Circular they are styled "Lord in Waiting" or "Baroness in Waiting" (without hyphenation). There are two kinds of lord-in-waiting: political appointees by...
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Lord Huron is an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles. The band is composed of Mark Barry (drums, percussion), Miguel Briseño (bass, keyboard...
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Conservative victory in that election Earl Attlee was appointed a Lord-in-waiting or Government whip in the House of Lords. He continued in that role until...
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Dolar Popat (redirect from Lord Harrow)
was Lord-in-Waiting, with the duties of a party whip. He was subsequently appointed as the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Rwanda and Uganda in January...
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Marquess of Normanby (redirect from Lord Normanby)
Marquess, served briefly as a Labour Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in 1945 and was also Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of...
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Keeper of the seal King of arms Knight -/ Earl Marshal Lady-in-waiting / Lord-in-waiting Maid of Honour Majordomo Marshal Master of Ceremonies Master...
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John Major as a Lord-in-waiting from 1992 to 1994 and as Under Secretary of State for Transport from 1994 to 1997.[citation needed] In 1999 he was among...
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Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury (redirect from Lord Collins of Highbury)
Africa, and a Lord-in-waiting since July 2024. Collins was appointed Central Office Manager of the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1984 and held...
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Permanent Lord in Waiting. His former son-in-law is the singer Peter Gabriel and singer Melanie Gabriel his granddaughter. His wife Joanna died in 2011 aged...
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Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (redirect from Lord Longford)
and took his seat in the House of Lords as one of the few Labour peers. He was immediately appointed a Lord-in-waiting by Attlee. In 1947, he was appointed...
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Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr (category Labour Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting)
Labour Party, and in February 1924, then aged 23, was one of the youngest ever ministers when he was appointed Lord in Waiting in the first Labour government...
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William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor (category Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting)
politics in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Astor was a Lord-in-waiting (a House of Lords whip) from 1990 to 1993. He was then made a Parliamentary...
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Edward Young, Baron Young of Old Windsor (redirect from Lord Young of Old Windsor)
secretary to the sovereign, Young was granted a peerage, made a permanent lord-in-waiting, and appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and a...
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Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon (category Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting)
Parliamentary delegate to the North Atlantic Assembly from 1979, a Lord-in-waiting from 1980 to 1983, as Under-Secretary of State for Energy from 1983...
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Earl Cowley (redirect from Lord Cowley)
son), the sixth Earl, served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from January to March 1974 in the Conservative government of Edward...
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Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage (category Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting)
India. He held the office of Lord-in-Waiting between 1924 and 1929. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Sussex in 1927. He held the office of...
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Baron Camoys (category 1313 establishments in England)
Oxford in the House of Commons and later held office as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Liberal administrations of Lord John...
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Darren Mott, Baron Mott (redirect from Lord Mott)
(OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for political service. In the 2023 Special Honours, Mott was made a life peer and appointed as a lord-in-waiting and...
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Lords and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber (redirect from Lord of the Bedchamber)
was initially gazetted as "Lord of the Bedchamber in Waiting" to the king; but was subsequently referred to as "Lord in Waiting". Grand Chamberlain of France...
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Earl of Gosford (redirect from Lord Gosford)
on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served under Harold Macmillan as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1958...
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James O'Shaughnessy, Baron O'Shaughnessy (redirect from Lord O’Shaughnessy)
Lord-in-Waiting (i.e. Government Whip in the House of Lords) on 21 December 2016. He resigned on 31 December 2018 due to "family circumstances." In March...
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November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle (category 2023 in British politics)
Cleverly. With the foreign secretary's office falling vacant, party grandee Lord Hague reportedly negotiated a deal between Sunak and the former Prime Minister...
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Alexander Scrymgeour, 12th Earl of Dundee (category Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting)
1978. He has sat in the House of Lords since his father's death in 1983, and served as a Lord-in-waiting (Conservative Party whip in the House of Lords)...
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Baron Brownlow (category Baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain)
succeeded in 1927 and served as a Lord-in-waiting to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Beaverbrook...
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Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin (redirect from Lord Janvrin)
In October, the Queen appointed Lord Janvrin to be a permanent lord-in-waiting in the royal household. In the 2008 New Zealand New Year Honours, Lord...
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shown in brackets is the individual's place in the wider order of appointment since the Order's inception. Vacant following the death of The Lord Boyce...
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Lord Fairfax of Cameron is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Despite holding a Scottish peerage, the Lords Fairfax of Cameron are members of an ancient...
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the army in 1826 as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards. He was promoted lieutenant in 1828, and captain in 1832, and was a lord in waiting to William...
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Baroness-in-Waiting The Lord Caine, Lord-in-Waiting The Lord Davies of Gower, Lord-in-Waiting The Lord Evans of Rainow, Lord-in-Waiting The Lord Harlech, Lord-in-Waiting...
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Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (category Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting)
prominent role in Waugh's diaries. Lord Birkenhead served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Halifax (1938–1939), and as Lord-in-waiting to King George...
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