The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom. David Lidington has been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 8 January 2018.
Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office |
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Sir Henry de Haydock | 1361 | 1373 |
Ralph de Ergham Bishop of Sarum (–1400) [1] | 1373 | 16 April 1377 |
Thomas de Thelwall (–1382) | 16 April 1377 | 1378 |
Sir John De Yerborough | 1378 | 10 November 1382 |
Sir Thomas Stanley pro temp. | 10 November 1382 | 29 November 1382 |
Sir Thomas Scarle | 29 November 1382 | October 1383 |
Sir William Okey | October 1383 | 1400 |
John de Wakering | 1400 | 1400 |
William Burgoyne | 1400 | 15 May 1404 |
Sir Thomas Stanley | 15 May 1404 | 30 March 1410 |
John Springthorpe | 30 March 1410 | 4 April 1413 |
John Wodehouse | 4 April 1413 | 10 June 1424 |
William Troutbecke | 10 June 1424 | 16 February 1431 |
Walter Sherington | 16 February 1431 | 3 July 1442 |
William Tresham MP for Northamptonshire (1404–1450) | 3 July 1442 | 10 June 1449 |
John Say MP for Cambridgeshire (–1478) | 10 June 1449 | 10 June 1462 |
Sir Richard Fowler Chancellor of the Exchequer (c. 1425–1477) [2] | 10 June 1462 | 3 November 1477 |
Sir John Say MP for Cambridgeshire (–1478) | 3 November 1477 | 2 April 1478 |
Thomas Thwaites Chancellor of the Exchequer (c. 1435–1503) | 2 April 1478 | 7 July 1483 |
Thomas Metcalfe (–c. 1504) | 7 July 1483 | 13 September 1486 |
Sir Reginald Bray (c. 1440–1503) | 13 September 1486 | 24 June 1503 |
Sir John Mordaunt (–c. 1505) | 24 June 1503 | 3 October 1505 |
Sir Richard Empson (c. 1450–1510) | 3 October 1505 | 14 May 1509 |
Sir Henry Marney (c. 1447–1523) | 14 May 1509 | 14 April 1523 |
Sir Richard Wingfield (c. 1469–1525) | 14 April 1523 | 31 December 1525 |
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) | 31 December 1525 | 3 November 1529 |
Sir William Fitzwilliam (c. 1490–1542) | 3 November 1529 | 10 May 1533 |
Sir John Gage (1479–1556) | 10 May 1533 | 1 July 1547 |
William Paget 1st Baron Paget Secretary of State (1506–1563) [3] | 1 July 1547 | 7 July 1552 |
Sir John Gates MP for Essex (1504–1553) | 7 July 1552 | 1553 |
Sir Robert Rochester MP for Essex (c. 1516–1561) | 1553 | 1557 |
Sir Edward Waldegrave MP for Essex (c. 1516–1561) | 22 June 1558 | 1559 |
Sir Ambrose Cave MP for Warwickshire (–1568) | 1559 | 16 May 1568 |
Sir Ralph Sadler MP for Hertfordshire (1507–1587) | 16 May 1568 | 15 June 1587 |
Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary of State (c. 1532–1590) | 15 June 1587 | 1590 |
Sir Thomas Heneage MP for Essex (1532–1595) | 1590 | 7 October 1595 |
Seal in commission | 1595 | 1597 |
Sir Robert Cecil Secretary of State Lord Privy Seal (1563–1612) [4] | 8 October 1597 | 1599 |
Seal in commission | 1599 | 16 September 1601 |
Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer MP for Middlesex (c. 1531–1607) [5] | 16 September 1601 | 23 December 1607 |
Sir Thomas Parry MP for Berkshire (1541–1616) [6] | December 1607 | May 1616 |
Sir John Dacombe (1570–1618) | 27 May 1616 | January 1618 |
Sir Humphrey May MP for Leicester (1573–1630) [7] | 23 March 1618 | 16 April 1629 |
Edward Barrett 1st Baron Barrett of Newburgh (1581–1645) | 16 April 1629 | 10 February 1644 |
Francis Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (c. 1590–1664) [8] | 1644 | 1645 |
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Concurrent office(s) | Party | Prime Minister |
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| Thomas Pelham Baron Pelham (1756–1826) | 11 November 1803 | 6 June 1804 | Whig | | Henry Addington |
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| Henry Phipps 3rd Baron Mulgrave (1744–1792) | 6 June 1804 | 14 January 1805 | Tory | | William Pitt the Younger |
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| Robert Hobart 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816) | 14 January 1805 | 10 July 1805 | Tory |
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| Dudley Ryder 2nd Baron Harrowby (1762–1847) | 10 July 1805 | 12 February 1806 | Tory |
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| Edward Smith-Stanley 12th Earl of Derby (1752–1834) | 12 February 1806 | 30 March 1807 | Whig | | William Grenville (Ministry of All the Talents) |
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| | Spencer Perceval MP for Northampton (1762–1812) | 30 March 1807 | 11 May 1812 | Chancellor of the Exchequer | Tory | | William Cavendish-Bentinck,}} {{nowrap|3rd Duke of Portland}} |
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Prime Minister Leader of the House of Commons (from October 1809) | | Himself |
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| Robert Hobart 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816) | 23 May 1812 | 23 June 1812 | President of the Board of Control | Tory | | {{nowrap|Robert Jenkinson,}} {{nowrap|2nd Earl of Liverpool}} |
