# Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms

The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a post in the Government of the United Kingdom that has been held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords since 1945. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.

## List of Captains of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

| Date of appointment | Holder |
| 1509 | Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex |
| 1539 | Sir Anthony Browne |
| 1549 | John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye |
| 1550 | William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton |
| 1553 | Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex |
| 1558 | Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon |
| 1596 | George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon |
| May 1603 | Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland |
| 1615 | Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk |
| 1616 | Theophilus Howard, Baron Howard de Walden (succeeded as Earl of Suffolk 1626) |
| May 1635 | William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury |
| 1643 | Francis Leigh, 1st Baron Dunsmore (created Earl of Chichester 1644) |
| temp Charles II | William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury |
| 20 July 1660 | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland |
| 29 March 1667 | John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse |
| 10 March 1672 | Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg |
| 9 May 1676 | Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon |
| 24 April 1677 | Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale |
| 26 June 1682 | Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon |
| 28 February 1689 | John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace |
| 29 November 1693 | Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans |
| 13 January 1712 | Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort |
| 22 September 1714 | Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans |
| 21 May 1726 | William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (succeeded as Duke of Devonshire 1729) |
| 11 June 1731 | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington |
| 11 June 1734 | John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu |
| 8 May 1740 | Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton |
| 12 July 1742 | Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst |
| 24 December 1744 | John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart (created Earl of Buckinghamshire 1746) |
| 16 November 1756 | John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton |
| 12 July 1762 | George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield |
| 28 December 1772 | George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe (created Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort 1781) |
| 29 March 1782 | George Townshend, 17th Baron Ferrers of Chartley |
| 17 May 1783 | George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey |
| 31 December 1783 | George Townshend, 17th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (created Earl of Leicester 1784) |
| 5 March 1790 | George Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth |
| 19 February 1806 | St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso |
| 2 March 1808 | Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe |
| 26 March 1812 | James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown |
| 1 September 1827 | Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford |
| 9 December 1830 | Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley |
| 16 August 1833 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 29 December 1834 | Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford |
| 6 May 1835 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 8 September 1841 | John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester |
| 24 July 1846 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Fole |
| 27 February 1852 | John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich |
| 30 December 1852 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 26 February 1858 | Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury |
| 28 June 1859 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 10 July 1866 | Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville |
| 20 March 1867 | William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter |
| 12 December 1868 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 27 December 1869 | George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby |
| 20 April 1871 | Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper |
| 1 January 1874 | Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester |
| 2 March 1874 | William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter |
| 4 February 1875 | Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury |
| 28 May 1877 | George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry |
| 3 May 1880 | Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife |
| 21 January 1881 | Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly |
| 27 June 1881 | Charles Wynn-Carington, 3rd Baron Carrington |
| 6 July 1885 | George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry |
| 10 February 1886 | Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley |
| 5 August 1886 | George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington |
| 24 November 1886 | Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn |
| 11 August 1890 | Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough |
| 25 August 1892 | George Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon |
| 13 March 1894 | Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield |
| 16 July 1895 | Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper |
| 18 December 1905 | William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp |
| 31 July 1907 | Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman |
| 26 June 1911 | Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke |
| 20 November 1922 | George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon |
| 22 January 1924 | Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore |
| 1 December 1924 | George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon |
| 26 June 1925 | Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth |
| 1 January 1929 | George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan |
| 5 June 1929 | Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan |
| 12 November 1931 | George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan |
| 31 May 1940 | Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell |
| 21 April 1944 | Vacant |
| 22 March 1945 | Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue |
| 4 August 1945 | Charles Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon |
| 18 October 1949 | George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd |
| 5 November 1951 | Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue |
| 27 June 1957 | Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn |
| 21 October 1964 | Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd |
| 29 July 1967 | Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick |
| 24 June 1970 | Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwynn |
| 11 March 1974 | Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe |
| 6 May 1979 | Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham |
| 22 May 1991 | Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh |
| 16 September 1993 | Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater |
| 20 July 1994 | Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde |
| 6 May 1997 | Denis Carter, Baron Carter |
| 1 May 2002 | Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott |
| 24 January 2008 | Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon |
| 5 October 2008 | Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton |
| 13 May 2010 | Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's |
| 6 August 2014 | John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach |
| 26 July 2019 | Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde |
| 7 September 2022 | Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford |
| 9 July 2024 | Roy Kennedy, Baron Kennedy of Southwark |