Great Offices of State
The Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Charles Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1661; d. May 19 1715.
1694 – 1699
Robert Harley
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1661; d. May 21 1724.
1710 – 1711
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1688; d. June 17 1740.
1713 – 1714
Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1676; d. March 18 1745.
1715 – 1717
James Stanhope, 1st Viscount Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
1717 – 1718
John Aislabie
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1670; d. June 18 1742.
1718 – 1721
Sir Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1676; d. March 18 1745.
1721 – 1742
Henry Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1694; d. March 6 1754.
1743 – 1754
Henry Bilson-Legge
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 29 1708; d. August 23 1764.
1754 – 1755
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1709; d. August 22 1773.
1755 – 1756
Henry Bilson-Legge
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 29 1708; d. August 23 1764.
1756 – 1757
William Murray, 1st Baron of Mansfield
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1671; d. September 1 1729.
1757
Henry Bilson-Legge
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 29 1708; d. August 23 1764.
1757 – 1761
William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1717; d. February 1 1793.
1761 – 1762
Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 1708; d. December 11 1781.
1762 – 1763
George Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1712; d. November 13 1770.
1763 – 1765
William Dowdeswell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1721; d. February 6 1775.
1765 – 1766
Charles Townshend
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1725; d. September 4 1767.
1766 – 1767
Frederick North, Lord North
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1732; d. August 5 1792.
1767 – 1782
Lord John Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 22 1732; d. December 18 1796.
1782
William Pitt the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1759; d. January 23 1806.
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
1782 – 1783
Lord John Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 22 1732; d. December 18 1796.
1783
William Pitt the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1759; d. January 23 1806.
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
1783 – 1801
Henry Addington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1757; d. February 15 1844.
1801 – 1804
William Pitt the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1759; d. January 23 1806.
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
1804 – 1806
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Lord Henry Petty
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1780; d. January 31 1863.
1806 – 1807
Spencer Perceval
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1762; d. May 11 1812.
1807 – 1812
Nicholas Vansittart
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 29 1766; d. February 8 1851.
1812 – 1823
Frederick John Robinson
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1782; d. January 28 1859.
1823 – 1827
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
1827
John Charles Herries
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1778; d. April 24 1855.
1827 – 1828
Henry Goulburn
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 19 1784; d. January 12 1856.
1828 – 1830
John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1782; d. October 1 1845.
1830 – 1834
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1779; d. September 26 1854.
1834
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel (1815 – 1830)
1834 – 1835
Thomas Spring Rice
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 8 1790; d. February 7 1866.
1835 – 1839
Henry Goulburn
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 19 1784; d. January 12 1856.
1841 – 1846
Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1800; d. August 8 1885.
1846 – 1852
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
1852
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1852 – 1855
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1806; d. April 13 1863.
1855 – 1858
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
1858 – 1859
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1859 – 1866
Benjamin Disraeli
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1804; d. April 19 1881
Noble titles: Earl of Beaconsfield (1876 – 1881)
1866 – 1868
George Ward Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 30 1825; d. July 29 1877.
1868
Robert Lowe
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1811; d. July 27 1892.
1868 – 1873
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1873 – 1874
Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1818; d. January 12 1887.
1874 – 1880
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1880 – 1882
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1827; d. January 29 1896.
1882 – 1885
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1827; d. October 1 1904.
1886
George Joachim Goschen
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1831; d. February 7 1907.
1887 – 1892
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1827; d. October 1 1904.
1892 – 1895
Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 23 1837; d. April 30 1916.
1895 – 1902
Charles Thomson Ritchie
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 19 1838; d. January 9 1906.
1902 – 1903
Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1863; d. March 16 1937.
1903 – 1905
Herbert Henry Asquith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1852; d. February 15 1928
Titles of nobility: Earl of Oxford and Asquith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1928)
1905 – 1908
David Lloyd George
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1863; d. March 26 1945
Titles of nobility: Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1945)
1908 – 1915
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
1916 – 1919
Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1863; d. March 16 1937.
1919 – 1921
Stanley Baldwin
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
1922 – 1923
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
1923 – 1924
Philip Snowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 18 1864; d. May 15 1937.
1924
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1924 – 1929
Philip Snowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 18 1864; d. May 15 1937.
1929 – 1931
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
1931 – 1937
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
1955 – 1957
Leonard James Callaghan
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 27 1912; d. March 26 2005.
1964 – 1967
Roy Harris Jenkins
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1920; d. January 5 2003.
1967 – 1970
Nigel Lawson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1932; d. April 3 2023.
1983 – 1989
John Major
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1943.
1989 – 1990
James Gordon Brown
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 20 1951.
1997 – 2007
George Gideon Oliver Osborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 23 1971.
2010 – 2016
Philip Hammond
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1955.
2016 – 2019
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2019 – 2020
Rishi Sunak
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 12 1980.
2020 – 2022
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1966.
2022 – 2024
Rachel Jane Reeves
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 13 1979.
2024 – present
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Henry Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1903; d. March 29 1984.
1961 – 1962
Leon Brittan
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 25 1939; d. January 21 2015.
1981 – 1983
John Major
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1943.
1987 – 1989
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1953.
1992 – 1994
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 30 1942.
1994 – 1995
William Arthur Waldegrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1946.
1995 – 1997
Paul Yaw Boateng
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 14 1951.
2002 – 2005
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2017 – 2019
Rishi Sunak
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 12 1980.
2019 – 2020
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Edward Cardwell
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.
1845 – 1846
George Cornewall Lewis
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1806; d. April 13 1863.
1850 – 1852
Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1818; d. January 12 1887.
1859
Frederick Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 26 1823; d. June 6 1906.
1860 – 1865
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1827; d. January 29 1896.
1865 – 1866
George Ward Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 30 1825; d. July 29 1877.
1866 – 1868
William Henry Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 24 1825; d. October 6 1891.
1874 – 1877
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1841; d. June 14 1908
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Preston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1908); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1893 – 1908)
1877 – 1878
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1836; d. May 6 1882
1880 – 1882
John Tomlinson Hibbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 5 1824; d. November 7 1908.
1884 – 1885
William Lawies Jackson
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1840; d. April 4 1917.
1886
Henry Hartley Fowler
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1830; d. February 25 1911.
1886
William Lawies Jackson
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1840; d. April 4 1917.
1886 – 1891
Sir John Eldon Gorst
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 24 1835; d. April 4 1916.
1891 – 1892
Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 5 1824; d. November 7 1908.
1892 – 1895
Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1863; d. March 16 1937.
1900 – 1902
Victor Christian William Cavendish
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 31 1868; d. May 6 1938
Titles of nobility: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1938)
1903 – 1905
Stanley Baldwin
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
1917 – 1921
Alfred Duff Cooper
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1890; d. January 1 1954
Titles of nobility: Viscount Norwich in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1952 – 1954).
1934 – 1935
Henry Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1903; d. March 29 1984.
1954 – 1957
Nigel Lawson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1932; d. April 3 2023.
1979 – 1981
John Edward Michael Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 26 1937; d. May 20 2019.
1983 – 1986
Paul Yaw Boateng
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 14 1951.
2001 – 2002
Alexander Jesse Norman
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 23 1962.
2019 – 2021
Andrew John Griffith
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 23 1971.
2022
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
John Edward Michael Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 26 1937; d. May 20 2019.
1983
Helen Lawrie Liddell
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 6 1950.
1997 – 1998
Edward Michael “Ed” Balls
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 25 1967.
2006 – 2007
Katharine Anne “Kitty” Ussher
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1971.
2007 – 2008
Ian Phares Pearson
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 5 1959.
2008 – 2010
Justine Greening
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1969.
2010 – 2011
Andrew John Griffith
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 23 1971.
2022 – 2023
Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury
Katharine Anne “Kitty” Ussher
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1971.
2009
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
Charles Wood
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1800; d. August 8 1885.
1832 – 1834
Edward John Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1802; d. June 16 1869.
