Portrait |
Name |
Term of office |
Political party |
Prime Minister |
|
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Lord Stanley MP for King's Lynn |
2 August 1858 |
11 June 1859 |
Conservative |
|
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby |
|
|
Sir Charles Wood MP for Halifax until 1865 MP for Ripon after 1865 |
18 June 1859 |
16 February 1866[1] |
Liberal |
|
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston |
|
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
|
|
George Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey |
16 February 1866 |
26 June 1866 |
Liberal |
|
|
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne MP for Stamford |
6 July 1866 |
8 March 1867 |
Conservative |
|
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby |
|
|
Sir Stafford Northcote MP for North Devonshire |
8 March 1867 |
1 December 1868 |
Conservative |
|
Benjamin Disraeli |
|
|
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll |
9 December 1868 |
17 February 1874 |
Liberal |
|
William Ewart Gladstone |
|
|
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
21 February 1874 |
2 April 1878 |
Conservative |
|
Benjamin Disraeli |
|
|
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook
|
2 April 1878 |
21 April 1880 |
Conservative |
|
|
Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington MP for North East Lancashire |
28 April 1880 |
16 December 1882 |
[[Liberal |
|
William Ewart Gladstone |
|
|
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley |
16 December 1882 |
9 June 1885 |
Liberal |
|
|
Lord Randolph Churchill MP for Paddington South |
24 June 1885 |
28 January 1886 |
Conservative |
|
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
|
|
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley |
6 February 1886 |
20 July 1886 |
Liberal |
|
William Ewart Gladstone |
|
|
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross |
3 August 1886 |
11 August 1892 |
Conservative |
|
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
|
|
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley |
18 August 1892 |
10 March 1894 |
Liberal |
|
William Ewart Gladstone |
|
|
Henry Fowler MP for Wolverhampton East |
10 March 1894 |
21 June 1895 |
Liberal |
|
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery |
|
|
Lord George Hamilton MP for Ealing |
4 July 1895 |
9 October 1903[2] |
Conservative |
|
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Unionist Coalition) |
|
Arthur Balfour (Unionist Coalition) |
|
|
William St John Brodrick MP for Guildford |
9 October 1903 |
4 December 1905 |
Irish Unionist |
|
|
John Morley MP for Montrose Burghs until 1908 Viscount Morley of Blackburn after 1908 |
10 December 1905 |
3 November 1910 |
Liberal |
|
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
|
|
H. H. Asquith |
|
|
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe |
3 November 1910 |
7 March 1911 |
Liberal |
|
|
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
7 March 1911 |
25 May 1911 |
Liberal |
|
|
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe |
25 May 1911 |
25 May 1915 |
Liberal |
|
|
Austen Chamberlain MP for Birmingham West |
25 May 1915 |
17 July 1917[3] |
Conservative |
|
H. H. Asquith (Coalition)
David Lloyd George (Coalition) |
|
|
Edwin Montagu MP for Chesterton until 1918 MP for Cambridgeshire after 1918 |
17 July 1917 |
19 March 1922 |
Liberal |
|
|
William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel |
19 March 1922 |
22 January 1924 |
Conservative |
|
Bonar Law |
|
Stanley Baldwin |
|
|
Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier |
22 January 1924 |
3 November 1924 |
Labour |
|
Ramsay MacDonald |
|
|
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead |
6 November 1924 |
18 October 1928 |
Conservative |
|
Stanley Baldwin |
|
|
William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel |
18 October 1928 |
4 June 1929 |
Conservative |
|
|
William Wedgwood Benn MP for Aberdeen North |
7 June 1929 |
24 August 1931 |
Labour |
|
Ramsay MacDonald |
|
|
Sir Samuel Hoare MP for Chelsea |
25 August 1931 |
7 June 1935 |
Conservative |
|
Ramsay MacDonald (1st & 2nd National Min.) |
|
|
Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland |
7 June 1935 |
28 May 1937 |
Conservative |
|
Stanley Baldwin (3rd National Min.) |