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Comptroller of the Household is in Comptroller.
The London Gazette 28659. Board of Green Cloth, November 1st, 1912.
The King has been pleased to make the following appointment to His Majesty's Household:—
Geoffrey Cecil, Lord Saye and Sele, to be Comptroller of the Household, in the room of Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, K.C.M.G., M.V.O., resigned.
In 1540 John Gage (age 60) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 25th December 1557. The xxv day of Desember wher dyvers [courtiers] was removyd unto he-her [higher] rommys; as ser Edward Hastynges (age 36), master of the quen's hors, was mad lord chamburlayn; and ser Thomas Cornwalles comptroller; ser Hare Jarnyngham (age 45) the master of the hors; and ser Hare Benefeld (age 48) fee-chamburlayn and captayn of the gard.
On 25th December 1557 Thomas Cornwallis was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
In 1568 Edward Rogers (age 70) was appointed Comptroller of the Household which position he held for the remainder of his life.
In 1617 Henry Carey 1st Viscount Falkland (age 42) was appointed Comptroller of the Household and to the Privy Council.
In 1639 Thomas Jermyn (age 66) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd August 1661. Came my Lord Hatton (age 56), Comptroller of his Majesty's household to visit me.
John Evelyn's Diary. 27th November 1666. Sir Hugh Pollard (age 63), Comptroller of the Household, died at Whitehall [Map], and his Majesty (age 36) conferred the white staff on my brother Commissioner for sick and wounded, Sir Thomas Clifford (age 36), a bold young gentleman, of a small fortune in Devon, but advanced by Lord Arlington (age 48), Secretary of State, to the great astonishment of all the Court. This gentleman was somewhat related to me by the marriage of his mother to my nearest kinsman, Gregory Coale, and was ever my noble friend, a valiant and daring person, but by no means fit for a supple and flattering courtier.
In 1672 William Maynard 2nd Baron Maynard (age 49) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
John Evelyn's Diary. 18th August 1673. My Lord Clifford (age 43), being about this time returned from Tunbridge [Map], and preparing for Devonshire, I went to take my leave of him at Wallingford House; he was packing up pictures, most of which were of hunting wild beasts and vast pieces of bull-baiting, bear-baiting, etc. I found him in his study, and restored to him several papers of state, and others of importance, which he had furnished me with, on engaging me to write the "History of the Holland War", with other private letters of his acknowledgments to my Lord Arlington (age 55), who from a private gentleman of a very noble family, but inconsiderable fortune, had advanced him from almost nothing. The first thing was his being in Parliament, then knighted, then made one of the Commissioners of sick and wounded, on which occasion we sat long together; then, on the death of Hugh Pollard, he was made Comptroller of the Household and Privy Councillor, yet still my brother Commissioner; after the death of Lord Fitz-Harding, Treasurer of the Household, he, by letters to Lord Arlington, which that Lord showed me, begged of his Lordship to obtain it for him as the very height of his ambition. These were written with such submissions and professions of his patronage, as I had never seen any more acknowledging. The Earl of Southampton then dying, he was made one of the Commissioners of the Treasury. His Majesty (age 43) inclining to put it into one hand, my Lord Clifford, under pretense of making all his interest for his patron, my Lord Arlington, cut the grass under his feet, and procured it for himself, assuring the King that Lord Arlington did not desire it. Indeed, my Lord Arlington protested to me that his confidence in Lord Clifford made him so remiss and his affection to him was so particular, that he was absolutely minded to devolve it on Lord Clifford, all the world knowing how he himself affected ease and quiet, now growing into years, yet little thinking of this go-by. This was the great ingratitude Lord Clifford showed, keeping my Lord Arlington in ignorance, continually assuring him he was pursuing his interest, which was the Duke's (age 39) into whose great favour Lord Clifford was now gotten; but which certainly cost him the loss of all, namely, his going so irrevocably far in his interest.
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John Evelyn's Diary. 17th February 1685. This morning his Ma* (age 51) restor'd the staffe and key to Lord Arlington (age 67), Chamberlaine; to Mr. Savell (age 43), Vice-chamberlaine; to Lords Newport (age 64) and Malnard (age 62), Treasurer and Comptroler of the Household; Lord Godolphin (age 39) made Chamberlaine to ye Queene (age 26); Lord Peterborow (age 63) Groome of ye Stole in place of the Earle of Bath (age 56); the Treasurer's staff to the Earle of Rochester (age 42); and his brother the Earle of Clarendon Lord Privie Seale in place of the Marquis of Halifax (age 51), who was made President of the Council; the Secretarys of State remaining as before.
In 1688 Francis Newport 1st Earl Bradford (age 67) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
In 1702 Edward Seymour 4th Baronet (age 69) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
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In 1708 Hugh Cholmondeley 1st Earl Cholmondeley (age 46) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
In 1755 John Hobart 2nd Earl Buckinghamshire (age 31) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
In 1797 Charles Henry Somerset (age 29) was appointed Comptroller of the Household.
In 1851 George Phipps 2nd Marquess Normanby (age 31) was appointed Comptroller of the Household by John Russell 1st Earl Russell (age 58).
The London Gazette 28270. Board of Green Cloth, BucKingham Palace, July 13, 1909.
The King has been pleased to make the following appointment in His Majesty's Household:—
Arthur William de Brito Savile (age 39), Earl of Liverpool, M.V.O., to be Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, in the room of Alexander William Charles Oliphant, Master of Elibank, M.P., resigned.