1835 – 1841
Henry Bouverie William Brand
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1814; d. March 14 1892
Noble titles: Viscount Hampden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1884 – 1892); Baron Dacre in the Peerage of England (1890 – 1892).
1859 – 1866
Arthur Wellesley Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1829; d. October 24 1912.
1873 – 1874
Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 7 1837; d. July 3 1931.
1874 – 1880
Arnold Morley
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 18 1849; d. January 16 1916.
1886
Edward Marjoribanks
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1849; d. September 15 1909.
1892 – 1894
James Gray Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 9 1897; d. February 20 1971
Titles of nobility: Viscount Stuart of Findhorn in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1959 – 1971)
1941 – 1945
Edward Richard George “Ted” Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 9 1916; d. July 17 2005.
1955 – 1959
John Wakeham
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 22 1932.
1983 – 1987
Winifred Ann Taylor
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1947.
1998 – 2001
Gavin Alexander Williamson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1976.
2016 – 2017
Julian Richard Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 30 1971.
2017 – 2019
Secretary to the Treasury
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
1715 – 1717
Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
1721 – 1730
Edward Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1706; d. January 12 1784.
1730 – 1739
George Rose
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 17 1744; d. January 13 1818.
1782 – 1801
Thomas Steele
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 17 1753; d. December 8 1823.
1783 – 1791
John Hiley Addington
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1759; d. June 11 1818.
1801 – 1802
Nicholas Vansittart
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 29 1766; d. February 8 1851.
1801 – 1804
William Huskisson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1770; d. September 15 1830.
1804 – 1806
William Sturges-Bourne
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 7 1769; d. February 1 1845.
1804 – 1806
Nicholas Vansittart
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 29 1766; d. February 8 1851.
1806 – 1807
William Huskisson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1770; d. September 15 1830.
1807 – 1809
Charles Arbuthnot
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1767; d. August 18 1850.
1809 – 1823
John Charles Herries
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1778; d. April 24 1855.
1823 – 1827
Thomas Spring Rice
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 8 1790; d. February 7 1866.
1830 – 1834
Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer
Charles Montagu, 1st Baron Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1661; d. May 19 1715.
1699 – 1714
George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1684; d. May 9 1739.
1714 – 1739
Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1701; d. March 31 1751.
1739 – 1751
Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1720; d. February 22 1794.
1751 – 1794
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
1794 – 1834
George Eden, 2nd Baron Auckland
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 25 1784; d. January 1 1849.
1834
Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer
Francis Godolphin
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1678; d. January 17 1766.
1699 – 1704
Philip Yorke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 9 1720; d. May 16 1790.
1738 – 1786
Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1678; d. February 5 1757.
1741 – 1757
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1715; d. April 13 1763.
1757 – 1763
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1715; d. April 13 1763.
1763 – 1813
John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1759; d. October 8 1840.
1780 – 1834
Spencer Perceval
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1795; d. September 16 1859.
1813 – 1834
Ministry of Defence
Secretary of State for War
Henry Dundas
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1742; d. May 28 1811.
1794 – 1801
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
Robert Hobart, Lord Hobart
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 6 1760; d. February 4 1816.
1801 – 1804
John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 11 1759; d. October 8 1840.
1804 – 1805
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 18 1769; d. August 12 1822.
1805 – 1806
William Windham
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 14 1750; d. June 4 1810.
1806 – 1807
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 18 1769; d. August 12 1822.
1807 – 1809
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 7 1770; d. December 4 1828.
1809 – 1812
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1762; d. July 27 1834.
1812 – 1827
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1782; d. January 28 1859.
1827
William Huskisson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1770; d. September 15 1830.
1827 – 1828
Lieutenant-General Sir George Murray
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 6 1772; d. July 28 1846.
1828 – 1830
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1782; d. January 28 1859.
1830 – 1833
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
1833 – 1834
Thomas Spring Rice
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 8 1790; d. February 7 1866.
1834
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (*caretaker)
Note: The Duke of Wellington held this office as a caretaker during his short-lived caretaker ministry of November – December 1834.
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
1834
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 28 1784; d. December 14 1860.
1834 – 1835
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 27 1625; d. May 28 1672.
1835 – 1839
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 15 1797; d. July 28 1863.
1839
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
1839 – 1841
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1799; d. October 23 1869
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1844 – 1869); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1851 – 1869)
1841 – 1845
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1845 – 1846
Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 28 1802; d. October 9 1984
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1845 – 1894)
1846 – 1852
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1811; d. October 18 1864.
1852 – 1854
Secretary of State for War
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1811; d. October 18 1864.
1854 – 1855
Fox Maule, Lord Panmure
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 22 1801; d. July 6 1874.
1855 – 1858
Jonathan Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1799; d. February 13 1879.
1858 – 1859
Sidney Herbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1810; d. August 2 1861.
1859 – 1861
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1806; d. April 13 1863.
1861 – 1863
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1827; d. July 9 1909
Noble titles: Earl of Ripon (1859 – 1909); Marquess of Ripon (1871 – 1909)
1863 – 1866
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
1866
Jonathan Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1799; d. February 13 1879.
1866 – 1867
Edward Cardwell
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.
1868 – 1874
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1814; d. October 30 1906.
1874 – 1878
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1841; d. June 14 1908
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Preston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1908); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1893 – 1908)
1878 – 1880
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1827; d. January 29 1896.
1880 – 1882
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
1882 – 1885
William Henry Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 24 1825; d. October 6 1891.
1885 – 1886
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1814; d. October 30 1906.
1886
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 7 1836; d. April 22 1908.
1886
William Henry Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 24 1825; d. October 6 1891.
1886 – 1887
Edward Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1840; d. December 21 1893.
1887 – 1892
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 7 1836; d. April 22 1908.
1892 – 1895
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 14 1845; d. June 3 1927
Noble titles: Marquess of Lansdowne (1866 – 1927)
1895 – 1900
Herbert Henry Asquith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1852; d. February 15 1928
Titles of nobility: Earl of Oxford and Asquith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1928)
1914
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 24 1850; d. June 5 1916
Titles of nobility: Baron Kitchener of Khartoum in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1898 – 1916); Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum (1902 – 1916); Earl Kitchener (1914 – 1916).
Military ranks: Promoted to major-general, 1896. Promoted to lieutenant-general, 1900. Promoted to general, 1902. Promoted to field marshal, 1909.
1914 – 1916
David Lloyd George
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1863; d. March 26 1945
Titles of nobility: Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1945)
1916
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 4 1865; d. February 4 1948
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1948)
1916 – 1918
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 23 1854; d. May 13 1925
Noble titles: Baron Milner (1901 – 1925); Viscount Milner (1902 – 1925)
1918 – 1919
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1919 – 1921
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 4 1865; d. February 4 1948
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1948)
1922 – 1924
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1858; d. June 20 1945.
1931
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
1935
Alfred Duff Cooper
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1890; d. January 1 1954
Titles of nobility: Viscount Norwich in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1952 – 1954).
1935 – 1937
Robert Anthony Eden
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1897; d. January 14 1977
Titles of nobility: Earl of Avon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1961 – 1977).
1940
Secretary of State for Defence
Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1926; d. September 21 2007.
1974
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1953.
1995 – 1997
John Reid
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1947.
2005 – 2006
Liam Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1961.
2010 – 2011
Philip Hammond
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1955.
2011 – 2014
Gavin Alexander Williamson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1976.
2017 – 2019
Penelope Mary “Penny” Mordaunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2019
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 8 1949; d. July 31 2018.
2019 – 2023
Grant Shapps
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1968.
2023 – 2024
Minister of Defence
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1876; d. October 11 1947
Titles of nobility: Viscount Caldecote in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1939 – 1947).
1936 – 1939
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1940 – 1945
Clement Richard Attlee
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 3 1883; d. October 8 1967.
