| Rt Hon Charles Finch, Earl of Winchilsea |
1712 | 1712 |
| Wills Hill |
1741 | 1756 |
| George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of Halifax |
1748 | 1761 |
| William Petty-Fitzmaurice, Baron Wycombe |
1763 | 1766 |
| Rt Hon Wills Hill, Baron Harwich |
1766 | 1766 |
| Rt Hon Wills Hill, Baron Harwich |
1768 | 1772 |
| Rt Hon Thomas Robinson, Baron Grantham |
1780 | 1782 |
| Rt Hon Charles Jenkinson |
1786 | 1804 |
| Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst |
1807 | 1812 |
| Rt Hon Richard le Poer Trench, Earl of Clancarty |
1812 | 1818 |
| Frederick John Robinson |
January 1818 | January 1823 |
| Rt Hon Charles Grant |
4 September 1827 | 11 June 1828 |
| Rt Hon William Vesey-Fitzgerald |
11 June 1828 | 2 February 1830 |
| Rt Hon John Charles Herries |
2 February 1830 | 22 November 1830 |
| Rt Hon Charles Edward Poulett Thomson |
1834 | 1834 |
| Alexander Baring |
1834 | 1835 |
| Rt Hon Charles Poulett Thompson |
5 June 1834 | 14 November 1834 |
| Rt Hon Charles Edward Poulett Thomson |
1835 | 1839 |
| Rt Hon Charles Poulett Thompson |
8 April 1835 | 29 August 1839 |
| Rt Hon Henry Labouchere |
29 August 1839 | 30 August 1841 |
| Frederick John Robinson, Earl of Ripon |
1841 | May 1843 |
| Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone |
15 May 1843 | 5 February 1845 |
| Rt Hon James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie |
1845 | 1846 |
| Rt Hon James Andrew Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie |
1845 | 1846 |
| James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie |
1845 | 1846 |
| James Andrew Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie |
1845 | 1846 |
| James Andrew Broun-Ramsay |
1845 | 1846 |
| George William Frederick Villiers, Earl of Clarendon |
1846 | 1847 |
| Rt Hon Henry Labouchere |
22 July 1847 | 21 February 1852 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Warner Henley |
27 February 1852 | 17 December 1852 |
| Rt Hon Edward Cardwell |
28 December 1852 | 31 March 1855 |
| Rt Hon Edward John Stanley, Baron Stanley of Alderley |
1855 | 1858 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Warner Henley |
26 February 1858 | 3 March 1859 |
| Rt Hon Thomas Milner Gibson |
6 July 1859 | 26 June 1866 |
| Rt Hon Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, bt |
6 July 1866 | 8 March 1867 |
| Rt Hon Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond |
1867 | 1867 |
| Rt Hon John Bright |
9 December 1868 | 14 January 1871 |
| Rt Hon Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue |
14 January 1871 | 17 February 1874 |
| Rt Hon Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley |
21 February 1874 | 4 April 1878 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain |
3 May 1880 | 9 June 1885 |
| Rt Hon Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Gordon |
1885 | 1885 |
| Rt Hon Anthony John Mundella |
17 February 1886 | 20 July 1886 |
| Rt Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley |
3 August 1886 | 21 February 1888 |
| Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, bt |
1888 | 1892 |
| Rt Hon Anthony John Mundella |
18 August 1892 | 28 May 1894 |
| Rt Hon James Bryce |
28 May 1894 | 21 June 1895 |
| Rt Hon Charles Thomson Ritchie |
29 June 1895 | 12 December 1900 |
| Rt Hon David Lloyd George |
10 December 1905 | 12 April 1908 |
| Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
12 April 1908 | 14 February 1910 |
| Rt Hon Sydney Charles Buxton |
14 February 1910 | 11 February 1914 |
| Rt Hon John Elliot Burns |
1914 | September 1914 |
| Rt Hon Walter Runciman |
August 1914 | December 1916 |
| Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe |
18 August 1916 | 10 December 1916 |
| Sir Albert Henry Stanley |
10 December 1916 | 26 May 1919 |
| Rt Hon Sir Robert Stevenson Horne |
1920 | 1 April 1921 |
| Rt Hon Stanley Baldwin |
April 1921 | 22 May 1923 |
| Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame |
1922 | 1924 |
| Rt Hon Sidney James Webb |
1924 | 1924 |
| Rt Hon Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame |
November 1924 | June 1929 |
| Rt Hon Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame |
August 1931 | November 1931 |
| Rt Hon Walter Runciman |
November 1931 | May 1937 |
| Rt Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley |
May 1937 | January 1940 |
| Sir Andrew Rae Duncan |
January 1940 | October 1940 |
| Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton |
October 1940 | June 1941 |
| Sir Andrew Rae Duncan |
June 1941 | February 1942 |
| Rt Hon John Jestyn Llewellin |
February 1942 | February 1942 |
| Rt Hon Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton |
February 1942 | May 1945 |
| Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton |
May 1945 | July 1945 |
| Rt Hon Sir Richard Stafford Cripps |
July 1945 | September 1947 |
| Rt Hon James Harold Wilson |
14 October 1947 | 23 April 1951 |
| Rt Hon Sir Hartley William Shawcross |
April 1951 | October 1951 |
| Rt Hon George Edward Peter Thorneycroft |
30 October 1951 | 13 January 1957 |
| Rt Hon Sir David McAdam Eccles |
January 1957 | October 1959 |
| Rt Hon Reginald Maudling |
October 1959 | October 1961 |
| Rt Hon Frederick James Erroll |
October 1961 | October 1963 |
| Rt Hon Edward Richard George Heath |
October 1963 | October 1964 |
| Rt Hon Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay |
October 1964 | August 1967 |
| Rt Hon Charles Anthony Raven Crosland |
August 1967 | October 1969 |
| Rt Hon Roy Mason |
6 October 1969 | 19 June 1970 |
| Rt Hon Michael Antony Christobal Noble |
June 1970 | October 1970 |
| Rt Hon John Emerson Harding Davies |
October 1970 | November 1972 |
| Sir Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield |
1982 | 1983 |
| Rt Hon Norman Beresford Tebbit |
16 October 1983 | 2 September 1985 |
| Rt Hon Leon Brittan |
2 September 1985 | 24 January 1986 |
| Rt Hon Henry Paul Guinness Channon |
25 January 1986 | 13 June 1987 |
| Rt Hon Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine |
11 April 1992 | 5 July 1995 |
| Rt Hon Ian Bruce Lang |
5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 |
| Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett |
2 May 1997 | 27 July 1998 |
| Rt Hon Alistair Maclean Darling |
5 May 2006 | 28 June 2007 |
| Rt Hon Mary Elizabeth Truss |
24 July 2019 | 15 September 2021 |
| Anne-Marie Belinda Trevelyan |
15 September 2021 | 6 September 2022 |
| Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch |
6 September 2022 | 5 July 2024 |