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Charles Bathurst MP for Harwich (1754–1831) [14] | 23 June 1812 | 13 February 1823 | President of the Board of Control (January 1821–February 1822) |
| | Nicholas Vansittart 1st Baron Bexley (1766–1851) | 13 February 1823 | 26 January 1828 | | Tory |
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| George Canning (April–August 1827) |
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| F. J. Robinson,}} {{nowrap|1st Viscount Goderich}} |
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| George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860) | 26 January 1828 | 2 June 1828 | Tory | | {{nowrap|Arthur Wellesley,}} {{nowrap|1st Duke of Wellington}} |
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| Charles Arbuthnot MP for St Ives (1767–1850) | 2 June 1828 | 25 November 1830 | Tory |
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| | Henry Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland (1773–1840) | 25 November 1830 | 14 November 1834 | | Whig | | Charles Grey |
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| William Lamb,}} {{nowrap|2nd Viscount Melbourne}} |
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vacant | 14 November 1834 | 26 December 1834 | | | Arthur Wellesley,}} {{nowrap|1st Duke of Wellington}} (Caretaker) |
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| Charles Williams-Wynn MP for Montgomeryshire (1775–1850) | 26 December 1834 | 8 April 1835 | Conservative | | Robert Peel |
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| Henry Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland (1773–1840) | 23 April 1835 | 31 October 1840 | Whig | | {{nowrap|William Lamb,}} {{nowrap|2nd Viscount Melbourne}} |
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| George Villiers 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800–1870) | 31 October 1840 | 23 June 1841 | Lord Privy Seal | Whig |
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| Sir George Grey MP for Devonport (1799–1882) | 23 June 1841 | 30 August 1841 | Whig |
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| Lord Granville Somerset MP for Monmouthshire (1792–1848) | 3 September 1841 | 27 June 1846 | Conservative | | Robert Peel |
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| John Campbell 1st Baron Campbell (1779–1861) | 6 July 1846 | 6 March 1850 | Whig | | John Russell |
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| George Howard 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802–1864) | 6 March 1850 | 21 February 1852 | First Commissioner of Woods and Forests (until July 1850) | Whig |
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| Robert Christopher MP for North Lincolnshire (1804–1887) | 1 March 1852 | 17 December 1852 | Conservative | | Edward Smith-Stanley,}} {{nowrap|14th Earl of Derby}} |
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| Edward Strutt MP for Nottingham (1801–1880) | 3 January 1853 | 21 June 1854 | Whig / Radical | | George {{nowrap|Hamilton-Gordon,}} {{nowrap|4th Earl of Aberdeen}} (Coalition) |
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| Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville (1815–1891) | 21 June 1854 | 30 January 1855 | Whig |
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vacant | February 1855 | March 1855 | |
Dudley Ryder 2nd Earl of Harrowby (1798–1882) | 31 March 1855 | 7 December 1855 | | {{nowrap|Henry John Temple,}} {{nowrap|3rd Viscount Palmerston}} |
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| Matthew Talbot Baines MP for Leeds (1799–1860) | 7 December 1855 | 21 February 1858 | Whig |
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| James Graham 4th Duke of Montrose (1799–1874) | 26 February 1858 | 11 June 1859 | Conservative | | Edward Smith-Stanley,}} {{nowrap|14th Earl of Derby}} |
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| Sir George Grey MP for Morpeth (1799–1882) | 22 June 1859 | 25 July 1861 | Whig / Liberal | | {{nowrap|Henry John Temple,}} {{nowrap|3rd Viscount Palmerston}} |
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| Edward Cardwell MP for Oxford (1813–1886) | 25 July 1861 | 7 April 1864 | Liberal |
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| George Villiers 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800–1870) | 7 April 1864 | 3 November 1865 | Liberal |
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vacant | 3 November 1865 | 26 January 1866 | | | John Russell |
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| George Goschen MP for City of London (1831–1907) | 26 January 1866 | 26 June 1866 | Vice-President of the Board of Trade (until March 1866) | Liberal |
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| William Courtenay 11th Earl of Devon (1807–1888) | 10 July 1866 | 26 June 1867 | President of the Poor Law Board (from May 1867) | Conservative | | {{nowrap|Edward Smith-Stanley,}} {{nowrap|14th Earl of Derby}} |