1945 – 1946
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1951 – 1952
Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 10 1891; d. June 16 1969
Titles of nobility: Viscount Alexander of Tunis in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1946 – 1969); Earl Alexander of Tunis in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1952 – 1969).
Military ranks: Promoted to major-general, 1937. Promoted to lieutenant-general, 1938. Promoted to general, 1942. Promoted to field marshal, 1944.
1952 – 1954
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
1954 – 1955
Secretary at War
Henry St John
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1678; d. December 12 1751.
1704 – 1708
Robert Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 26 1676; d. March 18 1745.
1708 – 1710
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1688; d. June 17 1740.
1712 – 1713
James Craggs the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1686; d. February 16 1721.
1717 – 1718
Henry Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1694; d. March 6 1754.
1724 – 1730
Henry Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1705; d. July 1 1774.
1746 – 1755
William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1717; d. February 1 1793.
1755 – 1761
William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1717; d. February 1 1793.
1765 – 1778
Thomas Townshend
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1733; d. June 30 1800.
1782
Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 17 1731; d. September 25 1812.
1782 – 1783
Richard FitzPatrick
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1748; d. April 25 1813.
1783
Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 17 1731; d. September 25 1812.
1783 – 1794
William Windham
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 14 1750; d. June 4 1810.
1794 – 1801
Charles Bragge
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1754; d. August 13 1831.
1803 – 1804
General Richard FitzPatrick
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1748; d. April 25 1813.
1806 – 1807
Lord Granville Leveson-Gower
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1773; d. January 8 1846.
1809
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
1809 – 1828
Colonel Sir Henry Hardinge
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 30 1785; d. September 24 1856.
1828 – 1830
Lord Francis Leveson-Gower
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 1 1800; d. February 18 1857.
1830
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 9 1775; d. September 2 1850.
1830 – 1831
Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 27 1786; d. June 3 1869.
1832 – 1833
John Charles Herries
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1778; d. April 24 1855.
1834 – 1835
Henry George Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 28 1802; d. October 9 1984
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1845 – 1894)
1835 – 1839
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1800; d. December 28 1859.
1839 – 1841
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hardinge
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 30 1785; d. September 24 1856.
1841 – 1844
Sidney Herbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1810; d. August 2 1861.
1845 – 1846
Fox Maule
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 22 1801; d. July 6 1874.
1848 – 1852
Robert Vernon Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 23 1800; d. November 10 1873.
1852
Sidney Herbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1810; d. August 2 1861.
1852 – 1854
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1811; d. October 18 1864.
1854 – 1855
Fox Maule, Lord Panmure
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 22 1801; d. July 6 1874.
1855 – 1858
Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
1782
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1738; d. July 20 1786.
1782 – 1783
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
1783
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 3rd Earl Temple
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1715; d. April 13 1763.
1783
Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1751; d. January 31 1799.
1783 – 1791
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
1791 – 1801
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 7 1770; d. December 4 1828.
1801 – 1804
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Baron Harrowby
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1762; d. December 26 1847.
1804 – 1805
Henry Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 14 1755; d. April 7 1831.
1805 – 1806
Charles James Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 24 1749; d. September 13 1806.
1806
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1764; d. July 17 1845
Titles of nobility: Earl Grey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1807 – 1845)
1806 – 1807
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
1807 – 1809
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1762; d. July 27 1834.
1809
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 20 1760; d. September 26 1842.
1809 – 1812
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 18 1769; d. August 12 1822.
1812 – 1822
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
1822 – 1827
John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 9 1781; d. March 6 1833.
1827 – 1828
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 28 1784; d. December 14 1860.
1828 – 1830
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
1830 – 1834
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
1834 – 1835
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
1835 – 1841
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 28 1784; d. December 14 1860.
1841 – 1846
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
1846 – 1851
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1815; d. March 31 1891.
1851 – 1852
James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 25 1807 d. May 17 1889.
1852
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
1852 – 1853
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1800; d. June 27 1870
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1853 – 1858
James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 25 1807 d. May 17 1889.
1858 – 1859
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
1859 – 1865
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1800; d. June 27 1870
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1865 – 1866
Lord Edward Henry Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1826; d. April 21 1893
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1869 – 1893)
1866 – 1868
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1800; d. June 27 1870
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1868 – 1870
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1815; d. March 31 1891.
1870 – 1874
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1826; d. April 21 1893
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1869 – 1893)
1874 – 1878
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1878 – 1880
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1815; d. March 31 1891.
1880 – 1885
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1885 – 1886
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 7 1847; d. May 21 1929
Noble titles: Earl of Rosebery in the Peerage of Scotland (1868 – 1929); Baron Rosebery in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1929); Earl of Midlothian in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1911 – 1929)
1886
Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1818; d. January 12 1887.
1886 – 1887
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1887 – 1892
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 7 1847; d. May 21 1929
Noble titles: Earl of Rosebery in the Peerage of Scotland (1868 – 1929); Baron Rosebery in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1929); Earl of Midlothian in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1911 – 1929)
1892 – 1894
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1826; d. April 8 1902.
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1894 – 1895
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1895 – 1900
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 14 1845; d. June 3 1927
Noble titles: Marquess of Lansdowne (1866 – 1927)
1900 – 1905
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 14 1845; d. June 3 1927
Noble titles: Marquess of Lansdowne (1866 – 1927)
1900 – 1905
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
1916 – 1919
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
1916 – 1919
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 11 1859; d. March 20 1925.
1919 – 1924
James Ramsay MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1866; d. November 9 1937
1924
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1863; d. March 16 1937.
1924 – 1929
Robert Anthony Eden
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1897; d. January 14 1977
Titles of nobility: Earl of Avon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1961 – 1977).
1935 – 1938
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
1938 – 1940
Robert Anthony Eden
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1897; d. January 14 1977
Titles of nobility: Earl of Avon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1961 – 1977).
1940 – 1945
Ernest Bevin
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 9 1881; d. April 14 1951.
1945 – 1951
Sir Robert Anthony Eden
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1897; d. January 14 1977
Titles of nobility: Earl of Avon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1961 – 1977).
1951 – 1955
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
1955
Alexander Frederick “Alec” Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1903; d. October 9 1995.
1960 – 1963
George Alfred George-Brown
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 2 1914; d. June 2 1985.
1966 – 1968
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Sir Alexander Frederick “Alec” Douglas-Home
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1903; d. October 9 1995.
1970 – 1974
Leonard James Callaghan
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 27 1912; d. March 26 2005.
1974 – 1976
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1938.
1977 – 1979
John Major
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1943.
1989
Douglas Richard Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1930.
1989 – 1995
William Jefferson Hague
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1961.
2010 – 2014
Philip Hammond
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1955.
2014 – 2016
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 19 1964.
2016 – 2018
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1966.
2018 – 2019
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2021 – 2022
James Spencer Cleverly
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 4 1969.
2022 – 2023
David William Donald Cameron
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 9 1966.
2023 – 2024
Secretary of State for International Development
Clare Short
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 15 1946.
1997 – 2003
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1954.
2003
Justine Greening
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1969.
2012 – 2016
Priti Sushil Patel
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1972.
2016 – 2017
Penelope Mary “Penny” Mordaunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2017 – 2019
Home Office
Secretary of State for the Home Department
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 2 1737; d. May 7 1805
Noble titles: Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland (1761 – 1805); Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784 – 1805)
1782
Thomas Townshend
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1733; d. June 30 1800.
1782 – 1783
Frederick North, Lord North
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 13 1732; d. August 5 1792.
1783
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 3rd Earl Temple
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1715; d. April 13 1763.
1783
Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron Sydney
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1733; d. June 30 1800.
1783 – 1789
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
1789 – 1791
Henry Dundas
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1742; d. May 28 1811.
1791 – 1794
Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1756; d. July 4 1826.
1801 – 1803
Charles Philip Yorke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1764; d. March 13 1834.
1803 – 1804
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 7 1770; d. December 4 1828.
1804 – 1806
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 1 1758; d. November 10 1834.
