19 Feb 1942 first time a cabinet minister is given the title of
deputy prime minister
8 Jun 2001 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister established in
the Cabinet Office
29 May 2002 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister becomes a
department in its own right
5 May 2006 department abolished
Deputy prime ministers
19 Feb 1942 - 26 Jul 1945 Clement Attlee (b. 1883 - d. 1967)
27 Jul 1945 - 26 Oct 1951 Herbert Morrison (b. 1888 - d. 1965)
27 Oct 1951 - 6 Apr 1955 Anthony Eden (from 20 Oct 1954,
Sir Anthony Eden) (b. 1897 - d. 1977)
13 Jul 1962 - 20 Oct 1963 Richard Austen Butler (b. 1902 - d. 1982)
(also titled first secretary of state)
5 May 1979 - 10 Jan 1988 William Whitelaw, (from 11 Jun
1983) Viscount Whitelaw (b. 1918 - d. 1999)
24 Jul 1989 - 1 Nov 1990 Sir Geoffrey Howe (b. 1926 - d. 2015)
5 Jul 1995 - 2 May 1997 Michael Heseltine (b. 1933)
(also titled first secretary of state)
2 May 1997 - 27 Jun 2007 John Prescott (b. 1938)
(also titled first secretary of state)
11 May 2010 - 11 May 2015 Nick Clegg (b. 1967)
15 Sep 2021 - 13 Sep 2022 Dominic Raab (1st time) (b. 1974)
13 Sep 2022 - 27 Oct 2022 Thérèse Coffey (f) (b. 1971)
27 Oct 2022 - Dominic Raab (2nd time) (s.a.)
Secretaries of state
- Northern Department -
1697 - 1700 James Vernon (1st time) (b. 1646 - d. 1727)
Nov 1700 - Dec 1701 Sir Charles Hedges (1st time) (b. 1650? - d. 1714)
1702 James Vernon (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1702 - 1704 Sir Charles Hedges (2nd time) (s.a.)
1704 - 1708 Robert Harley (b. 1661 - d. 1724)
1708 - 1710 Henry Boyle (b. 1669 - d. 1725)
1710 - 1713 Henry St. John, (from 1712)
Viscount Bolingbroke (b. 1678 - d. 1751)
1713 - 1714 William Bromley (b. 1664 - d. 1732)
1714 - 1716 Charles Townshend, Viscount
Townshend (1st time) (b. 1674 - d. 1738)
1716 - 1717 James Stanhope (1st time) (b. 1673 - d. 1721)
1717 - 1718 Charles Spencer, Earl of
Sunderland (b. 1674 - d. 1722)
1718 - Feb 1721 James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1721 - 1730 Charles Townshend, Viscount
Townshend (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1730 - 1742 William Stanhope, Baron Harrington
(1st time) (b. 1690 - d. 1756)
1742 - 1744 John Carteret, Baron Carteret (b. 1690 - d. 1763)
1744 - 1746 William Stanhope, Earl of
Harrington (2nd time) (s.a.)
1746 - 1748 Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
Chesterfield (b. 1694 - d. 1773)
1748 - 1754 Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of
Newcastle (b. 1693 - d. 1768)
1754 - 1761 Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness (b. 1718 - d. 1778)
1761 - 1762 John Stuart, Earl of Bute (b. 1713 - d. 1792)
1762 George Grenville (b. 1712 - d. 1770)
1762 - 1763 George Montagu Dunk, Earl of
Halifax (1st time) (b. 1716 - d. 1771)
1763 - 1765 John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich
(1st time) (b. 1718 - d. 1792)
1765 - 1766 Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of
Grafton (b. 1735 - d. 1811)
1766 - 1768 Henry Seymour Conway (b. 1721 - d. 1795)
1768 Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth
(1st time) (b. 1734 - d. 1796)
1768 - 1770 William Nassau de Zuylestein,
Earl of Rochford (b. 1717 - d. 1781)
1770 - 1771 John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1771 George Montagu Dunk, Earl of
Halifax (2nd time) (s.a.)
1771 - 1779 Henry Howard, Earl of Suffolk
and Berkshire (b. 1739 - d. 1779)
1779 Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1779 - 1782 David Murray, Viscount Stormont (b. 1727 - d. 1796)
- Foreign Affairs -
1782 Charles James Fox (1st time) (b. 1749 - d. 1806)
1782 - 1783 Thomas Robinson, Baron Grantham (b. 1738 - d. 1786)
1783 Charles James Fox (2nd time) (s.a.)
1783 George Nugent-Temple-Grenville,
Earl Temple (b. 1753 - d. 1813)
1783 - 1791 Francis Godolphin Osborne,
Marquess of Carmarthen
(from 1789, Francis Godolphin
Osborne, Duke of Leeds) (b. 1751 - d. 1799)
1791 - 1801 William Wyndham Grenville, Baron
Grenville (b. 1759 - d. 1834)
1801 - 1804 Robert Banks Jenkinson, (from
1803) Baron Hawkesbury (b. 1770 - d. 1828)
May 1804 - Dec 1804 Dudley Ryder, Baron Harrowby (b. 1762 - d. 1847)
Jan 1805 - Feb 1806 Henry Phipps, Baron Mulgrave (b. 1755 - d. 1831)
Feb 1806 - 13 Sep 1806 Charles James Fox (3rd time) (s.a.)
Sep 1806 - 1807 Charles Grey, Viscount Howick (b. 1764 - d. 1845)
Mar 1807 - Sep 1809 George Canning (1st time) (b. 1770 - d. 1827)
1809 Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst (b. 1762 - d. 1834)
1809 - 1812 Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess
Wellesley (b. 1760 - d. 1842)
1812 - 12 Aug 1822 Robert Stewart, Viscount
Castlereagh (from Apr 1821, Robert
Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry) (b. 1769 - d. 1822)
Sep 1822 - 1827 George Canning (2nd time) (s.a.)
1827 - 1828 John William Ward, Viscount Dudley
and Ward (from 1827, John William
Ward, Earl of Dudley) (b. 1781 - d. 1833)
1828 - 1830 George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of
Aberdeen (1st time) (b. 1784 - d. 1860)
1830 - 1834 Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston (1st time) (b. 1784 - d. 1865)
1834 - 1835 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wellington (b. 1769 - d. 1852)
1835 - 1841 Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston (2nd time) (s.a.)
1841 - 1846 George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of
Aberdeen (2nd time) (s.a.)
1846 - Dec 1851 Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston (3rd time) (s.a.)
Dec 1851 - 1852 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (1st time) (b. 1815 - d. 1891)
1852 James Howard Harris, Earl of
Malmesbury (1st time) (b. 1807 - d. 1889)
1852 - 1853 Lord John Russell (1st time) (b. 1792 - d. 1878)
1853 - 1858 George William Frederick Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon (1st time) (b. 1800 - d. 1870)
1858 - 1859 James Howard Harris, Earl of
Malmesbury (2nd time) (s.a.)
1859 - 1865 Lord John Russell (from 30 Jul
1861, John Russell, Earl Russell)
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1865 - 1866 George William Frederick Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon (2nd time) (s.a.)
1866 - 1868 Edward Henry Stanley (1st time) (b. 1826 - d. 1893)
1868 - 1870 George William Frederick Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon (3rd time) (s.a.)
1870 - 21 Feb 1874 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (2nd time) (s.a.)
21 Feb 1874 - 2 Apr 1878 Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of
Derby (2nd time) (s.a.)
2 Apr 1878 - 28 Apr 1880 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (1st time) (b. 1830 - d. 1903)
28 Apr 1880 - 24 Jun 1885 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (3rd time) (s.a.)
24 Jun 1885 - 6 Feb 1886 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (2nd time) (s.a.)
6 Feb 1886 - 3 Aug 1886 Archibald Primrose, Earl of
Rosebery (1st time) (b. 1847 - d. 1929)
3 Aug 1886 - Jan 1887 Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of
Iddesleigh (b. 1818 - d. 1887)
Jan 1887 - 1892 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (3rd time) (s.a.)
1892 - 10 Mar 1894 Archibald Primrose, Earl of
Rosebery (2nd time) (s.a.)
10 Mar 1894 - 1895 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
1895 - 1900 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (4th time) (s.a.)
1900 - 1905 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess
of Lansdowne (b. 1845 - d. 1927)
1905 - 1916 Sir Edward Grey (from 27 Jul 1916,
Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of
Fallodon) (b. 1862 - d. 1933)
10 Dec 1916 - 24 Oct 1919 Arthur James Balfour (b. 1848 - d. 1930)
24 Oct 1919 - 22 Jan 1924 George Nathaniel Curzon, Earl
Curzon of Kedleston (from 1 Jul
1921, George Nathaniel Curzon,
Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) (b. 1859 - d. 1925)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 Ramsay MacDonald (b. 1866 - d. 1937)
7 Nov 1924 - 7 Jun 1929 Austen Chamberlain (from 1 Dec
1925, Sir Austen Chamberlain) (b. 1863 - d. 1937)
8 Jun 1929 - 26 Aug 1931 Arthur Henderson (b. 1863 - d. 1935)
26 Aug 1931 - 5 Nov 1931 Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of
Reading (b. 1860 - d. 1935)
5 Nov 1931 - 7 Jun 1935 Sir John Simon (b. 1873 - d. 1954)
7 Jun 1935 - 18 Dec 1935 Sir Samuel Hoare (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
22 Dec 1935 - 21 Feb 1938 Anthony Eden (1st time) (b. 1897 - d. 1977)
25 Feb 1938 - 23 Dec 1940 Edward Wood, Viscount Halifax (b. 1881 - d. 1959)
23 Dec 1940 - 27 Jul 1945 Anthony Eden (2nd time) (s.a.)
27 Jul 1945 - 9 Mar 1951 Ernest Bevin (b. 1881 - d. 1951)
9 Mar 1951 - 26 Oct 1951 Herbert Morrison (b. 1888 - d. 1965)
27 Oct 1951 - 5 Apr 1955 Anthony Eden (from 20 Oct 1954,
Sir Anthony Eden) (3rd time) (s.a.)
7 Apr 1955 - 20 Dec 1955 Harold Macmillan (b. 1894 - d. 1986)
20 Dec 1955 - 27 Jul 1960 Selwyn Lloyd (b. 1904 - d. 1978)
27 Jul 1960 - 20 Oct 1963 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home,
Earl of Home (1st time) (b. 1903 - d. 1995)
20 Oct 1963 - 17 Oct 1964 Richard Austen Butler (b. 1902 - d. 1982)
17 Oct 1964 - 22 Jan 1965 Patrick Gordon Walker (b. 1907 - d. 1980)
22 Jan 1965 - 10 Aug 1966 Michael Stewart (1st time) (b. 1906 - d. 1990)
10 Aug 1966 - 15 Mar 1968 George Brown (b. 1914 - d. 1985)
15 Mar 1968 - 16 Oct 1968 Michael Stewart (2nd time) (s.a.)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs -
17 Oct 1968 - 20 Jun 1970 Michael Stewart (s.a.)
20 Jun 1970 - 4 Mar 1974 Sir Alec Douglas-Home (2nd time) (s.a.)
4 Mar 1974 - 8 Apr 1976 James Callaghan (b. 1912 - d. 2005)
8 Apr 1976 - 19 Feb 1977 Anthony Crosland (b. 1918 - d. 1977)
21 Feb 1977 - 4 May 1979 David Owen (b. 1938)
4 May 1979 - 6 Apr 1982 Peter Alexander Rupert Carington,
Baron Carrington (b. 1919 - d. 2018)
6 Apr 1982 - 9 Jun 1983 Francis Pym (b. 1922 - d. 2008)
9 Jun 1983 - 24 Jul 1989 Sir Geoffrey Howe (b. 1926 - d. 2015)
24 Jul 1989 - 26 Oct 1989 John Major (b. 1943)
26 Oct 1989 - 5 Jul 1995 Douglas Hurd (b. 1930)
5 Jul 1995 - 2 May 1997 Malcolm Rifkind (b. 1946)
2 May 1997 - 8 Jun 2001 Robin Cook (b. 1946 - d. 2005)
8 Jun 2001 - 5 May 2006 Jack Straw (b. 1946)
5 May 2006 - 28 Jun 2007 Margaret Beckett (f) (b. 1943)
28 Jun 2007 - 12 May 2010 David Miliband (b. 1965)
12 May 2010 - 15 Jul 2014 William Hague (b. 1961)
15 Jul 2014 - 15 Jul 2016 Philip Hammond (b. 1955)
15 Jul 2016 - 18 Jul 2018 Boris Johnson (b. 1964)
18 Jul 2018 - 25 Jul 2019 Jeremy Hunt (b. 1966)
25 Jul 2019 - 29 Sep 2021 Dominic Raab (b. 1974)
29 Sep 2021 - 13 Sep 2022 Liz Truss (f) (b. 1975)
13 Sep 2022 - James Cleverly (b. 1969)
17 Oct 1968 merged with Foreign Office
Secretaries of state
- Dominion Affairs -
1925 - 7 Jun 1929 Leopold Amery (b. 1873 - d. 1955)
1929 - 1930 Sidney Webb, Baron Passfield (b. 1859 - d. 1947)
1930 - 1935 James Henry Thomas (b. 1874 - d. 1949)
1935 - 1938 Malcolm John MacDonald (1st time) (b. 1901 - d. 1981)
May 1938 - 16 Oct 1938 Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley,
Lord Stanley (b. 1894 - d. 1938)
1938 - 1939 Malcolm John MacDonald (2nd time) (s.a.)
1939 Sir Thomas Inskip (1st time) (b. 1876 - d. 1947)
1939 - 1940 Anthony Eden (b. 1897 - d. 1977)
15 May 1940 - 1940 Thomas Inskip, Viscount Caldecote
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1940 - 1942 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount
Cranborne (1st time) (b. 1893 - d. 1972)
1942 - 1943 Clement Attlee (b. 1883 - d. 1967)
1943 - 3 Aug 1945 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount
Cranborne (2nd time) (s.a.)
3 Aug 1945 - 1947 Christopher Addison, Viscount
Addison (b. 1869 - d. 1951)
- Commonwealth Relations -
1947 Christopher Addison, Viscount
Addison (s.a.)
1947 - 1950 Philip Noel-Baker (b. 1889 - d. 1982)
1950 - 1951 Patrick Gordon Walker (b. 1907 - d. 1980)
1951 - 1952 Hastings Ismay, Baron Ismay (b. 1887 - d. 1965)
1952 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess
of Salisbury (s.a.)
1952 - 1955 Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Viscount
Swinton (b. 1884 - d. 1972)
1955 - 1960 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home,
Earl of Home (b. 1903 - d. 1995)
1960 - 1964 Duncan Sandys (b. 1908 - d. 1987)
1964 - 1966 Arthur Bottomley (b. 1907 - d. 1995)
- Commonwealth Affairs -
1966 - 1967 Herbert Bowden (b. 1905 - d. 1994)
Aug 1967 - 16 Oct 1968 George Thomson (b. 1921 - d. 2008)
1768 post of colonial secretary created
1782 duties given to home secretary
1794 duties given to war secretary
1854 office recreated
1 Aug 1966 merged with Commonwealth Relations Office to create
Commonwealth Office
Secretaries of state
1768 - 1772 Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough (b. 1718 - d. 1793)
1772 - 1775 William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (b. 1731 - d. 1801)
1775 - 1782 George Sackville Germain (b. 1716 - d. 1785)
Feb 1782 - Mar 1782 Welbore Ellis (b. 1713 - d. 1802)
1854 - 1855 Sir George Grey (b. 1799 - d. 1882)
9 Feb 1855 - 1855 Sidney Herbert (b. 1810 - d. 1861)
1855 Lord John Russell (b. 1792 - d. 1878)
1855 - 1858 Henry Labouchere (b. 1798 - d. 1869)
1858 Edward Henry Stanley (1st time) (b. 1826 - d. 1893)
1858 - 1859 Sir Edward George Earle Lytton
Bulwer Lytton (b. 1803 - d. 1873)
1859 - 1864 Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of
Newcastle under Lyme (b. 1811 - d. 1864)
1864 - 1866 Edward Cardwell (b. 1813 - d. 1886)
1866 - 1867 Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert,
Earl of Carnarvon (1st time) (b. 1831 - d. 1890)
1867 - 1868 Richard Plantagenet Campbell
Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-
Grenville, Duke of Buckingham
and Chandos (b. 1823 - d. 1889)
1868 - 1870 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (1st time) (b. 1815 - d. 1891)
1870 - 21 Feb 1874 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
(1st time) (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
21 Feb 1874 - 1878 Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert,
Earl of Carnarvon (2nd time) (s.a.)
1878 - 28 Apr 1880 Sir Michael Hicks Beach (b. 1837 - d. 1916)
28 Apr 1880 - 16 Dec 1882 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
(2nd time) (s.a.)
16 Dec 1882 - 24 Jun 1885 Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of
Derby (2nd time) (s.a.)
24 Jun 1885 - 6 Feb 1886 Frederick Arthur Stanley (b. 1841 - d. 1908)
6 Feb 1886 - 1886 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (2nd time) (s.a.)
3 Aug 1886 - 1887 Edward Stanhope (b. 1840 - d. 1893)
1887 - 18 Aug 1892 Sir Henry Thurstan Holland (from
1888, Henry Thurstan Holland,
Baron Knutsford) (b. 1825 - d. 1914)
18 Aug 1892 - 1895 George Robinson, Marquess of Ripon (b. 1827 - d. 1909)
1895 - 9 Oct 1903 Joseph Chamberlain (b. 1836 - d. 1914)
9 Oct 1903 - 1905 Alfred Lyttelton (b. 1857 - d. 1913)
1905 - 1908 Victor Alexander Bruce, Earl of
Elgin (b. 1849 - d. 1917)
1908 - 1910 Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe (b. 1858 - d. 1945)
1910 - 27 May 1915 Lewis Harcourt (b. 1863 - d. 1922)
27 May 1915 - 1916 Bonar Law (b. 1858 - d. 1923)
1916 - 10 Jan 1919 Walter Hume Long (b. 1854 - d. 1924)
10 Jan 1919 - 1921 Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner (b. 1854 - d. 1925)
1921 - 1922 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
1922 - 23 Jan 1924 Victor Christian William
Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire (b. 1868 - d. 1938)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 James Henry Thomas (1st time) (b. 1874 - d. 1949)
7 Nov 1924 - 1929 Leopold Amery (b. 1873 - d. 1955)
1929 - 1931 Sidney Webb, Baron Passfield (b. 1859 - d. 1947)
1931 James Henry Thomas (2nd time) (s.a.)
1931 - 1935 Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (b. 1884 - d. 1972)
7 Jun 1935 - 1935 Malcolm John MacDonald (1st time) (b. 1901 - d. 1981)
1935 - 1936 James Henry Thomas (3rd time) (s.a.)
1936 - 1938 William Ormsby-Gore (b. 1885 - d. 1964)
1938 - 1940 Malcolm John MacDonald (2nd time) (s.a.)
1940 - 1941 George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd (b. 1879 - d. 1941)
1941 - 1942 Walter Guinness, Baron Moyne (b. 1880 - d. 1944)
1942 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount
Cranborne (b. 1893 - d. 1972)
1942 - 3 Aug 1945 Oliver Stanley (b. 1896 - d. 1950)
3 Aug 1945 - 1946 George Henry Hall (b. 1881 - d. 1965)
1946 - 1950 Arthur Creech Jones (b. 1891 - d. 1964)
1950 - 1951 James Griffiths (b. 1890 - d. 1975)
1951 - 1954 Oliver Lyttelton (b. 1893 - d. 1972)
1954 - 1959 Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd (b. 1904 - d. 1983)
1959 - 1961 Iain Macleod (b. 1913 - d. 1970)
1961 - 1962 Reginald Maudling (b. 1917 - d. 1979)
1962 - 1964 Duncan Sandys (b. 1908 - d. 1987)
1964 - 1965 Anthony Greenwood (b. 1911 - d. 1982)
1965 - 5 Apr 1966 Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford (b. 1905 - d. 2001)
5 Apr 1966 - 31 Jul 1966 Frederick Lee (b. 1906 - d. 1984)
Ministers
- Coordination of Defence -
13 Mar 1936 - Feb 1939 Sir Thomas Inskip (b. 1876 - d. 1947)
Feb 1939 - 5 Apr 1940 Ernle Chatfield, Baron Chatfield (b. 1873 - d. 1967)
- Defence -
11 May 1940 - 26 Jul 1945 Winston Churchill (1st time) (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
26 Jul 1945 - 21 Dec 1946 Clement Attlee (b. 1883 - d. 1967)
21 Dec 1946 - 1950 Albert Victor Alexander (b. 1885 - d. 1965)
1950 - 1951 Emanuel Shinwell (b. 1884 - d. 1986)
1951 - 1952 Winston Churchill (2nd time) (s.a.)
1952 - Oct 1954 Harold Alexander, Earl Alexander
of Tunis (b. 1891 - d. 1969)
Oct 1954 - Apr 1955 Harold Macmillan (b. 1894 - d. 1986)
Apr 1955 - Dec 1955 Selwyn Lloyd (b. 1904 - d. 1978)
Dec 1955 - 1956 Sir Walter Monckton (b. 1891 - d. 1965)
1956 - 14 Jan 1957 Anthony Henry Head (b. 1906 - d. 1983)
14 Jan 1957 - 1959 Duncan Sandys (b. 1908 - d. 1987)
1959 - 1962 Harold Arthur Watkinson (b. 1910 - d. 1995)
1962 - 1 Apr 1964 Peter Thorneycroft (b. 1909 - d. 1994)
Secretaries of state
1 Apr 1964 - 17 Oct 1964 Peter Thorneycroft (s.a.)
17 Oct 1964 - 19 Jun 1970 Denis Healey (b. 1917 - d. 2015)
19 Jun 1970 - 8 Jan 1974 Peter Alexander Rupert Carington,
Baron Carrington (b. 1919 - d. 2018)
8 Jan 1974 - 4 Mar 1974 Ian Gilmour (b. 1926 - d. 2007)
4 Mar 1974 - 10 Sep 1976 Roy Mason (b. 1924 - d. 2015)
10 Sep 1976 - 4 May 1979 Frederick Mulley (b. 1918 - d. 1995)
4 May 1979 - 5 Jan 1981 Francis Pym (b. 1922 - d. 2008)
5 Jan 1981 - 6 Jan 1983 John Nott (b. 1932)
6 Jan 1983 - 9 Jan 1986 Michael Heseltine (b. 1933)
9 Jan 1986 - 24 Jul 1989 George Younger (b. 1931 - d. 2003)
24 Jul 1989 - 9 Apr 1992 Tom King (b. 1933)
9 Apr 1992 - 5 Jul 1995 Malcolm Rifkind (b. 1946)
5 Jul 1995 - 2 May 1997 Michael Portillo (b. 1953)
2 May 1997 - 11 Oct 1999 George Robertson, (from 24 Aug
1999) Baron Robertson of Port
Ellen (b. 1946)
11 Oct 1999 - 6 May 2005 Geoff Hoon (b. 1953)
6 May 2005 - 5 May 2006 John Reid (b. 1947)
5 May 2006 - 3 Oct 2008 Des Browne (b. 1952)
3 Oct 2008 - 5 Jun 2009 John Hutton (b. 1955)
5 Jun 2009 - 12 May 2010 Bob Ainsworth (b. 1952)
12 May 2010 - 14 Oct 2011 Liam Fox (b. 1961)
14 Oct 2011 - 15 Jul 2014 Philip Hammond (b. 1955)
15 Jul 2014 - 2 Nov 2017 Michael Fallon (from 4 Aug 2016,
Sir Michael Fallon) (b. 1952)
2 Nov 2017 - 3 May 2019 Gavin Williamson (b. 1976)
3 May 2019 - 25 Jul 2019 Penny Mordaunt (f) (b. 1973)
25 Jul 2019 - Ben Wallace (b. 1970)
6 Jan 1967 merged with Ministry of Defence
Secretaries at war
1692 - 1704 George Clarke (b. 1661 - d. 1736)
1704 - 1708 Henry St. John (b. 1678 - d. 1751)
1708 - 1710 Robert Walpole (b. 1676 - d. 1745)
1710 - Jun 1712 George Granville, (from 1 Jan
1712, Baron Lansdown) (b. 1666 - d. 1735)
1712 - 1713 Sir William Wyndham (b. 1687 - d. 1740)
1713 - 1714 Francis Gwyn (b. 1648/49 - d. 1734)
1714 - 1717 William Pulteney (b. 1684 - d. 1764)
1717 - 1718 James Craggs the Younger (b. 1686 - d. 1721)
May 1718 - Dec 1718 Robert Pringle (b. 16... - d. 1736)
1718 - 1724 George Treby (b. 1684? - d. 1742)
1724 - 1730 Henry Pelham (b. 1694 - d. 1754)
1730 - 1735 Sir William Strickland (b. c.1686 - d. 1735)
1735 - 1746 Sir William Yonge (b. c.1693 - d. 1755)
1746 - 1755 Henry Fox (b. 1705 - d. 1774)
1755 - Mar 1761 William Wildman Barrington,
Viscount Barrington (1st time) (b. 1717 - d. 1793)
Mar 1761 - Dec 1762 Charles Townshend (b. 1725 - d. 1767)
Dec 1762 - Jul 1765 Welbore Ellis (b. 1713 - d. 1802)
Jul 1765 - Dec 1778 William Wildman Barrington,
Viscount Barrington (2nd time) (s.a.)
Dec 1778 - Mar 1782 Charles Jenkinson (b. 1729 - d. 1808)
Mar 1782 - Jul 1782 Thomas Townshend (b. 1733 - d. 1800)
Jul 1782 - Apr 1783 Sir George Yonge (1st time) (b. 1732 - d. 1812)
Apr 1783 - Dec 1783 Richard Fitzpatrick (1st time) (b. 1748 - d. 1813)
Dec 1783 - Jul 1794 Sir George Yonge (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jul 1794 - Feb 1801 William Windham (b. 1750 - d. 1810)
Feb 1801 - Aug 1803 Charles Philip Yorke (b. 1764 - d. 1834)
Aug 1803 - May 1804 Charles Bragge (b. 1754 - d. 1831)
May 1804 - Feb 1806 William Dundas (b. 1762 - d. 1845)
Feb 1806 - Mar 1807 Richard Fitzpatrick (2nd time) (s.a.)
