Master of The Buckhounds - Masters of The (Privy) Buckhounds

Masters of The (Privy) Buckhounds

The Privy Buckhounds were created in 1536 to provide for a hunting pack overseen by a Royal appointee rather than a hereditary officer.

• 1528: George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
• 1536: vacant
• 1538: Sir Richard Long
• 1546: vacant
• 1550: Sir Thomas Darcy
• 1551: John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick
• 1552: Lord Robert Dudley
• 1553: vacant
• 1572: Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
• 1588: vacant
• 1596: Sir Henry Grey
• 1603: Sir Thomas Tyringham
• 1625: Sir Timothy Tyrrell
• 1633: Sir Thomas Tyringham
• 1636: Robert Tyrwith
• 1651: vacant
• 19 September 1660 John Cary
• 31 March 1685 Col. James Graham
• 9 September 1689 Jacques de Gastigny
• 6 July 1698 Reinhard Vincent Graf von Hompesch
• 8 March 1702 vacant
• 13 June 1709 Walter Chetwynd
• 8 June 1711 Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet
• 28 June 1712 George Brudenell, 3rd Earl of Cardigan
• 11 July 1715 vacant
• 28 July 1727 Francis Negus
• 21 June 1733 Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville
• 18 June 1737 Ralph Jenison
• 31 December 1744 George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
• 2 July 1746 Ralph Jenison
• 2 July 1757 John Bateman, 2nd Viscount Bateman
• 29 March 1782: George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey
• 17 May 1783: John Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke; succeeded as 5th Earl of Sandwich 30 April 1792
• 12 February 1806: William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle
• 13 May 1806: Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis
• 12 September 1823: William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough
• 24 November 1830: Thomas Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson; created Earl of Lichfield 15 September 1831
• 30 December 1834: George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield
• 30 April 1835: William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll
• 21 December 1839: George Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird
• 10 September 1841: James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn
• 9 July 1846: Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
• 16 May 1848: John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough
• 28 February 1852: James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn
• 30 December 1852: John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough
• 26 February 1858: John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich
• 18 June 1859: John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough
• 23 January 1866: Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork
• 10 July 1866: Charles Colville, 10th Lord Colville of Culross
• 12 December 1868: Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork
• 2 March 1874: Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke
• 3 May 1880: Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork
• 27 June 1885: John Beresford, 5th Marquess of Waterford
• 17 February 1886: Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield
• 16 August 1886: George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
• 25 August 1892: Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale
• 16 July 1895: George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
• 1 November 1900: Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham