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[[File:Trooping the Colour 2009 046.jpg|thumbnail|280px|right|The Crown Equerry (left, on horseback) escorts The Queen when carriages are used in procession.]]
The '''Crown Equerry''' is the operational head of the [[Royal Mews]] of the [[Royal Household]] of the [[Monarch|Sovereign]] of the [[United Kingdom]]. As executive head of the '''Royal Mews Department''', he is responsible for the provision of vehicular transport for the sovereign, both cars and horse-drawn carriages. Train travel is arranged by the Royal Travel Office, which also co-ordinates air transport.

The position of Crown Equerry should not be confused with that of [[Equerry]]: although both are nominally under the [[Master of the Horse#The United Kingdom Master of the Horse|Master of the Horse]], the equerries have a distinct role as personal assistants to the [[Monarch|sovereign]] and senior members of the [[British royal family|royal family]].

==History==
After 1827, the Master of the Horse became a political office, its holder changing with each change of government. To provide continuity in the management of the Royal Mews, the role of Crown Equerry was created in 1854.<ref name="Stewart-Wilson1991">((cite book |last1=Stewart-Wilson |first1=Mary |title=The Royal Mews |date=1991 |publisher=The Bodley Head |location=London |pages=12–17))</ref> The first incumbent was [[John Groves (British Army officer)|John Groves]], a retired Major of the Essex Rifles; his full title was ''Crown Equerry, Secretary to the Master of the Horse and Superintendent of the Royal Stables''. The secretarial aspect of the job led to him being seen as inferior to the other Equerries, and he was kept at one remove from the Queen and the Palace ([[Charles Beaumont Phipps|Charles Phipps]], the Keeper of the Privy Purse, was at pains to make clear in a letter to the Master of the Horse that the new office pertained 'exclusively to the Stables department').<ref name="Stewart-Wilson1991" /> Groves died in office five years later; his successor, Colonel [[George Ashley Maude]], remained in post for thirty-five years. During this time he consolidated the office and worked to improve the working conditions of the Mews staff. The Queen (who esteemed him 'a kind good man') granted him direct access to her person, and it became established practice that the Crown Equerry would receive and convey the monarch's instructions directly with regard to all aspects of the Royal Mews and its operations.

The job of Superintendent of the Royal Mews was established as a separate office in 1859; the Superintendent served as assistant to the Crown Equerry until 2000 when the post was abolished. In the 21st century the Crown Equerry works closely with the Comptroller, the Lord Chamberlin's Office who oversees arrangements for ceremonial occasions and briefs the Crown Equerry accordingly.<ref name="Vickers2012">((cite book |last1=Vickers |first1=Hugo |title=The Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace |date=2012 |publisher=Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd |location=London |page=13))</ref>

==List of Crown Equerries==
*Major [[John Groves (British Army officer)|John Groves]] 1854–1859
*Lieutenant Colonel Sir [[George Ashley Maude]], [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] 1859–1894
*[[Major General]] [[Sir Henry Ewart, 1st Baronet|Sir Henry Ewart]] 1894–1910
*[[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] [[Sir]] [[Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam (equerry)|Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam]] 1910–1924
*Colonel Sir [[Arthur Erskine]], [[GCVO]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] 1924–1941
*Colonel Sir [[Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh]], [[GCVO]] 1941–1955
*[[Brigadier]] Walter Sale, [[Royal Victorian Order|CVO]] [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] 1955–1961 
*Lieutenant Colonel Sir [[John Mansel Miller]], [[GCVO]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Military Cross|MC]] 1961–1987<ref>((cite news|title=Obituary: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Miller|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1518864/Lieutenant-Colonel-Sir-John-Miller.html|accessdate=1 December 2016|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=20 May 2006))</ref>
*Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stephens, 1987 
*[[Lieutenant Colonel]] Sir [[Seymour Gilbart-Denham]], [[Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]] 1987–2002 <ref>((cite news|last=Tomlinson|first=Richard|title=They also serve, who only ush|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/they-also-serve-who-only-ush-why-is-the-queen-followed-by-people-in-antique-clothes-richard-tomlinson-on-the-lords-ladies-women-masters-silver-sticks-and-white-staves-at-court-1564751.html|newspaper=Independent|date=20 Dec 1992))</ref>
*Major [[Felix Wheeler]] 2002–2005 
*[[Major (rank)|Major]] Simon Robinson LVO 2005–2010
*[[Colonel]] Toby Browne CVO 2010—<ref name=bbcmarch11>((cite news|title=Royal wedding carriage for William and Kate unveiled|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12804766|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|accessdate=22 March 2011|date=22 March 2011))</ref>

==See also==
*[[Gentleman of the Horse]] for a preceding post
*[[Master of the Horse]] for the titular head of the Mews (and equivalents in other countries)

==References==

((Reflist))

===General===
*Hoey, Brian (1992). ''All The Queen's Men: Inside The Royal Household''. London: HarperCollins. ((ISBN|0-246-13851-3)).

[[Category:Positions within the British Royal Household]]

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