1806 – 1807
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 7 1770; d. December 4 1828.
1807 – 1809
Richard Ryder
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 5 1766; d. September 18 1832.
1809 – 1812
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1757; d. February 15 1844.
1812 – 1822
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
1822 – 1827
William Sturges-Bourne
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 7 1769; d. February 1 1845.
1827
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1780; d. January 31 1863.
1827 – 1828
Sir Robert Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 5 1788; d. July 2 1850
Also known as: Robert Peel (1788 – 1815); Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1830 – 1850)
1828 – 1830
Henry William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1779; d. November 24 1848.
1830 – 1834
John William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 31 1781; d. May 16 1847.
1834
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (*caretaker)
Note: The Duke of Wellington held this office as a caretaker during his short-lived caretaker ministry of November – December 1834.
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1769; d. September 14 1852
Noble titles: Viscount Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1809 – 1852); Count of Vimeiro in the nobility of Portugal (1811 – 1852); Earl of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Marquess of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1812 – 1852); Duke of Vitória in the nobility of Portugal (1812 – 1852); Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in the nobility of Spain (1812 – 1852); Duke of Wellington in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1814 – 1852); Prince of Waterloo in the nobility of the Netherlands (1815 – 1852)
Military ranks: Major-General (1802 – 1808); Lieutenant-General (1808 – 1811); General (1811 – 1813); Field Marshal (1813 – 1852)
1834
Henry Goulburn
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 19 1784; d. January 12 1856.
1834 – 1835
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
1835 – 1839
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 15 1797; d. July 28 1863.
1839 – 1841
Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 1 1792; d. October 25 1861.
1841 – 1846
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1799; d. September 9 1882.
1846 – 1852
Spencer Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1806; d. May 22 1898.
1852
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1784; d. October 18 1865
1852 – 1855
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1799; d. September 9 1882.
1855 – 1858
Spencer Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1806; d. May 22 1898.
1858 – 1859
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1806; d. April 13 1863.
1859 – 1861
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1799; d. September 9 1882.
1861 – 1866
Spencer Horatio Walpole
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1806; d. May 22 1898.
1866 – 1867
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1814; d. October 30 1906.
1867 – 1868
Henry Austin Bruce
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1815; d. February 25 1895.
1868 – 1873
Robert Lowe
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1811; d. July 27 1892.
1873 – 1874
Richard Assheton Cross
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1823; d. January 8 1914.
1874 – 1880
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1827; d. October 1 1904.
1880 – 1885
Richard Assheton Cross
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1823; d. January 8 1914.
1885 – 1886
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1827; d. January 29 1896.
1886
Herbert Henry Asquith
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 12 1852; d. February 15 1928
Titles of nobility: Earl of Oxford and Asquith in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1928)
1892 – 1895
Charles Thomson Ritchie
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 19 1838; d. January 9 1906.
1900 – 1902
Herbert John Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1854; d. March 6 1930.
1905 – 1910
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1910 – 1911
Henry Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1903; d. March 29 1984.
1962 – 1964
Roy Harris Jenkins
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1920; d. January 5 2003.
1965 – 1967
Leonard James Callaghan
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 27 1912; d. March 26 2005.
1967 – 1970
Roy Harris Jenkins
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 11 1920; d. January 5 2003.
1974 – 1976
Leon Brittan
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 25 1939; d. January 21 2015.
1983 – 1985
Douglas Richard Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1930.
1985 – 1989
Michael Howard
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1941.
1993 – 1997
John Reid
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1947.
2006 – 2007
Theresa Mary May
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1956.
2010 – 2016
Amber Augusta Rudd
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1963.
2016 – 2018
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2018 – 2019
Priti Sushil Patel
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 29 1972.
2019 – 2022
Grant Shapps
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1968.
2022
James Spencer Cleverly
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 4 1969.
2023 – 2024
Other Cabinet Positions
Department for Business and Trade
Secretary of State for Industry, Trade, and Regional Development
Edward Richard George “Ted” Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 9 1916; d. July 17 2005.
1963 – 1964
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
Leon Brittan
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 25 1939; d. January 21 2015.
1985 – 1986
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills
John Vincent Cable
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 9 1943.
2010 – 2015
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2015 – 2016
Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 24 1969.
2022
Grant Shapps
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1968.
2022 – 2023
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke “Kemi” Badenoch
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1980.
2023 – 2024
Cabinet Office
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Sir Robert Cecil
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 1 1563; d. May 24 1612.
1597 – 1599
Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1649; d. July 22 1719.
1714 – 1716
George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1703; d. June 10 1770.
1736 – 1743
Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 4 1710; d. December 27 1787.
1758 – 1762
John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 18 1731; d. August 18 1783.
1782 – 1783
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 1 1752; d. October 21 1834.
1783
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 26 1729; d. December 17 1808.
1786 – 1803
Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1756; d. July 4 1826.
1803 – 1804
Henry Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 14 1755; d. April 7 1831.
1804 – 1805
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 6 1760; d. February 4 1816.
1805
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Baron Harrowby
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1762; d. December 26 1847.
1805 – 1806
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 1 1752; d. October 21 1834.
1806 – 1807
Spencer Perceval
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1762; d. May 11 1812.
1807 – 1812
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 6 1760; d. February 4 1816.
1812
Charles Bathurst
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1754; d. August 13 1831.
1812 – 1823
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 29 1766; d. February 8 1851.
1823 – 1828
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 28 1784; d. December 14 1860.
1828
Charles Arbuthnot
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1767; d. August 18 1850.
1828 – 1830
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 21 1773; d. October 22 1840.
1830 – 1834
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 9 1775; d. September 2 1850.
1834 – 1835
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 21 1773; d. October 22 1840.
1835 – 1840
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1800; d. June 27 1870
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1840 – 1841
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1799; d. September 9 1882.
1841
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 15 1779; d. June 23 1861.
1846 – 1850
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1815; d. March 31 1891.
1854 – 1855
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1798; d. November 19 1882.
1855
Matthew Talbot Baines
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 17 1799; d. January 22 1860.
1855 – 1858
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1799; d. September 9 1882.
1859 – 1861
Edward Cardwell
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.
1861 – 1864
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1800; d. June 27 1870
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1864 – 1865
George Joachim Goschen
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1831; d. February 7 1907.
1866
John Wilson-Patten
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 26 1802; d. July 11 1892.
1867 – 1868
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 21 1826; d. February 12 1902
Other titles: Baron Dufferin and Claneboyne (1850 – 1902); Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1888 – 1902)
1868 – 1872
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1827; d. January 29 1896.
1872 – 1873
John Bright
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 16 1811; d. March 27 1889.
1873 – 1874
John Bright
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 16 1811; d. March 27 1889.
1880 – 1882
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1826; d. April 8 1902.
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1882
George Otto Trevelyan
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 20 1838; d. August 17 1928.
1884 – 1885
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1814; d. October 30 1906.
1886
John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1886 – 1892
James Bryce
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 10 1838; d. January 22 1922.
1892 – 1894
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1849; d. September 15 1909.
1894 – 1895
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1823; d. January 8 1914.
1895
Sir Henry Hartley Fowler
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1830; d. February 25 1911.
1905 – 1908
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1915
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1879; d. June 9 1964
Titles of nobility: Baron Beaverbrook in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1917 – 1964).
1918
William Robert Wellesley Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1867; d. September 28 1937.
1921 – 1922
James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 23 1861; d. April 4 1947.
1922 – 1923
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1864; d. November 24 1958.
1924 – 1927
Clement Richard Attlee
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 3 1883; d. October 8 1967.
1930 – 1931
Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1871; d. March 23 1946.
1931
Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 18 1882; d. December 12 1940
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Lothian in the Peerage of Scotland (1930 – 1940).
1931
Alfred Duff Cooper
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1890; d. January 1 1954
Titles of nobility: Viscount Norwich in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1952 – 1954).
1941 – 1943
Antony Harold “Tony” Newton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 29 1937; d. March 25 2012.
1988 – 1989
William Arthur Waldegrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1946.
1992 – 1994
Roger Norman Freeman
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 27 1942.
1995 – 1997
Edward Samuel “Ed” Miliband
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1969.
2007 – 2008
David Roy Lidington
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1956.
2018 – 2019
Oliver James Dowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1978.
2022 – 2024
Minister for the Cabinet Office
Edward Samuel “Ed” Miliband
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1969.
2007 – 2008
Damian Howard Green
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1956.
2017
David Roy Lidington
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1956.
2018 – 2019
Oliver James Dowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1978.
2019 – 2020
Michael Tyrone Ellis
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1967.
2022
Jeremy Mark Quin
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1968.
2022 – 2023
Paymaster General
Edward John Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1802; d. June 16 1869.
1841
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1781; d. May 24 1849.
1841 – 1845
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1800; d. December 28 1859.
1846 – 1848
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1815; d. March 31 1891.
1848 – 1852
Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1802; d. June 16 1869.
1852
Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1802; d. June 16 1869.
1853 – 1855
Robert Lowe
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1811; d. July 27 1892.
1855 – 1858
Algernon George Percy, Lord Lovaine
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 20 1810; d. January 2 1899.
1859
William Cowper
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 13 1811; d. October 16 1888.
1859 – 1860
George Joachim Goschen
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 10 1831; d. February 7 1907.
1865 – 1866
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 21 1826; d. February 12 1902
Other titles: Baron Dufferin and Claneboyne (1850 – 1902); Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1888 – 1902)
1868 – 1872
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1827; d. January 29 1896.
1872 – 1873
David Robert Plunket
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 3 1838; d. August 22 1919.
1880
Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1871; d. June 30 1934
Titles of nobility: Duke of Marlborough in the Peerage of England (1892 – 1934)
1899 – 1902
Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Baron Ashby St Ledgers
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1873; d. June 14 1939
Noble titles: Baron Ashby St Ledgers (1910 – 1939); Baron Wimborne (1914 – 1939); Viscount Wimborne (1918 – 1939)
1910 – 1912
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
1923
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
1940
Henry Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1903; d. March 29 1984.
1961 – 1962
Peter Leonard Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 3 1934; d. May 13 2023.
1987 – 1989
David Linsay Willetts
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 9 1956.
1996
Alexander Jesse Norman
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 23 1962.
2019
Oliver James Dowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1978.
2019 – 2020
Penelope Mary “Penny” Mordaunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2020 – 2021
Michael Tyrone Ellis
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1967.
2021 – 2022
Jeremy Mark Quin
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1968.
2022 – 2023
Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
Oliver James Dowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1978.
2018 – 2019
Jeremy Mark Quin
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1968.
2019 – 2020
Department for Culture, Media, and Sport
Secretary of State for National Heritage
Peter Leonard Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 3 1934; d. May 13 2023.
1992 – 1994
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1948.
1995 – 1997
Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport
James Mark Dakin Purnell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 2 1970.
2007 – 2008
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media, and Sport
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1966.
2010 – 2012
Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2014 – 2015
John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1959.
2015 – 2016
Karen Anne Bradley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1970.
2016 – 2017
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport
Karen Anne Bradley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1970.
2017 – 2018
Oliver James Dowden
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1978.
2020 – 2021
Department for Education
Vice President of the Committee on Education
William Cowper
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 13 1811; d. October 16 1888.
1857 – 1858
Robert Lowe
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1811; d. July 27 1892.
1859 – 1864
William Edward Forster
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 11 1818; d. April 5 1886.
1868 – 1874
Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Viscount Sandon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1831; d. March 26 1900.
1874 – 1878
Lord George Francis Hamilton
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 17 1845; September 22 1927.
1878 – 1880
Anthony John Mundella
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1825; d. July 21 1897.
1880 – 1885
Edward Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1840; d. December 21 1893.
1885
Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 7 1837; d. July 3 1931.
1887 – 1892
Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1847; d. October 9 1926.
1892 – 1895
Sir John Eldon Gorst
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 24 1835; d. April 4 1916.
1895 – 1902
President of the Board of Education
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1858; d. June 20 1945.
1916
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 21 1865; d. April 18 1940
1916 – 1922
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
1922 – 1924
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
1932 – 1935
Secretary of State for Education and Science
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 13 1925; d. April 8 2013.
1970 – 1974
Secretary of State for Education
Gillian Patricia Shephard
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1940.
1994 – 1995
Secretary of State for Education and Employment
Gillian Patricia Shephard
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1940.
1995 – 1997
Secretary of State for Education and Skills
Estelle Morris
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 17 1952.
2001 – 2002
Secretary of State for Education
Justine Greening
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1969.
2016 – 2018
Gavin Alexander Williamson
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 25 1976.
2019 – 2021
James Spencer Cleverly
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 4 1969.
2022
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Edward Samuel “Ed” Miliband
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1969.
2008 – 2010
Edward Jonathan “Ed” Davey
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 25 1965.
2012 – 2015
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Grant Shapps
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1968.
2023
Edward Samuel “Ed” Miliband
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1969.
2024 – present
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Secretary of State for the Environment
Michael Howard
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1941.
1992 – 1993
Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2014 – 2016
Theresa Anne Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1968.
2019 – 2020
Thérèse Anne Coffey
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1971.
2022 – 2023
Department of Health and Social Care
President of the Board of Health
Sir Benjamin Hall, 1st Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 8 1802; d. April 27 1867.
1854 – 1855
William Cowper
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 13 1811; d. October 16 1888.
1855 – 1857
William Cowper
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 13 1811; d. October 16 1888.
1857 – 1858
Minister for Health
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
1923
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
1924 – 1929
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
1931
Malcolm John MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1901; d. January 11 1981
1940 – 1941
Secretary of State for Health
William Arthur Waldegrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1946.
1990 – 1992
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1948.
1992 – 1995
John Reid
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1947.
2003 – 2005
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1966.
2012 – 2018
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1966.
2018
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2021 – 2022
Thérèse Anne Coffey
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1971.
2022
Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2016 – 2018
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2018
James Peter Brokenshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 8 1968; d. October 7 2021.
2018 – 2019
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities
Angela Rayner
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1980.
2024
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government
Angela Rayner
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1980.
2024 – present
Ministry of Justice
Secretary of State for Justice
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2016 – 2017
David Roy Lidington
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 30 1956.
2017 – 2018
Northern Ireland Office
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Douglas Richard Hurd
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1930.
1984 – 1985
Peter Leonard Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 3 1934; d. May 13 2023.
1989 – 1992
John Reid
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1947.
2001 – 2002
Peter Gerald Hain
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1950.
2005 – 2007
Theresa Anne Villiers
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1968.
2012 – 2016
James Peter Brokenshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 8 1968; d. October 7 2021.
2016 – 2018
Karen Anne Bradley
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1970.
2018 – 2019
Julian Richard Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 30 1971.
2019 – 2020
Scotland Office
Secretary for Scotland
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Gordon
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 27 1818; d. September 27 1903.
1885 – 1886
George Otto Trevelyan
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 20 1838; d. August 17 1928.
1886
John William Maule Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 29 1847; d. November 25 1887.
1886
Arthur James Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1848; d. March 19 1930
Titles of nobility: Earl of Balfour in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1922 – 1930)
1886 – 1887
Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 2 1833; d. January 17 1900.
1887 – 1892
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 20 1838; d. August 17 1928.
1892 – 1895
John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1860; d. January 11 1925
Noble titles: Baron Pentland in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1909 – 1925)
1905 – 1912
Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 6 1860; d. March 30 1934
1922 – 1924
Secretary of State for Scotland
Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, 2nd Earl of Midlothian
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1859; d. January 16 1926.
