The Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is presently a UK government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The present Captain is the Lord Davies of Oldham. The Queens Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard are a bodyguard of the British Monarch. ... The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ... In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, of Broxbourne in the County of Hertfordshire, (b. ...

Captains of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1485-present

• 1486: John de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford
• 1488: Sir Charles Somerset; created Baron Herbert 26 November 1506
• 1514: Sir Henry Guilford
• 1521: Sir Henry Marny
• 1523: Sir William Kingston
• 1536: Sir Anthony Wingfield
• 1550: Sir Thomas Darcy; created Baron Darcy of Chiche 5 April 1551
• 1553: Sir Henry Jernyngham
• 1558: Sir William St Loe
• 1569: Sir Francis Knowlys
• 1578: Sir Christopher Hatton
• 1587: Sir Henry Goodier
• 1592: John Best
• 1597: Sir Walter Raleigh
• 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
• 1625: Sir Christopher Musgrave
• 1632: George Hay, 1st Viscount Dupplin; created Earl of Kinnoul 25 May 1633
• 1635: William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton
• 1660: George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison
• 1662: Charles Goring, 2nd Earl of Norwich
• 1670: Charles Montagu, Viscount Mandeville; succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683
• 1702: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
• 1707: Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
• 1714: Henry Paget, 8th Baron Paget; created Earl of Uxbridge 19 October 1714
• 1715: James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
• 1723: Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord 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 Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
• April 1783: George James Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley
• 16 December 1783: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
• 1804: The Hon. Thomas Pelham; styled Lord Pelham from January 1805
• 1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
• 1 December 1830: Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
• 16 July 1834: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
• 29 December 1834: Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
• 23 April 1835: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
• 5 August 1835: Henry Stephen Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester
• 6 July 1841: Henry Charles Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Surrey
• 8 September 1841: John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian
• 15 January 1842: George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley
• 24 July 1846: Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
• 11 February 1848: George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall
• 27 February 1852: William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
• 30 December 1852: John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney
• 17 March 1858: William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
• 28 June 1859: Henry John Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
• 10 July 1866: Henry Charles Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan
• 22 December 1868: William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans
• 2 March 1874: Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Baron Skelmersdale
• 3 May 1880: William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson
• 27 June 1885: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
• 10 February 1886: William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson
• 5 August 1886: Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
• 29 January 1889: William Hale John Charles Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
• 25 August 1892: George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon
• 13 March 1894: Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
• 16 July 1895: William Hale John Charles Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick
• 26 August 1896: William Frederick Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave
• 12 April 1908: Wentworth Canning Beaumont, 2nd Baron Allendale
• 2 October 1911: William George Robert Craven, 4th Earl of Craven
• 9 June 1915: Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield
• 21 May 1918: Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton
• 22 January 1924: vacant.
• 1 December 1924: William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
• 4 June 1929: vacant.
• 24 January 1934: Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore
• 4 August 1945: Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
• 6 July 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
• 18 October 1949: George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth
• 5 March 1950: George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan
• 8 June 1951: George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald
• 5 November 1951: William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow
• 28 October 1960: Peter Richard Legh, 4th Baron Newton
• 6 September 1962: John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
• 28 December 1964: Francis George Bowles, Baron Bowles
• 24 June 1970: John Alexander Goschen, 3rd Viscount Goschen
• 20 November 1971: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
• 11 March 1974: David Montague de Burgh Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi
• 6 May 1979: Richard Michael Oliver Hill, 7th Baron Sandys
• 20 October 1982: David Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton
• 10 September 1986: John Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson
• 30 December 1991: Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
• 20 July 1994: Arthur Desmond Colqhoun Gore, 7th Earl of Arran
• 8 July 1995: Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham
• 3 May 1997: Andrew Robert McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey
• incomplete

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