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The Households of George V and Mary supported the work of the monarch and his consort between May 1910 and January 1936. Previously, they had maintained separate Households as Prince and Princess of Wales (1901-1910) and a joint Household as Duke and Duchess of York (1893-1901). After the death of her husband, Queen Mary maintained her own Household until her death in 1953. The Royal Households of the United Kingdom consist of royal officials, office-holders and staff; members of the Royal Family who undertake public duties each have their own (separate or joint) Households.

Prince George of Wales (1865–1936), the future King George V, was born the second son of the then Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). On the death of his elder brother in January 1892, however, he became second in line to the throne. The following month, he made the first appointments to his household: a Comptroller and Treasurer and a Chaplain;[1] later that year he was created Duke of York. After his marriage to Princess Mary of Teck (1867–1953) in 1893, the couple maintained a shared household: the Household of the Duke and Duchess of York.

On the accession of his father, King Edward VII in January 1901, George automatically inherited the dukedom of Cornwall and was known as the Duke of Cornwall and York until the following November, when he was appointed Prince of Wales. From that time on, he and his wife each had their own household: the Household of the Prince of Wales and the Household of the Princess of Wales.

When George became King in 1910, his household became the Household of the Sovereign and was duly extended. As consort, Mary had her own household, the Household of the Queen.

Prior to 1922, the king had maintained a separate Household in Ireland, latterly consisting of two hereditary officers and a small medical establishment (along with the Office of Arms and Chancery of the Order of St Patrick);[2] it was dissolved following the establishment of the Irish Free State in December of that year.

In 1924, following the formation of Britain's first Labour government, the number of political appointments in the Royal Household was reduced (by mutual agreement between the King and Ramsay MacDonald, after consultation with Lord Balfour and Mr Asquith). Thus in February 1924, the appointments of the Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, two Lords in Waiting, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard were gazetted, with the proviso that 'these Appointments will be of a non-political character during the present Administration'.[3] The latter two subsequently reverted to being political appointments, but the others remained non-political.

King George V died in 1936, and was succeeded by his son Edward VIII. His widow retained her household (retitled the Household of Queen Mary) until her own demise in 1953.

Household of the Duke of York 1892–1893 and Household of the Duke and Duchess of York 1893–1901

Controller and Treasurer to His Royal Highness

Equerries in Waiting to His Royal Highness

Ladies in Waiting to Her Royal Highness

  • 1893–1901: Lady Eva Greville (afterwards Dugdale)[6]
  • 1895–1901: Lady Mary Lygon[7]
  • 1898–1901: Lady Katherine Grey Coke (Extra)[8]

Physician Accoucheur to Her Royal Highness

  • 1896–1901: Sir John Williams, Bt.[9]

Physician in Ordinary to His Royal Highness

  • 1896–1901: Robert W. Burnet[9]

Surgeon in Ordinary to His Royal Highness

Surgeon Apothecary to His Royal Highness, at Sandringham

  • 1897–1901: Alan Reeve Manby[10]

Hon. Chaplain to His Royal Highness

Household of the Prince of Wales 1901–1910

Lords of the Bedchamber to His Royal Highness

Comptroller and Treasurer

Private Secretary to His Royal Highness

Master of the Stables

Groom of the Bedchamber to His Royal Highness

Equerries in Ordinary to His Royal Highness

Extra Equerries to His Royal Highness

Domestic Chaplain

Librarian to His Royal Highness

  • 1903–: Mr G. Hua[18]

Physicians in Ordinary

Surgeons in Ordinary

Honorary Physicians

  • 1901–1910: Robert W. Burnet, Esq.[16]
  • 1901–1910: Samuel J. Gee, Esq.[16]

Surgeon-Apothecary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's Household

  • 1901–1910: Sir Francis H. Laking[16]

Surgeon-Apothecary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and to the Household at Sandringham

  • 1901–1910: Alan R. Manby, Esq.[16]

Chemist and Druggist

  • 1901–1910: Mr. Peter Wyatt Squire

Household of the Princess of Wales 1901–1910

Chamberlain

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Her Royal Highness

Extra Ladies of the Bedchamber to Her Royal Highness

Women of the Bedchamber to Her Royal Highness

Extra Woman of the Bedchamber Her Royal Highness

  • 1901–1910: Lady Katharine Coke[21]

