UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

Contents

Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1768-1782

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1854-1967

Minister of State for the Colonies (1948-1964)

Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1825 and 1854-1966

Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1768-1782

★ 1768: R. Phillipps ''and'' J. Pownall

★ 1772: W. Knox

★ 1776: C. D'Oyly

★ 1778: T. De Grey

★ 1780: B. Thompson

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1854-1967

''For earlier office-holders see Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.''

★ 1854: Frederick Peel

★ 1855: John Ball

★ 1857: Chichester Samuel Fortescue

★ 1858: Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon

★ 1859: Chichester Samuel Fortescue

★ 1865: William Edward Forster

★ 1866: Charles Bowyer Adderley

★ 1868: William Monsell

★ 1871: Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen

★ 1874: James Lowther, Esq.

★ 1878: Earl Cadogan

★ 1880: Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff

★ 1881: Leonard Henry Courtney

★ 1882: Evelyn Ashley

★ 1885: Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

★ 1886: George Osborne Morgan

★ 1886: Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

★ 1887: William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

★ 1888: Henry de Worms

★ 1892: Sydney Buxton

★ 1895: Earl of Selborne

★ 1900: William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

★ 1903: Duke of Marlborough

★ 1905: Winston Churchill

★ 1908: John Seely

★ 1911: Lord Lucas

★ 1911: Lord Emmott

★ 1915: Lord Islington

★ 1915: Arthur Steel-Maitland

★ 1917: William Hewins

★ 1919: Leo Amery

★ 1921: Edward Wood

★ 1922: William Ormsby-Gore

★ 1924: Lord Arnold

★ 1924: William Ormsby-Gore

★ 1929: William Lunn

★ 1929: Drummond Shiels

★ 1931: Robert William Hamilton

★ 1932: Earl of Plymouth

★ 1936: Earl De La Warr

★ 1937: Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

★ 1940: George Hall

★ 1942: Harold Macmillan

★ 1943: Duke of Devonshire

★ 1945: Arthur Creech Jones

★ 1946: Ivor Thomas

★ 1947: David Rees-Williams

★ 1950: Thomas Fotheringham-Cook

★ 1951: Earl of Munster

★ 1951: Lord Lloyd

★ 1957: John Profumo

★ 1958: Julian Amery

★ 1960: Hugh Fraser

★ 1962: Nigel Fisher (to 1964)

★ 1963: Richard Hornby (to 1964)

★ 1964: Eirene White (to 1965)

★ 1964: Lord Taylor (to 1966)

★ 1965: Lord Beswick (to 1966)

★ 1966: John Stonehouse (to 1967)
''Abolished 1967. Thereafter, see Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.

Minister of State for the Colonies (1948-1964)

★ 1948: Earl of Listowel

★ 1950: John Dugdale

★ 1951: Alan Lennox-Boyd

★ 1952: Henry Hopkinson

★ 1955: John Hare

★ 1956: John Maclay

★ 1957: Earl of Perth

★ 1962: Marquess of Lansdowne (to 1964)
''Abolished 1964. Thereafter, see Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations.''

Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1825 and 1854-1966

★ 1825: Robert William Hay

★ 1854: Herman Merivale

★ 1859: Sir Frederick Rogers, later Lord Blachford

★ 1871: (Sir) Robert George Wyndahm Herbert

★ 1892: Sir Robert Henry Meade

★ 1897: (Sir) Edward Wingfield

★ 1900: (Sir) Montagu Ommanney

★ 1907: Sir Francis Hopwood

★ 1911: Sir John Anderson

★ 1916: Sir George Fiddes

★ 1921: Sir James Masterton-Smith

★ 1925: Sir S. Wilson

★ 1933: Sir John Maffey

★ 1937: Sir Cosmo Parkinson

★ 1940: Sir George Henry Gater

★ 1940: Sir Cosmo Parkinson

★ 1942: Sir George Henry Gater

★ 1947: Sir Thomas Ingram Lloyd

★ 1956: Sir John Macpherson

★ 1959: Sir Hilton Poynton