Name Portrait Term of office Political party P.M. F.Sec. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs William Fraser 1782 1789 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1782 1782 Whig Marquess of Rockingham Fox George Maddison 1782 1783 Earl of Shelburne Lord Grantham Duke of Portland Fox St Andrew St John 1783 1789 Pitt the Younger Earl Temple Duke of Leeds Dudley Ryder 1789 1789 Tory Sir James Burges, 1st Baronet 1789 January 1796 Lord Grenville George Canning January 1796 April 1799 Tory John Hookham Frere April 1799 September 1800 Edward Fisher September 1800 February 1801 Frederick Hervey, Baron Hervey February 1801 November 1803 Addington Lord Hawkesbury Charles Arbuthnot November 1803 June 1804 Tory William Eliot June 1804 February 1805 Pitt the Younger Lord Harrowby Robert Ward February 1805 February 1806 Lord Mulgrave George Walpole February 1806 March 1807 Lord Grenville Fox Charles Grey, Viscount Howick Sir Francis Vincent, 9th Baronet February 1806 March 1807 Duke of Portland Canning James Harris, Viscount FitzHarris March 1807 August 1807 Charles Bagot August 1807 December 1809 Perceval Earl Bathurst Culling Charles Smith December 1809 February 1812 Marquess Wellesley Edward Cooke February 1812 1817 [ 1] Earl of Liverpool Marquess of Londonderry Joseph Planta 25 July 1817 22 January 1822 [ 2] Tory Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam January 1822 January 1823 Canning Lord Francis Conyngham January 1823 January 1826 Tory Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden July 1824 June 1828 Earl of Dudley Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde January 1826 1827 Cospatrick Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass June 1828 November 1830 Duke of Wellington Earl of Aberdeen Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet 26 November 1830 13 November 1834 Whig Earl Grey Viscount Palmerston Viscount Melbourne George Cowper, Viscount Fordwich 13 November 1834 17 December 1834 Duke of Wellington Duke of Wellington Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon 17 December 1834 18 April 1835 Conservative Peel William Fox-Strangways 18 April 1835 7 March 1840 Whig Viscount Melbourne Viscount Palmerston Granville Leveson-Gower, Baron Leveson 7 March 1840 4 September 1841 Charles Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning 4 September 1841 27 January 1846 Conservative Peel Earl of Aberdeen George Smythe 27 January 1846 6 July 1846 Edward Stanley 6 July 1846 12 February 1852 Whig Russell Viscount Palmerston Earl Granville Austen Henry Layard 12 February 1852 18 May 1852 Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley 18 May 1852 28 December 1852 Conservative Earl of Derby Earl of Malmesbury John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse 28 December 1852 5 July 1856 Whig Earl of Aberdeen Lord John Russell Earl of Clarendon Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Shelburne 5 July 1856 26 February 1858 Viscount Palmerston William Vesey-FitzGerald 26 February 1858 19 June 1859 Conservative Earl of Derby Earl of Malmesbury John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse 19 June 1859 15 August 1861 Liberal Viscount Palmerston Earl Russell Austen Henry Layard 15 August 1861 6 July 1866 Earl Russell Earl of Clarendon Edward Egerton 6 July 1866 12 December 1868 Conservative Earl of Derby Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley Disraeli Arthur Otway 12 December 1868 9 January 1871 Liberal Gladstone Earl of Clarendon Earl Granville George Byng, Viscount Enfield 9 January 1871 23 February 1874 Robert Bourke 23 February 1874 28 April 1880 Conservative Disraeli Earl of Derby Marquess of Salisbury Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet 28 April 1880 1 January 1883 Liberal Gladstone Earl Granville Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice 1 January 1883 25 June 1885 Robert Bourke 25 June 1885 28 January 1886 Conservative Marquess of Salisbury Marquess of Salisbury James Bryce 7 February 1886 20 July 1886 Liberal Gladstone Earl of Rosebery Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet 4 August 1886 22 September 1891 Conservative Marquess of Salisbury Earl of Iddesleigh Marquess of Salisbury James Lowther 22 September 1891 18 August 1892 Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Baronet 18 August 1892 20 June 1895 Liberal Gladstone Earl of Rosebery Earl of Rosebery Earl of Kimberley George Curzon 20 June 1895 15 October 1898 Conservative Marquess of Salisbury Marquess of Salisbury St John Brodrick 15 October 1898 12 November 1900 James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 12 November 1900 9 October 1903 Marquess of Lansdowne Balfour Henry Percy, Earl Percy 9 October 1903 18 December 1905 Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice [ 3] 18 December 1905 19 October 1908 Liberal Campbell-Bannerman Grey Asquith Thomas McKinnon Wood 19 