Lord President of the Council

Rt Hon John Robartes, Baron Robartes 16791684
Rt Hon Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby 16891596
Rt Hon Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham 17141716
Rt Hon Charles Townshend, Viscount Townshend 17201721
Rt Hon Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton 17211725
Rt Hon Spencer Compton, Baron Wilmington 17301742
Rt Hon William Stanhope, Baron Harrington 17421744
Rt Hon Sir Daniel Finch, Earl of Winchilsea 17651766
Rt Hon Robert Henley, Earl of Northington 17661767
Rt Hon Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower 22 December 176724 November 1779
Rt Hon Sir Charles Pratt, Baron Camden 27 March 17822 April 1783
David Murray, Viscount Stormont 2 April 178319 December 1783
Rt Hon Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower 19 December 17831 December 1784
Rt Hon Sir Charles Pratt, Baron Camden 1 December 178418 April 1794
William Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzwilliam 1 July 179417 December 1794
David Murray, Earl of Mansfield 17 December 179421 September 1796
John Pitt, Earl of Chatham 21 September 179630 July 1801
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland 30 July 180114 January 1805
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth 14 January 180510 July 1805
Rt Hon John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden 10 July 180519 February 1806
William Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzwilliam 19 February 18068 October 1806
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth 18 October 180626 March 1807
Rt Hon John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden 26 March 18078 April 1812
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth 8 April 181211 June 1812
Rt Hon Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby 11 June 181217 August 1827
William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Duke of Portland 17 August 182728 January 1828
Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst 28 January 182822 November 1830
Rt Hon Henry Petty, Earl of Kerry November 1830November 1834
Rt Hon Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne 22 November 183015 December 1834
Rt Hon Sir James St Clair Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn 15 December 183418 April 1835
Rt Hon Henry Petty, Earl of Kerry April 1835September 1841
Rt Hon Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne 18 April 18353 September 1841
Rt Hon James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Baron Wharncliffe 3 September 184121 January 1846
William Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duke of Queensbury 21 January 18466 July 1846
Rt Hon Sir Henry Petty, Earl of Kerry July 1846February 1852
Rt Hon Sir Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne 6 July 184627 February 1852
Rt Hon William Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale 27 February 185228 December 1852
Rt Hon Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville 28 December 185212 June 1854
Rt Hon John Russell 12 June 18548 February 1855
Rt Hon Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville 8 February 185526 February 1858
James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury 26 February 185818 June 1859
Rt Hon Sir Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville 18 June 18596 July 1866
Rt Hon Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of Buckingham 6 July 18668 March 1867
Rt Hon Dr John Winston Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough 8 March 18679 December 1868
Rt Hon George Frederick Samuel Robinson, Earl of Ripon 9 December 18689 August 1873
Rt Hon Henry Austin Bruce 9 August 187321 February 1874
Rt Hon Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond 21 February 187428 April 1880
Rt Hon Sir John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer 28 April 188019 March 1883
Rt Hon Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford 19 March 188324 June 1885
Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy, Viscount Cranbrook June 1885January 1886
Rt Hon Sir John Poyntz Spencer, Earl Spencer 6 February 18863 August 1886
Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy, Viscount Cranbrook 3 August 188618 August 1892
Rt Hon Sir John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley 10 August 189210 March 1894
Rt Hon Sir Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery 5 March 189429 June 1895
Rt Hon Sir Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire 29 June 189519 October 1903
Sir Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry 19 October 190311 December 1905
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe 11 December 190516 April 1908
Rt Hon Edward Marjoribanks, Baron Tweedmouth 16 April 190819 October 1908
Rt Hon Sir Henry Hartley Fowler, Viscount Wolverhampton 19 October 190821 June 1910
Rt Hon William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp 21 June 19107 November 1910
Rt Hon John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn 7 November 19105 August 1914
Rt Hon William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp 5 August 191425 May 1915
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe 25 May 191510 December 1916
Rt Hon George Nathaniel Curzon, Earl Curzon of Kedleston 10 December 191623 October 1919
Rt Hon Arthur James Balfour 23 October 191919 October 1922
Rt Hon Sir James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury 24 October 192222 January 1924
Rt Hon Sir Charles Alfred Cripps, Baron Parmoor 22 January 19243 November 1924
Rt Hon George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 6 November 192420 March 1925
Rt Hon Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour 27 April 19254 June 1929
Rt Hon Sir Charles Alfred Cripps, Baron Parmoor 7 June 192924 August 1931
Rt Hon Stanley Baldwin 25 August 19317 June 1935
Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald 7 June 193528 May 1937
Rt Hon Sir Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax 28 May 19379 March 1938
Rt Hon Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham 9 March 193831 October 1938
Rt Hon Walter Runciman, Baron Runciman 31 October 19383 September 1939
Rt Hon Sir James Richard Stanhope, Earl Stanhope 3 September 193911 May 1940
Rt Hon Arthur Neville Chamberlain 11 May 19403 October 1940
Rt Hon Sir John Anderson 4 October 194024 September 1943
Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee 24 September 194323 May 1945
Rt Hon Sir Frederick James Marquis, Baron Woolton 25 May 194526 July 1945
Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison 27 July 19459 March 1951
Rt Hon Sir Christopher Addison, Viscount Addison 9 March 195126 October 1951
Rt Hon Sir Frederick James Marquis, Baron Woolton 28 October 195125 November 1952
Rt Hon Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury 25 November 195229 March 1957
Rt Hon Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Douglas 29 March 195717 September 1957
Rt Hon Quintin McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham 17 September 195714 October 1959
Rt Hon Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Douglas 14 October 195927 July 1960
Rt Hon Quintin McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham 27 July 196016 October 1964
Rt Hon Herbert William Bowden 16 October 196411 August 1966
Rt Hon Richard Howard Stafford Crossman 11 August 196618 October 1968
Rt Hon Thomas Frederick Peart 18 October 196819 June 1970
Rt Hon William Stephen Ian Whitelaw 20 June 19707 April 1972
Rt Hon Leonard Robert Carr 7 April 19725 November 1972
Rt Hon James Michael Leathes Prior 5 November 19724 March 1974
Rt Hon Edward Watson Short 5 March 19748 April 1976
Rt Hon Michael Mackintosh Foot 8 April 19764 May 1979
Rt Hon Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames 5 May 197914 September 1981
Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym 14 September 19817 April 1982
Rt Hon William John Biffen 7 April 198211 June 1983
Rt Hon William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith 11 June 198310 January 1988
Rt Hon John Wakeham 10 January 198824 July 1989
Rt Hon Sir Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe 24 July 19891 November 1990
Rt Hon John Roddick Russell MacGregor 2 November 199010 April 1992
Rt Hon Antony Harold Newton 10 April 19922 May 1997
Rt Hon Winifred Ann Taylor 3 May 199727 July 1998
Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett 28 July 19988 June 2001
Rt Hon Robert Finlayson Cook 8 June 200117 March 2003
Rt Hon Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn 13 June 200320 September 2003
Rt Hon Dr Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos of Brondesbury 6 October 200327 June 2007
Rt Hon Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland 28 June 20073 October 2008
Rt Hon Janet Anne Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon 2 October 20085 June 2009
Rt Hon Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson 5 June 200911 May 2010
Rt Hon Nicholas William Peter Clegg 11 May 20108 May 2015
Rt Hon Christopher Stephen Grayling 10 May 201514 July 2016
Jacob William Rees-Mogg 24 July 20198 February 2022
Rt Hon Mark Steven Spencer 8 February 20226 September 2022
Rt Hon Penelope Mary Mordaunt 6 September 20225 July 2024