Past Foreign Secretaries
Selection of profiles
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax
- 1938 to 1940
Sir Austen Chamberlain
- 1924 to 1929
George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess of Kedleston
- 1919 to 1924
Sir Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon
- 1905 to 1916
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne
- 1900 to 1905
Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury
- 1878 to 1880
- 1885 to 1886
- 1887 to 1892
- and 1895 to 1900
George Leveson Gower, Earl Granville
- 1851 to 1852
- 1870 to 1874
- and 1880 to 1885
George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
- 1828 to 1830
- and 1841 to 1846
Charles James Fox
- 1782
- 1783
- and 1806
William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville
- 1791 to 1801
21st century
Yvette Cooper
2025 to 2026
David Lammy
2024 to 2025
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
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
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
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
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