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.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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Incumbent since 11 May 2010Inactive Position | |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | |
Reports to | Foreign Secretary |
Nominator | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Appointer | The Prime Minister approved and sworn in by the Queen-in-Council |
Term length | No fixed term |
Formation | 1782 |
First holder | William Fraser |
List of ministers
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | P.M. | F.Sec. | |||
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | ||||||||
William Fraser | ![]() | 1782 | 1789 | |||||
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | ![]() | 1782 | 1782 | Whig | The Marquess of Rockingham | Fox | ||
George Maddison | ![]() | 1782 | 1783 | The Earl of Shelburne | The Lord Grantham | |||
The Duke of Portland | Fox | |||||||
St Andrew St John | ![]() | 1783 | 1789 | Pitt the Younger | The Earl Temple | |||
The Duke of Leeds | ||||||||
Hon. Dudley Ryder | ![]() | 1789 | 1789 | Tory | ||||
Sir James Burges, Bt | ![]() | 1789 | January 1796 | |||||
The Lord Grenville | ||||||||
George Canning | ![]() | January 1796 | April 1799 | Tory | ||||
John Hookham Frere | ![]() | April 1799 | September 1800 | |||||
![]() | September 1800 | February 1801 | ||||||
Lord Hervey | ![]() | February 1801 | November 1803 | Addington | The Lord Hawkesbury | |||
Charles Arbuthnot | ![]() | November 1803 | June 1804 | Tory | ||||
William Eliot | ![]() | June 1804 | February 1805 | Pitt the Younger | The Lord Harrowby | |||
Robert Ward | ![]() | February 1805 | February 1806 | The Lord Mulgrave | ||||
George Walpole | ![]() | February 1806 | March 1807 | The Lord Grenville | Fox | |||
The Viscount Howick | ||||||||
Sir Francis Vincent | ![]() | February 1806 | March 1807 | The Duke of Portland | Canning | |||
The Viscount FitzHarris | ![]() | March 1807 | August 1807 | |||||
Charles Bagot | August 1807 | December 1809 | ||||||
Perceval | The Earl Bathurst | |||||||
Culling Charles Smith | ![]() | December 1809 | February 1812 | The Marquess Wellesley | ||||
Edward Cooke | ![]() | February 1812 | 1817 | |||||
The Earl of Liverpool | The Marquess of Londonderry | |||||||
Joseph Planta | ![]() | 25 July 1817 | 22 January 1822 | Tory | ||||
The Earl of Clanwilliam | ![]() | January 1822 | January 1823 | |||||
Canning | ||||||||
Lord Francis Conyngham | ![]() | January 1823 | January 1826 | Tory | ||||
The Lord Howard de Walden | ![]() | July 1824 | June 1828 | |||||
The Earl of Dudley | ||||||||
The Marquess of Clanricarde | ![]() | January 1826 | 1827 | |||||
Lord Dunglass | ![]() | June 1828 | November 1830 | The Duke of Wellington | ||||
The Earl of Aberdeen | ||||||||
Sir George Shee | ![]() | 26 November 1830 | 13 November 1834 | Whig | The Earl Grey | The Viscount Palmerston | ||
The Viscount Melbourne | ||||||||
The Viscount Fordwich | ![]() | 13 November 1834 | 17 December 1834 | The Duke of Wellington | The Duke of Wellington | |||
The Viscount Mahon | ![]() | 17 December 1834 | 18 April 1835 | Conservative | Peel | |||
William Fox-Strangways | ![]() | 18 April 1835 | 7 March 1840 | Whig | The Viscount Melbourne | The Viscount Palmerston | ||
Lord Leveson | ![]() | 7 March 1840 | 4 September 1841 | |||||
The Viscount Canning | ![]() | 4 September 1841 | 27 January 1846 | Conservative | Peel | The Earl of Aberdeen | ||
George Smythe | ![]() | 27 January 1846 | 6 July 1846 | |||||
Edward Stanley | 6 July 1846 | 12 February 1852 | Whig | Russell | The Viscount Palmerston | |||
The Earl Granville | ||||||||
Austen Henry Layard | ![]() | 12 February 1852 | 18 May 1852 | |||||
