| Rt Hon Sir James Stansfield | 19 August 1871 | 17 February 1874 |
| Rt Hon George Sclater-Booth | March 1874 | May 1880 |
| Rt Hon John George Dodson | 3 May 1880 | 28 December 1882 |
| Rt Hon Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, bt | 1882 | 1885 |
| Rt Hon Arthur James Balfour | 1885 | 1886 |
| Rt Hon Charles Thomson Ritchie | 1886 | 1892 |
| Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain | 1 February 1886 | 3 April 1886 |
| Rt Hon Sir James Stansfield | 3 April 1886 | 20 July 1886 |
| Rt Hon Sir Henry Hartley Fowler | 1892 | 1894 |
| Rt Hon George John Shaw-Lefevre | 10 March 1894 | 21 June 1895 |
| Rt Hon Henry Chaplin | 29 June 1895 | 12 November 1900 |
| Rt Hon Walter Hume Long | 1900 | 1905 |
| Rt Hon John Elliot Burns | 1906 | |
| Rt Hon Walter Hume Long | 1915 | 1916 |
| Rt Hon David Alfred Thomas, Baron Rhondda | 13 December 1916 | 19 June 1917 |
| Rt Hon William Hayes Fisher | 2 July 1917 | 4 November 1918 |
| Rt Hon Dr Christopher Addison | January 1919 | June 1919 |