Master of the Jewel Office
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The Master of the Jewel Office is a position in the British Royal Household
Royal Household
A Royal Household in ancient and medieval monarchies formed the basis for the general government of the country as well as providing for the needs of the sovereign and his relations....

. The holders are responsible for running the Jewel Office, which holds the Sovereign's jewellry.

Masters of the Jewel Office

  • 1445–1448: John Merston
  • 1465–1483: Thomas Vaughan
    Thomas Vaughan (soldier)
    Sir Thomas Vaughan was a Welsh medieval soldier and diplomat, an adherent of Jasper Tudor and King Henry VI of England. Despite this, he was a Yorkist by inclination, as were so many Welshmen of the time, and became ambassador to the courts of Burgundy and France on behalf of the Yorkist King...

  • 1483–1485: Edmund Chaderton
  • bef. 1509–?: Sir Henry Wyatt
    Henry Wyatt
    Sir Henry Wyatt was an English courtier.-Life:A Lancastrian supporter against Richard III, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. On the accession of Henry VII, he was released and assumed high places at court. He acted as Henry's agent in Scotland.He was admitted to the privy council, and...

  • 1532–1533: Thomas Cromwell
    Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
    Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, , was an English statesman who served as chief minister of King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540....

  • bef. 1545: Sir Anthony Rous
    Anthony Rous
    Anthony Rous was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1653 and 1660. He was an officer in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War....

  • 1545–1557 Anthony Aucher
  • 1558-c. 1595: John Astley
    John Astley (courtier)
    John Astley was an English courtier, Marian exile, and Master of the Jewel House. He was a Member of Parliament on many occasions.-Life:...

  • Edward Cary (died 1618)
  • 1618: Sir Henry Mildmay
    Henry Mildmay
    Sir Henry Mildmay was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of Charles I of England....

  • Francis Layton
  • 1660: Sir Gilbert Talbot
  • 1690: Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet
    Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet
    Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet was a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679 and a courtier.Lawley was the son of Sir Thomas Lawley, 1st Baronet of Spoonhill, near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. He inherited the Baronetcy and the estate on the death of his father in 1646...

  • 1696: Hon. Heneage Montagu
    Heneage Montagu
    Heneage Montagu was a younger son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester and Anne Yelverton. He was a knight of the shire from Huntingdonshire from 1695 until his death in 1698....

  • 1698: Col. Charles Godfrey
  • 1704: John Charlton
  • 1711: Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey
    Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford
    Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford was a British peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Lord Guernsey from 1714 to 1719....

  • 1716: Hon. James Brudenell
  • 1730: Charles Townshend, Lord Lynn
    Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend
    Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend , known as Lord Lynn from 1723 to 1738, was a British politician....

  • 1739: William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny
    William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny
    William Nevill, de facto 16th Baron Bergavenny was an English peer.The son of Captain Edward Nevill, he succeeded to the Earldom upon the death of his cousin, Edward Nevill, 15th Baron Bergavenny who had died without issue.He married Katherine Tatton, on 20 May 1725, with whom he had the...

  • 1744: Henry Clinton. 9th Earl of Lincoln
    Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
    thumb|right|"The Return From Shooting" by [[Francis Wheatley |Sir Francis Wheatley]] depicting The Duke of Newcastle, his friend Colonel Litchfield and the Duke's gamekeeper, Mansell along with four Clumber Spaniels....

  • 1745: John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy
    John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
    John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland KB , styled Lord Glenorchy from 1716 until 1752, was a Scottish nobleman, diplomat and politician.-Background and education:...

  • 1756: Sir Robert Lyttleton
  • 1763: Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington
    Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington
    Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington was a British peer, the son of the 1st Earl of Darlington.He married Margaret Lowther, a daughter of Robert Lowther, the Governor of Barbados, on 19 March 1757 in London. They had three children:*Lady Grace Vane Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (1726 – 8...


Keepers of the Jewel House

Since 1967 the offices of Resident Governor of the Tower of London and Keeper of the Jewel House have been combined.
  • 1898-1909: Sir Hugh Gough
    Hugh Henry Gough
    General Sir Hugh Henry Gough VC, GCB was born in Calcutta, India and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 23 years old, and a lieutenant in the...

  • 1909-1911: Sir Robert Cunliffe Low
  • 1911-1917: Sir Arthur Wynne
    Arthur Wynne (British Army officer)
    General Sir Arthur Singleton Wynne GCB was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.-Military career:...

  • 1936-1952: Sir George Younghusband
  • 1952-1968: Hervey Sitwell
  • 1968-1971: Sir Thomas Butler, Bt.
  • 1971-1979: Sir William Raeburn
  • 1979-?: Giles Mills
  • ?-1989: Andrew MacLellan
  • 1989-?: Christopher Tyler
  • 1994-2006: Major-General Geoffrey Field, CB
    Order of the Bath
    The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

     OBE
  • 2006-2011: Major-General Keith Cima, CB
  • 2011-present: Colonel
    Colonel
    Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

     Richard Harrold, OBE
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