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Lord Chamberlain

Name	Entered office	Left office	Party	Notes
The Earl of Manchester	May 1660	7 May 1671
The Earl of St Albans	1671	11 September 1674
The Earl of Arlington	11 September 1674	28 July 1685
The Earl of Ailesbury	30 July 1685	20 October 1685	Tory
The Earl of Mulgrave	October 1685	11 December 1688	Tory
The Earl of Dorset	14 February 1689	19 April 1697	Tory
The Earl of Sunderland	19 April 1697	26 December 1697	Whig
vacant	26 December 1697	30 October 1699
The Duke of Shrewsbury	30 October 1699	24 June 1700	Whig
The Earl of Jersey	24 June 1700	April 1704	Tory
The Earl of Kent from 1706, the Marquess of Kent	April 1704	April 1710	Whig
The Duke of Shrewsbury	April 1710	8 July 1715	Whig (but associated with a Tory ministry)
The Duke of Bolton	8 July 1715	13 April 1717	Whig
The Duke of Newcastle	13 April 1717	6 April 1724	Whig
The Duke of Grafton	6 April 1724	6 May 1757	Whig
The Duke of Devonshire	29 June 1757	28 November 1762	Whig
The Duke of Marlborough	28 November 1762	April 1763	Whig
The Earl Gower	April 1763	July 1765	Tory
The Duke of Portland	July 1765	27 November 1766	Whig
The Earl of Hertford	27 November 1766	April 1782	Tory
The Duke of Manchester	April 1782	April 1783	Whig
The Earl of Hertford	April 1783	23 December 1783	Tory
The Earl of Salisbury from 1789, the Marquess of Salisbury	23 December 1783	14 May 1804	Tory
The Earl of Dartmouth	14 May 1804	10 November 1810	Tory
The Marquess of Hertford	1812	December 1821	Tory
The Duke of Montrose	December 1821	May 1827	Tory
The Duke of Devonshire	May 1827	February 1828	Whig
The Duke of Montrose	February 1828	July 1830	Tory
The Earl of Jersey	July 1830	22 November 1830	Tory
The Duke of Devonshire	22 November 1830	14 November 1834	Whig
The Earl of Jersey	15 December 1834	8 April 1835	Conservative
The Marquess Wellesley	23 April 1835	22 May 1835	Whig
The Marquess Conyngham	22 May 1835	6 May 1839	Whig
Earl of Uxbridge	6 May 1839	30 August 1841	Whig
The Earl De La Warr	8 September 1841	27 June 1846	Conservative
The Earl Spencer	8 July 1846	5 September 1848	Whig
The Marquess of Breadalbane	5 September 1848	21 February 1852	Whig
The Marquess of Exeter	27 February 1852	17 December 1852	Conservative
The Marquess of Breadalbane	15 January 1853	21 February 1858	Liberal
The Earl De La Warr	26 February 1858	11 June 1859	Conservative
The Viscount Sydney	23 June 1859	26 June 1866	Liberal
The Earl of Bradford	10 July 1866	1 December 1868	Conservative
The Viscount Sydney	9 December 1868	17 February 1874	Liberal
The Marquess of Hertford	21 February 1874	7 May 1879	Conservative
The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe	7 May 1879	21 April 1880	Conservative
The Earl of Kenmare	3 May 1880	9 June 1885	Liberal
The Earl of Lathom	27 June 1885	28 January 1886	Conservative
The Earl of Kenmare	10 February 1886	20 July 1886	Liberal
The Earl of Lathom	5 August 1886	11 August 1892	Conservative
The Lord Carrington	25 August 1892	21 June 1895	Liberal
The Earl of Lathom	16 July 1895	7 December 1898	Conservative
The Earl of Hopetoun	7 December 1898	21 September 1900	Conservative
The Earl of Clarendon	21 September 1900	4 December 1905	Liberal Unionist
Viscount Althorp from 1910, the Earl Spencer	18 December 1905	14 February 1912	Liberal
The Lord Sandhurst from 1917, the Viscount Sandhurst	14 February 1912	20 November 1921	Liberal
The Duke of Atholl	20 November 1921	19 October 1922	Conservative
The Earl of Cromer	20 November 1922	1938	Conservative	in 1924, the post became a non-political one
The Earl of Clarendon	1938	1952
The Earl of Scarborough	1952	1963
The Lord Cobbold	1963	1971
The Lord Maclean	1971	1984
The Earl of Airlie	1984	31 December 1997
The Lord Camoys	January 1998	2000
The Lord Luce	2000	current incumbent

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