The Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a UK Government post usually held by the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. The present Captain is The Baroness Wheeler, who was appointed to the position in the Starmer ministry in July 2024.
1485–present
15th century 1485: John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford 1486–1509: Sir Charles Somerset (created Baron Herbert 26 November 1506)
16th century 1509: Sir Thomas Darcy 1509: Sir Henry Marney 1512: Sir Henry Guildford 1513: Sir John Gage 1516: Sir Henry Marney 1530: Sir William Kingston 1539: Sir Anthony Wingfield 1550: Sir Thomas Darcy (created Baron Darcy of Chiche 5 April 1551) 1551: Sir John Gates 1553: Sir Henry Jerningham 1557: Sir Henry Bedingfeld 1558: Sir Edward Rogers 1558: Sir William St Loe 1566: Sir Francis Knowlys 1572: Sir Christopher Hatton 1586: Sir Henry Goodier 1586: Sir Walter Raleigh 1592: John Best (During Raleigh's imprisonment in the Tower) 1597–1603: Sir Walter Raleigh
17th century 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) 1632: George Hay 1635: William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton 1644: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich 1649: Interregnum 1660: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich 1662: George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison 1689–1702: Charles Montagu, Viscount Mandeville (succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683)
18th century
1702: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1707: Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend 1711: Henry Paget, 7th Baron Paget (created Earl of Uxbridge 19 October 1714) 1715: James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby 1723: Philip Stanhope, Baron 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 Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset April 1783: George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley 16 December 1783: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
19th century 1804: Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baron Pelham of Stanmer 1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield 1 December 1830: Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde 16 July 1834: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford 29 December 1834: James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown 23 April 1835: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford 5 August 1835: Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester 6 July 1841: Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Surrey 8 September 1841: John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian 15 January 1842: George Percy, Earl of Beverley 24 July 1846: Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland 11 February 1848: George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall 27 February 1852: William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros 30 December 1852: John Townshend 3rd Viscount Sydney 17 March 1858: William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros 28 June 1859: Henry Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie 10 July 1866: Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan 22 December 1868: William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans 2 March 1874: Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Baron Skelmersdale 3 May 1880: William Monson, 7th Baron Monson 27 June 1885: George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington 10 February 1886: William Monson, 7th Baron Monson 5 August 1886: Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore 29 January 1889: William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick 25 August 1892: William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington 16 July 1895: William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick 26 August 1896: William Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave
20th century
8 December 1905: William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester 12 April 1908: Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale 2 October 1911: William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven 9 June 1915: Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield 21 May 1918: Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton 22 January 1924: Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch 1 December 1924: William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough 4 June 1929: Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch
Name Term of office Party MinistryRef.3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount RoyalNovember 1931January 1934ConservativeNational Government II (Con.–Lib–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)4th Baron TemplemoreJanuary 1934August 1945National Government III (Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)National Government IV (Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)Chamberlain (Con.–Nat Lab–Nat Lib)Churchill (Con.–Lib–Lab-Nat Lab–Nat Lib)Churchill (Con.–Nat Lib-Ind)1st Baron WalkdenAugust 1945July 1949LabourAttlee I1st Baron ShepherdJuly 1949October 19491st Baron Lucas of ChilworthOctober 1949March 19506th Earl of LucanMarch 1950June 1951Attlee II1st Baron ArchibaldJune 1951November
19516th Earl of OnslowNovember 1951October 1960ConservativeChurchill IIIEdenMacmillan IMacmillan II4th Baron NewtonOctober 1960September 1962Macmillan II3rd Viscount GoschenSeptember 1962December 1964Macmillan IIDouglas-HomeBaron BowlesDecember 1964June 1970LabourWilson II3rd Viscount GoschenJune 1970November 1971ConservativeHeath 2nd Baron DenhamNovember 1971March 197411th Baron StrabolgiMarch 1974May 1979Labour Wilson IIIWilson IVCallaghan7th Baron SandysMay 1979October 1982ConservativeThatcher I2nd Earl of SwintonOctober 1982September 1986Thatcher IIThatcher III2nd Viscount DavidsonSeptember 1986December 1991Major I18th Earl of Strathmore and KinghorneDecember 1991July 1994Major II9th Earl of ArranJuly 1994January 19952nd Baron InglewoodJanuary 1995July 19956th Baron CheshamJuly 1995May1997 Baron McIntosh of Haringey May1997June2003LabourBlair I
21st century
Portrait Name Term of office Party Ministry Ref. Baron Davies of Oldham June2003 May2010 LabourBlair II Blair III Brown Baron Shutt of Greetland May2010 May2012 Liberal Democrat Cameron–Clegg(Con.–L.D.) Baron Newby May2012 May2015 Baron Gardiner of Kimble May2015 July2016 Conservative Cameron II 9th Earl of Courtown July2016 July2024 May I May IIJohnson IJohnson IITrussSunak Baroness Wheeler July2024 2026 LabourStarmer Baroness Anderson of Stoke on Trent2026IncumbentBurnham
References J. Haydn, The Book of Dignities C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts 1830–1900 D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000