Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1782-1968) Charles James Fox 1782 Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham 1782 - 1783 Charles James Fox 1783 George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 2nd Earl Temple 1783 Francis Godolphin Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen, 5th Duke of Leeds (1789) 1783 - 1791 William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville 1791 - 1801 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Baron Hawkesbury 1801 - 1804 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Baron Harrowby 1804 Henry Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave 1805 - 1806 Charles James Fox 1806 Charles Grey, Viscount Howick 1806 - 1807 George Canning 1807 - 1809 Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst 1809 Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley 1809 - 1812 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1821) 1812 - 1822 George Canning 1822 - 1827 John William Ward, 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1827) 1827 - 1828 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1828 - 1830 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1830 - 1834 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1834 - 1835 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1835 - 1841 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1841 - 1846 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1846 - 1851 Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1851 - 1852 James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury 1852 Lord John Russell 1852 - 1853 George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1853 - 1858 James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury 1858 - 1859 Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1861) 1859 - 1865 George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1865 - 1866 Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley 1866 - 1868 George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon 1868 - 1870 Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1870 - 1874 Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 1874 - 1878 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1878 - 1880 Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1880 - 1885 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1885 - 1886 Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1886 Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1886 - 1887 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1887 - 1892 Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1892 - 1894 John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1894 - 1895 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1895 - 1900 Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1900 - 1905 Sir Edward Grey 1905 - 1916 Arthur James Balfour 1916 - 1919 George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1921) 1919 - 1924 Ramsay MacDonald 1924 Sir Austen Chamberlain 1924 - 1929 Arthur Henderson 1929 - 1931 Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading 1931 Sir John Allsebrook Simon 1931 - 1935 Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 2nd Bt. 1935 Anthony Eden 1935 - 1938 Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax 1938 - 1940 Anthony Eden 1940 - 1945 Ernest Bevin 1945 - 1951 Herbert Stanley Morrison 1951 Sir Anthony Eden 1951 - 1955 Harold Macmillan 1955 Selwyn Lloyd 1955 - 1960 Alexander Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home 1960 - 1963 Richard Austen Butler 1963 - 1964 Patrick Gordon Walker 1964 - 1965 Michael Stewart 1965 - 1966 George Brown 1966 - 1968 Michael Stewart 1968 See also: foreign minister