Lord Stanley | ![]() | 18 May 1852 | 28 December 1852 | Conservative | The Earl of Derby | The Earl of Malmesbury | ||
The Lord Wodehouse | ![]() | 28 December 1852 | 5 July 1856 | Whig | The Earl of Aberdeen | Lord John Russell | ||
The Earl of Clarendon | ||||||||
The Earl of Shelburne | ![]() | 5 July 1856 | 26 February 1858 | The Viscount Palmerston | ||||
William Vesey-FitzGerald | ![]() | 26 February 1858 | 19 June 1859 | Conservative | The Earl of Derby | The Earl of Malmesbury | ||
The Lord Wodehouse | ![]() | 19 June 1859 | 15 August 1861 | Liberal | The Viscount Palmerston | The Earl Russell | ||
Austen Henry Layard | ![]() | 15 August 1861 | 6 July 1866 | |||||
The Earl Russell | The Earl of Clarendon | |||||||
Edward Egerton | ![]() | 6 July 1866 | 12 December 1868 | Conservative | The Earl of Derby | The Lord Stanley | ||
Disraeli | ||||||||
Arthur Otway | ![]() | 12 December 1868 | 9 January 1871 | Liberal | Gladstone | The Earl of Clarendon | ||
The Earl Granville | ||||||||
The Viscount Enfield | ![]() | 9 January 1871 | 23 February 1874 | |||||
Robert Bourke | ![]() | 23 February 1874 | 28 April 1880 | Conservative | Disraeli | The 15th Earl of Derby | ||
The Marquess of Salisbury | ||||||||
Sir Charles Dilke | 28 April 1880 | 1 January 1883 | Liberal | Gladstone | The Earl Granville | |||
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice | ![]() | 1 January 1883 | 25 June 1885 | |||||
Robert Bourke | ![]() | 25 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 | Conservative | The Marquess of Salisbury | The Marquess of Salisbury | ||
James Bryce | ![]() | 7 February 1886 | 20 July 1886 | Liberal | Gladstone | The Earl of Rosebery | ||
Sir James Fergusson | ![]() | 4 August 1886 | 22 September 1891 | Conservative | The Marquess of Salisbury | The Earl of Iddesleigh | ||
The Marquess of Salisbury | ||||||||
James Lowther | ![]() | 22 September 1891 | 18 August 1892 | |||||
Sir Edward Grey | ![]() | 18 August 1892 | 20 June 1895 | Liberal | Gladstone | The Earl of Rosebery | ||
The Earl of Rosebery | ||||||||
The Earl of Kimberley | ||||||||
George Curzon | ![]() | 20 June 1895 | 15 October 1898 | Conservative | The Marquess of Salisbury | The Marquess of Salisbury | ||
St John Brodrick | ![]() | 15 October 1898 | 12 November 1900 | |||||
The Viscount Cranborne | ![]() | 12 November 1900 | 9 October 1903 | The Marquess of Lansdowne | ||||
Balfour | ||||||||
Earl Percy | ![]() | 9 October 1903 | 18 December 1905 | |||||
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice | ![]() | 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 | |||
The 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 | The Marquess of Reading | |||
Simon | ||||||||
The Earl Stanhope | 18 January 1934 | 16 June 1936 | ||||||
Baldwin | Hoare | |||||||
Eden | ||||||||
The Viscount Cranborne | ![]() | 18 June 1935 | 20 February 1938 | Baldwin (1935–37) Chamberlain (1937–40) | Eden (1935–38) The Viscount Halifax (1938–40) | |||
The Earl of Plymouth | ![]() | 30 July 1936 | 12 May 1940 | |||||
Rab Butler | ![]() | 25 February 1938 | 20 July 1941 | Chamberlain | The Viscount Halifax | |||
Churchill | ||||||||
Eden | ||||||||
Richard Law | ![]() | 20 July 1941 | 25 September 1943 | |||||
George Hall | ![]() | 25 September 1943 | 26 May 1945 | Labour | ||||
Lord Dunglass | ![]() | 26 May 1945 | 26 July 1945 | Conservative | ||||
The 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 | |||||
The Lord Henderson | ![]() | 7 June 1948 | 26 October 1951 | |||||
Ernest Davies | ![]() | 2 March 1950 | 26 October 1951 | |||||
Morrison | ||||||||
The 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 | ||||
The Earl of Gosford | ![]() | 18 January 1957 | 23 October 1958 | |||||
The Marquess of Lansdowne | ![]() | 23 October 1958 | 20 April 1962 | |||||
