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. 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

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

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

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
  • 11 December 1719 – 7 August 1722: Robert Tripp
  • 5 February 1861 – 5 January 1882: John George Green

    Extra Gentleman Ushers

Extra Gentleman Ushers gazetted without indicating them to be daily or quarterly waiters.
  • 9 January 1850 – 1 March 1852: Wilbraham Taylor
  • 5 April 1855 – ?: Norman Hilton Macdonald
  • 8 December 1857 – 1 February 1859: Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane
  • 13 July 1892 – 1901?: Alexander Nelson Hood
  • 1 January 1899 – 27 November 1899: Wyndham Frederick Tufnell

    Lady & Gentleman Ushers (post-1901)

In Ordinary

  • 23 July 1901 – 1 December 1915?: Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane
  • 23 July 1901 – 16 September 1925: Arthur Hay
  • 23 July 1901 – 11 February 1911: Otway Frederick Seymour Cuffe
  • 23 July 1901 – 7 February 1902: Aubrey FitzClarence
  • 23 July 1901 – 1935?: Henry Julian Stonor
  • 23 July 1901 – 26 January 1909: John Palmer Brabazon
  • 23 July 1901 – 21 November 1911: Arthur Collins
  • 23 July 1901 – 1 February 1928: Sir Lionel Cust
  • 23 July 1901 – 30 November 1908: Montague Charles Eliot
  • 23 July 1901 – 1 April 1919: Sir David Erskine
  • 23 July 1901 – 14 November 1905: Charles James Innes-Ker
  • 23 July 1901 – 7 May 1910?: Cuthbert Larking
  • 23 July 1901 – bef. 1919: Arnold Royle
  • 23 July 1901 – 13 June 1903: John Ramsay Slade
  • 23 July 1901 – 14 June 1908: Walter James Stopford
  • 23 July 1901 – 1 April 1919: Brook Taylor
  • 23 July 1901 – 24 June 1925: Horace Charles George West
  • 7 February 1902 – 14 November 1905: Arthur Henry John Walsh
  • 13 June 1903 – 2 May 1927: Percy Armytage
  • 14 November 1905 – 1913: Sir John Ramsay Slade
  • 14 November 1905 – 18 July 1907?: Harry Lloyd-Verney
  • 18 July 1907 – 20 May 1916: Charles Windham
  • 26 June 1908 – 13 October 1908: Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Cunninghame Graham
  • 13 October 1908 – 1 April 1919: Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote
  • 30 November 1908 – 1 April 1919: Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis
  • 26 January 1909 – 1 April 1919: Henry Fludyer
  • 17 June 1910 – 2 January 1911: Seymour John Fortescue
  • 2 January 1911 – 21 July 1936: Montague Charles Eliot
  • 11 February 1911 – 3 November 1924: Lord William Cecil
  • 13 February 1912 – 15 February 1927: John Chaytor Brinton
  • 30 September 1913 – 1914: William Leslie Davidson
  • 1 April 1919 – 21 July 1936: Philip Nelson-Ward
  • 1 April 1919 – 4 May 1922: Charles Dormer, 14th Baron Dormer
  • 1 April 1919 – 14 October 1932: Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key
  • 1 April 1919 – bef. 1936: Gerald Trotter
  • 1 April 1919 – 22 April 1927: Montagu Grant Wilkinson
  • 1 April 1919 – 1 December 1931: Berkeley John Talbot Levett
  • 1 April 1919 – 24 October 1928: Henry Peter Hansell
  • 6 June 1922 – 21 May 1934: Sir Hamnet Share
  • 1 March 1924 – 21 July 1936: Louis Leisler Greig
  • 24 June 1925 – 13 February 1950?: Edmund Vivian Gabriel
  • 16 September 1925 – 19 April 1966: Sir Humphrey Clifford Lloyd
  • 15 February 1927 – 21 February 1964: Henry Valentine Bache de Satgé
  • 22 April 1927 – 21 July 1936: Sir Smith Hill Child, 2nd Baronet
  • 2 May 1927 – 12 January 1961: Sir Arthur Bromley, 8th Baronet
  • 1 February 1928 – 2 March 1937?: George Sidney Herbert
  • 24 October 1928 – 21 July 1936: Sir Arthur Bannerman, 12th Baronet
  • 1 December 1931 – 7 May 1946: John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams
  • 14 October 1932 – 21 November 1939: John Lamplugh Wickham
  • 21 May 1934 – 1 January 1952: Frederick Edward Packe
  • 21 July 1936 – 5 August 1952: Charles Alexander Lindsay Irvine
  • 1 March 1937 – 5 August 1952?: Russell Lister-Kaye