Mar 1807 - Jun 1809 Sir James Murray-Pulteney (b. c.1755 - d. 1811)
Jun 1809 - Oct 1809 Granville Leveson-Gower (b. 1773 - d. 1846)
Oct 1809 - May 1828 Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston (b. 1784 - d. 1865)
May 1828 - Jul 1830 Sir Henry Hardinge (1st time) (b. 1785 - d. 1856)
Jul 1830 - Nov 1830 Francis Leveson-Gower (b. 1800 - d. 1857)
Nov 1830 - Apr 1831 Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (b. 1775 - d. 1850)
Apr 1831 - Feb 1832 Sir Henry Brooke Parnell (b. 1776 - d. 1842)
Feb 1832 - Apr 1833 Sir John Cam Hobhouse (b. 1786 - d. 1869)
Apr 1833 - Dec 1834 Edward Ellice (b. 1783 - d. 1863)
Dec 1834 - Apr 1835 John Charles Herries (b. 1778 - d. 1855)
Apr 1835 - Sep 1839 Henry George Grey (b. 1802 - d. 1894)
Sep 1839 - Sep 1841 Thomas Babington Macaulay (b. 1800 - d. 1859)
Sep 1841 - May 1844 Sir Henry Hardinge (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1844 - Feb 1845 Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle (b. 1798 - d. 1890)
Feb 1845 - Jul 1846 Sidney Herbert (1st time) (b. 1810 - d. 1861)
Jul 1846 - Jan 1852 Fox Maule (b. 1801 - d. 1874)
Jan 1852 - Mar 1852 Robert Vernon Smith (b. 1800 - d. 1873)
Mar 1852 - Dec 1852 William Beresford (b. 1797 - d. 1883)
Dec 1852 - Jan 1855 Sidney Herbert (2nd time) (s.a.)
Secretaries of state
- War -
1794 - 1801 Henry Dundas (b. 1742 - d. 1811)
- War and the Colonies -
1801 - 1804 Robert Hobart, Baron Hobart (b. 1760 - d. 1816)
1804 - 1805 John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden (b. 1759 - d. 1840)
1805 - 1806 Robert Stewart, Viscount
Castlereagh (1st time) (b. 1769 - d. 1822)
1806 - 1807 William Windham (s.a.)
1807 - 1809 Robert Stewart, Viscount
Castlereagh (2nd time) (s.a.)
1809 - 1812 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of
Liverpool (b. 1770 - d. 1828)
1812 - 1827 Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst (b. 1762 - d. 1834)
1827 Frederick John Robinson, Viscount
Goderich (1st time) (b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1827 - 1828 William Huskisson (b. 1770 - d. 1830)
1828 - 1830 Sir George Murray (b. 1772 - d. 1846)
1830 - 1833 Frederick John Robinson, Viscount
Goderich (2nd time) (s.a.)
1833 - 1834 Edward Geoffrey Stanley (1st time) (b. 1799 - d. 1869)
1834 Thomas Spring Rice (b. 1790 - d. 1866)
1834 - 1835 George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of
Aberdeen (b. 1784 - d. 1860)
1835 - 1839 Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg (b. 1778 - d. 1866)
1839 Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess
of Normanby (b. 1797 - d. 1863)
1839 - 1841 Lord John Russell (b. 1792 - d. 1878)
1841 - 1845 Edward Geoffrey Stanley (2nd time) (s.a.)
1845 - 1846 William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809 - d. 1898)
1846 - 1852 Henry George Grey, Earl Grey (b. 1802 - d. 1894)
1852 Sir John Pakington (b. 1799 - d. 1880)
1852 - 1854 Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of
Newcastle under Lyme (b. 1811 - d. 1864)
- War -
1854 - 1855 Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of
Newcastle under Lyme (s.a.)
1855 - 1858 Fox Maule, Baron Panmure (s.a.)
1858 - 1859 Jonathan Peel (1st time) (b. 1799 - d. 1879)
1859 - 1861 Sidney Herbert (s.a.)
1861 - 1863 Sir George Cornewall Lewis (b. 1806 - d. 1863)
1863 - 1866 George Robinson, Earl of Ripon (b. 1827 - d. 1909)
1866 Spencer Compton Cavendish,
Marquess of Hartington (1st time) (b. 1833 - d. 1908)
1866 - 1867 Jonathan Peel (2nd time) (s.a.)
1867 - 1868 Sir John Pakington (s.a.)
1868 - 21 Feb 1874 Edward Cardwell (b. 1813 - d. 1886)
21 Feb 1874 - 2 Apr 1878 Gathorne Hardy (1st time) (b. 1814 - d. 1906)
2 Apr 1878 - 28 Apr 1880 Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley (b. 1841 - d. 1908)
28 Apr 1880 - 16 Dec 1882 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (b. 1827 - d. 1896)
16 Dec 1882 - 24 Jun 1885 Spencer Compton Cavendish,
Marquess of Hartington (2nd time) (s.a.)
24 Jun 1885 - 6 Feb 1886 William Henry Smith (1st time) (b. 1825 - d. 1891)
6 Feb 1886 - 1886 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount
Cranbrook (2nd time) (s.a.)
1886 - 3 Aug 1886 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
(1st time) (b. 1836 - d. 1908)
3 Aug 1886 - 1887 William Henry Smith (2nd time) (s.a.)
1887 - 18 Aug 1892 Edward Stanhope (b. 1840 - d. 1893)
18 Aug 1892 - 1895 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1895 - 1900 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess
of Lansdowne (b. 1845 - d. 1927)
1900 - 1903 St. John Brodrick (b. 1856 - d. 1942)
1903 - 1905 Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster (b. 1855 - d. 1909)
1905 - 1912 Richard Burdon Haldane, (from
1911) Viscount Haldane (b. 1856 - d. 1928)
1912 - 1914 John Seely (b. 1868 - d. 1947)
1914 H.H. Asquith (b. 1852 - d. 1928)
1914 - 5 Jun 1916 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl
Kitchener (b. 1850 - d. 1916)
Jul 1916 - Dec 1916 David Lloyd George (b. 1863 - d. 1945)
Dec 1916 - Apr 1918 Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby
(1st time) (b. 1865 - d. 1948)
1918 - Jan 1919 Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner (b. 1854 - d. 1925)
Jan 1919 - 1921 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
1921 - 1922 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
(1st time) (b. 1868 - d. 1931)
1922 - 23 Jan 1924 Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby
(2nd time) (s.a.)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 Stephen Walsh (b. 1859 - d. 1929)
7 Nov 1924 - 7 Jun 1929 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1929 - 1931 Thomas Shaw (b. 1872 - d. 1938)
1931 Robert Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of
Crewe (b. 1858 - d. 1945)
1931 - 1935 Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount
Hailsham (b. 1872 - d. 1950)
7 Jun 1935 - Nov 1935 Edward Wood, Viscount Halifax (b. 1881 - d. 1959)
Nov 1935 - 1937 Alfred Duff Cooper (b. 1890 - d. 1954)
1937 - Jan 1940 Leslie Hore-Belisha (b. 1893 - d. 1957)
Jan 1940 - May 1940 Oliver Stanley (b. 1896 - d. 1950)
May 1940 - Dec 1940 Anthony Eden (b. 1897 - d. 1977)
Dec 1940 - 1942 David Margesson (b. 1890 - d. 1965)
1942 - 3 Aug 1945 Sir James Grigg (b. 1890 - d. 1964)
3 Aug 1945 - 1946 John Lawson (b. 1881 - d. 1965)
1946 - 1947 Frederick Bellenger (b. 1894 - d. 1968)
1947 - 1950 Emanuel Shinwell (b. 1884 - d. 1986)
1950 - 1951 John Strachey (b. 1901 - d. 1963)
1951 - 1956 Anthony Henry Head (b. 1906 - d. 1983)
1956 - Jan 1958 John Hugh Hare (b. 1911 - d. 1982)
Jan 1958 - Jul 1960 Christopher Soames (b. 1920 - d. 1987)
Jul 1960 - Jun 1963 John Profumo (b. 1915 - d. 2006)
27 Jun 1963 - Oct 1963 Joseph Godber (b. 1914 - d. 1980)
Oct 1963 - 1 Apr 1964 James Ramsden (b. 1923 - d. 2020)
Ministers of Defence for the Army
1 Apr 1964 - Oct 1964 James Ramsden (s.a.)
Oct 1964 - Dec 1965 Frederick Mulley (b. 1918 - d. 1995)
Dec 1965 - 6 Jan 1967 Gerald Reynolds (b. 1927 - d. 1969)
Masters-General of the Ordnance
1693 - 1702 Henry Sydney, Viscount Sydney
(from 1694, Henry Sydney, Earl of
Romney) (b. 1641 - d. 1704)
1702 - 1711 John Churchill, Duke of
Marlborough (1st time) (b. 1650 - d. 1722)
1711 - 1712 Richard Savage, Earl Rivers (b. 1660? - d. 1712)
1712 James Douglas, Duke of Hamilton (b. 1658 - d. 1712)
1712 - 1714 vacant
1714 - 1722 John Churchill, Duke of
Marlborough (2nd time) (s.a.)
1722 - 1725 William Cadogan, Earl Cadogan (b. 1675 - d. 1726)
1725 - 1740 John Campbell, Duke of Argyll
(1st time) (b. 1678 - d. 1743)
1740 - 1742 John Montagu, Duke of Montagu
(1st time) (b. 1688? - d. 1749)
1742 John Campbell, Duke of Argyll
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1742 - 1749 John Montagu, Duke of Montagu
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1749 - 1755 vacant
1755 - 20 Oct 1758 Charles Spencer, Duke of
Marlborough (b. 1706 - d. 1758)
1758 - 1759 vacant
1759 - 1763 John Ligonier, Viscount Ligonier (b. 1680 - d. 1770)
1763 - 1770 John Manners, Marquess of Granby (b. 1721 - d. 1770)
1770 - 1772 vacant
1772 - 1782 George Townshend, Viscount
Townshend (1st time) (b. 1724 - d. 1807)
1782 - 1783 Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond
and Lennox (1st time) (b. 1735 - d. 1806)
1783 - 1784 George Townshend, Viscount
Townshend (2nd time) (s.a.)
1784 - 1795 Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond
and Lennox (2nd time) (s.a.)
1795 - 1801 Charles Cornwallis, Marquess
Cornwallis (b. 1738 - d. 1805)
1801 - 1806 John Pitt, Earl of Chatham
(1st time) (b. 1756 - d. 1835)
1806 - 1807 Francis Rawdon Hastings, Earl of
Moira (b. 1754 - d. 1826)
1807 - 1810 John Pitt, Earl of Chatham
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1810 - 1818 Henry Phipps, Baron Mulgrave
(from 1812, Henry Phipps, Earl of
Mulgrave) (b. 1755 - d. 1831)
1818 - 1827 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wellington (b. 1769 - d. 1852)
1827 - 1828 Henry William Paget, Marquess of
Anglesey (1st time) (b. 1768 - d. 1854)
1828 - 1830 William Carr Beresford, Viscount
Beresford (b. 1768 - d. 1854)
1830 - 1834 Sir James Kempt (b. 1764 - d. 1854)
1834 - 1835 Sir George Murray (1st time) (b. 1772 - d. 1846)
1835 - 1841 Sir Richard Hussey Vivian (b. 1775 - d. 1842)
1841 - 1846 Sir George Murray (2nd time) (s.a.)
1846 - 1852 Henry William Paget, Marquess of
Anglesey (2nd time) (s.a.)
1852 Henry Hardinge, Viscount Hardinge (b. 1785 - d. 1856)
1852 - 1855 Fitzroy James Henry Somerset,
Baron Raglan (b. 1788 - d. 1855)
6 Jan 1967 merged with Ministry of Defence
First lords of the Admiralty
31 May 1699 - 19 Mar 1701 John Egerton, Earl of Bridgwater (b. 1646 - d. 1701)
4 Apr 1701 - 20 May 1702 Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke,
Earl of Montgomery (2nd time) (b. 1656 - d. 1733)
(Lord High Admiral)
20 May 1702 - 28 Oct 1708 Prince George of Denmark,
Duke of Cumberland (b. 1653 - d. 1708)
(Lord High Admiral)
28 Oct 1708 - 29 Nov 1708 Queen Anne (f) (Lord High Admiral) (b. 1665 - d. 1714)
29 Nov 1708 - 8 Nov 1709 Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke,
Earl of Montgomery (3rd time) (s.a.)
(Lord High Admiral)
8 Nov 1709 - 4 Oct 1710 Edward Russell, Earl of Orford
(2nd time) (b. 1653 - d. 1727)
4 Oct 1710 - 30 Sep 1712 Sir John Leake (b. 1656 - d. 1720)
30 Sep 1712 - 14 Oct 1714 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of
Strafford (b. 1672 - d. 1739)
14 Oct 1714 - 16 Apr 1717 Edward Russell, Earl of Orford
(3rd time) (s.a.)
16 Apr 1717 - 29 Jul 1727 James Berkeley, Earl of Berkeley (b. 1680 - d. 1736)
29 Jul 1727 - 17 Jan 1733 George Byng, Viscount Torrington (b. 1663 - d. 1733)
25 Jan 1733 - 19 Mar 1742 Sir Charles Wager (b. 1666 - d. 1743)
19 Mar 1742 - 27 Dec 1744 Daniel Finch, Earl of Winchilsea
and Nottingham (1st time) (b. 1689 - d. 1769)
27 Dec 1744 - 20 Feb 1748 John Russell, Duke of Bedford (b. 1710 - d. 1771)
20 Feb 1748 - 22 Jun 1751 John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich
(1st time) (b. 1718 - d. 1792)
22 Jun 1751 - 19 Nov 1756 George Anson, Baron Anson of
Soberton (1st time) (b. 1697 - d. 1762)
19 Nov 1756 - 6 Apr 1757 Richard Grenville, Earl Temple (b. 1711 - d. 1779)
6 Apr 1757 - 2 Jul 1757 Daniel Finch, Earl of Winchilsea
and Nottingham (2nd time) (s.a.)
2 Jul 1757 - 6 Jun 1762 George Anson, Baron Anson of
Soberton (2nd time) (s.a.)
19 Jun 1762 - 1 Jan 1763 George Montagu Dunk, Earl of
Halifax (b. 1716 - d. 1771)
1 Jan 1763 - 23 Apr 1763 George Grenville (b. 1712 - d. 1770)
23 Apr 1763 - 10 Sep 1763 John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich
(2nd time) (s.a.)
10 Sep 1763 - 10 Sep 1766 John Perceval, Earl of Egmont (b. 1711 - d. 1770)
10 Sep 1766 - 10 Dec 1766 Sir Charles Saunders (b. 1713 - d. 1775)
10 Dec 1766 - 12 Jan 1771 Sir Edward Hawke (b. 1710 - d. 1781)
12 Jan 1771 - 30 Mar 1782 John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich
(3rd time) (s.a.)
30 Mar 1782 - 28 Jan 1783 Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel
(1st time) (b. 1725 - d. 1786)
28 Jan 1783 - 8 Apr 1783 Richard Howe, Viscount Howe
(1st time) (b. 1726 - d. 1799)
8 Apr 1783 - 30 Dec 1783 Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel
(2nd time) (s.a.)
30 Dec 1783 - 12 Jul 1788 Richard Howe, Viscount Howe
(2nd time) (s.a.)
12 Jul 1788 - 20 Dec 1794 John Pitt, Earl of Chatham (b. 1756 - d. 1835)
20 Dec 1794 - 19 Feb 1801 George John Spencer, Earl Spencer (b. 1758 - d. 1834)
19 Feb 1801 - 15 May 1804 John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent (b. 1735 - d. 1823)
15 May 1804 - 30 Apr 1805 Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville (b. 1742 - d. 1811)
30 Apr 1805 - 11 Feb 1806 Charles Middleton, Baron Barham (b. 1726 - d. 1813)
11 Feb 1806 - 29 Sep 1806 Charles Grey, Viscount Howick (b. 1764 - d. 1845)
29 Sep 1806 - 4 Apr 1807 Thomas Grenville (b. 1755 - d. 1846)
4 Apr 1807 - 1 May 1810 Henry Phipps, Baron Mulgrave (b. 1755 - d. 1831)
1 May 1810 - 24 Mar 1812 Charles Philip Yorke (b. 1764 - d. 1834)
24 Mar 1812 - 17 Apr 1827 Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville
(1st time) (b. 1771 - d. 1851)
17 Apr 1827 - 17 Sep 1828 Prince William, Duke of Clarence (b. 1765 - d. 1837)
(Lord High Admiral)
17 Sep 1828 - 25 Nov 1830 Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville
(2nd time) (s.a.)
25 Nov 1830 - 7 Jun 1834 Sir James Graham (1st time) (b. 1792 - d. 1861)
7 Jun 1834 - 22 Dec 1834 George Eden, Baron Auckland
(1st time) (b. 1784 - d. 1849)
22 Dec 1834 - 23 Apr 1835 Thomas Philip de Grey, Earl de
Grey (b. 1781 - d. 1859)
23 Apr 1835 - 15 Sep 1835 George Eden, Baron Auckland
(2nd time) (s.a.)
15 Sep 1835 - 6 Sep 1841 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,
Earl of Minto (b. 1782 - d. 1859)
6 Sep 1841 - 8 Jan 1846 Thomas Hamilton, Earl of
Haddington (b. 1780 - d. 1858)
8 Jan 1846 - 7 Jul 1846 Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough (b. 1790 - d. 1871)
7 Jul 1846 - 1 Jan 1849 George Eden, Baron Auckland
(3rd time) (s.a.)
15 Jan 1849 - 28 Feb 1852 Sir Francis Baring (b. 1796 - d. 1866)
28 Feb 1852 - 30 Dec 1852 Algernon Percy, Duke of
Northumberland (b. 1792 - d. 1865)
30 Dec 1852 - 13 Mar 1855 Sir James Graham (2nd time) (s.a.)
13 Mar 1855 - 8 Mar 1858 Sir Charles Wood (b. 1800 - d. 1885)
8 Mar 1858 - 27 Jun 1859 Sir John Pakington (1st time) (b. 1799 - d. 1880)
27 Jun 1859 - 12 Jul 1866 Edward Adolphus Seymour, Duke of
Somerset (b. 1804 - d. 1885)
12 Jul 1866 - 8 Mar 1867 Sir John Pakington (2nd time) (s.a.)
8 Mar 1867 - 21 Dec 1868 Henry Thomas Lowry Corry (b. 1803 - d. 1873)
21 Dec 1868 - 9 Mar 1871 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (b. 1786 - d. 1871)
9 Mar 1871 - 4 Mar 1874 George Joachim Goschen (1st time) (b. 1831 - d. 1907)
4 Mar 1874 - 29 Jul 1877 George Ward Hunt (b. 1825 - d. 1877)
14 Aug 1877 - 28 Apr 1880 William Henry Smith (b. 1825 - d. 1891)
28 Apr 1880 - 1 Jul 1885 Thomas George Baring, Earl of
Northbrook (b. 1826 - d. 1904)
1 Jul 1885 - 15 Feb 1886 George Francis Hamilton (1st time) (b. 1845 - d. 1927)
15 Feb 1886 - 9 Aug 1886 George Robinson, Marquess of Ripon (b. 1827 - d. 1909)
9 Aug 1886 - 25 Aug 1892 George Francis Hamilton (2nd time) (s.a.)
25 Aug 1892 - 6 Jul 1895 John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer (b. 1835 - d. 1910)
6 Jul 1895 - 12 Oct 1900 George Joachim Goschen (2nd time) (s.a.)
12 Oct 1900 - 5 Mar 1905 William Waldegrave Palmer, Earl
of Selborne (b. 1859 - d. 1942)
5 Mar 1905 - 10 Dec 1905 Frederick Archibald Vaughan
Campbell, Earl Cawdor (b. 1847 - d. 1911)
10 Dec 1905 - 12 Apr 1908 Edward Marjoribanks, Baron
Tweedmouth (b. 1849 - d. 1909)
12 Apr 1908 - 24 Oct 1911 Reginald McKenna (b. 1863 - d. 1943)
24 Oct 1911 - 27 May 1915 Winston Churchill (1st time) (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
27 May 1915 - 11 Dec 1916 Arthur James Balfour (b. 1848 - d. 1930)
11 Dec 1916 - 20 Jul 1917 Edward Carson (b. 1854 - d. 1935)
20 Jul 1917 - 10 Jan 1919 Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (b. 1875 - d. 1937)
10 Jan 1919 - 13 Feb 1921 Walter Hume Long (b. 1854 - d. 1924)
13 Feb 1921 - 24 Nov 1922 Arthur Hamilton Lee, Baron Lee of
Fareham (b. 1868 - d. 1947)
24 Nov 1922 - 22 Jan 1924 Leopold Amery (b. 1873 - d. 1955)
22 Jan 1924 - 6 Nov 1924 Frederick John Napier Thesiger,
Viscount Chelmsford (b. 1868 - d. 1933)
6 Nov 1924 - 8 Jun 1929 William Clive Bridgeman (b. 1864 - d. 1935)
8 Jun 1929 - 26 Aug 1931 Albert Victor Alexander (1st time) (b. 1885 - d. 1965)
26 Aug 1931 - 5 Nov 1931 Sir Austen Chamberlain (b. 1863 - d. 1937)
5 Nov 1931 - 5 Jun 1936 Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell (from
30 Nov 1935, Bolton Eyres-Monsell,
Viscount Monsell) (b. 1881 - d. 1969)
5 Jun 1936 - 28 May 1937 Sir Samuel Hoare (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
28 May 1937 - 27 Oct 1938 Alfred Duff Cooper (b. 1890 - d. 1954)
27 Oct 1938 - 3 Sep 1939 James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope (b. 1880 - d. 1967)
3 Sep 1939 - 11 May 1940 Winston Churchill (2nd time) (s.a.)
11 May 1940 - 25 May 1945 Albert Victor Alexander (2nd time) (s.a.)
25 May 1945 - 3 Aug 1945 Brendan Bracken (b. 1901 - d. 1958)
3 Aug 1945 - 4 Oct 1946 Albert Victor Alexander (3rd time) (s.a.)
4 Oct 1946 - 24 May 1951 George Henry Hall, Viscount Hall (b. 1881 - d. 1965)
24 May 1951 - 31 Oct 1951 Frank Pakenham, Baron Pakenham (b. 1905 - d. 2001)
31 Oct 1951 - 2 Sep 1956 James Purdon Lewes Thomas, (from
20 Jan 1956) Viscount Cilcennin (b. 1903 - d. 1960)
2 Sep 1956 - 16 Jan 1957 Quintin McGarel Hogg, Viscount
Hailsham (b. 1907 - d. 2001)
16 Jan 1957 - 16 Oct 1959 George Douglas-Hamilton, Earl of
Selkirk (b. 1906 - d. 1994)
16 Oct 1959 - 22 Oct 1963 Peter Alexander Rupert Carington,
Baron Carrington (b. 1919 - d. 2018)
22 Oct 1963 - 1 Apr 1964 George Patrick John Rushworth
Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe (b. 1918 - d. 2007)
Ministers of Defence for the Royal Navy
1 Apr 1964 - 19 Oct 1964 George Patrick John Rushworth
Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe (s.a.)
19 Oct 1964 - 19 Feb 1966 Christopher Paget Mayhew (b. 1915 - d. 1997)
19 Feb 1966 - 6 Jan 1967 Joseph Percival William Mallalieu (b. 1908 - d. 1980)
6 Jan 1967 merged with Ministry of Defence
Secretaries of state for Air
Jan 1918 - 1918 Harold Harmsworth, Baron
Rothermere (b. 1868 - d. 1940)
1918 - Jan 1919 William Douglas Weir, Baron Weir (b. 1877 - d. 1959)
Jan 1919 - 1921 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
1921 - 1922 Frederick Edward Guest (b. 1875 - d. 1937)
2 Nov 1922 - 23 Jan 1924 Sir Samuel Hoare (1st time) (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 Christopher Birdwood Thomson,
(from 12 Feb 1924) Baron Thomson
(1st time) (b. 1875 - d. 1930)
7 Nov 1924 - 7 Jun 1929 Sir Samuel Hoare (2nd time) (s.a.)
1929 - 5 Oct 1930 Christopher Birdwood Thomson,
Baron Thomson (2nd time) (s.a.)
