Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

David Arthur Russell Howell 19721972
Sir Peter McLay Mills 1972March 1974
John Dennis Concannon 19741976
James Anthony Dunn April 1976May 1979
Raymond John Carter April 1976May 1979
Thomas Pendry 11 November 19784 May 1979
John Giles Dunkerley Shaw May 19791981
Philip Carter Goodhart May 19795 January 1981
Rodney Elton, Baron Elton 7 May 197915 September 1981
John Haggitt Charles Patten 19811983
Nicholas Paul Scott 19811986
David Bower Mitchell January 19819 June 1983
Charles Lyell, Baron Lyell 19841989
Sir Richard Francis Needham, Earl of Kilmorey 198511 April 1992
Peter John Viggers 19861989
Dr Brian Stanley Mawhinney January 1986November 1990
Jeremy James Hanley December 1990May 1993
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr Ancram, Earl of Ancram 19931994
Malcolm Douglas Moss 19942 May 1997
Alfred Max Dubs, Baron Dubs May 1997
Anthony William Worthington May 1997
John McFall 19981999
George Edward Howarth 29 July 19992001
Desmond Henry Browne 11 June 200113 June 2003
Ian Phares Pearson 20029 May 2005
John David Cairns 20062007
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace 12 May 201517 July 2016
Prof Nicholas Henry Bourne, Baron Bourne of Aberystwyth 14 June 201727 October 2017
Chloe Rebecca Smith 14 June 20179 January 2018
Ian James Duncan, Baron Duncan of Springbank 27 October 2017
Shailesh Lahkman Vara 9 January 201815 November 2018
John David Penrose 16 November 2018
Jonathan Michael Caine, Baron Caine 5 November 2021