| Alfred Ernest Marples |
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| Rt Hon Spencer Compton |
1722 | 1730 |
| William Pitt |
1746 | 1755 |
| Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin |
1755 | 1757 |
| Rt Hon Henry Fox |
2 July 1757 | 13 July 1765 |
| Edmund Burke |
March 1782 | July 1782 |
| Rt Hon Isaac Barr |
July 1782 | April 1783 |
| Rt Hon Edmund Burke |
April 1783 | December 1783 |
| Rt Hon George Canning |
1800 | 1801 |
| Rt Hon Sir Edward Knatchbull, bt |
23 December 1834 | 8 April 1835 |
| Rt Hon Sir Henry Brooke Parnell, bt |
27 April 1836 | 19 June 1841 |
| Rt Hon Sir Edward Knatchbull, bt |
8 September 1841 | 1 March 1845 |
| William Bingham Baring |
1 March 1845 | July 1846 |
| Rt Hon Thomas Babington Macaulay |
7 July 1846 | 8 May 1848 |
| Charles Abbot, Baron Colchester |
27 February 1852 | 17 December 1852 |
| Rt Hon Robert Lowe |
1855 | 1858 |
| Rt Hon Edward Pleydell-Bouverie |
March 1855 | August 1855 |
| Rt Hon Algernon George Percy, Baron Lovaine |
3 March 1859 | 11 June 1859 |
| Rt Hon William Francis Cowper-Temple |
12 August 1859 | 22 February 1860 |
| Rt Hon William Monsell |
12 March 1866 | 26 June 1866 |
| Rt Hon William Patrick Adam |
30 September 1873 | 17 February 1874 |
| Stephen Cave |
7 March 1874 | 1880 |
| Frederick Lygon, Earl Beauchamp |
24 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 |
| Frederick Lygon, Earl Beauchamp |
19 August 1886 | March 1887 |
| Rt Hon Robert George Windsor-Clive, Baron Windsor |
1891 | 1892 |
| Rt Hon Charles Seale-Hayne |
1892 | 1895 |
| Rt Hon Sir Saville Brinton Crossley, bt |
1902 | 1906 |
| Rt Hon Richard Knight Causton |
12 December 1905 | 23 February 1910 |
| Rt Hon Ivor Churchill Guest, Baron Ashby St Ledgers |
1910 | 1912 |
| Rt Hon Sir Edward Strachey, Baron Strachie |
1912 | 1915 |
| Rt Hon Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron Newton |
1915 | 1916 |
| Rt Hon Arthur Henderson |
1916 | 1916 |
| Rt Hon Arthur Neville Chamberlain |
1923 | 1923 |
| Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter |
1923 | 1924 |
| Sir William Joynson-Hicks, bt |
March 1923 | May 1923 |
| Harry Gosling |
1924 | |
| George Granville Sutherland-Leveson, Duke of Sutherland |
1925 | 1928 |
| Sir Robert Hutchison, Baron Hutchison of Montrose |
1935 | 1938 |
| Rt Hon Edward Garth Turnour, Earl Winterton |
1939 | 1939 |
| Rt Hon Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne |
1940 | 1940 |
| Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Baron Hankey |
20 July 1941 | 1942 |
| Prof Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Baron Cherwell |
1942 | 1945 |
| Rt Hon Arthur Greenwood |
July 1946 | March 1947 |
| Rt Hon Sir Christopher Addison, Viscount Addison |
1947 | 1951 |
| Hilary Adair Marquand |
5 March 1947 | 2 July 1948 |
| Rt Hon Prof Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Baron Cherwell |
30 October 1951 | 11 November 1953 |
| George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, Earl of Selkirk |
November 1953 | December 1955 |
| Rt Hon Sir Walter Turner Monckton |
1956 | 1957 |
| Rt Hon Reginald Maudling |
January 1957 | October 1959 |
| Rt Hon Henry Brooke |
1961 | 13 July 1962 |
| Rt Hon John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter |
16 July 1962 | 1964 |
| Rt Hon Judith Constance Mary Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark |
November 1968 | October 1969 |
| Rt Hon Norman Harold Lever |
October 1969 | June 1970 |
| Rt Hon Sir David McAdam Eccles, Viscount Eccles |
1970 | 1973 |
| Rt Hon Maurice Victor Macmillan |
2 December 1973 | 3 March 1974 |
| Rt Hon Edmund Emanuel Dell |
May 1974 | April 1976 |
| Rt Hon Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams |
10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 |
| Rt Hon Angus Edmund Upton Maude |
May 1979 | 5 January 1981 |
| Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym |
5 January 1981 | 14 September 1981 |
| Cecil Edward Parkinson |
14 September 1981 | 13 June 1983 |
| John Selwyn Gummer |
1984 | September 1985 |
| Rt Hon Kenneth Harry Clarke |
2 September 1985 | 13 June 1987 |
| Peter Leonard Brooke |
13 June 1987 | 24 July 1989 |
| Rt Hon Richard Andrew Ryder |
1990 | 1990 |
| Rt Hon John Julian Ganzoni, Baron Belstead |
1990 | 1992 |
| Rt Hon Sir John Ambrose Cope |
11 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 |
| David Philip Heathcoat-Amory |
20 July 1994 | 22 July 1996 |
| Michael Walton Bates |
1996 | 1997 |
| David Lindsay Willetts |
23 July 1996 | 11 December 1996 |
| Geoffrey Robinson |
4 May 1997 | 23 December 1998 |
| Dawn Primarolo |
4 January 1999 | |
| Rt Hon Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell |
28 June 2007 | 11 May 2010 |
| Rt Hon Matthew John David Hancock |
11 May 2015 | 14 July 2016 |
| Rt Hon Melvyn John Stride |
13 June 2017 | 23 May 2019 |
| Dr Alexander Jesse Norman |
23 May 2019 | 24 July 2019 |
| Oliver James Dowden |
24 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 |
| Rt Hon Penelope Mary Mordaunt |
14 February 2020 | 16 September 2021 |
| Rt Hon Michael Tyrone Ellis |
16 September 2021 | 6 September 2022 |
| Edward John Comport Argar |
6 September 2022 | 14 October 2022 |
| Rt Hon Christopher Ian Brian Mynott Philp |
14 October 2022 | 26 October 2022 |
| Jeremy Mark Quin |
25 October 2022 | |