In Ordinary • 23 July 1901 – 1 December 1915?: Sir
Spencer Ponsonby-Fane • 23 July 1901 – 16 September 1925: Arthur Hay • 13 June 1903 – 2 May 1927: Percy Armytage (replacing Slade) • 14 November 1905 – 1913: Sir
John Ramsay Slade (replacing Innes-Ker) • 14 November 1905 – 18 July 1907?:
Harry Lloyd-Verney (replacing Walsh) • 18 July 1907 – 20 May 1916: Charles Windham (replacing Verney, who res. by 1 August 1907) • 26 June 1908 – 13 October 1908: Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Cunninghame Graham (replacing Stopford) • 13 October 1908 – 1 April 1919:
Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote (replacing Graham) • 30 November 1908 – 1 April 1919: Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis (replacing Eliot) • 26 January 1909 – 1 April 1919: Henry Fludyer (replacing Brabazon) • 17 June 1910 – 2 January 1911: Seymour John Fortescue (replacing Larking?) • 2 January 1911 – 21 July 1936:
Montague Charles Eliot (replacing Fortescue) • 11 February 1911 – 3 November 1924:
Lord William Cecil (replacing Cuffe) • 13 February 1912 – 15 February 1927: John Chaytor Brinton (replacing Collins) • 30 September 1913 – 1914:
William Leslie Davidson (replacing Slade) • 1 April 1919 – 21 July 1936:
Philip Nelson-Ward (replacing Erskine) • 1 April 1919 – 4 May 1922:
Charles Dormer, 14th Baron Dormer (replacing Royle) • 1 April 1919 – 14 October 1932:
Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key • 1 April 1919 – bef. 1936:
Gerald Trotter (replacing Kingscote) • 1 April 1919 – 22 April 1927:
Montagu Grant Wilkinson (replacing Ellis) • 1 April 1919 – 1 December 1931:
Berkeley John Talbot Levett (replacing Fludyer) • 1 April 1919 – 24 October 1928:
Henry Peter Hansell (replacing Davidson) • 6 June 1922 – 21 May 1934: Sir
Hamnet Share (replacing Dormer) • 1 March 1924 – 21 July 1936:
Louis Leisler Greig • 24 June 1925 – 13 February 1950?:
Edmund Vivian Gabriel (replacing West) • 16 September 1925 – 19 April 1966: Sir
Humphrey Clifford Lloyd (replacing Hay) • 15 February 1927 – 21 February 1964:
Henry Valentine Bache de Satgé (replacing Brinton) • 22 April 1927 – 21 July 1936:
Sir Smith Hill Child, 2nd Baronet (replacing Wilkinson) • 2 May 1927 – 12 January 1961:
Sir Arthur Bromley, 8th Baronet (replacing Armytage) • 1 February 1928 – 2 March 1937?:
George Sidney Herbert (replacing Cust) • 24 October 1928 – 21 July 1936:
Sir Arthur Bannerman, 12th Baronet (replacing Hansell) • 1 December 1931 – 7 May 1946:
John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams (replacing Levett) • 14 October 1932 – 21 November 1939:
John Lamplugh Wickham (replacing Cooper-Key) • 21 May 1934 – 1 January 1952: Frederick Edward Packe (replacing Share) • 21 July 1936 – 5 August 1952: Charles Alexander Lindsay Irvine • 1 March 1937 – 5 August 1952?: Russell Lister-Kaye • 1 March 1937 – 3 August 1951:
Neville Tufnell • 1 March 1937 – 1 January 1967: Geoffrey Ronald Codrington • 1 March 1937 – 17 January 1964: William Duncan Phipps • 1 March 1937 – 1 September 1954: Sir Frank Todd Spickernell • 1 March 1937 – 1 January 1967: Philip Lloyd Neville • 1 March 1937 – 1 December 1938: John Spencer Coke • 1 December 1938 – 3 September 1955?: Guy Elland Carne Rasch (replacing Coke) • 1 January 1952 – 10 November 1959: Sir
George Ranald Macfarlane Reid (replacing Packe) • 14 November 1952 – 1 July 1969: Sir John Mandeville Hugo • 8 May 1953 – 1 April 1967: John Sidney North FitzGerald • bef. 1959: Frederick Robert Joseph Mack • 10 November 1959 – 1 April 1967:
Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt (replacing Mack) • 10 November 1959 – 18 January 1966:
Arthur Ledger (replacing Reid) • 9 May 1961 – 22 February 1995:
