| Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall, bt | 1919 | 1922 |
| Dennis Henry Herbert | 1928 | 1929 |
| Robert Croft Bourne | 1931 | 7 August 1938 |
| Charles Williams | 1943 | May 1945 |
| Rt Hon Douglas Clifton-Brown | January 1943 | 9 March 1943 |
| Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew | May 1945 | July 1945 |
| Hubert Beaumont | 16 August 1945 | 26 October 1948 |
| Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew | March 1950 | October 1951 |
| Rhys Hopkin Morris | 1951 | November 1956 |
| Sir William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, bt | October 1959 | January 1962 |
| Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford | April 1966 | October 1968 |
| Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay | October 1968 | June 1970 |
| Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson | 1970 | 1973 |
| Henry Oscar Murton | March 1974 | October 1974 |
| Sir Myer Galpern | February 1976 | April 1979 |
| Rt Hon Ernest Armstrong | 27 February 1981 | 28 May 1982 |
| Arthur Paul Dean | 28 May 1982 | 1992 |