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The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure
Sinecure

A sinecure means an office which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service. Sinecures have historically provided a potent tool for governments or monarchs to distribute patronage, while recipients are able to store up titles and easy salaries....
 office in the government of the United Kingdom.

inally he was the chief officer in the daily management of the Duchy of Lancaster
Duchy of Lancaster

The Duchy of Lancaster is one of the two Royal Duchy in England, the other being the Duchy of Cornwall, and is the personal property of the monarch....
 (a former county palatine
County palatine

A county palatine is an area ruled by a count palatine with special authority and autonomy from the rest of the kingdom. In Feudalism times, counts palatine exercised royal authority, and ruled their counties largely independently of the king, though they owed allegiance to him....
 merged into the Crown in 1399), but that estate is now run by a deputy, leaving the position of Chancellor to serve in effect as an alternative Minister without Portfolio
Minister without Portfolio

A Minister without Portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry ....
. The position has often been given to a junior Cabinet minister with responsibilities in a particular area of policy for which there is no department with an appropriate portfolio.

Most recently, ownership of the title has been combined with serving as one of the Ministers for the Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office

The Cabinet Office is a United Kingdom government department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for supporting the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cabinet of the United Kingdom....
.






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The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure
Sinecure

A sinecure means an office which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service. Sinecures have historically provided a potent tool for governments or monarchs to distribute patronage, while recipients are able to store up titles and easy salaries....
 office in the government of the United Kingdom.

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Originally he was the chief officer in the daily management of the Duchy of Lancaster
Duchy of Lancaster

The Duchy of Lancaster is one of the two Royal Duchy in England, the other being the Duchy of Cornwall, and is the personal property of the monarch....
 (a former county palatine
County palatine

A county palatine is an area ruled by a count palatine with special authority and autonomy from the rest of the kingdom. In Feudalism times, counts palatine exercised royal authority, and ruled their counties largely independently of the king, though they owed allegiance to him....
 merged into the Crown in 1399), but that estate is now run by a deputy, leaving the position of Chancellor to serve in effect as an alternative Minister without Portfolio
Minister without Portfolio

A Minister without Portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry ....
. The position has often been given to a junior Cabinet minister with responsibilities in a particular area of policy for which there is no department with an appropriate portfolio.

Most recently, ownership of the title has been combined with serving as one of the Ministers for the Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office

The Cabinet Office is a United Kingdom government department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for supporting the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cabinet of the United Kingdom....
. This is true of Alan Milburn
Alan Milburn

Alan Milburn is a United Kingdom politician. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Darlington , and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health until he resigned citing lack of balance with his family life, and rejoined it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for oversight of Labour's 2005 re-election campaign....
, who was given the title by Labour PM Tony Blair
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
 in 2004 and at the same time rejoined the Cabinet
Cabinet of the United Kingdom

In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body composed of the most senior Her Majesty's Governmentminister chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
. Some have suggested that this was a means to allow Milburn to be a member of the Cabinet but without a demanding government job, so that he could be at the heart of government but able to devote much of his time to the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
's campaign for re-election in the 2005 general election. The appointment may have been a subtle gesture at Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet of the United Kingdom Minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters....
 Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown UK Member of Parliament is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Brown assumed office in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party....
, who ran the two previous campaigns and was at that time in a state of some disagreement with Blair.

The post was vacant after from 2 November 2005 until 5 May 2006, This was the longest period that the post has been left unfilled since at least 1687. The current Chancellor, Liam Byrne
Liam Byrne

Liam Dominic Byrne is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and was the former Minister of State for Borders and Immigration; and Minister for the West Midlands ....
, was appointed on 3 October 2008, also serving as Minister for the Cabinet Office
Minister for the Cabinet Office

The Minister for the Cabinet Office is a position in the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. The post is currently held in conjunction with that of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster....
. In recent times, the Chancellor's duties, administrative, financial and legal, have been said to occupy an average of one day a week.

Since 1491 there has been a Vice Chancellor. He is now the Chancery Division Judge in the north-west, and no longer appointed to that position as legal officer of the Duchy.

