A Page of Honour is a ceremonial position in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It requires attendance on state occasions, but does not now involve the daily duties which were once attached to the office of page. The only physical activity involved is usually carrying the long train of the Sovereign's robes. This position is distinct from that of a page in the Royal Household, which is the senior rank of uniformed staff.
Pages of Honour participate in major ceremonies involving the British monarch, including coronations and the State Opening of Parliament. It is usually a distinction granted to teenage sons of members of the nobility and gentry, and especially of senior members of the Royal Household.
Livery
Pages of Honour in England wear a scarlet frock coat with gold trimmings, a white satin waistcoat, white breeches and hose, white gloves, black buckled shoes and a lace cravat and ruffles. A sword is also worn with the outfit and a feathered three-cornered hat is provided. In Scotland the outfit is identical, but in green rather than scarlet (as seen periodically at the Thistle Service in Edinburgh). In Ireland, when Pages of Honour were attendant upon the King, Pages of Honour wore exactly the same uniform as at the English Court, except that the colour was St. Patrick's blue with silver lace.
At coronations, the peers who carry regalia in the procession (and others with particular roles in the service) were expected to have their own pages in attendance. These pages are directed to wear "the same pattern of clothes as the Pages of Honour wear, but of the Livery colour of the Lords they attend... [except that] ...the Royal liveries being scarlet and gold, the use of this combination of colours is restricted to the Pages of Honour, and in the case of a Peer whose colours are scarlet and gold, for scarlet some variant, such as murrey or claret, should be used."
First Page of Honour 1689–1692?: Nicholas Needham 1692–1697: Carew Rawleigh 1697–1702: Robert Rich
Second Page of Honour 1689–1690: Arnold van Keppel 1690–1693?: Ernest Henry Ittersum 1695–1702: Thomas Harrison
Third Page of Honour 1689–1693?: Charles Dormer 1697–1702: William Colt
Fourth Page of Honour 1690–1693: Matthew Harvey 1693–1697: George Feilding 1697–1702: Allan Wentworth
John Brockhuisen appears in the post-mortem accounts of the Board of Green Cloth as a page of honour to William III, but this may be an error, as he appears elsewhere as a pensioner after serving as Queen Mary's page of honour.
Second Page of Honour 1727–1731: Henry Panton 1731–1735: Henry d'Arcy 1735–1739: John Ashburnham 1739–1744: Bluett Wallop 1744–1747: Hon. William Howe 1747–1751: Hon. George West 1751–1755: William Feilding 1755–1760: Hon. Henry Monckton
Third Page of Honour 1727–1731: Sir William Irby, Bt 1731–1737: Hon. John Boscawen 1737–1740: Charles Lee 1740–1746: Sandys Mill 1746–1747: Hon. George Bennet 1747–1752: Thomas Brudenell 1752–1757: William Middleton 1757–1760: Henry Wallop
Fourth Page of Honour 1727–1731: Archibald Carmichael 1731–1737: Thomas Style 1737–1741: Hon. Charles Roper 1741–1746: Hon. William Keppel 1746–1748: Charles Knollis 1748–1753: Harvey Smith 1753–1759: James Bathurst 1759–1760: John Wrottesley
George III
