| Rt Hon Frederick North, Baron North |
2 April 1783 | 19 December 1783 |
| Rt Hon William Wyndham Grenville |
1790 | 1791 |
| Rt Hon Henry Dundas |
1791 | 1794 |
| William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland |
1794 | 1801 |
| Robert Banks Jenkinson, Baron Hawkesbury |
1804 | 1806 |
| Rt Hon Sir George John Spencer, Earl Spencer |
1806 | 1807 |
| Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth |
1812 | 1821 |
| Robert Peel |
17 January 1822 | 10 April 1827 |
| Rt Hon Henry Petty, Earl of Kerry |
July 1827 | January 1828 |
| Rt Hon Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne |
16 July 1827 | 22 January 1828 |
| Robert Peel |
26 January 1828 | 22 November 1830 |
| Rt Hon William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne |
22 November 1830 | 16 July 1834 |
| Rt Hon John William Ponsonby, Baron Duncannon |
19 July 1834 | 15 November 1834 |
| Rt Hon Henry Goulburn |
15 December 1834 | 18 April 1835 |
| Rt Hon John Russell |
18 April 1835 | 30 August 1839 |
| Rt Hon Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of Normanby |
30 August 1839 | 30 August 1841 |
| Rt Hon Sir James Robert George Graham, bt |
6 September 1841 | 30 June 1846 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Grey, bt |
8 July 1846 | 23 February 1852 |
| Rt Hon Spencer Horatio Walpole |
27 February 1852 | 19 December 1852 |
| Rt Hon Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston |
28 December 1852 | 6 February 1855 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Grey, bt |
8 February 1855 | 26 February 1858 |
| Rt Hon Spencer Horatio Walpole |
26 February 1858 | 3 March 1859 |
| Rt Hon Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt |
3 March 1859 | 18 June 1859 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Cornewall Lewis, bt |
18 June 1859 | 25 July 1861 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Grey, bt |
25 July 1861 | 28 June 1866 |
| Rt Hon Spencer Horatio Walpole |
6 July 1866 | 17 May 1867 |
| Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy |
17 May 1867 | 3 December 1868 |
| Rt Hon Henry Austin Bruce |
9 December 1868 | 9 August 1873 |
| Rt Hon Robert Lowe |
11 August 1873 | 20 February 1874 |
| Rt Hon Sir Richard Assheton Cross |
21 February 1874 | 23 April 1880 |
| Rt Hon Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt |
23 April 1880 | 23 June 1885 |
| Rt Hon Sir Richard Assheton Cross |
24 June 1885 | 1 February 1886 |
| Rt Hon Hugh Culling Eardley Childers |
6 February 1886 | 25 July 1886 |
| Rt Hon Henry Matthews |
3 August 1886 | 15 August 1892 |
| Rt Hon Henry Herbert Asquith |
18 August 1892 | 25 June 1895 |
| Rt Hon Sir Matthew White Ridley, bt |
29 June 1895 | 12 November 1900 |
| Rt Hon Charles Thomson Ritchie |
12 December 1900 | 12 July 1902 |
| Rt Hon Aretas Akers-Douglas |
12 July 1902 | 5 December 1905 |
| Rt Hon Herbert John Gladstone |
11 December 1905 | 19 February 1910 |
| Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
19 February 1910 | 24 October 1911 |
| Rt Hon Reginald McKenna |
24 October 1911 | 27 May 1915 |
| Rt Hon Sir John Allsebrook Simon |
27 May 1915 | 12 January 1916 |
| Rt Hon Sir Herbert Louis Samuel |
12 January 1916 | 7 December 1916 |
| Rt Hon Sir George Cave |
11 December 1916 | 14 January 1919 |
| Rt Hon Edward Shortt |
14 January 1919 | 23 October 1922 |
| Rt Hon William Clive Bridgeman |
25 October 1922 | 22 January 1924 |
| Rt Hon Arthur Henderson |
23 January 1924 | 4 November 1924 |
| Rt Hon Sir William Joynson-Hicks, bt |
7 November 1924 | 5 June 1929 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Robert Clynes |
8 June 1929 | 26 August 1931 |
| Rt Hon Sir Herbert Louis Samuel |
26 August 1931 | 1 October 1932 |
| Rt Hon Sir John Gilmour, bt |
1 October 1932 | 7 June 1935 |
| Rt Hon Sir John Allsebrook Simon |
7 June 1935 | 28 May 1937 |
| Rt Hon Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, bt |
28 May 1937 | 3 September 1939 |
| Rt Hon Sir John Anderson |
4 September 1939 | 4 October 1940 |
| Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison |
4 October 1940 | 23 May 1945 |
| Sir Donald Bradley Somervell |
25 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 |
| Rt Hon James Chuter Ede |
4 August 1945 | 27 October 1951 |
| Rt Hon Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe |
27 October 1951 | 19 October 1954 |
| Rt Hon Gwilym Lloyd George |
19 October 1954 | 14 January 1957 |
| Rt Hon Richard Austin Butler |
14 January 1957 | 13 July 1962 |
| Rt Hon Henry Brooke |
13 July 1962 | 16 October 1964 |
| Rt Hon Sir Frank Soskice |
18 October 1964 | 23 December 1965 |
| Rt Hon Roy Harris Jenkins |
23 December 1965 | 30 November 1967 |
| Rt Hon Leonard James Callaghan |
30 November 1967 | 19 June 1970 |
| Rt Hon Reginald Maudling |
20 June 1970 | 18 July 1972 |
| Rt Hon Leonard Robert Carr |
18 July 1972 | 4 March 1974 |
| Rt Hon Roy Harris Jenkins |
5 March 1974 | 10 September 1976 |
| Rt Hon Merlyn Rees |
10 September 1976 | 4 May 1979 |
| Rt Hon William Stephen Ian Whitelaw |
5 May 1979 | 11 June 1983 |
| Rt Hon Leon Brittan |
11 June 1983 | 2 September 1985 |
| Rt Hon Douglas Richard Hurd |
2 September 1985 | 26 October 1989 |
| Rt Hon David Charles Waddington |
26 October 1989 | 28 November 1990 |
| Rt Hon Kenneth Wilfrid Baker |
28 November 1990 | 10 April 1992 |
| Rt Hon Kenneth Harry Clarke |
10 April 1992 | 27 May 1993 |
| Rt Hon Michael Howard |
27 May 1993 | 2 May 1997 |
| John Whitaker Straw |
2 May 1997 | 8 June 2001 |
| Rt Hon David Blunkett |
8 June 2001 | 15 December 2004 |
| Rt Hon Charles Rodway Clarke |
15 December 2004 | 5 May 2006 |
| Rt Hon Dr John Reid |
5 May 2006 | 27 June 2007 |
| Rt Hon Jacqueline Jill Smith |
28 June 2007 | 5 June 2009 |
| Rt Hon Alan Arthur Johnson |
5 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 |
| Rt Hon Theresa Mary May |
12 May 2010 | 13 July 2016 |
| Amber Augusta Rudd |
13 July 2016 | 29 April 2018 |
| Rt Hon Sajid Javid |
30 April 2018 | 24 July 2019 |
| Rt Hon Priti Sushil Patel |
24 July 2019 | 5 September 2022 |
| Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman |
6 September 2022 | 19 October 2022 |
| Rt Hon Grant V Shapps |
19 October 2022 | 25 October 2022 |
| Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman |
25 October 2022 | 13 November 2023 |
| Rt Hon James Spencer Cleverly |
13 November 2023 | |