Secretary of State for the Colonies

Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton 1966 Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford 1965–1966 Anthony Greenwood 1964–1965 Duncan Sandys 1964–1966 Duncan Sandys 1962–1964 Reginald Maudling 1961–1962 Iain Macleod 1959–1961 Alan Lennox-Boyd 1954–1959 Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos 1951–1954 Jim Griffiths 1950–1951 Arthur Creech Jones 1946–1950 George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall 1945–1946 Oliver Stanley 1942–1945 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury 1942 Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne 1941–1942 George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd 1940–1941 Malcolm MacDonald 1938–1940 William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech 1936–1938 J. H. Thomas 1935–1936 Malcolm MacDonald 1935 Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton 1931–1935 J. H. Thomas 1931 Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield 1929–1931 Leo Amery 1924–1929 J. H. Thomas 1924 Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire 1922–1924 Winston Churchill 1921–1922 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 1919–1921 Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long 1916–1919 Andrew Bonar Law 1915–1916 Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt 1910–1915 Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1908–1910 Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin 1905–1908 Alfred Lyttelton 1903–1905 Joseph Chamberlain 1895–1903 George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon 1892–1895 Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford 1887–1892 Edward Stanhope 1886–1887 Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1886 Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby 1885–1886 Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 1882–1885 John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1880–1882 Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn 1878–1880 Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon 1874–1878 John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1870–1874 Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1868–1870 Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1867–1868 Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon 1866–1867 Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell 1864–1866 Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle 1859–1864 Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1858–1859 Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 1858 Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton 1855–1858 Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet 1855 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1855 Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea 1855 Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet 1854–1855