1945
James Gray Stuart
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 9 1897; d. February 20 1971
Titles of nobility: Viscount Stuart of Findhorn in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1959 – 1971)
1951 – 1957
Donald Campbell Dewar
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 21 1937; d. October 11 2000.
1997 – 1999
John Reid
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 8 1947.
1999 – 2001
Helen Lawrie Liddell
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 6 1950.
2001 – 2003
Michael Kevin Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 3 1965.
2010 – 2013
Alexander Morrison “Alistair” Carmichael
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 15 1965.
2013 – 2015
Board of Trade
First Lord of Trade
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 6 1716; d. June 8 1771.
1748 – 1761
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 2 1737; d. May 7 1805
Noble titles: Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland (1761 – 1805); Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784 – 1805)
1763
Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1718; d. October 7 1793.
1763 – 1765
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 20 1731; d. July 15 1801.
1765 – 1766
Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1718; d. October 7 1793.
1766
Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Viscount Clare
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1709; d. October 13 1788.
1767 – 1768
Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1718; d. October 7 1793.
1768 – 1772
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 20 1731; d. July 15 1801.
1772 – 1775
Lieutenant-General George Germain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
1775 – 1779
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1748; d. September 4 1825.
1779 – 1780
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1738; d. July 20 1786.
1780 – 1782
President of the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations
Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron Sydney
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1733; d. June 30 1800.
1784 – 1786
President of the Board of Trade
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 26 1729; d. December 17 1808.
1786 – 1804
James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1755; d. December 30 1836.
1804 – 1806
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1745; d. May 28 1814.
1806 – 1807
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1762; d. July 27 1834.
1807 – 1812
Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Baron Trench
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1767; d. November 24 1837.
1812 – 1818
Frederick John Robinson
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1782; d. January 28 1859.
1818 – 1823
William Huskisson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1770; d. September 15 1830.
1823 – 1827
Charles Grant
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 27 1625; d. May 28 1672.
1827 – 1828
William Vesey-FitzGerald
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1783; d. May 11 1843.
1828 – 1830
John Charles Herries
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1778; d. April 24 1855.
1830
George Eden, 2nd Baron Auckland
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 25 1784; d. January 1 1849.
1830 – 1834
Alexander Baring
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1774; d. May 12 1848.
1834 – 1835
Henry Labouchere
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1798; d. July 13 1869.
1839 – 1841
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1782; d. January 28 1859.
1841 – 1843
William Ewart Gladstone
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1843 – 1845
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1800; d. June 27 1870
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1846 – 1847
Edward Cardwell
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.
1852 – 1855
Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1802; d. June 16 1869.
1855 – 1858
Thomas Milner Gibson
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1806; d. February 25 1884.
1859 – 1866
Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1818; d. January 12 1887.
1866 – 1867
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 27 1818; d. September 27 1903.
1867 – 1868
John Bright
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 16 1811; d. March 27 1889.
1868 – 1871
Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 18 1823; d. January 30 1898.
1871 – 1874
Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Viscount Sandon
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1831; d. March 26 1900.
1878 – 1880
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Gordon
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 27 1818; d. September 27 1903.
1885
Edward Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1840; d. December 21 1893.
1885 – 1886
Anthony John Mundella
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1825; d. July 21 1897.
1886
Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 23 1837; d. April 30 1916.
1888 – 1892
Anthony John Mundella
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1825; d. July 21 1897.
1892 – 1894
James Bryce
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 10 1838; d. January 22 1922.
1894 – 1895
Charles Thomson Ritchie
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 19 1838; d. January 9 1906.
1895 – 1900
Gerald William Balfour
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1853; d. January 14 1945.
1900 – 1905
James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 23 1861; d. April 4 1947.
1905
Oliver Lyttelton
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1893; d. January 21 1972.
1940 – 1941
Oliver Lyttelton
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1893; d. January 21 1972.
1945
John Vincent Cable
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 9 1943.
2010 – 2015
Liam Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1961.
2016 – 2019
Department for Transport
Minister of Transport
William Robert Wellesley Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1867; d. September 28 1937.
1921 – 1922
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1904; d. March 8 1983.
1952 – 1954
Secretary of State for Transport
David Arthur Russell Howell
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 18 1936.
1981 – 1983
John Edward Michael Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 26 1937; d. May 20 2019.
1986 – 1987
Philip Hammond
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 4 1955.
2010 – 2011
Justine Greening
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1969.
2011 – 2012
Grant Shapps
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 14 1968.
2019 – 2022
Heidi Alexander
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 17 1975.
2024 – present
Wales Office
Secretary of State for Wales
William Jefferson Hague
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1961.
1995 – 1997
Alun Edward Michael
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 22 1943.
1998 – 1999
Peter Gerald Hain
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1950.
2002 – 2008
Peter Gerald Hain
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1950.
2009 – 2010
Dame Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1952; d. April 4 2021.
2010 – 2012
David Ian Jones
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 22 1952.
2012 – 2014
Joanna Meriel “Jo” Stevens
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 6 1966.
2024 – present
Department for Work and Pensions
Minister of Labour and National Service
Ernest Bevin
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 9 1881; d. April 14 1951.
1940 – 1945
Minister of Labour
Edward Richard George “Ted” Heath
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 9 1916; d. July 17 2005.
1959 – 1960
Secretary of State for Employment
Michael Howard
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 7 1941.
1990 – 1992
Gillian Patricia Shephard
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1940.
1992 – 1993
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 26 1953.
1994 – 1995
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Peter Gerald Hain
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 16 1950.
2007 – 2008
James Mark Dakin Purnell
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 2 1970.
2008 – 2009
George Iain Duncan Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1954.
2010 – 2016
Damian Howard Green
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1956.
2016 – 2017
Amber Augusta Rudd
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1963.
2018 – 2019
Thérèse Anne Coffey
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1971.
2019 – 2022
Defunct Cabinet Offices
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food
President of the Board of Agriculture
William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 17 1859; d. February 26 1942
Titles of nobility: Earl of Selborne in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1895 – 1942)
1915 – 1916
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 16 1881; d. December 23 1959
Titles of nobility: Baron Irwin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1925 – 1959); Viscount Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1934 – 1959); Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1944 – 1959).
1924 – 1925
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food
Gillian Patricia Shephard
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1940.
1993 – 1994
William Arthur Waldegrave
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1946.
1994 – 1995
Air Ministry
Chairman of the Joint War Air Committee
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 4 1865; d. February 4 1948
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1948)
1916
President of the Air Board
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 11 1859; d. March 20 1925.
1916 – 1917
Secretary of State for Air
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1919 – 1921
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 13 1878; d. February 10 1949
Noble titles: Marquess of Londonderry (1915 – 1949)
1931 – 1935
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
1945
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 10 1877; d. November 17 1960.
1945 – 1946
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Minister of Aircraft Production
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1879; d. June 9 1964
Titles of nobility: Baron Beaverbrook in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1917 – 1964).
1940 – 1941
Department for Children, Schools, and Families
Secretary of State for Children, Schools, and Families
Edward Michael “Ed” Balls
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 25 1967.
2007 – 2010
Colonial Office
Secretary of State for the Colonies
Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1718; d. October 7 1793.
1768 – 1772
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 20 1731; d. July 15 1801.
1772 – 1775
Lieutenant-General George Germain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 7 1771; d. April 3 1853
1775 – 1782
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1799; d. September 9 1882.
1854 – 1855
Sidney Herbert
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1810; d. August 2 1861.
1855
Lord John Russell
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1792; d. May 28 1878
Titles of nobility: Earl Russell in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1861 – 1878)
1855
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 23 1810; d. October 22 1855.
1855
Henry Labouchere
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1798; d. July 13 1869.
1855 – 1858
Lord Edward Henry Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1826; d. April 21 1893
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1869 – 1893)
1858 – 1859
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 22 1811; d. October 18 1864.
1859 – 1864
Edward Cardwell
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.
1864 – 1866
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.
1866 – 1867
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 10 1823; d. March 26 1889.
