Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

All ministerial offices

Cabinet role: true
Notes: None

Members

  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. Arthur Henderson

    1929-1931

  12. Geoffrey Howe

    1983-1988

  13. Douglas Hurd

    1989-

  14. Samuel Hoare

    1935

  15. Patrick Gordon Walker

    1964-1965

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

  16. Herbert Morrison

    1951

  17. Stafford Northcote

    1886-1887

  18. Jack Straw

    2001-

  19. Edward Wood

    1938-1940

  20. Leveson

    1870-1874

  21. Leveson

    1880-1885

  22. Selwyn Lloyd

    1955-1960

  23. James Callaghan

    1974-1976

  24. Malcolm Rifkind

    1995-1997

  25. John Russell

    1852-1853

  26. John Russell

    1859-1865

  27. Edward Stanley

    1866-1868

  28. Anthony Eden

    1940-1945

  29. John Simon

    1931-1935