon Bruce, Esquire, MB, ChB, FRCS, LRCP


Surgeon-Oculist

* 5 August 1952: John Marshall, Esquire, MC, TD, MB, ChB, F.R.F.P.S.G.


Surgeon-Dentist

* 5 August 1952: Robert Charles Scott Dow Esquire, LRCP, LRCS, HDD, FDS.


Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Balmoral

* 5 August 1952: George Proctor Middleton, Esquire, CVO, MB, ChB


Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at the Palace of Holyroodhouse

Surgeon-Apothecaries/Apothecaries to HM Household at the Palace of Holyroodhouse * 1908 – 1922: Dr W.B. Alexander (1844 – 1922) * 1923 – 1929: Dr D.J. Graham (1871 – 1929 * 1930: Dr W.M. Taylor (1872 – 1930 * 1931 – 1951: Dr N.J. Carmichael (1883 – 1951 * 1952 – 1970: Dr G. Brewster (1899 – 1991 * 1970 – 1986: Dr D.G. Illingworth (1921 – 2010) * 1987 – 1990: Dr H.H. Gebbie (b. 1930) * 1991 – 2001: Dr J.J.C. Cormack (1934 – 2002) * 2001—: Prof. J.R. Robertson (b. 1951) * 2016—: Dr Robin Balfour (b. 1961)


Military establishment


Gentlemen-at-Arms


Captain

5 August 1952: Colonel the Right Honourable Hugh William, Earl Fortescue, KG, CB, OBE, MC


Lieutenant

5 August 1952: Brigadier-General Sir Robert Harvey Kearsley, KCVO, CMG, DSO


Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant

*5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Osbert Eustace Vesey, CMG, CBE. *2016:
Christopher Mackenzie-Beevor Colonel Christopher David Mackenzie-Beevor (born 10 April 1949) is a British courtier who was Lieutenant of Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms from 2018 to 2019 and Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant from 2016 to 2017. He was educated at King' ...
, CBE


Gentlemen of the Corps

* 5 August 1952: Colonel Sir Edward Philip Le Breton. * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Ughtred Elliott Carnegy Carnegy, DSO, MC * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Harold Vincent Spencer Charrington, DSO, MC * 5 August 1952: Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, Bt, DSO, MVO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel William Wallace Smith Cuninghame, DSO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel the Most Honourable James Arthur Norman, Marquess of Ormonde, MC * 5 August 1952: Colonel Bartle Mordaunt Marsham Edwards, M.C * 5 August 1952: Colonel Robert Henry Walsh, DSO, OBE, MC * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Lancelot Merivale Gibbs, CVO, DSO, MC * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Trevor Wallace Glynn, MC * 5 August 1952: Colonel the Right Honourable Edward Kenelm, Baron Digby, DSO, MC, TD * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Henry Walter Houldsworth, DSO, MC, TD * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel John Forrester Colvin, OBE, MC * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Edward Previte, OBE * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Thomas Fairfax-Ross, MC, TD * 5 August 1952: Major-General William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt, DSO, MVO, MC * 5 August 1952: Brigadier John Norman Cheney, OBE * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edgar Anthony Fulford. * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Sir Henry Robert Kincaid Floyd, Bt, CB, CBE. * 5 August 1952: Colonel Sir Robert Eric Sherlock Gooch, Bt, DSO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel William Heathcoat Amory, DSO * 5 August 1952: Colonel Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, Bt, DSO, TD * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Robert Bramston Thesiger Daniell, DSO * 5 August 1952: Brigadier Anthony Hilton Pepys, DSO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Vivian Makins, Bt


Yeomen of the Guard The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a bodyguard of the British monarch. The oldest British military corps still in existence, it was created by King Henry VII in 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth Field. History The king ...


Captain

5 August 1952: The Right Honourable William Arthur Bampfylde, Earl of Onslow, MC, TD


Lieutenant

5 August 1952: Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair, Bt, CB, DSO, MC


Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant

5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Charles Bingham, DSO


Ensign

5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, VC


Exons

5 August 1952: Brigadier William Greenwood Carr, DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, DSO


Other appointments


Groom in Waiting

* 5 August 1952: Sir Arthur Horace Penn, KCVO, MC


Extra Groom in Waiting

* 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Montague Charles, Earl of St Germans, KCVO, OBE


Groom of the Robes

5 August 1952: Captain Sir Harold George Campbell, KCVO, DSO, RN


Parliament


Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod

5 August 1952: Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC


Sergeants-at-Arms

* 5 August 1952: George Alfred Titman, Esquire, CBE, MVO * 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Commander (S) Albert William Stone, MVO, MSM, RN * 5 August 1952: George Frederick Thomas Hopkins, Esquire, MVO, OBE, MC * - February 2018: Brian Stanley, Esq.


Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Lords

5 August 1952: Air Vice-Marshal Sir
Paul Copeland Maltby Air Vice Marshal Sir Paul Copeland Maltby, (5 August 1892 – 2 July 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who later served as the Serjeant at Arms in the House of Lords. Military career In 1942 Maltby was assistant Air Officer Commanding ...
, KBE, CB, DSO, AFC


Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Commons

5 August 1952: Brigadier Sir
Charles Alfred Howard Brigadier Sir Charles Alfred Howard, GCVO, DSO* (1878–1958) was a British parliamentary official and army officer. He served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1935 to 1956. Early life Born on 29 July 1878, Howard was a member ...
, KCVO, DSO


The Queen's Archives


Keeper

5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, GCVO, KCB, CMG, MC


Librarian

5 August 1952: Sir Owen Frederick Morshead, KCVO, DSO, MC


Keeper of the Jewel House, Tower of London

5 August 1952: Major-General
Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell Leamington Hastings is a small village and larger civil parish in Warwickshire, England. The civil parish covers Leamington Hastings itself, plus the nearby hamlets of Broadwell, Hill and Kites Hardwick. Its population in the 2011 census was 44 ...
, CB, MC


Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures

5 August 1952: Professor Anthony Frederick Blunt, CVO


Deputy Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures

5 August 1952: Oliver Nicholas Millar, Esquire, FSA


Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art

5 August 1952: Sir James Gow Mann, MA, B.Litt., PSA. 10 July 2019:Caroline de Guitaut, LVO. Appointed as deputy Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art. Responsible for 700,000 works of art, at 13 royal palaces, including HM The Queen's official residences: Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Palace of Holyroodhouse. 1st woman to hold the position.


Master of the Queen's Music

5 August 1952: Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, MusDoc


Poet Laureate

5 August 1952:
John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ''The Midnight Folk'' and ...
, Esquire, OM, LitTD, LLD


Honorary Veterinary Surgeons

* 5 August 1952: Captain Thomas Lewis Wright, Esquire, MRCVS * 5 August 1952: Edmond Scot Paterson, Esquire, MRCVS


Coroner of the Household

5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel William Hilgrove Leslie McCarthy, DSO, MC, MD, MRCP


Captain of The Queen's Flight

5 August 1952: Air Commodore Sir Edward Hedley Fielden, KCVO, CB, DFC, AFC
15 February 1968: Air Commodore Sir Archibald Winskill, KCVO, CBE, DFC & Bar, AE


Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot

5 August 1952: His Grace
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (30 May 1908 – 31 January 1975), styled Earl of Arundel and Surrey until 1917, was a British peer and politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of ...
, KG, GCVO


References

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