1867 – 1868
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1815; d. March 31 1891.
1868 – 1870
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1826; d. April 8 1902.
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1870 – 1874
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 24 1813; d. February 15 1886.
1874 – 1878
Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 23 1837; d. April 30 1916.
1878 – 1880
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1826; d. April 8 1902.
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1880 – 1882
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1826; d. April 21 1893
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1869 – 1893)
1882 – 1885
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1841; d. June 14 1908
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Preston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1908); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1893 – 1908)
1885 – 1886
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1815; d. March 31 1891.
1886
Edward Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 24 1840; d. December 21 1893.
1886 – 1887
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1827; d. July 9 1909
Noble titles: Earl of Ripon (1859 – 1909); Marquess of Ripon (1871 – 1909)
1892 – 1895
Joseph Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1836; d. July 2 1914
1895 – 1903
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1858; d. June 20 1945.
1908 – 1910
Lewis Vernon Harcourt
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 31 1863; d. February 24 1922.
1910 – 1915
Andrew Bonar Law
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1858; d. October 30 1923
1915 – 1916
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1921 – 1922
Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 31 1868; d. May 6 1938
Titles of nobility: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1938)
1922 – 1924
Malcolm John MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1901; d. January 11 1981
1935
Malcolm John MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1901; d. January 11 1981
1938 – 1940
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
1942
Oliver Lyttelton
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1893; d. January 21 1972.
1951 – 1954
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 18 1904; d. March 8 1983.
1954 – 1959
Commonwealth Relations Office
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
Hastings Lionel “Pug” Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 20 1887; d. December 30 1967
Titles of nobility: Baron Ismay in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1947 – 1965).
Military ranks: Promoted to major-general, 1939. Promoted to lieutenant-general, 1942. Promoted to general, 1944.
1951 – 1952
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
1952
Alexander Frederick “Alec” Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1903; d. October 9 1995.
1955 – 1960
Dominions Office
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
Malcolm John MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1901; d. January 11 1981
1935 – 1938
Malcolm John MacDonald
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 17 1901; d. January 11 1981
1938 – 1939
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1876; d. October 11 1947
Titles of nobility: Viscount Caldecote in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1939 – 1947).
1939
Robert Anthony Eden
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1897; d. January 14 1977
Titles of nobility: Earl of Avon in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1961 – 1977).
1939 – 1940
Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 5 1876; d. October 11 1947
Titles of nobility: Viscount Caldecote in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1939 – 1947).
1940
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
1940 – 1942
Clement Richard Attlee
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 3 1883; d. October 8 1967.
1942 – 1943
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 27 1893; d. February 23 1972
Titles of nobility: Baron Cecil in the Peerage of England (1941 – 1972); Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of Great Britain (1947 – 1972).
1943 – 1945
Department of Economic Affairs
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
George Alfred George-Brown
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 2 1914; d. June 2 1985.
1964 – 1966
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Secretary of State for Energy
David Arthur Russell Howell
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 18 1936.
1979 – 1981
Nigel Lawson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1932; d. April 3 2023.
1981 – 1983
John Wakeham
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 22 1932.
1989 – 1992
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Christopher Paul Murray “Chris” Huhne
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1954.
2010 – 2012
Amber Augusta Rudd
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 1 1963.
2015 – 2016
Department of Health and Social Security
Secretary of State for Social Services
John Edward Michael Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 26 1937; d. May 20 2019.
1987 – 1988
Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Minister of Housing and Local Government
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1894; d. December 29 1986
Titles of nobility: Earl of Stockton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986); Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1984 – 1986)
1951 – 1954
Henry Brooke
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1903; d. March 29 1984.
1957 – 1961
India Office
President of the Board of Control
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1733; d. June 30 1800.
1784 – 1790
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 25 1759; d. January 12 1834.
1790 – 1793
Henry Dundas
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1742; d. May 28 1811.
1793 – 1801
George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1717; d. October 15 1770.
1801 – 1802
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 18 1769; d. August 12 1822.
1802 – 1806
Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baron Minto
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 23 1751; d. June 21 1814.
1806
Thomas Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1755; d. December 17 1846.
1806
George Tierney
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 20 1761; d. January 25 1830.
1806 – 1807
Robert Dundas
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1771; d. June 10 1851.
1807 – 1809
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Baron Harrowby
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1762; d. December 26 1847.
1809
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1771; d. June 10 1851.
1809 – 1812
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 6 1760; d. February 4 1816.
1812 – 1816
George Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 11 1770; d. August 8 1827.
1816 – 1821
Charles Bathurst
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1754; d. August 13 1831.
1821 – 1822
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 9 1775; d. September 2 1850.
1822 – 1828
Edward Law, 2nd Baron Ellenborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1790; d. December 22 1871.
1828 – 1830
Charles Grant
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 27 1625; d. May 28 1672.
1830 – 1834
Edward Law, 2nd Baron Ellenborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1790; d. December 22 1871.
1834 – 1835
Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 2nd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 27 1786; d. June 3 1869.
1835 – 1841
Edward Law, 2nd Baron Ellenborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1790; d. December 22 1871.
1841
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1 1782; d. January 28 1859.
1843 – 1846
John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 27 1786; d. June 3 1869.
1846 – 1852
Fox Maule, Lord Panmure
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 22 1801; d. July 6 1874.
1852
John Charles Herries
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 1778; d. April 24 1855.
1852
Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1800; d. August 8 1885.
1852 – 1855
Robert Vernon Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 23 1800; d. November 10 1873.
1855 – 1858
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 8 1790; d. December 22 1871.
1858
Lord Edward Henry Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1826; d. April 21 1893
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1869 – 1893)
1858
Secretary of State for India
Lord Edward Henry Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1826; d. April 21 1893
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1869 – 1893)
1858 – 1859
Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1800; d. August 8 1885.
1859 – 1866
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 24 1827; d. July 9 1909
Noble titles: Earl of Ripon (1859 – 1909); Marquess of Ripon (1871 – 1909)
1866
Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1866 – 1867
Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 27 1818; d. January 12 1887.
1867 – 1868
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1823; d. April 24 1900
Noble titles: Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of Scotland (1847 – 1900); Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1892 – 1900)
1868 – 1874
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 3 1830; d. August 22 1903
Titles of nobility: Marquess of Salisbury in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1903)
1874 – 1878
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 1 1814; d. October 30 1906.
1878 – 1880
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
1880 – 1882
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1826; d. April 8 1902.
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1882 – 1885
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1826; d. April 8 1902.
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1886
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1823; d. January 8 1914.
1886 – 1892
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1826; d. April 8 1902.
Noble titles: Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain (1838 – 1870)
1892 – 1894
Sir Henry Hartley Fowler
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1830; d. February 25 1911.
1894 – 1895
Lord George Francis Hamilton
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 17 1845; September 22 1927.
1895 – 1903
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 24 1838; d. September 23 1923
Titles of nobility: Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1908 – 1923)
1905 – 1910
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 12 1858; d. June 20 1945.
1910 – 1915
Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1863; d. March 16 1937.
1915 – 1917
William Robert Wellesley Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1867; d. September 28 1937.
1922 – 1924
William Robert Wellesley Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1867; d. September 28 1937.
1928 – 1929
William Wedgwood Benn
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 10 1877; d. November 17 1960.
1929 – 1931
Secretary of State for the Southern Department
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 2 1737; d. May 7 1805
Noble titles: Earl of Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland (1761 – 1805); Marquess of Lansdowne in the Peerage of Great Britain (1784 – 1805)
1766 – 1768
Ministry of Information
Minister of Information
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1879; d. June 9 1964
Titles of nobility: Baron Beaverbrook in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1917 – 1964).
1918
Alfred Duff Cooper
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1890; d. January 1 1954
Titles of nobility: Viscount Norwich in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1952 – 1954).
1940 – 1941
Department for International Trade
Secretary of State for International Trade
Liam Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1961.