Private Secretary to the Princess of Wales

Equerry to the Princess of Wales

  • 1901–1910: Frank Dugdale[21]

Household of King George V 1910–1936

The headings below broadly reflect the King's Household as announced in June 1910;[28][29] however, in 1920 a number of changes were made to the arrangement of departments and officers in the King's Household.[30] The Lord Steward's Department and the Master of the Horse's Department were renamed (after their executive heads), becoming the Master of the Household's Department and the Crown Equerry's Department, respectively. The Keeper of the Privy Purse was retitled Treasurer to the King and Keeper of the Privy Purse (with oversight of a distinct Treasurer's office alongside that of the Privy Purse). The king's Equerries in Waiting, who had always (for historical reasons) been part of the Master of the Horse's department, were transferred to the Private Secretary's office.[31] Also, as part of these rearrangements, the Lord Chamberlain's Department was split: a smaller Lord Chamberlain's Office (headed by a 'State Chamberlain') moved into Buckingham Palace, while the 'Ceremonial Department' remained at St James's Palace (under its own separate Comptroller); this arrangement, however, was short lived, with the two being reunited under a single Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office by 1925.

Personal appointments

Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse

Secretary of His Majesty's Privy Purse
Deputy Treasurer to His Majesty

Private Secretaries to His Majesty

Assistant Private Secretaries to His Majesty
  • 1910–1914: Lt-Col. Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby[28]
  • 1910–1931: Brevet Maj. Clive Wigram[28]
  • 1916–1920: Rowland Thomas Baring, The Viscount Errington[40] (later Earl of Cromer)
  • 1920–1936: Lt the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge[41] (also Assistant Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse from 1935)[33]
  • 1931–1936: Frank Herbert Mitchell, Esq.[42]
  • 1935–1936: Alan Frederick Lascelles, Esq.[33]

Lord Steward's Department

(Board of Green Cloth, Buckingham Palace)

Lord Steward of His Majesty's Household

Treasurer of the Household

Comptroller of the Household

Master of His Majesty's Household

Deputy Master of His Majesty's Household

Gentleman of the Cellars to His Majesty

  • 1910–1919: Thomas Arthur FitzHardinge Kingscote, Esq.[29]
  • 1919–1922: Major Edric Thomas Kingscote[49]

Coroner to His Majesty's Household

Paymaster of the Household

Lord Chamberlain's Department

(Lord Chamberlain's Office, Stable Yard, St James's Palace)

Lord Chamberlain

Vice-Chamberlain

State Chamberlain

Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Department

  • 1910–1920: Col. Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson[29]
  • 1920–1936: Maj. The Hon. George Arthur Charles Crichton (Comptroller of the Ceremonial Department, 1920–1925; Comptroller, the Lord Chamberlain's Office 1925–1936)[30]
Assistant Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department

Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to His Majesty

  • 1910–1921: Luke, 3rd Lord Annaly (Lord of the Bedchamber in Waiting)[28] (Permanent)[55]
  • 1910–1915: Granville George, Earl Granville[29]
  • 1910–1911: Gavin George, Lord Hamilton of Dalzell[29]
  • 1910–1915: Richard Maximilian, Lord Acton[29]
  • 1910–1911: Edward Arthur, Lord Colebrooke[29]
  • 1910–1919: Richard Farrer, Lord Herschell[29]
  • 1910–1911: Dudley Churchill, Lord Tweedmouth[29]
  • 1911–1913: Freeman, Lord Willingdon[56]
  • 1911–1916: Wentworth Canning Blackett, Viscount Allendale[57]
  • 1911–1914: Edward Douglas, Lord Loch[58]
  • 1913–1915: Ivor Churchill, Baron Ashby St. Ledgers[59]
  • 1914–1922: George Arthur Maurice, Baron Stanmore[60]
  • 1915–1921: Major-General John Fielden, Baron Ranksborough[61]
  • 1915–1918: Hylton George Hylton, Baron Hylton[62]
  • 1915–1924: Arthur, Viscount Valentia[62]
  • 1916–1919: Lloyd, Baron Kenyon[63]
  • 1918–1924: Savile Brinton, Baron Somerleyton[64]
  • 1919: George Henry Robert Child, Earl of Jersey[65]
  • 1919–1924: Orlando, Earl of Bradford[65]
  • 1919–1920: Richard William Alan, Earl of Onslow[66]
  • 1920–1924: George Charles, Earl of Lucan[67]
  • 1921–1922: George Herbert Hyde, Earl of Clarendon[68]
  • 1922–1924: James Edward, Earl of Malmesbury[69]
  • 1922–1924: Arnold Allan Cecil, Earl of Albemarle[69]
  • 1924: Kenneth Augustus, Baron Muir Mackenzie[70]
  • 1924: Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey, Earl De La Warr[70]
  • 1924–1936: Thomas Walter, Viscount Hampden (non-political)[3]
  • 1924–1936: Edward Arthur, Baron Colebrooke (non-political)[3][71]
  • 1924–1929: Richard Farrer, Baron Herschell (non-political)[72]
  • 1924–1929: George Charles, Earl of Lucan[73]
  • 1924–1929: Henry Rainald, Viscount Gage[73]
  • 1924–1926: Arthur Herbert Tennyson, Baron Somers[73]
  • 1926–1929: David Lyulph Gore Wolseley, Earl of Airlie[74]
  • 1929: Arthur Claud Spencer, Baron Templemore[75]
  • 1929–1930: Kenneth Augustus, Baron Muir Mackenzie[76]
  • 1929–1931: Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey, Earl De La Warr[76]
  • 1930–1931: Dudley Leigh, Baron Marley[77]
  • 1930–1936: Alexander Edward, Earl of Dunmore (non-political)[78]
  • 1931–1934: Arthur Claud Spencer, Baron Templemore[79]
  • 1931–1936: Henry Rainald, Viscount Gage[79]
  • 1931–1932: Wentworth Henry Canning, Viscount Allendale[79]
  • 1932–1936: Geoffrey William Richard Hugh, Earl of Munster[80]
  • 1934–1936: Charles William Slingsby, Earl of Feversham[81]
Extra Lord in Waiting
  • 1910–1915: Horace Brand, Lord Farquhar[29]

Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms

Captain of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard

Master of the Ceremonies

Renamed Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in 1920

Marshal of the Ceremonies
Assistant Marshals of the Diplomatic Corps

Gentlemen Ushers

Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State
Extra Gentlemen Ushers

Sergeants-at-Arms

  • 1910–1921: Richard Edgcumbe, Esq.[29]
  • 1910–1914: Edward Hamilton Anson, Esq.[29]
  • 1910–1912: Capt. Sir William Goldsmith, R.N.[29]
  • 1910–1911: Sir Richard Rivington Holmes[29]
  • 1910–1929: Maj. James Evan Baillie Martin[29]
  • 1910–1936: Capt. Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse[29]
  • 1914–1916: Capt. George Alexander Broad, R.N.[109]
  • 1916–1926: Walter Matthew Gibson, Esq.[110]
  • 1921–1922: Sir Daniel Alfred Anley Tupper
  • 1922–1931: Sir Francis Morgan Bryant[111]
  • 1926–1935: Harry Clifford Longden, Esq.[112]
  • 1929–1936: Frederic Stanley Osgood, Esq.[113]
  • 1931–1936: Maj. Henry Hudson Fraser Stockley[114]
  • 1935–1936: George David Field, Esq.[115]
Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Lords
Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Commons

Grooms of the Bedchamber in Waiting to His Majesty

Extra Grooms of the Bedchamber in Waiting to His Majesty

Librarian to His Majesty at Windsor Castle

Surveyor of The King's Pictures and Works of Art

Surveyor of His Majesty's Pictures
Surveyor of His Majesty's Works of Art

Keeper of The King's Armoury

No further appointments were made after 1928; the duties of the post devolved upon the Surveyor of His Majesty's Works of Art.[130]

Master of the Music in Ordinary to His Majesty

Poet Laureate

Marine Painter in Ordinary to the King

Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle

Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle

Keeper of the Jewel House, Tower of London

Keeper of the Cottage, Virginia Water

  • 1910–1912: Capt. Sir David Nairne Welch[29]
  • 1912–1917: Capt. George Alexander Broad[140]

Redesignated 'Keeper of Virginia Water' from 1919

Master of the Horse's Department

(Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace)

His Majesty's Master of the Horse

Crown Equerry to His Majesty

Honorary Equerry to His Majesty

Equerries in Ordinary to His Majesty

Extra Equerries to His Majesty

Pages of Honour

Superintendent of the Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace

  • 1910–1912: Capt. John Nicholas[28]
  • 1913–1936: Capt. Andrew Benbow[158]

Superintendent of the Royal Mews, Windsor Castle

  • 1910–1924: Capt. Daniel Hickey[28]
  • 1924–1936: Ernest H. Lucking, Esq.