List of Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster

  • Sir Henry de Haydock (1361 - 1373)
  • Ralph de Ergham (1373 - 16 April 1377)
  • Thomas de Thelwall (16 April 1377 - 1378)
  • Sir John De Yerborough (1378 - 10 November 1382)
  • Sir Thomas Stanley (10 November 1382 -29 November 1382) (pro tem)
  • Sir Thomas Scarle (29 November 1382-October, 1383)
  • Sir William Okey (October, 1383 - 1400)
  • John de Wakering (1400 - 1400)
  • William Burgoyne (1400 - 15 May 1404)
  • Sir Thomas Stanley (15 May 1404 - 30 March 1410)
  • John Springthorpe (30 March 1410 - 4 April 1413)
  • John Wodehouse (4 April 1413 - 10 June 1424)
  • William Troutbecke (10 June 1424 - 16 February 1431)
  • Walter Sherington (16 February 1431 - 3 July 1442)
  • William Tresham
    William Tresham

    His Worship Sir William Tresham Justice of the Peace was a British lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons . Born in Northamptonshire, the son of Thomas Tresham of Sywell, he went on to become a major landowner in the region....
     (3 July 1442 - 10 June 1449)
  • John Say
    John Say

    Sir John Say, Kt. of Baas , Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, and Lawford, Essex, was King's Serjeant, Coroner of the Marshalsea, Yeoman of The Chamber & Crown, Keeper of Westminster Palace, Squire of The Body, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Privy Councillor, Under-Treasurer of Engl...
     (10 June 1449 - 10 June 1462)
  • Sir Richard Fowler
    Fowler Baronets

    There has been four unrelated creations of the Fowler Baronets, all of which are now extinct.The Baronetcy of Fowler of Islington was created in the Baronetage of England on 21 May 1628 for Thomas Fowler and was extinct on his death in 1656....
     (10 June 1462 - 3 November 1477)
  • Sir John Say
    John Say

    Sir John Say, Kt. of Baas , Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, and Lawford, Essex, was King's Serjeant, Coroner of the Marshalsea, Yeoman of The Chamber & Crown, Keeper of Westminster Palace, Squire of The Body, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Privy Councillor, Under-Treasurer of Engl...
     (3 November 1477-2 April 1478)
  • Thomas Thwaites
    Thomas Thwaites

    Thomas Thwaites was the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between April 2, 1478 - July 7, 1483....
     (2 April 1478 - 7 July 1483)
  • Thomas Metcalfe
    Thomas Metcalfe (UK politician)

    Thomas Metcalfe was the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between July 7, 1483 - September 13, 1486....
     (7 July 1483 - 13 September 1486)
  • Sir Reginald Bray
    Reginald Bray

    Sir Reginald Bray KG was an England courtier, advisor to Henry VII of England and architect of the Henry VII Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey....
     (13 September 1486 - 24 June 1503)
  • Sir John Mordaunt (24 June 1503 - 3 October 1505)
  • Sir Richard Empson
    Richard Empson

    Sir Richard Empson , minister of Henry VII of England, was a son of Peter Empson, an influential inhabitant of Towcester.Educated as a lawyer he soon attained considerable success in his profession, and in 1491 was a Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire in parliament and Speaker of the British House of Commons....
     (3 October 1505 - 14 May 1509)
  • Sir Henry Marney
    Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney

    Sir Henry Marney, , was a politician of the Tudor period in England. He started the building of Layer Marney Tower in Layer Marney, in 1515; this was not finished before his death and passed to his son....
     (14 May 1509 - 14 April 1523)
  • Sir Richard Wingfield
    Richard Wingfield

    Sir Richard Wingfield was an influential courtier and diplomat in the early years of the Tudor dynasty of England.He was born at Letheringham, Suffolk to Sir John Wingfield and his wife Elizabeth FitzLewis ....
     (14 April 1523 - 31 December 1525)
  • Sir Thomas More
    Thomas More

    Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar, and occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor ....
     (31 December 1525 - 3 November 1529)
  • Sir William Fitzwilliam
    William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton

    William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, Knight of the Garter , English courtier, was the third son of Sir Thomas FitzWilliam of Aldwark and Lady Lucy Neville ....
     (3 November 1529 - 10 May 1533)
  • Sir John Gage
    Sir John Gage

    Sir John Gage was a politician of the Tudor period in England. Offices held included:* Vice Chamberlain of the Royal Household * Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ...
     (10 May 1533 - 1 July 1547)
  • Sir William Paget
    William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

    William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert , English people statesman, son of William Paget, one of the serjeants-at-mace of the city of London, was born in Staffordshire in 1506, and was educated at St Paul's School , and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, proceeding afterwards to the university of Paris....
    , 1st Baron Paget (1549) (1 July 1547 - 7 July 1552)
  • Sir John Gates (7 July 1552 - 1553)
  • Sir Robert Rochester
    Robert Rochester

    Sir Robert Rochester, Order of the Garter, was an English Catholic and employee of Mary I of England.Rochester was born at Terling, Essex, England, the third son of John Rochester of Terling and Grisold, daughter of Walter Writtle, of Bobbingworth....
     (1553 - 1557)
  • Sir Edward Waldegrave
    Edward Waldegrave

