Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

This position was created in the United Kingdom's governmental reorganization of 1782, in which the Northern and Southern Departments 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

Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs

• Charles James Fox 1782
• Thomas Robinson, 2nd Lord Grantham[?] 1782 - 1783
• Charles James Fox 1783
• George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 3rd 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, Lord Hawkesbury 1801 - 1804
• Dudley Ryder, 2nd Lord Harrowby[?] 1804
• Henry Phipps, 3rd Lord 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 Allsebrooke 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 Derby 1960 - 1963
• Richard Austen Butler[?] 1963 - 1964
• Patrick Gordon Walker[?] 1964 - 1965
• Michael Stewart[?] 1965 - 1966
• Goerge Brown[?] 1966 - 1968