# 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
| Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Party | Ministry |
| Donald Howard 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal | November 1931 | January 1934 | Conservative | National Government II (Con.–Lib–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
| Arthur Chichester 4th Baron Templemore | January 1934 | August 1945 | Conservative | National Government II (Con.–Lib–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
| Arthur Chichester 4th Baron Templemore | January 1934 | August 1945 | Conservative | National Government III (Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
| Arthur Chichester 4th Baron Templemore | January 1934 | August 1945 | Conservative | National Government IV (Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
| Arthur Chichester 4th Baron Templemore | January 1934 | August 1945 | Conservative | Chamberlain (War Ministry) (Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
| Arthur Chichester 4th Baron Templemore | January 1934 | August 1945 | Conservative | Churchill (War Ministry) (Con.–Lib–Lab-Nat Lab–Nat Lib) |
| Arthur Chichester 4th Baron Templemore | January 1934 | August 1945 | Conservative | Churchill (Caretaker) (Con.–Nat Lib-Ind) |
| Alexander Walkden 1st Baron Walkden | August 1945 | July 1949 | Labour | Attlee I |
| George Shepherd 1st Baron Shepherd | July 1949 | October 1949 | Labour | Attlee I |
| George Lucas 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth | October 1949 | March 1950 | Labour | Attlee I |
| George Bingham 6th Earl of Lucan | March 1950 | June 1951 | Labour | Attlee II |
| George Archibald 1st Baron Lord Archibald | June 1951 | November 1951 | Labour | Attlee II |
| William Onslow 6th Earl of Onslow | November 1951 | October 1960 | Conservative | Churchill III |
| William Onslow 6th Earl of Onslow | November 1951 | October 1960 | Conservative | Eden |
| William Onslow 6th Earl of Onslow | November 1951 | October 1960 | Conservative | Macmillan I |
| William Onslow 6th Earl of Onslow | November 1951 | October 1960 | Conservative | Macmillan II |
| Peter Legh Baron Legh | October 1960 | September 1962 | Conservative | Macmillan II |
| John Goschen 3rd Viscount Goschen | September 1962 | December 1964 | Conservative | Macmillan II |
| John Goschen 3rd Viscount Goschen | September 1962 | December 1964 | Conservative | Douglas-Home |
| Frank Bowles Baron Bowles | December 1964 | June 1970 | Labour | Wilson II |
| John Goschen 3rd Viscount Goschen | June 1970 | November 1971 | Conservative | Heath |
| Bertram Bowyer 2nd Baron Denham | November 1971 | March 1974 | Conservative | Heath |
| David Kenworthy 11th Baron Strabolgi | March 1974 | May 1979 | Labour | Wilson III |
| David Kenworthy 11th Baron Strabolgi | March 1974 | May 1979 | Labour | Wilson IV |
| David Kenworthy 11th Baron Strabolgi | March 1974 | May 1979 | Labour | Callaghan |
| Andrew Hill 7th Baron Sandys | May 1979 | October 1982 | Conservative | Thatcher I |
| David Cunliffe-Lister 2nd Earl of Swinton | October 1982 | September 1986 | Conservative | Thatcher I |
| David Cunliffe-Lister 2nd Earl of Swinton | October 1982 | September 1986 | Conservative | Thatcher II |
| David Cunliffe-Lister 2nd Earl of Swinton | October 1982 | September 1986 | Conservative | Thatcher III |
| Andrew Davidson 2nd Viscount Davidson | September 1986 | December 1991 | Conservative | Thatcher III |
| Andrew Davidson 2nd Viscount Davidson | September 1986 | December 1991 | Conservative | Major I |
| Michael Bowes-Lyon 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | December 1991 | July 1994 | Conservative | Major I |
| Michael Bowes-Lyon 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | December 1991 | July 1994 | Conservative | Major II |
| Arthur Gore 9th Earl of Arran | July 1994 | January 1995 | Conservative | Major II |
| Richard Fletcher-Vane 2nd Baron Lord Inglewood | January 1995 | July 1995 | Conservative | Major II |
| Nicholas Cavendish 6th Baron Chesham | July 1995 | May 1997 | Conservative | Major II |
| Andrew McIntosh Baron McIntosh of Haringey | May 1997 | June 2003 | Labour | Blair I |

### 21st century

| Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Party | Ministry |
| Bryan Davies Baron Davies of Oldham | June 2003 | May 2010 | Labour | Blair II |
| Bryan Davies Baron Davies of Oldham | June 2003 | May 2010 | Labour | Blair III |
| Bryan Davies Baron Davies of Oldham | June 2003 | May 2010 | Labour | Brown |
| David Shutt Baron Shutt of Greetland | May 2010 | May 2012 | Liberal Democrat | Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.) |
| Richard Newby Baron Newby | May 2012 | May 2015 | Liberal Democrat | Cameron–Clegg (Con.–L.D.) |
| John Gardiner Baron Gardiner of Kimble | May 2015 | July 2016 | Conservative | Cameron II |
| Patrick Stopford 9th Earl of Courtown | July 2016 | July 2024 | Conservative | May I |
| Patrick Stopford 9th Earl of Courtown | July 2016 | July 2024 | Conservative | May II |
| Patrick Stopford 9th Earl of Courtown | July 2016 | July 2024 | Conservative | Johnson I |
| Patrick Stopford 9th Earl of Courtown | July 2016 | July 2024 | Conservative | Johnson II |
| Patrick Stopford 9th Earl of Courtown | July 2016 | July 2024 | Conservative | Truss |
| Patrick Stopford 9th Earl of Courtown | July 2016 | July 2024 | Conservative | Sunak |
| Margaret Wheeler Baroness Wheeler | July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer |