Secretaries of State for War, 1794-1801 Henry Dundas 1794 - 1801 Secretaries of State for War, 1854-1966 Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle 1854 - 1855 Fox Maule-Ramsey, Lord Panmure 1855 - 1858 Jonathan Peel 1858 - 1859 Sidney Herbert 1859 - 1861 Sir George Cornewall Lewis 1861 - 1863 George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon 1865 - 1866 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1866 Jonathan Peel 1866 - 1867 Sir John Pakington 1867 - 1868 Edward Cardwell 1868 - 1874 Gathorne Hardy 1874 - 1878 Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley 1878 - 1880 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers 1880 - 1882 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1882 - 1885 William Henry Smith 1885 - 1886 Gathorne Hardy, Viscount Cranbrook 1886 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1886 William Henry Smith 1886 - 1887 Edward Stanhope 1887 - 1892 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1892 - 1895 Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1895 - 1900 William St. John Brodrick 1900 - 1903 Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster 1903 - 1905 Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1911) 1905 - 1912 John Edward Seely 1912 - 1914 Herbert Henry Asquith 1914 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum 1914 - 1916 David Lloyd George 1916 Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby 1916 - 1918 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 1918 - 1919 Winston Churchill 1919 - 1921 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans 1921 - 1922 Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby 1922 - 1924 Stephen Walsh 1924 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans 1924 - 1929 Thomas Shaw 1929 - 1931 Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1931 Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham 1931 - 1935 Edward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax 1935 - 1937 Leslie Hore-Belisha 1937 - 1940 Oliver Frederick Stanley 1940 Anthony Eden 1940 Henry Reginald Margesson 1940 - 1942 Sir Percy James Grigg 1942 - 1945 John Lawson 1945 - 1946 Frederick Bellenger 1946 - 1947 Emanuel Shinwell 1947 - 1950 John Strachey 1950 - 1951 Anthony Henry Head 1951 - 1956 John Hugh Hare 1956 - 1958 Christopher Soames 1958 - 1960 John Profumo 1960 - 1963 James Ramsden 1963 - 1964