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MINISTRY
Table of Secretaries of State
[The substitution of two secretaries for one was the consequence of the increase of business There was no distinction of departments, each Secretary taking whatever work the king saw fit to entrust him with. During the reigns of the first two Stuarts, however, there was a tendency to entrust one secretary with the correspondence with Protestant states and their allies, and the other with the correspondence with Catholic states. Probably in the reign of Charles II., and certainly as early as 1691, two departments, the Northern and the Southern, were instituted. In 1782 the departments were changed to Home and Foreign. A third secretary of state was appointed in 1794, and he was called the Secretary for War and the Colonies from 1801 to 1854, when the work was divided, and the War and Colonial Secretaryships were instituted. The Secretary of State for India was appointed in 1858.]
| 1603. | Sir R. Cecil, cr. Lord Cecil 1603, Viscount Cranborne 1604, Earl of Salisbury 1605. |
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| 1612. | Vacant. | |
| 1614. | Sir R. Winwood. | |
| 1615. | . . . . . . . . | Sir T. Lake. |
| 1618. | Sir R. Naunton. | |
| 1619. | . . . . . . . . | Sir G. Calvert. |
| 1623. | Sir E. Conway, cr. Lord Conway 1625. | |
| 1625. | . . . . . . . . | Sir A. Morton. |
| 1625. | . . . . . . . . | Sir J. Coke. |
| 1628. | Viscount Dorchester. | |
| 1632. | Sir F. Windebank. | |
| 1640. | . . . . . . . . | Sir H. Vane. |
| 1641. | Sir E. Nicholas. | |
| 1642. | . . . . . . . . | Viscount Falkland. |
| 1643. | . . . . . . . . | Lord Digby. |
| 1643. | Interregnum | |
| 1660. | Sir E. Nicholas. | Sir W. Morrice. |
| 1662. | Sir H. Bennet, cr. Earl of Arlington 1665. | |
| 1668. | . . . . . . . . | Sir J. Trevor. |
| 1672. | . . . . . . . . | Henry Coventry |
| 1674. | Sir J. Williamson. | |
| 1678. | Earl of Sunderland. | |
| 1680. | . . . . . . . . | Sir L. Jenkins. |
| 1681. | Lord Conway. | |
| 1683. | Earl of Sunderland. | |
| 1684. | . . . . . . . . | S. Godolphin. |
| 1684. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Middleton. |
| 1688. | . . . . . . . . | Viscount Preston. |
| 1689. | Earl of Shrewsbury. | Earl of Nottingham. |
| 1690. | Viscount Sidney. | |
| 1692. | Sir J. Trenchard. | |
| 1694. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Shrewsbury. |
| 1695. | Sir W. Trumbull. | |
| 1697. | J. Vernon. | |
| 1700. | Sir C. Hedges. | Earl of Jersey. |
| 1701. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Manchester. |
| 1702. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Nottingham. |
| 1704. | . . . . . . . . | R. Harley, cr. Earl of Oxford 1711 . |
| 1706. | Earl of Sunderland. | |
| 1708. | . . . . . . . . | H. Boyle. cr. Baron Carleton 1714. |
| 1710. | Lord Dartmouth, cr. Earl of Dartmouth 1711. |
H. St. John, cr. Viscount Bolingbroke 1712. |
| 1713. | W. Bromley. | |
| 1714. | J. Stanhope, cr. Earl Stan- hope 1718. |
Viscount Townshend. |
| 1717. | Earl of Sunderland. | J. Addison. |
| 1718. | Earl Stanhope. | J. Craggs |
| 1721. | Viscount Townshend. | Lord Carteret. |
| 1724. | . . . . . . . . | Duke of Newcastle. |
| 1730. | Lord Harrington. | |
| 1742. | Lord Carteret, became Earl Granville 1744. | |
| 1744. | Earl of Harrington. | |
| 1746. | Earl Granville. | |
| 1746. | Earl of Harrington. | |
| 1746. | Earl of Chesterfield. | |
| 1748. | Duke of Bedford. | |
| 1751. | Earl of Holderness. | |
| 1754. | . . . . . . . . | Sir T. Robinson, cr. Baron Grantham 1761 |
| 1755. | . . . . . . . . | H. Fox. |
| 1756. | . . . . . . . . | W. Pitt. |
| 1761. | Earl of Bute. | |
| 1761. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Egremont. |
| 1762. | G. Grenville. | |
| 1763. | Earl of Halifax. | Earl of Sandwich. |
| 1765. | Duke of Grafton. | H. S. Conway. |
| 1766. | Duke of Richmond. | |
| 1766. | Earl of Shelburne. | |
| 1768. | . . . . . . . . | Viscount Weymouth. |
| 1768. | Earl of Hillsborough, Colonies. | |
| 1768. | Earl of Rochford. | |
| 1770. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Sandwich. |
| 1771. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Halifax. |
| 1771. | . . . . . . . . | Earl of Suffolk. |
| 1772. | Earl of Dartmouth, Colonies. | |
| 1775. | Viscount Weymouth, cr. Marquess of Bath 1789. | |
| 1776. | Lord G. S. Germaine, Colonies. | |
| 1779. | . . . . . . . . | Viscount Stormont. |
| 1779. | Earl of Hillsborough, cr. Marquess of Downshire 1789 | |
| 1782. | W. Ellis, cr. Baron Mendip, 1794, Colonies. |
| Home Department. | Foreign Department. | |
| 1782. | Earl of Shelburne. | C. J. Fox. |
| 1782. | Lord Grantham. | T. Townshend, cr. Baron Sydney 1783. |
| 1783. | Lord North. | C. J. Fox. |
| 1783. | Marquess of Carmarthen. | Earl Temple. |
| 1783. | . . . . . . . . | Lord Sydney. |
| 1789. | W. W. Grenville, cr. Baron Grenville 1790. | |
| 1791. | H. Dundas. | Lord Grenville. |
| Home Department. | Foreign Department. | War and Colonial Department. | |
| 1794. | Duke of Portland | Lord Grenville | H. Dundas, cr. Visct. Melville 1802. |
| 1801. | Lord Pelham, aft. Earl of Chichester | Lord Hawkesbury | Lord Hobart, aft. Earl of Buckinghamshire |
| 1803. | C. P. Yorke | ||
| 1804. | Lord Hawkesbury | Lord Harrowby | Earl Camden |
| 1805. | . . . . . . . . . . | Lord Mulgrave | Viscount Castlereagh. |
| 1806. | Earl Spencer | C. J. Fox. | W. Windham. |
| 1807. | Lord Hawkesbury, aft. Earl of Liverpool | G. Canning | Viscount Castlereagh. |
| 1809. | R. Ryder | Earl Bathurst | |
| 1809. | . . . . . . . . . . | Marquess Wellesley . | |
| 1812. | Viscount Sidmouth (H. Addington) | Viscount Castlereagh, aft. Marquess of | Earl Bathurst. |
| 1822. | R. Peel | G. Canning[Londonderry | |
| 1827. | W. S. Bourne | Earl of Dudley | Viscount Goderich. |
| 1827. | Marquess of Lansdowne | W. Huskisson. | |
| 1828. | R. Peel | Earl of Aberdeen | Sir G. Murray. |
| 1830. | Viscount Melbourne | Viscount Palmerston | Viscount Goderich, aft. Earl of Ripon. |
| 1833. | . . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . | E. G. S. Stanley, aft. Lord Stanley and Earl of Derby. |
| 1834. | Viscount Duncannon, aft. Earl of Bessborough | . . . . . . . . . . | T. Spring-Rice, aft. Lord Monteagle. |
| 1834. | H. Goulburn | Duke of Wellington | Earl of Aberdeen. |
| 1835. | Lord J. Russell | Viscount Palmerston | Lord Glenelg. |
| 1839. | . . . . . . . . . . | Marquess of Normanby. | |
| 1839. | Marquess of Normanby | . . . . . . . . . . | Lord J. Russell. |
| 1841. | Sir J. Graham, Bart. | Earl of Aberdeen | Lord Stanley. |
| 1845. | . . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . | W. E. Gladstone. |
| 1846. | Sir G. Grey | Viscount Palmerston | Earl Grey. |
| 1852. | Spencer H. Walpole | Earl of Malmesbury | Sir J. S. Pakington, aft. Lord Hampton. |
| 1852. | Viscount Palmerston | Lord J. Russell | Duke of Newcastle. |
