Great officers of the Household
Lord Chamberlain
TheVice 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 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
TheComptroller 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
ThePrivate Secretary's Office
Private Secretary to the Sovereign
5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, GCVO, KCB, CMG, MCAssistant 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, OBEPress Secretary
5 August 1952: Commander (S) Richard Colville, MVO, DSC, RNPrivy 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, OBEDeputy Treasurer to The Queen and Secretary of the Privy Purse
5 August 1952: Commander (S) Sir Dudley Colles, KCVO, OBE, RNAssistant Keeper of the Privy Purse
5 August 1952: Brigadier The Right Honourable Charles George Vivian, Baron Tryon, DSOAlmonry
High Almoner
5 August 1952: The Right Reverend Edward Sydney Woods, DD, Lord Bishop of LichfieldSub-Almoner
5 August 1952: The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, MVO, MAPages 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 ErneLord Chamberlain's Office
Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office
5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, GCVO, MCAssistant Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office
5 August 1952: Brigadier Sir Norman Wilmshurst Gwatkin, KCVO, DSORoyal Mews Department
Crown Equerry
5 August 1952: Colonel Sir Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh, KCVOMarshal of the Diplomatic Corps
5 August 1952: Major-General Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones, CMG, CBE, MCVice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps
5 August 1952: Marcus John Cheke, Esquire, CVOAssistant Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps
5 August 1952: Captain Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, Bt, CVOThe Master of the Household's Department
Master of the Household
* 5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Sir Piers Walter Legh, GCVO, CMG, CIE, OBELords 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, MBEEquerries
Equerries
* 5 August 1952: Captain Sir Harold George Campbell, KCVO, DSO, RN * 5 August 1952: Major Sir Michael Edward Adeane, KCVO, CBTemporary 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 PlunketExtra 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 SirGentlemen 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, MCExtra 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: SirGentleman Usher to the Sword of State
5 August 1952: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sheridan Barratt, KCB, CMG, MCEcclesiastical Household
College of Chaplains
Clerk of the Closet
5 August 1952: The Right ReverendDeputy Clerk of the Closet
5 August 1952: The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, MVO, MAChaplains
* 5 August 1952: The Reverend CanonChapels 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, MAPriests
* 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, MADeputy-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, MAHonorary Priest
5 August 1952: The Reverend Trevitt Reginald Hine-Haycock, MVO, MAOrganist, Choirmaster and Composer at Her Majesty's Chapels Royal
5 August 1952: Edgar Stanley Roper, Esquire, CVO, MusDDomestic 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, MAChaplain, Hampton Court Palace
5 August 1952: The Reverend Prebendary Herbert Harris, MAOrganist, 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, DDDomestic 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).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).Extra Physicians
* 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder, GCVO, MD, BSc, FRCP * 5 August 1952: SirSergeant-Surgeon
* 5 August 1952: Sir Arthur Espie Porritt, KCMG, CBE., MB, MCh, FRCS * 1 September 1967: Sir Ralph Marnham, KCVO, MChir, FRCSSurgeons
* 5 August 1952: Professor Sir James Paterson Ross, KCVO, MS, FRCS (retired 17 March 1964).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 FRCSSurgeon-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).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, FRCSExtra Manipulative Surgeon
* 5 August 1952: Sir Morton Smart, GCVO, DSO, MDExtra Surgeon-Apothecary
* 5 August 1952: Sir Frederick Stanley Hewett, KCB, KCVO, KBE, MD, MRCS, LRCPSurgeon-Oculist/Surgeon-Oculist to the Queen
* 5 August 1952: Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, KCVO, DSc, PhD, MD, LLD, FRCS, FACS (resigned 30 April 1965).Extra Orthopaedic Surgeon
* 5 August 1952: Sir Reginald Watson-Jones, FRCS, FRACS, FACS, MChOrth, BScAurist
* 5 August 1952: John Douglas McLaggan, CVO, MB, ChB, FRCS * 11 July 1961: James Cecil Hogg, Esquire, CVO, FRCSSurgeon-Dentist
* 5 August 1952: Sir Alan Cumbrae Rose McLeod, KCVO, FDS, RCS(Eng.), DDS (retired 1 September 1975).Extra Physician to the Household
* 5 August 1952: Sir Arnold Walmsley Stott, KBE, BCh, FRCPSurgeon-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).Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Windsor
* 5 August 1952: Richard William Legerton May, MB, BCh(Cantab.), MRCS, LRCP (resigned 9 March 1965).Extra Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Windsor
* 5 August 1952: Edmund Claud Maiden, CVO, MB, BChir, MRCS, LRCPSurgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Sandringham
* 5 August 1952: James Lawrence Bunting Ansell, MVO, MRCS, LRCP (resigned 1 November 1965).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, FRSESurgeons
* 5 August 1952: Professor Sir James Rognvald Learmonth, KCVO, CBE, MB, ChM, FRCSE * 5 August 1952: George Gordon Bruce, Esquire, MB, ChB, FRCS, LRCPSurgeon-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, ChBSurgeon-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, MCLieutenant
5 August 1952: Brigadier-General Sir Robert Harvey Kearsley, KCVO, CMG, DSOClerk of the Cheque and Adjutant
*5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Osbert Eustace Vesey, CMG, CBE. *2016: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
Captain
5 August 1952: The Right Honourable William Arthur Bampfylde, Earl of Onslow, MC, TDLieutenant
5 August 1952: Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair, Bt, CB, DSO, MCClerk of the Cheque and Adjutant
5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Charles Bingham, DSOEnsign
5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, VCExons
5 August 1952: Brigadier William Greenwood Carr, DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Hugh Grosvenor, DSOOther appointments
Groom in Waiting
* 5 August 1952: Sir Arthur Horace Penn, KCVO, MCExtra Groom in Waiting
* 5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Montague Charles, Earl of St Germans, KCVO, OBEGroom of the Robes
5 August 1952: Captain Sir Harold George Campbell, KCVO, DSO, RNParliament
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
5 August 1952: Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MCSergeants-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, KBE, CB, DSO, AFCSergeant-at-Arms, House of Commons
5 August 1952: Brigadier Sir Charles Alfred Howard, KCVO, DSOThe Queen's Archives
Keeper
5 August 1952: The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, GCVO, KCB, CMG, MCLibrarian
5 August 1952: Sir Owen Frederick Morshead, KCVO, DSO, MCKeeper of the Jewel House, Tower of London
5 August 1952: Major-GeneralSurveyor of The Queen's Pictures
5 August 1952: Professor Anthony Frederick Blunt, CVODeputy Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures
5 August 1952: Oliver Nicholas Millar, Esquire, FSASurveyor 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, MusDocPoet Laureate
5 August 1952:Honorary Veterinary Surgeons
* 5 August 1952: Captain Thomas Lewis Wright, Esquire, MRCVS * 5 August 1952: Edmond Scot Paterson, Esquire, MRCVSCoroner of the Household
5 August 1952: Lieutenant-Colonel William Hilgrove Leslie McCarthy, DSO, MC, MD, MRCPCaptain of The Queen's Flight
5 August 1952: Air Commodore Sir Edward Hedley Fielden, KCVO, CB, DFC, AFCHer Majesty's Representative at Ascot
5 August 1952: His GraceReferences
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