List of Lady and Gentleman Ushers

This page is a list of Lady and Gentleman Ushers of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom from the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 up to the present day.

Gentleman Ushers originally formed three classes: Gentleman Ushers of the Privy Chamber, Gentleman Ushers Daily Waiters and Gentleman Ushers Quarterly Waiters. The number of ordinary ushers of these classes were fixed at four, four, and eight respectively, but ushers "in extraordinary" were also sometimes appointed.

After 1901 these distinctions between the Gentleman Ushers were abolished, except between the ordinary and extraordinary ushers (and two "honorary" ushers in the early 20th century). The first Lady Usher in Ordinary was appointed in 2021.

There are currently 10 Lady and Gentleman Ushers with two representing the Royal Navy, four representing the Army and four representing the Royal Air Force. For more information on the Ushers' history and roles see Lady and Gentleman Usher.

Gentleman Ushers of the Privy Chamber To 22 January 1901.

In Ordinary DateOneTwoThreeFour2 June 1660 Sir John Poley Sir William Fleming Sir William Killigrew vacant4 June 1660 Marmaduke Darcy2 June 1662 Sir Paul Neale10 November 1664 Sir Robert Stapylton12 July 1669 William Sandys4 February 1670 John Mitton8 February 1670 Sir Thomas Nott20 December 1681 Charles Boyle17 February 1686 Sir Edward Sutton4 July 1687 Walter Innes29 November 1687 Charles Goring8 November 1688 John King11 December 1688 vacant vacant vacant14 March 1689 Sir John Elwes27 March 1689 Henry Austen29 March 1689 Spencer Garrard30 July 1695 James Compton 14 July 1697 Brownlow Sherard19 May 1700 William Wallis19 December 1700 Sir Edward Lawrence, 1st Baronet8 March 1702 vacant vacant vacant vacant9 July 1702 Henry Sandys Roger Cooper Edward Harrison John Anderson20 April 1703 Sir Edward Lawrence, 1st Baronet10 December 1708 Brownlow Sherard3 February 1719 Joseph Ashley12 August 1728 Richard Whitworth10 December 1728 Robert Hemmington12 August 1729 John Cope 17 June 1732 Sir Francis Clerke, 6th Baronet7 March 1749 Mark Anthony Saurin30 January 1756 Joseph Hudson20 August 1760 Richard Bagshaw25 October 1760 vacant vacant12 December 1760 Cholmondeley Scot Hamey Palmer24 September 1766 William Hudson27 June 1771 Edward Colman14 November 1771 Charles Mawhood31 May 1773 Arthur Gregory4 November 1775 Thomas Tutteridge30 August 1780 Matthew JohnsonSeptember 1789 Trevor Hull1792 Thomas Sebright5 February 1794 Richard Byron2 March 1795 Edward Capel14 April 1798 John Hale29 July 1798 Robert Chester31 October 1808 William Chester Master7 January 1813 George Hatton27 May 1818 Horace Seymour10 October 1819 Henry John Hatton25 August 1821 Henry Thomas Baucutt Mash21 March 1823 James Russell18 December 1830 Frederick Gerald Byng23 March 1831 Charles Fieschi Heneage22 March 1832 John Beaumont12 March 1834 Sir John Mark Frederick Smith2 December 1868 Algernon West14 June 1871 David Erskine3 December 1874 Sir Leopold Cust, 2nd Baronet6 April 1875 Walter James Stopford21 March 1878 Conway Frederick Charles Seymour13 June 1885 William Bagot20 April 1887 Cuthbert Larking7 May 1888 Horace Charles George West

In Extraordinary 2 June 1660 – bef. 5 August 1668: Sir Peter Killigrew 2 June 1660 – 12 July 1669: William Sandys 11 August 1660 – 21 April 1670?: Sir Ralph Clare 9 March 1661 – 29 January 1662?: Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet 12 November 1673 – ?: Edward Russell 1 February 1675 – 20 December 1681: Charles Boyle 19 March 1716 – ?: Frederick Henning 25 February 1796 – 29 July 1798: Robert Chester 8 August 1833 – 12 March 1834: Sir John Mark Frederick Smith

Gentleman Ushers Daily Waiters To 22 January 1901.