  • 1 March 1937 – 3 August 1951: Neville Tufnell
  • 1 March 1937 – 1 January 1967: Geoffrey Ronald Codrington
  • 1 March 1937 – 17 January 1964: William Duncan Phipps
  • 1 March 1937 – 1 September 1954: Sir Frank Todd Spickernell
  • 1 March 1937 – 1 January 1967: Philip Lloyd Neville
  • 1 March 1937 – 1 December 1938: John Spencer Coke
  • 1 December 1938 – 3 September 1955?: Guy Elland Carne Rasch
  • 1 January 1952 – 10 November 1959: Sir George Ranald Macfarlane Reid
  • 14 November 1952 – 1 July 1969: Sir John Mandeville Hugo
  • 8 May 1953 – 1 April 1967: John Sidney North FitzGerald
  • bef. 1959: Frederick Robert Joseph Mack
  • 10 November 1959 – 1 April 1967: Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt
  • 10 November 1959 – 18 January 1966: Arthur Ledger
  • 9 May 1961 – 22 February 1995: Carron Greig
  • 27 October 1964 – 25 July 1969: Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch
  • 16 March 1965 – 28 January 1984: Michael Neville Tufnell
  • 1 November 1966 – 9 June 1975: Sir James Newton Rodney Moore
  • 1 November 1966 – 12 August 1979: Sir Maurice Heath
  • 1 January 1967 – ?: John Arundell Holdsworth
  • 1 January 1967 – ?: William Henry Gerard Leigh
  • 1 April 1967 – 1979: Sir Ronald Brockman
  • 3 October 1967 – 1979: Peter Vanneck
  • 29 March 1971 – 12 July 1991: Sir Julian Paget, 4th Baronet
  • ? – 20 April 1976: Sir James Bowes-Lyon
  • 17 February 1978 – 20 October 1989: Sir Neville Stack
  • 21 November 1978 – 14 August 1995: John Arthur Guinness Slessor
  • 1 October 1979 – 1 October 1982: Sir David Williams
  • ? 1979 – ? 1997: Major Nigel Chamberlayne-Macdonald
  • ? – 1 January 1980: Sir Peter Gillett
  • 1 January 1980 – 1 December 1989: Sir Desmond Hind Garrett Rice
  • 2 November 1982 – 28 June 1994: Sir Roy Austen-Smith
  • 2 November 1982 – 24 July 1994: Sir David Loram
  • 1984 – 2002: Captain Michael Ernest Barrow
  • 5 November 1985 – 3 October 1999: Captain Michael Fulford-Dobson
  • 28 February 1986 – 20 August 1998: Sir Richard Vickers
  • 20 October 1989 – 31 January 2001: Barry Hamilton Newton
  • 12 July 1991 – 17 June 2004: Henry Malcolm Chitty Havergal
  • 28 June 1994 – 2009: Colin Herbert Dickinson Cooke-Priest
  • 10 November 1994 – 4 April 2007: Air Vice-Marshal David Hawkins, later Hawkins-Leth
  • 22 February 1995 – 1 January 2008: Major General Brian Pennicott
  • 14 August 1995 -31 January 2011: Group Captain Hugh Rolfe
  • 1997 – 15 January 2017: Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Thomas Riddell Birdwood
  • 20 August 1998 – 29 July 1999: Robert Cartwright
  • 29 July 1999 – 5 July 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Breakwell
  • 3 October 1999 – 31 July 2011: Captain Paddy McKnight
  • 2002 – 30 April 2013: Air Vice-Marshal Richard Henry Kyle
  • 2002 – 31 December 2015: Commodore John Hance
  • 17 June 2004 – 31 March 2015: Major General George Kennedy
  • 4 April 2007 – 22 April 2022: Air Vice-Marshal David Anthony Hobart
  • 1 January 2008 – 19 December 2023: Major Grant Baker
  • 1 August 2009 – 5 December 2017: Commodore Laurie Hopkins
  • 1 February 2011 – 22 April 2022: Air Commodore Malcolm Fuller
  • 1 August 2011 – 5 April 2024: Commodore Christopher Laurence Palmer
  • 4 January 2013 – 5 December 2023: Air Vice Marshal Richard Lacey
  • 31 March 2015 – 26 August 2024: Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alexander Matheson of Matheson Bt
  • 1 January 2016 – 26 August 2024: Commodore Jonathan Handley
  • 6 July 2016 – 15 July 2025: Major General Matthew Sykes
  • 4 May 2017 – present: Brigadier Jonathan Bourne-May
  • 6 December 2017 – present:
  • 1 October 2021 – present: Air Vice-Marshal Elaine West
  • 1 October 2021 – present: Air Vice-Marshal David Murray
  • 6 December 2023 - present: Colonel Susan Wright
  • 1 January 2024 - present: Colonel Jeremy Bagshaw
  • 6 April 2024 - present: Air Vice-Marshal Gary Waterfall
  • 27 August 2024 - present: Air Commodore Catherine Coton
  • 15 July 2025 - present: Commodore Stuart Wright