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The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a position in the cabinet of the government of 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 British Secretaries of State
Secretary of State

Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a member of government. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the government....
 were divided not based on the principles of modern ministerial divisions, but geographically. The Secretary of State for the Southern Department, the more senior Secretary of State
Secretary of State

Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a member of government. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the government....
, was responsible for Southern England
England

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, 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 Roman 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
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
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The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a position in the cabinet of the government of 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 British Secretaries of State
Secretary of State

Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a member of government. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the government....
 were divided not based on the principles of modern ministerial divisions, but geographically. The Secretary of State for the Southern Department, the more senior Secretary of State
Secretary of State

Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a member of government. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the government....
, was responsible for Southern England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, 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 Roman 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
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. The more junior Secretary of State for the Northern Department
Secretary of State for the Northern Department

The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782....
 was responsible for Northern England, Scotland
Scotland

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

Secretaries of State for the Southern Department, 1660-1782

  • Sir Edward Nicholas
    Edward Nicholas

    Sir Edward Nicholas was an English statesman....
    : 1 June 1660 - 20 October 1662
  • Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington
    Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington

    Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington Order of the Garter, Privy Council of England , was an England statesman.He was the son of Sir John Bennet of Dawley, Middlesex, and of Dorothy Crofts, was the younger brother of John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston, was baptized at Little Saxham, Suffolk, in 1618, and was educated at Westminster School and...
    : 20 October 1662 - 11 September 1674
  • 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....
    : 11 September 1674 - 26 April 1680
  • 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...
    : 26 April 1680 - 2 February 1681
  • Sir Leoline Jenkins
    Leoline Jenkins

    Sir Leoline Jenkins was a Welsh academic, jurist and politician. He was a clerical lawyer serving in the Admiralty courts, and diplomat involved in the negotiation of international treaties ....
    : 2 February 1681 - 14 April 1684
  • 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...
    : 14 April 1684 - 28 October 1688
  • 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....
    : 28 October - 2 December 1688
  • Charles Talbot, 12th Earl of Shrewsbury: 14 February 1689 - 2 June 1690
  • 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....
    : 2 June 1690 - November 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 ....
    : November 1693 - 27 April 1695
  • Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury: 27 April 1695 - 12 December 1698
  • 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....
    : 12 December 1698 - 14 May 1699
  • Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey
    Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey

    Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey son of Sir Edward Villiers , of Richmond, London was created Baron Villiers and Viscount Villiers in 1691 and Earl of Jersey in 1697....
    : 14 May 1699 - 27 June 1700
  • 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....
    : 27 June 1700 - 4 January 1702
  • Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester
    Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester

    Charles Edward Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, 4th Earl of Manchester , son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded to his father's earldom in 1683....
     4 January - 1 May 1702
  • 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....
    : 2 May 1702 - 22 April 1704
  • 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....
    : 18 May 1704 - 3 December 1706
  • 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....
    : 3 December 1706 - 13 June 1710
  • William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth
    William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth

    William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth , only son of George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth, succeeded to his fathers barony in 1691. In 1702 he was appointed a member of the Board of Trade and Plantations, and eight years later he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department and joint keeper of the signet for Scotland....
    : 15 June 1710 - 6 August 1713
  • 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....
    : 17 August 1713 - 31 August 1714
  • James 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....
    : 27 September 1714 - 22 June 1716
  • Paul Methuen
    Paul Methuen (diplomat)

    Sir Paul Methuen Privy Council of Great Britain, Order of the Bath was an English diplomat and politician.He was the son of John Methuen and was educated privately then at a Jesuit school in Paris....
    : 22 June 1716 - 10 April 1717
  • Joseph Addison
    Joseph Addison

    ??File:Joseph Addison.pngJoseph Addison was an English essayist and poet. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, and later the dean of Lichfield....
    : 12 April 1717 - 14 March 1718
  • James Craggs the Younger
    James Craggs the Younger

    James Craggs the Younger , son of James Craggs the Elder, was born at Westminster. Part of his early life was spent abroad, where he made the acquaintance of George I of Great Britain, Elector of Hanover, afterwards King George I....
    : 16 March 1718 - 16 February 1721
  • John Carteret, 3rd Lord 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....
    : 4 March 1721 - 31 March 1724
  • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle: 6 April 1724 - 12 February 1748
  • John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
    John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

    John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford Knight of the Garter, Privy Council of Great Britain, Royal Society was an 18th century Kingdom of Great Britain statesman....
    : 12 February 1748 - 13 June 1751
  • Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse: 18 June 1751 - 23 March 1754
  • Sir Thomas Robinson
    Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham

    Thomas Robinson I, 1st Baron Grantham, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a Kingdom of Great Britain diplomatist and politician....
    : 23 March 1754 - October 1755
  • Henry Fox
    Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland

    Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, Privy Council of Great Britain was a leading Kingdom of Great Britain politician of the eighteenth century. He identified primarily with the Whig faction....
    : 14 November 1755 - 13 November 1756
  • William Pitt the Elder: 4 December 1756 - 6 April 1757
  • Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse: 6 April - 27 June 1757
  • William Pitt the Elder: 27 June 1757 - 5 October 1761
  • Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont
    Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont

    Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont Privy Council of Great Britain , a son of Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet and a direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, succeeded his uncle, Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, as 2nd Earl of Egremont in 1750....
    : 9 October 1761 - 21 August 1763
  • George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax: 9 September 1763 - 10 July 1765
  • 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 ....
    : 12 July 1765 - 23 May 1766
  • Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox: 23 May - 29 July 1766
  • William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
    William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

    William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Knight of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minis...
    : 30 July 1766 - 20 October 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....
    : 21 October 1768 - 12 December 1770
  • William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford: 19 December 1770 - 9 November 1775
  • 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....
    : 9 November 1775 - 24 November 1779
  • Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough
    Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire

    Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a British politician of the Georgian era. He was usually called the Earl of Hillsborough in America when he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1768?1772, a critical period leading toward the American Revolution....
    : 24 November 1779 - 27 March 1782