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The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a country in North-West Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1801....
 up to 1782.

Before 1782, the responsibilities of the two Secretaries of State
Secretary of State (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a Secretary of State is a Cabinet of the United Kingdom Political minister in charge of a Departments of the United Kingdom Government ....
 were not divided up in terms of area of authority, but rather geographically. The Secretary of State for the Northern Department, the more junior of the two, was responsible for Northern England
Northern England

Northern England, the North, the North of England, or the North Country refers to the parts of England north of an ill-defined line....
, Scotland
Scotland

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, and relations with the Protestant states of Northern Europe
Northern Europe

Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as including the following countries and dependent regions:...
.






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The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a country in North-West Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1801....
 up to 1782.

Before 1782, the responsibilities of the two Secretaries of State
Secretary of State (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a Secretary of State is a Cabinet of the United Kingdom Political minister in charge of a Departments of the United Kingdom Government ....
 were not divided up in terms of area of authority, but rather geographically. The Secretary of State for the Northern Department, the more junior of the two, was responsible for Northern England
Northern England

Northern England, the North, the North of England, or the North Country refers to the parts of England north of an ill-defined line....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, and relations with the Protestant states of Northern Europe
Northern Europe

Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as including the following countries and dependent regions:...
. The more senior Secretary of State for the Southern Department
Secretary of State for the Southern Department

The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782.Before 1782, the responsibilities of the two British Secretary of State were divided not based on the principles of modern ministerial divisions, but geographically....
 was responsible for Southern England, Wales
Wales

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, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, the American colonies (until 1768), and relations with the Catholic and Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
 states of Europe. In 1782, the two Secretaries of State were reformed as the Secretary of State for the Home Department
Home Secretary

The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office and is one of the Great Offices of State....
 and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, commonly referred to as the Foreign Secretary, is a member of the Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom heading the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and responsible for relations with foreign countries, matters pertaining to the Commonwealth of Nations and the UK's Br...
.

During the 18th century, Secretaries of State for the Northern Department, if peers
Peerage

The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system. The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titles, and individually to refer to a specific title....
, were often Leaders of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords

Leader of the House of Lords is a function in the Her Majesty's Government that is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet of the United Kingdom position, most often Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster....
 as well.

Secretaries of State for the Northern Department, 1660-1782

  • Sir William Morice
    William Morice (Secretary of State)

    Sir William Morice was an English statesman of the 17th century and theologian. He served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and a Lord of the Treasury from June 1660 to September 1668....
    : 27 June 1660 – 29 September 1668
  • Sir John Trevor: 29 September 1668 – 8 July 1672
  • Henry Coventry
    Henry Coventry

    Henry Coventry was an English politician, who was Secretary of State for the Northern Department between 1672 and 1674 and the Secretary of State for the Southern Department between 1674 and 1680....
     8 July 1672 – 11 September 1674
  • Sir Joseph Williamson
    Joseph Williamson (politician)

    Sir Joseph Williamson, Fellow of the Royal Society , English politician, was born at Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, where his father, also called Joseph, was vicar....
    : 11 September 1674 – 20 February 1679
  • Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
    Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland

    Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland Order of the Garter, Privy Council of England was an English people statesman and nobleman.Life...
    : 20 February 1679 – 26 April 1680
  • Sir Leoline Jenkins: 26 April 1680 – 2 February 1681
  • Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway: 2 February 1681 – 14 April 1684
  • Sidney Godolphin, 1st Lord Godolphin: 14 April 1684 – 24 August 1684
  • Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton
    Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton

    Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Privy Council of England , held several offices under Charles II of England and James II of England, being envoy extraordinary at Vienna and afterwards Secretary of State, Scotland....
    : 24 August 1684 – 28 October 1688
  • Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston
    Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston

    Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston Privy Council of England , was a British politician and diplomat. He became a Jacobitism conspirator, but his reputation in the Jacobite community suffered when he gave evidence against his co-conspirators in exchange for a pardon....
    : 28 October 1688 – 2 December 1688
  • Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
    Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

    Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea Privy Council of England , son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham....
    : 5 March 1689 – 26 December 1690
  • Henry Sydney, 1st Viscount Sydney of Sheppey
    Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney

    Henry Sydney , 1st Earl of Romney was born in Paris, a son of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, of Penshurst Place in Kent, England, by Lady Dorothy Percy, a daughter of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, a descendant of Edward III of England....
    : 26 December 1690 – 3 March 1692
  • Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
    Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

    Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea Privy Council of England , son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham....
    : 3 March 1692 – 23 March 1693
  • Sir John Trenchard
    John Trenchard (Secretary of State)

    Sir John Trenchard , English politician belonging to an old Dorset family. His father was Thomas Trenchard of Wolverton , and his grandfather was Sir Thomas Trenchard of Wolverton ....
    : 23 March 1693 – 2 March 1694
  • Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
    Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury

    Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was the only son of the Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife, formerly Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, a daughter of Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan ....
    : 2 March 1694 – 3 May 1695
  • Sir William Trumbull
    William Trumbull

    Sir William Trumbull was an English statesman who held high office as a member of the First Whig Junto.Trumbull was born at Easthampstead Park in Berkshire, the son and heir of William Trumbull , and educated at Wokingham School and St John's College, Oxford....
    : 3 May 1695 – 2 December 1697
  • James Vernon
    James Vernon

    James Vernon was an English politician and Secretary of State for both the Secretary of State for the Northern Department and the Secretary of State for the Southern Department Departments during the reign of William III of England....
    : 2 December 1697 – 5 November 1700
  • Sir Charles Hedges
    Charles Hedges

