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| | Biographies |
Amery, Leopold
Anderson, John
Apsley, Henry
Arnold-Foster, Hugh
Asquith, Henry Herbert
Attlee, Clement Richard
Baker, Kenneth
Baldwin, Stanley
Balfour, Arthur James
Banks Jenkinson, Robert
Barnett, Joel
Bathurst, Henry
Bevan, Nye
Bevin, Ernest
Biffen, John
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin
Blunkett, David
Boyle, Edward
Bridges, Edward
Brittan, Leon
Brown, Ernest
Brown, Gordon
Bruce, Henry Austin
Bruce, Henry
Bruce, James
Bruce, Victor Alexander
Bulwer-Lytton
Burke, Edmund
Butler, Richard Austen
Cadogan, Alexander
Callaghan, James
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry
Canning, George
Cardwell
Carr, Robert
Castle, Barbara
Cavendish
Cavendish, Spencer
Chamberlain, Austen
Chamberlain, Joseph
Channon, Henry Paul Guinness
Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer
Clarke, Charles
Clarke, Kenneth
Clark, Kenneth
Clynes, John Robert
Cockfield, Arthur
Coleville, John Rupert
Cook, Robin Finlayson
Cooper, Alfred Duff
Cornewall Lewis, George
Cousins, Frank
Curzon
Dewar, Donald
Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick
Dundas, Henry
Dundas, Henry Melville
Eden, Robert Anthony
Edwards, Nicholas
Eve, James Chuter
Fisher, Warren
Foot, Michael
Forster, William Edward
Fowler, Norman
Fyfe, David Maxwell
Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert
George, Gwilym Lloyd
Gilmour, John
Gladstone, William Ewart
Goderich, Frederick John Robinson
Gordon-Walker, Patrick
Gorst, John Eldon
Grafton
Graham, James Robert George
Grenville, George Nugent Temple
Griffiths, James
Haldane, Robert Anthony
Hardy
Healey, Denis
Henderson, Arthur
Heseltine, Michael
Hicks Beach
Hoare, Samuel
Hogg
Holland
Hope
Hurd, Douglas Richard
Jenkins, Roy
Key, Robert
King, Tom
Kinnock, Neil
Lamb, William
Lamont, Norman
Law, Andrew Bonar
Lawson, Nigel
Lloyd George, David
Lowe
MacDonald, James Ramsey
MacLeod, Iain Norman
Major, John Roy
Maudling, Reginald
Mawhinney, Brian
Mayhew, Christopher
Mellor, David
Milburn, Alan
Milner, Alfred
Molesworth
Montague Dunk
Morley
Morris, John
Morrison
North, Frederick
Nott, John
Parkinson, Cecil
Patten, Christopher Francis
Peel, Robert
Pelham, Henry
Pitt the Elder, William
Portillo, Michael
Powell, Charles
Powell, John Enoch
Prescott, John Leslie
Primrose
Profumo, John
Rees, Merlyn
Ridley, Nicholas
Rifkind, Malcolm
Russell
Ryder, Richard
Seely, John
Shackleton, Ernest Henry
Shore, Peter
Simon
Sinclair
Smith, Andrew
Smith, Arthur
Smith, Iain Duncan
Somerset, Fitzroy
Somerville, Donald
Soskice, Frank
Spencer-Churchill, Randolph Henry
Stanley, Edward
Stanley, Edward Henry
Stanley, Frederick Arthur
Stewart
St John Brodrick, William
Temple, Henry John
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
Vansittart
Varley, Eric
Waddington, David
Walker, Gordon
Walker, Peter
Walpole, Robert
Walsh, Stephen
Webb
Wellesley, Arthur
Whitelaw
Whitelaw, William
Williams, Marcia
Williams, Shirley
Wilson, James
Wilson, James Harold
Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley
Wood, Kingsley
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| | 1708 | Walpole, Robert | |
| Appointed Secretary of War, a close advisor of the Duke of Marlborough, commander of the War of the Spanish Succession
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| 1724 | Pelham, Henry | |
| Appointed Secretary for War
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| 1756 | Pitt the Elder, William | |
| Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1757 | Pitt the Elder, William | |
| Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1762 | Grenville, George Nugent Temple | |
| Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1762 | Montague Dunk | |
| Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1765 | Burke, Edmund | |
| Appointed Secretary for Ireland
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| 1765 | Grafton | |
| Appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department
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| 1771 | Montague Dunk | |
| Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1782 | Holland | |
| Serves under Rockingham but resigns when he is succeeded by Shelburne
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| 1783 | North, Frederick | |
| 2nd April Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1790 | Banks Jenkinson, Robert | |
| Appointed Home Secretary, 1st term
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| 1791 | Grenville, George Nugent Temple | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1794 | Cavendish | |
| Serves under Pitt the younger
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| 1794 | Dundas, Henry | |
| Appointed Secretary for War
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| 1794 | Dundas, Henry Melville | |
| Appointed Secretary of State for War
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| 1795 | Canning, George | |
| 2nd Nov Appointed Under Secretary at the Foreign Office
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| 1798 | Stewart | |
| Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
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| 1804 | Banks Jenkinson, Robert | |
| Appointed Home Secretary, 2nd term
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| 1805 | Stewart | |
| Appointed War Secretary
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| 1806 | Holland | |
| 7th Feb At Fox's insistence the slave trade is abolished
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| 1807 | Banks Jenkinson, Robert | |
| Appointed Home Secretary, 3rd term
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| 1807 | Stewart | |
| Appointed War Secretary
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| 1807 | Wellesley, Arthur | |
| 3rd April Dublin Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
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| 1809 | Banks Jenkinson, Robert | |
| Appointed Secretary for War & the Colonies
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| 1809 | Ryder, Richard | |
| 1st Nov Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1809 | Temple, Henry John | |
| Appointed Secretary for War
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| Refuses to become Chief Secretary for Ireland because of his liking for London society
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| 1810 | Peel, Robert | |
| Appointed Under Secretary for War
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| 1812 | Apsley, Henry | |
| Appointed Secretary for War & the Colonies
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| 1812 | Bathurst, Henry | |
| Appointed Secretary for War & the Colonies
