• Master of the Horse is an official position in several European nations. It was more common when most countries in Europe were monarchies, and is of varying...
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    The following list contains many of the people known to have held the office of Master of the Horse in England. Some official records are incomplete,...
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    The magister equitum, in English Master of the Horse or Master of the Cavalry, was a Roman magistrate appointed as lieutenant to a dictator. His nominal...
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  • the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world." The schooling administered to the traumatized horse in the film...
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  • Master of the Horse to King Edward IV of England and personal bodyguard to King Henry VII of England. John was the third but second surviving son of John...
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    Samuel Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey (category Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    served as Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth II from 1999 to 2018. Lord Vestey was part of the family dynasty that founded and still runs the Vestey...
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    Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Maelius was plotting against the Republic. When Spurius Maelius ignored his summons, he was killed by Cincinnatus's master of horse and any plot collapsed....
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  • became largely honorary, their places in the household being taken by the Lord Chamberlain and the Master of the Horse. Today, many court titles survive in...
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  • stable master or head groom is the manager in charge of a stable. At large horse establishments there may be several grooms under the management of the stable...
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    probably a younger son of a gentry family from Prestwold, Leicestershire. He became Master of the Horse to Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, and married...
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  • incomplete list of those who have served as Master of the Horse to British royal consorts. After the death of William IV in 1837, the post was discontinued...
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    was knighted as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. In 1616, when he became the King's Master of the Horse, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Whaddon,...
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  • Master of the Horse (Swedish: Överhovstallmästare) was a court clerk, who held one of the foremost rankings of the Royal Court of Sweden (next to the...
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    the Master of the Horse for King Louis XIV. Her father, who trained the court pages, took care of her education teaching her academic subjects of the...
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    Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley (category Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999)
    whether the plan is capable of helping pollinators. In July 2018, the Queen appointed Lord de Mauley to succeed Lord Vestey as Master of the Horse. His appointment...
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    Yuya (category Officials of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt)
    knowledge of horses and chariotry was introduced into Egypt from the northern lands and Yuya was the king's 'Master of the Horse'." It also discusses the possibility...
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    as Master of the Horse from 1853 to 1858. In 1858, he was made a Knight of the Garter. Wellesley was born at Harley Street, Marylebone, London, the eldest...
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    of Tusculum, to march on Rome at the head of a Latin army. The Roman army was led by the dictator Aulus Postumius Albus and his Master of the Horse,...
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    in the fields of horse racing and fox-hunting. He held the office of Master of the Horse for over forty years (1936–1978), the longest to hold the position...
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    was created the 1st Duke of Westminster. When Gladstone became Prime Minister again in 1880, he appointed Grosvenor as Master of the Horse, a position...
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    rehabilitation, but the death of his younger brother Henry. On Elizabeth I's accession in November 1558, Dudley was appointed Master of the Horse. In October...
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    politician. He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1905. Portland was the son of Lieutenant-General Arthur...
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    tribunate. Mark Antony abolished the offices of dictator and Master of the Horse during his consulship in 44 BC, while the offices of Interrex and Roman censor...
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    Master of the Horse, Member of Parliament for East Gloucestershire, and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. Born in Paris, Beaufort was the only son of...
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    and County of Carnarvon, in the Principality of Wales. He later served as Master of the Horse from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed...
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  • creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world." Robert Redford bought the film rights for £3 million, and the film The Horse Whisperer was released...
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    called out of abeyance only for coronations. The Lord High Constable was originally the commander of the royal armies and the Master of the Horse. He was...
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  • The Master of the Revels was the holder of a position within the English, and later the British, royal household, heading the "Revels Office" or "Office...
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    served as Master of the Horse under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman from 1905 to 1907. Molyneux was the second son of William Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton,...
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    Master of the Horse between 1827 and 1830. He also was Governor of Scilly. Leeds was born in London, the eldest son of Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds...
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