    Sir Charles Hedges , of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, an English lawyer and politician, was a judge in Admiralty Court who later served as one of Queen Anne's Secretaries of State....
    : 5 November 1700 – 29 December 1701
  • James Vernon
    James Vernon

    James Vernon was an English politician and Secretary of State for both the Secretary of State for the Northern Department and the Secretary of State for the Southern Department Departments during the reign of William III of England....
    : 4 January 1702 – 1 May 1702
  • Sir Charles Hedges
    Charles Hedges

    Sir Charles Hedges , of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, an English lawyer and politician, was a judge in Admiralty Court who later served as one of Queen Anne's Secretaries of State....
    : 2 May 1702 – 18 May 1704
  • Robert Harley
    Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer

    Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , was an British politician and statesman of the late Stuart dynasty and early Georgian era periods....
    : 18 May 1704 – 13 February 1708
  • Henry Boyle
    Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton

    Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton Privy Council of Great Britain was an England politician of the early eighteenth century....
    : 13 February 1708 – 21 September 1710
  • Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
    Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

    Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke , was an English politician and philosopher. He identified predominantly with the Tories , of which he was a prominent member for many years....
    : 21 September 1710 – 17 August 1713
  • William Bromley
    William Bromley (Speaker)

    Sir William Bromley , was an English Tory politician. He was Speaker of the British House of Commons 1710-1713 and Secretary of State for the Northern Department 1713-1714....
    : 17 August 1713 – 17 September 1714
  • Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
    Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

    Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend , was a British British Whig Party statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State, directing British foreign policy....
    : 17 September 1714 – 12 December 1716
  • James Stanhope: 12 December 1716 – 12 April 1717
  • Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
    Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

    Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland was an English statesman.He was the second son of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland and Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland , daughter of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol....
    : 12 April 1717 – 2 March 1718
  • James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
    James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope

    James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, Privy Council of Great Britain , English and British statesman and soldier, was born in Paris, the eldest of the seven children of the Hon....
    : 16 March 1718 – 4 February 1721
  • John Carteret, 2nd Baron Carteret
    John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

    John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, Privy Council of Great Britain , commonly known by his earlier title as Lord Carteret, was a Kingdom of Great Britain statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763....
    : 5 February 1721 – 21 February 1721
  • Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
    Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

    Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend , was a British British Whig Party statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State, directing British foreign policy....
    : 21 February 1721 – 16 May 1730
  • William Stanhope, 1st Lord Harrington
    William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington

    William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a British statesman and diplomatist.He was a younger son of John Stanhope of Elvaston, Derbyshire, and a brother of Charles Stanhope , an active politician during the reign of George I of Great Britain....
    : 19 June 1730 – 12 February 1742
  • John Carteret, 2nd Lord Carteret: 12 February 1742 – 24 November 1744
  • William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
    William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington

    William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a British statesman and diplomatist.He was a younger son of John Stanhope of Elvaston, Derbyshire, and a brother of Charles Stanhope , an active politician during the reign of George I of Great Britain....
    : 24 November 1744 – 28 October 1746
  • Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield: 29 October 1746 – 6 February 1748
  • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle: 6 February 1748 – 23 March 1754
  • Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse: 23 March 1754 – 25 March 1761
  • John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
    John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

    John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , styled Lord Mount Stuart before 1723, was a Scotland nobility who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under George III of Great Britain, and was arguably the last important favourite in British politics....
    : 25 March 1761 – 27 May 1762
  • George Grenville
    George Grenville

    George Grenville , was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who served in government for the relatively short period of seven years, reaching the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
    : 27 May 1762 – 9 October 1762
  • George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax: 14 October 1762 – 9 September 1763
  • John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
    John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

    John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Privy Council of Great Britain, Fellow of the Royal Society succeeded his grandfather, the Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, in 1729, at the age of ten....
    : 9 September 1763 – 10 July 1765
  • Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton: 12 July 1765 – 14 May 1766
  • Henry Seymour Conway
    Henry Seymour Conway

    Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was a British general and statesman. A brother of the Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession, and eventually rose to the rank of Field Marshal ....
    : 23 May 1766 – 20 January 1768
  • Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth
    Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath

    Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, 3rd Viscount Weymouth Order of the Garter , English politician, was the elder son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth , and the great-grandnephew of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth , who was created Baron Thynne and Viscount Weymouth in 1682....
     20 January 1768 – 21 October 1768
  • William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford
    William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford

    William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a British diplomat and statesman....
    : 21 October 1768 – 19 December 1770
  • John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
    John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

    John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Privy Council of Great Britain, Fellow of the Royal Society succeeded his grandfather, the Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, in 1729, at the age of ten....
    : 19 December 1770 – 12 January 1771
  • George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax: 19 January 1771 – 6 June 1771
  • Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk
    Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk

    Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of Great Britain was a British politician who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department under Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford from 1771 to 1779....
    : 12 June 1771 – 7 March 1779
  • Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth
    Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath

    Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, 3rd Viscount Weymouth Order of the Garter , English politician, was the elder son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth , and the great-grandnephew of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth , who was created Baron Thynne and Viscount Weymouth in 1682....
    : 7 March 1779 – 27 October 1779
  • David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont
    David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield

    David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield Privy Council of Great Britain Order of the Thistle , known from 1748 to 1793 as the Viscount Stormont, was a British politician....
    : 27 October 1779 – 27 March 1782