Carron Greig • 27 October 1964 – 25 July 1969: Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch • 16 March 1965 – 28 January 1984: Michael Neville Tufnell • 1 November 1966 – 9 June 1975: Sir
James Newton Rodney Moore • 1 November 1966 – 12 August 1979: Sir
Maurice Heath • 1 January 1967 – ?: John Arundell Holdsworth (replacing Codrington) • 1 January 1967 – ?: William Henry Gerard Leigh (replacing Neville) • 1 April 1967 – 1979: Sir
Ronald Brockman (replacing FitzGerald) • 3 October 1967 – 1979:
Peter Vanneck • 29 March 1971 – 12 July 1991:
Sir Julian Paget, 4th Baronet • ? – 20 April 1976: Sir
James Bowes-Lyon • 17 February 1978 – 20 October 1989: Sir
Neville Stack • 21 November 1978 – 14 August 1995: John Arthur Guinness Slessor • 1 October 1979 – 1 October 1982: Sir
David Williams • ? 1979 – ? 1997: Major Nigel Chamberlayne-Macdonald • ? – 1 January 1980: Sir
Peter Gillett • 1 January 1980 – 1 December 1989: Sir
Desmond Hind Garrett Rice (replacing Gillett) • 2 November 1982 – 28 June 1994: Sir
Roy Austen-Smith • 2 November 1982 – 24 July 1994: Sir
David Loram • 1984 – 2002: Captain Michael Ernest Barrow • 5 November 1985 – 3 October 1999: Captain Michael Fulford-Dobson • 28 February 1986 – 20 August 1998: Sir
Richard Vickers • 20 October 1989 – 31 January 2001: Barry Hamilton Newton (replacing Stack) • 12 July 1991 – 17 June 2004: Henry Malcolm Chitty Havergal • 28 June 1994 – 2009: Colin Herbert Dickinson Cooke-Priest (replacing Austen-Smith) • 10 November 1994 – 4 April 2007:
Air Vice-Marshal David Hawkins, later Hawkins-Leth (replacing Loram) • 22 February 1995 – 1 January 2008: Major General
Brian Pennicott • 14 August 1995 -31 January 2011: Group Captain Hugh Rolfe (replacing Slessor) • 1997 – 15 January 2017: Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Thomas Riddell Birdwood (d. 15 January 2017) • 20 August 1998 – 29 July 1999: Robert Cartwright (replacing Vickers) • 29 July 1999 – 5 July 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Breakwell (replacing Cartwright) • 3 October 1999 – 31 July 2011: Captain Paddy McKnight (replacing Fulford-Dobson) • 2002 – 30 April 2013: Air Vice-Marshal Richard Henry Kyle (Replacing Newton) • 2002 – 31 December 2015: Commodore John Hance(replacing Barrow) • 17 June 2004 – 31 March 2015: Major General George Kennedy (replacing Havergal) • 4 April 2007 – 22 April 2022: Air Vice-Marshal
David Anthony Hobart (replacing David Hawkins-Leth) • 1 January 2008 – 19 December 2023: Major Grant Baker (replacing Pennicott) • 1 August 2009 – 5 December 2017: Commodore Laurie Hopkins (replacing Cooke-Priest) • 1 February 2011 – 22 April 2022: Air Commodore Malcolm Fuller (replacing Rolfe) • 1 August 2011 – 5 April 2024: Commodore Christopher Laurence Palmer (replacing McKnight) • 4 January 2013 – 5 December 2023: Air Vice Marshal
Richard Lacey (replacing Kyle) • 31 March 2015 – 26 August 2024: Lieutenant Colonel Sir
Alexander Matheson of Matheson Bt (replacing Kennedy) • 1 January 2016 – 26 August 2024:
Commodore Jonathan Handley (replacing Hance) • 6 July 2016 – 15 July 2025: Major General
Matthew Sykes (replacing Breakwell) • 4 May 2017 – present: Brigadier Jonathan Bourne-May (replacing Birdwood) • 6 December 2017 – present: Captain David Lilley (replacing Hopkins) • 1 October 2021 – present: Air Vice-Marshal
Elaine West (replacing Fuller) • 1 October 2021 – present: Air Vice-Marshal
David Murray (replacing Hobart) • 6 December 2023 - present: Colonel Susan Wright (replacing Lacey) • 1 January 2024 - present: Colonel Jeremy Bagshaw (replacing Baker) • 6 April 2024 - present: Air Vice-Marshal
Gary Waterfall (replacing Palmer) • 27 August 2024 - present: Air Commodore Catherine Coton (replacing Matheson) • 15 July 2025 - present: Commodore Stuart Wright (replacing Sykes)
Extra • 1 April 1919 – bef. 1936: Brook Taylor • 1 April 1919 – 1935?:
Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote • 1 April 1919 – aft. 1937: Gerald Montagu Augustus Ellis (d. 1953) • 1 April 1919 – 1920: Henry Fludyer • 3 November 1924 – 1937:
Lord William Cecil • 16 September 1925 – bef. 1936: Arthur Hay • 22 April 1927 – aft. 1937: Montagu Grant Wilkinson • 2 May 1927 – bef. 1936: Percy Armytage • 1 February 1928 – 12 October 1929?: Sir
Lionel Cust • 24 October 1928 – bef. 1936: Henry Peter Hansell • 1 December 1931 – aft. 1937:
Berkeley John Talbot Levett • 14 October 1932 – bef. 1936: Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key • 21 May 1934 – 1937: Sir Hamnet Holditch Share • 21 July 1936 – bef. 1952: Philip Nelson-Ward • 21 July 1936 – 27 April 1955:
Sir Arthur Bannerman, 12th Baronet • 1 March 1937 – 1 March 1953:
Louis Leisler Greig • 1 December 1938 – aft. 1952: John Spencer Coke • 21 November 1939 – bef. 1952: John Lamplugh Wickham • 7 May 1946 – aft. 1952: Sir
John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams • 1 August 1950 – aft. 1952: Sir
John Berkeley Monck • 8 December 1950 – aft. 1952: Sir
Algar Howard • 2 March 1951 – aft. 1952: Andrew Vavasour Scott Yates • 2 March 1951 – aft. 1952: Thomas Cockayne Harvey • 1 January 1952 – aft. 1952: Frederick Edward Packe • 5 August 1952 – aft. 1952: Charles Alexander Lindsay Irvine • 1 September 1954 – ?: Sir Frank Todd Spickernell • 24 May 1955 – ?: Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne • 24 May 1955 – ?: Charles Richard Britten • 8 November 1955 – 11 September 1964: Frederic Hudd • 8 November 1955 – 29 March 1957:
Valston Hancock • 8 November 1955 – 6 June 1958: John Graham Hale • 8 November 1955 – 23 April 1957: Shaukat Ali Shah • 8 November 1955 – 1 April 1960: Christopher Fernando • 29 March 1957 – 14 October 1958: Edmund John Buchanan Foxcroft (replacing Hancock) • 23 April 1957 – 6 January 1961: Sultan Mohammed (replacing Shah) • 24 May 1957 – 1961: Sir Marcus Cheke • 6 June 1958 – 27 April 1962: John Vivian Scott (replacing Hale) • 2 August 1958 – 9 July 1966:
Sir John Dashwood, 10th Baronet • 14 October 1958 – 5 January 1960: Robert William Knights (replacing Foxcroft) • 10 November 1959 – 1991?: Sir
George Ranald Macfarlane Reid • 10 November 1959 – ?: Esmond Butler • 5 January 1960 – 1960: Robert Durie (replacing Knights) (d. 1960) • 1 April 1960 – ?: Mirisiya Ananda Jeewasoma (replacing Fernando) • 27 May 1960 – 6 March 1962: Alister Murray Murdoch (replacing Durie) • 6 January 1961 – ?: Irshad Ahmad Khan (replacing Mohammed) • 24 January 1961 – 27 December 1970: Brigadier Sir
Ivan de la Bere • 14 November 1961 – ?: Sir Henry Austin Strutt • 6 March 1962 – 30 September 1966: William Richard Cumming • 27 April 1962 – 13 March 1964: Donald Geoffrey Harper (replacing Scott) • 12 June 1962 – 27 October 1964:
Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch • 21 February 1964 – 1964: Henry Valentine Bache de Satgé • 13 March 1964 – 23 March 1965: John Malcolm Kirk Hill (replacing Harper) • 21 April 1964 – ?: Geoffrey Clark Hartnell • 11 September 1964 – 22 October 1965: Alain Chartier Edmond Joly de Lotbinière (replacing Hudd) • 23 March 1965 – 21 March 1967: Jeremy Paul Axford Commons (replacing Hill) • 22 October 1965 – 23 August 1966: Michel de Goumois (replacing de Lotbinière) • 18 January 1966 – ?:
Arthur Ledger • 19 April 1966 – ?: Sir Humphrey Clifford Lloyd • 23 August 1966 – ?: Jacques Claude Noiseux (replacing de Goumois) • 30 September 1966 – 2 February 1968: Francis George Hassett (replacing Cumming) • 1 January 1967 – ?: Geoffrey Ronald Codrington • 1 January 1967 – ?: Philip Lloyd Neville • 21 March 1967 – 31 July 1970: Bruce Walter Middleton (replacing Commons) • 1 April 1967 – ?: John Sidney North FitzGerald • 1 April 1967 – ?: Frederick George Beaumont-Nesbitt • 2 February 1968 – 17 November 1970: Andrew Leslie Moore (replacing Hassett) • 20 August 1968 – ?: Sir
