Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (St Edwards Crown).svg
Incumbent
Inactive Position
since 11 May 2010
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Reports to Foreign Secretary
Nominator Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
AppointerThe Prime Minister
approved and sworn in by the Queen-in-Council
Term length No fixed term
Formation1782
First holderWilliam Fraser

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was a junior position in the British government, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. The post is based at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which was created by the merger of the Foreign Office, where the position was initially based, with the Commonwealth Office in 1968 and the Department for International Development in 2020. Notable holders of the office include Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, and Anthony Eden.

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List of ministers

NamePortraitTerm of officePolitical party P.M. F.Sec.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
William Fraser No image.svg 17821789
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751 - 1816.jpg 17821782 Whig The Marquess of Rockingham Fox
George Maddison No image.svg 17821783 The Earl of Shelburne The Lord Grantham
The Duke of Portland Fox
St Andrew St John No image.svg 17831789 Pitt the Younger The Earl Temple
The Duke of Leeds
Hon. Dudley Ryder 1stEarlOfHarrowby.jpg 17891789 Tory
Sir James Burges, Bt Sir James Bland cum Lamb.jpg 1789January 1796
The Lord Grenville
George Canning George Canning by Richard Evans - detail.jpg January 1796April 1799 Tory
John Hookham Frere No image.svg April 1799September 1800
Edward Fisher No image.svg September 1800February 1801
Lord Hervey No image.svg February 1801November 1803 Addington The Lord Hawkesbury
Charles Arbuthnot Rt Hon Charles Arbuthnot 2.jpg November 1803June 1804 Tory
William Eliot No image.svg June 1804February 1805 Pitt the Younger The Lord Harrowby
Robert Ward Robert Plumer Ward Turner.jpg February 1805February 1806 The Lord Mulgrave
George Walpole No image.svg February 1806March 1807 The Lord Grenville Fox
The Viscount Howick
Sir Francis Vincent No image.svg February 1806March 1807 The Duke of Portland Canning
The Viscount FitzHarris No image.svg March 1807August 1807
Charles Bagot SirCharlesBagot.JPG August 1807December 1809
Perceval The Earl Bathurst
Culling Charles Smith No image.svg December 1809February 1812 The Marquess Wellesley
Edward Cooke No image.svg February 18121817 [1]
The Earl of Liverpool The Marquess of Londonderry
Joseph Planta No image.svg 25 July 181722 January 1822 [2] Tory
The Earl of Clanwilliam No image.svg January 1822January 1823
Canning
Lord Francis Conyngham Lord Conyam.jpg January 1823January 1826 Tory
The Lord Howard de Walden No image.svg July 1824June 1828
The Earl of Dudley
The Marquess of Clanricarde Ulick de Burgh.png January 18261827
Lord Dunglass Cospatrick Home, 11th Earl of Home (1799-1881).jpg June 1828November 1830 The Duke of Wellington
The Earl of Aberdeen
Sir George Shee No image.svg 26 November 183013 November 1834 Whig The Earl Grey The Viscount Palmerston
The Viscount Melbourne
The Viscount Fordwich No image.svg 13 November 183417 December 1834 The Duke of Wellington The Duke of Wellington
The Viscount Mahon Philip-Stanhope-5th-Earl-Stanhope (cropped).png 17 December 183418 April 1835 Conservative Peel
William Fox-Strangways No image.svg 18 April 18357 March 1840 Whig The Viscount Melbourne The Viscount Palmerston
Lord Leveson Second Earl Granville.jpg 7 March 18404 September 1841
The Viscount Canning Lord Viscount Canning.jpg 4 September 184127 January 1846 Conservative Peel The Earl of Aberdeen
George Smythe 7thViscountStrangford.jpg 27 January 18466 July 1846
Edward Stanley Stanley of Adderley2.JPG 6 July 184612 February 1852 Whig Russell The Viscount Palmerston
The Earl Granville
Austen Henry Layard AustenHenryLayard.jpg 12 February 185218 May 1852
Lord Stanley Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 2.jpg 18 May 185228 December 1852 Conservative The Earl of Derby The Earl of Malmesbury
The Lord Wodehouse 1st Earl of Kimberley 1868.jpg 28 December 18525 July 1856 Whig The Earl of Aberdeen Lord John Russell
The Earl of Clarendon
The Earl of Shelburne 4thMarquessOfLansdowne.jpg 5 July 185626 February 1858 The Viscount Palmerston