October 1908 23 October 1911 Francis Dyke Acland 23 October 1911 4 February 1915 Neil Primrose 4 February 1915 30 May 1915 Lord Robert Cecil 30 May 1915 10 January 1919 Conservative Lloyd George Balfour Cecil Harmsworth 10 January 1919 31 October 1922 Liberal Ronald McNeill 31 October 1922 23 January 1924 Conservative Law Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Baldwin Arthur Ponsonby 23 January 1924 11 November 1924 Labour MacDonald MacDonald Ronald McNeill 11 November 1924 7 December 1925 Conservative Baldwin Chamberlain Godfrey Locker-Lampson 7 December 1925 11 June 1929 Hugh Dalton 11 June 1929 3 September 1931 Labour MacDonald Henderson Anthony Eden 3 September 1931 18 January 1934 Conservative Marquess of Reading Simon James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope 18 January 1934 16 June 1936 Baldwin Hoare Eden Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 18 June 1935 20 February 1938 Baldwin (1935–37)Chamberlain (1937–40) Eden (1935–38)Viscount Halifax (1938–40) Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth 30 July 1936 12 May 1940 Rab Butler 25 February 1938 20 July 1941 Chamberlain Viscount Halifax Churchill Eden Richard Law 20 July 1941 25 September 1943 George Hall 25 September 1943 26 May 1945 Labour Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass 26 May 1945 26 July 1945 Conservative Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat 26 May 1945 26 July 1945 Hector McNeil 4 August 1945 4 October 1946 Labour Attlee Bevin Christopher Mayhew 4 October 1946 2 March 1950 William Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson 7 June 1948 26 October 1951 Ernest Davies 2 March 1950 26 October 1951 Morrison Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading 31 October 1951 11 November 1953 Conservative Churchill Eden Anthony Nutting 31 October 1951 18 October 1954 Douglas Dodds-Parker 11 November 1953 18 October 1954 Robin Turton 18 October 1954 20 December 1955 Churchill (1954–55)Eden (1955–56) Eden (1954–55)Macmillan (1955)Lloyd (1955–56) Lord John Hope 18 October 1954 9 November 1956 Douglas Dodds-Parker 20 December 1955 9 January 1957 Eden Lloyd David Ormsby-Gore 9 November 1956 9 January 1957 Ian Harvey 18 January 1957 24 November 1958 Macmillan Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford 18 January 1957 23 October 1958 George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne 23 October 1958 20 April 1962 Alec Douglas-Home John Profumo 28 November 1958 16 January 1959 Lloyd Robert Allan 16 January 1959 7 October 1960 Joseph Godber 28 October 1960 27 June 1961 Alec Douglas-Home Peter Thomas 27 June 1961 27 June 1963 Peter Smithers 16 July 1962 29 January 1964 Douglas-Home Butler Robert Mathew 30 January 1964 16 October 1964 Henry Walston, Baron Walston 20 October 1964 7 January 1967 Labour Wilson Walker Stewart Brown Bill Rodgers 7 January 1967 3 July 1968 Maurice Foley 3 July 1968 17 October 1968 Stewart Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Maurice Foley 17 October 1968 19 June 1970 Labour Wilson Stewart William Whitlock 17 October 1968 13 October 1969 Evan Luard 13 October 1969 19 June 1970 Anthony Royle 24 June 1970 8 January 1974 Conservative Heath Douglas-Home Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian 24 June 1970 9 April 1972 Anthony Kershaw 15 October 1970 5 June 1973 Peter Blaker 8 January 1974 4 March 1974 Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts 8 March 1974 4 December 1975 Labour Wilson Callaghan Joan Lestor 8 March 1974 12 June 1975 Ted Rowlands 12 June 1975 14 April 1976 John Tomlinson 17 March 1976 4 May 1979 Callaghan Crosland (1976–77)Owen (1977–79) Evan Luard 14 April 1976 4 May 1979 Richard Luce 6 May 1979 14 September 1981 Conservative Thatcher Lord Carrington David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne 14 September 1981 6 April 1982 Malcolm Rifkind 6 April 1982 13 June 1983 Pym Ray Whitney 13 June 1983 11 September 1984 Howe Tim Renton 11 September 1984 2 September 1985 Timothy Eggar 2 September 1985 24 July 1989 Tim Sainsbury 24 July 1989 24 July 1990 Major Hurd Mark Lennox-Boyd 24 July 1990 20 July 1994 Major Office vacant from 1994 to 1996 Liam Fox 23 July 1996 1 May 1997 Conservative Major Rifkind Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean 2 May 1997 28 June 1999 Labour Blair Cook Patricia Scotland , Baroness Scotland of Asthal 28 July 1999 12 June 2001 Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos 12 June 2001 13 June 2003 Straw Ben Bradshaw 12 June 2001 29 May 2002 Mike O'Brien 29 May 2002 13 June 2003 Bill Rammell 28 October 2002 10 May 2005 Chris Mullin 13 June 2003 10 May 2005 David Triesman, Baron Triesman 10 May 2005 28 June 2007 Beckett Meg Munn 29 June 2007 5 October 2008 Brown Miliband Gillian Merron 5 October 2008 9 June 2009 Chris Bryant 9 June 2009 11 May 2010 Role merged into Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific 