In Ordinary DateOneTwoThreeFourJune 1660 Peter Newton Sir John Ayton Sir Edward Carteret Richard MarchJanuary 1661 Sir James Mercer19 February 1671 Sir Thomas Duppa9 March 1672 Edward Cranfield2 October 1672 Walter Innes15 April 1673 Charles Radley21 January 1680 Henry Carr4 February 1682 Brian Turner2 March 1683 Henry Bulstrode30 March 1685 Charles Carteret8 August 1687 John Loving11 December 1688 vacant vacant vacant11 March 1689 Sir Fleetwood Sheppard Jeremiah Bubb David Mitchell2 March 1692 Francis Aston27 April 1694 Jeremiah Chaplin16 September 1698 Thomas Earle9 July 1702 Sir William Oldes6 June 1710 Sir William Sanderson, 1st Baronet14 June 1715 Sir Charles Dalton24 March 1716 Sir Thomas Brand24 November 1718 Mark Anthony Saurin17 May 1727 Henry de Sauniers11 June 1727 vacant vacant11 September 1727 James Stewart15 May 1728 Sir Henry Bellenden29 April 1743 Henry de Sauniers7 September 1747 Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet 3 July 1750 John Playters12 April 1759 William Fitzherbert25 October 1760 vacant vacant12 December 1760 Sir Septimus Robinson George Davis30 May 1761 Lindley Simpson23 December 1763 Edward Sneyd22 July 1765 Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet16 September 1765 Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet9 July 1782 George Anne Cooke21 December 1782 Vere WarnerMarch 1788 Hale Young Wortham27 July 1802 Thomas Osmer10 June 1812 Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt28 July 1812 William Fenton Scott28 March 1813 George Hamilton Seymour14 August 1816 Thomas Ramsden3 March 1820 Sir Thomas Baucutt Mash23 July 1822 William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley1824 Thomas Ramsden25 July 1832 Sir Augustus Clifford, 1st Baronet21 October 1836 John Lyster10 January 1837 Sir William Martins29 May 1840 Sir Henry William des Voeux, 3rd Baronet1 February 1859 Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane8 September 1860 Edward Hamilton Anson10 June 1874 Charles Edmund Phipps1 October 1876 Alpin Macgregor17 March 1877 Sir William Thomas Knollys7 July 1883 Sir James Robert Drummond16 December 1895 Sir Michael Biddulph14 November 1899 Charles Eliot

Supernumerary 8 June 1660 – ?: Clement Sanders 14 July 1660 – ?: Roger Gardiner 27 July 1660 – ?: Ralph Wakerlin 3 October 1661 – ?: George Hopton

In Extraordinary 16 June 1675 – 24 November 1680: Henry Bulstrode 29 July 1715 – 24 March 1716: Thomas Brand

Gentleman Ushers Quarterly Waiters To 22 January 1901.

