Household of Edward VII and Alexandra

The royal households of the United Kingdom consist of royal officials and the supporting staff of the British royal family, as well as the royal household which supports the sovereign. Each member of the royal family who undertakes public duties has their own separate household.

King Edward VII (1841–1910) was created Prince of Wales shortly after his birth, and his household was known as the household of the Prince of Wales from 1841. Upon his marriage in 1863, he and his wife shared the household of the Prince and Princess of Wales until their accession as King and Queen in January 1901, but several appointments were to either the Prince or the Princess, as they each had separate Lords Chamberlain and private Secretaries). When he became king, his household was known as the household of the Sovereign 1901–1910.

Queen Alexandra (1844–1925) received a separate household upon her husband's accession, the household of the Queen. From 1910, it was known as the household of Queen Alexandra.

Household of the Prince of Wales 1841–1863

Treasurer and cofferer

• 1856: Colonel the Honourable C. B. Phipps

Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal

• 1856: Thomas Pemberton Leigh (later Baron Kingsdown)

Privy Seal

• 1856: Lord Alfred Hervey

Attorney-general

• 1856: W. J. Alexander

Tutor

• 1856: F. W. Gibbs, MA

Household of the Prince and Princess of Wales 1863–1901

Keeper of the Privy Purse and Comptroller

• ?–1901: General Sir Dighton Probyn, VC, GCB, GCSI, GCVO

Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales

• ?–1901: General Sir Dighton Probyn, VC, GCB, GCSI, GCVO
• 1870-1901: Sir Francis Knollys, KCB, KCMG

Lords of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales

• 1866–1883: James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
• 1872–1901: Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield

Grooms-in-Waiting to the Prince of Wales

• 1886-1901: Sir Francis Knollys, KCB, KCMG

Equerries to the Prince of Wales

• 1876–1899: Major-General Sir Arthur Ellis, KCVO, CSI ^[1]
• 1899-1901: Hon. Sidney Robert Greville, CB ^[1]

Extra Equerry to the Prince of Wales

• 1899–1901: Major-General Sir Arthur Ellis, KCVO, CSI ^[1]

Lords Chamberlain to the Princess of Wales

• 1863–1873: George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris
• 1873–1901: Charles Colville, 10th Lord Colville of Culross

Private secretaries to the Princess of Wales

• ?-1870: Herbert W. Fisher
• 1870–1889: Maurice Holzmann
• 1889–?: Stanley de A. C. Clarke

Ladies of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales

• 1863–1873: Fanny Osborne, Marchioness of Carmarthen (Duchess of Leeds from 1871)
• 1863–1866: Henrietta Robinson, Countess de Grey
• 1863–1901: Helen Douglas, Countess of Morton
• 1863–1901: Mary Parker, Countess of Macclesfield
• 1873–1901: Cecilia Harbord, Baroness Suffield
• 1895–1901: Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton

Women of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales

• 1863–1865: Hon. Mrs Robert Bruce (extra 1865–?)
• 1863–1873: Hon. Mrs William George Grey (extra 1873–?)
• 1863–?: Hon. Mrs Edward Coke
• 1863–?: Mrs. Francis Stonor
• 1865–?: Hon. Mrs Arthur Hardinge
• 1872–1901: Lady Emily Kingscote
• 1873–1901: (Elizabeth) Charlotte Knollys
• 1893–1901: Mrs. Charles Hardinge

Physician in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales

• 1863-1898: Sir William Jenner, Bart., GCB
• 1899-1901: Sir James Reid, Bart., KCB ^[1]

Household of King Edward VII 1901–1910

Master of the Horse

• 1901–1905: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, KG, GCVO ^[2]
• 1905–1907: Osbert Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton
• 1907–1910: Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, KP, GCVO

Lord Steward

• 1901–1905: Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, GCVO ^[2]
• 1905–1907: Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool
• 1907–1910: William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp

Lord Chamberlain

• 1901–1905: Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon ^[2]
• 1905–1910: Viscount Althorp, GCVO (later Earl Spencer)

Vice-Chamberlain

• 1901–1902: Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, Bart. (later Baron St. Audries) ^[3]
• 1902–1905: Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton
• 1905–1907: Hon. Wentworth Beaumont (Baron Allendale from 1907, later Viscount Allendale)
• 1907–1910: Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet

Treasurer

• 1901–1903: Victor Christian William Cavendish (later Duke of Devonshire) ^[3]
• 1903–1905: James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton (later Duke of Abercorn)
• 1905–1909: Sir Edward Strachey, Bart. (later Baron Strachie)
• 1909–1910: William Dudley Ward

