Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

The position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was created in the United Kingdom's governmental reorganization of 1782, in which the Northern and Southern Departmentss became the Home and Foreign Office. In 1968, the Foreign Office merged with the Commonwealth Office, to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For holders of this Secretaryship of State, see Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1782-1968)

Charles James Fox 1782
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham 1782 - 1783
Charles James Fox 1783
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 2nd Earl Temple 1783
Francis Godolphin Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen, 5th Duke of Leeds (1789) 1783 - 1791
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville 1791 - 1801
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Baron Hawkesbury 1801 - 1804
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Baron Harrowby 1804
Henry Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave 1805 - 1806
Charles James Fox 1806
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick 1806 - 1807
George Canning 1807 - 1809
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst 1809
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley 1809 - 1812
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1821) 1812 - 1822
George Canning 1822 - 1827
John William Ward, 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1827) 1827 - 1828
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1828 - 1830
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1830 - 1834
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1834 - 1835
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1835 - 1841
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1841 - 1846
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1846 - 1851
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1851 - 1852
James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury 1852
Lord John Russell 1852 - 1853
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1853 - 1858
James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury 1858 - 1859
Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1861) 1859 - 1865
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1865 - 1866
Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley 1866 - 1868
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1868 - 1870
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1870 - 1874
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 1874 - 1878
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1878 - 1880
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1880 - 1885
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1885 - 1886
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1886
Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1886 - 1887
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1887 - 1892
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1892 - 1894
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1894 - 1895
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1895 - 1900
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1900 - 1905
Sir Edward Grey 1905 - 1916
Arthur James Balfour 1916 - 1919
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1921) 1919 - 1924
Ramsay MacDonald 1924
Sir Austen Chamberlain 1924 - 1929
Arthur Henderson 1929 - 1931
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading 1931
Sir John Allsebrook Simon 1931 - 1935
Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 2nd Bt. 1935
Anthony Eden 1935 - 1938
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax 1938 - 1940
Anthony Eden 1940 - 1945
Ernest Bevin 1945 - 1951
Herbert Stanley Morrison 1951
Sir Anthony Eden 1951 - 1955
Harold Macmillan 1955
Selwyn Lloyd 1955 - 1960
Alexander Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home 1960 - 1963
Richard Austen Butler 1963 - 1964
Patrick Gordon Walker 1964 - 1965
Michael Stewart 1965 - 1966
George Brown 1966 - 1968
Michael Stewart 1968