| William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth |
1772 | 1775 |
| Rt Hon John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden |
1804 | 1804 |
| Rt Hon Charles Grant |
18 April 1835 | 20 February 1839 |
| Rt Hon Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of Normanby |
1839 | 1839 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Grey, bt |
12 June 1854 | 8 February 1855 |
| Rt Hon Sidney Herbert |
8 February 1855 | 23 February 1855 |
| Rt Hon John Russell |
23 February 1855 | 21 July 1855 |
| Rt Hon Sir William Molesworth, bt |
21 July 1855 | 22 October 1855 |
| Rt Hon Henry Labouchere |
21 November 1855 | 21 February 1858 |
| Rt Hon Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Baron Stanley |
26 February 1858 | 5 June 1858 |
| Rt Hon Sir Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, bt |
5 June 1858 | 11 June 1859 |
| Rt Hon Edward Cardwell |
7 April 1864 | 26 June 1866 |
| Rt Hon Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of Buckingham |
8 March 1867 | 1 December 1868 |
| Rt Hon Sir Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville |
1868 | 1870 |
| Rt Hon John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley |
July 1870 | 1874 |
| Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, bt |
1878 | 1880 |
| Rt Hon John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley |
1880 | 1882 |
| Rt Hon Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby |
16 December 1882 | 9 June 1885 |
| Rt Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley |
24 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 |
| Rt Hon Sir Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville |
1886 | 1886 |
| Rt Hon Edward Stanhope |
3 August 1886 | 14 January 1887 |
| Rt Hon Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, bt |
14 January 1887 | 11 August 1892 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Marquess of Ripon |
18 August 1892 | 21 June 1895 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain |
29 June 1895 | 16 September 1903 |
| Rt Hon Alfred Lyttelton |
11 October 1903 | 4 December 1905 |
| Rt Hon Lewis Venables Vernon Harcourt |
3 November 1910 | 25 May 1915 |
| Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law |
15 May 1915 | 10 December 1916 |
| Rt Hon Walter Hume Long |
10 December 1916 | 10 January 1919 |
| Rt Hon Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner |
10 January 1919 | 13 February 1921 |
| Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
13 February 1921 | 19 October 1922 |
| Rt Hon Sir Victor Christian William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire |
24 October 1922 | 22 January 1924 |
| Rt Hon James Henry Thomas |
22 January 1924 | 3 November 1924 |
| Rt Hon Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery |
6 November 1924 | 4 June 1929 |
| Rt Hon Sidney James Webb |
7 June 1929 | 24 August 1931 |
| Rt Hon James Henry Thomas |
25 August 1931 | 5 November 1931 |
| Rt Hon Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame |
5 November 1931 | 7 June 1935 |
| Rt Hon Malcolm John Macdonald |
7 June 1935 | 22 November 1935 |
| Rt Hon James Henry Thomas |
22 November 1935 | 22 May 1936 |
| Rt Hon William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore |
28 May 1936 | 16 May 1938 |
| Rt Hon Malcolm John Macdonald |
16 May 1938 | 12 May 1940 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Ambrose Lloyd, Lord Lloyd |
12 May 1940 | 8 February 1941 |
| Rt Hon Walter Edward Guinness, Baron Moyne |
8 February 1941 | 22 February 1942 |
| Rt Hon Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essendon |
22 February 1942 | 22 November 1942 |
| Rt Hon Oliver Frederick George Stanley |
22 November 1942 | 26 July 1945 |
| Rt Hon George Henry Hall |
3 August 1945 | 4 October 1946 |
| Arthur Creech Jones |
4 October 1946 | 28 February 1950 |
| Rt Hon James Griffiths |
28 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 |
| Rt Hon Oliver Lyttleton Chandos |
1951 | 1954 |
| Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton |
28 October 1951 | 28 July 1954 |
| Rt Hon Alan Tindall Lennox-Boyd |
28 July 1954 | 14 October 1959 |
| Rt Hon Iain Norman Macleod |
14 October 1959 | 9 October 1961 |
| Rt Hon Reginald Maudling |
9 October 1961 | 13 July 1962 |
| Rt Hon Edwin Duncan Sandys |
13 July 1962 | 16 October 1964 |
| Rt Hon Francis Aungier Pakenham, Earl of Longford |
23 December 1965 | 6 April 1966 |
| Rt Hon Frederick Lee |
6 April 1966 | 1 August 1966 |