Holders of The Office
- 1415–1450 William Bruges
- 1450–1478 John Smert
- 1478–1504 John Writhe
- 1505–1534 Sir Thomas Wriothesley
- 1534–1536 Sir Thomas Wall
- 1536–1550 Sir Christopher Barker
- 1550–1584 Sir Gilbert Dethick
- 1584–1586 Vacant
- 1586–1606 Sir William Dethick
- 1607–1633 Sir William Segar
- 1633–1643 Sir John Borough
- 1643–1644 Sir Henry St George
- 1643–1660 Sir Edward Bysshe
- 1645–1677 Sir Edward Walker
- 1677–1686 Sir William Dugdale
- 1686–1703 Sir Thomas St George
- 1703–1715 Sir Henry St George
- 1715–1718 Disputed Gartership
- 1718–1744 John Anstis
- 1744–1754 John Anstis
- 1754–1773 Stephen Leake
- 1773–1774 Sir Charles Townley
- 1774–1780 Thomas Browne
- 1780–1784 Ralph Bigland
- 1784–1822 Sir Isaac Heard
- 1822–1831 Sir George Nayler
- 1831–1838 Sir Ralph Bigland, the Younger
- 1838–1842 Sir William Woods
- 1842–1869 Sir Charles Young
- 1869–1904 Sir Albert Woods
- 1904–1918 Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty
- 1919–1930 Sir Henry Burke
- 1930–1944 Sir Gerald Wollaston
- 1944–1950 Sir Algar Howard
- 1950–1961 The Hon. Sir George Bellew
- 1961–1978 Sir Anthony Wagner
- 1978–1992 Sir Alexander Cole
- 1992–1995 Sir Conrad Swan
- 1995–2010 Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones
- 2010–present Thomas Woodcock
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“The doctrine of those who have denied that certainty could be attained at all, has some agreement with my way of proceeding at the first setting out; but they end in being infinitely separated and opposed. For the holders of that doctrine assert simply that nothing can be known; I also assert that not much can be known in nature by the way which is now in use. But then they go on to destroy the authority of the senses and understanding; whereas I proceed to devise helps for the same.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)
“Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense of advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.”
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“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)