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Arms of Fox-Strangways. The arms of the head of the Fox-Strangways family are blazoned Quarterly of four: 1st & 4th: Sable, two lions passant paly of six argent and gules (Strangways); 2nd & 3rd: Ermine, on a chevron azure three foxes' heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third (Fox). [6]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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 .
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 ...
Arms of Fortescue: Azure, a bend engrailed argent plain cotised or.Canting motto: Forte Scutum Salus Ducum ("A Strong Shield is the Salvation of Leaders") [1]. Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue, KG, CB, OBE, MC, PC (14 June 1888 – 14 June 1958), styled Viscount Ebrington from 1905 until 1932, of Castle Hill in the parish of Filleigh, of Weare Giffard Hall, both in Devon and of ...