Master
Master is in Royal Household.
In 1528 William Holles (age 57) was appointed Master of the Company of Mercers.
In 1620 Robert Bateman (age 58) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners.
From 1622 to 1623 Edward Barkham (age 53) was Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.
On 08 Feb 1635 Bishop John Cosins (age 40) was appointed Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1642 Thomas Lawley 1st Baronet (age 61) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.
In 1654 John Frederick (age 52) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons.
In 1655 Richard Hill of Lime Street was appointed Master of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers.
In 1656 Alderman William Barker was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.
In 1658 John Frederick (age 56) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons.
In 1658 Anthony Bateman (age 42) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners.
In 1662 Alderman William Crow Upholster (age 45) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners.
In 1665 Arthur Ingram (age 48) was appointed Master of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.
In 1672 Alderman William Barker was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers.
In 1679 Alderman William Hooker (age 67) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers.
In 1683 Alderman William Hooker (age 71) was elected Master of St Thomas' Hospital.
Before 1693 John Cutler 1st Baronet (age 90) was appointed Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers four times.
In 1709 Thomas Stayner (age 44) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons.
In 1710 Samuel Garrard 4th Baronet (age 60) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers.
On 19 Jun 1716 John Eyles 2nd Baronet (age 33) was appointed Master of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers and Alderman of Vintry.
In 1717 Joseph Eyles (age 27) was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers which position he held until 1721.
In 1719 Edward Stanton (age 38) was appointed Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master, Jewels
Master of the Jewel House
In Dec 1558 John Astley (age 51) was appointed Master of the Jewel House. Katherine "Kat" Champernowne (age 56) was appointed Chief Lady of the Bedchamber.
In 1660 Gilbert Talbot Master of the Jewel House (age 54) was appointed Master of the Jewel House.
Evelyn's Diary. 21 Aug 1662. I was admitted and then sworn one of the Council of the Royal Society, being nominated in his Majesty's (age 32) original grant to be of this Council for the regulation of the Society, and making laws and statutes conducible to its establishment and progress, for which we now set apart every Wednesday morning till they were all finished. Lord Viscount Brouncker (age 51) (that excellent mathematician) was also by his Majesty (age 32), our founder, nominated our first President. The King (age 32) gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms, and sent us a mace of silver gilt, of the same fashion and size as those carried before his Majesty (age 32), to be borne before our president on meeting days. It was brought by Sir Gilbert Talbot (age 56), master of his Majesty's jewel house.
In 1690 Francis Lawley 2nd Baronet (age 60) was appointed Master of the Jewel House.
Master of the Jewels
In 1538 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 38) was appointed Master of the Jewels which position he held until 1544.
On 21 Jun 1603 Edward Carey (age 63) and his son Henry Carey 1st Viscount Falkland (age 28) were jointly appointed Master of the Jewels.
Master of the King's Jewels
In 1465 Thomas Vaughan (age 55) was appointed Master of the King's Jewels.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master Carver
On 28 Jul 1608 Maximilian Colt (age 33) was nominated the king's Master Carver.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of Requests
In 1514 Thomas More (age 35) was appointed Master of Requests.
In 1536 Robert Southwell (age 30) was appointed Master of Requests.
In 1548 William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 27) was appointed Master of Requests.
In 1550 John Cock (age 44) was appointed Master of Requests which position he held until 1553.
Around 1551 John Mason (age 48) was appointed Master of Requests which position he held until 1558.
In 1618 Ralph Freeman (age 28) was appointed Master of Requests.
In 1622 John Coke (age 58) was appointed Master of Requests.
