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.
Contents
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, 2nd Baron Pelham of Stanmer
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, 22nd Baron de Ros
30 December 1852: John Townshend 3rd Viscount Sydney
17 March 1858: William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros
28 June 1859: Henry Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
10 July 1866: Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan
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