In Ordinary DateOneTwoThreeFourFiveSixSevenEight7 June 1660 Richard Bagnall vacant vacant vacant vacant vacant vacant vacant8 June 1660 Nicholas Levett11 June 1660 Edward Bowman Francis Bowman Nathaniel Darrell William Chamberlain14 June 1660 Thomas Duppa20 June 1660 Paul French29 January 1661 Robert Barcroft11 October 1662 vacant29 July 1664 Henry Barcroft16 August 1664 Ralph Whistler10 April 1665 Timothy Stanney19 May 1665 Thomas Bambriggs20 August 1666 Peter Watson19 April 1669 Henry Jeyne16 December 1670 Essex Strode18 May 1672 Thomas Benbowe29 September 1673 Nathaniel Hammond4 November 1673 Humphrey Graves1 June 1674 Jeremiah Bubb3 March 1675 John Baggalley16 December 1676 John Packer2 August 1677 Jeremiah Chaplin16 September 1677 John Fenn1 September 1679 Charles Richards23 April 1681 Thomas Granger20 July 1682 Rose Peterman19 September 1683 Clement King14 December 1683 Noel Glover25 January 1684 William Savage6 January 1685 Robert Abbott6 February 1685 vacant vacant vacant vacant vacant18 May 1685 Nathaniel Hammond12 May 1686 James Austin24 May 1686 Denis Carney30 May 1686 Joseph Ronkhe31 May 1686 Robert Wigmore27 December 1686 Hoyle Walsh20 March 1687 John Marshall3 December 1687 James Meyrick Thomas Wyvill7 July 1688 Robert Jegon11 December 1688 vacant vacant vacant20 February 1689 Henry Coling7 March 1689 Francis Aston13 March 1689 Alexander Griffith2 April 1689 Robert Murray William Smith18 June 1689 Anthony Murray29 November 1690 John Ward20 March 1691 William Awnsham6 April 1691 William Prewett27 February 1692 David Carbonell2 March 1692 Anthony Murray3 March 1692 Alexander Marriott20 August 1692 Richard Ellis13 July 1693 Nicholas King5 November 1693 Thomas Earle10 December 1694 Alexander Pyle18 March 1695 Henry Godfrey25 November 1695 Edward Patriarch6 November 1696 Jeremy Bird3 November 1697 Sands Chapman14 July 1698 Tobiah Humphreys12 February 1699 Robert Barry29 November 1699 John Edlyne3 May 1700 Marmaduke Beling16 June 1700 John Farey9 July 1702 Charles Dalton Charles Bressey Henry Gardie John Pinckney20 December 1706 Thomas Ogle13 June 1707 Thomas Hutton7 June 1710 Francis Coxeter26 February 1711 Sir Clement Clerke, 3rd Baronet23 June 1714 James Ede20 June 1715 Charles Ottway9 November 1719 Charles Bodens21 March 1720 William Castle18 April 1721 John Phillips31 July 1722 Langham Edwards7 August 1722 Robert Tripp17 May 1727 James Eckersall vacant 21 September 17259 October 1727 George Coke Isaac Didier John Goodwin Sir Everard Buckworth, 3rd Baronet4 March 1731 John Jenkins1 October 1731 James Calthorpe24 January 1736 William Kellet4 December 1736 Francis Boggest31 October 1738 George Bodens23 January 1741 George Anne Cooke14 January 1742 Joseph Hudson6 February 1746 Charles Maddockes22 July 1747 Lawrence Wright4 February 1754 Matthias Cocksedge21 February 1754 Leathes Johnston7 February 1757 Thomas Evans7 May 1757 Robert Jackson Richard Poley13 May 1758 William Wilkinson9 July 1759 Robert Griffin9 May 1760 John Fremantle7 November 1761 Thomas Cox24 November 1764 Frederick Chapman5 February 1765 Edward Mainwaring15 June 1765 William Plaxon21 May 1767 John Larpent8 February 1770 William Newton22 January 1771 Francis Bartlam23 July 1774 Edward Whitehouse5 September 1776 Henry Baines8 February 1779 John Welsh7 June 1779 Edmund Armstrong20 April 1782 John Edward Fremantle17 October 1782 Charles Moore5 December 1782 John Savile Dobyns4 April 1783 James Meller1788 Robert Browne5 February 1794 Robert Chester6 February 1797 Thomas Osmer29 July 1798 William Lewis6 March 1801 Thomas Baucutt Mash27 July 1802 James Singer Burton22 March 1805 Heneage Legge20 March 1806 John Bowdler20 August 1808 Edward Ash2 February 1815 William Barnard Clarke6 January 1819 Samuel Randall4 March 1820 Henry Meynell11 March 1829 William Martins30 March 1829 Sir John Strachan, 10th Baronet23 March 1831 Thomas Shiffner23 April 1833 Henry William Greville20 May 1833 John George Green4 April 1836 John Lyster21 October 1836 William FitzGerald-de Ros10 January 1837 Charles Diggle11 June 1838 Alfred Montgomery7 June 1839 Edward Hobhouse27 December 1844 Mortimer Sackville-West1 March 1852 Wilbraham Taylor13 July 1852 Henry Sykes Stephens24 February 1854 Robert Tench Bedford22 May 1854 George Howard Vyse 26 June 1862 William Ross27 October 1862 Charles Gudgeon Nelson9 March 1868 Francis Knollys1 March 1873 Raglan George Henry Somerset2 February 1874 Charles Wylde29 August 1878 Arthur John Loftus28 April 1883 Henry Julian Stonor21 January 1884 Aubrey FitzClarence4 June 1890 Charles James Innes Ker1 May 1892 Arthur Collins18 May 1895 Brook Taylor15 April 1896 Arthur Hay27 November 1899 Wyndham Frederick Tufnell

Supernumerary 14 September 1664 – ?: John Mercer 10 March 1665 – ?: Samuell Price 23 March 1666 – ?: Francis Burghill 16 March 1669 – ?: William Batterlee 10 July 1671 – ?: Francis Harris 17 July 1671 – ?: George Sanderson 23 July 1673 – ?: Thomas Skarlett

In Extraordinary 14 July 1660 – ?: John Cleeland 21 December 1660 – ?: Thomas Webb 14 February 1661 – ?: William Wakerfield 6 May 1661 – 10 July 1671?: Francis Harris 14 May 1662 – ?: Samuell Norrice 2 July 1662 – ?: James Bridgman 30 August 1662 – ?: Charles Gouldsmyth 30 September 1662 – ?: Isaack Page 2 February 1663 – ?: William Mercer 27 February 1663 – ?: John Rowe 28 February 1663 – ?: Martin Trott 9 March 1663 – ?: John Taylor 2 April 1663 – ?: Nicholas Coleburne 3 April 1663 – ?: Anderson Achley 6 July 1663 – ?: John Colemore 29 July 1663 – ?: William Rattrey 10 December 1663 – ?: James Jenever 27 January 1664 – ?: Uriah Babbington 20 August 1664 – ?: John Boys 20 August 1664 – ?: John Backhouse 12 November 1664 – 23 July 1673?: Thomas Skarlett 6 February 1665 – ?: Joshua Meriton 24 June 1665 – ?: Edward Bedill 9 December 1665 – ?: Henry Pate 19 January 1666 – aft. 1680?: Robert Marriell 1 March 1666 – ?: Edmund Cowse 6 March 1666 – ?: Daniell Skymer 5 May 1718 – 9 November 1719: Charles Bodens