The Removing Wardrobe was a sub-department of the British Royal Household. It was responsible for looking after the furnishings which travelled from palace to palace. The office was headed by the Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe (a

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office), assisted by two

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s and three

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, all appointed by the

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. The department was abolished in 1782. The first Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe was Clement Kinnersley, the man who saved the Coronation Spoon, the oldest of the

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used in the Coronation.

Yeomen of the Removing Wardrobe

*1660–1662: Clement Kinnersley *1662–1674: Luke Wilkes *1674–1689: Philip Kinnersley *1689–1693: T. Sackville *1693–1707: Peter Hume *1708–1710: George Davenant *1710–1743: Hon. G. Maynard (and Keeper of the Standing Wardrobe at St. James's Palace) *1743–1782: James Calthorpe

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Sources

Bucholz, R. O. - ''Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11'' (revised)
Positions within the British Royal Household 1782 disestablishments in Great Britain