Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs 1945-1968

• 1945: William Mabane
• 1945-1946: Philip Noel-Baker
  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
  by Philip Noel-Baker with other authorsby others* Lloyd, Lorna: Philip Noel-Baker and the Peace Through Law in -External links:...
  
  
• 1946-1950: Hector McNeil
  Hector McNeil
  Hector McNeil PC was a Scottish Labour politician.McNeil was educated at Woodside School and the University of Glasgow, trained as an engineer and worked as a journalist on a Scottish national newspaper. He was a member of Glasgow Town Council 1932-8...
  
  
• 1950-1951: Kenneth Younger
  Kenneth Younger
  Sir Kenneth Gilmour Younger KBE was a British Labour politician and barrister who served in junior government posts during the Attlee government and was an opposition spokesman under Hugh Gaitskell but retired from Parliament early, disillusioned by party politics.-Family:Younger was the son of...
  
  
• 1951-1954: Selwyn Lloyd
  Selwyn Lloyd
  John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD , known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962...
  
  
• 1953-1957: The Marquess of Reading
  Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading
  Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading GCMG, CBE, MC, TD, PC, QC , styled Viscount Erleigh from 1917 to 1935, was a British barrister and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1954-1956: Anthony Nutting
  Anthony Nutting
  Sir Harold Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet was a British diplomat and Conservative Party politician.-Early and private life:...
  
  
• 1956-1959: Allan Noble
  Allan Noble
  Sir Allan Herbert Percy Noble, DSO, DSC was an English naval commander, politician, and diplomat.-Career:Noble was the only son of Admiral Sir Percy Noble. He joined the Royal Navy in 1926 and was a destroyer commander during World War II, earning a DSO and a DSC...
  
  
• 1957-1961: David Ormsby-Gore
  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
  William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech KCMG PC , known as David Ormsby-Gore until 1964, was a British diplomat and Conservative Party politician.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1959-1960: John Profumo
  John Profumo
  Brigadier John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo CBE , informally known as Jack Profumo , was a British politician. His title, 5th Baron, which he did not use, was Italian. Although Profumo held an increasingly responsible series of political posts in the 1950s, he is best known today for his...
  
  
• 1961-1963: Joseph Godber
  Joseph Godber
  Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Baron Godber of Willington PC was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister.-Background:...
  
  
• 1961-1964: The Earl of Dundee
• 1963-1964: Peter Thomas
• 1964-1968: The Lord Caradon
  Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon
  Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, GCMG KCVO OBE PC was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who oversaw moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the United Nations....
  
  
• 1964-1966: George Thomson
  George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
  George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...
  
  
• 1964-1967: Walter Padley
  Walter Padley
  Walter Ernest Padley was a British Labour politician.Padley was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford with a TUC scholarship...
  
  
• 1964-1968: The Lord Chalfont
  Alun Jones, Baron Chalfont
  Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, OBE, MC, PC is a British politician.Jones was educated at West Monmouth School, and subsequently at the School of Slavonic Studies in the University of London. He was a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1964 to 1970 and appointed to the...
  
  
• 1966-1967: Eirene White
• 1967: George Thomson
  George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
  George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...
  
  
• 1967-1968: Frederick Mulley
  Frederick Mulley
  Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five...
  
  
• 1967-1968: Goronwy Roberts
  Goronwy Roberts
  Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...
  
  

Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1968-

• 1968-1970: The Lord Caradon
  Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon
  Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, GCMG KCVO OBE PC was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who oversaw moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the United Nations....
  
  
• 1968-1970: The Lord Chalfont
  Alun Jones, Baron Chalfont
  Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, OBE, MC, PC is a British politician.Jones was educated at West Monmouth School, and subsequently at the School of Slavonic Studies in the University of London. He was a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1964 to 1970 and appointed to the...
  
  
• 1968-1969: Frederick Mulley
  Frederick Mulley
  Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five...
  
  
• 1968-1969: Goronwy Roberts
  Goronwy Roberts
  Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...
  
  
• 1968-1970: The Lord Shepherd
  Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
  Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd [Hereditary] and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding [Life Peerage] PC , was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.Shepherd was the son of the Labour politician George...
  
  
• 1970-1972: Joseph Godber
  Joseph Godber
  Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Baron Godber of Willington PC was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister.-Background:...
  
  
• 1970-1974: Richard Wood
  Richard Wood, Baron Holderness
  Richard Frederick Wood, Baron Holderness PC, DL was a British Conservative politician who held numerous ministerial positions from 1955 to 1974...
  
  
• 1972-1974: The Lady Tweedsmuir
  Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
  Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir and Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, PC was a Unionist and Conservative politician....
  
  
• 1972-1974: Julian Amery
  Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh
  Harold Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, PC was a British politician of the Conservative Party, who served as a Member of Parliament for 39 of the 42 years between 1950 and 1992. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1960. He was created a life peer upon his retirement from the House of...
  
  
• 1972-1974: Lord Balniel
  Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford
  Robert Alexander Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford and 12th Earl of Balcarres, , styled Lord Balniel between 1940 and 1975, is a Scottish hereditary peer and Conservative politician. The elder son of the 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, he succeeded to the titles in 1975...
  
  
• 1974-1976: David Ennals
  David Ennals, Baron Ennals
  David Hedley Ennals, Baron Ennals PC was a British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights...
  
