User:Choess/Offices
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These offices have mostly become honorary. This list is assembled to ascertain (for our purposes) at what point the office is to be treated as honorary.
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[edit] Great Offices of State
[edit] Great Serjeanties
[edit] Stewards
Lord High Steward (vacant except for trials of peers and coronations since 1421)not honorary before 1421, but I don't think we're putting it in succession boxes after 1421 anyway – ugen64- High Steward of Scotland
- Lord High Steward of Ireland
[edit] Chamberlains
[edit] Constables
Lord High Constable (vacant except for coronations since 1521)again, not honorary until 1521, after which it doesn't go in succession boxes anyway – ugen64- Lord High Constable of Scotland
- Constable of Ireland (Duke of Leinster High Constable at Victoria's coronation)
[edit] Marshals
- Earl Marshal I believe at some point this office was political – ugen64
- Earl Marischal
- Knight Marischal
- Marshal of Ireland
[edit] Admirals
Lord High Admiral (honorary since 1689)- this was never fully honorary. Even the Duke of Clarence had real authority when he held this office in the early 19th century, even if most of it went to his committee. john k 23:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)- Lord High Admiral of Scotland (abolished 1707)
[edit] Other Great Offices
[edit] Chancery and Seals
Lord Chancellor(not honorary)- Lord Keeper of the Great Seal just another title for "Lord Chancellor" - don't think it should be treated any differently – ugen64
Lord Chancellor of Scotland(abolished 1707)Lord Chancellor of Ireland(abolished 1922)Lord Privy Seal
[edit] National offices
- Armour-Bearer
- Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland
- Captain-General of the Royal Company of Archers
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms (honorary since 1660?)Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (honorary since 1743?)- Gold Stick and Silver Stick
Governor General (honorary since the Balfour Declaration of 1926?)not honorary, I think. He has real powers, even if he doesn't use them on his own behalf. john k 23:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)- Groom of the Robes
- Groom of the Stole (abolished 1901)
- Justice in Eyre (honorary since 1660, or perhaps 1670)
- Lady of the Bedchamber
- Lord Clerk Register (honorary since 1806)
- Lord Lieutenant of Ireland honorary after the mid-19th century, when the Chief Secretary became more powerful than him - still political though – ugen64
- Lord of the Bedchamber
- Lord Steward (honorary since 1782?) the Lord Steward was a partisan position in the Government until the 1920s. As such, I think it should be considered a political office until that point. john k 23:45, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Master of the BuckhoundsUntil its abolition, this was a political office, even if one that had no specific duties. john k 23:45, 23 March 2006 (UTC)- Master of the Horse Like the Lord Steward, a political position until the 1920s john k 23:45, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- Master of the Revels (England; we don't have a sep. article on Scotland)
- Mistress of the Robes
- Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom
- Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom
[edit] Sub-national offices
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancasterit's a sinecure but I think it counts as a political office – ugen64 [definitely a political office. Any office which give its holder a position in the Government is not honorary. john k 23:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)]- Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- Lord Warden of the Stannaries (since 1753?)
[edit] County offices
- Custos Rotulorum
- Lord Lieutenant (honorary since 1660?) does this require succession boxes at all? – ugen64
- Vice-Admiral of the Coast
[edit] Governors and constables
- Constable of the Tower
- Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle
- Constable of Bristol Castle
- Constable of Knaresborough Castle
- Constable of Lancaster Castle
- Constable of Pontefract Castle
- Constable of Castle Rising
- Constable of St Briavel's Castle
- Constable of Wicklow Castle
- Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Governor of Blackness Castle
- Governor of Calshot Castle
- Governor of County Cavan
- Governor of County Clare
- Governor of County Cork
- Governor of Dover Castle
- Governor of Drogheda
- Governor of Dumbarton Castle
- Governor of Duncannon
- Governor of Dundalk
- Governor of Edinburgh Castle
- Governor of Guernsey
- Governor of Inverness
- Governor of the Isle of Man
- Governor of the Isle of Wight
- Governor of Jersey
- Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull
- Governor of Landguard Fort
- Governor of Leith
- Governor of Limerick
- Governor of Londonderry
- Governor of Louth
- Governor of Meath
- Governor of Middleham Castle
- Governor of Pendennis Castle
- Governor of Plymouth
- Governor of Portsmouth
- Governor of Rothesay Castle
- Governor of the Isles of Scilly
- Governor of Sheerness (Fort, and the Isle of Sheppey)
- Governor of Stirling Castle
- Governor of Tynemouth Castle
- Governor of Upnor Castle
- Governor of Youghal