First Page of Honour 1760–1762: James Hamilton 1762–1769: Henry Monckton 1769–1777: Henry Greville 1777–1784: Henry Durell 1784–1793: John Neville 1793–1795: Henry Wilson 1795–1803: Charles Wilson 1803–1812: Charles Greville 1812–1815: Frederick Turner 1816–1818: John Bloomfield 1818–1820: Arthur Richard Wellesley
Second Page of Honour 1760–1764: Henry Vernon 1764–1772: Thomas Thoroton 1772–1777: Richard Barrington 1777–1782: Henry Hall 1782–1794: Charles West 1794–1802: George Dashwood 1802–1803: Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope 1803–1808: vacant 1808–1809: Henry Buckley 1809–1815: Philip Stanhope 1816–1820: Hon. William Graves
Fourth Page of Honour 1760–1768: Doddington Egerton 1768–1776: Francis Chaplin 1776–1781: William Paul de Cerjat 1781–1786: Kenneth Howard 1786–1791: James Cockburn 1791–1794: Edward Draper 1794–1800: Charles Parker 1800–1804: William Wynyard 1804–1810: Richard Cumberland 1810–1816: Henry Murray 1816–1819: Frederick Culling–Smith 1819–1820: Arthur Torrens
Fifth Page of Honour 1760–1761: John Wrottesley 1773–1781: George Bristow 1781–1782: John Murray
George IV
First Page of Honour 1820–1821: Arthur Richard Wellesley 1821–1826: Lord Frederick Paulet 1826–1828: William Hervey-Bathurst 1828–1830: Henry d'Aguilar
Third Page of Honour 1830–1832: Arthur Somerset 1832–1837: Lord Hay
Fourth Page of Honour 1830: Joseph Hudson 1830–1837: Hon. Adolphus Graves 1837: James Cowell
Victoria
First Page of Honour 1837–1839: Charles Ellice 1839–1844: Charles Wemyss 1844–1852: George Gordon 1852–1859: Henry Farquharson 1859–1862: Edmund Boyle 1862–1869: Hon. Spencer Jocelyn 1869–1871: Hon. Frederick Bruce 1871–1876: Victor Biddulph 1876–1881: Hon. Victor Spencer 1881–1884: Percy Cust 1884–1890: Eric Thesiger 1890–1894: Hon. Maurice Drummond 1894–1901: Josslyn Egerton 1901–1901: John Bigge
Second Page of Honour 1837–1840: George Cavendish 1840–1847: Henry Byng 1847–1853: Alfred Crofton 1853–1861: Charles Phipps 1861–1867: Arthur Paget 1867–1874: George Grey 1874–1877: Laurence Drummond 1877–1882: Albert Wellesley 1882–1887: Arthur Ponsonby 1887–1892: Victor Wellesley 1892–1895: Albert Clarke 1895–1899: Hon. John Henniker–Major 1899–1901: The Viscount Torrington
Fourth Page of Honour 1837–1840: James Cowell 1840–1845: Herbert Wilson 1845–1852: William Forbes 1852–1859: George Macpherson 1859–1866: Henry Loftus 1866–1870: Hon. Frederick Stopford 1870–1876: Arthur Hardinge 1876–1877: George Macdonald 1877–1881: Hon. Francis Hay 1881–1883: George Byng 1883–1886: Hon. Edward FitzRoy 1886–1890: Cyril Stopford 1890–1895: Geoffrey Stewart 1895–1897: Alexander Wood 1897–1901: Harold Festing
Fourth Page of Honour 1901–1902: Harold Festing 1902–1906: Nigel Legge 1906–1908: Edward Hardinge 1908–1910: Walter Campbell
George V
First Page of Honour 1910–1911: Hon. Edward Knollys 1911–1917: Edward Reid 1917–1921: Iain Murray 1921–1924: The Earl Erne 1924–1927: Allan Mackenzie 1927–1932: Alfred Hesketh-Prichard 1932–1936: Patrick Crichton
Fourth Page of Honour 1910–1913: Walter Campbell 1913–1915: Assheton Curzon-Howe 1915–1917: Francis Stonor 1917–1921: Guy Dugdale 1921–1924: George Gordon-Lennox 1924–1930: Harry Legge-Bourke 1930–1933: Douglas Gordon 1933–1936: George Hardinge
First Page of Honour 1936–1940: Robert Eliot 1940–1948: None due to the Second World War 1948–1950: Lord Hyde 1950–1952: Hon. Charles Wilson 1952: The Earl Erne
Second Page of Honour 1936–1940: The Lord Herschell 1940–1947: None due to the Second World War 1947–1951: James Ogilvy 1951–1952: Jonathan Peel