1930 - 1931 William Warrender Mackenzie,
Baron Amulree (b. 1860 - d. 1942)
1931 - 1935 Charles Stewart Henry
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of
Londonderry (b. 1878 - d. 1949)
7 Jun 1935 - 1938 Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (from
29 Nov 1935, Philip Cunliffe-
Lister, Viscount Swinton) (b. 1884 - d. 1972)
1938 - 1940 Sir Kingsley Wood (b. 1881 - d. 1943)
1940 Sir Samuel Hoare (3rd time) (s.a.)
1940 - 28 May 1945 Sir Archibald Sinclair (b. 1890 - d. 1970)
28 May 1945 - 3 Aug 1945 Harold Macmillan (b. 1894 - d. 1986)
3 Aug 1945 - 1946 William Wedgwood Benn, Viscount
Stansgate (b. 1877 - d. 1960)
1946 - Oct 1947 Philip Noel-Baker (b. 1889 - d. 1982)
Oct 1947 - Oct 1951 Arthur Henderson (b. 1893 - d. 1968)
Oct 1951 - Dec 1955 William Philip Sidney, Baron De
L'Isle and Dudley (b. 1909 - d. 1991)
Dec 1955 - 1957 Nigel Birch (b. 1906 - d. 1981)
1957 - 1960 George Reginald Ward (b. 1907 - d. 1988)
Oct 1960 - 16 Jul 1962 Julian Amery (b. 1919 - d. 1996)
16 Jul 1962 - 1 Apr 1964 Hugh Charles Fraser (b. 1918 - d. 1984)
Ministers of Defence for the Royal Air Force
1 Apr 1964 - 19 Oct 1964 Hugh Charles Fraser (s.a.)
19 Oct 1964 - 6 Jan 1967 Edward Shackleton, Baron
Shackleton (b. 1911 - d. 1994)
Chiefs of the Defence Staff
1 Jan 1956 - 12 Jul 1959 Sir William Dickson (b. 1898 - d. 1987)
13 Jul 1959 - 15 Jul 1965 Louis Mountbatten, Earl
Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1900 - d. 1979)
16 Jul 1965 - 4 Aug 1967 Sir Richard Hull (b. 1907 - d. 1989)
7 Aug 1967 - 8 Apr 1971 Sir Samuel Elworthy (b. 1911 - d. 1993)
9 Apr 1971 - 21 Oct 1973 Sir Peter Hill-Norton (b. 1915 - d. 2004)
22 Oct 1973 - 23 Oct 1976 Sir Michael Carver (b. 1915 - d. 2001)
24 Oct 1976 - 24 Jan 1977 Sir Andrew Humphrey (b. 1921 - d. 1977)
9 Feb 1977 - 30 Aug 1977 Sir Edward Ashmore (b. 1919 - d. 2016)
31 Aug 1977 - 31 Aug 1979 Sir Neil Cameron (b. 1920 - d. 1985)
1 Sep 1979 - 30 Sep 1982 Sir Terence Lewin (b. 1920 - d. 1999)
1 Oct 1982 - 31 Oct 1985 Sir Edwin Bramall (b. 1923 - d. 2019)
1 Nov 1985 - 9 Dec 1988 Sir John Fieldhouse (b. 1928 - d. 1992)
9 Dec 1988 - 1 Apr 1991 Sir David Craig (b. 1929)
2 Apr 1991 - 31 Dec 1992 Sir Richard Vincent (b. 1931 - d. 2018)
1 Jan 1993 - 13 Mar 1994 Sir Peter Harding (b. 1933 - d. 2021)
15 Mar 1994 - 1 Apr 1997 Sir Peter Inge (b. 1935 - d. 2022)
2 Apr 1997 - 15 Feb 2001 Sir Charles Guthrie (b. 1938)
16 Feb 2001 - 2 May 2003 Sir Michael Boyce (b. 1943 - d. 2022)
2 May 2003 - 28 Apr 2006 Sir Michael Walker (b. 1944)
28 Apr 2006 - 29 Oct 2010 Sir Jock Stirrup (b. 1949)
29 Oct 2010 - 18 Jul 2013 Sir David Richards (b. 1952)
18 Jul 2013 - 14 Jul 2016 Sir Nicholas Houghton (b. 1954)
14 Jul 2016 - 11 Jun 2018 Sir Stuart Peach (b. 1956)
11 Jun 2018 - 30 Nov 2021 Sir Nick Carter (b. 1959)
30 Nov 2021 - Sir Tony Radakin (b. 1965)
Army
Commanders-in-Chief of the Forces
1691 - 1711 Meinhard Schomberg, Duke of
Leinster (b. 1641 - d. 1719)
1711 - 1714 James Butler, Duke of Ormond (b. 1665 - d. 1745)
1714 - 1744 vacant
1744 John Dalrymple, Earl of Stair (b. 1673 - d. 1747)
1745 - 1748 George Wade (b. 1673 - d. 1748)
1748 - 1757 vacant
1757 - 1759 John Ligonier, Viscount Ligonier (b. 1680 - d. 1770)
1759 - 1766 vacant
1766 - 1769 John Manners, Marquess of Granby (b. 1721 - d. 1770)
1769 - 1778 vacant
1778 - 1782 Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst
(1st time) (b. 1717 - d. 1797)
1782 - 1793 Henry Seymour Conway (b. 1721 - d. 1795)
1793 - 1795 Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1795 - 1809 Prince Frederick, Duke of York
(1st time) (b. 1763 - d. 1827)
1809 - 1811 Sir David Dundas (b. 1735 - d. 1820)
1811 - 5 Jan 1827 Prince Frederick, Duke of York
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1827 - 1828 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wellington (1st time) (b. 1769 - d. 1852)
1828 - 1842 Rowland Hill, Baron Hill (b. 1772 - d. 1842)
1842 - 1852 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wellington (2nd time) (s.a.)
1852 - 1856 Henry Hardinge, Viscount Hardinge (b. 1785 - d. 1856)
15 Jul 1856 - 1895 Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1819 - d. 1904)
1895 - 1900 Garnet Wolseley, Viscount Wolseley (b. 1833 - d. 1913)
1900 - 1904 Frederick Roberts, Earl Roberts (b. 1832 - d. 1914)
Chief of the General Staff
1904 - 1908 Sir Neville Lyttelton (b. 1845 - d. 1931)
Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff
1908 - 1912 Sir William Nicholson (b. 1845 - d. 1918)
1912 - 1914 Sir John French (b. 1852 - d. 1925)
1914 - 25 Oct 1914 Sir Charles Douglas (b. 1850 - d. 1914)
1914 - 1915 Sir James Murray (b. 1853 - d. 1919)
1915 Sir Archibald Murray (b. 1860 - d. 1945)
1915 - 1918 Sir William Robertson (b. 1860 - d. 1933)
1918 - 22 Jun 1922 Sir Henry Wilson (b. 1864 - d. 1922)
1922 - 1926 Frederick Lambart, Earl of Cavan (b. 1865 - d. 1946)
1926 - 1933 Sir George Milne (b. 1866 - d. 1948)
1933 - 1936 Sir Archibald
Montgomery-Massingberd (b. 1871 - d. 1947)
1936 - 1937 Sir Cyril Deverell (b. 1874 - d. 1947)
1937 - 1939 John Vereker, Viscount Gort (b. 1886 - d. 1946)
Sep 1939 - May 1940 Sir Edmund Ironside (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
1940 - 1941 Sir John Dill (b. 1881 - d. 1944)
1941 - 1946 Sir Alan Brooke (b. 1883 - d. 1963)
1946 - 1948 Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein (b. 1887 - d. 1976)
1 Nov 1948 - 1952 Sir William Slim (b. 1891 - d. 1970)
1952 - 1955 Sir John Harding (b. 1896 - d. 1989)
Nov 1955 - Sep 1958 Sir Gerald Templer (b. 1898 - d. 1979)
1958 - 1961 Sir Francis Festing (b. 1902 - d. 1976)
1961 - Apr 1964 Sir Richard Hull (b. 1907 - d. 1989)
Chiefs of the General Staff
Apr 1964 - Feb 1965 Sir Richard Hull (s.a.)
Feb 1965 - Mar 1968 Sir James Cassels (b. 1907 - d. 1996)
Mar 1968 - 1971 Sir Geoffrey Baker (b. 1912 - d. 1980)
1971 - 1973 Sir Michael Carver (b. 1915 - d. 2001)
1973 - 1976 Sir Peter Hunt (b. 1916 - d. 1988)
1976 - 1979 Sir Roland Gibbs (b. 1921 - d. 2004)
1979 - 1982 Sir Edwin Bramall (b. 1923 - d. 2019)
1982 - 28 Jul 1985 Sir John Stanier (b. 1925 - d. 2007)
28 Jul 1985 - 10 Sep 1988 Sir Nigel Bagnall (b. 1927 - d. 2002)
10 Sep 1988 - 14 Feb 1992 Sir John Chapple (b. 1931 - d. 2022)
14 Feb 1992 - 15 Mar 1994 Sir Peter Inge (b. 1935 - d. 2022)
15 Mar 1994 - 3 Feb 1997 Sir Charles Guthrie (b. 1938)
3 Feb 1997 - 17 Apr 2000 Sir Roger Wheeler (b. 1941)
17 Apr 2000 - 1 Feb 2003 Sir Michael Walker (b. 1944)
1 Feb 2003 - 29 Aug 2006 Sir Mike Jackson (b. 1944)
29 Aug 2006 - 28 Aug 2009 Sir Richard Dannatt (b. 1950)
28 Aug 2009 - 15 Sep 2010 Sir David Richards (b. 1952)
15 Sep 2010 - 5 Sep 2014 Sir Peter Wall (b. 1955)
5 Sep 2014 - 11 Jun 2018 Sir Nick Carter (b. 1959)
11 Jun 2018 - 13 Jun 2022 Mark Carleton-Smith (from 29 Dec
2018, Sir Mark Carleton-Smith) (b. 1964)
13 Jun 2022 - Sir Patrick Sanders (b. 1966)
Royal Navy
Admirals of the Fleet
1795 - 1799 Richard Howe, Earl Howe (b. 1726 - d. 1799)
1799 - 1811 Sir Peter Parker (b. 1721 - d. 1811)
1811 - 1827 Prince William, Duke of Clarence (b. 1765 - d. 1837)
First sea lords
1828 - 1830 Sir George Cockburn (1st time) (b. 1772 - d. 1853)
1830 - 1834 Sir Thomas Hardy (b. 1769 - d. 1839)
1834 Sir George Dundas (b. 1778 - d. 1834)
1834 Sir Charles Adam (1st time) (b. 1790 - d. 1853)
1834 - 1835 Sir George Cockburn (2nd time) (s.a.)
1835 - 1841 Sir Charles Adam (2nd time) (s.a.)
1841 - 1846 Sir George Cockburn (3rd time) (s.a.)
1846 Sir William Parker (b. 1781 - d. 1866)
1846 - 1847 Sir Charles Adam (3rd time) (s.a.)
1847 - 1852 Sir James Dundas (b. 1785 - d. 1862)
1852 Sir Maurice Fitzhardinge Berkeley
(1st time) (b. 1788 - d. 1867)
1852 - 1854 Hyde Parker (b. 1784? - d. 1854)
1854 - 1857 Sir Maurice Fitzhardinge Berkeley
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1857 - 1858 Sir Richard Dundas (1st time) (b. 1802 - d. 1861)
1858 - 1859 Sir William Martin (b. 1801 - d. 1895)
1859 - 1861 Sir Richard Dundas (2nd time) (s.a.)
1861 - 1866 Sir Frederick Grey (b. 1805 - d. 1878)
1866 - 1868 Sir Alexander Milne (1st time) (b. 1806 - d. 1896)
1868 - 1872 Sir Sidney Dacres (b. 1805 - d. 1884)
1872 - 1876 Sir Alexander Milne (2nd time) (s.a.)
1876 - 1877 Sir Hastings Yelverton (b. 1808 - d. 1878)
1877 - 1879 Sir George Wellesley (b. 1814 - d. 1901)
1879 - 1885 Sir Astley Cooper Key (b. 1821 - d. 1888)
1885 - 1886 Sir Arthur Hood (1st time) (b. 1824 - d. 1901)
1886 Sir John Hay (b. 1821 - d. 1912)
1886 - 1889 Sir Arthur Hood (2nd time) (s.a.)
1889 - 1891 Sir Vesey Hamilton (b. 1829 - d. 1912)
1891 - 1893 Sir Anthony Hoskins (b. 1828 - d. 1901)
1893 - 1899 Sir Frederick Richards (b. 1833 - d. 1912)
1899 - 1904 Walter Kerr (b. 1839 - d. 1927)
1904 - 1910 Sir John Fisher (from 1909, John
Fisher, Baron Fisher) (1st time) (b. 1841 - d. 1920)
1910 - 1911 Sir Arthur Wilson (b. 1842 - d. 1921)
1911 - 1912 Sir Francis Bridgeman (b. 1848 - d. 1929)
1912 - 1914 Prince Louis of Battenberg (b. 1854 - d. 1921)
1914 - 1915 John Fisher, Baron Fisher
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1915 - 1916 Sir Henry Jackson (b. 1855 - d. 1929)
Dec 1916 - 1917 Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe (b. 1859 - d. 1935)
1917 - 1919 Sir Rosslyn Wemyss (b. 1864 - d. 1933)
1919 - 1927 David Beatty, Earl Beatty (b. 1871 - d. 1936)
1927 - 1930 Sir Charles Madden (b. 1862 - d. 1935)
1930 - 1933 Sir Frederick Field (b. 1871 - d. 1945)
1933 - 1938 Sir Ernle Chatfield (from 1937,
Ernle Chatfield, Baron Chatfield) (b. 1873 - d. 1967)
Sep 1938 - 1939 Sir Roger Backhouse (b. 1878 - d. 1939)
1939 - 1943 Sir Dudley Pound (b. 1877 - d. 1943)
1943 - 1946 Sir Andrew Cunningham (from 15 Sep
1945, Andrew Cunningham, Baron
Cunningham of Hyndhope) (b. 1883 - d. 1963)
1946 - 1948 Sir John Cunningham (b. 1885 - d. 1962)
1948 - 1951 Bruce Fraser, Baron Fraser of
North Cape (b. 1888 - d. 1981)
1951 - 1955 Sir Rhoderick McGrigor (b. 1893 - d. 1959)
1955 - 1959 Louis Mountbatten, Earl
Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1900 - d. 1979)
1959 - 1960 Sir Charles Lambe (b. 1900 - d. 1960)
1960 - 1963 Sir Caspar John (b. 1903 - d. 1984)
1963 - 1966 Sir David Luce (b. 1906 - d. 1971)
1966 - 1968 Sir Varyl Begg (b. 1908 - d. 1995)
1968 - 3 Jul 1970 Sir Michael Le Fanu (b. 1913 - d. 1970)
3 Jul 1970 - 1971 Sir Peter Hill-Norton (b. 1915 - d. 2004)
1971 - 1974 Sir Michael Pollock (b. 1916 - d. 2006)
1974 - 1977 Sir Edward Ashmore (b. 1919 - d. 2016)
1977 - 1979 Sir Terence Lewin (b. 1920 - d. 1999)
1979 - 1982 Sir Henry Leach (b. 1923 - d. 2011)
1982 - 1985 Sir John Fieldhouse (b. 1928 - d. 1992)
1985 - 1989 Sir William Staveley (b. 1928 - d. 1997)
1989 - 1993 Sir Julian Oswald (b. 1933 - d. 2011)
1993 - 1995 Sir Benjamin Bathurst (b. 1936)
1995 - 1998 Sir Jock Slater (b. 1938)
1998 - Jan 2001 Sir Michael Boyce (b. 1943 - d. 2022)
Jan 2001 - 17 Sep 2002 Sir Nigel Essenhigh (b. 1944)
17 Sep 2002 - 7 Feb 2006 Sir Alan West (b. 1948)
7 Feb 2006 - 21 Jul 2009 Sir Jonathon Band (b. 1950)
21 Jul 2009 - 9 Apr 2013 Sir Mark Stanhope (b. 1952)
9 Apr 2013 - 8 Apr 2016 Sir George Zambellas (b. 1958)
8 Apr 2016 - 19 Jun 2019 Sir Philip Jones (b. 1960)
19 Jun 2019 - 8 Nov 2021 Tony Radakin (from 12 Jun 2021,
Sir Tony Radakin) (b. 1965)
8 Nov 2021 - Sir Ben Key (b. 1965)
Royal Air Force
Chiefs of the Air Staff
3 Jan 1918 - 13 Apr 1918 Sir Hugh Trenchard (1st time) (b. 1873 - d. 1956)
13 Apr 1918 - 22 Jan 1919 Frederick Sykes (from 1 Jan 1919,
Sir Frederick Sykes) (b. 1877 - d. 1954)
22 Jan 1919 - 1 Jan 1930 Sir Hugh Trenchard (2nd time) (s.a.)
1 Jan 1930 - 1 Apr 1933 Sir John Salmond (1st time) (b. 1881 - d. 1968)
1 Apr 1933 - 27 Apr 1933 Sir Geoffrey Salmond (b. 1878 - d. 1933)
28 Apr 1933 - 22 May 1933 Sir John Salmond (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
22 May 1933 - 1 Sep 1937 Sir Edward Ellington (b. 1877 - d. 1967)
1 Sep 1937 - 25 Oct 1940 Sir Cyril Newall (b. 1886 - d. 1963)
25 Oct 1940 - 1 Jan 1946 Sir Charles Portal (b. 1893 - d. 1971)
1 Jan 1946 - 1 Jan 1950 Sir Arthur Tedder (b. 1890 - d. 1967)
1 Jan 1950 - 1 Jan 1953 Sir John Slessor (b. 1897 - d. 1979)
1 Jan 1953 - 1 Jan 1956 Sir William Dickson (b. 1898 - d. 1987)
1 Jan 1956 - 1 Jan 1960 Sir Dermot Boyle (b. 1904 - d. 1993)
1 Jan 1960 - 1 Sep 1963 Sir Thomas Pike (b. 1906 - d. 1983)
1 Sep 1963 - 1 Apr 1967 Sir Samuel Elworthy (b. 1911 - d. 1993)
1 Apr 1967 - 1 Apr 1971 Sir John Grandy (b. 1913 - d. 2004)
1 Apr 1971 - 1 Apr 1974 Sir Denis Spotswood (b. 1916 - d. 2001)
1 Apr 1974 - 7 Aug 1976 Sir Andrew Humphrey (b. 1921 - d. 1977)
7 Aug 1976 - 10 Aug 1977 Sir Neil Cameron (b. 1920 - d. 1985)
10 Aug 1977 - 15 Oct 1982 Sir Michael Beetham (b. 1923 - d. 2015)
15 Oct 1982 - 15 Oct 1985 Sir Keith Williamson (b. 1928 - d. 2018)
15 Oct 1985 - 14 Nov 1988 Sir David Craig (b. 1929)
14 Nov 1988 - 6 Nov 1992 Sir Peter Harding (b. 1933 - d. 2021)
6 Nov 1992 - 10 Apr 1997 Sir Michael Graydon (b. 1938)
10 Apr 1997 - 21 Apr 2000 Sir Richard Johns (b. 1939)
21 Apr 2000 - 1 Aug 2003 Sir Peter Squire (b. 1945)
1 Aug 2003 - 13 Apr 2006 Sir Jock Stirrup (b. 1949)
13 Apr 2006 - 31 Jul 2009 Sir Glenn Torpy (b. 1953)
31 Jul 2009 - 25 Jul 2013 Sir Stephen Dalton (b. 1954)
25 Jul 2013 - 12 Jul 2016 Sir Andrew Pulford (b. 1958)
12 Jul 2016 - 26 Jul 2019 Sir Stephen Hillier (b. 1962)
26 Jul 2019 - Mike Wigston (from 10 Oct 2020,
Sir Mike Wigston) (b. 1968)
Chancellors of the Exchequer
15 Nov 1699 - 29 Mar 1701 John Smith (1st time) (b. 1655 - d. 1723)
29 Mar 1701 - Feb 1708 Henry Boyle (b. 1669 - d. 1725)
1708 - 11 Aug 1710 John Smith (2nd time) (s.a.)
11 Aug 1710 - 1711 Sir Robert Harley (b. 1661 - d. 1724)
1711 - 1713 Robert Benson (b. 1676 - d. 1731)
1713 - 1714 Sir William Wyndham (b. 1687 - d. 1740)
1714 - 11 Oct 1715 Sir Richard Onslow (b. 1654 - d. 1717)
11 Oct 1715 - 15 Apr 1717 Sir Robert Walpole (1st time) (b. 1676 - d. 1745)
15 Apr 1717 - 20 Mar 1718 James Stanhope, (from 3 Jul 1717)
Viscount Stanhope (b. 1673 - d. 1721)
20 Mar 1718 - 1721 John Aislabie (b. 1670 - d. 1742)
1721 Sir John Pratt (acting) (b. 1657 - d. 1725)
3 Apr 1721 - 16 Feb 1742 Sir Robert Walpole (2nd time) (s.a.)
16 Feb 1742 - 25 Aug 1743 Samuel Sandys (b. 1695 - d. 1770)
25 Aug 1743 - 18 Mar 1754 Henry Pelham (b. 1694 - d. 1754)
18 Mar 1754 - 6 Apr 1754 Sir William Lee (acting) (b. 1688 - d. 1754)
6 Apr 1754 - 22 Nov 1755 Henry Bilson Legge (1st time) (b. 1708 - d. 1764)
22 Nov 1755 - 16 Nov 1756 Sir George Lyttelton (b. 1709 - d. 1773)
16 Nov 1756 - 1757 Henry Bilson Legge (2nd time) (s.a.)
1757 William Murray, Baron Mansfield
(1st time) (acting) (b. 1705 - d. 1793)
2 Jul 1757 - 12 Mar 1761 Henry Bilson Legge (3rd time) (s.a.)
12 Mar 1761 - 28 May 1762 William Wildman Barrington,
Viscount Barrington (b. 1717 - d. 1793)
28 May 1762 - 16 Apr 1763 Sir Francis Dashwood (b. 1708 - d. 1781)
16 Apr 1763 - 13 Jul 1765 George Grenville (b. 1712 - d. 1770)
13 Jul 1765 - 2 Aug 1766 William Dowdeswell (b. 1721 - d. 1775)
2 Aug 1766 - 1767 Charles Townshend (b. 1725 - d. 1767)
1767 William Murray, Baron Mansfield
(2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
1 Dec 1767 - 1782 Frederick North, Lord North (b. 1732 - d. 1792)
1782 William Pitt the Younger
(1st time) (b. 1759 - d. 1806)
27 Mar 1782 - 13 Jul 1782 Lord John Cavendish (1st time) (b. 1732 - d. 1796)
13 Jul 1782 - 4 Apr 1783 William Pitt the Younger
(2nd time) (s.a.)
4 Apr 1783 - 27 Dec 1783 Lord John Cavendish (2nd time) (s.a.)
27 Dec 1783 - 21 Mar 1801 William Pitt the Younger
(3rd time) (s.a.)
21 Mar 1801 - 16 May 1804 Henry Addington (b. 1757 - d. 1844)
16 May 1804 - 23 Jan 1806 William Pitt the Younger
(4th time) (s.a.)
1806 Edward Law, Baron Ellenborough (b. 1750 - d. 1818)
(acting)
10 Feb 1806 - 31 Mar 1807 Henry Petty (b. 1780 - d. 1863)
31 Mar 1807 - 16 Jun 1812 Spencer Perceval (b. 1762 - d. 1812)
16 Jun 1812 - 3 May 1823 Nicholas Vansittart (b. 1766 - d. 1851)
3 May 1823 - 30 Apr 1827 Frederick John Robinson (b. 1782 - d. 1859)
30 Apr 1827 - 8 Sep 1827 George Canning (b. 1770 - d. 1827)
8 Sep 1827 - 26 Jan 1828 John Charles Herries (b. 1778 - d. 1855)
26 Jan 1828 - 24 Nov 1830 Henry Goulburn (1st time) (b. 1784 - d. 1856)
24 Nov 1830 - Nov 1834 John Charles Spencer, Viscount
Althorp (b. 1782 - d. 1845)
Nov 1834 - 26 Dec 1834 Thomas Denman, Baron Denman (b. 1779 - d. 1854)
(acting)
26 Dec 1834 - 18 Apr 1835 Sir Robert Peel (b. 1788 - d. 1850)
18 Apr 1835 - 28 Aug 1839 Thomas Spring Rice (b. 1790 - d. 1866)
28 Aug 1839 - 6 Sep 1841 Francis Baring (b. 1796 - d. 1866)
6 Sep 1841 - 6 Jul 1846 Henry Goulburn (2nd time) (s.a.)
6 Jul 1846 - 28 Feb 1852 Sir Charles Wood (b. 1800 - d. 1885)
28 Feb 1852 - 1 Jan 1853 Benjamin Disraeli (1st time) (b. 1804 - d. 1881)
1 Jan 1853 - 7 Mar 1855 William Ewart Gladstone (1st time) (b. 1809 - d. 1898)
7 Mar 1855 - 1 Mar 1858 Sir George Cornewall Lewis (b. 1806 - d. 1863)
1 Mar 1858 - 24 Jun 1859 Benjamin Disraeli (2nd time) (s.a.)
24 Jun 1859 - 12 Jul 1866 William Ewart Gladstone (2nd time) (s.a.)
12 Jul 1866 - 29 Feb 1868 Benjamin Disraeli (3rd time) (s.a.)
29 Feb 1868 - 16 Dec 1868 George Ward Hunt (b. 1825 - d. 1877)
16 Dec 1868 - 8 Aug 1873 Robert Lowe (b. 1811 - d. 1892)
8 Aug 1873 - 20 Feb 1874 William Ewart Gladstone (3rd time) (s.a.)
21 Feb 1874 - 28 Apr 1880 Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (b. 1818 - d. 1887)
28 Apr 1880 - 16 Dec 1882 William Ewart Gladstone (4th time) (s.a.)
16 Dec 1882 - 24 Jun 1885 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (b. 1827 - d. 1896)
24 Jun 1885 - 13 Feb 1886 Sir Michael Hicks Beach (1st time) (b. 1837 - d. 1916)
13 Feb 1886 - 9 Aug 1886 Sir William Harcourt (1st time) (b. 1827 - d. 1904)
9 Aug 1886 - 14 Jan 1887 Lord Randolph Churchill (b. 1849 - d. 1895)
14 Jan 1887 - 18 Aug 1892 George Joachim Goschen (b. 1831 - d. 1907)
18 Aug 1892 - Jun 1895 Sir William Harcourt (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jun 1895 - Jul 1902 Sir Michael Hicks Beach (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jul 1902 - 9 Oct 1903 Charles Thomson Ritchie (b. 1838 - d. 1906)
9 Oct 1903 - 11 Dec 1905 Austen Chamberlain (1st time) (b. 1863 - d. 1937)
11 Dec 1905 - Apr 1908 H.H. Asquith (b. 1852 - d. 1928)
Apr 1908 - 27 May 1915 David Lloyd George (b. 1863 - d. 1945)
27 May 1915 - Dec 1916 Reginald McKenna (b. 1863 - d. 1943)
Dec 1916 - Jan 1919 Bonar Law (b. 1858 - d. 1923)
Jan 1919 - Apr 1921 Austen Chamberlain (2nd time) (s.a.)
