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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
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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
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1834
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1834
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1835
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
1835
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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
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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
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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
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1945
Ernest Bevin[?]
1945
-
1951
Herbert Stanley Morrison
1951
Sir
Anthony Eden
1951
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1955
Harold Macmillan
1955
Selwyn Lloyd[?]
1955
-
1960
Alexander Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Derby
1960
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1963
Richard Austen Butler[?]
1963
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1964
Patrick Gordon Walker[?]
1964
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1965
Michael Stewart[?]
1965
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1966
Goerge Brown[?]
1966
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1968
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