Lord Chamberlain - List of Lords Chamberlain of The Household

List of Lords Chamberlain of The Household

Lords Chamberlain since 1399 to the present:

Name Entered office Left office Notes Reference
Thomas Erpingham, from 1400 Sir Thomas 1399 1404
The Lord Grey of Codnor 1404 1413
The Lord FitzHugh 1413 1425
The Lord Cromwell c. 1425 1432 First period in office
The Lord Bardolf 1432 1441
Sir Ralph Boteler, from 1441 The Lord Sudeley 1441 1447
The Lord Saye and Sele 1447 1450
The Lord Cromwell 1450 1455 Second period in office
Thomas Stanley, from 1456 The Lord Stanley 1455 1459
The Earl of Salisbury 1460 1460
The Lord Hastings 1461 1470 First period in office
Unknown 1470 1471 Second reign of Henry VI
The Lord Hastings 1471 1483 Second period in office
The Viscount Lovell 1483 1485
Sir William Stanley 1485 1494
The Lord Daubeny 1494 1508
The Lord Herbert, from 1514 The Earl of Worcester 1509 1526
The Earl of Arundel 1526 1530
The Lord Sandys 1530 1540
Vacant 1540 1543
The Lord St John 1543 1545 Created The Earl of Wiltshire in 1550 and The Marquess of Winchester in 1551
Unknown 1545 1546
The Earl of Arundel 1546 1550
The Lord Wentworth 1550 1551
The Lord Darcy of Chiche 1551 1553
Sir John Gage 1553 1556
Unknown 1556 1557
Sir Edward Hastings, from 1558 The Lord Hastings of Loughborough 1557 1558
The Lord Howard of Effingham 1558 1572
The Earl of Sussex 1572 1583
Unknown 1583 1585
The Lord Hunsdon 1585 1596
The Lord Cobham 1596 1597
The Lord Hunsdon 1597 1603
Lord Thomas Howard, from 1603 The Earl of Suffolk 1603 1614
The Earl of Somerset 1614 1615
The Earl of Pembroke 1615 1626
The Earl of Montgomery, from 1630 The Earl of Pembroke 1626 1641
The Earl of Essex 1641 1642
Unknown 1642 1644
The Earl of Dorset 1644 1649
Vacant due to The Commonwealth and The Protectorate 1649 1655
Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bt 1655 1659 Lord Chamberlain during The Protectorate
The Earl of Manchester 1660 1671
The Earl of St Albans 1672 1674
The Earl of Arlington 1674 1685
The Earl of Elgin and Earl of Ailesbury 1685 1685
The Earl of Mulgrave 1685 1688 Created The Marquess of Normanby in 1694 and The Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703
The Earl of Dorset 1689 1697
The Earl of Sunderland 1697 1697
Vacant 1697 1699 The King did not accept the resignation of the Earl of Sunderland
The Duke of Shrewsbury 1699 1700
The Earl of Jersey 1700 1704
The Earl of Kent, from 1706 The Marquess of Kent 1704 1710 Created The Duke of Kent in 1710 and The Marquess Grey in 1740
The Duke of Shrewsbury 1710 1715
The Duke of Bolton 1715 1717
The Duke of Newcastle 1717 1724
The Duke of Grafton 1724 1757
The Duke of Devonshire 1757 1762
The Duke of Marlborough 1762 1763
The Earl Gower 1763 1765 Created The Marquess of Stafford in 1786
The Duke of Portland 1765 1766
The Earl of Hertford 1766 1782 First period in office; created The Marquess of Hertford in 1793
The Duke of Manchester 1782 1783
The Earl of Hertford 1783 1783 Second period in office; created The Marquess of Hertford in 1793
The Earl of Salisbury, from 1789 The Marquess of Salisbury 1783 1804
The Earl of Dartmouth 1804 1810
Vacant 1810 1812
The Marquess of Hertford 1812 1821
The Duke of Montrose 1821 1827 First period in office
The Duke of Devonshire 1827 1828 First period in office
The Duke of Montrose 1828 1830 Second period in office
The Earl of Jersey 1830 1830 First period in office
The Duke of Devonshire 1830 1834 Second period in office
The Earl of Jersey 1834 1835 Second period in office
The Marquess Wellesley 1835 1835
The Marquess Conyngham 1835 1839
Earl of Uxbridge 1839 1841 Succeeded as The Marquess of Anglesey in 1854
The Earl De La Warr 1841 1846 First period in office
The Earl Spencer 1846 1848
The Marquess of Breadalbane 1848 1852 First period in office
The Marquess of Exeter 1852 1852
The Marquess of Breadalbane 1853 1858 Second period in office
The Earl De La Warr 1858 1859 Second period in office
The Viscount Sydney 1859 1866 First period in office
The Earl of Bradford 1866 1868
The Viscount Sydney 1868 1874 Second period in office; created The Earl Sydney in 1874
The Marquess of Hertford 1874 1879
The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1879 1880
The Earl of Kenmare 1880 1885 First period in office
The Earl of Lathom 1885 1886 First period in office
The Earl of Kenmare 1886 1886 Second period in office
The Earl of Lathom 1886 1892 Second period in office
The Lord Carrington 1892 1895 Created The Earl Carrington in 1895 and The Marquess of Lincolnshire in 1912
The Earl of Lathom 1895 1898 Third period in office
The Earl of Hopetoun 1898 1900 Created The Marquess of Linlithgow in 1902
The Earl of Clarendon 1900 1905
The Viscount Althorp, from 1910 The Earl Spencer 1905 1912
The Lord Sandhurst, from 1917 The Viscount Sandhurst 1912 1921
The Duke of Atholl 1921 1922
The Earl of Cromer 1922 1938
The Earl of Clarendon 1938 1952
The Earl of Scarbrough 1952 1963
The Lord Cobbold 29 January 1963 30 November 1971
The Lord Maclean 1 December 1971 30 November 1984
The Earl of Airlie 1 December 1984 31 December 1997
The Lord Camoys 1 January 1998 31 May 2000
The Lord Luce 1 October 2000 15 October 2006
The Earl Peel 16 October 2006 present

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