# Household of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

This is an incomplete list of those who served Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

#### Comptroller

* 1952–1953: Peter Townsend
* 1953–1974: Lord Adam Gordon
* 1974–2002: Sir Alastair Aird

#### Equerries

* 1950–1956: Capt. Oliver Dawnay
* 1955–1956: Sir Martin Gilliat
* 1956–1984: Sir Francis Legh
* 1959–2002: Sir Ralph Anstruther Bt
* 1968–1970: Richard Jenkins
* 1984–2002: Maj. George Seymour
* 1992–1994: Edward Dawson-Damer
* 1993–2002: Sir Alastair Aird

##### Extra Equerries

* 1953–2002: The Rt Hon. The Lord Sinclair
* 1955–?: Sir Harvey Kearsley
* 1956: Maj Raymond Seymour
* 1956–1962: Capt. Oliver Dawnay
* 1958–?: Maj. Sir John Griffin
* 1964–1973: Alastair Aird
* 1995–2002: Capt. Ashe Windham
* 1998–2002: Nicholas Assheton

##### Temporary Equerries

* 1955: Maj. Raymond Seymour
* 1956–1958: Maj. John Griffin
* 1958–1960: Capt. William Richardson
* 1960–1964: Capt. Alastair Aird
* 1980–1982: Capt. Ashe Windham
* 1982–1984: Capt. the Hon. Jeremy Stopford
* 1984–1986: Capt. Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
* 1986–1988 Capt. Niall Hall
* 1988–1990 Capt. Giles Bassett
* ?–1994: Capt. Edward Dawson-Damer
* 1994–?: Maj. Colin Burgess
* 2000–2002: Capt. Mark Grayson

#### Ladies-in-Waiting

* 1923–1926: Lady Katharine Meade
* 1926–1932: Lady Helen Graham
* 1932–1936: Lettice Bowlby
* 1985–2002: Jane Walker-Okeover
* 1990–2002: Lady Margaret Colville
* 1991–2002: Margaret Rhodes
* 1993–2002: Jennifer Gordon-Lennox

##### Extra Ladies-in-Waiting

* 1929–?: Lady Annaly

#### Ladies of the Bedchamber

* 1937–1941: Viscountess Halifax (extra 1946–?)
* 1937–1947: Lady Nunburnholme
* 1937–1972: Countess Spencer DCVO OBE
* 1937–1994: Viscountess Hambleden GCVO (as Dowager Viscountess from 1948)
* 1945–1967: Lady Harlech (extra 1941–1945; as Dowager Lady from 1964)
* 1947–1979: The Countess of Scarbrough as Dowager Countess from 1969
* 1973–2002: Lady Grimthorpe (daughter of the above Countess of Scarbrough)
* 1994–2002: The Countess of Scarbrough (daughter-in-law of the above Countess of Scarbrough)

#### Lord Chamberlain

* 1937–1965: Col The Earl of Airlie KT GCVO MC
* 1965–1992: The Earl of Dalhousie KT GCVO GBE MC DL
* 1992–2002: The Earl of Crawford KT GCVO PC

#### Mistress of the Robes

* 1937–1964: Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Northumberland GCVO
* 1964–1990: Her Grace The Duchess of Abercorn DCVO
* 1990–2002: Vacant

#### Pages of Honour

* 1962–1964: James Charteris, Lord Neidpath
* 1964–1966: John Dalrymple-Hamilton
* 1966–1967: Valentine Cecil
* 1967–1969: Richard Scott, Lord Eskdaill (later Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry)
* 1969–1971: Simon Mulholland Esq.
* 1971–1973: Michael Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis (later Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne)
* 1973–1974: Gilbert Clayton Esq.
* 1974–1975: Colin Campbell-Preston
* 1975–1977: Charles Bruce, Lord Bruce
* 1977–1979: Gavin Rankin Esq.
* 1979–1982: Henry Beaumont
* 1982–1984: The Hon. Maurice Roche (later Baron Fermoy)
* 1984–1986: Andrew Hope, Viscount Aithrie (later Earl of Hopetoun)
* 1987–1989: Andrew Lillingston
* 1989–1991: Richard Lumley, Viscount Lumley (later Earl of Scarbrough)
* 1991–1993: John Carew-Pole
* 1993–1995: Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington
* 1995–1998: The Hon. Thomas Lumley
* 1998–1999: Harry Bengough
* 1999–2002: Andrew Matheson

#### Press secretary

* 1956–2001: Sir John Griffin

#### Private secretaries

* 1937–1946: Lt Col. Richard Streatfield
* 1946–1951: Maj. Thomas Harvey
* 1951–1956: Capt. Oliver Dawnay
* 1956–1993: Sir Martin Gilliat
* 1993–2002: Sir Alastair Aird

##### Assistant private secretaries

* 1953–1974: Lord Adam Gordon
* 1955–1956: Martin Gilliat
* 1956–1959: Francis Legh
* 1959–1964: Sir Ralph Anstruther Bt
* 1964–1973: Alastair Aird
* 1993–2002: Maj. George Seymour

#### Treasurers

* 1937–1946: Sir Basil Brooke
* 1946–1960: Sir Arthur Penn
* 1961–1998: Sir Ralph Anstruther Bt
* 1998–2002: Nicholas Assheton

#### Women of the Bedchamber

* 1937–1939: Lady Helen Graham
* 1937–1960: Lady Katharine Seymour
* 1937–1961: Marion Hyde, Lady Hyde
* 1937–1944: Lettice Bowlby
* 1939–?: Lady Adelaide Peel
* 1944–1947: Lady Mary Herbert
* 1947–2001: Lady Jean Rankin
* 1951–1961: The Hon Olivia Mulholland
* 1960–1993: Lady Ruth Burke Roche, Baroness Fermoy
* 1961–1963: Lady Mary Harvey
* 1965–2002: Dame Frances Campbell-Preston DCVO
* 1981–2002: Lady Angela Oswald CVO

##### Extra Women of the Bedchamber

* 1937–1994: Lady Victoria Wemyss (née Cavendish-Bentinck)
* 1939–?: Lady Helen Graham
* 1944–1988: Hon. Lettice Bowlby (née Annesley)
* 1947–?: Lady Mary Herbert
* 1947: Lady Jean Rankin
* 1947–?: Alexandra Pelham, Lady Worsley CBE
* 1948–1951: Pamela Hore-Ruthven (later Cooper), Viscountess Ruthven of Canberra
* 1956–1960: The Dowager Lady Fermoy
* 1959–1981: Lady Elizabeth Basset
* 1960–?: Lady Katherine Seymour

##### Temporary Women of the Bedchamber

* 1963–1965: Lady Caroline Douglas-Home

#### Apothecaries

* 1954–?: Dr John Nigel Loring

#### Physicians

* 1936–?: George Frederick Still
* 1936–?: Sir John Weir
* 1936–?: Henry Letheby Tidy
* 1936–?: Daniel Thomas Davies

#### Surgeons

* 1936–?: Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward
* 1936–1946: Arthur Porritt

#### Surgeon-Apothecary

* 1956–?: Richard May Esq.

#### Honorific positions

* Piper to the Queen Mother (1953–2002)
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* ↑ "Obituary: Lord Adam Gordon". The Times. 7 July 1984. p. 12.
* ↑ "Obituary: Sir Arthur Penn – services to the Royal Family". The Times. London. 31 December 1960. p. 10.
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