Lord Chancellor

Sir Heneage Finch, Baron Finch of Daventry 16751682
Rt Hon Charles Talbot 17331737
Rt Hon Sir Philip Yorke, Baron Hardwicke 17371756
Charles Yorke 17 January 177020 January 1770
Rt Hon Alexander Wedderburn, Baron Loughborough 17931801
Henry Peter Brougham 18301834
Rt Hon Sir Charles Christopher Pepys 16 January 183630 August 1841
Rt Hon Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, bt 6 July 184619 June 1850
Rt Hon Sir Thomas Wilde, Baron Truro 15 July 185021 February 1852
Rt Hon Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden 18521852
Rt Hon Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth 28 December 185221 February 1858
Rt Hon Sir John Campbell, Baron Campbell of St Andrews 18 June 185924 June 1861
Rt Hon Sir Richard Bethell 26 June 18615 July 1865
Rt Hon Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth 7 July 186526 June 1866
Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Baron Cairns 29 February 18681 December 1868
Rt Hon Sir William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley 9 December 186815 October 1872
Rt Hon Sir Roundell Palmer 15 October 187217 February 1874
Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Baron Cairns 21 February 187421 April 1880
Rt Hon Sir Roundell Palmer, Baron Selborne 28 April 18809 June 1885
Rt Hon Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Baron Halsbury 28 June 18851886
Rt Hon Sir Farrer Herschell, Baron Herschell 6 February 188620 July 1886
Rt Hon Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Baron Halsbury August 18861892
Rt Hon Sir Farrer Herschell, Baron Herschell 18 August 189221 June 1895
Rt Hon Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Baron Halsbury 18951905
Sir Robert Threshie Reid 11 December 190510 June 1912
Rt Hon Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Viscount Haldane 10 June 191227 May 1915
Rt Hon Sir Stanley Owen Buckmaster 27 May 191511 December 1916
Rt Hon Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay 11 December 191614 January 1919
Rt Hon Sir Frederick Edwin Smith, bt 14 January 191925 October 1922
Rt Hon Sir George Cave, Viscount Cave 25 October 192223 January 1924
Rt Hon Sir Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Viscount Haldane 23 January 19247 November 1924
Rt Hon Sir George Cave, Viscount Cave 7 November 192427 March 1928
Rt Hon Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg 29 March 19287 June 1929
John Sankey, Baron Sankey 8 June 19296 June 1935
Rt Hon Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham 6 June 193515 March 1938
Frederick Maugham, Baron Maugham 15 March 19384 September 1939
Rt Hon Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip 4 September 193913 May 1940
Rt Hon Sir John Allsebrook Simon 13 May 194028 July 1945
Rt Hon Sir William Allen Jowitt 28 July 194525 October 1951
Rt Hon Sir Gavin Turnbull Simonds, Lord Simonds 26 October 195118 October 1954
Rt Hon Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Viscount Kilmuir 19 October 195416 July 1962
Rt Hon Sir Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, Baron Dilhorne 17 July 196226 October 1964
Rt Hon Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner 17 October 196427 June 1970
Rt Hon Quintin McGarel Hogg 28 June 19704 March 1974
Rt Hon Sir Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones 5 March 19744 May 1979
Rt Hon Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone 5 May 197912 June 1987
Rt Hon Sir Robert Michael Oldfield Havers 13 June 198727 October 1987
Rt Hon James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern 28 October 19873 May 1997
Rt Hon Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg 3 May 199712 June 2003
Rt Hon Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton 12 June 200328 June 2007
Rt Hon John Whitaker Straw 28 June 200711 May 2010
Rt Hon Kenneth Harry Clarke 12 May 20104 September 2012
Rt Hon Christopher Stephen Grayling 4 September 201210 May 2015
Rt Hon Michael Andrew Gove 10 May 201514 July 2016
Rt Hon Mary Elizabeth Truss 14 July 201611 June 2017
Rt Hon David Roy Lidington 11 June 20178 January 2018
Rt Hon David Michael Gauke 8 January 201824 July 2019
Robert James Buckland 24 July 201915 September 2021
Rt Hon Dominic Rennie Raab 15 September 20216 September 2022
Rt Hon Brandon Kenneth Lewis 6 September 202225 October 2022
Rt Hon Dominic Rennie Raab 25 October 202221 April 2023