| Rt Hon Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Baron Stanley |
2 August 1858 | 11 June 1859 |
| Rt Hon Sir Charles Wood, bt |
18 June 1859 | 16 February 1866 |
| Rt Hon George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Earl of Ripon |
1866 | 1868 |
| Rt Hon Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne |
6 July 1866 | 8 March 1867 |
| Rt Hon Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, bt |
8 March 1867 | 1 December 1868 |
| Rt Hon Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury |
21 February 1874 | 2 April 1878 |
| Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy |
April 1878 | April 1880 |
| Rt Hon Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington |
28 April 1880 | 16 December 1882 |
| Rt Hon John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley |
1882 | 1885 |
| Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill |
24 June 1885 | 6 February 1886 |
| Rt Hon Sir John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley |
1886 | 1886 |
| Rt Hon Sir Richard Assheton Cross |
3 August 1886 | 11 August 1892 |
| Rt Hon Sir Henry Hartley Fowler |
10 March 1894 | 21 June 1895 |
| Rt Hon George Francis Hamilton |
4 July 1895 | 9 October 1903 |
| Rt Hon William St John Fremantle Brodrick, Marquess of Lansdowne |
9 October 1903 | 4 December 1905 |
| Rt Hon John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
7 March 1911 | 25 May 1911 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
15 May 1915 | 17 July 1917 |
| Rt Hon Edwin Samuel Montagu |
17 July 1917 | 19 March 1922 |
| Rt Hon William Robert Wellesley Peel, Viscount Peel |
7 April 1922 | 22 January 1924 |
| Rt Hon Sir Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead |
6 November 1924 | 18 October 1928 |
| Rt Hon William Robert Wellesley Peel, Viscount Peel |
18 October 1928 | 4 June 1929 |
| Rt Hon William Wedgwood Benn |
7 June 1929 | 24 August 1931 |
| Rt Hon Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, bt |
25 August 1931 | 7 June 1935 |
| Rt Hon Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Marquess of Zetland |
7 June 1935 | 28 May 1937 |