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The office of Groom in Waiting (sometimes hyphenated as Groom-in-Waiting) was a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, which in earlier times was usually held by more than one person at a time – in the late Middle Ages there might be dozens of persons with the rank. Grooms-in-Waiting to other members of the Royal Family and Extra Grooms in Waiting were also sometimes appointed. For the general history of court valets or grooms see Valet de chambre. One of the holders of the office was designated the Parliamentary Groom in Waiting from about 1859, when it became customary to appoint a Member of Parliament who was a supporter of the government of the day. The office became vacant in 1891, when Lord Burghley was promoted to the similar political office of Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. The political office was abolished in 1892, although this did not affect the non political Grooms in Waiting. == List of Parliamentary Grooms in Waiting == *1859 Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (Liberal-West Gloucestershire) *1866 Hon. Charles Hugh Lindsay (Conservative-Abingdon) *1869 Algernon Fulke Greville (Liberal-Westmeath) *1874 Donald Cameron (of Lochiel) (Conservative-Inverness-shire) *1880 William Carington (Liberal-Wycombe) *1883 William Henry Grenfell (Liberal-not MP at the time) *1883 Sir Gerard Smith (Liberal-Wycombe) *1885 Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, Bt (Conservative-Lewes) *1886 Hon. Charles Robert Spencer (Liberal-Mid Northamptonshire) *1886 Lord Burghley (Conservative-North Northamptonshire) *1891 ''office vacant'' *1892 ''office abolished 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Groom in Waiting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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