Whig Tory Conservative |
Portrait |
Name Honorifics and constituency |
Term of office |
Party |
Ministry |
|
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Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney before 1789 Viscount Sydney after 1789 |
4 September 1784 |
6 March 1790 |
Whig |
Pitt I |
|
 |
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville |
6 March 1790 |
22 June 1793 |
Tory (Pittite) |
|
 |
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville MP for Edinburgh |
22 June 1793 |
25 April 1801 |
Tory |
|
 |
George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth |
25 April 1801 |
2 July 1802 |
Tory |
Addington |
|
 |
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh MP for Down before 1805 MP for Boroughbridge after 1806 |
2 July 1802 |
11 February 1806 |
Tory |
|
Pitt II |
|
 |
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
|
11 February 1806 |
15 July 1806 |
Whig |
All the Talents (Whig–Tory) |
|
 |
Thomas Grenville MP for Buckingham |
15 July 1806 |
30 September 1806 |
Whig |
|
 |
George Tierney MP for Athlone |
30 September 1806 |
6 April 1807 |
Whig |
|
 |
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian |
6 April 1807 |
11 July 1809 |
Tory |
Portland II |
|
 |
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby |
11 July 1809 |
November 1809 |
Tory |
Perceval |
|
 |
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian before 1811 Viscount Melville after 1811 |
November 1809 |
4 April 1812 |
Tory |
|
 |
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire |
4 April 1812 |
4 June 1816 |
Tory |
Liverpool |
|
 |
George Canning MP for Liverpool |
4 June 1816 |
June 1821 |
Tory |
|
 |
Charles Bathurst MP for Harwich |
June 1821 |
4 February 1822 |
|
|
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Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850) MP for Montgomeryshire |
4 February 1822 |
4 February 1828 |
Tory |
Canning (Canningite–Whig) |
Goderich (Canningite–Whig) |
Wellington–Peel |
|
 |
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville |
4 February 1828 |
17 September 1828 |
Tory |
|
 |
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough |
17 September 1828 |
1 December 1830 |
Tory |
|
 |
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg MP for Inverness-shire |
1 December 1830 |
18 September 1834 |
Whig |
Grey |
Melbourne I |
|
 |
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough |
18 September 1834 |
23 April 1835 |
Conservative |
Peel I |
|
 |
John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton MP for Nottingham |
23 April 1835 |
30 August 1841 |
Whig |
Melbourne II |
|
 |
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough |
4 September 1841 |
23 October 1841 |
Conservative |
Peel II |
|
 |
William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey |
23 October 1841 |
17 May 1843 |
Conservative |
|
 |
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich |
17 May 1843 |
30 June 1846 |
Conservative |
|
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John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton MP for Nottingham before 1847 MP for Harwich after 1848
|
8 July 1846 |
5 February 1852 |
Whig |
Russell |
|
 |
Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie MP for Perth |
5 February 1852 |
21 February 1852 |
Whig |
|
 |
John Charles Herries MP for Stamford |
28 February 1852 |
17 December 1852 |
Conservative |
Who? Who? |
|
 |
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax MP for Halifax |
30 December 1852 |
3 March 1855 |
Whig |
Aberdeen (Peelite–Whig) |
|
 |
Robert Vernon MP for Northampton |
3 March 1855 |
21 February 1858 |
Whig |
Palmerston I |
|
 |
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough |
6 March 1858 |
5 June 1858 |
Conservative |
Derby–Disraeli II |
|
 |
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby MP for King's Lynn |
5 June 1858 |
2 August 1858 |
Conservative |