| Rt Hon Sir Henry Bennet, Baron Arlington |
1667 | 1677 |
| James Craggs |
1715 | 1721 |
| Rt Hon John Perceval, Baron Lovel and Holland |
November 1762 | September 1763 |
| Rt Hon Thomas Robinson, Baron Grantham |
1765 | 1766 |
| William Wyndham Grenville |
1783 | |
| Thomas Foley, Baron Foley |
1783 | 1783 |
| Rt Hon James Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury |
1816 | 13 June 1823 |
| Rt Hon William Wellesley-Pole, Baron Maryborough |
1834 | 1835 |
| Rt Hon Thomas William Anson, Earl of Lichfield |
1835 | 1841 |
| Rt Hon William Lowther, Viscount Lowther |
1841 | 1845 |
| Rt Hon Edward Granville Eliot, Baron Eliot |
1845 | 1846 |
| Rt Hon Charles Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke |
1852 | 1852 |
| Charles Abbot, Baron Colchester |
13 March 1858 | 11 June 1859 |
| Rt Hon James Bruce, Baron Elgin |
1859 | 1859 |
| Rt Hon Edward John Stanley, Baron Stanley of Alderley |
1860 | 1866 |
| Rt Hon James Graham, Duke of Montrose |
19 July 1866 | 1 December 1868 |
| Rt Hon Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington |
9 December 1868 | 14 January 1871 |
| Rt Hon William Monsell |
1871 | 1873 |
| Prof Lyon Playfair |
18 November 1873 | 17 February 1874 |
| Rt Hon John James Robert Manners |
1874 | 1880 |
| Rt Hon Prof Henry Fawcett |
3 May 1880 | 6 November 1884 |
| Rt Hon George John Shaw-Lefevre |
7 November 1884 | 9 June 1885 |
| Rt Hon John James Robert Manners |
1885 | 1886 |
| Rt Hon Henry Cecil Raikes |
1886 | 1891 |
| Rt Hon Sir James Fergusson, bt |
22 September 1891 | 1892 |
| Arnold Morley |
1892 | 1895 |
| Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Duke of Norfolk |
2 July 1895 | |
| Sir Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry |
1900 | 1902 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
11 August 1902 | 9 October 1903 |
| Edward George Villiers Stanley, Baron Stanley |
6 October 1903 | 10 December 1905 |
| Sydney Charles Buxton |
10 December 1905 | 14 February 1910 |
| Rt Hon Sir Herbert Louis Samuel |
1910 | 1914 |
| Rt Hon Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse |
11 February 1914 | 25 May 1915 |
| Rt Hon Sir Herbert Louis Samuel |
1915 | 12 January 1916 |
| Albert Holden Illingworth |
1916 | 1921 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Albert Pease |
18 January 1916 | 5 December 1916 |
| Rt Hon Frederick George Kellaway |
1921 | 1922 |
| Arthur Neville Chamberlain |
1922 | 1923 |
| Rt Hon Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, bt |
1923 | 1924 |
| Sir William Joynson-Hicks, bt |
March 1923 | May 1923 |
| Sir William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson, bt |
4 November 1924 | 4 June 1929 |
| Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith |
1929 | 1931 |
| Rt Hon William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore |
1931 | 1931 |
| Clement Richard Attlee |
1931 | 1931 |
| Rt Hon Sir Howard Kingsley Wood |
1931 | 1935 |
| Rt Hon George Clement Tryon |
1935 | 1940 |
| Rt Hon William Shepherd Morrison |
1940 | 1943 |
| Rt Hon Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank |
1943 | 1945 |
| Rt Hon Ness Edwards |
March 1950 | October 1951 |
| Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, Earl de la Warr |
1951 | 1955 |
| Rt Hon Dr Charles Hill |
1955 | 1957 |
| Anthony Neil Wedgewood Benn |
15 October 1964 | 4 July 1966 |
| Rt Hon Edward Watson Short |
July 1966 | April 1968 |
| Rt Hon Roy Mason |
6 April 1968 | 1 July 1968 |
| Rt Hon John Thomson Stonehouse |
1 July 1968 | 1 October 1969 |