Evelyn's Diary. 28 Feb 1676. [Note. Date adjusted to 28 Feb since original entry stated 29 Feb when it isn't a leap year.] I dined with Mr. Povey (age 62), one of the Masters of Requests, a nice contriver of all elegancies, and exceedingly formal. Supped with Sir J. Williamson, where were of our Society Mr. Robert Boyle (age 49), Sir Christopher Wren (age 52), Sir William Petty (age 52), Dr. Holden, subdean of his Majesty's (age 45) Chapel, Sir James Shaen, Dr. Whistler, and our Secretary, Mr. Oldenburg (age 57).
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of The King's Posts
John Stanhope 1st Baron Stanhope was appointed Master of The King's Posts.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Buckhounds
The London Gazette 22106. Master of the Horse's Office, February 26, 1858. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable John William (age 46), Earl of Sandwich, to be Master of Her Majesty's Buck Hounds, in the room of the Right Honourable John George Brabazon (age 48), Earl of Bessborough, resigned.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. The wicked Countess and her lover lived at Clieveden [Map] - "the bower of wanton Shrewsbury and of love" - and her spirit is supposed to haunt the beautiful riverside retreat, but I am thankful to say she has never appeared in the old home of her innocent girlhood. Her portrait by Sir Peter Lely hangs in the White Hall at Deene, and is a fine example of the artist's well-known very décolleté style of "robes loosely flowing, hair as free", with the usual mise en scène of a beauty of Charles II's time. The third Earl of Cardigan was Master of the Buckhounds to Queen Anne; he married a daughter of the Earl of Ailesbury, and their fourth son inherited the Ailesbury title and estates. Lord Cardigan's eldest son married the heiress of the Duke of Montagu in 1766 [Note. Married on 07 Jul 1730. He was created Duke in 1766]. He was a friend of Horace Walpole, the influence of whose pseudo-Gothic tastes may still be seen in the south front of Deene [Map], built at this time, and which now incorporates the great ball-room built for me by my dear husband.
The London Gazette 26321. Master of the Horse's Office, Royal Mews, Pimlico, August 25, 1892.
HER Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Thomas, Baron Ribblesdale (age 37), to be Master of Her Majesty's Buckhounds, in the room of the Right Honourable George William, Earl of Coventry (age 54), resigned.
The London Gazette 27243. Master of the Horse's Office, Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, November 1, 1900.
HER Majesty has been preciously pleased to appoint Honorary Colonel the Right Honourable Charles Compton William, Baron Chesham, to be the Master of Her Majesty's Buckhounds, in the room of the Right Honourable George William, Earl of Coventry (age 62), resigned.
Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to appoint, provisionally, the Right Honourable Victor Albert Francis Charles, Baron Churchill (age 36), to act as Master of Her Majesty's Buckhounds during the absence in South Africa of Honorary Colonel the Right Honourable Baron Chesham.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Great Wardrobe
In 1622 William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh (age 35) was appointed Master of the Great Wardrobe to King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 55).
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Hawks
In 1726 Charles Beauclerk 2nd Duke St Albans (age 29) was appointed Master of the Hawks.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Hounds
In 1516 Edward Neville (age 45) was appointed Master of the Hounds to King Henry VIII of England and Ireland (age 24).
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Household
Evelyn's Diary. 12 Feb 1683. He gave to the Trinity Corporation that land in Deptford [Map] on which are built those almshouses for twenty-four widows of emerited seamen. He was born the famous year of the Gunpowder Treason, in 1605, and being the last [male] of his family, left my wife (age 48), his only daughter, heir. His grandfather, Sir Richard Browne, was the great instrument under the great Earl of Leicester (favorite to Queen Elizabeth) in his government of the Netherland. He was Master of the Household to King James, and Cofferer; I think was the first who regulated the compositions through England for the King's (age 52) household, provisions, progresses,49 etc., which was so high a service, and so grateful to the whole nation, that he had acknowledgments and public thanks sent him from all the counties; he died by the rupture of a vein in a vehement speech he made about the compositions in a Parliament of King James. By his mother's side he was a Gunson, Treasurer of the Navy in the reigns of Henry VIII., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, and, as by his large pedigree appears, related to divers of the English nobility. Thus ended this honorable person, after so many changes and tossings to and fro, in the same house where he was born. "Lord teach us so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom!".