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| | John Wilson-Patten MP for North Lancashire (1802–1892) | 26 June 1867 | 7 November 1868 | Conservative |
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Chief Secretary for Ireland (from September 1868) | | Benjamin Disraeli (from February 1868) |
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| Thomas Edward Taylor MP for Dublin County (1811–1883) | 7 November 1868 | 1 December 1868 | Conservative |
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| Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood 1st Earl of Dufferin (1826–1902) [15] | 12 December 1868 | 9 August 1872 | Paymaster-General | Liberal | | William Ewart Gladstone |
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| Hugh Childers MP for Pontefract (1827–1896) | 9 August 1872 | 30 September 1873 | Liberal |
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| John Bright MP for Birmingham (1811–1889) | 30 September 1873 | 17 February 1874 | Liberal |
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| Thomas Edward Taylor MP for Dublin County (1811–1883) | 2 March 1874 | 21 April 1880 | Conservative | | {{nowrap>(Earl of Beaconsfield}} from 1876) |
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| John Bright MP for Birmingham (1811–1889) | 28 April 1880 | 25 July 1882 | Liberal | | William Ewart Gladstone |
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| John Wodehouse 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902) | 25 July 1882 | 28 December 1882 | Colonial Secretary | Liberal |
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| John George Dodson MP for Scarborough (1825–1897) | 28 December 1882 | 29 October 1884 | Liberal |
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| George Trevelyan MP for Hawick Burghs (1838–1928) | 29 October 1884 | 9 June 1885 | Liberal |
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| Henry Chaplin MP for Sleaford (1840–1923) | 24 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 | Conservative | | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil,}} {{nowrap|3rd Marquess of Salisbury}} |
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| Edward Heneage MP for Great Grimsby (1840–1922) | 6 February 1886 | 16 April 1886 | Liberal | | William Ewart Gladstone |
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| Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth MP for Clitheroe (1844–1939) | 16 April 1886 | 20 July 1886 | Liberal |
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| Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy 1st Viscount Cranbrook (1814–1906) | 3 August 1886 | 16 August 1886 | Lord President of the Council | Conservative | | {{nowrap|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil,}} {{nowrap|3rd Marquess of Salisbury}} |
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| John Manners 7th Duke of Rutland (1818–1906) [16] | 16 August 1886 | 11 August 1892 | Conservative |
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| | James Bryce MP for Aberdeen South (1838–1922) | 18 August 1892 | 28 May 1894 | | Liberal | | William Ewart Gladstone (until March 1894) |
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| {{nowrap|Archibald Primrose,}} {{nowrap|5th Earl of Rosebery}} |
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| Edward Marjoribanks 2nd Baron Tweedmouth (1849–1909) | 28 May 1894 | 21 June 1895 | Lord Privy Seal | Liberal |
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| R. A. Cross 1st Viscount Cross (1823–1914) | 29 June 1895 | 4 July 1895 | Conservative | | {{nowrap|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil,}} {{nowrap|3rd Marquess of Salisbury}} |
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| | Henry James 1st Baron James of Hereford (1828–1911) | 4 July 1895 | 11 August 1902 | | Liberal Unionist |
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| Arthur Balfour (from 12 July 1902) |
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Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Concurrent office(s) | Party | Prime Minister | | William Hood Walrond {{post-nominals>country=GBR|Bt|PC}} MP for Tiverton (1849–1925) | 11 August 1902 | 4 December 1905 | Conservative | | Arthur Balfour Coalition |
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| | Sir Henry Fowler {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCSI}} MP for Wolverhampton East (1830–1911) | 10 December 1905 | 13 October 1908 | | Liberal | | Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
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| H. H. Asquith |
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| Edmond Fitzmaurice 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846–1935) | 13 October 1908 | 25 June 1909 |
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| Herbert Samuel MP for Cleveland (1870–1963) | 25 June 1909 | 14 February 1910 |
