Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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This is a list of Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs in the British Foreign Office since 1782.

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, 1782-1968

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State is the junior minister.

1782: Richard Brinsley Sheridan and William Fraser
1782: George Maddison (replacing Sheridan)
1783: The Hon. St Andrew St John and William Fraser
1789: James Bland Burgess and Dudley Ryder
August 1789: James Bland Burgess
January 1796: George Canning
April 1799: John Hookham Frere
September 1800: Edward Fisher
February 1801: Lord Hervey
November 1803: Charles Arbuthnot
June 1804: The Hon. William Eliot
February 1805: Robert Ward
February 1806: The Hon. George Walpole and Sir Francis Vincent, Bt
March 1807: Viscount FitzHarris
August 1807: The Hon. Charles Bagot
December 1809: Culling Charles Smith
February 1812: Edward Cooke
January 1822: Earl of Clanwilliam
January 1823: Lord Francis Conyngham
July 1824: Lord Howard de Walden
January 1826: Marquess of Clanricarde
June 1828: Lord Dunglass
November 1830: Sir George Shee, Bt
November 1834: Viscount Fordwich
December 1834: Viscount Mahon
April 1835: The Hon. William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways
March 1840: Viscount Leveson
September 1841: Viscount Canning
January 1846: The Hon. George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe
July 1846: Edward John Stanley
February 1852: Austen Henry Layard
May 1852: Lord Stanley
December 1852: Lord Wodehouse
July 1856: Earl of Shelburne
February 1858: William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald
June 1859: Lord Wodehouse
August 1861: Austen Henry Layard
July 1866: Edward Christopher Egerton
December 1868: Arthur John Otway
January 1871: Viscount Enfield
February 1874: R. Bourke
April 1880: Sir Charles Dilke
January 1883: Lord E. Fitzmaurice
June 1885: R. Bourke
February 1886: James Bryce
August 1886: Sir J. Ferguson
September 1891: James William Lowther
August 1892: Sir Edward Grey
June 1895: George Nathaniel Curzon
October 1898: William St John Brodrick
November 1900: Viscount Cranborne
October 1903: Earl Percy
December 1905: Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, from 1906 Lord Fitzmaurice
October 1908: Thomas McKinnon Wood
October 1911: Francis Dyke Acland
February 1915: Neil Primrose
May 1915: Lord Robert Cecil
January 1919: Cecil Harmsworth
October 1922: Robert McNeill
January 1924: Arthur Ponsonby
November 1924: Robert McNeill
December 1925: Godfrey Locker-Lampson
June 1929: Hugh Dalton
September 1931: Anthony Eden
January 1934: Earl Stanhope (to 16 June 1936)
August 1935: Viscount Cranborne (to Feb 1938)
July 1936: Earl of Plymouth (to May 1939)
February 1938: Rab Butler (to July 1941)
July 1941: Richard Law
September 1943: George Hall
May 1945: Lord Dunglass (to July 1945)
May 1945: Lord Lovat (to July 1945)

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Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, 1790-

These are the Permanent Secretaries or senior civil servant at the Foreign Office.

February 1790: George Aust
October 1795: George Hammond (resigned 1806)
March 1807: George Hammond
October 1809: William Richard Hamilton
July 1817: Joseph Planta
April 1827: John Backhouse
1842: Henry U. Addington
1854: Edmund Hammond (later Lord Hammond)
1873: Lord Tenterden
1882: Sir Julian Pauncefote (later Lord Pauncefote)
1889: Sir Philip Currie
1894: Sir T.H. Sanderson (later Lord Sanderson)
1906: Sir Charles Hardinge (later Lord Hardinge of Penshurst)
1910: Sir Arthur Nicolson
1916: Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
1920: Sir Eyre Crowe
1925: Sir William Tyrrell
1928: Sir Ronald Lindsay
1930: Sir Robert Vansittart
1938: Sir Alexander Cadogan
1946: Sir Orme Sargent (jointly with Sir W. Strang, Head of the German Section 1947-1949)
1949: Sir William Strang (jointly with the Heads of the German Section: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick 1949-1950, Sir D. Gainer 1950-1951)
1953: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick
1957: Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar
1962: Sir Harold Caccia
1965: Sir Paul Gore-Booth (also Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1968)
1969: Sir Denis Greenhill
1973: Sir Thomas Brimelow
1975: Sir Michael Palliser
1982: Sir Antony Acland
1986: Sir Patrick Wright
1991: Sir David Gillmore
1994: Sir John Coles
1997: Sir John Kerr
2002: Sir Michael Jay

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