Comptroller

• 1901–1905: Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia, CB, MVO ^[3]
• 1905–1909: Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank (later Baron Murray of Elibank)
• 1909–1910: Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

Lords-in-Waiting

• 1901–?: Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield, GCVO, KCB ^[4]
• 1901–1903: Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe ^{[3] [5]}
• 1901–1905: Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh ^[3]
• 1901–1905: Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, GCMG ^[3]
• 1901–1905: Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon ^[3]
• 1901–1905: Victor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill, GCVO (from 1902 Viscount Churchill) ^[3]
• 1901–1905: John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence ^[3]

Master of the Household

• 1901–1907: Horace Farquhar, Baron Farquhar (later Earl Farquhar) ^[3]
• 1907–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Arthur Frederick, GCVO, KCB

Deputy Master of the Household

• 1901–1907: Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Arthur Frederick, CVO (app Master of the Household 1907) ^[3]
• 1907–1910: Harry Lloyd-Verney, MVO

Keeper of the Privy Purse

• 1901–1910: General Sir Dighton Probyn, VC, GCB, GCSI, GCVO ^[6]

Private Secretary

• 1901–1910: Sir Francis Knollys, GCB, GCVO, KCMG ^[6] (from 1902 Baron Knollys, later Viscount Knollys)

Comptroller of Accounts

• 1901–1907: Major-General Sir Arthur Ellis, KCVO, CSI ^[3]

Crown Equerry

• 1901–?: Sir Henry Peter Ewart, 1st Baronet, KCB, KCVO ^[4]

Equerries

• 1901–?: Major-General Sir Stanley de A C Clarke, KCVO ^[4]
• 1901–1902: Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Sir William Carington, KCVO, CB ^{[4] [7]}
• 1901–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson, GCVO, KCB ^[4]
• 1901–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Charles Legge, GCVO ^[4]
• 1901–1910: Captain the Hon. Sir Seymour Fortescue, KCVO ^[4]
• 1901–1910: Captain Sir George Lindsay Holford ^[4]
• 1901–?: Captain Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, GCB, GCVO ^[4] (later Baron Sysonby)
• 1902–1910: Honourable John Hubert Ward ^[7]

Extra Equerries

• 1901: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, VC, KCB ^[4]
• 1901–1902: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Nigel F Kingscote, GCVO, KCB ^[4]
• 1901–1904: Major-General Sir John Carstairs McNeill, VC, GCVO, KCB, KCMG ^[4]
• 1901–1910: General Sir Dighton Probyn, VC, GCB, GCSI, GCVO ^[4]
• 1901–?: Major-General John Cecil Russell ^[4]
• 1901–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Edwards, GCVO, KCB ^[4]
• 1901–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge, GCB, GCVO, GCIE, KCSI, KCMG ^[4] (later Baron Stamfordham)
• 1901–1907: Major-General Sir Arthur Ellis, KCVO, CSI ^[8]
• 1901–?: Captain the Honourable Alwyn Greville ^[8]
• 1901–1910: Lord Marcus Talbot de la Poer Beresford ^[9]
• 1902–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Sir William Carington, GCVO, KCB ^[7]
• 1902–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Balfour Haig, CMG, Royal Engineers ^[10]
• 1902–1910: Vice-Admiral the Honourable Hedworth Lambton, KCB, KCVO ^[11]
• 1902–1910: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Arthur Frederick, KCVO ^[11]

Honorary Equerries

• 1901–1904: General Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, GCB ^[4]
• 1901–?: General Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton, KG ^[4]

Grooms-in-Waiting

• 1901–1907: Colonel Lord Edward William Pelham-Clinton, GCVO, KCB ^[3]
• 1901–?: Honourable Sidney Robert Greville, CVO, CB ^[3]
• 1901–?: Honourable Henry Julian Stonor, MVO ^{[3] [12]}
• 1901–?: Vice-Admiral Sir John Reginald Thomas Fullerton, GCVO, CB ^[3]
• 1901–?: Sir Alexander Condie Stephen, KCMG, KCVO, CB ^[3]
• 1901–?: General Sir Godfrey Clerk, CB ^[3]
• 1901–?: Captain Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell, CVO ^[3]

Extra Grooms-in-Waiting

• 1901–?: Honourable Alexander Grantham Yorke, CVO ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Major-General Sir Thomas Dennehy, KCIE ^[3]
• 1901–?: Sir Maurice Holzmann, KCVO, CB ^[3]
• 1901–1904: General Sir Michael Biddulph, GCB ^[13]

Master of the Ceremonies

• 1901–1903: Colonel the Honourable Sir William James Colville, KCVO, CB ^[3]
• 1901–: Honourable Richard Charles Moreton ^[3]
• 1903–1907: Sir Douglas Dawson
• 1907–1910: Honourable Sir Arthur Walsh