William Vesey-FitzGerald William Vesey Fitzgerald.jpg 26 February 185819 June 1859 Conservative The Earl of Derby The Earl of Malmesbury
The Lord Wodehouse 1st Earl of Kimberley 1868.jpg 19 June 185915 August 1861 Liberal The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell
Austen Henry Layard AustenHenryLayard.jpg 15 August 18616 July 1866
The Earl Russell The Earl of Clarendon
Edward Egerton No image.svg 6 July 186612 December 1868 Conservative The Earl of Derby The Lord Stanley
Disraeli
Arthur Otway Arthur Otway Vanity Fair 1879-02-08.jpeg 12 December 18689 January 1871 Liberal Gladstone The Earl of Clarendon
The Earl Granville
The Viscount Enfield Viscount Enfield Vanity Fair 14 September 1872.jpg 9 January 187123 February 1874
Robert Bourke Robert Bourke, Vanity Fair, 1877-04-28.jpg 23 February 187428 April 1880 Conservative Disraeli The 15th Earl of Derby
The Marquess of Salisbury
Sir Charles Dilke Charles Dilke 2.JPG 28 April 18801 January 1883 Liberal Gladstone The Earl Granville
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice.png 1 January 188325 June 1885
Robert Bourke Robert Bourke, Vanity Fair, 1877-04-28.jpg 25 June 188528 January 1886 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Marquess of Salisbury
James Bryce 1st Viscount Bryce 1902b.jpg 7 February 188620 July 1886 Liberal Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery
Sir James Fergusson James Fergusson 3.jpeg 4 August 188622 September 1891 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Earl of Iddesleigh
The Marquess of Salisbury
James Lowther JW Lowther by Laszlo.jpg 22 September 189118 August 1892
Sir Edward Grey Portrait of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon.jpg 18 August 189220 June 1895 Liberal Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery
The Earl of Rosebery
The Earl of Kimberley
George Curzon George Curzon2.jpg 20 June 189515 October 1898 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Marquess of Salisbury
St John Brodrick William St John Fremantle Brodrick.jpg 15 October 189812 November 1900
The Viscount Cranborne Lord Salisbury.jpg 12 November 19009 October 1903 The Marquess of Lansdowne
Balfour
Earl Percy Henry Percy, Earl Percy, Sir Benjamin Stone, 1901 (BW).jpg 9 October 190318 December 1905
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice [3] Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice.png 18 December 190519 October 1908 Liberal Campbell-Bannerman Grey
Asquith
Thomas McKinnon Wood Thomas Mackinnon Wood.jpg 19 October 190823 October 1911
Francis Dyke Acland Francis Dyke Acland.jpg 23 October 19114 February 1915
Neil Primrose Neil Primrose.jpg 4 February 191530 May 1915
Lord Robert Cecil Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood looking right circa 1915.jpg 30 May 191510 January 1919 Conservative
Lloyd George Balfour
Cecil Harmsworth Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.jpg 10 January 191931 October 1922 Liberal
Ronald McNeill Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun.jpg 31 October 192223 January 1924 Conservative Law
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Baldwin
Arthur Ponsonby Lord Ponsonby.jpg 23 January 192411 November 1924 Labour MacDonald MacDonald
Ronald McNeill Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun.jpg 11 November 19247 December 1925 Conservative Baldwin Chamberlain
Godfrey Locker-Lampson Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson.jpg 7 December 192511 June 1929
Hugh Dalton Hugh Dalton.png 11 June 19293 September 1931 Labour MacDonald Henderson
Anthony Eden Anthony Eden (retouched).jpg 3 September 193118 January 1934 Conservative The Marquess of Reading
Simon
The Earl Stanhope Stanhope7.JPG 18 January 193416 June 1936
Baldwin Hoare
Eden
The Viscount Cranborne Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury.jpg 18 June 193520 February 1938 Baldwin (1935–37)
Chamberlain (1937–40)
Eden (1935–38)
The Viscount Halifax (1938–40)
The Earl of Plymouth Ivor Windsor-Clive.jpg 30 July 193612 May 1940
Rab Butler Rab Butler.jpg 25 February 193820 July 1941 Chamberlain The Viscount Halifax
Churchill
Eden
Richard Law Lord Coleraine.jpg 20 July 194125 September 1943
George Hall George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall.png 25 September 194326 May 1945 Labour
Lord Dunglass Alec Douglas-Home (c1963) (cropped).jpg 26 May 194526 July 1945 Conservative
