Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

The Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a UK Government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The present Captain is The Baroness Wheeler, who was appointed to the position in the Starmer ministry in July 2024.

1485–present

15th century

• 1485: John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
• 1486–1509: Sir Charles Somerset (created Baron Herbert 26 November 1506)

16th century

• 1509: Sir Thomas Darcy
• 1509: Sir Henry Marney
• 1512: Sir Henry Guildford
• 1513: Sir John Gage
• 1516: Sir Henry Marney
• 1530: Sir William Kingston
• 1539: Sir Anthony Wingfield
• 1550: Sir Thomas Darcy (created Baron Darcy of Chiche 5 April 1551)
• 1551: Sir John Gates
• 1553: Sir Henry Jerningham
• 1557: Sir Henry Bedingfeld
• 1558: Sir Edward Rogers
• 1558: Sir William St Loe
• 1566: Sir Francis Knowlys
• 1572: Sir Christopher Hatton
• 1586: Sir Henry Goodier
• 1586: Sir Walter Raleigh
• 1592: John Best (During Raleigh's imprisonment in the Tower)
• 1597–1603: Sir Walter Raleigh

17th century

• 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)
• 1632: George Hay
• 1635: William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton
• 1644: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich
• 1649: Interregnum
• 1660: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich
• 1662: George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison
• 1689–1702: Charles Montagu, Viscount Mandeville (succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683)

18th century

• 1702: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
• 1707: Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
• 1711: Henry Paget, 7th Baron Paget (created Earl of Uxbridge 19 October 1714)
• 1715: James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
• 1723: Philip Stanhope, Baron 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 Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
• April 1783: George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley
• 16 December 1783: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford

19th century

• 1804: Thomas Pelham (styled Lord Pelham from January 1805)
• 1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
• 1 December 1830: Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
• 16 July 1834: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
• 29 December 1834: James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
• 23 April 1835: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
• 5 August 1835: Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester
• 6 July 1841: Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Surrey
• 8 September 1841: John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian
• 15 January 1842: George Percy, Earl of Beverley
• 24 July 1846: Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
• 11 February 1848: George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall
• 27 February 1852: William FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
• 30 December 1852: John Townshend 3rd Viscount Sydney
• 17 March 1858: William FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
• 28 June 1859: Henry Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
• 10 July 1866: Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan
• 22 December 1868: William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
• 2 March 1874: Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Baron Skelmersdale
• 3 May 1880: William Monson, 7th Baron Monson
• 27 June 1885: George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
• 10 February 1886: William Monson, 7th Baron Monson
• 5 August 1886: Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
• 29 January 1889: William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
• 25 August 1892: William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
• 16 July 1895: William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
• 26 August 1896: William Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave

20th century

• 8 December 1905: William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester
• 12 April 1908: Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale
• 2 October 1911: William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven
• 9 June 1915: Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield
• 21 May 1918: Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton
• 22 January 1924: Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch
• 1 December 1924: William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
• 4 June 1929: Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch

21st century

References

• 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