    Sir Edward Waldegrave was an England courtier and recusancy.Waldegrave was the son of John Waldegrave and a maternal nephew of Robert Rochester....
     (22 June 1558 - 1559)
  • Sir Ambrose Cave (1559 - 16 May 1568)
  • Sir Ralph Sadler
    Ralph Sadler

    The Right Honourable Sir Ralph Sadler, Privy Council of England, Knight banneret, was an England statesman of the 16th century, and served as a Secretary of State for King of England Henry VIII of England....
     (16 May 1568 - 15 June 1587)
  • Sir Francis Walsingham
    Francis Walsingham

    Sir Francis Walsingham is usually remembered as the "spymaster" of Queen regnant Elizabeth I of England. Walsingham is frequently cited as one of the earliest practitioners of modern intelligence both for espionage and for domestic security....
     (15 June 1587 - 1590)
  • Sir Thomas Heneage
    Thomas Heneage

    Sir Thomas Heneage was Member of Parliament for Boston at the 1563 Parliament of England.He was the son of Robert Heneage, Esq. and Lucy Buckton....
     (1590 - 7 October 1595)
  • Seal in commission (1595 - 1597)
  • Sir Robert Cecil
    Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

    Sir Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and half-brother of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl...
     (8 October 1597 - 1599)
  • Seal in commission (1599 - 16 September 1601)
  • Sir John Fortescue (16 September 1601 - 1601)
  • Seal in commission (1601 - 1601)
  • Sir John Fortescue (1601 - 1607)
  • Sir Thomas Parry (1607 - 5 June 1616)
  • Sir John Dacombe (27 May 1615 - 1618) (joint with Sir Thomas Parry, 27 May 1615 - 5 June 1616)
  • Seal in commission (1618 - 23 March 1618)
  • Sir Humphrey May (23 March 1618 - 16 April 1629)
  • Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh
    Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh

    Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh, Privy Council of England was an Kingdom of England politician.Barrett was the son of Charles Barrett and Christian Mildmay and as educated Queen's College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn....
     (16 April 1629 - 10 February 1644)
  • Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge
    Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge

    Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge was an English statesman, a Member of Parliament raised to the peerage by Charles I of England and a Cavaliers during the English Civil War....
     (for the king
    Charles I of England

    Charles I was List of English monarchs, List of monarchs of Scotland and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his capital punishment on 30 January 1649....
    ) (1644 - 1645)
  • William, 1st Lord Grey of Warke and William Lenthall
    William Lenthall

    William Lenthall , was an England politician of the English Civil War period. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons .The second son of William Lenthall of North Leigh in Oxfordshire, a descendant of an old Herefordshire family, he was born at Henley-on-Thames....
     (for parliament) (10 February 1644 - 1648)
  • Sir Gilbert Gerrard (1648 - 1 August 1649)
  • John Bradshaw
    John Bradshaw (judge)

    John Bradshaw was an English judge. He is most notable for his role in the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I....
     (1 August 1649 - 1653)
  • John Bradshaw
    John Bradshaw (judge)

    John Bradshaw was an English judge. He is most notable for his role in the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I....
     and Thomas Fell (commissioners) (1653 - 1654)
  • Thomas Fell (1654 - 1658)
  • John Bradshaw
    John Bradshaw (judge)

    John Bradshaw was an English judge. He is most notable for his role in the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I....
     (1658 - 1659)
  • William Lenthall
    William Lenthall

    William Lenthall , was an England politician of the English Civil War period. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons .The second son of William Lenthall of North Leigh in Oxfordshire, a descendant of an old Herefordshire family, he was born at Henley-on-Thames....
     (1659 - 1659)
  • Sir Gilbert Gerrard (14 May 1659 - 9 July 1660)
  • Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge
    Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge

    Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge was an English statesman, a Member of Parliament raised to the peerage by Charles I of England and a Cavaliers during the English Civil War....
     (9 July 1660 - 21 July 1664)
  • Sir Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram

    Thomas Ingram was an English cricketer of the late 18th century. He was a left-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.According to Scores and Biographies, Ingram was for a time a victualler at Cobham in Surrey....
     (21 July 1664 - 22 February 1672)
  • Sir Robert Carr (22 February 1672 - 21 November 1682)
  • Sir Thomas Chicheley
    Thomas Chicheley

    Sir Thomas Chicheley was a politician in England in the seventeenth century who fell from favour in the reign of James II of England. His name is sometimes spelt as Chichele....
     (21 November 1682 - 1687)
  • Seal in commission (1687 - 1687)
  • Robert Phelipps (1687 - 21 March 1689)
  • Robert Bertie, 16th Baron Willoughby of Eresby
    Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

    Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, Privy Council of Great Britain was a British statesman and nobleman.Bertie was born to Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey and Elizabeth Wharton....
     (21 March 1689 - 4 May 1697)
  • Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford
    Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford

    Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford Privy Council of England , only son of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, succeeded his Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford as 2nd earl of Stamford....
     (4 May 1697 - 12 May 1702)
  • Sir John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower of Stittenham
    John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower

    John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower Privy Council was the son of Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet and his wife Jean Granville.His maternal grandparents were John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath and his wife Jane Wyche, daughter of Sir Peter Wyche....
     (1703) (12 May 1702 - 10 June 1706)
  • James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
    James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby

    James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby Privy Council of Great Britain , known as the Honourable James Stanley until 1702, was a United Kingdom peer and politician....
     (10 June 1706 - 21 September 1710)
  • William Berkeley, 4th Lord Berkeley of Stratton (21 September 1710 - 6 November 1714)
  • Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford
    Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford

    Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford, Privy Council of Great Britain, King's Counsel was an England lawyer and statesman.Second son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, he was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated on November 18, 1664....
     (6 November 1714 - 12 March 1716)
  • Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarborough (12 March 1716 - 19 June 1717)
  • Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere
    Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere

    Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere was an English lawyer and politician who served as Attorney-General for England and Wales and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster....
     (19 June 1717 - 17 July 1727)
  • John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland
    John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland

    John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland Order of the Garter Privy Council of Great Britain was an English nobleman, the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and Catherine Russell....
     (17 July 1727 - 21 May 1735)
  • George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
    George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley

    George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley Order of the Bath, Privy Council of Great Britain , known as Viscount Malpas from 1725 to 1733, was a United Kingdom peer and Whig Party politician....
     (21 May 1735 - 22 December 1742)
  • Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Lord Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe
    Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe

    Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, Privy Council of Great Britain , was the son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe and Lady Anne Montagu, daughter of the Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich....
     (22 December 1742 - 27 February 1759)
  • Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull
    Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull

    Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull Privy Council of Great Britain was a Scotland peer and United Kingdom politician.Hay sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 1741 until 1758....
     (27 February 1759 - 13 December 1762)
  • James Stanley, Lord Strange
    James Stanley, Lord Strange

    James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange was commonly known by that title, though neither he not his father had any claim to it. He was the eldest son of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby, whose predecessor's heirs had used that courtesy title, but the right to two successive baronies Lord Strange had descended to daughters, when the earldom had...
     (13 December 1762 - 14 June 1771)
  • Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon
    Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon

    Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician and diplomat....
     (14 June 1771 - 17 April 1782)
  • John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton
    John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton

    John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton was an England lawyer and politician.He was first noticed in English politics when he wrote a notice in 1762 defending the British East India Company merchants against their The Netherlands rivals....
     (17 April 1782 - 29 August 1783)
  • Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
    Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

    Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby was a British peerage and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born to James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange , and Lucy, daughter and co-heir of Hugh Smith of Weald Hall, Essex....
     (29 August 1783 - 31 December 1783)
  • Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon
    Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon

    Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician and diplomat....
     (31 December 1783 - 6 September 1786)
  • Charles Jenkinson, 1st Lord Hawkesbury
    Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool

    Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool , United Kingdom statesman, eldest son of Colonel Charles Jenkinson and grandson of Sir Robert Jenkinson, Bt, of Walcot, Oxfordshire, was born in Winchester, Hampshire....
    , 1st Earl of Liverpool (1796) (6 September 1786 - 11 November 1803)
  • Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham
    Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester

    Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known from 1801 until 1805 as Lord Pelham, son of the 1st earl, was surveyor-general of ordnance in Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 2nd ministry , and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 ....
     (11 November 1803 - 6 June 1804)
  • Henry Phipps, 3rd Baron Mulgrave
    Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

    Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British politician.Educated at Eton College and the Middle Temple, he entered the army in 1775, and eventually rose to the rank of General....
     (6 June 1804 - 14 January 1805)
  • Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
    Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire

    Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Hobart from 1793 to 1804, was a UK Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th century....
     (14 January 1805 - 10 July 1805)
  • Dudley Ryder, 2nd Lord Harrowby
    Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby

    Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a prominent United Kingdom politician of the Pittite faction and the Tory party....
     (10 July 1805 - 12 February 1806)
  • Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
    Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

    Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby was a British peerage and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born to James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange , and Lucy, daughter and co-heir of Hugh Smith of Weald Hall, Essex....
     (12 February 1806 - 30 March 1807)
  • Spencer Perceval
    Spencer Perceval

