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Sherard was a member of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners under King James I. [4] On 3 July 1622, he received the honour of knighthood from King James I at Oatlands Palace. On 10 July 1627, he was created Lord Sherard, Baron of Leitrim, in the Peerage of Ireland, [5] by James' successor, King Charles I. [3]
Gentlemen at Arms marching alongside the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, as part of the procession following her funeral. Today, the duties are purely ceremonial: the Gentlemen accompany and attend the sovereign at various events and occasions, including state visits by heads of state, the opening of parliament, and ceremonies involving the various orders of chivalry, including the Order of the ...
In 1827 he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners under Lord Goderich, a post he held until 1830, the last two years under the premiership of the Duke of Wellington. He held the same office (in 1834 renamed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms) from 1834 to 1835 under Sir Robert Peel.
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The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a post in the Government of the United Kingdom that has been held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords [1] since 1945. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners .
Even when the original Gentlemen got tangled in its own twists, the movie’s brisk pace and charming A-list cast (Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Colin Farrell ...
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet; Denis Carter, Baron Carter; Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield; Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester; George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon; Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland; Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
Yeomen Warders were originally a detachment of the Yeoman of the Guard, appointed by Henry VIII to guard the Royal Palace of the Tower of London in 1509; High Constables and Guard of Honour of the Palace of Holyroodhouse created in the early sixteenth century to guard the Palace and Abbey of Holyroodhouse, and enforce law and order within the precincts of the Palace and the Holyrood Abbey ...