| John Allen Parkinson | 1931 | 1931 |
| Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson | 1935 | 1939 |
| Robert Hamilton Bernays | 1939 | 1940 |
| George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss | 1946 | October 1947 |
| Leonard James Callaghan | October 1947 | March 1950 |
| John Albert Hay | 1959 | 1963 |
| Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith | May 1963 | October 1964 |
| Stephen Thomas Swingler | 1964 | 1967 |
| John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon | January 1966 | April 1968 |
| Neil George Carmichael | August 1967 | October 1969 |
| Robert Crofton Brown | April 1968 | June 1970 |
| Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine | June 1970 | October 1970 |
| Kenneth Harry Clarke | 7 May 1979 | 5 January 1981 |
| John Derek Twigg | 9 May 2005 | |
| Karen Patricia Buck | 9 May 2005 |