Apr 1921 - Oct 1922 Sir Robert Horne (b. 1871 - d. 1940)
Oct 1922 - Aug 1923 Stanley Baldwin (b. 1867 - d. 1947)
Aug 1923 - 23 Jan 1924 Neville Chamberlain (1st time) (b. 1869 - d. 1940)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 Philip Snowden (1st time) (b. 1864 - d. 1937)
7 Nov 1924 - 7 Jun 1929 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
8 Jun 1929 - Nov 1931 Philip Snowden (2nd time) (s.a.)
Nov 1931 - May 1937 Neville Chamberlain (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1937 - May 1940 Sir John Simon (b. 1873 - d. 1954)
May 1940 - 21 Sep 1943 Sir Kingsley Wood (b. 1881 - d. 1943)
Sep 1943 - Jul 1945 Sir John Anderson (b. 1882 - d. 1958)
26 Jul 1945 - 15 Nov 1947 Hugh Dalton (b. 1887 - d. 1962)
15 Nov 1947 - 19 Oct 1950 Sir Stafford Cripps (b. 1889 - d. 1952)
19 Oct 1950 - 26 Oct 1951 Hugh Gaitskell (b. 1906 - d. 1963)
26 Oct 1951 - 24 Dec 1955 Richard Austen Butler (b. 1902 - d. 1982)
24 Dec 1955 - 14 Jan 1957 Harold Macmillan (b. 1894 - d. 1986)
14 Jan 1957 - 7 Jan 1958 Peter Thorneycroft (b. 1909 - d. 1994)
7 Jan 1958 - 27 Jul 1960 Derick Heathcoat Amory (b. 1899 - d. 1981)
27 Jul 1960 - 13 Jul 1962 Selwyn Lloyd (b. 1904 - d. 1978)
13 Jul 1962 - 17 Oct 1964 Reginald Maudling (b. 1917 - d. 1979)
17 Oct 1964 - 29 Nov 1967 James Callaghan (b. 1912 - d. 2005)
29 Nov 1967 - 19 Jun 1970 Roy Jenkins (b. 1920 - d. 2003)
19 Jun 1970 - 20 Jul 1970 Iain Macleod (b. 1913 - d. 1970)
25 Jul 1970 - 5 Mar 1974 Anthony Barber (b. 1920 - d. 2005)
5 Mar 1974 - 5 May 1979 Denis Healey (b. 1917 - d. 2015)
5 May 1979 - 11 Jun 1983 Sir Geoffrey Howe (b. 1926 - d. 2015)
11 Jun 1983 - 26 Oct 1989 Nigel Lawson (b. 1932)
26 Oct 1989 - 28 Nov 1990 John Major (b. 1943)
28 Nov 1990 - 27 May 1993 Norman Lamont (b. 1942)
27 May 1993 - 2 May 1997 Kenneth Clarke (b. 1940)
2 May 1997 - 28 Jun 2007 Gordon Brown (b. 1951)
28 Jun 2007 - 12 May 2010 Alistair Darling (b. 1953)
12 May 2010 - 15 Jul 2016 George Osborne (b. 1971)
15 Jul 2016 - 25 Jul 2019 Philip Hammond (b. 1955)
25 Jul 2019 - 13 Feb 2020 Sajid Javid (b. 1969)
13 Feb 2020 - 8 Jul 2022 Rishi Sunak (b. 1980)
8 Jul 2022 - 13 Sep 2022 Nadhim Zahawi (b. 1967)
13 Sep 2022 - 19 Oct 2022 Kwasi Kwarteng (b. 1975)
19 Oct 2022 - Jeremy Hunt (b. 1966)
Secretaries of state
- Southern Department -
1699 - 1700 Edward Villiers, Earl of Jersey (b. 1656 - d. 1711)
1700 - May 1702 Charles Montagu, Earl of
Manchester (b. 1661? - d. 1722)
1702 - Apr 1704 Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham (b. 1647 - d. 1730)
May 1704 - Dec 1706 Sir Charles Hedges (b. 1650? - d. 1714)
1706 - 1710 Charles Spencer, Earl of
Sunderland (b. 1674 - d. 1722)
1710 - 1713 William Legge, Baron Dartmouth
(from 1711, William Legge,
Earl of Dartmouth) (b. 1672 - d. 1750)
1713 - 1714 Henry St. John, Viscount
Bolingbroke (b. 1678 - d. 1751)
1714 - 1716 James Stanhope (b. 1673 - d. 1721)
1716 - 1717 Paul Methuen (b. 1672 - d. 1757)
1717 - 1718 Joseph Addison (b. 1672 - d. 1719)
1718 - 1721 James Craggs the Younger (b. 1686 - d. 1721)
1721 - 1724 John Carteret, Baron Carteret (b. 1690 - d. 1763)
1724 - 1748 Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of
Newcastle (b. 1693 - d. 1768)
1748 - 1751 John Russell, Duke of Bedford (b. 1710 - d. 1771)
1751 - 1754 Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness
(1st time) (b. 1681 - d. 1722)
1754 - 1755 Sir Thomas Robinson (b. c.1700 - d. 1771)
1755 - 1756 Henry Fox (b. 1705 - d. 1774)
4 Dec 1756 - Apr 1757 William Pitt (1st time) (b. 1708 - d. 1778)
1757 Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1757 - 1761 William Pitt (2nd time) (s.a.)
1761 - 1763 Charles Wyndham, Earl of Egremont (b. 1710 - d. 1763)
1763 - 1765 George Montagu Dunk, Earl of
Halifax (b. 1716 - d. 1771)
1765 - 1766 Henry Seymour Conway (s.a.)
1766 Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond
and Lennox (b. 1735 - d. 1806)
1766 - 1768 William Petty, Earl of Shelburne (b. 1737 - d. 1805)
1768 - 1770 Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth
(1st time) (b. 1640 - d. 1714)
1770 - 1775 William Nassau de Zuylestein,
Earl of Rochford (b. 1717 - d. 1781)
1775 - 1779 Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1779 - 1782 Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough (b. 1718 - d. 1793)
- Home Affairs -
27 Mar 1782 - 10 Jul 1782 William Petty, Earl of Shelburne (s.a.)
10 Jul 1782 - 2 Apr 1783 Thomas Townshend (1st time) (b. 1733 - d. 1800)
2 Apr 1783 - 19 Dec 1783 Frederick North, Lord North (b. 1732 - d. 1792)
19 Dec 1783 - 23 Dec 1783 George Nugent-Temple-Grenville,
Earl Temple (b. 1753 - d. 1813)
23 Dec 1783 - 5 Jun 1789 Thomas Townshend, Baron Sydney
(2nd time) (s.a.)
5 Jun 1789 - 8 Jun 1791 William Wyndham Grenville, (from
1790) Baron Grenville (b. 1759 - d. 1834)
8 Jun 1791 - 11 Jul 1794 Henry Dundas (b. 1742 - d. 1811)
11 Jul 1794 - 30 Jul 1801 William Henry Cavendish
Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of
Portland (b. 1738 - d. 1809)
30 Jul 1801 - 17 Aug 1803 Thomas Pelham (b. 1756 - d. 1826)
17 Aug 1803 - 12 May 1804 Charles Philip Yorke (b. 1764 - d. 1834)
12 May 1804 - 5 Feb 1806 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Baron
Hawkesbury (1st time) (b. 1770 - d. 1828)
5 Feb 1806 - 25 Mar 1807 George John Spencer, Earl Spencer (b. 1758 - d. 1834)
25 Mar 1807 - 1 Nov 1809 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Baron
Hawkesbury (from 1808, Earl of
Liverpool) (2nd time) (s.a.)
1 Nov 1809 - 11 Jun 1812 Richard Ryder (b. 1766 - d. 1832)
11 Jun 1812 - 17 Jan 1822 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (b. 1757 - d. 1844)
17 Jan 1822 - 30 Apr 1827 Robert Peel (1st time) (b. 1788 - d. 1850)
30 Apr 1827 - 16 Jul 1827 William Sturges Bourne (b. 1769 - d. 1845)
16 Jul 1827 - 26 Jan 1828 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess
of Lansdowne (b. 1780 - d. 1863)
26 Jan 1828 - 22 Nov 1830 Robert Peel (2nd time) (s.a.)
22 Nov 1830 - 19 Jul 1834 William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne (b. 1779 - d. 1848)
19 Jul 1834 - 15 Dec 1834 John William Ponsonby, Baron
Duncannon (b. 1781 - d. 1847)
15 Dec 1834 - 18 Apr 1835 Henry Goulburn (b. 1784 - d. 1856)
18 Apr 1835 - 30 Aug 1839 Lord John Russell (b. 1792 - d. 1878)
30 Aug 1839 - 6 Sep 1841 Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess
of Normanby (b. 1797 - d. 1863)
6 Sep 1841 - 6 Jul 1846 Sir James Graham (b. 1792 - d. 1861)
6 Jul 1846 - 27 Feb 1852 Sir George Grey (1st time) (b. 1799 - d. 1882)
27 Feb 1852 - 28 Dec 1852 Spencer Horatio Walpole (1st time) (b. 1806 - d. 1898)
28 Dec 1852 - 8 Feb 1855 Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston (b. 1784 - d. 1865)
9 Feb 1855 - 26 Feb 1858 Sir George Grey (2nd time) (s.a.)
26 Feb 1858 - 28 Feb 1859 Spencer Horatio Walpole (2nd time) (s.a.)
28 Feb 1859 - 18 Jun 1859 Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron
Estcourt (b. 1801 - d. 1876)
18 Jun 1859 - 23 Jul 1861 Sir George Cornewall Lewis (b. 1806 - d. 1863)
23 Jul 1861 - 6 Jul 1866 Sir George Grey (3rd time) (s.a.)
6 Jul 1866 - 17 May 1867 Spencer Horatio Walpole (3rd time) (s.a.)
17 May 1867 - 9 Dec 1868 Gathorne Hardy (b. 1814 - d. 1906)
9 Dec 1868 - 9 Aug 1873 Henry Austin Bruce (b. 1815 - d. 1895)
9 Aug 1873 - 21 Feb 1874 Robert Lowe (b. 1811 - d. 1892)
21 Feb 1874 - 28 Apr 1880 Richard Assheton Cross (1st time) (b. 1823 - d. 1914)
28 Apr 1880 - 24 Jun 1885 Sir William Harcourt (b. 1827 - d. 1904)
24 Jun 1885 - 6 Feb 1886 Sir Richard Assheton Cross
(2nd time) (s.a.)
6 Feb 1886 - 3 Aug 1886 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (b. 1827 - d. 1896)
3 Aug 1886 - 18 Aug 1892 Henry Matthews (b. 1826 - d. 1913)
18 Aug 1892 - 29 Jun 1895 H.H. Asquith (b. 1852 - d. 1928)
29 Jun 1895 - 12 Nov 1900 Sir Matthew White Ridley (b. 1842 - d. 1904)
12 Nov 1900 - 11 Aug 1902 Charles Thomson Ritchie (b. 1838 - d. 1906)
11 Aug 1902 - 11 Dec 1905 Aretas Akers-Douglas (b. 1851 - d. 1926)
11 Dec 1905 - 19 Feb 1910 Herbert John Gladstone (b. 1854 - d. 1930)
19 Feb 1910 - 24 Oct 1911 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
24 Oct 1911 - 27 May 1915 Reginald McKenna (b. 1863 - d. 1943)
27 May 1915 - 12 Jan 1916 Sir John Simon (1st time) (b. 1873 - d. 1954)
12 Jan 1916 - 11 Dec 1916 Herbert Louis Samuel (1st time) (b. 1870 - d. 1963)
11 Dec 1916 - 14 Jan 1919 Sir George Cave (from 1918,
George Cave, Viscount Cave) (b. 1856 - d. 1928)
14 Jan 1919 - 25 Oct 1922 Edward Shortt (b. 1862 - d. 1935)
25 Oct 1922 - 23 Jan 1924 William Clive Bridgeman (b. 1864 - d. 1935)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 Arthur Henderson (b. 1863 - d. 1935)
7 Nov 1924 - 7 Jun 1929 Sir William Joynson-Hicks (b. 1865 - d. 1932)
8 Jun 1929 - 26 Aug 1931 John Robert Clynes (b. 1869 - d. 1949)
26 Aug 1931 - 1 Oct 1932 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1 Oct 1932 - 7 Jun 1935 Sir John Gilmour (b. 1876 - d. 1940)
7 Jun 1935 - 28 May 1937 Sir John Simon (2nd time) (s.a.)
28 May 1937 - 4 Sep 1939 Sir Samuel Hoare (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
4 Sep 1939 - 4 Oct 1940 Sir John Anderson (b. 1882 - d. 1958)
4 Oct 1940 - 28 May 1945 Herbert Morrison (b. 1888 - d. 1965)
28 May 1945 - 3 Aug 1945 Sir Donald Bradley Somervell (b. 1889 - d. 1960)
3 Aug 1945 - 27 Oct 1951 James Chuter Ede (b. 1882 - d. 1965)
27 Oct 1951 - 19 Oct 1954 Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (b. 1900 - d. 1967)
19 Oct 1954 - 14 Jan 1957 Gwilym Lloyd George (b. 1894 - d. 1967)
14 Jan 1957 - 13 Jul 1962 Richard Austen Butler (b. 1902 - d. 1982)
13 Jul 1962 - 19 Oct 1964 Henry Brooke (b. 1903 - d. 1984)
19 Oct 1964 - 23 Dec 1965 Sir Frank Soskice (b. 1902 - d. 1979)
23 Dec 1965 - 29 Nov 1967 Roy Jenkins (1st time) (b. 1920 - d. 2003)
29 Nov 1967 - 20 Jun 1970 James Callaghan (b. 1912 - d. 2005)
20 Jun 1970 - 19 Jul 1972 Reginald Maudling (b. 1917 - d. 1979)
19 Jul 1972 - 5 Mar 1974 Robert Carr (b. 1916 - d. 2012)
5 Mar 1974 - 10 Sep 1976 Roy Jenkins (2nd time) (s.a.)
10 Sep 1976 - 5 May 1979 Merlyn Rees (b. 1920 - d. 2006)
5 May 1979 - 12 Jun 1983 William Whitelaw (b. 1918 - d. 1999)
12 Jun 1983 - 2 Sep 1985 Leon Brittan (b. 1939 - d. 2015)
2 Sep 1985 - 26 Oct 1989 Douglas Hurd (b. 1930)
26 Oct 1989 - 29 Nov 1990 David Waddington (b. 1929 - d. 2017)
29 Nov 1990 - 11 Apr 1992 Kenneth Baker (b. 1934)
11 Apr 1992 - 27 May 1993 Kenneth Clarke (b. 1940)
27 May 1993 - 2 May 1997 Michael Howard (b. 1941)
2 May 1997 - 8 Jun 2001 Jack Straw (b. 1946)
8 Jun 2001 - 15 Dec 2004 David Blunkett (b. 1947)
15 Dec 2004 - 5 May 2006 Charles Clarke (b. 1950)
5 May 2006 - 28 Jun 2007 John Reid (b. 1947)
28 Jun 2007 - 5 Jun 2009 Jacqui Smith (f) (b. 1962)
5 Jun 2009 - 12 May 2010 Alan Johnson (b. 1950)
12 May 2010 - 15 Jul 2016 Theresa May (f) (b. 1956)
15 Jul 2016 - 2 May 2018 Amber Rudd (f) (b. 1963)
2 May 2018 - 25 Jul 2019 Sajid Javid (b. 1969)
25 Jul 2019 - 13 Sep 2022 Priti Patel (f) (b. 1972)
13 Sep 2022 - 20 Oct 2022 Suella Braverman (f) (1st time) (b. 1980)
20 Oct 2022 - 27 Oct 2022 Grant Shapps (b. 1968)
27 Oct 2022 - Suella Braverman (f) (2nd time) (s.a.)
13 Jun 2003 Department for Constitutional Affairs subsumes
Lord Chancellor's Department
9 May 2007 renamed Ministry of Justice
Lord Chancellors (from 13 Jun 2003 also secretaries of state)
1693 - 17 Apr 1700 Sir John Somers (from 1697, John
Somers, Baron Somers) (b. 1651 - d. 1716)
(Lord Keeper to 22 Apr 1697)
21 May 1700 - 11 Oct 1705 Sir Nathan Wright (Lord Keeper) (b. 1654 - d. 1721)
11 Oct 1705 - 23 Sep 1710 William Cowper (from 26 Nov 1706,
Sir William Cowper; from 14 Dec
1706, William Cowper, Baron
Cowper) (1st time) (b. 1665 - d. 1723)
(Lord Keeper to May 1707)
23 Sep 1710 - 19 Oct 1710 Sir Thomas Trevor (b. 1658 - d. 1730)
et al. (commissioners)
19 Oct 1710 - 21 Sep 1714 Simon Harcourt, (from 1711) Baron
Harcourt (Lord Keeper to 1713) (b. 1661? - d. 1727)
21 Sep 1714 - 15 Apr 1718 William Cowper, Baron Cowper
(2nd time) (s.a.)
15 Apr 1718 - 12 May 1718 Sir R. Tracy
et al. (commissioners)
12 May 1718 - 7 Jan 1725 Thomas Parker, Baron Parker of
Macclesfield (from 1721, Thomas
Parker, Earl of Macclesfield) (b. 1666 - d. 1732)
7 Jan 1725 - 1 Jun 1725 Sir Joseph Jekyll (b. 1663 - d. 1738)
et al. (commissioners)
1 Jun 1725 - 19 Nov 1733 Peter King, Baron King (b. 1669 - d. 1734)
29 Nov 1733 - 14 Feb 1737 Charles Talbot, Baron Talbot of
Hensol (b. 1685 - d. 1737)
21 Feb 1737 - 19 Nov 1756 Philip Yorke, Baron Hardwicke
(from 1754, Philip Yorke, Earl of
Hardwicke) (b. 1690 - d. 1764)
19 Nov 1756 - 1757 Sir John Willes (b. 1685 - d. 1761)
et al. (commissioners)
1757 - 30 Jul 1766 Sir Robert Henley (from 1760,
Robert Henley, Baron Henley; from
1764, Robert Henley, Earl of
Northington) (b. 1708? - d. 1772)
(Lord Keeper to 16 Jan 1761)
30 Jul 1766 - 17 Jan 1770 Charles Pratt, Baron Camden (b. 1714 - d. 1794)
17 Jan 1770 - 20 Jan 1770 Charles Yorke (b. 1722 - d. 1770)
20 Jan 1770 - 23 Jan 1771 Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe (b. 1705 - d. 1778)
et al. (commissioners)
23 Jan 1771 - 3 Jun 1778 Henry Bathurst, Baron Apsley
(from 1775, Henry Bathurst, Earl
Bathurst) (b. 1714 - d. 1794)
3 Jun 1778 - 2 Apr 1783 Edward Thurlow, Baron Thurlow
(1st time) (b. 1731 - d. 1806)
2 Apr 1783 - 23 Dec 1783 Alexander Wedderburn, Baron
Loughborough (b. 1733 - d. 1805)
et al. (commissioners)
23 Dec 1783 - 15 Jun 1792 Edward Thurlow, Baron Thurlow
(2nd time) (s.a.)
15 Jun 1792 - 28 Jan 1793 Sir James Eyre (b. 1734 - d. 1799)
et al. (commissioners)
28 Jan 1793 - 14 Apr 1801 Alexander Wedderburn, Baron
Loughborough (s.a.)
14 Apr 1801 - 7 Feb 1806 John Scott, Baron Eldon (1st time) (b. 1751 - d. 1838)
7 Feb 1806 - 1 Apr 1807 Thomas Erskine, Baron Erskine (b. 1750 - d. 1823)
1 Apr 1807 - 1 May 1827 John Scott, Baron Eldon (from
1821, John Scott, Earl of Eldon)
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1 May 1827 - 22 Nov 1830 John Singleton Copley, Baron
Lyndhurst (1st time) (b. 1772 - d. 1863)
Nov 1830 - Nov 1834 Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and
Vaux (b. 1778 - d. 1868)
Dec 1834 - Apr 1835 John Singleton Copley, Baron
Lyndhurst (2nd time) (s.a.)
Apr 1835 - 17 Jan 1836 Sir Charles Pepys (b. 1781 - d. 1851)
et al. (commissioners)
17 Jan 1836 - 6 Sep 1841 Charles Pepys, Baron Cottenham
(1st time) (s.a.)
6 Sep 1841 - 6 Jul 1846 John Singleton Copley, Baron
Lyndhurst (3rd time) (s.a.)
6 Jul 1846 - 1850 Charles Pepys, Baron Cottenham
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1850 Henry Bickersteth, Baron Langdale (b. 1783 - d. 1851)
et al. (commissioners)
15 Jul 1850 - 27 Feb 1852 Thomas Wilde, Baron Truro (b. 1782 - d. 1855)
27 Feb 1852 - 28 Dec 1852 Edward Sugden, Baron St. Leonards (b. 1781 - d. 1875)
28 Dec 1852 - 1 Mar 1858 Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron
Cranworth (1st time) (b. 1790 - d. 1868)
1 Mar 1858 - 24 Jun 1859 Frederick Thesiger, Baron
Chelmsford (1st time) (b. 1794 - d. 1878)
24 Jun 1859 - 23 Jun 1861 John Campbell, Baron Campbell of
St. Andrews (b. 1779 - d. 1861)
27 Jun 1861 - 11 Jul 1865 Richard Bethell, Baron Westbury (b. 1800 - d. 1873)
11 Jul 1865 - 9 Jul 1866 Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron
Cranworth (2nd time) (s.a.)
9 Jul 1866 - 29 Feb 1868 Frederick Thesiger, Baron
Chelmsford (2nd time) (s.a.)
29 Feb 1868 - 12 Dec 1868 Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Baron
Cairns (1st time) (b. 1819 - d. 1885)
12 Dec 1868 - 2 Nov 1872 William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley (b. 1801 - d. 1881)
2 Nov 1872 - 21 Feb 1874 Roundell Palmer, Baron Selborne
(1st time) (b. 1812 - d. 1895)
21 Feb 1874 - 28 Apr 1880 Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Baron
Cairns (from 1878, Hugh McCalmont
Cairns, Earl Cairns) (2nd time) (s.a.)
28 Apr 1880 - 24 Jun 1885 Roundell Palmer, Baron Selborne
(from 1882, Roundell Palmer, Earl
of Selborne) (2nd time) (s.a.)
24 Jun 1885 - 6 Feb 1886 Hardinge Giffard, Baron Halsbury
(1st time) (b. 1823 - d. 1921)
6 Feb 1886 - 3 Aug 1886 Farrer Herschell, Baron Herschell
(1st time) (b. 1837 - d. 1899)
3 Aug 1886 - 18 Aug 1892 Hardinge Giffard, Baron Halsbury
(2nd time) (s.a.)
18 Aug 1892 - 29 Jun 1895 Farrer Herschell, Baron Herschell
(2nd time) (s.a.)
29 Jun 1895 - 11 Dec 1905 Hardinge Giffard, Baron Halsbury
(from 1898, Hardinge Giffard, Earl
of Halsbury) (3rd time) (s.a.)
11 Dec 1905 - 10 Jun 1912 Sir Robert Reid (from 8 Jan 1906,
Robert Reid, Baron Loreburn; from
4 Jul 1911, Robert Reid, Earl
Loreburn) (b. 1846 - d. 1923)
10 Jun 1912 - 27 May 1915 Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount
Haldane (1st time) (b. 1856 - d. 1928)
27 May 1915 - 11 Dec 1916 Stanley Buckmaster, Baron
Buckmaster (b. 1861 - d. 1934)
11 Dec 1916 - 14 Jan 1919 Robert Bannatyne Finlay, Baron
Finlay (b. 1842 - d. 1929)
14 Jan 1919 - 25 Oct 1922 Frederick Smith, Baron Birkenhead
(from 1921, Frederick Smith,
Viscount Birkenhead) (b. 1872 - d. 1930)
25 Oct 1922 - 23 Jan 1924 George Cave, Viscount Cave
(1st time) (b. 1856 - d. 1928)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount
Haldane (2nd time) (s.a.)
7 Nov 1924 - 27 Mar 1928 George Cave, Viscount Cave
(2nd time) (s.a.)
29 Mar 1928 - 7 Jun 1929 Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron
Hailsham (1st time) (b. 1872 - d. 1950)
8 Jun 1929 - 6 Jun 1935 John Sankey, Baron Sankey (from
1932, John Sankey, Viscount
Sankey) (b. 1866 - d. 1948)
6 Jun 1935 - 15 Mar 1938 Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount
Hailsham (2nd time) (s.a.)
15 Mar 1938 - 4 Sep 1939 Frederic Maugham, Baron Maugham (b. 1866 - d. 1958)
4 Sep 1939 - 13 May 1940 Thomas Inskip, Viscount Caldecote (b. 1876 - d. 1947)
13 May 1940 - 28 Jul 1945 John Simon, Viscount Simon (b. 1873 - d. 1954)
28 Jul 1945 - 25 Oct 1951 William Jowitt, Baron Jowitt
(from 1947, William Jowitt,
Viscount Jowitt) (b. 1885 - d. 1957)
26 Oct 1951 - 18 Oct 1954 Gavin Turnbull Simonds, Baron
Simonds (b. 1881 - d. 1971)
19 Oct 1954 - 16 Jul 1962 David Maxwell Fyfe, Viscount
Kilmuir (b. 1900 - d. 1967)
17 Jul 1962 - 26 Oct 1964 Reginald Manningham-Buller,
Baron Dilhorne (b. 1905 - d. 1980)
27 Oct 1964 - 27 Jun 1970 Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron
Gardiner (b. 1900 - d. 1990)
28 Jun 1970 - 4 Mar 1974 Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron
Hailsham (1st time) (b. 1907 - d. 2001)
5 Mar 1974 - 4 May 1979 Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones (b. 1909 - d. 1989)
5 May 1979 - 12 Jun 1987 Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron
Hailsham (2nd time) (s.a.)
