History

Past Foreign Secretaries

Selection of profiles

21st century

Lord Cameron

2023 to 2024

James Cleverly

2022 to 2023

Elizabeth Truss

2021 to 2022

Dominic Raab

2019 to 2021

Jeremy Hunt

2018 to 2019

Boris Johnson

2016 to 2018

Philip Hammond

2014 to 2016

William Hague

2010 to 2014

David Miliband

2007 to 2010

Margaret Beckett

2006 to 2007

Jack Straw

2001 to 2006

20th century

Robin Cook

1997 to 2001

Sir Malcolm Rifkind

1995 to 1997

Douglas Hurd, Lord Hurd of Westwell

1989 to 1995

Sir John Major

1989

Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon

1983 to 1989

Francis Pym, Lord Pym of Sandy

1982 to 1983

Lord Peter Carrington, Baron Carrington

1979 to 1982

Dr David Owen, Lord Owen of the City of Plymouth

1977 to 1979

Anthony Crosland

1976 to 1977

James Callaghan, Lord Callaghan of Cardiff

1974 to 1976

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Home of the Hirsel

1970 to 1974

1960 to 1963

Michael Stewart, Lord Stewart of Fulham

1968 to 1970

1965 to 1966

George Brown, Lord George-Brown of Jevington

1966 to 1968

Patrick Gordon Walker

1964 to 1965

Richard Austen Butler, Lord Butler of Saffron Walden

1963 to 1964

John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Lord Selwyn-Lloyd

1955 to 1960

Harold Macmillan, Earl of Stockton

1955

Sir Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon

1951 to 1955

1940 to 1945

1935 to 1938

Herbert Morrison, Lord Morrison of Lambeth

1951

Ernest Bevin

1945 to 1951

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax

1938 to 1940

Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Templewood

1935

Sir John Simon, Viscount Simon

1931 to 1935

Rufus Isaacs , Marquess of Reading

1931

Arthur Henderson

1929 to 1931

Sir Austen Chamberlain

1924 to 1929

James Ramsay MacDonald

1924

George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess of Kedlesto

1919 to 1924

Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour

1916 to 1919

Sir Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon

1905 to 1916

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne

1900 to 1905

19th century

Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury

1895 to 1900

1887 to 1892

1885 to 1886

1878 to 1880

John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley

1894 to 1895

Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery

1892 to 1894

1886

Stafford Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh

1886 to 1887

George Leveson Gower, Earl Granville

1880 to 1885

1870 to 1874

1851 to 1852

Lord Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby

1874 to 1878

1866 to 1868

George Villiers, Earl of Clarendon

1868 to 1870

1865 to 1866

1853 to 1858

Lord John Russell, Earl Russell

1859 to 1865

1852 to 1853

James Harris, Earl of Malmesbury

1858 to 1859

1852

Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston

1846 to 1851

1835 to 1841

1830 to 1834

George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen

1841 to 1846

1828 to 1830

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

1834 to 1835

John William Ward, Viscount Dudley and Ward

1827 to 1828

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

1812 to 1822

Richard Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley

1809 to 1812

Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst

1809

Charles Grey, Lord Howick

1806 to 1807

Charles James Fox

1806

1783

and 1783

Henry Phipps, Lord Mulgrave

1805 to 1806

Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury

1804 to 1805

Dudley Ryder, Lord Harrowby

1804

18th century

William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville

1791 to 1801

Francis Godolphin Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen

1783 to 1791

George Nugent Temple Grenville, Earl Temple

1783

Thomas Robinson, Lord Grantham

1782 to 1783