Cyril Colquhoun • 1 July 1969 – 2000: Sir John Mandeville Hugo • 25 July 1969 – 6 June 1973: Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch • 25 November 1969 – 6 February 1975:
Sir John Wilson, 2nd Baronet • 31 July 1970 – ?: Nicholas William Bridge (replacing Middleton) • 17 November 1970 – 5 June 1971: Air Vice-Marshal
Frank Headlam (replacing Moore) • 5 June 1971 – 1 November 1974: William Richard Cumming (replacing Headlam) • 1 November 1974 – 1 December 1977: John Wilkins Hubble (replacing Cumming) • 9 June 1975 – 1985: Sir
Rodney Moore • 20 April 1976 – 1977: Sir
James Bowes-Lyon • 1 December 1977 – 30 June 1981: Francis Conynghame Murray (replacing Hubble) • 12 August 1979 – 9 July 1988: Sir Maurice Lionel Heath • 30 June 1981 – 3 August 1982: Richard Malcolm Baird (replacing Murray) • 30 June 1981 – 26 July 2010: Sir James Henry Scholtens • 30 June 1981 – 2010: Sir
Patrick Jerad O'Dea • 30 June 1981 – ?: Percy Stewart Cooper • 3 August 1982 – ?: Robert John Whitten (replacing Baird) • 1 October 1982 – 16 July 2012: Sir David Williams • 28 January 1984 – ?: Michael Neville Tufnell • 1984 – ?: Henry Francis Davis • 2 December 1986 – 2009: Sir Russell Dillon Wood • 25 June 1985 – 5 February 1988: Captain Peter Volney Blackman • 5 February 1988 – ?: David Robert Lawrence (replacing Blackman) • 20 October 1989 – January 1994: Sir
Neville Stack • 1 December 1989 – 14 July 2020: Sir Desmond Hind Garrett Rice • 12 July 1991 – 25 September 2016:
Sir Julian Paget, 4th Baronet • 1 January 1993 – present: Stanley William Frederick Martin • 1 October 1993 – ?: John Haslam • 1 December 1993 – 7 September 2006: Sir
Norman Blacklock • 28 June 1994 – 27 March 2021: Sir
Roy Austen-Smith • 24 July 1994 – 30 June 2011: Sir
David Loram • 22 February 1995 – 11 July 2012: Sir Henry Louis Carron Greig • 14 August 1995 – 11 March 2008: Group Captain John Arthur Guinness Slessor • ? 1997 - 15 August 2013: Major Nigel Chamberlayne-Macdonald • 20 August 1998 - 5 February 2024: Sir Richard Maurice Hilton Vickers • 1999 – present: Captain Michael Fulford-Dobson • 2002 – 2013: Captain Michael Ernest Barrow Royal Navy • 1 February 2002 – 25 August 2020: Air Vice Marshal Barry Hamilton Newton • 17 June 2004 – 20 June 2025: Colonel Henry Malcolm Chitty Havergal • 4 April 2007 – 31 January 2019: Air Vice Marshal
David Hawkins-Leth • 13 November 2007 – present: Surgeon Captain David Swain • 1 January 2008 – 18 June 2025: Major General
Brian Pennicott • 1 August 2009 – 6 April 2020: Rear Admiral Colin Herbert Dickinson Cooke-Priest • 1 February 2011 - present: Group Captain Hugh Rolfe • 1 August 2011 – present: Captain Paddy McKnight Royal Navy • 4 January 2013 – present: Air Vice Marshal Richard Kyle • 1 April 2015 – present: Major General George Kennedy • 1 January 2016 – present: Commodore John Hance Royal Navy • 7 July 2016 – 25 May 2021: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Breakwell • 5 December 2017 – 6 June 2024: Commodore Laurie Hopkins Royal Navy • 22 April 2022 – present: Air Commodore Malcolm Fuller • 22 April 2022 – present: Air Vice Marshal David Hobart • 1 February 2024 - present: Air Vice Marshal Richard Lacey • 1 February 2024 - present: Major Grant Baker • 6 April 2024 - present: Commodore Christopher Laurence Palmer Royal Navy • 27 August 2024 – present: Lieutenant Colonel Sir
Alexander Matheson of Matheson Bt • 15 July 2025 - present: Major General
Matthew Sykes Honorary • 9 July 1903 – 13 October 1908:
Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote • 11 June 1909 – 11 February 1911:
Lord William Cecil ==References==