| Date of appointment | Holder |
| 1509 | Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex |
| 1539 | Sir Anthony Browne |
| 1549 | John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye |
| 1550 | William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton |
| 1553 | Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex |
| 1558 | Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon |
| 1596 | George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon |
| May 1603 | Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland |
| 1615 | Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk |
| 1616 | Theophilus Howard, Baron Howard de Walden
(succeeded as Earl of Suffolk 1626) |
| May 1635 | William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury |
| 1643 | Francis Leigh, 1st Baron Dunsmore
(created Earl of Chichester 1644) |
| temp Charles II | William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury |
| 20 July 1660 | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland |
| 29 March 1667 | John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse |
| 10 March 1672 | Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg |
| 9 May 1676 | Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon |
| 24 April 1677 | Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale |
| 26 June 1682 | Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon |
| 28 February 1689 | John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace |
| 29 November 1693 | Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans |
| 13 January 1712 | Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort |
| 22 September 1714 | Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans |
| 21 May 1726 | William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
(succeeded as Duke of Devonshire 1729) |
| 11 June 1731 | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington |
| 11 June 1734 | John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu |
| 8 May 1740 | Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton |
| 12 July 1742 | Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst |
| 24 December 1744 | John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart
(created Earl of Buckinghamshire 1746) |
| 16 November 1756 | John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton |
| 12 July 1762 | George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield |
| 28 December 1772 | George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe
(created Viscount Mount Edgcumbe
and Valletort 1781) |
| 29 March 1782 | George Townshend, 17th Baron Ferrers of Chartley |
| 17 May 1783 | George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey |
| 31 December 1783 | George Townshend, 17th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
(created Earl of Leicester 1784) |
| 5 March 1790 | George Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth |
| 19 February 1806 | St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso |
| 2 March 1808 | Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe |
| 26 March 1812 | James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown |
| 1 September 1827 | Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford |
| 9 December 1830 | Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley |
| 16 August 1833 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 29 December 1834 | Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford |
| 6 May 1835 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 8 September 1841 | John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester |
| 24 July 1846 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Fole |
| 27 February 1852 | John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich |
| 30 December 1852 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 26 February 1858 | Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury |
| 28 June 1859 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 10 July 1866 | Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville |
| 20 March 1867 | William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter |
| 12 December 1868 | Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley |
| 27 December 1869 | George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby |
| 20 April 1871 | Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper |
| 1 January 1874 | Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester |
| 2 March 1874 | William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter |
| 4 February 1875 | Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury |
| 28 May 1877 | George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry |
| 3 May 1880 | Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife |
| 21 January 1881 | Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly |
| 27 June 1881 | Charles Wynn-Carington, 3rd Baron Carrington |
| 6 July 1885 | George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry |
| 10 February 1886 | Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley |
| 5 August 1886 | George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington |
| 24 November 1886 | Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn |
| 11 August 1890 | Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough |
| 25 August 1892 | George Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon |
| 13 March 1894 | Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield |
| 16 July 1895 | Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper |
| 18 December 1905 | William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp |
| 31 July 1907 | Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman |
| 26 June 1911 | Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke |
| 20 November 1922 | George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon |
| 22 January 1924 | Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore |
| 1 December 1924 | George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon |
| 26 June 1925 | Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth |
| 1 January 1929 | George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan |
| 5 June 1929 | Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan |
| 12 November 1931 | George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan |
| 31 May 1940 | Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell |
| 21 April 1944 | Vacant |
| 22 March 1945 | Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue |
| 4 August 1945 | Charles Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon |
| 18 October 1949 | George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd |
| 5 November 1951 | Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue |
| 27 June 1957 | Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn |
| 21 October 1964 | Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd |
| 29 July 1967 | Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick |
| 24 June 1970 | Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwynn |
| 11 March 1974 | Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe |
| 6 May 1979 | Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham |
| 22 May 1991 | Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh |
| 16 September 1993 | Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater |
| 20 July 1994 | Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde |
| 6 May 1997 | Denis Carter, Baron Carter |
| 1 May 2002 | Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott |
| 24 January 2008 | Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon |
| 5 October 2008 | Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton |
| 13 May 2010 | Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's |
| 6 August 2014 | John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach |
| 26 July 2019 | Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde |
| 7 September 2022 | Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford |
| 9 July 2024 | Roy Kennedy, Baron Kennedy of Southwark |
