Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

1. Arthur Balfour

   1916-1919

2. George Brown

   1966-1968

   Resigned March 1968

3. Austen Chamberlain

   1924-1929

4. Robin Cook

   1997-2001

5. George Curzon

   1919-1923

6. Alec Douglas-Home

   1960-1963

7. Anthony Eden

   1935-1938

8. Anthony Eden

   1951-1955

9. Harold Macmillan

   1955

10. Edward Grey

    1905-1916

11. Roy Hattersley

    1974-1976

12. Arthur Henderson

    1929-1931

13. Geoffrey Howe

    1983-1988

14. Douglas Hurd

    1989-

15. Samuel Hoare

    1935

16. Patrick Gordon Walker

    1964-1965

    appointed before re-election to Commons; resigned after by-election defeat

17. Herbert Morrison

    1951

18. Stafford Northcote

    1886-1887

19. Jack Straw

    2001-

20. Edward Wood

    1938-1940

21. Leveson

    1870-1874

22. Leveson

    1880-1885

23. Selwyn Lloyd

    1955-1960

24. James Callaghan

    1974-1976

25. Malcolm Rifkind

    1995-1997

26. John Russell

    1852-1853

27. John Russell

    1859-1865

28. Edward Stanley

    1866-1868

29. Anthony Eden

    1940-1945

30. John Simon

    1931-1935