Assistant Master of the Ceremonies

• 1901–?: Robert Follett Synge, Esq., CMG ^[3]

Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod

• 1901–1904: General Sir Michael Biddulph, GCB ^[3]
• 1904–1910: Admiral Sir Henry Stephenson

Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State

• 1901–1910: Honourable Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane, GCB ^[3]

Gentleman Ushers

• 1901–1902: Honourable Aubrey FitzClarence (later Earl of Munster) ^[3]
• 1901–1903: Major-General John Ramsay Slade, CB ^[3]
• 1901–1905: Charles James Innes-Ker ^[3]
• 1901–1906: Montague Charles Eliot (later Earl of St Germans) ^[3]
• 1901–1908: Captain Walter James Stopford, CB ^[3]
• 1901–1909: Major-General John Palmer Brabazon, CB, CVO ^[3]
• 1901–1910?: Colonel Cuthbert Larking ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Honourable Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane, GCB ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Major the Honourable Arthur Hay ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Captain the Honourable Otway Frederick Seymour Cuffe ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Honourable Henry Julian Stonor, MVO ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Arthur Collins, CB, MVO ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Sir Lionel Henry Cust ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Sir Henry David Erskine, CVO ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Arnold Royle, CB ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Brook Taylor ^[3]
• 1901–1910: Horace Charles George West ^[3]
• 1902–1905: Honourable Arthur Henry John Walsh (replacing FitzClarence) ^[7]
• 1903–1910: Percy Armytage (replacing Slade)
• 1905–1910: Sir John Ramsay Slade (replacing Innes-Ker)
• 1905–1907: Harry Lloyd-Verney (replacing Walsh)
• 1907–1910: Charles Windham (replacing Verney)
• June 1908–October 1908: Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Cunninghame Graham (replacing Stopford)
• 1908–1910: Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote (replacing Graham)
• 1908–1910: Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis (replacing Eliot)
• 1909–1910: Henry Fludyer (replacing Brabazon)

Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle

• 1901–1910: John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, KT, GCMG, GCVO ^[3]

Deputy Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle

• 1901–1910: Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher ^[3]

Keeper of the Jewel House, Tower of London

• 1901–1909: General Sir Hugh Henry Gough, GCB, VC ^[3]
• 1909–1910: Sir Robert Cunliffe Low

Secretary of the board of Green Cloth

• 1901–?: George Augustus Courroux, Esq. MVO ^[3]

Gentleman of the Cellars

• 1901–1910: Thomas Kingscote, MVO ^[3]

Surveyor of the King′s Pictures

• 1901–?: Sir Lionel Henry Cust, KCVO, FSA ^[14]

Librarian at Windsor Castle

• 1901–?: Richard R. Holmes, CVO ^[3]

Keeper of the King´s Armoury

• 1901–1910: Guy Francis Laking, MVO ^[15]

Poet Laureate

• 1901–1910: Alfred Austin ^[3]

Master of the King´s Music

• 1901–1910: Sir Walter Parratt ^[13]

Marine Painter in Ordinary

• 1901–?: Edward de Martino, Esq, MVO ^[16]

Manager of His Majesty´s Thoroughbred Stud

• 1901–1910: Lord Marcus Talbot de la Poer Beresford ^[9]

Medical Household

Coroner of the Household

• 1901–?: Arthur Walter Mills, Esq. ^[3]

Physicians in Ordinary

• 1901–1907: Sir William Henry Broadbent, Bt., KCVO, MD ^[17]
• 1901–1910: Sir James Reid, Bt., GCVO, KCB, MD ^[17]
• 1901–1910: Sir Francis Laking, Bt., GCVO, KCB, MD ^[17]

Physicians Extraordinary

• 1901–?: Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bt., KCSI, MD ^[17]
• 1901–?: Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bt., KCVO, MD ^[17]
• 1901–1904: Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, MD ^[17]
• 1901–1904: Sir Felix Semon, MD ^[17]
• 1901–1902: John Lowe, MD ^[17]

Serjeant Surgeons in Ordinary

• 1901–1902: Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM ^[18]
• 1902–1910: Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, GCVO, CB ^[19]

Honorary Serjeant Surgeons to His Majesty

• 1901: Sir William MacCormac, 1st Baronet, KCB, KCVO ^[18]
• 1901–?: Sir Thomas Smith, 1st Baronet, KCVO ^[18]

Honorary Surgeon to His Majesty

• 1902: Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Sir Henry Frederick Norbury, MD, KCB, Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy ^[20]
• 1902: Alfred Downing Fripp F.R.C.S., Assistant Surgeon at Guy's Hospital

