There are two current and one former royal offices in the United Kingdom of Lord High Constable:
- The Lord High Constable of England, the seventh of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Great Chamberlain and above the Earl Marshal
- The Lord High Constable of Scotland, a hereditary, now ceremonial, office of Scotland
- The Lord High Constable of Ireland, office abolished after the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922
- Sweden's riksmarsk is commonly rendered as Lord High Constable of Sweden in English
Famous quotes containing the words lord, high and/or constable:
“‘Will ye go with me, my hinny and my heart?
Will you go with me, my dearie?
And I will swear by the hilt of my spear,
That your lord shall no more come near thee.’”
—Unknown. The Gypsy Laddie (l. 13–16)
“When we are high and airy hundreds say
That if we hold that flight they’ll leave the place,
While those same hundreds mock another day
Because we have made our art of common things ...”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)