The Lord Lovat Lord Lovat, Newhaven, 1942.JPG 26 May 194526 July 1945
Hector McNeil No image.svg 4 August 19454 October 1946 Labour Attlee Bevin
Christopher Mayhew No image.svg 4 October 19462 March 1950
The Lord Henderson No image.svg 7 June 194826 October 1951
Ernest Davies No image.svg 2 March 195026 October 1951
Morrison
The Marquess of Reading Gerald Isaacs.jpg 31 October 195111 November 1953 Conservative Churchill Eden
Anthony Nutting No image.svg 31 October 195118 October 1954
Douglas Dodds-Parker No image.svg 11 November 195318 October 1954
Robin Turton No image.svg 18 October 195420 December 1955 Churchill (1954–55)
Eden (1955–56)
Eden (1954–55)
Macmillan (1955)
Lloyd (1955–56)
Lord John Hope No image.svg 18 October 19549 November 1956
Douglas Dodds-Parker No image.svg 20 December 19559 January 1957 Eden Lloyd
David Ormsby-Gore Sir David Ormsby-Gore.jpg 9 November 19569 January 1957
Ian Harvey No image.svg 18 January 195724 November 1958 Macmillan
The Earl of Gosford No image.svg 18 January 195723 October 1958
The Marquess of Lansdowne No image.svg 23 October 195820 April 1962
The Earl of Home
John Profumo John Profumo.jpg 28 November 195816 January 1959 Lloyd
Robert Allan No image.svg 16 January 19597 October 1960
Joseph Godber No image.svg 28 October 196027 June 1961 The Earl of Home
Peter Thomas No image.svg 27 June 196127 June 1963
Peter Smithers No image.svg 16 July 196229 January 1964
Douglas-Home Butler
Robert Mathew No image.svg 30 January 196416 October 1964
The Lord Walston No image.svg 20 October 19647 January 1967 Labour Wilson Walker
Stewart
Brown
Bill Rodgers Official portrait of Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank crop 2.jpg 7 January 19673 July 1968
Maurice Foley No image.svg 3 July 196817 October 1968 Stewart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Maurice Foley No image.svg 17 October 196819 June 1970 Labour Wilson Stewart
William Whitlock No image.svg 17 October 196813 October 1969
Evan Luard No image.svg 13 October 196919 June 1970
Anthony Royle No image.svg 24 June 19708 January 1974 Conservative Heath Douglas-Home
The Marquess of Lothian No image.svg 24 June 19709 April 1972
Anthony Kershaw No image.svg 15 October 19705 June 1973
Peter Blaker No image.svg 8 January 19744 March 1974
The Lord Goronwy-Roberts Goronwy Roberts.jpg 8 March 19744 December 1975 Labour Wilson Callaghan
Joan Lestor No image.svg 8 March 197412 June 1975
Ted Rowlands No image.svg 12 June 197514 April 1976
John Tomlinson No image.svg 17 March 19764 May 1979 Callaghan Crosland (1976–77)
Owen (1977–79)
Evan Luard No image.svg 14 April 19764 May 1979
Richard Luce Official portrait of Lord Luce crop 2.jpg 6 May 197914 September 1981 Conservative Thatcher The Lord Carrington
The Lord Trefgarne No image.svg 14 September 19816 April 1982
Malcolm Rifkind Malcolm Rifkind.jpg 6 April 198213 June 1983 Pym
Ray Whitney No image.svg 13 June 198311 September 1984 Howe
Tim Renton No image.svg 11 September 19842 September 1985
Timothy Eggar No image.svg 2 September 198524 July 1989
Tim Sainsbury No image.svg 24 July 198924 July 1990 Major
Hurd
Hon. Mark Lennox-Boyd No image.svg 24 July 199020 July 1994
Major
Office vacant from 1994 to 1996
Liam Fox Official portrait of Dr Liam Fox crop 2.jpg 23 July 19961 May 1997 Conservative Major Rifkind
The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Official portrait of Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean crop 2.jpg 2 May 199728 June 1999 Labour Blair Cook
The Baroness Scotland of Asthal Patricia Scotland 2018.jpg 28 July 199912 June 2001
The Baroness Amos Valerie Amos DFID 2013.jpg 12 June 200113 June 2003 Straw
Ben Bradshaw Official portrait of Mr Ben Bradshaw crop 2.jpg 12 June 200129 May 2002
Mike O'Brien Mike O'Brien 2.jpg 29 May 200213 June 2003
Bill Rammell Bill Rammell.jpg 28 October 200210 May 2005
Chris Mullin Chris Mullin MP.jpg 13 June 200310 May 2005
The Lord Triesman Official portrait of Lord Triesman crop 2.jpg 10 May 200528 June 2007
Beckett
Meg Munn Meg Munn 2.jpg 29 June 20075 October 2008 Brown Miliband
Gillian Merron Official portrait of Baroness Merron crop 2, 2021.jpg 5 October 20089 June 2009
Chris Bryant Official portrait of Chris Bryant crop 2.jpg 9 June 200911 May 2010
Role merged into Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific

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