Third Page of Honour 1936–1940: George Seymour 1940–1946: None due to the Second World War 1946–1949: Bernard Gordon Lennox 1949–1952: Henry Seymour
Fourth Page of Honour 1936–1938: George Hardinge 1938–1939: David Stuart 1939–1946: None due to the Second World War 1946–1950: George Paynter 1950–1952: Michael Anson
Elizabeth II
First Page of Honour 1952–1954: The Earl Erne 1954–1956: Hon. Anthony Tryon 1956–1959: Sir Mark Palmer, 5th Baronet 1959–1962: Hon. Julian Hardinge 1962–1964: Earl of Lewes 1964–1965: Lord Scrymgeour 1965–1967: Douglas Gordon 1967–1970: Christopher Abel Smith 1970–1973: Louis Greig 1973–1976: Lord Leveson 1976–1978: John Ponsonby 1979–1980: Hon. Thomas Coke 1981–1983: James Basset 1983–1986: Hon. Edward Cecil 1986–1988: Benjamin Hamilton 1988–1990: Hon. Edward Tollemache 1991–1994: Edward Janvrin 1994–1996: Simon Ramsay 1996–1999: Lord Eskdaill 1999–2002: Lord Maltravers 2002–2004: Archibald Young 2004–2008: George FitzRoy 2008–2012: Jack Soames 2012–2015: Hon. Charles Armstrong-Jones 2015: Lachlan Legge-Bourke
Second Page of Honour 1952–1954: Jonathan Peel 1954–1956: Edward Adeane 1956–1957: Duncan Davidson 1957–1958: Andrew Gordon 1960–1962: David Hughes-Wake-Walker 1962–1963: Viscount Ipswich 1963–1964: Heneage Legge-Bourke 1964–1966: Christopher Tennant 1966–1968: Hon. Harry Fane 1968–1969: John Maudslay 1969–1971: Hon. David Hicks-Beach 1971–1973: Simon Rhodes 1973–1974: David Bland 1974–1976: Earl of Rocksavage 1976–1979: Charles Loyd 1979–1981: Viscount Carlow 1981–1983: Marquess of Lorne 1983–1984: Hon. Hugh Crossley 1984–1988: Malcolm Maclean 1988–1991: Hon. Charles Tryon 1991–1995: James Bowes-Lyon 1995–1997: Hon. William Vestey 1997–2000: Lord Dunglass 2000–2004: Hon. John Bowes-Lyon 2004–2008: Viscount Garnock 2008–2012: Lord Stanley 2012–2015: Viscount Aithrie 2015–2019: Hon. Augustus Stanhope 2019–2022: Lord Claud Hamilton
Third Page of Honour 1952–1953: Henry Seymour 1953–1955: Viscount Carlow 1955–1956: John Aird 1956–1958: Lord Ardee 1958–1961: Guy Nevill 1961–1964: David Penn 1964–1966: Edward Hay 1966–1969: Nicholas Bacon 1969–1973: Hon. George Herbert 1973–1975: Napier Marten 1975–1976: James Hussey 1976–1978: William Oswald 1978–1979: John Heseltine 1979–1981: James Maudslay 1981–1984: Guy Russell 1984–1987: Harry Legge-Bourke 1987–1989: Hon. Robert Montgomerie 1989–1992: Rowley Baring 1992–1995: Rory Penn 1995–1998: Thomas Howard 1998–2001: Viscount Chewton 2001–2004: Viscount Garnock 2005–2008: Arthur Hussey 2008–2009: Michael Ogilvy 2009–2015: Arthur Chatto 2015–2018: Marquess of Lorne 2018–2022: Robert Bruce
Fourth Page of Honour 1952–1953: Michael Anson 1953–1956: Hon. Simon Scott 1956–1957: Earl of Shelburne 1957–1959: Oliver Russell 1959–1962: Charles Strachey 1962–1964: Simon Rasch 1964–1966: Richard Ford 1966–1968: James Colville 1968–1971: Alexander Colville 1971–1974: Lord Ogilvy 1974–1977: Edward Gordon-Lennox 1977–1979: Viscount Althorp 1979–1980: Tyrone Plunket 1980–1982: Richard Lytton-Cobbold 1982–1984: Marquess of Hamilton 1984–1988: Piers Blewitt 1988–1990: Lord Hyde 1990–1993: Hon. Alexander Trenchard 1993–1996: Hon. Edward Lowther 1996–1998: Earl Percy 1998–2003: Lord Carnegie 2003–2006: Alexander Fraser, Master of Saltoun 2006–2008: Henry Naylor 2008–2012: Andrew Leeming 2012–2016: Hugo Bertie 2016–2018: Thomas Hallé 2018–2022: Max Bowen