    Spencer Perceval, King's Counsel was a United Kingdom statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been Assassination....
     (30 March 1807 - 23 May 1812)
  • Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
    Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire

    Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Hobart from 1793 to 1804, was a UK Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th century....
     (23 May 1812 - 23 June 1812)
  • Charles Bathurst
    Charles Bathurst

    Charles Bathurst , known as Charles Bragge from 1754 to 1804, was a British politician of the early 19th century.Bathurst was the son of Charles Bragge, of Cleve Hill in Gloucestershire, and his wife Anne Bathurst, the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst....
     (23 June 1812 - 13 February 1823)
  • Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
    Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley

    Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an England politician, and the longest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in British history....
     (13 February 1823 - 26 January 1828)
  • George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
    George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

    George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Order of the Garter Order of the Thistle Royal Society Privy Council of the United Kingdom , styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a Scotland politician, successively a Tory, Conservative Party and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855....
     (26 January 1828 - 2 June 1828)
  • Charles Arbuthnot
    Charles Arbuthnot

    Charles Arbuthnot Privy Councillor was a United Kingdom Tory politician and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. He served as a Member of Parliament for several constituencies between 1795 and 1831, and was Ambassador Extraordinary at Constantinople from 1804 to 1807....
     (2 June 1828 - 25 November 1830)
  • Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (25 November 1830 - 14 November 1834)
  • Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (26 December 1834 - 8 April 1835)
  • Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (23 April 1835 - 31 October 1840)
  • George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (31 October 1840 - 23 June 1841)
  • Sir George Grey, Bt
    Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet

    Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Whig Party politician. He held office under four Prime Ministers, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, and notably served three...
     (23 June 1841 - 30 August 1841)
  • Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset
    Lord Granville Somerset

    Lord Granville Charles Henry Somerset was a British politician of the early 19th century.Somerset was the second son of Henry Charles Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort....
     (3 September 1841 - 27 June 1846)
  • John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews (6 July 1846 - 6 March 1850)
  • George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (6 March 1850 - 21 February 1852)
  • Robert Adam Christopher
    Robert Adam Christopher

    Robert Adam Christopher , born Robert Adam Dundas, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
     (1 March 1852 - 17 December 1852)
  • Edward Strutt (3 January 1853 - 21 June 1854)
  • Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
    Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville

    Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Liberal Party statesman....
     (21 June 1854 - 30 January 1855)
  • Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
    Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby

    Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby Order of the Garter Privy Council of the United Kingdom , styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was an England politician....
     (31 March 1855 - 7 December 1855)
  • Matthew Talbot Baines
    Matthew Talbot Baines

    Matthew Talbot Baines, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland lawyer and Liberal Party politician....
     (7 December 1855 - 21 February 1858)
  • James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose
    James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose

    James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose, Order of the Thistle, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British politician. He was the only son of his James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose second marriage ....
     (26 February 1858 - 11 June 1859)
  • Sir George Grey, Bt
    Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet

    Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Whig Party politician. He held office under four Prime Ministers, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, and notably served three...
     (22 June 1859 - 25 July 1861)
  • Edward Cardwell (25 July 1861 - 7 April 1864)
  • George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (7 April 1864 - 3 November 1865)
  • George Joachim Goschen (26 January 1866 - 26 June 1866)
  • William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon
    William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon

    William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Courtenay from 1835 to 1859, was a United Kingdom politician who served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1866 to 1867 and as President of the Poor Law Board from 1867 to 1868....
     (10 July 1866 - 26 June 1867)
  • John Wilson-Patten (26 June 1867 - 7 November 1868)
  • Thomas Edward Taylor
    Thomas Edward Taylor

    Thomas Edward Taylor , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Taylor was the eldest son of Reverend Edward Taylor, fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective ....
     (7 November 1868 - 1 December 1868)
  • Frederick Temple Blackwood, 5th Lord Dufferin, 1st Earl of Dufferin (1871) (12 December 1868 - 9 August 1872)
  • Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (9 August 1872 - 30 September 1873)
  • John Bright
    John Bright

    John Bright , Quaker, was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Radicals and Liberal Party statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League....
     (30 September 1873 - 17 February 1874)
  • Thomas Edward Taylor
    Thomas Edward Taylor

    Thomas Edward Taylor , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Taylor was the eldest son of Reverend Edward Taylor, fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective ....
     (2 March 1874 - 21 April 1880)
  • John Bright
    John Bright

    John Bright , Quaker, was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Radicals and Liberal Party statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League....
     (28 April 1880 - 25 July 1882)
  • John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
    John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