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| 1812 | Peel, Robert | |
| Appointed Secretary for Ireland
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| Appointed Under Secretary for Ireland
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| 1818 | Somerset, Fitzroy | |
| Appointed Secretary to the embassy at Paris, 1st term
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| 1822 | Peel, Robert | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1826 | Somerset, Fitzroy | |
| Appointed Secretary to the embassy at Paris, 2nd term
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| 1827 | Lamb, William | |
| London Appointed Irish Secretary, 1st term
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| 1827 | Somerset, Fitzroy | |
| Appointed Secretary to the Duke of Wellington as Master-General of the Ordnance, and from 1827 till the death of the Duke in 1852
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| 1828 | Apsley, Henry | |
| Appointed Secretary for War & the Colonies
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| 1828 | Lamb, William | |
| Appointed Irish Secretary, 2nd term
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| 1828 | Peel, Robert | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1830 | Goderich, Frederick John Robinson | |
| Goderich moves over to the Whigs and joined Lord Grey's cabinet, again as Colonial Secretary
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| 1830 | Lamb, William | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1830 | Stanley, Edward | |
| Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
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| 1830 | Temple, Henry John | |
| 18th April Appointed Foreign Minister
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| 1833 | Stanley, Edward | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary
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| 1835 | Gladstone, William Ewart | |
| Appointed Under Secretary for War, serves under Sir Robert Peel
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| 1835 | Russell | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1839 | Russell | |
| Appointed Secretary for War & the Colonies
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| 1841 | Canning, George | |
| Appointed Under Secretary at the Foreign Office
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| 1841 | Graham, James Robert George | |
| 2nd Sep Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1841 | Stanley, Edward | |
| Appointed Secretary for War & the Colonies by Sir Robert Peel
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| 1845 | Cardwell | |
| Appointed Secretary to the Treasury
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| 1845 | Gladstone, William Ewart | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary, at the cost of giving up his seat in Parliament
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| Appointed Secretary for the Colonies
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| 1853 | Wilson, James | |
| Appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury
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| 1855 | Molesworth | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary
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| 1858 | Bulwer-Lytton | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary
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| 1858 | Stanley, Edward Henry | |
| Appointed Secretary for India, transfers the Government of India to the crown
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| 1859 | Cornewall Lewis, George | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1861 | Cornewall Lewis, George | |
| Appointed Secretary for War
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| 1866 | Cavendish, Spencer | |
| Appointed Secretary of War, 1st term
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| 1866 | Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot | |
| Appointed Secretary for India, 1st term, under Lord Derby
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| 1867 | Hardy | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 17th May Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1868 | Bruce, Henry | |
| 9th Dec Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1868 | Bruce, Henry Austin | |
| 9th Dec Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1868 | Cardwell | |
| Appointed Secretary for War
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| 1869 | Bruce, Henry | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1869 | Bruce, Henry Austin | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1870 | Cavendish, Spencer | |
| Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
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| 1873 | Lowe | |
| 9th Aug Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1874 | Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot | |
| Appointed Secretary for India, 2nd term, under Disraeli
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| 1874 | Hardy | |
| Appointed Secretary for War
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| 1878 | Hardy | |
| Appointed Secretary for India
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| 1878 | Hicks Beach | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary
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| 1878 | Stanley, Frederick Arthur | |
| Appointed Secretary of State for War
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| 1880 | Cavendish, Spencer | |
| Appointed Secretary of State for India
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| 1880 | Forster, William Edward | |
| London Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
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| 1881 | Primrose | |
| Appointed Under Secretary for the Home Department in charge of Scottish affairs
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| 1882 | Cavendish, Spencer | |
| Appointed Secretary of War, 2nd term
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| 1882 | Stanley, Edward Henry | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary
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| 1884 | Campbell-Bannerman, Henry | |
| London Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
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| 1885 | Balfour, Arthur James | |
| 14th Aug Appointed Scottish Secretary & enters the Cabinet
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| 1885 | Churchill, Randolph | |
| 24th June Appointed Secretary for India
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| 1885 | Spencer-Churchill, Randolph Henr | | |