13 Jun 1987 - 27 Oct 1987 Sir Michael Havers (from 22 Jun
1987, Michael Havers, Baron
Havers) (b. 1923 - d. 1992)
28 Oct 1987 - 3 May 1997 James Mackay, Baron Mackay of
Clashfern (b. 1927)
3 May 1997 - 12 Jun 2003 Alexander Irvine, Baron Irvine of
Lairg (b. 1940)
12 Jun 2003 - 28 Jun 2007 Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron
Falconer of Thoroton (b. 1951)
28 Jun 2007 - 12 May 2010 Jack Straw (b. 1946)
12 May 2010 - 4 Sep 2012 Kenneth Clarke (b. 1940)
4 Sep 2012 - 10 May 2015 Chris Grayling (b. 1962)
10 May 2015 - 15 Jul 2016 Michael Gove (b. 1967)
15 Jul 2016 - 11 Jun 2017 Liz Truss (f) (b. 1975)
11 Jun 2017 - 11 Jan 2018 David Lidington (b. 1956)
11 Jan 2018 - 25 Jul 2019 David Gauke (b. 1971)
25 Jul 2019 - 20 Sep 2021 Robert Buckland (b. 1968)
20 Sep 2021 - 13 Sep 2022 Dominic Raab (1st time) (b. 1974)
13 Sep 2022 - 27 Oct 2022 Brandon Lewis (b. 1971)
27 Oct 2022 - Dominic Raab (2nd time) (s.a.)
Lord Presidents of the Council
1699 - 1702 Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
(1st time) (b. 1656 - d. 1733)
1702 Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset (b. 1662 - d. 1748)
1702 - 1708 Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1708 - 1710 John Somers, Baron Somers (b. 1651 - d. 1716)
1710 - 1711 Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester (b. 1641 - d. 1711)
1711 - 1714 John Sheffield, Duke of
Buckinghamshire (b. 1648 - d. 1721)
1714 - 1716 Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham (b. 1647 - d. 1730)
1716 - 1717 William Cavendish, Duke of
Devonshire (1st time) (b. c.1672 - d. 1729)
1717 - 1719 Charles Spencer, Earl of
Sunderland (b. 1674 - d. 1722)
1719 - 1720 Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of
Kingston (b. 1665? - d. 1726)
1720 - 1721 Charles Townshend, Viscount
Townshend (b. 1674 - d. 1738)
1721 - 1725 Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton (b. 1669 - d. 1725)
1725 - 1729 William Cavendish, Duke of
Devonshire (2nd time) (s.a.)
1729 - 1730 Thomas Trevor, Baron Trevor (b. 1658 - d. 1730)
1730 - 1742 Spencer Compton, Earl of
Wilmington (b. 1673? - d. 1743)
1742 - 1745 William Stanhope, Earl of
Harrington (b. 1690? - d. 1756)
1745 - 1751 Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke
of Dorset (b. 1688 - d. 1765)
1751 - 1763 John Carteret, Earl Granville (b. 1690 - d. 1763)
1763 - 1765 John Russell, Duke of Bedford (b. 1710 - d. 1771)
1765 - 1766 Daniel Finch, Earl of Winchilsea
and Nottingham (b. 1689 - d. 1769)
1766 - 1767 Robert Henley, Earl of Northington (b. 1708? - d. 1772)
1767 - 1779 Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl
Gower (1st time) (b. 1721 - d. 1803)
1779 - 1782 Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst (b. 1714 - d. 1794)
1782 - 1783 Charles Pratt, Baron Camden
(1st time) (b. 1714 - d. 1794)
1783 David Murray, Viscount Stormont
(1st time) (b. 1727 - d. 1796)
1783 - 1784 Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl
Gower (2nd time) (s.a.)
1784 - 1794 Charles Pratt, Baron Camden (from
1786, Charles Pratt, Earl Camden)
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1794 William Fitzwilliam, Earl
Fitzwilliam (1st time) (b. 1748 - d. 1833)
1794 - 1796 David Murray, Earl of Mansfield
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1796 - 1801 John Pitt, Earl of Chatham (b. 1756 - d. 1835)
1801 - 1805 William Henry Cavendish
Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of
Portland (b. 1738 - d. 1809)
1805 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth
(1st time) (b. 1757 - d. 1844)
1805 - 1806 John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden
(1st time) (b. 1759 - d. 1840)
1806 William Fitzwilliam, Earl
Fitzwilliam (2nd time) (s.a.)
1806 - 1807 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1807 - 1812 John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1812 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth
(3rd time) (s.a.)
1812 - 1827 Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby (b. 1762 - d. 1847)
1827 - 1828 William Henry Cavendish-Scott-
Bentinck, Duke of Portland (b. 1768 - d. 1854)
1828 - 1830 Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst (b. 1762 - d. 1834)
1830 - 1834 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess
of Lansdowne (1st time) (b. 1780 - d. 1863)
1834 - 1835 James Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn (b. 1762 - d. 1837)
1835 - 1841 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess
of Lansdowne (2nd time) (s.a.)
1841 - 19 Dec 1845 James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie,
Baron Wharncliffe (b. 1776 - d. 1845)
1846 Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duke
of Buccleuch and Queensberry (b. 1806 - d. 1884)
1846 - 1852 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess
of Lansdowne (3rd time) (s.a.)
1852 William Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale (b. 1787 - d. 1872)
1852 - 1854 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (1st time) (b. 1815 - d. 1891)
1854 - 1855 Lord John Russell (b. 1792 - d. 1878)
1855 - 1858 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (2nd time) (s.a.)
1858 - 1859 James Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (b. 1791 - d. 1868)
1859 - 1866 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (3rd time) (s.a.)
Jul 1866 - Mar 1867 Richard Plantagenet Campbell
Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-
Grenville, Duke of Buckingham
and Chandos (b. 1823 - d. 1889)
1867 - 1868 John Churchill, Duke of
Marlborough (b. 1822 - d. 1883)
1868 - 1873 George Robinson, Earl of Ripon
(from 1871, George Robinson,
Marquess of Ripon) (b. 1827 - d. 1909)
1873 - 1874 Henry Austin Bruce, Baron Aberdare (b. 1815 - d. 1895)
1874 - 1880 Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of
Richmond and Gordon (b. 1818 - d. 1903)
1880 - Mar 1883 John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer
(1st time) (b. 1835 - d. 1910)
Mar 1883 - 1885 Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue,
Baron Carlingford (b. 1823 - d. 1898)
1885 - 1886 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount
Cranbrook (1st time) (b. 1814 - d. 1906)
1886 John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1886 - 1892 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount
Cranbrook (2nd time) (s.a.)
1892 - 1894 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
1894 - 1895 Archibald Primrose, Earl of
Rosebery (b. 1847 - d. 1929)
1895 - 1903 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of
Devonshire (b. 1833 - d. 1908)
1903 - 1905 Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-
Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry (b. 1852 - d. 1915)
1905 - 1908 Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe
(1st time) (b. 1858 - d. 1945)
1908 Edward Marjoribanks, Baron
Tweedmouth (b. 1849 - d. 1909)
Oct 1908 - Jun 1910 Henry Hartley Fowler, Viscount
Wolverhampton (b. 1830 - d. 1911)
1910 William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp
(1st time) (b. 1872 - d. 1938)
1910 - 1914 John Morley, Viscount Morley of
Blackburn (b. 1838 - d. 1923)
1914 - 1915 William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1915 - 1916 Robert Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of
Crewe (2nd time) (s.a.)
1916 - 1919 George Nathaniel Curzon, Earl
Curzon of Kedleston (1st time) (b. 1859 - d. 1925)
1919 - 1922 Arthur James Balfour (1st time) (b. 1848 - d. 1930)
1922 - 1924 James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (b. 1861 - d. 1947)
1924 Charles Cripps, Baron Parmoor
(1st time) (b. 1852 - d. 1941)
1924 - 1925 George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess
Curzon of Kedleston (2nd time) (s.a.)
1925 - 1929 Arthur James Balfour, Earl of
Balfour (2nd time) (s.a.)
1929 - 1931 Charles Cripps, Baron Parmoor
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1931 - 7 Jun 1935 Stanley Baldwin (b. 1867 - d. 1947)
7 Jun 1935 - 28 May 1937 Ramsay MacDonald (b. 1866 - d. 1937)
1937 - 1938 Edward Wood, Viscount Halifax (b. 1881 - d. 1959)
1938 Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount
Hailsham (b. 1872 - d. 1950)
1938 - 1939 Walter Runciman, Viscount Runciman (b. 1870 - d. 1949)
1939 - 1940 James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope (b. 1880 - d. 1967)
1940 Neville Chamberlain (b. 1869 - d. 1940)
1940 - 1943 Sir John Anderson (b. 1882 - d. 1958)
1943 - 28 May 1945 Clement Attlee (b. 1883 - d. 1967)
28 May 1945 - 28 Jul 1945 Frederick Marquis, Baron Woolton
(1st time) (b. 1883 - d. 1964)
28 Jul 1945 - 1951 Herbert Morrison (b. 1888 - d. 1965)
1951 Christopher Addison, Viscount
Addison (b. 1869 - d. 1951)
1951 - 1952 Frederick Marquis, Baron Woolton
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1952 - 1957 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (b. 1893 - d. 1972)
1957 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home,
Earl of Home (1st time) (b. 1903 - d. 1995)
1957 - 1959 Quintin McGarel Hogg, Viscount
Hailsham (1st time) (b. 1907 - d. 2001)
1959 - 1960 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home,
Earl of Home (2nd time) (s.a.)
1960 - 1964 Quintin McGarel Hogg, (until 20
Nov 1963) Viscount Hailsham
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1964 - 1966 Herbert Bowden (b. 1905 - d. 1994)
1966 - 1968 Richard Crossman (b. 1907 - d. 1974)
Oct 1968 - 1970 Fred Peart (b. 1914 - d. 1988)
1970 - 1972 William Whitelaw (1st time) (b. 1918 - d. 1999)
Apr 1972 - Nov 1972 Robert Carr (b. 1916 - d. 2012)
1972 - 1974 James Prior (b. 1927 - d. 2016)
1974 - 1976 Edward Short (b. 1912 - d. 2012)
1976 - 1979 Michael Foot (b. 1913 - d. 2010)
1979 - 1981 Christopher Soames, Baron Soames (b. 1920 - d. 1987)
1981 - 1982 Francis Pym (b. 1922 - d. 2008)
1982 - 1983 John Biffen (b. 1930 - d. 2007)
1983 - 1988 William Whitelaw, Viscount
Whitelaw (2nd time) (s.a.)
1988 - 1989 John Wakeham (b. 1932)
Jul 1989 - Nov 1990 Sir Geoffrey Howe (b. 1926 - d. 2015)
Nov 1990 - 1992 John MacGregor (b. 1937)
1992 - 1997 Tony Newton (b. 1937 - d. 2012)
1997 - 1998 Ann Taylor (f) (b. 1947)
1998 - 2001 Margaret Beckett (f) (b. 1943)
2001 - 2003 Robin Cook (b. 1946 - d. 2005)
4 Apr 2003 - 13 Jun 2003 John Reid (b. 1947)
13 Jun 2003 - 20 Sep 2003 Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron
Williams of Mostyn (b. 1941 - d. 2003)
6 Oct 2003 - 28 Jun 2007 Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos (f) (b. 1954)
28 Jun 2007 - 3 Oct 2008 Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton
of Upholland (f) (b. 1956)
3 Oct 2008 - 5 Jun 2009 Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of
Blaisdon (f) (b. 1955)
5 Jun 2009 - 12 May 2010 Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (b. 1953)
12 May 2010 - 11 May 2015 Nick Clegg (b. 1967)
11 May 2015 - 15 Jul 2016 Chris Grayling (b. 1962)
15 Jul 2016 - 11 Jun 2017 David Lidington (b. 1956)
11 Jun 2017 - 12 Jun 2019 Andrea Leadsom (f) (b. 1963)
12 Jun 2019 - 25 Jul 2019 Mel Stride (b. 1961)
25 Jul 2019 - 13 Sep 2022 Jacob Rees-Mogg (b. 1969)
13 Sep 2022 - Penny Mordaunt (f) (b. 1973)
Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster
1697 - 1702 Thomas Grey, Earl Stamford (b. 1654 - d. 1720)
1702 - 1706 Sir John Leveson-Gower (from 1703,
John Leveson-Gower, Baron Gower of
Stittenham) (b. 1675 - d. 1709)
1706 - 1710 James Stanley, Earl of Derby (b. 1664 - d. 1736)
1710 - 1714 William Berkeley, Baron Berkeley
of Stratton (b. 16... - d. 1741)
1714 - 1716 Heneage Finch, Earl of Aylesford (b. 1647? - d. 1719)
1716 - 1717 Richard Lumley, Earl of
Scarborough (b. 1650? - d. 1721)
1718 - 1727 Nicholas Lechmere, Baron Lechmere (b. 1675 - d. 1727)
1727 - 1736 John Manners, Duke of Rutland (b. 1696 - d. 1779)
1736 - 1743 George Cholmondeley, Earl of
Cholmondeley (b. 1703 - d. 1770)
1743 - 1758 Richard Edgcumbe, Baron Edgcumbe
of Mount Edgcumbe (b. 1680 - d. 1758)
1758 - 1762 Thomas Hay, Earl of Kinnoull (b. 1710 - d. 1787)
1762 - 1771 James Stanley, Lord Strange (b. 1716 - d. 1771)
1771 - 1782 Thomas Villiers, Baron Hyde of
Hindon (from 1776, Thomas
Villiers, Earl of Clarendon) (b. 1709 - d. 1786)
1782 - 1783 John Dunning, Baron Ashburton (b. 1731 - d. 1783)
1783 Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of
Derby (1st time) (b. 1752 - d. 1834)
1783 - 1786 Thomas Villiers, Earl of Clarendon (b. 1709 - d. 1786)
1786 - 1803 Charles Jenkinson, Baron
Hawkesbury (from 1796, Charles
Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool) (b. 1727 - d. 1808)
1803 - 1804 Thomas Pelham (b. 1756 - d. 1826)
1804 - 1805 Henry Phipps, Baron Mulgrave (b. 1755 - d. 1831)
1805 Robert Hobart, Earl of
Buckinghamshire (1st time) (b. 1760 - d. 1816)
1805 - 1806 Dudley Ryder, Baron Harrowby (b. 1762 - d. 1847)
1806 - 1807 Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of
Derby (2nd time) (s.a.)
1807 - 1812 Spencer Perceval (b. 1762 - d. 1812)
1812 Robert Hobart, Earl of
Buckinghamshire (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jun 1812 - Jan 1823 Charles Bragge Bathurst (b. 1754 - d. 1831)
Jan 1823 - 1828 Nicholas Vansittart, Baron Bexley (b. 1766 - d. 1851)
1828 George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of
Aberdeen (b. 1784 - d. 1860)
1828 - 1830 Charles Arbuthnot (b. 1767 - d. 1850)
1830 - 1834 Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Baron
Holland (1st time) (b. 1773 - d. 1840)
1834 - 1835 Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (b. 1775 - d. 1850)
1835 - 22 Oct 1840 Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Baron
Holland (2nd time) (s.a.)
1840 - 1841 George William Frederick Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon (1st time) (b. 1800 - d. 1870)
1841 Sir George Grey (1st time) (b. 1799 - d. 1882)
1841 - 1846 Granville Charles Henry Somerset (b. 1792 - d. 1848)
1846 - 1850 John Campbell, Baron Campbell of
St. Andrews (b. 1779 - d. 1861)
1850 - 1852 George William Frederick Howard,
Earl of Carlisle (b. 1802 - d. 1864)
1852 Robert Adam Christopher (b. 1804 - d. 1877)
1852 - 1854 Edward Strutt (b. 1801 - d. 1880)
1854 - 1855 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (b. 1815 - d. 1891)
1855 Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby (b. 1798 - d. 1882)
1855 - 1858 Matthew Talbot Baines (b. 1798 - d. 1860)
1858 - 1859 James Graham, Duke of Montrose (b. 1799 - d. 1874)
1859 - 1861 Sir George Grey (2nd time) (s.a.)
1861 - 1864 Edward Cardwell (b. 1813 - d. 1886)
1864 - Nov 1865 George William Frederick Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jan 1866 - 1866 George Joachim Goschen (b. 1831 - d. 1907)
1866 - 1867 William Reginald Courtenay, Earl
of Devon (b. 1807 - d. 1888)
1867 - 1868 John Wilson-Patten (b. 1802 - d. 1892)
1868 Thomas Edward Taylor (1st time) (b. 1811 - d. 1883)
1868 - 1872 Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-
Blackwood, Baron Clandeboye,
(from 1871) Earl of Dufferin (b. 1825 - d. 1902)
1872 - 1873 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (b. 1827 - d. 1896)
1873 - 1874 John Bright (1st time) (b. 1811 - d. 1889)
1874 - 1880 Thomas Edward Taylor (2nd time) (s.a.)
1880 - 1882 John Bright (2nd time) (s.a.)
1882 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
1882 - 1884 John George Dodson (b. 1825 - d. 1897)
1884 - 1885 Sir George Otto Trevelyan (b. 1838 - d. 1928)
1885 - 1886 Henry Chaplin (b. 1840 - d. 1923)
1886 Edward Heneage (b. 1840 - d. 1922)
1886 Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (b. 1844 - d. 1939)
1886 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount
Cranbrook (b. 1814 - d. 1906)
1886 - 1892 John James Robert Manners, (from
1888) Duke of Rutland (b. 1818 - d. 1906)
1892 - 1894 James Bryce (b. 1838 - d. 1922)
1894 - 1895 Edward Marjoribanks, Baron
Tweedmouth (b. 1849 - d. 1909)
1895 Richard Assheton Cross, Viscount
Cross (b. 1823 - d. 1914)
1895 - 1902 Henry James, Baron James of
Hereford (b. 1828 - d. 1911)
1902 - 1905 Sir William Hood Walrond (b. 1849 - d. 1925)
1905 - 1908 Sir Henry Hartley Fowler (b. 1830 - d. 1911)
1908 - 1909 Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice,
Baron Fitzmaurice (b. 1846 - d. 1925)
1909 - 1910 Herbert Louis Samuel (1st time) (b. 1870 - d. 1963)
1910 - 1911 Joseph Albert Pease (b. 1860 - d. 1943)
1911 - 1914 Charles Hobhouse (b. 1862 - d. 1941)
1914 - 1915 Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman (b. 1874 - d. 1927)
1915 Edwin Samuel Montagu (1st time) (b. 1879 - d. 1924)
1915 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
1915 - 1916 Herbert Louis Samuel (2nd time) (s.a.)
1916 Edwin Samuel Montagu (2nd time) (s.a.)
1916 T. McKinnon Wood (b. 1855 - d. 1927)
1916 - 4 Mar 1918 Sir Frederick Cawley (from 16 Jan
1918, Frederick Cawley, Baron
Cawley) (b. 1850 - d. 1937)
4 Mar 1918 - 8 Nov 1918 William Maxwell Aitken, Baron
Beaverbrook (b. 1879 - d. 1964)
8 Nov 1918 - 1919 William Hayes Fisher, (from 19
Nov 1918) Baron Downham (b. 1853 - d. 1920)
1919 - 1921 David Alexander Edward Lindsay,
Earl of Crawford and Earl of
Balcares (b. 1871 - d. 1940)
1921 - 1922 William Peel, Viscount Peel (b. 1867 - d. 1937)
1922 Sir William Sutherland (b. 1880 - d. 1949)
1922 - 1923 James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (b. 1861 - d. 1947)
1923 - 1924 John Colin Campbell Davidson
(1st time) (b. 1889 - d. 1970)
1924 Josiah Clement Wedgwood (b. 1872 - d. 1943)
1924 - 19 Oct 1927 Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of
Chelwood (b. 1864 - d. 1958)
19 Oct 1927 - 1929 Ronald John McNeill, (from 7 Nov
1927) Baron Cushendun (b. 1861 - d. 1934)
1929 - 1930 Sir Oswald Mosley (b. 1896 - d. 1980)
1930 - 1931 Clement Attlee (b. 1883 - d. 1967)
1931 Arthur Augustus William Harry
Ponsonby, Baron Ponsonby of
Shulbrede (b. 1871 - d. 1946)
1931 Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of
Lothian (b. 1892 - d. 1940)
1931 - 1937 John Colin Campbell Davidson (from
1935, Sir John Colin Campbell
Davidson) (2nd time) (s.a.)
1937 - 1939 Edward Turnour, Earl Winterton (b. 1883 - d. 1962)
1939 - 1940 William Shepherd Morrison (b. 1893 - d. 1961)
1940 George Clement Tryon, Baron Tryon (b. 1871 - d. 1940)
1940 - 1941 Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Baron
Hankey (b. 1877 - d. 1963)
1941 - 1943 Alfred Duff Cooper (b. 1889 - d. 1954)
1943 - 28 May 1945 Ernest Brown (b. 1881 - d. 1962)
28 May 1945 - 14 Aug 1945 Sir James Arthur Salter (b. 1881 - d. 1975)
14 Aug 1945 - 1947 John Burns Hynd (b. 1902 - d. 1971)
1947 - 1948 Frank Pakenham, Baron Pakenham (b. 1905 - d. 2001)
1948 - 1950 Hugh Dalton (b. 1887 - d. 1962)
1950 - 1951 Albert Victor Alexander, Viscount
Alexander of Hillsborough (b. 1885 - d. 1965)
1951 - 1952 Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Viscount
Swinton (b. 1884 - d. 1972)
1952 - 1955 Frederick James Marquis, Baron
Woolton (from 1953, Frederick
James Marquis, Viscount Woolton) (b. 1883 - d. 1964)
1955 - 1957 George Douglas-Hamilton, Earl of
Selkirk (b. 1906 - d. 1994)
Jan 1957 - Oct 1961 Charles Hill (b. 1904 - d. 1989)
1961 - 1963 Iain Macleod (b. 1913 - d. 1970)
1963 - 1964 John Hugh Hare, Viscount Blakenham (b. 1911 - d. 1982)
1964 - 1966 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas
Houghton (b. 1898 - d. 1996)
1966 - 1967 George Thomson (1st time) (b. 1921 - d. 2008)
1967 - 1969 Frederick Lee (b. 1906 - d. 1984)
1969 - 1970 George Thomson (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jun 1970 - Jul 1970 Anthony Barber (b. 1920 - d. 2005)
1970 - 1972 Geoffrey Rippon (b. 1924 - d. 1997)
1972 - 1974 John Emerson Harding Davies (b. 1916 - d. 1979)
1974 - 1979 Norman Harold Lever (b. 1914 - d. 1995)
1979 - 1981 Norman St. John-Stevas (b. 1929 - d. 2012)
1981 Francis Pym (b. 1922 - d. 2008)
1981 - 1982 Janet Young, Baroness Young (f) (b. 1926 - d. 2002)
1982 - 1983 Cecil Edward Parkinson (b. 1931 - d. 2016)
1983 - 1984 Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield (b. 1916 - d. 2007)
1984 - 1985 Alexander Patrick Greysteil
Hore-Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie (b. 1939 - d. 2021)
1985 - 1987 Norman Tebbit (b. 1931)
1987 - 1988 Kenneth Clarke (b. 1940)
1988 - 1989 Tony Newton (b. 1937 - d. 2012)
1989 - 1990 Kenneth Baker (b. 1934)
1990 - 1992 Chris Patten (b. 1944)
1992 - 1994 William Waldegrave (b. 1946)
1994 - 1995 David Hunt (b. 1942)
1995 - 1997 Roger Norman Freeman (b. 1942)
1997 - 1998 David Clark (b. 1939)
1998 - 1999 Jack Cunningham (b. 1939)
1999 - 2001 Mo Mowlam (f) (b. 1949 - d. 2005)
Jun 2001 - 13 Jun 2003 Angus John Macdonald, Baron
Macdonald of Tradeston (b. 1940)
13 Jun 2003 - 8 Sep 2004 Douglas Alexander (b. 1967)
8 Sep 2004 - 6 May 2005 Alan Milburn (b. 1958)
6 May 2005 - 3 Nov 2005 John Hutton (b. 1955)
5 May 2006 - 28 Jun 2007 Hilary Armstrong (f) (b. 1945)
28 Jun 2007 - 3 Oct 2008 Ed Miliband (b. 1969)
3 Oct 2008 - 5 Jun 2009 Liam Byrne (b. 1970)
5 Jun 2009 - 12 May 2010 Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of
Blaisdon (f) (b. 1955)
12 May 2010 - 7 Jan 2013 Thomas Galbraith, Baron
Strathclyde (b. 1960)
7 Jan 2013 - 15 Jul 2014 Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of
Oareford (b. 1960)
15 Jul 2014 - 15 Jul 2016 Oliver Letwin (b. 1956)
15 Jul 2016 - 11 Jan 2018 Patrick McLoughlin (from 4 Aug
2016, Sir Patrick McLoughlin) (b. 1957)
11 Jan 2018 - 25 Jul 2019 David Lidington (b. 1956)
25 Jul 2019 - 20 Sep 2021 Michael Gove (b. 1967)
20 Sep 2021 - 8 Jul 2022 Stephen Barclay (b. 1972)
8 Jul 2022 - 13 Sep 2022 Christopher Malthouse (b. 1966)
13 Sep 2022 - 27 Oct 2022 Nadhim Zahawi (b. 1967)
27 Oct 2022 - Oliver Dowden (b. 1978)
Lords Privy Seal
1699 - 1700 John Lowther, Viscount Lonsdale (b. 1655 - d. 1700)
1700 - 1701 Ford Grey, Earl of Tankerville (b. 1655 - d. 1701)
1702 - 1705 John Sheffield, Marquess of
Normanby (from 1703, John
Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire
and Normanby) (b. 1648 - d. 1721)
1705 - 1711 John Holles, Duke of Newcastle (b. 1662 - d. 1711)
1711 - 1713 John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol (b. 1650 - d. 1723)
1713 - 1714 William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (b. 1672 - d. 1750)
1714 - 1715 Thomas Wharton, Earl Wharton (from
1715, Thomas Wharton, Marquess of
Wharton) (b. 1648 - d. 1716)
1715 - 1716 Charles Spencer, Earl of
Sunderland (b. 1674 - d. 1722)
1716 - 1719 Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of
Kingston (1st time) (b. 1665? - d. 1726)
1719 - 1720 Henry Grey, Duke of Kent (b. 1664? - d. 1740)
1720 - 1726 Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of
Kingston (2nd time) (s.a.)