    John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley Order of the Garter , Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal Party politician....
     (25 July 1882 - 28 December 1882)
  • John George Dodson (28 December 1882 - 29 October 1884)
  • George Otto Trevelyan (29 October 1884 - 9 June 1885)
  • Henry Chaplin
    Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

    Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and sportsman.The second son of the Rev. Henry Chaplin, of Blankney, Lincolnshire, he was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford, and first entered parliament at the United Kingdom general election, 1868 as Member of Parliament for Mid L...
     (24 June 1885 - 28 January 1886)
  • Edward Heneage (6 February 1886 - 16 April 1886)
  • Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (16 April 1886 - 20 July 1886)
  • Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook (3 August 1886 - 16 August 1886)
  • Lord John Manners (16 August 1886 - 11 August 1892)
  • James Bryce
    James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce

    James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order, Fellow of the Royal Society, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, British Academy was a British jurist, historian and politician....
     (18 August 1892 - 28 May 1894)
  • Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
    Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth

    Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth Order of the Thistle Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British Liberal Party statesman who served in various capacities in the Liberal governments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
     (28 May 1894 - 21 June 1895)
  • Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross (29 June 1895 - 4 July 1895)
  • Sir Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford
    Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford

    Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman....
     (1895) (4 July 1895 - 8 August 1902)
  • Sir William Hood Walrond (8 August 1902 - 4 December 1905)
  • Sir Henry Hartley Fowler (10 December 1905 - 13 October 1908)
  • Edmond Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice
    Edmond Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice

    Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906, was a United Kingdom Liberal Party politician....
     (13 October 1908 - 25 June 1909)
  • Herbert Samuel
    Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

    Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Order of the Bath Order of Merit Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British people politician and diplomat....
     (25 June 1909 - 14 February 1910)
  • Joseph Albert Pease (14 February 1910 - 23 October 1911)
  • Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse
    Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse

    Sir Charles Hobhouse, 4th Baronet Territorial Decoration, Justice of the Peace was a British Liberal Party politician.The eldest son of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and served as a Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles from 1884-1890....
     (23 October 1911 - 11 February 1914)
  • Charles Masterman (11 February 1914 - 3 February 1915)
  • Edwin Samuel Montagu
    Edwin Samuel Montagu

    Edwin Samuel Montagu was a United Kingdom Liberal Party Jewish politician. The second son and seventh child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling, he was educated at Clifton College, the City of London School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge....
     (3 February 1915 - 25 May 1915)
  • Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill

    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
     (25 May 1915 - 25 November 1915)
  • Herbert Samuel
    Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

    Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Order of the Bath Order of Merit Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British people politician and diplomat....
     (25 November 1915 - 11 January 1916)
  • Edwin Samuel Montagu
    Edwin Samuel Montagu

    Edwin Samuel Montagu was a United Kingdom Liberal Party Jewish politician. The second son and seventh child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling, he was educated at Clifton College, the City of London School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge....
     (11 January 1916 - 9 July 1916)
  • Thomas McKinnon Wood
    Thomas McKinnon Wood

    Thomas McKinnon Wood, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Liberal Party politician.Born in London, Wood was the only son of Hugh Wood, a merchant and shipowner, by his second wife Jessie McKinnon, daughter of Reverend Thomas McKinnon....
     (9 July 1916 - 10 December 1916)
  • Sir Frederick Cawley (10 December 1916 - 10 February 1918)
  • William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (10 February 1918 - 4 November 1918)
  • William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham
    William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham

    William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Fisher was elected to the British House of Commons for Fulham in 1885, a seat he held until 1906, and again from 1910 to 1918....
     (4 November 1918 - 10 January 1919)
  • David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (10 January 1919 - 1 April 1921)
  • William Robert Wellesley, 2nd Viscount Peel
    William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel

    William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel Order of the Star of India Order of the British Empire Territorial Decoration Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom politician....
     (1 April 1921 - 7 April 1922)
  • Sir William Sutherland
    William Sutherland (Scottish politician)

    William Sutherland was a Scottish civil servant, Liberal Party politician and colliery owner. He was closely associated with Prime Minister David Lloyd George serving as his private and press secretary and later as his Parliamentary Private Secretary....
     (7 April 1922 - 19 October 1922)
  • James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (24 October 1922 - 25 May 1923)
  • J. C. C. Davidson (25 May 1923 - 22 January 1924)
  • Josiah Wedgwood
    Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood

    Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, Distinguished Service Order sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV was a United Kingdom Liberal Party and Labour Party politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald....
     (22 January 1924 - 3 November 1924)
  • Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
    Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

    Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom....
     (10 November 1924 - 19 October 1927) (resigned)
  • Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun (19 October 1927 - 4 June 1929)
  • Sir Oswald Mosley
    Oswald Mosley

    Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet was a United Kingdom politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists....
    , Bt
    Baronet

    A baronet or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess , is the holder of a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown known as a baronetcy....
     (7 June 1929 - 19 May 1930) (resigned)
  • Clement Attlee
    Clement Attlee

    Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was a British people politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
     (23 May 1930 - 13 March 1931)
  • Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
    Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

    Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede was a British politician, writer, and social activist. He was the third son of Sir Henry Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Victoria of the United Kingdom, and the great-grandson of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough....
     (13 March 1931 - 24 August 1931)
  • Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
    Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian

    Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian Order of the Thistle Order of the Companions of Honour Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British politician and diplomat....
     (25 August 1931 - 10 November 1931)
  • J. C. C. Davidson (10 November 1931 - 28 May 1937)
  • Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
    Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton

    Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Viscount Turnour until 1907, was an Irish peer and British politician in the first half of the twentieth century who achieved the rare distinction of serving as both Baby of the House and Father of the House at the opposite ends of his career in the Britis...
     (28 May 1937 - 29 January 1939)
  • William Shepherd Morrison
    William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil

    William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Order of St Michael and St George, Military Cross, Venerable Order of St John, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh....
     (29 January 1939 - 3 April 1940)
  • George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon (3 April 1940 - 14 May 1940)
  • Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
    Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey

    Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office....
     (14 May 1940 - 20 July 1941)
  • Alfred Duff Cooper
    Duff Cooper

    Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Duff Cooper, was a United Kingdom diplomat, Cabinet member, and author....
     (20 July 1941 - 11 November 1943)
  • Ernest Brown
    Ernest Brown

    Alfred Ernest Brown Order of the Companions of Honour was a British politician who served as leader of the National Liberal Party from 1940 until 1945....
     (11 November 1943 - 25 May 1945)
  • Sir James Salter
    James Arthur Salter

    James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, Order of the British Empire, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom politician and academic....
     (25 May 1945 - 26 July 1945)
  • John Burns Hynd
    John Burns Hynd

    John Burns Hynd was a United Kingdom Labour Party politician.Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, Scotland, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925....
     (4 August 1945 - 17 April 1947)
  • Francis Aungier Pakenham, 1st Baron Pakenham (17 April 1947 - 31 May 1948)
  • Hugh Dalton
    Hugh Dalton

    Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton Privy Council of the United Kingdom , generally known as Hugh Dalton was a British Labour Party politician, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947....
     (31 May 1948 - 28 February 1950)
  • Lord Alexander of Hillsborough
    A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough

    Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, Order of the Garter, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician....
     (28 February 1950 - 26 October 1951)
  • Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton
    Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

    Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton, Order of the British Empire, Order of the Companions of Honour, Military Cross, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton from 1935 until 1955, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician from the 1920s until th...
     (31 October 1951 - 24 November 1952)
  • Frederick James Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton
    Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton

    Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British businessman and politician....
     (Viscount Woolton 1953) (24 November 1952 - 20 December 1955)
  • George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
    George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk

    Group Captain the Right Honourable George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, Order of the Thistle, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the British Empire, Air Force Cross , Air Efficiency award, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , was a Scotland nobleman and Unionist Party politician....
     (20 December 1955 - 13 January 1957)
  • Charles Hill
    Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton

    Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton was a British Administrator of the Government, medical doctor and television.Charles Hill was born in Islington, London and was educated at St Olave's Grammar School in Southwark, London....
     (13 January 1957 - 9 October 1961)
  • Iain Macleod
    Iain Macleod

    Iain Norman Macleod was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and government minister....
     (9 October 1961 - 20 October 1963)
  • John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham (20 October 1963 - 16 October 1964)
  • Douglas Houghton (18 October 1964 - 6 April 1966)
  • George Morgan Thomson
    George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth

    George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, Order of the Thistle, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Deputy Lieutenant, FRSE, was a journalist and Labour Party politician....
     (6 April 1966 - 7 January 1967)
  • Frederick Lee (7 January 1967 - 6 October 1969)
  • George Morgan Thomson
    George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth

    George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, Order of the Thistle, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Deputy Lieutenant, FRSE, was a journalist and Labour Party politician....
     (6 October 1969 - 19 June 1970)
  • Anthony Barber (20 June 1970 - 28 July 1970)
  • Geoffrey Rippon
    Geoffrey Rippon

    Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Baron Rippon of Hexham, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group....
     (28 July 1970 - 5 November 1972)
  • John Davies
    John Davies (businessman)

