THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN

AND HIS DEPARTMENT.

His office is to take care of all the officers and servants (excepting those belonging to the Queen's bedchamber, who are under the Groom of the Stole) belonging to the Queen's chambers, who are sworn in their places by him. He hath the oversight of the officers of the wardrobes at all Her Majesty's houses; and of removing wardrobes or beds; of tents, revels, music, comedians, and, what is not common in other nations, although a layman, he hath oversight of the Queen's chaplains, and of all the heralds, physicians, apothecaries, &c. It is his place to inspect into the charges of coronations, marriages, public entries, cavalcades, funerals, and into all furniture for and in the parliament houses and rooms of addresses to the Queen.

Grooms in Waiting.

Colonel Hon. Augustus Liddell.

Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray.

Lieut.-General Sir Francis H. Seymour. (Extra.)

(Extra.)

1868, Jan. 24,

Adm. Lord F. H. Kerr.

Lieut.-Colonel W. G. Stirling, R.A. (Extra.)

1876, Feb. 24, 1876, Oct.

Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C.-H. Lindsay.

1,

Lieut.-Col. W.-H.-F. Cavendish. (Extra.)

Captain F. Edwards.

1879, Dec. 8,

Gen. Sir M.-A. Biddulph.

1881, May 9,

May 20,

Lieut. Col. Lord E. Clinton.

Hon. Col. Carington.

July 24, Capt. Walter D.-S. Campbell.

Mistress of the Robes.

1880, May 3, Duchess of Bedford.

Ladies of the Bedchamber.

Dowager Marchioness of Ely.
Dowager Duchess of Athole.
Lady Churchill.

Lady Waterpark.

Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe.

Dowager Countess of Mount Edgecumbe. (Extra.)
Viscountess Clifden. (Extra.)

Lady Southampton.

1874, Nov. 6,

Viscountess Jocelyn. (Extra.)

Countess of Mayo. (Extra.)

Countess of Erroll.

Countess of Gainsborough. (Extra.)

Countess of Caledon. (Extra.)
Lady Abercromby.

Women of the Bedchamber.

Viscountess Chewton.

Hon. Lady Gordon.
Lady Codrington.

Lady Sarah-Elizabeth Lindsay.
Hon. Mrs. Robert Bruce.

Lady E.-P. Biddulph. (Extra.)
Hon. Mrs. Grey. (Extra.)

Mrs. Pratt. (Extra.)

Hon. Flora-Clementina-Isabella Macdonald.
Hon. Mrs. Ferguson.

Hon. Horatia-Charlotte Stopford.

1880, Jan. 13, Hon. Emily S. Cathcart (Extra.)

THE MASTER OF THE HORSE

Hath the charge of all the Queen's stables and horses.

Also power over equerries and pages, footmen, grooms, farriers, smiths, saddlers, and all other trades any way relating to ths stables. He has the privilege of applying to his own use one coachman, four footmen, and six grooms, in the Queen's pay, and wearing the Queen's livery. In any solemn cavalcade he rides next behind the Queen.

THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

Holds his post by letters patent durante bene placito. By the stat. 21

Henry VIII. he is to attend the Queen's person, to manage the debates in council, to propose matters from the Queen at the council, and to report to the Queen the Resolutions thereupon.

THE LORD PRIVY SEAL,

So called from his having the Privy Seal in his custody, which he must not put to any grant without warrant under the Queen's signet. This seal is used to all charters, grants, and pardons, signed by the Queen, before they come to the Great Seal.

July 23,

1828, Jan. 26,

1829, June 10,

1830, Nov. 22, 1833,

1834, June 5,

July 30,

Dec. 15,

1835, April 18, 1839, Oct. 16, 1841, Sept. 8,

1842, Feb. 1,

1845, Dec. 29,

1846, July 6, 1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

1855, Dec. 7,

1857, Dec. 27,

1858, Feb. 26,

1859, June 18,

1866, July 6, 1868, Dec. 9, 1870, July 6, 1874, Mar. 2,

Lord Ellenborough.
Earl of Rosslyn.
Lord Durham.

Viscount Goderich.
Earl of Carlisle.
Earl of Mulgrave.
Lord Wharncliffe.
Lord Duncannon.
Earl of Clarendon.
Duke of Buckingham.
Duke of Buccleuch.
Earl of Haddington.
Earl of Minto.

Marquess of Salisbury.
Duke of Argyll.
Earl of Harrowby.
Marquess of Clanricarde.
Earl of Hardwicke.
Duke of Argyll.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Lord Kimberley.
Viscount Halifax.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Earl of Beaconsfield.

Duke of Northumberland.

1876,

1878,

1880, May

1881, April