1726 - 1730 Thomas Trevor, Baron Trevor (b. 1658 - d. 1730)
1730 - 1731 Spencer Compton, Earl of
Wilmington (b. 1673? - d. 1743)
1731 - 1733 William Cavendish, Duke of
Devonshire (b. 1698 - d. 1755)
1733 - 1735 Henry Lowther, Viscount Lonsdale (b. ... - d. 1751)
1735 - 1740 Francis Godolphin, Earl of
Godolphin (b. 1678 - d. 1766)
1740 - 1742 John Hervey, Baron Hervey of
Ickworth (b. 1696 - d. 1743)
1742 - 1743 John Leveson-Gower, Baron Gower
(1st time) (b. 1694 - d. 1754)
1743 - 1744 George Cholmondeley, Earl of
Cholmondeley (b. 1703 - d. 1770)
1744 - 1754 John Leveson-Gower, Baron Gower
(from 1746, John Leveson-Gower,
Earl Gower) (2nd time) (s.a.)
1755 Charles Spencer, Duke of
Marlborough (b. 1706 - d. 1758)
1755 - 1757 Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl
Gower (b. 1721 - d. 1803)
1757 - 1761 Richard Grenville, Earl Temple (b. 1711 - d. 1779)
1761 - 1763 John Russell, Duke of Bedford (b. 1710 - d. 1771)
Apr 1763 - Jul 1765 George Spencer, Duke of
Marlborough (b. 1739 - d. 1817)
Jul 1765 - Aug 1766 Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of
Newcastle (b. 1693 - d. 1768)
1766 - 1768 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (b. 1708 - d. 1778)
1768 - 1770 George William Hervey, Earl of
Bristol (b. 1721 - d. 1775)
1770 - 1771 George Montagu Dunk, Earl of
Halifax (b. 1716 - d. 1771)
1771 Henry Howard, Earl of Suffolk and
Berkshire (b. 1739 - d. 1779)
1771 - 1775 Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of
Grafton (1st time) (b. 1735 - d. 1811)
1775 - 1782 William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth (b. 1731 - d. 1801)
Mar 1782 - 1783 Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of
Grafton (2nd time) (s.a.)
1783 Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle (b. 1748 - d. 1825)
1783 - 1784 Charles Manners, Duke of Rutland (b. 1754 - d. 1787)
1784 - 1794 Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl
Gower (from 1786, Granville
Leveson-Gower, Marquess of
Stafford) (b. 1721 - d. 1803)
1794 George John Spencer, Earl Spencer (b. 1758 - d. 1834)
1794 - 1798 John Pitt, Earl of Chatham (b. 1756 - d. 1835)
1798 - 1806 John Fane, Earl of Westmorland
(1st time) (b. 1759 - d. 1841)
1806 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (b. 1757 - d. 1844)
1806 - 1807 Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Baron
Holland (b. 1773 - d. 1840)
1807 - 1827 John Fane, Earl of Westmorland
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1827 William Henry Cavendish-Scott-
Bentinck, Duke of Portland (b. 1768 - d. 1854)
1827 - 1828 George Howard, Earl of Carlisle
(1st time) (b. 1773 - d. 1848)
1828 - 1829 Edward Law, Baron Ellenborough (b. 1790 - d. 1871)
1829 - 1830 James St. Clair-Erskine, Earl of
Rosslyn (b. 1762 - d. 1837)
1830 - 1833 John George Lambton, Baron Durham (b. 1792 - d. 1840)
1833 - 1834 Frederick John Robinson, Earl of
Ripon (b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1834 George Howard, Earl of Carlisle
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1834 Constantine Henry Phipps, Earl of
Mulgrave (b. 1797 - d. 1863)
1834 - 1835 James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie,
Baron Wharncliffe (b. 1776 - d. 1845)
1835 - 1840 John William Ponsonby, Baron
Duncannon (b. 1781 - d. 1847)
1840 - 1841 George William Frederick Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon (b. 1800 - d. 1870)
1841 - Feb 1842 Richard Temple-Grenville, Duke of
Buckingham (b. 1797 - d. 1861)
Feb 1842 - Jan 1846 Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duke
of Buccleuch and Queensberry (b. 1806 - d. 1884)
Jan 1846 - 1846 Thomas Hamilton, Earl of
Haddington (b. 1780 - d. 1858)
1846 - 1852 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,
Earl of Minto (b. 1782 - d. 1859)
1852 James Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (b. 1791 - d. 1868)
1853 - 1855 George Douglas Campbell, Duke of
Argyll (1st time) (b. 1823 - d. 1900)
1855 - 1858 Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby (b. 1798 - d. 1882)
1858 Ulick John de Burgh, Marquess of
Clanricarde (b. 1802 - d. 1874)
1858 - 1859 Charles Philip Yorke, Earl of
Hardwicke (b. 1799 - d. 1873)
1859 - 1866 George Douglas Campbell, Duke of
Argyll (2nd time) (s.a.)
1866 - 1868 James Howard Harris, Earl of
Malmesbury (1st time) (b. 1807 - d. 1889)
1868 - 1870 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
1870 - 1874 Charles Wood, Viscount Halifax (b. 1800 - d. 1885)
1874 - 1876 James Howard Harris, Earl of
Malmesbury (2nd time) (s.a.)
1876 - 1878 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of
Beaconsfield (b. 1804 - d. 1881)
1878 - 1880 Algernon Percy, Duke of
Northumberland (b. 1810 - d. 1899)
1880 - 1881 George Douglas Campbell, Duke of
Argyll (3rd time) (s.a.)
1881 - 1885 Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue,
Baron Carlingford (b. 1823 - d. 1898)
1885 Archibald Primrose, Earl of
Rosebery (b. 1847 - d. 1929)
1885 - 1886 Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Earl
of Harrowby (b. 1831 - d. 1900)
1886 William Ewart Gladstone (1st time) (b. 1809 - d. 1898)
1886 - 1892 George Henry Cadogan, Earl Cadogan (b. 1840 - d. 1915)
1892 - 1894 William Ewart Gladstone (2nd time) (s.a.)
1894 - 1895 Edward Marjoribanks, Baron
Tweedmouth (b. 1849 - d. 1909)
1895 - 1900 Richard Assheton Cross, Viscount
Cross (b. 1823 - d. 1914)
Nov 1900 - 1902 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (b. 1830 - d. 1903)
1902 - 1903 Arthur James Balfour (b. 1848 - d. 1930)
1903 - 1905 James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (1st time) (b. 1861 - d. 1947)
1905 - 1908 George Robinson, Marquess of Ripon (b. 1827 - d. 1909)
1908 - 1911 Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe
(1st time) (b. 1858 - d. 1945)
1911 - 1912 Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington,
Earl Carrington (b. 1843 - d. 1928)
1912 - 1915 Robert Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of
Crewe (2nd time) (s.a.)
1915 - 1916 George Nathaniel Curzon, Earl
Curzon of Kedleston (b. 1859 - d. 1925)
1916 - 1919 David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
and Balcarres (b. 1871 - d. 1940)
1919 - 1921 Bonar Law (b. 1858 - d. 1923)
1921 - Oct 1922 Austen Chamberlain (b. 1863 - d. 1937)
1923 - 1924 Robert Cecil, (from Dec 1923)
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (b. 1864 - d. 1958)
1924 John Robert Clynes (b. 1869 - d. 1949)
1924 - 1929 James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (2nd time) (s.a.)
1929 - 1930 James Henry Thomas (b. 1874 - d. 1949)
1930 - 13 Mar 1931 Vernon Hartshorn (b. 1872 - d. 1931)
1931 Thomas Johnston (b. 1881 - d. 1965)
1931 William Peel, Earl Peel (b. 1867 - d. 1937)
Nov 1931 - 1932 Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden (b. 1864 - d. 1937)
1932 - 6 Jan 1934 Stanley Baldwin (b. 1867 - d. 1947)
6 Jan 1934 - 1935 Anthony Eden (b. 1897 - d. 1977)
1935 Charles Stewart Henry
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of
Londonderry (b. 1878 - d. 1949)
1935 - 1937 Edward Wood, Viscount Halifax (b. 1881 - d. 1959)
1937 - 1938 Herbrand Brassey Sackville, Earl
De La Warr (b. 1900 - d. 1976)
1938 - 1939 Sir John Anderson (b. 1882 - d. 1958)
1939 - 1940 Sir Samuel Hoare (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
1940 Sir Kingsley Wood (b. 1881 - d. 1943)
1940 - 1942 Clement Attlee (b. 1883 - d. 1967)
1942 Sir Stafford Cripps (b. 1889 - d. 1952)
1942 - 1943 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount
Cranborne (1st time) (b. 1893 - d. 1972)
1943 - 28 Jul 1945 William Maxwell Aitken, Baron
Beaverbrook (b. 1879 - d. 1964)
28 Jul 1945 - 1947 Arthur Greenwood (b. 1880 - d. 1954)
1947 Philip Inman, Baron Inman (b. 1892 - d. 1979)
1947 - Mar 1951 Christopher Addison, Viscount
Addison (b. 1869 - d. 1951)
Mar 1951 - 14 Apr 1951 Ernest Bevin (b. 1881 - d. 1951)
Apr 1951 - Oct 1951 Richard Stokes (b. 1897 - d. 1957)
Oct 1951 - 1952 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (2nd time) (s.a.)
1952 - 1955 Henry Crookshank (b. 1893 - d. 1961)
1955 - 1959 Richard Austen Butler (b. 1902 - d. 1982)
1959 - 1960 Quintin McGarel Hogg, Viscount
Hailsham (b. 1907 - d. 2001)
1960 - 1963 Edward Heath (b. 1916 - d. 2005)
1963 - 1964 Selwyn Lloyd (b. 1904 - d. 1978)
1964 - 1965 Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford
(1st time) (b. 1905 - d. 2001)
Dec 1965 - Apr 1966 Sir Frank Soskice (b. 1902 - d. 1979)
Apr 1966 - Jan 1968 Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Jan 1968 - Apr 1968 Edward Shackleton, Baron
Shackleton (1st time) (b. 1911 - d. 1994)
Apr 1968 - Oct 1968 Fred Peart (1st time) (b. 1914 - d. 1988)
Oct 1968 - 1970 Edward Shackleton, Baron
Shackleton (2nd time) (s.a.)
1970 - 5 Jun 1973 George Patrick John Rushworth
Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe (b. 1918 - d. 2007)
5 Jun 1973 - 1974 David James George Hennessy, Baron
Windlesham (b. 1932 - d. 2010)
1974 - 1976 Malcolm Newton Shepherd, Baron
Shepherd (b. 1918 - d. 2001)
1976 - 1979 Fred Peart, Baron Peart (2nd time) (s.a.)
1979 - 1981 Sir Ian Gilmour (b. 1926 - d. 2007)
1981 - 1982 Humphrey Atkins (b. 1922 - d. 1996)
1982 - 1983 Janet Young, Baroness Young (f) (b. 1926 - d. 2002)
1983 - 1987 John Biffen (b. 1930 - d. 2007)
1987 - 1988 John Wakeham (1st time) (b. 1932)
1988 - 1990 John Julian Ganzoni, Baron
Belstead (b. 1932 - d. 2005)
1990 - 1992 David Waddington, Baron Waddington (b. 1929 - d. 2017)
1992 - 1994 John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1994 - 1997 Robert Michael James
Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne (b. 1946)
1997 - 1998 Ivor Richard, Baron Richard (b. 1932 - d. 2018)
1998 - 2001 Margaret Adler, Baroness Jay of
Paddington (f) (b. 1939)
2001 - 13 Jun 2003 Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron
Williams of Mostyn (b. 1941 - d. 2003)
13 Jun 2003 - 6 May 2005 Peter Hain (b. 1950)
6 May 2005 - 5 May 2006 Geoff Hoon (b. 1953)
5 May 2006 - 28 Jun 2007 Jack Straw (b. 1946)
28 Jun 2007 - 12 May 2010 Harriet Harman (f) (b. 1950)
12 May 2010 - 4 Sep 2012 Sir George Young (b. 1941)
4 Sep 2012 - 15 Jul 2014 Andrew Lansley (b. 1956)
15 Jul 2014 - 15 Jul 2016 Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of
Beeston (f) (b. 1967)
15 Jul 2016 - 13 Sep 2022 Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of
Bowes Park (f) (b. 1975)
13 Sep 2022 - Nicholas True, Baron True (b. 1951)
1970 Board of Trade and Ministry of Technology
merged into Department of Trade and Industry
1974 - 1983 Departments of Trade and Industry separated
6 May 2005 Department of Productivity, Energy and Industry
13 May 2005 Department of Trade and Industry
28 Jun 2007 Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
5 Jun 2009 merged with Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
to form Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
15 Jul 2016 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
and Department for International Trade
First lords of trade
1699 - 1702 Thomas Grey, Earl of Stamford
(1st time) (b. 1654 - d. 1720)
1702 - 1707 Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth (b. 1640 - d. 1714)
1707 - 1711 Thomas Grey, Earl of Stamford
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1711 - 1712 Charles Finch, Earl of Winchilsea (b. 1672 - d. 1712)
1713 - 1714 Francis North, Baron Guilford (b. 1673 - d. 1729)
1714 - 1715 William Berkeley, Baron Berkeley
of Stratton (b. 16... - d. 1741)
1715 - 1718 Henry Howard, Earl of Suffolk (b. 1670 - d. 1718)
1718 - 1719 Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness (b. 1681 - d. 1722)
1719 - 1735 Thomas Fane, Earl of Westmorland (b. 1680 - d. 1736)
1735 - 1737 Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter (b. 1672 - d. 1756)
1737 - 1748 John Monson, Baron Monson (b. 1693 - d. 1748)
1748 - 1761 George Montagu Dunk, Earl of
Halifax (b. 1716 - d. 1771)
1761 - 1763 Samuel Sandys, Baron Sandys (b. 1695 - d. 1770)
1763 Charles Townshend (b. 1725 - d. 1767)
1763 - Sep 1763 William Petty, Earl of Shelburne (b. 1737 - d. 1805)
1763 - 1765 Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough
(1st time) (b. 1718 - d. 1793)
1765 - 1766 William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth
(1st time) (b. 1731 - d. 1801)
1766 Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1766 - 1768 Robert Nugent, (from 1767)
Viscount Clare (b. 1702 - d. 1788)
1768 - 1772 Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough
(3rd time) (s.a.)
1772 - 1775 William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1775 - 1779 George Sackville Germain (b. 1716 - d. 1785)
1779 - 1780 Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle (b. 1748 - d. 1825)
Dec 1780 - Jun 1782 Thomas Robinson, Baron Grantham (b. 1738 - d. 1786)
President of the Committee for Trade and Plantations
Mar 1784 - Aug 1786 Thomas Townshend, Baron Sydney (b. 1733 - d. 1800)
Presidents of the Board of Trade (from 1970 also secretaries of state)
Aug 1786 - Jun 1804 Charles Jenkinson, Baron
Hawkesbury (from 1796, Charles
Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool) (b. 1727 - d. 1808)
Jun 1804 - Feb 1806 James Graham, Duke of Montrose (b. 1755 - d. 1836)
Feb 1806 - Mar 1807 William Eden, Baron Auckland (b. 1744 - d. 1814)
Mar 1807 - 1812 Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst (b. 1762 - d. 1834)
1812 - Jan 1818 Richard le Poer Trench, Earl of
Clancarty (b. 1767 - d. 1837)
Jan 1818 - Jan 1823 Frederick John Robinson (1st time) (b. 1782 - d. 1859)
Jan 1823 - Sep 1827 William Huskisson (b. 1770 - d. 1830)
Sep 1827 - Jun 1828 Charles Grant (b. 1778 - d. 1866)
Jun 1828 - Feb 1830 William Vesey Fitzgerald (b. 1783 - d. 1843)
Feb 1830 - Nov 1830 John Charles Herries (b. 1778 - d. 1855)
Nov 1830 - Jun 1834 George Eden, Baron Auckland (b. 1784 - d. 1849)
Jun 1834 - Dec 1834 Charles Edward Poulett Thomson
(1st time) (b. 1799 - d. 1841)
Dec 1834 - Apr 1835 Alexander Baring (b. 1774 - d. 1848)
Apr 1835 - Aug 1839 Charles Edward Poulett Thomson
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Aug 1839 - Sep 1841 Henry Labouchere (1st time) (b. 1798 - d. 1869)
Sep 1841 - May 1843 Frederick John Robinson, Earl of
Ripon (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1843 - Feb 1845 William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809 - d. 1898)
Feb 1845 - Jul 1846 James Andrew Broun Ramsay, Earl of
Dalhousie (b. 1812 - d. 1860)
Jul 1846 - Jul 1847 George William Frederick Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon (b. 1800 - d. 1870)
Jul 1847 - Feb 1852 Henry Labouchere (2nd time) (s.a.)
Feb 1852 - Dec 1852 Joseph Warner Henley (1st time) (b. 1793 - d. 1884)
Dec 1852 - Mar 1855 Edward Cardwell (b. 1813 - d. 1886)
Mar 1855 - Apr 1858 Edward John Stanley, Baron Stanley
of Alderley (b. 1802 - d. 1869)
Apr 1858 - Mar 1859 Joseph Warner Henley (2nd time) (s.a.)
Mar 1859 - Jul 1859 Richard John Hely Hutchinson, Earl
of Donoughmore (b. 1823 - d. 1866)
Jul 1859 - Jul 1866 Thomas Milner Gibson (b. 1806 - d. 1884)
Jul 1866 - Mar 1867 Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (b. 1818 - d. 1887)
Mar 1867 - Dec 1868 Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of
Richmond (1st time) (b. 1818 - d. 1903)
Dec 1868 - Jan 1871 John Bright (b. 1811 - d. 1889)
Jan 1871 - Mar 1874 Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue (b. 1823 - d. 1898)
Mar 1874 - Apr 1878 Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley (b. 1814 - d. 1905)
Apr 1878 - Apr 1880 Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder,
Viscount Sandon (b. 1831 - d. 1900)
Apr 1880 - Jun 1885 Joseph Chamberlain (b. 1836 - d. 1914)
Jun 1885 - Aug 1885 Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of
Richmond and Gordon (2nd time) (s.a.)
Aug 1885 - Feb 1886 Edward Stanhope (b. 1840 - d. 1893)
Feb 1886 - Aug 1886 Anthony John Mundella (1st time) (b. 1825 - d. 1897)
Aug 1886 - Feb 1888 Frederick Arthur Stanley, Baron
Stanley of Preston (b. 1841 - d. 1908)
Feb 1888 - Aug 1892 Sir Michael Hicks Beach (b. 1837 - d. 1916)
Aug 1892 - May 1894 Anthony John Mundella (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1894 - Jun 1895 James Bryce (b. 1838 - d. 1922)
Jun 1895 - Nov 1900 Charles Thomson Ritchie (b. 1838 - d. 1906)
Nov 1900 - Mar 1905 Gerald William Balfour (b. 1853 - d. 1945)
Mar 1905 - Dec 1905 James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (b. 1861 - d. 1947)
Dec 1905 - Apr 1908 David Lloyd George (b. 1863 - d. 1945)
Apr 1908 - Feb 1910 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
Feb 1910 - Feb 1914 Sydney Charles Buxton (b. 1853 - d. 1934)
Feb 1914 - Aug 1914 John Burns (b. 1858 - d. 1943)
Aug 1914 - Dec 1916 Walter Runciman (1st time) (b. 1870 - d. 1949)
Dec 1916 - May 1919 Sir Albert Henry Stanley (b. 1874 - d. 1948)
May 1919 - Mar 1920 Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes (b. 1879 - d. 1954)
Mar 1920 - Apr 1921 Sir Robert Horne (b. 1871 - d. 1940)
Apr 1921 - Oct 1922 Stanley Baldwin (b. 1867 - d. 1947)
Oct 1922 - Jan 1924 Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame (1st time) (b. 1884 - d. 1972)
Jan 1924 - Nov 1924 Sidney Webb (b. 1859 - d. 1947)
Nov 1924 - Jun 1929 Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame (from Dec
1924, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Jun 1929 - Aug 1931 William Graham (b. 1887 - d. 1932)
Aug 1931 - Nov 1931 Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister
(3rd time) (s.a.)
Nov 1931 - May 1937 Walter Runciman (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1937 - Jan 1940 Oliver Stanley (b. 1896 - d. 1950)
Jan 1940 - Oct 1940 Sir Andrew Rae Duncan (1st time) (b. 1884 - d. 1952)
Oct 1940 - Jun 1941 Oliver Lyttelton (1st time) (b. 1893 - d. 1972)
Jun 1941 - Feb 1942 Sir Andrew Rae Duncan (2nd time) (s.a.)
Feb 1942 John Jestyn Llewellin (b. 1893 - d. 1957)
Feb 1942 - May 1945 Hugh Dalton (b. 1887 - d. 1962)
May 1945 - Jul 1945 Oliver Lyttelton (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jul 1945 - Sep 1947 Sir Stafford Cripps (b. 1889 - d. 1952)
Sep 1947 - Apr 1951 Harold Wilson (b. 1916 - d. 1995)
Apr 1951 - Oct 1951 Sir Hartley William Shawcross (b. 1902 - d. 2003)
Oct 1951 - Jan 1957 Peter Thorneycroft (b. 1909 - d. 1994)
Jan 1957 - Oct 1959 Sir David Eccles (b. 1904 - d. 1999)
Oct 1959 - Oct 1961 Reginald Maudling (b. 1917 - d. 1979)
Oct 1961 - Oct 1963 Frederick James Erroll (b. 1914 - d. 2000)
Oct 1963 - Oct 1964 Edward Heath (b. 1916 - d. 2005)
Oct 1964 - Aug 1967 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay (b. 1907 - d. 1996)
Aug 1967 - Oct 1969 Anthony Crosland (b. 1918 - d. 1977)
Oct 1969 - Jun 1970 Roy Mason (b. 1924 - d. 2015)
Jun 1970 - Oct 1970 Michael Noble (b. 1913 - d. 1984)
Oct 1970 - Nov 1972 John Davies (b. 1916 - d. 1979)
Nov 1972 - Mar 1974 Peter Walker (b. 1932 - d. 2010)
Mar 1974 - Apr 1976 Peter David Shore (b. 1924 - d. 2001)
Apr 1976 - Nov 1978 Edmund Emanuel Dell (b. 1921 - d. 1999)
Nov 1978 - May 1979 John Smith (b. 1938 - d. 1994)
May 1979 - Jan 1981 John Nott (b. 1932)
Jan 1981 - Apr 1982 John Biffen (b. 1930 - d. 2007)
Apr 1982 - Jun 1983 Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield (b. 1916 - d. 2007)
Jun 1983 - Oct 1983 Cecil Edward Parkinson (b. 1931 - d. 2016)
Oct 1983 - Sep 1985 Norman Tebbit (b. 1931)
Sep 1985 - Jan 1986 Leon Brittan (b. 1939 - d. 2015)
Jan 1986 - Jun 1987 Paul Channon (b. 1935 - d. 2007)
Jun 1987 - Jul 1989 David Ivor Young, Baron Young of
Graffham (b. 1932 - d. 2022)
Jul 1989 - Jul 1990 Nicholas Ridley (b. 1929 - d. 1993)
Jul 1990 - Apr 1992 Peter Lilley (b. 1943)
Apr 1992 - Jul 1995 Michael Heseltine (b. 1933)
Jul 1995 - May 1997 Ian Lang (b. 1940)
May 1997 - Jul 1998 Margaret Beckett (f) (b. 1943)
Jul 1998 - Dec 1998 Peter Mandelson (1st time) (b. 1953)
Dec 1998 - Jun 2001 Stephen Byers (b. 1953)
Jun 2001 - 6 May 2005 Patricia Hewitt (f) (b. 1948)
6 May 2005 - 5 May 2006 Alan Johnson (b. 1950)
5 May 2006 - 28 Jun 2007 Alistair Darling (b. 1953)
28 Jun 2007 - 3 Oct 2008 John Hutton (b. 1955)
3 Oct 2008 - 12 May 2010 Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson
(2nd time) (s.a.)
