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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 ...
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
In 1906 Colebrooke was raised to the peerage as Baron Colebrooke, of Stebunheath in the County of Middlesex. [1] He served under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1906 [2] to 1911 [3] and then under Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Government Chief Whip in the Lords [4] and Captain of the Honourable Corps of ...
He later achieved the rank of captain, and served in the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. Shortly before his death, he was invested as a Member (fourth class) of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 11 August 1902 [3] (the order was gazetted after his death [4]).
Retiring at the end of the war, he was a member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms from 1920 until his death. He died aged 70 on 29 May 1942 in Brockenhurst, and is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church. [1] His medals are held privately. [13]
George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon PC (25 February 1854 – 15 December 1898), styled The Honourable George Venables-Vernon from 1866 to 1883, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under William Gladstone from 1892 to 1894.
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 .
Towse also received a number of other honours, including sergeant-at-arms in ordinary to the queen (appointed 1900); member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (1903–39); and was also a member of the Fishmongers' Company and the court of the Clothworkers' Company. [1]