Groom of the Robes is an obsolete office in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of England, later Great Britain, ultimately the United Kingdom. It is equivalent to a Lady-in-Waiting for Kings and Queen Regnants.
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List of Grooms of the Robes
(incomplete)
Henry VIII
- John Copinger [2][unreliable source?]
- William Sharington 1540–1541[3]
- Thomas Sternhold 1500–1549 [4]
Edward VI
- Thomas Sternhold 1500–1549 [4]
Elizabeth I
- John Wynyard –1606
James I
- John Wynyard –1606
William IV
- Lord Adolphus FitzClarence 1830–1833 [5]
- Francis Seymour 1833-1837
Victoria
- Francis Seymour 1837-1870 [6]
- Henry Erskine 1870–1901
Edward VII
- Henry Erskine 1901–1910
George V
- Henry Erskine 1910–1920
- Montague Eliot 1920-1936
George VI
- Sir Harold Campbell 1937-1952
Elizabeth II
- Sir Harold Campbell 1952-1954
References
- ^ Holman, Peter (1994). Henry Purcell. Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 019816341X. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nNFRzdYGwOkC&pg=PA4&dq=Thomas+Purcell+%22groom+of+the+robes%22&as_brr=3&sig=U2M0L8janHtWW4SVJXNr1bhvg8s.
- ^ "John Copynger". http://www.copinger.org.uk/4John10.html. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ C. E. Challis, 'Sharington, Sir William (c. 1495–1553), administrator and embezzler', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004
- ^ a b Kaufman, Charles H. (1981). Music in New Jersey, 1655-1860. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 46. ISBN 0838622704. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OHJB9FQIEsgC&pg=PA46&dq=Thomas+Sternhold+%22groom+of+the+robes%22&as_brr=3&sig=n3bCRcMOmGbjDkoxxjcsnkWcdA4.
- ^ "Obituary - King William the Fourth", The Gentleman's Magazine: 196, August 1837, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e-UIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA196&dq=Lord+Adolphus+FitzClarence+%22groom+of+the+robes%22&as_brr=3.
- ^ "Domestic Occurrences", The Gentleman's Magazine: 308, March 1840, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_bafTMlsMNoC&pg=PA308&dq=%22Francis+Seymour%22++%22groom+of+the+robes%22&as_brr=3.
- Who's Who (various dates)
See also
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