2016 – 2019
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2019 – 2021
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke “Kemi” Badenoch
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1980.
2022 – 2023
Ministry of Munitions
Minister of Munitions
David Lloyd George
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1863; d. March 26 1945
Titles of nobility: Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1945)
1915 – 1916
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1917 – 1919
Northern Department
Secretary of State for the Northern Department
Sidney Godolphin
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 15 1645; d. September 15 1712.
1684
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1647; d. January 1 1730.
1689 – 1690
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1647; d. January 1 1730.
1692 – 1693
Robert Harley
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1661; d. May 21 1724.
1704 – 1708
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1678; d. December 12 1751.
1710 – 1713
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 18 1674; d. June 21 1738.
1714 – 1716
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
1716 – 1717
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 23 1675; d. April 19 1722.
1717 – 1718
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
1718 – 1721
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 18 1674; d. June 21 1738.
1721 – 1730
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1683; d. December 8 1756.
1730 – 1742
John Carteret, 2nd Baron Carteret
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 22 1690; d. January 2 1763.
1742 – 1744
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1683; d. December 8 1756.
1744 – 1746
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 22 1694; d. March 24 1773.
1746 – 1748
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1693; d. November 17 1768.
1748 – 1754
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 17 1718; d. May 16 1778.
1754 – 1761
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1693; d. November 17 1768.
1761 – 1762
George Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1712; d. November 13 1770.
1762
George Grenville
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1712; d. November 13 1770.
1762 – 1763
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1718; d. April 30 1792.
1763 – 1765
Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1735; d. March 14 1811.
1765 – 1766
Lieutenant-General Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
1766 – 1768
Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 13 1734; d. November 19 1796.
1768
William Henry Nassau de Zuylenstein, 4th Earl of Rochford
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 17 1717; d. September 29 1781.
1768 – 1770
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1718; d. April 30 1792.
1770 – 1771
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1718; d. April 30 1792.
1771
Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, 5th Earl of Berkshire
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1739; d. March 7 1779.
1771 – 1779
Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 13 1734; d. November 19 1796.
1779
David Murray, 7th Viscount of Stormont
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 9 1727; d. September 1 1796.
1779 – 1782
General Post Office
Postmaster General
Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1675; d. January 20 1721.
1715 – 1721
James Craggs the Elder
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1657; d. March 16 1721.
1715 – 1720
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24/25 1711; d. December 4 1770.
1762 – 1763
Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 1708; d. December 11 1781.
1765 – 1781
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
1765 – 1766
Henry Frederick Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1735; d. 1826.
1771 – 1789
William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1717; d. February 1 1793.
1782
John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 1 1759; d. December 15 1841.
1789
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1745; d. May 28 1814.
1798 – 1804
John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 12 1751; d. April 7 1828.
1806 – 1807
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 28 1756; d. July 4 1826.
1807 – 1826
Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Baron Trench
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 19 1767; d. November 24 1837.
1814 – 1816
Lord Frederick Montagu
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 8 1774; d. October 4 1827.
1826 – 1827
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1791; d. October 21 1860.
1830 – 1834
William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 20 1763; d. February 22 1845.
1834 – 1835
Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1802; d. April 10 1874.
1846 – 1852
Charles John Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 14 1812; d. June 17 1862.
1853 – 1855
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1823; d. April 24 1900
Noble titles: Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of Scotland (1847 – 1900); Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1892 – 1900)
1855 – 1858
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, 12th Earl of Kincardine
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 20 1811; d. November 20 1863.
Titles of nobility: Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland (1841 – 1863); Earl of Kincardine in the Peerage of Scotland (1841 – 1863); Baron Elgin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1849 – 1863).
1859 – 1860
Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1802; d. June 16 1869.
1860 – 1866
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 23 1833; d. March 24 1908
Noble titles: Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England (1891 – 1908)
1866 – 1871
Lord John James Robert Manners
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1874 – 1880
George John Shaw Lefevre
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 12 1831; d. April 19 1928.
1884 – 1885
Lord John James Robert Manners
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1809; d. May 19 1898
1885 – 1886
Arnold Morley
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 18 1849; d. January 16 1916.
1892 – 1895
Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 16 1863; d. March 16 1937.
1902 – 1903
Lord Edward George Villiers Stanley
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 4 1865; d. February 4 1948
Titles of nobility: Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1908 – 1948)
1903 – 1905
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1869; d. November 9 1940
1922 – 1923
Ministry of Production
Minister of War Production
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1879; d. June 9 1964
Titles of nobility: Baron Beaverbrook in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1917 – 1964).
1942
Minister of Production
Oliver Lyttelton
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 15 1893; d. January 21 1972.
1942 – 1945
Department of Social Security
Secretary of State for Social Security
John Edward Michael Moore
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 26 1937; d. May 20 2019.
1988 – 1989
Antony Harold “Tony” Newton
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 29 1937; d. March 25 2012.
1989 – 1992
Southern Department
Secretary of State for the Southern Department
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1647; d. January 1 1730.
1690 – 1693
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 2 1647; d. January 1 1730.
1702 – 1704
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 23 1675; d. April 19 1722.
1706 – 1710
William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 14 1672; d. December 15 1750.
1710 – 1713
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 16 1678; d. December 12 1751.
1713 – 1714
James Stanhope
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1673; d. February 5 1721.
1714 – 1716
James Craggs the Younger
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 9 1686; d. February 16 1721.
1718 – 1721
John Carteret, 2nd Baron Carteret
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 22 1690; d. January 2 1763.
1721 – 1724
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 21 1693; d. November 17 1768.
1724 – 1748
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 30 1710; d. January 5 1771.
1748 – 1751
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 17 1718; d. May 16 1778.
1751 – 1754
Sir Thomas Robinson
Date of birth/date of death: b. c. 1695; d. September 30 1770.
1754 – 1755
Henry Fox
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 28 1705; d. July 1 1774.
1755 – 1756
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
1756 – 1757
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 17 1718; d. May 16 1778.
1757
William Pitt
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 15 1708; d. May 11 1778.
1757 – 1761
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 19 1710; d. August 21 1763.
1761 – 1763
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 6 1716; d. June 8 1771.
1763 – 1765
Lieutenant-General Henry Seymour Conway
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1721; d. July 9 1795.
1765 – 1766
Major-General Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1735; d. December 29 1806.
1766
Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 13 1734; d. November 19 1796.
1768 – 1770
William Henry Nassau de Zuylenstein, 4th Earl of Rochford
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 17 1717; d. September 29 1781.
1770 – 1775
Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 13 1734; d. November 19 1796.
1775 – 1779
Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 30 1718; d. October 7 1793.
1779 – 1782
Secretary of State
Sir William Cecil
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 13 1520; d. August 4 1598.
1550 – 1553
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 13 1520; d. August 4 1598.
1558 – 1572
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 1 1563; d. May 24 1612.
1596 – 1612
Ministry of Supply
Minister of Supply
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 25 1879; d. June 9 1964
Titles of nobility: Baron Beaverbrook in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1917 – 1964).
1941 – 1942
Board of Trade
President of the Board of Trade
Joseph Chamberlain
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1836; d. July 2 1914
1880 – 1885
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Preston
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 15 1841; d. June 14 1908
Titles of nobility: Baron Stanley of Preston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1886 – 1908); Earl of Derby in the Peerage of England (1893 – 1908)
1886 – 1888
David Lloyd George
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 17 1863; d. March 26 1945
Titles of nobility: Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1945)
1905 – 1908
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 30 1874; d. January 24 1965
1908 – 1910
Stanley Baldwin
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1867; d. December 14 1947
Titles of nobility: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947); Viscount Corvedale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937 – 1947).
1921 – 1922
James Harold Wilson
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 11 1916; d. May 23 1995.
1947 – 1951
Sajid Javid
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 5 1969.
2015 – 2016
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1973.
2019 – 2021
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke “Kemi” Badenoch
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 2 1980.
2022 – 2024