  
• 1974-1976: Roy Hattersley
  Roy Hattersley
  Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1975-1979: The Lord Goronwy-Roberts
  Goronwy Roberts
  Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA was a Labour Member of Parliament. The younger son of E. E...
  
  
• 1976-1979: Ted Rowlands
  Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands
  Edward "Ted" Rowlands, Baron Rowlands, CBE is a Welsh politician, who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over thirty years and as a junior minister in the 1960s and 1970s.-Education:...
  
  
• 1976-1977: David Owen
  David Owen
  David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP is a British politician.Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post; he co-authored the failed Vance-Owen and Owen-Stoltenberg peace plans offered during the Bosnian War...
  
  
• 1977-1979: Frank Judd
• 1979-1981: Peter Blaker
  Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker
  Sir Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker KCMG PC was an English Conservative politician.Blaker was born in Hong Kong, son of Cedric Blaker. He was educated at Shrewsbury School before being evacuated to Canada in 1939. There he took a degree in classics, before being commissioned in the...
  
  
• 1979-1981: Nicholas Ridley
  Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale
  Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, PC was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister.-Personal life:...
  
  
• 1979-1983: Douglas Hurd
  Douglas Hurd
  Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC , is a British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995....
  
  
• 1981-1982: Richard Luce
• 1982-1983: Cranley Onslow
  Cranley Onslow
  Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking KCMG PC was a British politician and served as the Conservative MP for Woking from 1964 to 1997....
  
  
• 1982-1983: The Lord Belstead
  John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead
  John Julian Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead PC was a British Conservative politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Margaret Thatcher from 1988 to 1990.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1983-1986: Timothy Raison
  Timothy Raison
  Sir Timothy Hugh Francis Raison , was a British Conservative politician who began his career as a journalist, first working on Picture Post , then New Scientist...
  
  
• 1983-1985: Richard Luce
• 1983-1986: Malcolm Rifkind
  Malcolm Rifkind
  Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind KCMG QC MP is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Kensington. He served in various roles as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Scotland , Defence Secretary and...
  
  
• 1983-1987: The Baroness Young
  Janet Young, Baroness Young
  Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness Young PC , was a British Conservative politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal...
  
  
• 1985-1987: Tim Renton
  Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry
  Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, PC , is a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Minister of State in both the Foreign Office and the Home Office, and as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. He was promoted to the Cabinet serving as Margaret Thatcher's Chief...
  
  
• 1986-1997: Lynda Chalker
  Lynda Chalker
  Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey PC is a British Conservative politician who was Member of Parliament for Wallasey from 1974 to 1992...
  
  
• 1986-1989: Chris Patten
  Chris Patten
  Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC , is the last Governor of British Hong Kong, a former British Conservative politician, and the current chairman of the BBC Trust....
  
  
• 1987-1988: David Mellor
  David Mellor
  David John Mellor, QC is a British politician, non-practising barrister, broadcaster, journalist and football pundit. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Secretary of State for National Heritage , before...
  
  
• 1987-1989: The Lord Glenarthur
  Simon Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur
  Major Simon Mark Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur DL, FCILT, FRAeS is a British peer, pilot and businessman. Having succeeded to his father's titles in 1976, he is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a...
  
  
• 1988-1990: The Hon. William Waldegrave
  William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
  William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC , is an English Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997 and is a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group. He is now a life peer. Lord Waldegrave is also the Chairman of the Rhodes Trust and the Chairman of...
  
  
• 1989-1990: Francis Maude
  Francis Maude
  Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he currently serves as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Horsham...
  
  
• 1989-1990: The Lord Brabazon of Tara
  Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara
  Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, DL is a British Conservative politician.Lord Brabazon attended Harrow School and married Harriet Frances de Courcy Hamilton in 1979, with whom he had a son and a daughter...
  
  
• 1990-1992: The Earl of Caithness
  Malcolm Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness
  Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, PC is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords as one of the remaining hereditary peers. He is also chief of Clan Sinclair...
  
  
• 1990-1993: Tristan Garel-Jones
  Tristan Garel-Jones
  William Armand Thomas Tristan Garel-Jones, Baron Garel-Jones, PC is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament for Watford from 1979–97, before being made a life peer in 1997....
  
  
• 1990-1995: The Hon. Douglas Hogg
  Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham
  Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham PC, QC is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1995-97, and was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2010.Hogg's claim for cleaning of the...
  
  
• 1992-1995: Alastair Goodlad
  Alastair Goodlad, Baron Goodlad
  Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad, KCMG, PC, is a British Conservative politician who served as the British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 until 2005....
  
  
• 1993-1994: David Heathcoat-Amory
  David Heathcoat-Amory
  David Philip Heathcoat-Amory is a British politician, accountant and farmer. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wells from 1983 until he lost his seat in the 2010 general election.-Education and professional life:...
  
  
• 1994-1997: David Davis
  David Davis (British politician)
  David Michael Davis is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden...
  
  
• 1995-1997: Jeremy Hanley
  Jeremy Hanley
  Sir Jeremy James Hanley, KCMG , is a politician and chartered accountant from the United Kingdom. He served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1994-95, and as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Richmond and Barnes from 1983-97.Hanley was educated at Rugby School,...
  
  
• 1995-1997: Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Bt
  Nicholas Bonsor
  Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor, 4th Baronet DL is a British Conservative politician.Bonsor was Member of Parliament for Nantwich from 1979 to 1983, then for Upminster from 1983 until he lost the seat to Labour's Keith Darvill in 1997...