Lord Chamberlain

Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party 	Notes
The Lord Hastings 	1461 	1470 	 	
The Lord Hastings 	1471 	1483 	 	
The Viscount Lovell 	1483 	1485 	 	
Sir William Stanley 	1485 	1494 	 	
The Lord Daubeny 	1494 	1508 	 	
The Lord Herbert later The Earl of Worcester 	1509 	1526 	 	
The Earl of Arundel 	1526 	1530 	 	
The Lord Sandys 	1530 	1540 	 	
The Lord St. John of Basing 	1543 	1545 	 	
The Earl of Arundel 	1546 	1550 	 	
The Lord Wentworth 	1550 	1551 	 	
The Lord Darcy of Chiche 	1551 	1553 	 	
Sir John Gage 	1553 	1556 	 	
Sir Edward Hastings later The Lord Hastings of Loughborough	1557 	1558 	 	
The Lord Howard of Effingham 	1558 	1572 	 	
The Earl of Sussex 	1572 	1583 	 	
The Lord Hunsdon 	1585 	1596 	 	
The Lord Cobham 	1596 	1597 	 	
The Lord Hunsdon 	1597 	1603 	 	
Lord Thomas Howard later The Earl of Suffolk 	1603 	1614 	 	
The Earl of Somerset 	1614 	1615 	 	
The Earl of Pembroke 	1615 	1626 	 	
The Earl of Montgomery later The Earl of Pembroke 	1626 	1641 	 	
The Earl of Essex 	1641 	1642 	 	
The Earl of Dorset 	1644 	30 January 1649 	 	
The Earl of Manchester 	May 1660 	7 May 1671 	 	
The Earl of St Albans 	1671 	11 September 1674	 	
The Earl of Arlington 	11 September 1674	28 July 1685 	 	
The Earl of Ailesbury 	30 July 1685 	20 October 1685 	Tory 	
The Earl of Mulgrave 	October 1685 	11 December 1688 	Tory 	
The Earl of Dorset 	14 February 1689 	19 April 1697 	Tory 	
The Earl of Sunderland 	19 April 1697 	26 December 1697 	Whig 	
vacant 	26 December 1697 	30 October 1699 	 	
The Duke of Shrewsbury 	30 October 1699 	24 June 1700 	Whig 	
The Earl of Jersey 	24 June 1700 	April 1704 	Tory 	
The Earl of Kent later The Marquess of Kent 	April 1704 	April 1710 	Whig 	
The Duke of Shrewsbury 	April 1710 	8 July 1715 	Whig (but associated with a Tory ministry)	
The Duke of Bolton 	8 July 1715 	13 April 1717 	Whig 	
The Duke of Newcastle 	13 April 1717 	6 April 1724 	Whig 	
The Duke of Grafton 	6 April 1724 	6 May 1757 	Whig 	
The Duke of Devonshire 	29 June 1757 	28 November 1762 	Whig 	
The Duke of Marlborough 	28 November 1762 	April 1763 	Whig 	
The Earl Gower 	April 1763 	July 1765 	Tory 	
The Duke of Portland 	July 1765 	27 November 1766 	Whig 	
The Earl of Hertford 	27 November 1766 	April 1782 	Tory 	
The Duke of Manchester 	April 1782 	April 1783 	Whig 	
The Earl of Hertford 	April 1783 	23 December 1783 	Tory 	
The Earl of Salisbury later The Marquess of Salisbury 	23 December 1783 	14 May 1804 	Tory 	
The Earl of Dartmouth 	14 May 1804 	10 November 1810 	Tory 	
The Marquess of Hertford 	1812 	December 1821 	Tory 	
The Duke of Montrose 	December 1821 	May 1827 	Tory 	
The Duke of Devonshire 	May 1827 	February 1828 	Whig 	
The Duke of Montrose 	February 1828 	July 1830 	Tory 	
The Earl of Jersey 	July 1830 	22 November 1830 	Tory 	
The Duke of Devonshire 	22 November 1830 	14 November 1834 	Whig 	
The Earl of Jersey 	15 December 1834 	8 April 1835 	Conservative 	
The Marquess Wellesley 	23 April 1835 	22 May 1835 	Whig 	
The Marquess Conyngham 	22 May 1835 	6 May 1839 	Whig 	
Earl of Uxbridge 	6 May 1839 	30 August 1841 	Whig 	
The Earl De La Warr 	8 September 1841 	27 June 1846 	Conservative 	
The Earl Spencer 	8 July 1846 	5 September 1848 	Whig 	
The Marquess of Breadalbane 	5 September 1848 	21 February 1852 	Whig 	
The Marquess of Exeter 	27 February 1852 	17 December 1852 	Conservative 	
The Marquess of Breadalbane 	15 January 1853 	21 February 1858 	Liberal 	
The Earl De La Warr 	26 February 1858 	11 June 1859 	Conservative 	
The Viscount Sydney 	23 June 1859 	26 June 1866 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Bradford 	10 July 1866 	1 December 1868 	Conservative 	
The Viscount Sydney 	9 December 1868 	17 February 1874 	Liberal 	
The Marquess of Hertford 	21 February 1874 	7 May 1879 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 	7 May 1879 	21 April 1880 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Kenmare 	3 May 1880 	9 June 1885 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Lathom 	27 June 1885 	28 January 1886 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Kenmare 	10 February 1886 	20 July 1886 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Lathom 	5 August 1886 	11 August 1892 	Conservative 	
The Lord Carrington 	25 August 1892 	21 June 1895 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Lathom 	16 July 1895 	7 December 1898 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Hopetoun 	7 December 1898 	21 September 1900	Conservative 	
The Earl of Clarendon 	21 September 1900	4 December 1905 	Liberal Unionist 	
The Viscount Althorp later The Earl Spencer 	18 December 1905 	14 February 1912 	Liberal 	
The Lord Sandhurst later The Viscount Sandhurst 	14 February 1912 	20 November 1921 	Liberal 	
The Duke of Atholl 	20 November 1921 	19 October 1922 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Cromer 	20 November 1922 	30 June 1938 	Conservative 	in 1924, the post became a non-political one
The Earl of Clarendon 	1 July 1938 	10 October 1952 	 	
The Earl of Scarborough 	11 October 1952 	28 January 1963 	 	
The Lord Cobbold 	29 January 1963 	30 November 1971 	 	
The Lord Maclean 	1 December 1971 	30 November 1984 	 	
The Earl of Airlie 	1 December 1984 	31 December 1997 	 	
The Lord Camoys 	1 January 1998 	31 May 2000 	 	
The Lord Luce 	1 October 2000 	15 October 2006 	 	
The Earl Peel 	16 October 2006