Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports
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Born in 1943, Lord Boyce was educated at Hurstpierpoint College and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He joined the Royal Navy in 1961 and rose to the position of First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, in 1998. He served as Chief of the Defence Staff and Aide-de-Camp to H.M. the Queen from February, 2001. On his retirement, in 2003, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce was created a Life Peer (with the title Baron Boyce) and now sits as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords. The Lord Warden was appointed in July 2004 by The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister.
Lord Boyce was installed in office, at a session of the Grand Court of Shepway held in Dover, on Tuesday 12 April, 2005 
From an engraving belonging to Viscount Hambledon. He was appointed Lord Warden upon the death of Lord Granville, in 1891 by Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. But he was in failing health, came down to Walmer to spend the summer there, returned briefly to the House of Commons, but died at Walmer on October 7..