12 May 2010 - 11 May 2015 Vince Cable (b. 1943)
11 May 2015 - 15 Jul 2016 Sajid Javid (b. 1969)
15 Jul 2016 - 19 Jul 2016 Greg Clark (b. 1967)
(secretary of state for business, energy and industrial
strategy to 25 Jul 2019)
19 Jul 2016 - 25 Jul 2019 Liam Fox (b. 1961)
(secretary of state for international trade from 15 Jul 2016)
25 Jul 2019 - 20 Sep 2021 Liz Truss (f) (b. 1975)
20 Sep 2021 - 13 Sep 2022 Anne-Marie Trevelyan (f) (b. 1969)
13 Sep 2022 - Kemi Badenoch (f) (b. 1980)
Secretaries of state Mar 1974 - Jun 1975 Tony Benn (b. 1925 - d. 2014) Jun 1975 - May 1979 Eric Varley (b. 1932 - d. 2008) May 1979 - Sep 1981 Sir Keith Joseph (b. 1918 - d. 1994) Sep 1981 - Jun 1983 Patrick Jenkin (b. 1926 - d. 2016)
Secretary of state 28 Jun 2007 - 5 Jun 2009 John Denham (b. 1953)
Secretaries of state 15 Jul 2016 - 25 Jul 2019 Greg Clark (b. 1967) 25 Jul 2019 - 19 Feb 2020 Andrea Leadsom (f) (b. 1963) 19 Feb 2020 - 13 Jan 2021 Alok Sharma (b. 1967) 13 Jan 2021 - 13 Sep 2022 Kwasi Kwarteng (b. 1975) 13 Sep 2022 - 27 Oct 2022 Jacob Rees-Mogg (b. 1969) 27 Oct 2022 - Grant Shapps (b. 1968)
1937 India and Burma Office
Secretaries of state
2 Sep 1858 - 18 Jun 1859 Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley (b. 1826 - d. 1893)
18 Jun 1859 - 16 Feb 1866 Sir Charles Wood (b. 1800 - d. 1885)
16 Feb 1866 - 6 Jul 1866 George Robinson, Earl of Ripon (b. 1827 - d. 1909)
6 Jul 1866 - 8 Mar 1867 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
(1st time) (b. 1830 - d. 1903)
8 Mar 1867 - 9 Dec 1868 Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (b. 1818 - d. 1887)
9 Dec 1868 - 21 Feb 1874 George Douglas Campbell, Duke of
Argyll (b. 1823 - d. 1900)
21 Feb 1874 - 2 Apr 1878 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (2nd time) (s.a.)
2 Apr 1878 - 28 Apr 1880 Gathorne Hardy (from 3 May 1878,
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount
Cranbrook) (b. 1814 - d. 1906)
28 Apr 1880 - 16 Dec 1882 Spencer Compton Cavendish,
Marquess of Hartington (b. 1833 - d. 1908)
16 Dec 1882 - 24 Jun 1885 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
(1st time) (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
24 Jun 1885 - 6 Feb 1886 Lord Randolph Churchill (b. 1849 - d. 1895)
6 Feb 1886 - 3 Aug 1886 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
(2nd time) (s.a.)
3 Aug 1886 - 18 Aug 1892 Sir Richard Assheton Cross (from
18 Aug 1886, Richard Assheton
Cross, Viscount Cross) (b. 1823 - d. 1914)
18 Aug 1892 - 10 Mar 1894 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
(3rd time) (s.a.)
10 Mar 1894 - 4 Jul 1895 Henry Hartley Fowler (b. 1830 - d. 1911)
4 Jul 1895 - 9 Oct 1903 Lord George Francis Hamilton (b. 1845 - d. 1927)
9 Oct 1903 - 11 Dec 1905 St. John Brodrick (b. 1856 - d. 1942)
11 Dec 1905 - 3 Nov 1910 John Morley, (from 5 May 1908)
Viscount Morley of Blackburn (b. 1838 - d. 1923)
3 Nov 1910 - 27 May 1915 Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe
(from 20 Jun 1911, Robert
Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe) (b. 1858 - d. 1945)
7 Mar 1911 - 25 May 1911 John Morley, Viscount Morley
of Blackburn (acting for Crewe) (s.a.)
27 May 1915 - 17 Jul 1917 Austen Chamberlain (b. 1863 - d. 1937)
20 Jul 1917 - 10 Mar 1922 Edwin Samuel Montagu (b. 1879 - d. 1924)
21 Mar 1922 - 23 Jan 1924 William Peel, Viscount Peel
(1st time) (b. 1867 - d. 1937)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 Sir Sydney Haldane Olivier (from
12 Feb 1924, Sydney Haldane
Olivier, Baron Olivier) (b. 1859 - d. 1943)
7 Nov 1924 - 22 Oct 1928 Frederick Smith, Earl of
Birkenhead (b. 1872 - d. 1930)
1 Nov 1928 - 7 Jun 1929 William Peel, Viscount Peel
(2nd time) (s.a.)
8 Jun 1929 - 26 Aug 1931 William Wedgwood Benn (b. 1877 - d. 1960)
26 Aug 1931 - 7 Jun 1935 Sir Samuel Hoare (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
7 Jun 1935 - 15 May 1940 Lawrence John Lumley Dundas,
Marquess of Zetland (b. 1876 - d. 1961)
15 May 1940 - 3 Aug 1945 Leopold Amery (b. 1873 - d. 1955)
3 Aug 1945 - 23 Apr 1947 Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Baron
Pethick-Lawrence (b. 1871 - d. 1961)
23 Apr 1947 - 15 Aug 1947 William Francis Hare, Earl of
Listowel (b. 1906 - d. 1997)
1 Jul 1999 Scottish Office replaced by Scotland Office
Secretaries (from 26 Jul 1926, secretaries of state)
17 Aug 1885 - 17 Feb 1886 Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of
Richmond and Gordon (b. 1818 - d. 1903)
17 Feb 1886 - 3 Apr 1886 Sir George Trevelyan (1st time) (b. 1838 - d. 1928)
3 Apr 1886 - 5 Aug 1886 John William Ramsay, Earl of
Dalhousie (b. 1847 - d. 1887)
5 Aug 1886 - 25 Mar 1887 Arthur James Balfour (b. 1848 - d. 1930)
25 Mar 1887 - 18 Aug 1892 Schomberg Henry Kerr, Marquess of
Lothian (b. 1833 - d. 1900)
18 Aug 1892 - 29 Jun 1895 Sir George Trevelyan (2nd time) (s.a.)
29 Jun 1895 - 9 Oct 1903 Alexander Bruce, Baron Balfour of
Burleigh (b. 1849 - d. 1921)
9 Oct 1903 - 4 Feb 1905 Andrew Graham Murray (b. 1849 - d. 1942)
4 Feb 1905 - 11 Dec 1905 John Adrian Louis Hope, Marquess
of Linlithgow (b. 1860 - d. 1908)
11 Dec 1905 - 29 Feb 1912 John Sinclair, (from 16 Feb 1909)
Baron Pentland (b. 1860 - d. 1925)
29 Feb 1912 - 12 Jul 1916 T. McKinnon Wood (b. 1855 - d. 1927)
12 Jul 1916 - 11 Dec 1916 Harold John Tennant (b. 1865 - d. 1935)
11 Dec 1916 - 25 Oct 1922 Robert Munro (b. 1868 - d. 1955)
2 Nov 1922 - 23 Jan 1924 Ronald Craufurd Munro-Ferguson,
Viscount Novar (b. 1860 - d. 1934)
23 Jan 1924 - 7 Nov 1924 William Adamson (1st time) (b. 1863 - d. 1936)
7 Nov 1924 - 7 Jun 1929 Sir John Gilmour (b. 1876 - d. 1940)
8 Jun 1929 - 26 Aug 1931 William Adamson (2nd time) (s.a.)
26 Aug 1931 - 1 Oct 1932 Sir Archibald Sinclair (b. 1890 - d. 1970)
1 Oct 1932 - 13 Oct 1936 Sir Godfrey Collins (b. 1875 - d. 1936)
3 Nov 1936 - 16 May 1938 Walter Elliot (b. 1888 - d. 1958)
16 May 1938 - 15 May 1940 David John Colville (b. 1894 - d. 1954)
15 May 1940 - 12 Feb 1941 Ernest Brown (b. 1881 - d. 1962)
12 Feb 1941 - 28 May 1945 Thomas Johnston (b. 1881 - d. 1965)
28 May 1945 - 3 Aug 1945 Harry Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (b. 1882 - d. 1974)
3 Aug 1945 - 14 Oct 1947 Joseph Westwood (b. 1884 - d. 1948)
14 Oct 1947 - 1 Mar 1950 Arthur Woodburn (b. 1890 - d. 1978)
2 Mar 1950 - 30 Oct 1951 Hector McNeil (b. 1910 - d. 1955)
30 Oct 1951 - 14 Jan 1957 James Stuart (b. 1897 - d. 1971)
14 Jan 1957 - 13 Jul 1962 John Maclay (b. 1905 - d. 1992)
13 Jul 1962 - 19 Oct 1964 Michael Noble (b. 1913 - d. 1984)
19 Oct 1964 - 20 Jun 1970 William Ross (1st time) (b. 1911 - d. 1988)
20 Jun 1970 - 5 Mar 1974 Gordon Campbell (b. 1921 - d. 2005)
5 Mar 1974 - 8 Apr 1976 William Ross (2nd time) (s.a.)
8 Apr 1976 - 5 May 1979 Bruce Millan (b. 1927 - d. 2013)
5 May 1979 - 11 Jan 1986 George Younger (b. 1931 - d. 2003)
11 Jan 1986 - 29 Nov 1990 Malcolm Rifkind (b. 1946)
29 Nov 1990 - 5 Jul 1995 Ian Lang (b. 1940)
5 Jul 1995 - 3 May 1997 Michael Forsyth (b. 1954)
3 May 1997 - 17 May 1999 Donald Dewar (b. 1937 - d. 2000)
17 May 1999 - 24 Jan 2001 John Reid (b. 1947)
24 Jan 2001 - 13 Jun 2003 Helen Liddell (f) (b. 1950)
13 Jun 2003 - 5 May 2006 Alistair Darling (b. 1953)
5 May 2006 - 28 Jun 2007 Douglas Alexander (b. 1967)
28 Jun 2007 - 3 Oct 2008 Des Browne (b. 1952)
3 Oct 2008 - 12 May 2010 Jim Murphy (b. 1967)
12 May 2010 - 29 May 2010 Danny Alexander (b. 1972)
29 May 2010 - 7 Oct 2013 Michael Moore (b. 1965)
7 Oct 2013 - 11 May 2015 Alistair Carmichael (b. 1965)
11 May 2015 - 25 Jul 2019 David Mundell (b. 1962)
25 Jul 2019 - Alister Jack (b. 1963)
1 Jul 1999 Welsh Office replaced by Wales Office Secretaries of state 18 Oct 1964 - 5 Apr 1966 James Griffiths (b. 1890 - d. 1975) 5 Apr 1966 - 5 Apr 1968 Cledwyn Hughes (b. 1916 - d. 2001) 5 Apr 1968 - 20 Jun 1970 George Thomas (b. 1909 - d. 1997) 20 Jun 1970 - 5 Mar 1974 Peter Thomas (b. 1920 - d. 2008) 5 Mar 1974 - 5 May 1979 John Morris (b. 1931) 5 May 1979 - 13 Jun 1987 Nicholas Edwards (b. 1934 - d. 2018) 13 Jun 1987 - 4 May 1990 Peter Walker (b. 1932 - d. 2010) 4 May 1990 - 27 May 1993 David Hunt (1st time) (b. 1942) 27 May 1993 - 26 Jun 1995 John Redwood (b. 1951) 26 Jun 1995 - 5 Jul 1995 David Hunt (2nd time) (s.a.) 5 Jul 1995 - 3 May 1997 William Hague (b. 1961) 3 May 1997 - 27 Oct 1998 Ron Davies (b. 1946) 27 Oct 1998 - 28 Jul 1999 Alun Michael (b. 1943) 28 Jul 1999 - 24 Oct 2002 Paul Murphy (1st time) (b. 1948) 24 Oct 2002 - 24 Jan 2008 Peter Hain (1st time) (b. 1950) 24 Jan 2008 - 5 Jun 2009 Paul Murphy (2nd time) (s.a.) 5 Jun 2009 - 12 May 2010 Peter Hain (2nd time) (s.a.) 12 May 2010 - 4 Sep 2012 Cheryl Gillan (f) (b. 1952 - d. 2021) 4 Sep 2012 - 15 Jul 2014 David Jones (b. 1952) 15 Jul 2014 - 19 Mar 2016 Stephen Crabb (b. 1973) 19 Mar 2016 - 17 Dec 2019 Alun Cairns (b. 1970) 17 Dec 2019 - 8 Jul 2022 Simon Hart (b. 1963) 8 Jul 2022 - 27 Oct 2022 Sir Robert Buckland (b. 1968) 27 Oct 2022 - David T.C. Davies (b. 1970)
Secretaries of state 7 Apr 1972 - 2 Dec 1973 William Whitelaw (b. 1918 - d. 1999) 2 Dec 1973 - 5 Mar 1974 Francis Pym (b. 1922 - d. 2008) 5 Mar 1974 - 10 Sep 1976 Merlyn Rees (b. 1920 - d. 2006) 10 Sep 1976 - 5 May 1979 Roy Mason (b. 1924 - d. 2015) 5 May 1979 - 14 Sep 1981 Humphrey Atkins (b. 1922 - d. 1996) 14 Sep 1981 - 10 Sep 1984 James Prior (b. 1927 - d. 2016) 10 Sep 1984 - 2 Sep 1985 Douglas Hurd (b. 1930) 2 Sep 1985 - 24 Jul 1989 Tom King (b. 1933) 24 Jul 1989 - 2 Apr 1992 Peter Brooke (b. 1934) 9 Apr 1992 - 3 May 1997 Sir Patrick Mayhew (b. 1929 - d. 2016) 3 May 1997 - 11 Oct 1999 Mo Mowlam (f) (b. 1949 - d. 2005) 11 Oct 1999 - 24 Jan 2001 Peter Mandelson (b. 1953) 24 Jan 2001 - 24 Oct 2002 John Reid (b. 1947) 24 Oct 2002 - 6 May 2005 Paul Murphy (b. 1948) 6 May 2005 - 28 Jun 2007 Peter Hain (b. 1950) 28 Jun 2007 - 12 May 2010 Shaun Woodward (b. 1958) 12 May 2010 - 4 Sep 2012 Owen Paterson (b. 1956) 4 Sep 2012 - 15 Jul 2016 Theresa Villiers (f) (b. 1968) 15 Jul 2016 - 11 Jan 2018 James Brokenshire (b. 1968 - d. 2021) 11 Jan 2018 - 25 Jul 2019 Karen Bradley (f) (b. 1970) 25 Jul 2019 - 13 Feb 2020 Julian Smith (b. 1971) 13 Feb 2020 - 8 Jul 2022 Brandon Lewis (b. 1971) 8 Jul 2022 - 13 Sep 2022 Shailesh Vara (b. 1960) 13 Sep 2022 - Chris Heaton-Harris (b. 1967)
Directors
Oct 1909 - Jun 1940 Vernon Kell (from 1919, Sir Vernon
Kell) (b. 1873 - d. 1942)
Jun 1940 - Apr 1941 Oswald Allen Harker (b. 1886 - d. 1968)
Directors-general
Apr 1941 - May 1946 Sir David Petrie (b. 1879 - d. 1961)
May 1946 - 1953 Sir Percy Sillitoe (b. 1888 - d. 1962)
1953 - 1956 Dick White (from 1955, Sir Dick
White) (b. 1906 - d. 1993)
1956 - 1965 Roger Hollis (from 1960, Sir Roger
Hollis) (b. 1905 - d. 1973)
1965 - 1972 Martin Furnival Jones (from 1967,
Sir Martin Furnival Jones) (b. 1912 - d. 1997)
1972 - 1978 Michael Hanley (from 1974,
Sir Michael Hanley) (b. 1918 - d. 2001)
1978 - 1981 Sir Howard Smith (b. 1919 - d. 1996)
1981 - Mar 1985 Sir John Jones (b. 1923 - d. 1998)
Mar 1985 - 1987 Sir Antony Duff (b. 1920 - d. 2000)
1987 - 1992 Patrick Walker (from 1990,
Sir Patrick Walker) (b. 1932 - d. 2021)
1992 - 1996 Stella Rimington (f) (b. 1935)
1996 - Oct 2002 Stephen Lander (from 2000,
Sir Stephen Lander) (b. 1947)
Oct 2002 - 8 Apr 2007 Eliza Manningham-Buller
(from Jun 2005, Dame Eliza
Manningham-Buller) (f) (b. 1948)
8 Apr 2007 - 22 Apr 2013 Jonathan Evans (from 29 Dec 2012,
Sir Jonathan Evans) (b. 1958)
22 Apr 2013 - Apr 2020 Andrew Parker (from 8 Jun 2019,
Sir Andrew Parker) (b. 1962)
Apr 2020 - Ken McCallum (b. 1974)
Chiefs
1909 - 1923 Mansfield Cumming (from 1919,
Sir Mansfield Cumming) (b. 1859 - d. 1923)
1923 - 4 Nov 1939 Hugh Sinclair (from 1935,
Sir Hugh Sinclair) (b. 1873 - d. 1939)
1939 - 1952 Stewart Menzies (from 1943,
Sir Stewart Menzies) (b. 1890 - d. 1968)
1953 - 1956 Sir John Sinclair (b. 1897 - d. 1977)
1956 - 1968 Sir Dick White (b. 1906 - d. 1993)
1968 - 1973 Sir John Rennie (b. 1914 - d. 1981)
1973 - 1978 Maurice Oldfield (from 1975,
Sir Maurice Oldfield) (b. 1915 - d. 1981)
1978 - Jul 1981 Dick Franks (from 1979,
Sir Dick Franks) (b. 1920 - d. 2008)
1981 - 1985 Colin Figures (from 1983,
Sir Colin Figures) (b. 1925 - d. 2006)
1985 - 1989 Christopher Curwen (from 1986,
Sir Christopher Curwen) (b. 1929 - d. 2013)
1989 - 1994 Colin McColl (from 1990,
Sir Colin McColl) (b. 1932)
Sep 1994 - 1 Sep 1999 David Spedding (from 1996,
Sir David Spedding) (b. 1943 - d. 2001)
1 Sep 1999 - 6 May 2004 Richard Dearlove (from 16 Jun
2001, Sir Richard Dearlove) (b. 1945)
6 May 2004 - 1 Nov 2009 John Scarlett (from 30 Dec 2006,
Sir John Scarlett) (b. 1948)
1 Nov 2009 - 3 Nov 2014 Sir John Sawers (b. 1955)
3 Nov 2014 - Alex Younger (from 8 Jun 2019,
Sir Alex Younger) (b. 1963)
Governors
1699 - 1701 Nathaniel Tench
1701 - 1703 John Ward (b. c.1650 - d. 1726)
1703 - 1705 Abraham Houblon (b. 1640 - d. 1722)
1705 - 1707 Sir James Bateman (b. c.1660 - d. 1718)
1707 - 1709 Francis Eyles (b. c.1650 - d. 1716)
1709 - 1711 Sir Gilbert Heathcote (1st time) (b. 1652 - d. 1733)
1711 - 1713 Nathaniel Gould (b. 1661 - d. 1728)
1713 - 1715 John Rudge (b. 1669 - d. 1740)
1715 - 1717 Sir Peter Delmé (b. 1667 - d. 1728)
1717 - 1719 Sir Gerard Conyers (b. 1661 - d. 1737)
1719 - 1721 John Hanger
1721 - 1723 Sir Thomas Scawen (b. c.1650 - d. 1730)
1723 - 1725 Sir Gilbert Heathcote (2nd time) (s.a.)
