Sir John Pepys Lister-Kaye, 3rd Baronet, OBE, DL (18 February 1853 – 27 May 1924), was a Groom in Waiting to his friend, King Edward VII.

His father died on 12 April 1855, at age twenty-seven, predeceasing John's grandfather, the 2nd Baronet.

His paternal grandparents were Sir John Lister-Kaye, 2nd Baronet (eldest son of Sir John Lister Kaye, 1st Baronet and Lady Amelia Grey)[4] and the former Matilda Arbuthnot (sole heiress of George Arbuthnot).

[9] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire and served as Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[8] In November 1914, Sir John appeared before the Bankruptcy Court in London attributing his troubles "to the financing of a company formed to develop property in Croatia, in Hungary.