In 1712 William Pole 4th Baronet (age 34) was appointed Master of the Household.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Jewel Office
In Apr 1620 Henry Mildmay (age 27) was appointed Master of the Jewel Office.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the King's Mews and Falcons
Calendars. 07 May 1461. Middleham Castle [Map]. The like (Grant for life) to the said earl (age 32), the office of Master of the King's Mews and Falcons and a messuage called 'le Mewehous' at Charryng by Westminster, co Middlesex, with all houses and other profits pertaining to the same, in the same manner as John, duke of Bedford, deceased; and appointment of him to take the king's right prises of falcons, goshawks, sakers, sakrets, lanners, lannerets and ger-falcons sold within the realm, paying the accustomed price viz 20s for each tercel of goshawk, saker, lanner or lanneret. By other latters patent.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Posts
In 1545 John Mason (age 42) was appointed Master of the Posts.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Robes
Evelyn's Diary. 23 Jul 1678. Mr. Godolphin (age 33) was made Master of the Robes to the King (age 48).
In 1695 Arnold Keppel 1st Earl Albermarle (age 24) was appointed Gentlemen of the Bedchamber and Master of the Robes.
In 1714 William Cadogan 1st Earl Cadogan (age 42) was appointed Master of the Robes.
In 1758 James Brudenell 5th Earl Cardigan (age 32) was appointed Master of the Robes.
In 1791 James Peachey 1st Baron Selsey (age 67) was appointed Master of the Robes which position he held until his death.
Spencer Compton 2nd Earl of Northampton was appointed Master of the Robes to the Prince of Wales.
Christopher Villiers 1st Earl Anglesey was appointed Master of the Robes to King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Royal Stables
From 1574 Richard Montpesson was appointed Master of the Royal Stables.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Staghounds
In 1738 Evelyn Pierrepont 2nd Duke Kingston upon Hull (age 27) was appointed Master of the Staghounds.
In 1744 Robert Manners-Sutton (age 21) was appointed Master of the Staghounds.
In 1763 William Byron 5th Baron Byron (age 40) was appointed Master of the Staghounds.
In 1765 William Monckton aka Monckton-Arundell 2nd Viscount Galway (age 40) was appointed Master of the Staghounds.
In 1770 William Anne Capell 4th Earl Essex (age 37) was appointed Master of the Staghounds.
In 1782 position of Master of the Staghounds was abolished.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Wardrobe
Pepy's Diary. 06 Jun 1660. My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy1 had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards to be false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk (age 51), and three more Lords, are made Commissioners for the Treasury2; that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master of the Wardrobe3; that the two Dukes [Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester.] do haunt the Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene,-["Epicene, or the Silent Woman", a comedy, by Ben Jonson.] the other day; that Sir. Ant. Cooper (age 38), Mr. Hollis (age 60), and Mr. Annesly (age 45), & late President of the Council of State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very busy sending Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat to be made me against I come to London, which I think will not be long. At night Mr. Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. I to bed and about one in the morning,
Note 1. Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660. He refused the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October 29th, 1666.
Note 2. The names of the Commissioners were Sir Edward Hyde (age 51), afterwards Earl of Clarendon, General Monk (age 51), Thomas, Earl of Southampton (age 53), John, Lord Robartes (age 54), Thomas, Lord Colepeper (age 60), Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir Edward Nicholas (age 67) and Sir William Morrice (age 57) as principal Secretaries of State. The patents are dated June 19th, 1660.
Note 3. The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors abroad", as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of the Garter, &c. The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of Montague (age 21), who died 1709.
Culture, England, Court Positions, Royal Household, Master of the Wild Beasts
On 04 Feb 1600 John Leigh (age 31) had a grant of the office of Keeper of Home Park in Kent and Master of the Wild Beasts.