    John Emerson Harding Harding-Davies Privy Council of the United Kingdom Order of the British Empire was a successful United Kingdom businessman who served as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry during the 1960s....
     (5 November 1972 - 4 March 1974)
  • Harold Lever
    Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester

    Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, Privy Counsellor was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in Manchester, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University....
     (5 March 1974 - 4 May 1979)
  • Norman Arthur Francis St John-Stevas (5 May 1979 - 5 January 1981)
  • Francis Pym
    Francis Pym

    Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym Military Cross, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a British Conservative Party politician who, during his political career, held several Cabinet of the United Kingdom positions....
     (5 January 1981 - 14 September 1981)
  • Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young
    Janet Young, Baroness Young

    Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness Young , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal....
     (14 September 1981 - 6 April 1982)
  • Cecil Parkinson
    Cecil Parkinson

    Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and former Cabinet Minister....
     (6 April 1982 - 11 June 1983)
  • Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield
    Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield

    Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield Privy Council was by turns a civil servant, a company director, a Conservative Party politician, and a European Commissioner....
     (11 June 1983 - 11 September 1984)
  • Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie (11 September 1984 - 3 September 1985)
  • Norman Tebbit
    Norman Tebbit

    Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament for Chingford, who was born in Southgate, London in London Borough of Enfield....
     (3 September 1985 - 13 June 1987)
  • Kenneth Clarke
    Kenneth Clarke

    Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke Queen's Counsel Member of Parliament is a United Kingdom politician. He is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe and the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform....
     (13 June 1987 - 25 July 1988)
  • Tony Newton
    Tony Newton

    Antony Harold Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree, Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom, known as Tony Newton, , is a British Conservative Party politician and former Cabinet of the United Kingdom member....
     (25 July 1988 - 24 July 1989)
  • Kenneth Baker
    Kenneth Baker

    Kenneth Wilfred Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a British politician, a former Conservative Party MP and a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group....
     (24 July 1989 - 28 November 1990)
  • Chris Patten
    Chris Patten

    Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group....
     (28 November 1990 - 10 April 1992)
  • William Waldegrave
    William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill

    William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , educated at Eton College, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and now a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom from 1990 until 1997 and is a Life Member of the Tor...
     (10 April 1992 - 20 July 1994)
  • David Hunt
    David Hunt

    David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Order of the British Empire , is an England Conservative Party politician, and was a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom during the Margaret Thatcher and John Major administrations....
     (20 July 1994 - 5 July 1995)
  • Roger Freeman
    Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman

    Roger Norman Freeman, Baron Freeman, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , a British Conservative Party politician, was Member of Parliament for Kettering from 1983 to 1997, having unsuccessfully contested Don Valley in 1979....
     (5 July 1995 - 2 May 1997)
  • David Clark
    David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere

    David George Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere Privy Council of the United Kingdom Deputy Lieutenant is a British Labour Party politician, former cabinet minister and author....
     (3 May 1997 - 27 July 1998)
  • Jack Cunningham
    Jack Cunningham

    John Anderson "Jack" Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Deputy Lieutenant is a British Labour Party politician and was Member of Parliament for Copeland until 2005....
     (27 July 1998 - 11 October 1999)
  • Mo Mowlam
    Mo Mowlam

    Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam Doctor of Philosophy was a British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Labour Party Member of Parliament....
     (11 October 1999 - 11 June 2001)
  • Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston
    Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston

    Angus John "Gus" Macdonald, Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, Order of the British Empire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician....
     (11 June 2001 - 13 June 2003)
  • Douglas Alexander
    Douglas Alexander

    Douglas Garven Alexander is a British politician who is Secretary of State for International Development. He is the Member of Parliament for the Scotland constituency of Paisley and Renfrewshire South representing the Scottish Labour Party....
     (13 June 2003 - 8 September 2004)
  • Alan Milburn
    Alan Milburn

    Alan Milburn is a United Kingdom politician. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Darlington , and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health until he resigned citing lack of balance with his family life, and rejoined it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for oversight of Labour's 2005 re-election campaign....
     (8 September 2004 - 6 May 2005)
  • John Hutton (6 May 2005 - 2 November 2005)
  • Vacant (2 November 2005 - 5 May 2006)
  • Hilary Armstrong
    Hilary Armstrong

    Hilary Jane Armstrong is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament for North West Durham ....
     (5 May 2006 - 27 June 2007)
  • Ed Miliband
    Ed Miliband

    Edward Samuel Miliband is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Doncaster North and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change....
     (28 June 2007 - 3 October 2008)
  • Liam Byrne
    Liam Byrne

    Liam Dominic Byrne is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and was the former Minister of State for Borders and Immigration; and Minister for the West Midlands ....
     (3 October 2008 -)