Honorary Veterinary Surgeon to His Majesty

Medical Department

Physicians in Ordinary to His Majesty

Physicians Extraordinary to His Majesty
Physician to His Majesty's Household

Sergeant-Surgeons to His Majesty

Honorary Sergeant-Surgeon to His Majesty
Honorary Surgeons in Ordinary to His Majesty
Surgeon to His Majesty's Household

Surgeon Apothecary to His Majesty and to His Majesty's Household

Surgeon-Oculist to His Majesty

Surgeon Oculist Extraordinary to His Majesty
Surgeon Oculist to His Majesty's Household
  • 1919–1936: Col. William Tindall Lister[171]

Laryngologist to His Majesty's Household

Bacteriologist to His Majesty's Household

  • 1910–1915: Harold Robert Dacre Spitta, Esq.[28]

Surgeon-Dentist to His Majesty

  • 1918–1926: Sir Harry Baldwin[172]
  • 1926–1936: Guy Capper Birt, Esq.[173]
Honorary Surgeon-Dentist to His Majesty
  • 1926–1931: Sir Harry Baldwin[173]
Surgeon-Dentist to His Majesty's Household
  • 1910–1924: Charles Edwin Truman, Esq.[28]
  • 1924–1936: Francis Desmond Donovan, Esq.[174]

Anaesthetist to His Majesty

Anaesthetist to His Majesty's Household
  • 1916–1932: Harold Low, Esq[175]

Chemist and Druggist to His Majesty

  • 1910–1919: Mr. Peter Wyatt Squire.[28]

Surgeons-Apothecary to His Majesty's Household at Windsor

Surgeon-Apothecary to His Majesty's Household at Sandringham

Surgeon-Apothecary to His Majesty's Household at Balmoral

  • 1910–1931: Alexander Hendry, Esq.[28]
  • 1932–1936: George Proctor Middleton, Esq.[178]

Honorary Physicians in Ordinary to His Majesty in Scotland

Honorary Surgeons to His Majesty in Scotland

Extra Surgeon to His Majesty in Scotland

Honorary Surgeon-Oculist to His Majesty in Scotland

Honorary Surgeon-Dentist to His Majesty in Scotland

  • 1922–1931: John Herbert Gibbs, Esq.
  • 1931–1936: Leslie Charles Broughton-Head, Esq.

Surgeon Apothecary to His Majesty's Household at Holyrood Palace

  • 1910–1923: William Black Alexander, Esq.[28]
  • 1923–1929: Lieutenant-Colonel David James Graham[28]
  • 1929–1930: William Macrae Taylor, Esq.[185]
  • 1930–1936: Norman Scott Carmichael, Esq.[186]

Honorary Physicians in Ordinary to His Majesty in Ireland

Honorary Surgeons to His Majesty in Ireland

Honorary Surgeon Oculist to His Majesty in Ireland

  • 1910–1916: Charles Edward Fitzgerald, Esq.[28]
  • 1916–1922: John B. Story, Esq.[190]

Royal Almonry

High Almoner to His Majesty

Sub-Almoner to His Majesty

College of Chaplains

Clerk of the King's Closet

Deputy Clerks of the Closet

Chaplains in Ordinary

After 1918, appointees were gazetted as 'Chaplain to the King', there no longer being a distinction made between those formerly appointed as Chaplains in Ordinary and Honorary Chaplains.

