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The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a UK government post usually held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the Gentlemen Pensioners.
List of Captains of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
- incomplete before 1831
- 8 December 1830: Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley
- 1 May 1833: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 29 December 1834: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
- 6 May 1835: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 8 September 1841: John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester
- 24 July 1846: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 27 February 1852: John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich
- 30 December 1852: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 26 February 1858: Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot
- 28 June 1859: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 10 July 1866: Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville
- 20 March 1867: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
- 12 December 1868: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 27 December 1869: George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
- 20 April 1871: Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
- 1 January 1874: William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
- 2 March 1874: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
- 4 February 1875: Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury
- 28 May 1877: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
- 3 May 1880: Alexander William George Duff, 6th Earl Fife
- 21 January 1881: CHarles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly
- 27 June 1881: Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 3rd Baron Carrington
- 6 July 1885: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
- 10 February 1886: Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley
- 5 August 1886: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
- 24 November 1886: Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn
- 11 August 1890: Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough
- 25 August 1892: George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon
- 13 March 1894: Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
- 16 July 1895: Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
- 18 December 1905: William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
- 31 July 1907: Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
- 26 July 1908: Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
- 20 November 1922: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
- 22 January 1924: Labour government - post vacant?
- 1 December 1924: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
- 26 June 1925: Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
- 1 January 1929: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
- 5 June 1929: Labour government - post vacant?
- 12 November 1931: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
- 31 May 1940: Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell
- 21 April 1944: vacant.
- 22 March 1945: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
- 4 August 1945: Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
- 18 October 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
- 5 November 1951: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
- 27 June 1957: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
- 21 October 1964: Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
- 29 July 1967: Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick
- 24 June 1970: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
- 11 March 1974: Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies
- 6 May 1979: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
- incomplete after 1981
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