| Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, Baron Carrington | 1951 | 1954 |
| James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins | 1962 | 1964 |
| James Hutchinson Hoy | October 1964 | June 1970 |
| James Anthony Stodart | June 1970 | April 1972 |
| Sir Peter McLay Mills | 1972 | 1972 |
| Peggy Edith Fenner | 1972 | 1973 |
| Roland Dunstan Moyle | March 1974 | June 1974 |
| Edward Stanley Bishop | June 1974 | October 1974 |
| Dr Gavin Steel Strang | October 1974 | May 1979 |
| Alfred William Wiggin | May 1979 | September 1981 |
| Peggy Edith Fenner | 1981 | 1986 |
| Donald Thompson | 1986 | 1989 |
| Richard Andrew Ryder | 1988 | July 1989 |
| David Maurice Curry | 1989 | 28 November 1990 |
| David John Maclean | 1989 | 11 April 1992 |
| Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, Earl Howe | 14 April 1992 | 5 July 1995 |
| Angela Frances Browning | 20 July 1994 | 2 May 1997 |
| Rt Hon Dr Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue | May 1997 | 29 July 1999 |
| Elliot Anthony Morley | 5 May 1997 | 11 June 2001 |