Honorary Chaplains

Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland

Extra Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland

Chapels Royal

Dean of the Chapels Royal

Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal
  • 1910–1921: The Reverend Canon Edgar Sheppard[29]

Priests in Ordinary

Deputy Priests
  • 1910–: The Reverend D. Aiken Sneath[29]
  • 1910–1915: The Reverend Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard[29]
Honorary Priests
  • 1910–: The Reverend H. Aldrich Cotton[29]
  • 1910–: The Reverend E. W. Kempe[29]
  • 1910–: The Venerable Archdeacon Edwin Price[29]
  • 1910–: The Reverend H. G. Daniell-Bainbridge[29]

Domestic Chaplains

  • 1910–1936: The Dean of Windsor[29]
  • 1910: The Reverend Canon Frederick Alfred John Hervey[29]
  • 1910–1921: The Reverend Canon Edgar Sheppard[29]
  • 1910–1931: The Reverend Canon John Neale Dalton[29]
  • 1911: The Reverend Frederic Percival Farrar[87]
  • 1912–1926: The Reverend Arthur Rowland Harry Grant[249]
  • 1923–1936: The Reverend Prebendary Launcelot Jefferson Percival[250]
  • 1926–1936: The Reverend Arthur Rose Fuller[251]
Chaplain at Hampton Court Palace

Domestic Chaplain to His Majesty in Scotland

  • 1920–1936: The Reverend John Stirton[253]

Household of Queen Mary 1910–1953

Mistress of the Robes

Ladies of the Bedchamber

Extra Ladies of the Bedchamber

  • 1910–1916: The Countess of Airlie[255]
  • 1910–1936: The Countess of Bradford[255]
  • 1910–1944: The Lady Lamington[255]
  • 1913–1953: The Countess of Shaftesbury[257]
  • 1916–1924, 1936–1952: The Lady Desborough[258]
  • 1924–1929: The Countess Fortescue[256]
  • 1936–1940: The Dowager Countess of Minto[259]

Women of the Bedchamber

  • 1910–1936: The Lady Eva Dugdale[255]
  • 1910–1927: The Lady Mary Trefusis[255]
  • 1910–1920: The Lady Katherine Coke[255]
  • 1910–1935: The Lady Bertha Dawkins[255]
  • 1914–1920: The Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy[260]
  • 1920–1936: The Lady Joan Verney
  • 1920–1924: Lady Elizabeth Dawson[261]
  • 1923–1953: Lady Cynthia Colville[262]
  • 1924–1936: The Lady Elizabeth Hesketh-Prichard[256]
  • 1927–1930: The Lady Katharine Hamilton[263]
  • 1930–1937: Lady Victoria Alexandrina Weld-Forester[264]
  • 1935–1938: the Hon. Jean Hamilton Bruce[265]
  • 1937–1953: Lady Constance Milnes-Gaskell[266]
  • 1938–1951: The Hon. Margaret Blanche Wyndham[267]
  • 1951–1953: Lady Cecily Kathleen Vesey[268]

Extra Women of the Bedchamber

  • 1930–1953: The Lady Katharine Seymour (née Hamilton)[264]
  • 1935–1943: The Lady Bertha Dawkins[265]
  • 1936–1940: The Lady Eva Dugdale[259]
  • 1936–1951: The Lady Joan Verney[259]
  • 1936–1953: The Lady Elizabeth Motion[259] (formerly Hesketh-Prichard)
  • 1937–1953: Lady Victoria Forester[266]
  • 1938–1939: the Hon. Jean Hamilton Bruce[269]
  • 1951–1953: The Hon. Margaret Blanche Wyndham[270]

Maids of Honour

  • 1911–1912: the Hon. Sybil Brodrick[87]
  • 1911–: the Hon. Venetia Baring[87]
  • 1911–: Miss Katherine Villiers[87]
  • 1911–1920: Miss Mabel Gye[87]
  • 1912–1927: Miss Ursula Lawley[271]
  • 1914–1917: the Hon. Sibyl Cadogan (Extra)[260]
  • 1927–1935: the Hon. Jean Hamilton Bruce[272]

Lord Chamberlain to the Queen

Vice- Chamberlain

Treasurer to the Queen

Private Secretary to the Queen

  • 1910–1919: Edward William Wallington, Esq.[240]
  • 1919–35: Harry Lloyd Verney, Esq.
  • 1935–39: the Hon. (later Sir) Gerald Chichester

Equerries to the Queen

  • 1910–1925: Lt-Col. Frank Dugdale[240]
  • 1936–1938: Lt-Col. Sir Reginald Seymour[259]
  • 1936–1940: Capt. Arthur Paget[259]
  • 1938–1953: Maj. the Hon. John Spencer Coke[275]

Extra Equerries

  • 1936–1953: Capt. the Lord Claud Hamilton[259]
  • 1936–1953: Maj. the Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux[259]
  • 1940–1953: Capt. Arthur Paget[276]

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