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| Jack Pease MP for Rotherham (1860–1943) | 14 February 1910 | 23 October 1911 |
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| Charles Hobhouse {{post-nominals>country=GBR|TD}} MP for Bristol East (1862–1941) | 23 October 1911 | 11 February 1914 |
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| Charles Masterman (1873–1927) [17] | 11 February 1914 | 3 February 1915 |
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| Edwin Samuel Montagu MP for Chesterton (1879–1924) | 3 February 1915 | 25 May 1915 |
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| Winston Churchill MP for Dundee (1874–1965) | 25 May 1915 | 25 November 1915 | | H. H. Asquith (War coalition) |
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| Herbert Samuel MP for Cleveland (1870–1963) | 25 November 1915 | 11 January 1916 | Postmaster-General |
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| Edwin Samuel Montagu MP for Chesterton (1879–1924) | 11 January 1916 | 9 July 1916 |
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| Thomas McKinnon Wood MP for Glasgow St Rollox (1855–1927) | 9 July 1916 | 10 December 1916 | Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
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| Frederick Cawley MP for Prestwich (1850–1937) | 10 December 1916 | 10 February 1918 | | David Lloyd George (Coalition) |
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| Max Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964) | 10 February 1918 | 4 November 1918 | Minister of Information | Conservative |
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| William Hayes Fisher 1st Baron Downham (1853–1920) | 4 November 1918 | 10 January 1919 | Conservative |
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| 27th Earl of Crawford {{post-nominals>country=GBR|KT|PC}} (1871–1940) | 10 January 1919 | 1 April 1921 |
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| 2nd Viscount Peel {{post-nominals>country=GBR|GCSI|TD|PC}} (1867–1937) | 1 April 1921 | 7 April 1922 | Minister of Transport |
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| William Sutherland {{post-nominals>country=GBR|KCB}} MP for Argyllshire (1880–1949) | 7 April 1922 | 9 October 1922 | Liberal |
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| 4th Marquess of Salisbury {{post-nominals>country=GBR|KG|GCVO|CB|PC|DL}} (1861–1947) | 24 October 1922 | 25 May 1923 | Lord President of the Council | Conservative | | Bonar Law |
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| John Davidson {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH|CB}} MP for Hemel Hempstead (1889–1970) | 25 May 1923 | 22 January 1924 | | Stanley Baldwin |
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| Josiah Wedgwood {{post-nominals>country=GBR|DSO|PC|DL}} MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme (1872–1943) | 22 January 1924 | 3 November 1924 | Labour | | Ramsay MacDonald |
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| 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood {{post-nominals>country=GBR|KC|PC}} (1864–1958) | 10 November 1924 | 19 October 1927 | Conservative | | Stanley Baldwin |
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| 1st Baron Cushendun {{post-nominals>country=GBR|PC}} (1861–1934) | 19 October 1927 | 4 June 1929 |
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| Oswald Mosley {{post-nominals>country=GBR|Bt}} MP for Smethwick (1896–1980) | 7 June 1929 | 19 May 1930 | responsibility for unemployment | Labour | | Ramsay MacDonald |
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| Clement Attlee MP for Limehouse (1883–1967) | 23 May 1930 | 13 March 1931 |
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| Arthur Ponsonby 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871–1946 | 13 March 1931 | 24 August 1931 |
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| 11th Marquess of Lothian {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH}} (1882–1940 | 25 August 1931 | 10 November 1931 | Liberal | | Ramsay MacDonald (1st Nat. coalition) |
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| | Sir John Davidson {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCVO|CH|CB|PC}} MP for Hemel Hempstead (1889–1970) | 10 November 1931 | 28 May 1937 | sometime chairman of the Indian States inquiry | Conservative | | Ramsay MacDonald (2nd Nat. coalition) |
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| Stanley Baldwin (3rd Nat. coalition) |
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| 6th Earl Winterton {{post-nominals>country=GBR|PC}} (1883–1962) | 28 May 1937 | 29 January 1939 | Air Ministry spokesperson in the Commons (March – May 1938) | | Neville Chamberlain (4th Nat. coalition) |
