LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE. The office of the Lord Chamberlain to her Majesty is in the Stable Yard, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, but it to be removed shortly to Buckingham Palace.

Peter Cunningham, Hand-Book of London, 1850

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Lord Chamberlain’s Department, Stable-yard, St. James’s Palace (hours 11 till 4), is a branch of Her Majesty’s Household, and includes among other officers the Lord Chamberlain, Vice-Chamberlain, Comptroller of Accounts, Master of the Ceremonies, Lords and Grooms in Waiting, Poet Laureate, Examiner of Plays, &c.—NEAREST Railway Station, St. James’s-park; 0mnibus Routes, Piccadilly, Grosvenor-place, Regent-street, and Victoria-Street; Cab Rank, St. James’s-st.

Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879