Physician to the Queen

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Royal households before 1901

• Matthias de Lobel, Physician to King James I
• Erasmus Darwin, was invited to be Royal Physician by King George III, but declined.
• Sir Richard Croft, Physician to King George III, King George IV and Princess Charlotte Augusta.
• Sir Andrew Halliday, Physician to King William IV and to Queen Victoria
• Sir William Henry Broadbent, Bt., KCVO, MD, Physician Extraordinary to Queen Victoria
• Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet, FRCS, Physician to Queen Victoria
• Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, FRSE, FRCPE, Physician-in-Ordinary to the Queen in Scotland from 1882
• George Steward Beatson Honorary Physician to the Queen
• Sir Alexander Nisbet, Honorary Physician to the Queen
• John Davidson, appointed Honorary Physician to the Queen in 1874

  Royal Household of King Edward VII

• Sir William Henry Broadbent, Bt., KCVO, MD 29 March 1901–1907
• Sir James Reid, Bt., GCVO, KCB, MD 29 March 1901 – 6 May 1910
• Sir Francis Laking, Bt., GCVO, KCB, MD 29 March 1901 – 6 May 1910

• Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bt., KCSI, MD 29 March 1901–?
• Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Bt., KCVO, MD 29 March 1901–?
• Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, MD 29 March 1901–1904
• Sir Felix Semon, MD 29 March 1901–?
• John Lowe, MD 29 March 1901–1904

• Sir William Tennant Gairdner, KCB, MD 29 March 1901–?
• George William Balfour, MD 29 March 1901–1903

• Sir John Thomas Banks, KCB, MD 29 March 1901–?
• William Moore, MD 29 March 1901–?

  Royal Households 1910–1973

• Bertrand Edward Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, GCVO KCB KCMG PC FRCP, Physician to King George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI.
• Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, GCVO CMG FRCP, Extra Physician to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II.
• Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder, GCVO, Extra Physician to King Edward VII, King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II.
• Sir John Weir, GCVO & Chain CMG MD, Physician to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II.
• Andrew Best Semple, Honorary Physician to Queen Elizabeth II
• Air Vice-Marshal Frederick Charles Hurrell CB, OBE, Honorary Physician to Queen Elizabeth II.
• Professor Kenneth Gordon Lowe, CVO FRCP MD, Queen's Physician in Scotland.

  Royal Household post-1973

• see Heads of the Medical Household.