List of Lord Chamberlains

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Name office office Notes Reference
Sir Thomas Erpingham 1399 1404 [1]
The Lord Grey of Codnor 1404 1413 [1]
The Lord FitzHugh 1413 1425 [1]
The Lord Cromwell c. 1425 1432 First period in office [1]
The Lord Bardolf 1432 1441 [1]
Sir Ralph Boteler,
from 1441 The Lord Sudeley		 1441 1447 [1]
The Lord Saye and Sele 1447 1450 [1]
The Lord Cromwell 1450 1455 Second period in office [1]
Thomas Stanley,
from 1456 The Lord Stanley		 1455 1459 [1]
The Earl of Salisbury 1460 1460 [1]
The Lord Hastings 1461 1470 First period in office [1]
Unknown 1470 1471 Second reign of Henry VI
The Lord Hastings 1471 1483 Second period in office [1]
The Viscount Lovell 1483 1485 [1]
Sir William Stanley 1485 1494 [1]
Lord Daubeney 1494 1508 [1]
The Lord Herbert,
from 1514 The Earl of Worcester		 1509 1526 [1]
The Earl of Arundel 1526 1530
The Lord Sandys 1530 1540 [1]
Vacant 1540 1543 [1]
The Lord St John 1543 1545 Created The Earl of Wiltshire in 1550 and The Marquess of Winchester in 1551 [1]
Unknown 1545 1546
The Earl of Arundel 1546 1550 [1]
The Lord Wentworth 1550 1551 [1]
The Lord Darcy of Chiche 1551 1553 [1]
Sir John Gage 1553 1556 [1]
Unknown 1556 1557
Sir Edward Hastings
from 1558 The Lord Hastings of Loughborough		 1557 1558 [1]
The Lord Howard of Effingham 1558 1572 [1]
The Earl of Sussex 1572 1583 [1]
Unknown 1583 1585
The Lord Hunsdon 1585 1596 Founded the famous Lord Chamberlain's Men for whom Shakespeare wrote for most of his career. [1][2]
The Lord Cobham 1596 1597 [1]
The Lord Hunsdon 1597 1603 [1]
Lord Thomas Howard,
from 1603 The Earl of Suffolk		 1603 1614 [1]
The Earl of Somerset 1614 1615 [1]
The Earl of Pembroke 1615 1626 [1]
The Earl of Montgomery,
from 1630 The Earl of Pembroke		 1626 1641 [1]
The Earl of Essex 1641 1642 [1]
Unkown 1642 1644
The Earl of Dorset 1644 1649 [1]
Vacant 1649 1655 Position became vacant at the start of the Interregnum and the Commonwealth
Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bt 1655 1659 Lord Chamberlain during The Protectorate [1]
The Earl of Manchester 1660 1671 [1]
The Earl of St Albans 1672 1674 [1]
The Earl of Arlington 1674 1685 [1]
The Earl of Elgin and Earl of Ailesbury 1685 1685 [1]
The Earl of Mulgrave 1685 1688 Created The Marquess of Normanby in 1694 and The Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703 [1]
The Earl of Dorset 1689 1697 [1]
The Earl of Sunderland 1697 1697 [1]
Vacant 1697 1699 The King did not accept the resignation of the Earl of Sunderland
The Duke of Shrewsbury 1699 1700 [1]
The Earl of Jersey 1700 1704 [1]
The Earl of Kent
from 1706 The Marquess of Kent		 1704 1710 Created The Duke of Kent in 1710 and The Marquess Grey in 1740 [1]
The Duke of Shrewsbury 1710 1715 [1]
The Duke of Bolton 1715 1717 [1]
The Duke of Newcastle 1717 1724 [1]
The Duke of Grafton 1724 1757 [1]
The Duke of Devonshire 1757 1762 [1]
The Duke of Marlborough 1762 1763 [1]
The Earl Gower 1763 1765 Created The Marquess of Stafford in 1786 [1]
The Duke of Portland 1765 1766 [1]
The Earl of Hertford 1766 1782 First period in office; created The Marquess of Hertford in 1793 [1]
The Duke of Manchester 1782 1783 [1]
The Earl of Hertford 1783 1783 Second period in office; created The Marquess of Hertford in 1793 [1][3]
The Earl of Salisbury,
from 1789 The Marquess of Salisbury		 1783 1804
The Earl of Dartmouth 1804 1810 [1]
Vacant 1810 1812
The Marquess of Hertford 1812 1821 [1][4]
The Duke of Montrose 1821 1827 First period in office [1][5]
The Duke of Devonshire 1827 1828 First period in office [1]
The Duke of Montrose 1828 1830 Second period in office [1]
The Earl of Jersey 1830 1830 First period in office [1]
The Duke of Devonshire 1830 1834 Second period in office [1]
The Earl of Jersey 1834 1835 Second period in office [1][6]
The Marquess Wellesley 1835 1835 [1]
The Marquess Conyngham 1835 1839
Earl of Uxbridge 1839 1841 Succeeded as The Marquess of Anglesey in 1854
The Earl De La Warr 1841 1846 First period in office [1]
The Earl Spencer 1846 1848 [1][7]
The Marquess of Breadalbane 1848 1852 First period in office [1][8]
The Marquess of Exeter 1852 1852 [9]
The Marquess of Breadalbane 1853 1858 Second period in office [1][10]
The Earl De La Warr 1858 1859 Second period in office [1][11]
The Viscount Sydney 1859 1866 First period in office [12]
The Earl of Bradford 1866 1868 [13]
The Viscount Sydney 1868 1874 Second period in office; created The Earl Sydney in 1874 [14]
The Marquess of Hertford 1874 1879 [15]
The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1879 1880 [16]
The Earl of Kenmare 1880 1885 First period in office [17]
The Earl of Lathom 1885 1886 First period in office [18]
The Earl of Kenmare 1886 1886 Second period in office [19]
The Earl of Lathom 1886 1892 Second period in office [20]
The Lord Carrington 1892 1895 Created The Earl Carrington in 1895 and The Marquess of Lincolnshire in 1912 [1]
The Earl of Lathom 1895 1898 Third period in office [21]
The Earl of Hopetoun 1898 1900 Created The Marquess of Linlithgow in 1902 [1]
The Earl of Clarendon 1900 1905 [22]
The Viscount Althorp
from 1910 The Earl Spencer		 1905 1912 [23]
The Lord Sandhurst
from 1917 The Viscount Sandhurst		 1912 1921 [24]
The Duke of Atholl 1921 1922 [1][25]
The Earl of Cromer 1922 1938 [1]
The Earl of Clarendon 1938 1952 [1]
The Earl of Scarbrough 1952 1963 [1]
The Lord Cobbold 29 January 1963 30 November 1971 [1][26]
The Lord Maclean 1 December 1971 30 November 1984 [1][27]
The Earl of Airlie 1 December 1984 31 December 1997 [28]
The Lord Camoys 1 January 1998 31 May 2000
The Lord Luce 1 October 2000 15 October 2006
The Earl Peel 16 October 2006 31 March 2021 [29]
The Lord Parker of Minsmere 1 April 2021 Present [30]

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  10. ^ "No. 21403". The London Gazette. 18 January 1853. p. 137.
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  29. ^ Appointment of Lord Chamberlain at the Royal Household official website, 2006 Archived 19 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine
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