1725 - 1727 William Thompson
1727 - 1729 Humphry Morice (b. 1679 - d. 1731)
1729 - 1731 Samuel Holden (b. 1675 - d. 1740)
1731 - 1733 Sir Edward Bellamy (b. ... - d. 1749)
1733 - 1735 Horatio Townshend (b. c.1683 - d. 1751)
1735 - 1737 Bryan Benson
1737 - 1740 Thomas Cooke (b. 1672? - d. 1752)
1740 - 1741 Delillers Carbonnel (b. 1669 - d. 1747)
1741 - 1743 Stamp Brooksbank (b. 1694 - d. 1756)
1743 - 1745 William Fawkener
1745 - 1747 Charles Savage
1747 - 1749 Benjamin Longuet (b. 1685 - d. 1761)
1749 - 1752 William Hunt
1752 - 1754 Alexander Sheafe
1754 - 1756 Charles Palmer
1756 - 1758 Matthews Beachcroft
1758 - 1760 Merrik Burrell (b. 1699 - d. 1787)
1760 - 1762 Bartholomew Burton
1762 - 1764 Robert Marsh
1764 - 1766 John Weyland
1766 - 1769 Matthew Clarmont
1769 - 1771 William Cooper
1771 - 1773 Edward Payne
1773 - 1775 James Sperling
1775 - 1777 Samuel Beachcroft (b. ... - d. 1796)
1777 - 1779 Peter Gaussen
1779 - 1781 Daniel Booth (b. ... - d. 1788)
1781 - 1783 William Ewer (b. c.1720 - d. 1789)
1783 - 1785 Richard Neave (b. 1731 - d. 1814)
1785 - 1787 George Peters
1787 - 1789 Edward Darell (b. 1728 - d. 1814)
1789 - 1791 Mark Weyland
1791 - 1793 Samuel Bosanquet (b. 1744 - d. 1806)
1793 - 1795 Godfrey Thornton
1795 - 1797 Daniel Giles (b. 1725? - d. 1800)
1797 - 1799 Thomas Raikes (b. 1741 - d. 1813)
1799 - 1801 Samuel Thornton (b. 1754 - d. 1838)
1801 - 21 Apr 1802 Job Mathew (b. 17... - d. 1802)
1802 - 1804 Joseph Nutt
1804 - 1806 Benjamin Winthrop
1806 - 1808 Beeston Long (b. 1757 - d. 1820)
1808 - 1810 John Whitmore (b. 1750 - d. 1826)
1810 - 1812 John Pearse (b. 1759 - d. 1836)
1812 - 1814 William Manning (b. 1763 - d. 1835)
1814 - 1816 William Mellish (b. 1764? - d. 1838)
1816 - 1818 Jeremiah Harman (b. 1763 - d. 1844)
1818 - 1820 George Dorrien
1820 - 1822 Charles Pole
1822 - 1824 John Bowden
1824 - 1826 Cornelius Buller
1826 - 1828 John Baker Richards
1828 - 1830 Samuel Drewe (b. 1759 - d. 1837)
1830 - 1833 John Horsley Palmer (b. 1779 - d. 1858)
1833 - 1834 Richard Mee Raikes (b. 1784 - d. 1863)
1834 - 1837 James Pattison
1837 - 1839 Timothy Abraham Curtis (b. 1786 - d. 1857)
1839 - 1841 Sir John Rae Reid (b. 1791 - d. 1867)
1841 - 1842 Sir John Henry Pelly (b. 1777 - d. 1852)
1842 - 1845 William Cotton (b. 1786 - d. 1866)
1845 - 1847 John Benjamin Heath (b. 1790 - d. 1879)
Apr 1847 - Aug 1847 William Robinson Robinson
1847 - 1849 James Morris
1849 - 1851 Henry James Prescott (b. 1802 - d. 1856)
1851 - 1853 Thomson Hankey (b. 1805 - d. 1893)
1853 - 1855 John Gellibrand Hubbard (b. 1805 - d. 1889)
1855 - 1857 Thomas Matthias Weguelin (b. 1809 - d. 1885)
1857 - 1859 Sheffield Neave (b. 1799 - d. 1868)
1859 - 1861 Bonamy Dobrée (b. 1794 - d. 1863)
1861 - 1863 Alfred Latham (b. 1801 - d. 1885)
1863 - 1865 Kirkman Daniel Hodgson (b. 1814 - d. 1879)
1865 - 1867 Henry Lancelot Holland (b. 1808 - d. 1893)
1867 - 1869 Thomas Newman Hunt (b. 1806 - d. 1884)
1869 - 1871 Robert Wigram Crawford (b. 1813 - d. 1889)
1871 - 1873 George Lyall (b. 1819 - d. 1881)
1873 - 1875 Benjamin Buck Greene (b. 1808 - d. 1902)
1875 - 1877 Henry Hucks Gibbs (b. 1819 - d. 1907)
1877 - 1879 Edward Howley Palmer (b. 1811 - d. 1901)
1879 - 1881 John William Birch (b. 1825 - d. 1897)
1881 - 1883 Henry Riversdale Grenfell (b. 1824 - d. 1902)
1883 - 1885 John Saunders Gilliat (b. 1829 - d. 1912)
1885 - 1887 James Pattison Currie (b. 1824 - d. 1908)
1887 - 1889 Mark Wilks Collet (b. 1816 - d. 1905)
1889 - 1892 William Lidderdale (b. 1832 - d. 1902)
1892 - 1895 David Powell (b. 1840 - d. 1897)
1895 - 1897 Albert George Sandeman (b. 1833 - d. 1923)
1897 - 1899 Hugh Colin Smith (b. 1836 - d. 1910)
1899 - 1901 Samuel Steuart Gladstone (b. 1837 - d. 1909)
1901 - 1903 Augustus Prevost (b. 1837 - d. 1913)
1903 - 1905 Samuel Hope Morley (b. 1845 - d. 1929)
1905 - 1907 Alexander Falconer Wallace (b. 1836 - d. 1925)
1907 - 1909 William Middleton Campbell (b. 1849 - d. 1919)
1909 - 1911 Reginald Eden Johnston (b. 1847 - d. 1922)
1911 - 1913 Alfred Clayton Cole (b. 1854 - d. 1920)
1913 - 1918 Walter Cunliffe, (from 1914)
Baron Cunliffe (b. 1855 - d. 1920)
1918 - 1920 Sir Brien Ibrican Cokayne (b. 1864 - d. 1932)
1920 - 1944 Montagu Collet Norman (b. 1871 - d. 1950)
1944 - 1949 Thomas Sivewright Catto, Baron
Catto of Cairncatto (b. 1879 - d. 1959)
Mar 1949 - 30 Jun 1961 Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, (from
1960) Baron Cobbold of Knebworth (b. 1904 - d. 1987)
1 Jul 1961 - 1966 George Rowland Stanley Baring,
Earl of Cromer (b. 1918 - d. 1991)
1966 - 1973 Leslie O'Brien (from 1967,
Sir Leslie O'Brien) (b. 1908 - d. 1995)
1973 - 1983 Gordon Richardson (b. 1915 - d. 2010)
1983 - 1993 Robin Leigh-Pemberton (b. 1927 - d. 2013)
1993 - 30 Jun 2003 Edward George (from 2000,
Sir Edward George) (b. 1938 - d. 2009)
1 Jul 2003 - 30 Jun 2013 Mervyn King (from 11 Jun 2011,
Sir Mervyn King) (b. 1948)
1 Jul 2013 - 15 Mar 2020 Mark Carney (b. 1965)
16 Mar 2020 - Andrew Bailey (b. 1959)
Presidents
1 Oct 2009 - 30 Sep 2012 Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips
of Worth Matravers (b. 1938)
1 Oct 2012 - 30 Sep 2017 David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger
of Abbotsbury (b. 1948)
1 Oct 2017 - 13 Jan 2020 Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of
Richmond (f) (b. 1945)
13 Jan 2020 - Robert Reed, Baron Reed of
Allermuir (b. 1956)
Speakers
24 Aug 1698 - 6 Feb 1701 Sir Thomas Littleton (b. 1647 - d. 1709)
6 Feb 1701 - 14 Jun 1705 Robert Harley (b. 1661 - d. 1724)
14 Jun 1705 - 8 Jul 1708 John Smith (b. 1655 - d. 1723)
8 Jul 1708 - 25 Nov 1710 Sir Richard Onslow (b. 1654 - d. 1717)
25 Nov 1710 - 12 Nov 1713 William Bromley (b. 1664 - d. 1732)
12 Nov 1713 - 17 Mar 1715 Sir Thomas Hanmer (b. 1677 - d. 1746)
17 Mar 1715 - 28 Nov 1727 Spencer Compton (from 1725,
Sir Spencer Compton) (b. 1673? - d. 1743)
28 Nov 1727 - 19 May 1761 Arthur Onslow (b. 1691 - d. 1768)
19 May 1761 - 17 Jan 1770 Sir John Cust (b. 1718 - d. 1770)
17 Jan 1770 - 31 Oct 1780 Sir Fletcher Norton (b. 1716 - d. 1789)
31 Oct 1780 - 2 Jan 1789 Charles Wolfran Cornwall (b. 1735 - d. 1789)
5 Jan 1789 - 8 May 1789 William Wyndham Grenville (b. 1759 - d. 1834)
8 May 1789 - 11 Feb 1801 Henry Addington (b. 1757 - d. 1844)
11 Feb 1801 - 10 Feb 1802 Sir John Mitford (b. 1748 - d. 1830)
10 Feb 1802 - 30 May 1817 Charles Abbot (b. 1757 - d. 1829)
2 Jun 1817 - 19 Feb 1835 Charles Manners-Sutton (from 1833,
Sir Charles Manners-Sutton) (b. 1780 - d. 1845)
19 Feb 1835 - 15 May 1839 James Abercromby (b. 1776 - d. 1858)
27 May 1839 - 21 Mar 1857 Charles Shaw-Lefevre (b. 1794 - d. 1888)
30 Apr 1857 - 7 Feb 1872 John Evelyn Denison (b. 1800 - d. 1873)
9 Feb 1872 - 25 Feb 1884 Henry Bouverie William Brand (b. 1814 - d. 1892)
26 Feb 1884 - 9 Apr 1895 Arthur Wellesley Peel (b. 1829 - d. 1912)
10 Apr 1895 - 7 Jun 1905 William Court Gully (b. 1835 - d. 1909)
8 Jun 1905 - 27 Apr 1921 James William Lowther (b. 1855 - d. 1949)
28 Apr 1921 - 19 Jun 1928 John Henry Whitley (b. 1866 - d. 1935)
20 Jun 1928 - 3 Mar 1943 Edward Algernon FitzRoy (b. 1869 - d. 1943)
9 Mar 1943 - 31 Oct 1951 Douglas Clifton Brown (b. 1879 - d. 1958)
31 Oct 1951 - 20 Oct 1959 William Shepherd Morrison (b. 1893 - d. 1961)
20 Oct 1959 - 2 Sep 1965 Sir Harry Hylton-Foster (b. 1905 - d. 1965)
26 Oct 1965 - 12 Jan 1971 Horace King (b. 1901 - d. 1986)
12 Jan 1971 - 3 Feb 1976 Selwyn Lloyd (b. 1904 - d. 1978)
3 Feb 1976 - 15 Jun 1983 George Thomas (b. 1909 - d. 1997)
15 Jun 1983 - 27 Apr 1992 Bernard Weatherill (b. 1920 - d. 2007)
27 Apr 1992 - 23 Oct 2000 Betty Boothroyd (f) (b. 1929 - d. 2023)
23 Oct 2000 - 21 Jun 2009 Michael Martin (b. 1945 - d. 2018)
22 Jun 2009 - 31 Oct 2019 John Bercow (b. 1963)
4 Nov 2019 - Sir Lindsay Hoyle (b. 1957)
Speakers
... - 4 Jul 2006 the Lord Chancellors
Lord Speakers
4 Jul 2006 - 1 Sep 2011 Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman (f) (b. 1949)
1 Sep 2011 - 1 Sep 2016 Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza
(f) (b. 1944)
1 Sep 2016 - 1 May 2021 Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler (b. 1938)
1 May 2021 - John McFall, Baron McFall of
Alcluith (b. 1944)
Black Rods (full title Gentleman/Lady Usher of the Black Rod)
5 Dec 1698 - 1 Jun 1710 Sir David Mitchell (b. c.1650 - d. 1710)
3 Jun 1710 - 5 Nov 1718 Sir William Oldes (b. 16... - d. 1718)
Nov 1718 - 17 May 1727 Sir William Saunderson (b. 16... - d. 1727)
1727 - 18 Aug 1747 Sir Charles Dalton (b. 1660 - d. 1747)
1747 - 7 Apr 1761 Sir Henry Bellenden (b. ... - d. 1761)
1761 - 6 Sep 1765 Sir Septimus Robinson (b. 1710 - d. 1765)
1765 - 9 Jun 1812 Sir Francis Molyneux (b. c.1736 - d. 1812)
1812 - 25 Jul 1832 Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt (b. 1762 - d. 1833)
25 Jul 1832 - 8 Feb 1877 Sir Augustus Clifford (b. 1788 - d. 1877)
3 May 1877 - 23 Jun 1883 Sir William Knollys (b. 1797 - d. 1883)
24 Jul 1883 - 7 Oct 1895 Sir James Drummond (b. 1812 - d. 1895)
11 Feb 1896 - 23 Jul 1904 Sir Michael Biddulph (b. 1823 - d. 1904)
Aug 1904 - 16 Dec 1919 Sir Henry Stephenson (b. 1842 - d. 1919)
Jan 1920 - 14 May 1941 Sir William Pulteney (b. 1861 - d. 1941)
Oct 1941 - 15 Aug 1944 Sir William Mitchell (b. 1888 - d. 1944)
Jan 1945 - 18 Jan 1949 Sir Geoffrey Blake (b. 1882 - d. 1968)
18 Jan 1949 - 18 Jun 1963 Sir Brian Horrocks (b. 1895 - d. 1985)
18 Jun 1963 - Oct 1970 Sir George Mills (b. 1902 - d. 1971)
Oct 1970 - 18 Jan 1978 Sir Frank Twiss (b. 1910 - d. 1994)
18 Jan 1978 - Jan 1985 Sir David House (b. 1922 - d. 2012)
Jan 1985 - Jan 1992 Sir John Gingell (b. 1925 - d. 2009)
Jan 1992 - 9 May 1995 Sir Richard Thomas (b. 1932 - d. 1998)
9 May 1995 - 9 May 2001 Sir Edward Jones (b. 1936 - d. 2007)
9 May 2001 - 29 Apr 2009 Sir Michael Willcocks (b. 1944)
29 Apr 2009 - 28 Oct 2010 Sir Freddie Viggers (b. 1951)
28 Oct 2010 - 1 Feb 2011 Ted Lloyd-Jukes (acting)
1 Feb 2011 - 21 Dec 2017 David Leakey (b. 1952)
12 Feb 2018 - Sarah Clarke (f) (b. 1965)
Leaders
4 Oct 1809 - 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval (b. 1762 - d. 1812)
8 Jun 1812 - 12 Apr 1827 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of
Liverpool (b. 1770 - d. 1828)
12 Apr 1827 - 8 Aug 1827 George Canning (b. 1770 - d. 1827)
31 Aug 1827 - 22 Jan 1828 Frederick John Robinson, Viscount
Goderich (b. 1782 - d. 1859)
22 Jan 1828 - 10 Dec 1834 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wellington (b. 1769 - d. 1852)
10 Dec 1834 - 27 Jun 1846 Sir Robert Peel (b. 1788 - d. 1850)
27 Jun 1846 - 27 Feb 1868 Edward Geoffrey Stanley, (from
30 Jun 1851) Earl of Derby (b. 1799 - d. 1869)
27 Feb 1868 - 19 Apr 1881 Benjamin Disraeli, (from 12 Aug
1876) Earl of Beaconsfield (b. 1804 - d. 1881)
9 May 1881 - 12 Jul 1902 Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of
Salisbury (b. 1830 - d. 1903)
12 Jul 1902 - 13 Nov 1911 Arthur James Balfour (b. 1848 - d. 1930)
13 Nov 1911 - 21 Mar 1921 Bonar Law (1st time) (b. 1858 - d. 1923)
21 Mar 1921 - 23 Oct 1922 Austen Chamberlain (b. 1863 - d. 1937)
23 Oct 1922 - 28 May 1923 Bonar Law (2nd time) (s.a.)
28 May 1923 - 31 May 1937 Stanley Baldwin (b. 1867 - d. 1947)
31 May 1937 - 9 Oct 1940 Neville Chamberlain (b. 1869 - d. 1940)
9 Oct 1940 - 21 Apr 1955 Winston Churchill (b. 1874 - d. 1965)
21 Apr 1955 - 22 Jan 1957 Sir Anthony Eden (b. 1897 - d. 1977)
22 Jan 1957 - 12 Nov 1963 Harold Macmillan (b. 1894 - d. 1986)
12 Nov 1963 - 2 Aug 1965 Sir Alec Douglas-Home (b. 1903 - d. 1995)
2 Aug 1965 - 11 Feb 1975 Edward Heath (b. 1916 - d. 2005)
11 Feb 1975 - 28 Nov 1990 Margaret Thatcher (f) (b. 1925 - d. 2013)
28 Nov 1990 - 19 Jun 1997 John Major (b. 1943)
19 Jun 1997 - 13 Sep 2001 William Hague (b. 1961)
13 Sep 2001 - 6 Nov 2003 Iain Duncan Smith (b. 1954)
6 Nov 2003 - 6 Dec 2005 Michael Howard (b. 1941)
6 Dec 2005 - 11 Jul 2016 David Cameron (b. 1966)
11 Jul 2016 - 23 Jul 2019 Theresa May (f) (b. 1956)
23 Jul 2019 - 5 Sep 2022 Boris Johnson (b. 1964)
5 Sep 2022 - 24 Oct 2022 Liz Truss (f) (b. 1975)
24 Oct 2022 - Rishi Sunak (b. 1980)
Leaders
17 Feb 1906 - 22 Jan 1908 Keir Hardie (b. 1856 - d. 1915)
22 Jan 1908 - 14 Feb 1910 Arthur Henderson (1st time) (b. 1863 - d. 1935)
14 Feb 1910 - 6 Feb 1911 George Nicoll Barnes (b. 1859 - d. 1940)
6 Feb 1911 - 5 Aug 1914 Ramsay MacDonald (1st time) (b. 1866 - d. 1937)
5 Aug 1914 - 24 Oct 1917 Arthur Henderson (2nd time) (s.a.)
24 Oct 1917 - 14 Feb 1921 William Adamson (b. 1863 - d. 1936)
14 Feb 1921 - 21 Nov 1922 John Robert Clynes (b. 1869 - d. 1949)
21 Nov 1922 - 1 Sep 1931 Ramsay MacDonald (2nd time) (s.a.)
1 Sep 1931 - 25 Oct 1932 Arthur Henderson (3rd time) (s.a.)
25 Oct 1932 - 8 Oct 1935 George Lansbury (b. 1859 - d. 1940)
8 Oct 1935 - 14 Dec 1955 Clement Attlee (b. 1883 - d. 1967)
14 Dec 1955 - 18 Jan 1963 Hugh Gaitskell (b. 1906 - d. 1963)
18 Jan 1963 - 14 Feb 1963 George Brown (acting) (b. 1914 - d. 1985)
14 Feb 1963 - 5 Apr 1976 Harold Wilson (b. 1916 - d. 1995)
5 Apr 1976 - 3 Nov 1980 James Callaghan (b. 1912 - d. 2005)
3 Nov 1980 - 2 Oct 1983 Michael Foot (b. 1913 - d. 2010)
2 Oct 1983 - 18 Jul 1992 Neil Kinnock (b. 1942)
18 Jul 1992 - 12 May 1994 John Smith (b. 1938 - d. 1994)
12 May 1994 - 21 Jul 1994 Margaret Beckett (f) (acting) (b. 1943)
21 Jul 1994 - 24 Jun 2007 Tony Blair (b. 1953)
24 Jun 2007 - 11 May 2010 Gordon Brown (b. 1951)
11 May 2010 - 25 Sep 2010 Harriet Harman (f) (1st time) (b. 1950)
(acting)
25 Sep 2010 - 8 May 2015 Ed Miliband (b. 1969)
8 May 2015 - 12 Sep 2015 Harriet Harman (f) (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
12 Sep 2015 - 4 Apr 2020 Jeremy Corbyn (b. 1949)
4 Apr 2020 - Sir Keir Starmer (b. 1962)
3 Mar 1988 Liberal Party united with Social Democratic Party as
Social and Liberal Democrats
Oct 1989 renamed Liberal Democrats
Leaders (in the House of Commons¹)
10 Dec 1834 - 6 Feb 1855 Lord John Russell (b. 1792 - d. 1878)
6 Feb 1855 - 18 Oct 1865 Henry John Temple, Viscount
Palmerston (b. 1784 - d. 1865)
29 Oct 1865 - 5 Feb 1875 William Ewart Gladstone (1st time) (b. 1809 - d. 1898)
5 Feb 1875 - 23 Apr 1880 Spencer Compton Cavendish,
Marquess of Hartington (b. 1833 - d. 1908)
23 Apr 1880 - 5 Mar 1894 William Ewart Gladstone (2nd time) (s.a.)
5 Mar 1894 - 6 Feb 1899 Sir William Harcourt (b. 1827 - d. 1904)
6 Feb 1899 - 22 Apr 1908 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (b. 1836 - d. 1908)
30 Apr 1908 - 14 Oct 1926 H.H. Asquith (b. 1852 - d. 1928)
Feb 1919 - Jan 1920 Sir Donald Maclean (b. 1864 - d. 1932)
(acting for Asquith)
14 Oct 1926 - 4 Nov 1931 David Lloyd George (b. 1863 - d. 1945)
4 Nov 1931 - 26 Nov 1935 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel (b. 1870 - d. 1963)
26 Nov 1935 - 2 Aug 1945 Sir Archibald Sinclair (b. 1890 - d. 1970)
2 Aug 1945 - 5 Nov 1956 Edward Clement Davies (b. 1884 - d. 1962)
5 Nov 1956 - 18 Jan 1967 Jo Grimond (1st time) (b. 1913 - d. 1993)
18 Jan 1967 - 12 May 1976 Jeremy Thorpe (b. 1929 - d. 2014)
12 May 1976 - 7 Jul 1976 Jo Grimond (2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
7 Jul 1976 - 3 Mar 1988 David Steel (b. 1938)
3 Mar 1988 - 28 Jul 1988 David Steel (s.a.)
+ Robert Maclennan (b. 1936 - d. 2020)
(interim)
28 Jul 1988 - 9 Aug 1999 Paddy Ashdown (b. 1941 - d. 2018)
9 Aug 1999 - 7 Jan 2006 Charles Kennedy (b. 1959 - d. 2015)
7 Jan 2006 - 15 Oct 2007 Sir Menzies Campbell (b. 1941)
(acting to 2 Mar 2006)
15 Oct 2007 - 18 Dec 2007 Vince Cable (1st time) (acting) (b. 1943)
18 Dec 2007 - 16 Jul 2015 Nick Clegg (b. 1967)
16 Jul 2015 - 20 Jul 2017 Tim Farron (b. 1970)
20 Jul 2017 - 22 Jul 2019 Sir Vince Cable (2nd time) (s.a.)
22 Jul 2019 - 13 Dec 2019 Jo Swinson (f) (b. 1980)
13 Dec 2019 - 31 Dec 2019 Sal Brinton, Baroness Brinton (f) (b. 1955)
+ Sir Ed Davey (b. 1965)
(acting)
1 Jan 2020 - 27 Aug 2020 Mark Pack (b. 1970)
+ Sir Ed Davey (s.a.)
(acting)
27 Aug 2020 - Sir Ed Davey (s.a.)
¹On occasion the clear leader of the Liberal Party was the leader in the House of Lords, and in the 19th century it was common for the leaders in the two houses to be regarded as joint leaders of the party and the monarch may have sent for either to form a government. The following were the leaders in the House of Lords during this period:
29 Dec 1852 - 29 Oct 1865 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (1st time) (b. 1815 - d. 1891)
29 Oct 1865 - 3 Dec 1868 John Russell, Earl Russell (s.a.)
3 Dec 1868 - 31 Mar 1891 Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Earl Granville (2nd time) (s.a.)
1 Apr 1891 - 5 Mar 1894 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
(1st time) (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
5 Mar 1894 - 8 Oct 1896 Archibald Primrose, Earl of
Rosebery (b. 1847 - d. 1929)
18 Jan 1897 - 8 Apr 1902 John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley
(2nd time) (s.a.)
8 Mar 1988 relaunched by members opposed to merger with Liberal Party 3 Jun 1990 disbanded Leaders 2 Jul 1982 - 13 Jun 1983 Roy Jenkins (b. 1920 - d. 2003) 13 Jun 1983 - 29 Aug 1987 David Owen (1st time) (b. 1938) 29 Aug 1987 - 3 Mar 1988 Robert Maclennan (s.a.) 8 Mar 1988 - 3 Jun 1990 David Owen (2nd time) (s.a.)
23 Jun 1928 National Party of Scotland founded
1932 Scottish Party founded
7 Apr 1934 united as Scottish National Party
Leaders
7 Apr 1934 - 1936 Sir Alexander MacEwen (b. 1875 - d. 1941)
1936 - 1940 Andrew Dewar Gibb (b. 1888 - d. 1974)
1940 - 30 May 1942 William Power (b. 1873 - d. 1951)
30 May 1942 - 1945 Douglas Young (b. 1913 - d. 1973)
1945 - May 1947 Bruce Watson (b. 1910 - d. 1988)
May 1947 - May 1956 Robert McIntyre (b. 1913 - d. 1998)
May 1956 - May 1960 James Halliday (b. 1927 - d. 2013)
May 1960 - 1969 Arthur Donaldson (b. 1901 - d. 1993)
1969 - Sep 1979 William Wolfe (b. 1924 - d. 2010)
Sep 1979 - Sep 1990 Gordon Wilson (b. 1938 - d. 2017)
Sep 1990 - 23 Sep 2000 Alex Salmond (1st time) (b. 1954)
23 Sep 2000 - Sep 2004 John Swinney (b. 1964)
Sep 2004 - 14 Nov 2014 Alex Salmond (2nd time) (s.a.)
14 Nov 2014 - Nicola Sturgeon (f) (b. 1970)
Aug 1925 Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (Welsh Nationalist Party) founded
1945 renamed Plaid Cymru
Leaders
1925 - 1926 Lewis Valentine (b. 1893 - d. 1986)
1926 - 1939 Saunders Lewis (b. 1893 - d. 1985)
1939 - 1943 J.E. Daniel (b. 1902 - d. 1962)
1943 - 1945 Abi Williams
Aug 1945 - Oct 1981 Gwynfor Evans (b. 1912 - d. 2005)
Oct 1981 - Oct 1984 Dafydd Wigley (1st time) (b. 1943)
Oct 1984 - Sep 1991 Dafydd Elis Thomas (b. 1946)
Sep 1991 - Aug 2000 Dafydd Wigley (2nd time) (s.a.)
Aug 2000 - Sep 2003 Ieuan Wyn Jones (1st time) (b. 1949)
Sep 2003 - Feb 2006 Dafydd Iwan (b. 1943)
Feb 2006 - Mar 2012 Ieuan Wyn Jones (2nd time) (s.a.)
Mar 2012 - 28 Sep 2018 Leanne Wood (f) (b. 1971)
28 Sep 2018 - Adam Price (b. 1968)
Leaders
1905 - 21 Oct 1906 Edward James Saunderson (b. 1837 - d. 1906)
1906 - 1910 Walter Hume Long (b. 1854 - d. 1924)
1910 - 1921 Sir Edward Carson (b. 1854 - d. 1935)
1921 - 24 Nov 1940 Sir James Craig (from 1927, James
Craig, Viscount Craigavon) (b. 1871 - d. 1940)
1940 - 1943 John Miller Andrews (b. 1871 - d. 1956)
1943 - 1963 Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke (from
1952, Basil Stanlake Brooke,
Viscount Brookeborough of
Colebrooke) (b. 1888 - d. 1973)
1963 - 1 May 1969 Terence O'Neill (b. 1914 - d. 1990)
1 May 1969 - 23 Mar 1971 James Chichester-Clark (b. 1923 - d. 2002)
23 Mar 1971 - 22 Jan 1974 Brian Faulkner (b. 1921 - d. 1977)
22 Jan 1974 - 7 Sep 1979 Harry West (b. 1917 - d. 2004)
7 Sep 1979 - 8 Sep 1995 James Molyneaux (b. 1920 - d. 2015)
8 Sep 1995 - 24 Jun 2005 David Trimble (b. 1944 - d. 2022)
24 Jun 2005 - 22 Sep 2010 Sir Reg Empey (b. 1947)
22 Sep 2010 - 31 Mar 2012 Tom Elliott (b. 1963)
31 Mar 2012 - 8 Apr 2017 Mike Nesbitt (b. 1957)
8 Apr 2017 - Robin Swann (b. 1971)
Leaders 21 Aug 1970 - 28 Nov 1979 Gerry Fitt (b. 1926 - d. 2005) 28 Nov 1979 - 11 Nov 2001 John Hume (b. 1937 - d. 2020) 11 Nov 2001 - 7 Feb 2010 Mark Durkan (b. 1960) 7 Feb 2010 - 5 Nov 2011 Margaret Ritchie (f) (b. 1958) 5 Nov 2011 - 14 Nov 2015 Alasdair McDonnell (b. 1949) 14 Nov 2015 - Colum Eastwood (b. 1983)
Leaders 29 Sep 1971 - 31 May 2008 Ian Paisley (b. 1926 - d. 2014) 31 May 2008 - 17 Dec 2015 Peter Robinson (b. 1948) 17 Dec 2015 - 28 May 2021 Arlene Foster (f) (b. 1970) 28 May 2021 - 30 Jun 2021 Edwin Poots (b. 1965) 30 Jun 2021 - Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (b. 1962)
Secretaries of the Parliamentary Committee
1868 - 1869 William Henry Wood
1869 - 1872 George Potter (b. 1832 - d. 1893)
1872 - 1873 George Odger (b. 1820 - d. 1877)
1873 - 1876 George Howell (b. 1833 - d. 1910)
1876 - 1885 Henry Broadhurst (1st time) (b. 1840 - d. 1911)
1885 - 1886 George Shipton (b. 1839 - d. 1911)
1886 - 1890 Henry Broadhurst (2nd time) (s.a.)
1890 - 1894 Charles Fenwick (b. 1850 - d. 1918)
1894 - 1905 Sam Woods (b. 1846 - d. 1915)
1905 - 21 Jul 1911 William Charles Steadman (b. 1851 - d. 1911)
Sep 1911 - 1921 Charles William Bowerman (b. 1851 - d. 1947)
General secretaries
1921 - 1923 Charles William Bowerman (s.a.)
1923 - 10 Oct 1925 Fred Bramley (b. 1874 - d. 1925)
Oct 1925 - 22 Oct 1946 Walter Citrine (from 1935,
Sir Walter Citrine) (b. 1887 - d. 1983)
(acting to 11 Sep 1926)
22 Oct 1946 - 9 Sep 1960 Vincent Tewson (from 1950,
Sir Vincent Tewson) (b. 1898 - d. 1981)
9 Sep 1960 - 1 Mar 1969 George Woodcock (b. 1904 - d. 1979)
1 Mar 1969 - 7 Sep 1973 Victor Feather (b. 1908 - d. 1976)
(acting to 2 Sep 1969)
7 Sep 1973 - 7 Sep 1984 Len Murray (b. 1922 - d. 2004)
7 Sep 1984 - 10 Sep 1993 Norman Willis (b. 1933 - d. 2014)
10 Sep 1993 - May 2003 John Monks (b. 1945)
May 2003 - Jan 2013 Brendan Barber (b. 1951)
Jan 2013 - Frances O'Grady (f) (b. 1959)
1922 Transport and General Workers' Union
1 May 2007 merged with Amicus to form Unite
General secretaries
1922 - Mar 1946 Ernest Bevin (b. 1881 - d. 1951)
Mar 1946 - 1 May 1955 Arthur Deakin (b. 1890 - d. 1955)
15 Jun 1955 - 27 Dec 1955 Jock Tiffin (b. 1896 - d. 1955)
2 Jan 1956 - Sep 1969 Frank Cousins (b. 1904 - d. 1986)
(acting to 11 May 1956)
Sep 1969 - Feb 1978 Jack Jones (b. 1913 - d. 2009)
Feb 1978 - Jul 1985 Moss Evans (b. 1925 - d. 2002)
Jul 1985 - Mar 1992 Ron Todd (b. 1927 - d. 2005)
Mar 1992 - Oct 2003 Bill Morris (b. 1938)
Oct 2003 - 1 May 2007 Tony Woodley (b. 1948)
1 May 2007 - 31 Jan 2011 Tony Woodley (s.a.)
+ Derek Simpson (b. 1944)
31 Jan 2011 - Len McCluskey (b. 1950)