Meanings of great chamberlain in English

The lord great chamberlain, who represents the Queen, is then consulted.

Immediately below the great chamberlain's box was the place allotted for the prisoner.

Somerset, in addition to being lord protector and governor, had taken for himself the offices of high steward, great chamberlain, lord treasurer, and earl marshal.

His son and successor, PEREGRINE (1714-1778), who was also lord great chamberlain and lord-lieutenant of Lincolnshire, attained the rank of general in the British army.

We are to take the petitions to the Office of the Great Chamberlain tomorrow.

He had expected to see an imposing personage in the great Chamberlain to the late queen Charlotte.

Until the 60s, the Lord Great Chamberlain was responsible for the Palace of Westminster, that is, the British parliament house.

Lord Cholmondeley was there as Lord Great Chamberlain, and sat on the left of the aisle in a stall opposite the passage.

He mentioned a curious fact: that Westminster Hall is controlled, not by Parliament, not by any Government department, but by the Great Chamberlain.

"And this," said the Great Chamberlain, "is poetry!

1830), 23rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and joint hereditary lord great chamberlain, was created earl of Ancaster in 1898.

(300) Peregrine Bertie, second Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, great chamberlain of England, and chief justice in Eyre, north of Trent.