Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard explained

Post:	Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard &<br/> Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Insignia:	Badge of the Yeomen of the Guard.svg
Incumbent:	The Baroness Wheeler
Incumbentsince:	10 July 2024
Style:	The Right Honourable
Appointer:	Prime Minister
Formation:	1485
First:	John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford

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.^[1] 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 Bedingfield
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: The Earl of Morton
1644: The Earl of Norwich
1649: Interregnum
1660: The Earl of Norwich
1662: The Viscount Grandison
1689–1702: Viscount Mandeville (succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683)

18th century

1702: Marquess of Hartington
1707: The Viscount Townshend
1711: The Lord Paget (created Earl of Uxbridge 19 October 1714)
1715: The Earl of Derby
1723: Lord Stanhope
1725: The Earl of Leicester
1731: The Earl of Ashburnham
1733: The Earl of Tankerville
1737: The Duke of Manchester
1739: The Earl of Essex
1743: The Lord Berkeley of Stratton
1746: The Viscount Torrington
1747: The Viscount Falmouth
1782: The Duke of Dorset
April 1783: The Earl of Cholmondeley
16 December 1783: The Earl of Aylesford

19th century

1804: Hon. Thomas Pelham (styled Lord Pelham from January 1805)
1804: The Earl of Macclesfield
1 December 1830: The Marquess of Clanricarde
16 July 1834: The Earl of Gosford
29 December 1834: The Earl of Courtown
23 April 1835: The Earl of Gosford
5 August 1835: The Earl of Ilchester
6 July 1841: The Earl of Surrey
8 September 1841: The Marquess of Lothian
15 January 1842: The Earl of Beverley
24 July 1846: The Viscount Falkland
11 February 1848: The Marquess of Donegall
27 February 1852: The Lord de Ros
30 December 1852: The Viscount Sydney
17 March 1858: The Lord de Ros
28 June 1859: The Earl of Ducie
10 July 1866: The Earl Cadogan
22 December 1868: The Duke of St Albans
2 March 1874: The Lord Skelmersdale
3 May 1880: The Lord Monson
27 June 1885: The Viscount Barrington
10 February 1886: The Lord Monson
5 August 1886: The Earl of Kintore
29 January 1889: The Earl of Limerick
25 August 1892: The Lord Kensington
16 July 1895: The Earl of Limerick
26 August 1896: The Earl Waldegrave

20th century

8 December 1905: The Duke of Manchester
12 April 1908: The Lord Allendale
2 October 1911: The Earl of Craven
9 June 1915: The Lord Suffield
21 May 1918: The Lord Hylton
22 January 1924: The Lord Loch
1 December 1924: The Lord Desborough
4 June 1929: The Lord Loch

	Term of office		Party	Ministry	Ref.
The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal	November1931	January1934	Conservative	National Government II(Con.–Lib–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)
The Lord Templemore	January1934	August1945
				National Government III(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)
				National Government IV(Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)
				Chamberlain (Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)
				Churchill (Con.–Lib–Lab-Nat Lab–Nat Lib)
				Churchill (Con.–Nat Lib-Ind)
The Lord Walkden	August1945	July1949	Labour	Attlee I
The Lord Shepherd	July1949	October1949
The Lord Lucas of Chilworth	October1949	March1950
The Earl of Lucan	March1950	June1951		Attlee II
The Lord Archibald	June1951	November 1951		Attlee II
The Earl of Onslow	November1951	October1960	Conservative	Churchill III
				Eden
				Macmillan I
				Macmillan II
The Lord Legh	October1960	September1962		Macmillan II
The Viscount Goschen	September1962	December1964		Macmillan II
The Viscount Goschen	September1962	December1964		Douglas-Home
The Lord Bowles	December1964	June1970	Labour	Wilson II
The Viscount Goschen	June1970	November1971	Conservative	Heath
The Lord Denham	November1971	March1974	Conservative	Heath
The Lord Strabolgi	March1974	May1979		Wilson III
				Wilson IV
				Callaghan
The Lord Sandys	May1979	October1982	Conservative	Thatcher I
The Earl of Swinton	October1982	September1986		Thatcher I
				Thatcher II
				Thatcher III
The Viscount Davidson	September1986	December1991		Thatcher III	^[2]
The Viscount Davidson	September1986	December1991		Major I	^[2]
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	December1991	July1994		Major I	^[3]
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	December1991	July1994		Major II	^[3]
The Earl of Arran	July1994	January1995			^[4]
The Lord Inglewood	January1995	July1995			^[5]
The Lord Chesham	July1995	May 1997			^[6]
The Lord McIntosh of Haringey	May 1997	June 2003		Labour		Blair I	^[7]

21st century

Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Party	Ministry	Ref.
The Lord Davies of Oldham	June 2003	May 2010	Labour		Blair II	^[8]
					Blair III
					Brown
The Lord Shutt of Greetland	May 2010	May 2012	Liberal Democrat	Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.)	^[9]
The Lord Newby	May 2012	May 2015	Liberal Democrat	^[10]
The Lord Gardiner of Kimble	May 2015	July 2016	Conservative		Cameron II	^[11]
The Earl of Courtown	July 2016	July 2024			May I	^[12]
					May II
					Johnson I
					Johnson II
					Truss
					Sunak
The Baroness Wheeler	July 2024	Incumbent		Labour		Starmer	^[13]

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

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