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| | William Morrison {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC|PC|QC}} MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (1893–1961) | 29 January 1939 | 3 April 1940 |
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Minister of Food (from 4 September 1939) | | Neville Chamberlain (War coalition) |
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| 1st Baron Tryon {{post-nominals>country=GBR|PC}} (1871–1940) | 3 April 1940 | 14 May 1940 |
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| 1st Baron Hankey {{post-nominals>country=GBR|GCB|GCMG|GCVO|PC}} (1877–1963 | 14 May 1940 | 20 July 1941 | National | | Winston Churchill (War coalition) |
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| Duff Cooper {{post-nominals>country=GBR|DSO}} MP for Westminster St George's (1890–1954) | 20 July 1941 | 11 November 1943 | Conservative |
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| Ernest Brown {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH|MC}} MP for Leith (1881–1962) | 11 November 1943 | 25 May 1945 | National Liberal |
| Arthur Salter {{post-nominals>country=GBR|GBE|KCB|PC}} MP for Oxford University (1881–1975) | 25 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | Conservative | | Winston Churchill (Caretaker coalition) |
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| John Hynd MP for Sheffield Attercliffe (1902–1971) | 4 August 1945 | 17 April 1947 | Minister for Germany and Austria | Labour | | Clement Attlee |
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| 1st Baron Pakenham {{post-nominals>country=GBR|PC}} (1905–2001) | 17 April 1947 | 31 May 1948 | deputy Foreign Secretary (responsibility for the British zone, Germany) |
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| Hugh Dalton MP for Bishop Auckland (1887–1962) | 31 May 1948 | 28 February 1950 |
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| 1st Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH|PC}} (1885–1965) | 28 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 | Labour Co-operative |
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| 1st Viscount Swinton {{post-nominals>country=GBR|GBE|CH|MC|PC}} (1884–1972) | 31 October 1951 | 24 November 1952 | Minister of Materials | Conservative | | Winston Churchill |
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| | Frederick Marquis 1st Viscount Woolton {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC}} (1883–1965) [18] | 24 November 1952 | 20 December 1955 | Minister of Materials (1 September 1953 – August 1954) |
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| Anthony Eden |
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| 10th Earl of Selkirk {{post-nominals>country=GBR|AFC|AE|PC}} (1906–1994) | 20 December 1955 | 13 January 1957 |
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| Charles Hill MP for Luton (1904–1989) | 13 January 1957 | 9 October 1961 | | Harold Macmillan |
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| Iain Macleod MP for Enfield West (1913–1970) | 9 October 1961 | 20 October 1963 | Leader of the House of Commons |
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| 1st Viscount Blakenham {{post-nominals>country=GBR|OBE|PC|DL}} (1911–1982) | 20 October 1963 | 16 October 1964 | Deputy Leader of the House of Lords Chairman of the Conservative Party | | Alec Douglas-Home |
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| Douglas Houghton {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH}} MP for Sowerby (1898–1996) | 18 October 1964 | 5 October 1969 | special responsibility for Social Services | Labour | | Harold Wilson |
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| George Thomson MP for Dundee East (1921–2008) | 6 April 1969 | 24 June 1970 |
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| Anthony Barber {{post-nominals>country=GBR|TD}} MP for Altrincham and Sale (1920–2005) | 20 June 1970 | 25 July 1970 | responsibility for UK—EEC relations (chiefly, until 1973, negotiating entry) | Conservative | | Edward Heath |
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| Geoffrey Rippon {{post-nominals>country=GBR|QC}} MP for Hexham (1924–1997) | 28 July 1970 | 5 November 1972 |
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| John Davies {{post-nominals>country=GBR|MBE}} MP for Knutsford (1916–1979) | 5 November 1972 | 4 March 1974 |
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| | Harold Lever MP for Manchester Central (1914–1995) | 5 March 1974 | 4 May 1979 | | Labour | | Harold Wilson |
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| James Callaghan |
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| Norman St John-Stevas MP for Cambridgeshire (1929–2012) | 5 May 1979 | 5 January 1981 | Leader of the House of Commons Minister for the Arts | Conservative | | Margaret Thatcher |