Honorary Physician to His Majesty in Ireland

• –1901: William Moore, Esq., MD
• 1901–?: Sir Francis R. Cruise, MD, University of Dublin, Fellow and Ex-President Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (replacing Moore) ^[21]

Ecclesiastical Household

Lord High Almoner

• 1901–1906: Lord Alwyne Compton, DD, Bishop of Ely ^[3]
• 1906–1910: Joseph Armitage Robinson, Dean of Westminster

Dean of the Chapels Royal

• 1901–1910: The Bishop of London

Sub-Almoner and Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal

• 1901–?: Reverend Edgar Sheppard, DD ^[3]

Clerk of the Closet

• 1901–1903: Randall Davidson, KCVO, Bishop of Winchester ^[3]
• 1903–1910: William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon

Deputy Clerks of the Closet

• 1901–1903: Very Reverend Frederic William Farrar, DD, Dean of Canterbury ^[3]
• 1901–?: Reverend Canon John Neale Dalton, CVO, CMG, MA ^[3]
• 1901–?: Reverend William Rowe Jolley, MA ^[3]

Chaplains-in-Ordinary

See full list Ecclesiastical Household

Honorary Chaplains

See full list Ecclesiastical Household

Household of Queen Alexandra 1901–1925

Lords Chamberlain to the Queen

• 1901–1903: Charles Colville, 10th Lord Colville of Culross ^[8] (Viscount Colville of Culross from 1902)
• 1903–1925: Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe ^[5]

Vice-Chamberlains

• 1901–1922: Archibald Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford ^[8]

Treasurers

• 1901–1923: Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon ^[8]

Comptroller

• 1910–24: Sir Dighton Probyn

Lords-in-waiting

• 1910–?: Francis Knollys, 1st Baron Knollys

Equerries

• 1901–1910: John Brocklehurst ^[8] (extra 1910–?)
• 1910–1922: Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson, GCVO, KCB
• 1910–?: Sir George Lindsay Holford
• 1910–?: John Hubert Ward
• 1910–?: Henry Streatfield
• 1923–?: Edward Seymour

Extra equerries

• 1910–?: Sir Charles Frederick

Private secretaries

• 1901–1911: Hon. Sidney Greville ^[8]
• 1911–?: Henry Streatfield

Mistresses of the Robes

• 1901–1912: Louisa Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch ^[8]
• 1913–1925: Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

Ladies of the Bedchamber

• 1901–?: Cecilia Harbord, Baroness Suffield ^[8]
• 1901–1905: Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton ^[8]
• 1901–?: Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim ^[8]
• 1901–1925: Louisa Acheson, Countess of Gosford ^[8]
• 1905–1910: Maud Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne (extra 1910–?)
• 1907–1910: Cicely Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury (extra 1910–?)
• 1911–1925: Cecilia Wynn Carrington, Countess Carrington (Marchioness of Lincolnshire from 1912)

Extra Ladies of the Bedchamber

• 1901–?: Helen Douglas, Countess of Morton ^[8]
• 1901–?: Mary Parker, Countess of Macclesfield ^[8]
• 1910–?: Alice Stanley, Countess of Derby
• 1910–?: Winifred Hardinge, Baroness Hardinge of Penshurst

Women of the Bedchamber

• 1901–1907: Lady Emily Kingscote ^[8]
• 1901–?: (Elizabeth) Charlotte Knollys ^[8]
• 1901–1910: Mrs. Charles Hardinge (later Lady Hardinge) ^[8]
• 1901–?: Lady (Victoria) Alice Stanley ^[8]

Maids of Honour

• 1901–1905: Hon. Dorothy Vivian ^[8]
• 1901–?: Hon. Violet Vivian ^[8]
• 1901–1905: Hon. Mary Dyke ^[8]
• 1901–?: Hon. Sylvia Edwardes ^[8]
• 1905–?: Margaret Dawnay
• 1905–?: Blanche Lascelles
• 1919–?: Hon. Lucia White

Surgeon-Apothecary

• 1910–?: Sir Francis Laking

Surgeon

• 1907–?: Hugh Rigby
• 1910–?: Sir Frederick Treves

Physician Extraordinary

• 1910–?: Sir Alan Reeve Manby

Laryngologist

• 1910–?: Sir John Milsom Rees

Bacteriologist

• 1912–?: Harold Spitta

Hon. Domestic Chaplain

• 1910–?: Edgar Sheppard
• 1911–?: Frederic Percival Farrar
• 1911–?: Ernest Edward Holmes
• 1911–?: Mortimer Egerton Kennedy
• 1912–?: Arthur Rowland Harry Grant

See also

• Royal Households of the United Kingdom
• Household of George V and Mary

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