| Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall | December 1916 | February 1919 |
| Rt Hon Sir William Allen Jowitt | 1942 | 1945 |
| Rt Hon Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha | 1945 | 1945 |
| James Griffiths | 27 July 1945 | 28 February 1950 |
| Dr Edith Clara Summerskill | 1950 | 1951 |
| Rt Hon Osbert Peake | 1951 | 1953 |