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| Francis Pym {{post-nominals>country=GBR|MC}} MP for Cambridgeshire (1922–2008) | 5 January 1981 | 14 September 1981 | Leader of the House of Commons Paymaster-General |
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| Baroness Young {{post-nominals>country=GBR|PC|DL}} (1926–2002) | 14 September 1981 | 6 April 1982 | Leader of the House of Lords |
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| Cecil Parkinson MP for South Hertfordshire (1931–2016) | 6 April 1982 | 11 June 1983 | Paymaster-General |
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| Baron Cockfield {{post-nominals>country=GBR|PC}} (1916–2007) | 11 June 1983 | 11 September 1984 |
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| 2nd Earl of Gowrie {{post-nominals>country=GBR|PC}} (1939–) | 11 September 1984 | 3 September 1985 | Minister for the Arts |
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| Norman Tebbit {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH}} MP for Chingford (1931–) | 3 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 | Chairman of the Conservative Party |
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| Kenneth Clarke {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH|QC}} MP for Rushcliffe (1940–) | 13 June 1987 | 25 July 1988 | Minister for Inner Cities (DTI) |
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| Tony Newton {{post-nominals>country=GBR|OBE}} MP for Braintree (1937–2012) | 25 July 1988 | 24 July 1989 | Minister of State at DTI |
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| Kenneth Baker {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH}} MP for Mole Valley (1934–) | 24 July 1989 | 28 November 1990 | Chairman of the Conservative Party |
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| Chris Patten {{post-nominals>country=GBR|CH}} MP for Bath (1944–) | 28 November 1990 | 10 April 1992 |
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| William Waldegrave MP for Bristol West (1946–) | 10 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 | responsibility for public services and science | | John Major |
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| David Hunt {{post-nominals>country=GBR|MBE}} MP for Wirral West (1942–) | 20 July 1994 | 5 July 1995 | Minister for Public Services |
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| Roger Freeman MP for Kettering (1942–) | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 |
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| David Clark MP for South Shields (1939–) | 3 May 1997 | 27 July 1998 | Labour | | Tony Blair |
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| Jack Cunningham MP for Copeland (1939–) | 27 July 1998 | 11 October 1999 | Cabinet Office Minister | Labour |
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| Mo Mowlam MP for Redcar (1949–2005) | 11 October 1999 | 11 June 2001 | Labour |
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1. ^Served as Bishop of Sarum from 1375.
2. ^Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1469 to c. April 1471.
3. ^Served as Secretary of State until 1548. Created Baron Paget in the peerage of England in 1549.
4. ^Served as Lord Privy Seal from 1598.
5. ^Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1603. MP for Middlesex during 1601 Parliament.
6. ^MP for Berkshire during the 1614 Parliament.
7. ^Elected to Parliament as MP for Lancaster in 1621 and 1625, and as MP for Leicester in 1624 and 1626.
8. ^Royalist appointee during the Oxford Parliament, re-appointed Chancellor in 1660 after the Restoration.
9. ^MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme until 1703; thereafter elevated to the peerage of England as Baron Gower.
10. ^MP for Tewkesbury until 1721; thereafter elevated to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Lechmere.
11. ^Commonly styled with the courtesy title Lord Strange, however neither James Smith-Stanley or his father has any right to it.
12. ^Baron Hyde since 1756; elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Clarendon from 1776.
13. ^Baron Hawkesbury since August 1786; elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Liverpool from May 1796.
14. ^MP for Bodmin until 1818, thereafter MP for Harwich.
15. ^Baron Dufferin and Claneboye since 1841. Elevated in the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Dufferin in 1871.
16. ^MP for Melton until 1888, thereafter succeeded his brother as Duke of Rutland.
17. ^On appointment to office a ministerial by-election was triggered in the Bethnal Green South West constituency that Masterman had represented since 1911. Masterman unsuccessfully contested the seat, narrowly losing to the Conservative candidate. Masterman then unsuccessful stood in the 1914 Ipswich by-election. Masterman resigned as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster after failing to be returned to Parliament.
18. ^Baron Woolton since 1952, created Viscount Woolton in 1953.