Groom of the Stole

Groom of the Stole

This is an "incomplete" list of those who have served as Groom of the Stole in the British Royal Household.

History

The title originally referred to the chamberpot (or stool) of whomever the person served, as Groom of the Stool. Later it came to represent the long robe of the Monarch (from the Latin "stola", meaning garment).

The holder of the position was the senior Lord of the Bedchamber (the equivalent appointment to the King or Prince-consort of the Queen's Mistress of the Robes); the post was discontinued on the accession of King Edward VII in 1901, to whom one had been appointed while he was Prince of Wales.

Incumbents


=Grooms of the Stole to Charles II=

*1660: William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford
*1660–1685: Sir John Granville (later Earl of Bath)


=Grooms of the Stole to James II=

*1685–1688: Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough


=Grooms of the Stole to William III=

*1689–1700: Baron Hans Bentinck (later Earl of Portland)
*1700–1702: Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney


=Grooms of the Stole to Queen Anne=

*1702–1711: Sarah Churchill, Countess of Marlborough (later Duchess of Marlborough)
*1711–1714: Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset


=Grooms of the Stole to Prince George=

*1683–1685: John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton
*1685–1687: Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale
*1697–1708: John West, 6th Baron De La Warr


=Grooms of the Stole to George I=

*1714–1719: Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
*1719–1722: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
*1722–1723: "Vacant"
*1723–1727: Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin


=Grooms of the Stole to George II=

*1727–1735: Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin
*1735–1750: Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke
*1751–1755: Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
*1755–1760: William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford


=Grooms of the Stole to George III=

*1760–1761: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
*1761–1770: Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon
*1770–1775: George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol
*1775: Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth
*1775–1782: John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham
*1782–1796: Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth (later Marquess of Bath)
*1796–1804: John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe
*1804–1812: George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea
*1812–1820: Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester


=Grooms of the Stole to George IV=

*1820–1830: Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester


=Grooms of the Stole to William IV=

*1830–1837: Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester

Grooms of the Stole to Prince Albert

*1840–1841: Lord Robert Grosvenor (later Lord Ebury)
*1841–1846: Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter
*1846–1859: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
*1859–1861: John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer


=Grooms of the Stole to The Prince of Wales=

*1862–1866: John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
*1866–1877: ?
*1877–1883: Sir William Knollys
*1883–1901: James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn

ee also

* Groom of the Robes.


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