Secretary of State for the Colonies

William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth 17721775
Rt Hon John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden 18041804
Rt Hon Charles Grant 18 April 183520 February 1839
Rt Hon Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of Normanby 18391839
Rt Hon Sir George Grey, bt 12 June 18548 February 1855
Rt Hon Sidney Herbert 8 February 185523 February 1855
Rt Hon John Russell 23 February 185521 July 1855
Rt Hon Sir William Molesworth, bt 21 July 185522 October 1855
Rt Hon Henry Labouchere 21 November 185521 February 1858
Rt Hon Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Baron Stanley 26 February 18585 June 1858
Rt Hon Sir Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, bt 5 June 185811 June 1859
Rt Hon Edward Cardwell 7 April 186426 June 1866
Rt Hon Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of Buckingham 8 March 18671 December 1868
Rt Hon Sir Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville 18681870
Rt Hon John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley July 18701874
Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, bt 18781880
Rt Hon John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley 18801882
Rt Hon Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby 16 December 18829 June 1885
Rt Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley 24 June 188528 January 1886
Rt Hon Sir Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville 18861886
Rt Hon Edward Stanhope 3 August 188614 January 1887
Rt Hon Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, bt 14 January 188711 August 1892
Rt Hon Sir George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Marquess of Ripon 18 August 189221 June 1895
Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain 29 June 189516 September 1903
Rt Hon Alfred Lyttelton 11 October 19034 December 1905
Rt Hon Lewis Venables Vernon Harcourt 3 November 191025 May 1915
Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law 15 May 191510 December 1916
Rt Hon Walter Hume Long 10 December 191610 January 1919
Rt Hon Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner 10 January 191913 February 1921
Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 13 February 192119 October 1922
Rt Hon Sir Victor Christian William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire 24 October 192222 January 1924
Rt Hon James Henry Thomas 22 January 19243 November 1924
Rt Hon Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery 6 November 19244 June 1929
Rt Hon Sidney James Webb 7 June 192924 August 1931
Rt Hon James Henry Thomas 25 August 19315 November 1931
Rt Hon Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame 5 November 19317 June 1935
Rt Hon Malcolm John Macdonald 7 June 193522 November 1935
Rt Hon James Henry Thomas 22 November 193522 May 1936
Rt Hon William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore 28 May 193616 May 1938
Rt Hon Malcolm John Macdonald 16 May 193812 May 1940
Rt Hon Sir George Ambrose Lloyd, Lord Lloyd 12 May 19408 February 1941
Rt Hon Walter Edward Guinness, Baron Moyne 8 February 194122 February 1942
Rt Hon Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essendon 22 February 194222 November 1942
Rt Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley 22 November 194226 July 1945
Rt Hon George Henry Hall 3 August 19454 October 1946
Arthur Creech Jones 4 October 194628 February 1950
Rt Hon James Griffiths 28 February 195026 October 1951
Rt Hon Oliver Lyttleton Chandos 19511954
Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton 28 October 195128 July 1954
Rt Hon Alan Tindall Lennox-Boyd 28 July 195414 October 1959
Rt Hon Iain Norman Macleod 14 October 19599 October 1961
Rt Hon Reginald Maudling 9 October 196113 July 1962
Rt Hon Edwin Duncan Sandys 13 July 196216 October 1964
Rt Hon Francis Aungier Pakenham, Earl of Longford 23 December 19656 April 1966
Rt Hon Frederick Lee 6 April 19661 August 1966