Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
David Arthur Russell Howell
1972
1972
Sir Peter McLay Mills
1972
March 1974
John Dennis Concannon
1974
1976
James Anthony Dunn
April 1976
May 1979
Raymond John Carter
April 1976
May 1979
Thomas Pendry
11 November 1978
4 May 1979
John Giles Dunkerley Shaw
May 1979
1981
Philip Carter Goodhart
May 1979
5 January 1981
Rodney Elton, Baron Elton
7 May 1979
15 September 1981
John Haggitt Charles Patten
1981
1983
Nicholas Paul Scott
1981
1986
David Bower Mitchell
January 1981
9 June 1983
Charles Lyell, Baron Lyell
1984
1989
Sir Richard Francis Needham, Earl of Kilmorey
1985
11 April 1992
Peter John Viggers
1986
1989
Dr Brian Stanley Mawhinney
January 1986
November 1990
Jeremy James Hanley
December 1990
May 1993
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr Ancram, Earl of Ancram
1993
1994
Malcolm Douglas Moss
1994
2 May 1997
Alfred Max Dubs, Baron Dubs
May 1997
Anthony William Worthington
May 1997
John McFall
1998
1999
George Edward Howarth
29 July 1999
2001
Desmond Henry Browne
11 June 2001
13 June 2003
Ian Phares Pearson
2002
9 May 2005
John David Cairns
2006
2007
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace
12 May 2015
17 July 2016
Prof Nicholas Henry Bourne, Baron Bourne of Aberystwyth
14 June 2017
27 October 2017
Chloe Rebecca Smith
14 June 2017
9 January 2018
Ian James Duncan, Baron Duncan of Springbank
27 October 2017
Shailesh Lahkman Vara
9 January 2018
15 November 2018
John David Penrose
16 November 2018
Jonathan Michael Caine, Baron Caine
5 November 2021