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2 unusual facts about Gentleman Usher


Gentleman Usher

They were regularly found in the households of Tudor noblemen, and were prescribed by Richard Brathwait, in his Household of an Earle, as one of the "officers and Servants the state of an Earle requireth to have".

The Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod, established 1714, is the usher for the Scottish Order of the Thistle, currently Rear Admiral Christopher Hope Layman.


John Mark Frederick Smith

He was a Gentleman Usher and Fellow of the Royal Society.


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Philip Bertie

Bertie's salary as a Gentleman Usher had been converted to a pension upon the death of Queen Mary, but he found it increasingly difficult to collect under the Whig administration, and was forced to appeal to Lord Oxford, the Treasurer, for assistance.

Viggers

Freddie Viggers, former senior British Army officer and current Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod