Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

The position of foreign minister, called Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was first awarded in the British Cabinet in 1782. 1968 changed the course of the transformation of the Foreign Office to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the official title of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The Office is one next to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Minister of Interior to the highest in the British Cabinet and was already in front of several prime ministers, during exercise or after her work as head of government.

Charles James Fox Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham Frederick North, Lord North George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey George Canning Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst Spencer Perceval John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Robert Peel John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby Benjamin Disraeli William Ewart Gladstone Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley Arthur Balfour Henry Campbell-Bannerman David Lloyd George Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin Austen Chamberlain Arthur Henderson John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon Anthony Eden Ernest Bevin Clement Attlee Herbert Morrison Harold Macmillan Selwyn Lloyd Alec Douglas-Home Rab Butler Patrick Gordon Walker Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham George Brown, Baron George-Brown Anthony Crosland Francis Pym, Baron Pym Geoffrey Howe John Major Douglas Hurd Malcolm Rifkind Jack Straw Margaret Beckett David Miliband Gordon Brown William Hague David Cameron
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