The Earl of 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 | The Earl of 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 | |||||
The Lord 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 | ||
The 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 | |||||
The Lord 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 | The Lord Carrington | ||
The Lord 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 | ||||||||
Hon. 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 | ||
The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | ![]() | 2 May 1997 | 28 June 1999 | Labour | Blair | Cook | ||
The Baroness Scotland of Asthal | ![]() | 28 July 1999 | 12 June 2001 | |||||
The 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 | |||||
The Lord 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 |
See also
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Foreign Secretary
- Minister of State for Europe
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
- Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa
- Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Undersecretary
References
- Jupp, P. J. (September 2004), "Cooke, Edward (bap. 1755, d. 1820)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 15 March 2009
- Haydn's Book of Dignities
- Created Baron Fitzmaurice in January 1906
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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 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign AffairsRoyal Arms of HM GovernmentIncumbent Inactive Positionsince 11 May 2010Foreign Commonwealth and Development OfficeReports toForeign SecretaryNominatorPrime Minister of the United KingdomAppointerThe Prime Minister approved and sworn in by the Queen in CouncilTerm lengthNo fixed termFormation1782First holderWilliam FraserList of ministersName 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 The Marquess of Rockingham Fox George Maddison 1782 1783 The Earl of Shelburne The Lord Grantham The Duke of Portland Fox St Andrew St John 1783 1789 Pitt the Younger The Earl Temple The Duke of Leeds Hon Dudley Ryder 1789 1789 Tory Sir James Burges Bt 1789 January 1796 The Lord Grenville George Canning January 1796 April 1799 Tory John Hookham Frere April 1799 September 1800 September 1800 February 1801 Lord Hervey February 1801 November 1803 Addington The Lord Hawkesbury Charles Arbuthnot November 1803 June 1804 Tory William Eliot June 1804 February 1805 Pitt the Younger The Lord Harrowby Robert Ward February 1805 February 1806 The Lord Mulgrave George Walpole February 1806 March 1807 The Lord Grenville Fox The Viscount Howick Sir Francis Vincent February 1806 March 1807 The Duke of Portland Canning The Viscount FitzHarris March 1807 August 1807 Charles Bagot August 1807 December 1809 Perceval The Earl Bathurst Culling Charles Smith December 1809 February 1812 The Marquess Wellesley Edward Cooke February 1812 1817 The Earl of Liverpool The Marquess of Londonderry Joseph Planta 25 July 1817 22 January 1822 Tory The Earl of Clanwilliam January 1822 January 1823 Canning Lord Francis Conyngham January 1823 January 1826 Tory The Lord Howard de Walden July 1824 June 1828 The Earl of Dudley The Marquess of Clanricarde January 1826 1827 Lord Dunglass June 1828 November 1830 The Duke of Wellington The Earl of Aberdeen Sir George Shee 26 November 1830 13 November 1834 Whig The Earl Grey The Viscount Palmerston The Viscount Melbourne The Viscount Fordwich 13 November 1834 17 December 1834 The Duke of Wellington The Duke of Wellington The Viscount Mahon 17 December 1834 18 April 1835 Conservative Peel William Fox Strangways 18 April 1835 7 March 1840 Whig The Viscount Melbourne The Viscount Palmerston Lord Leveson 7 March 1840 4 September 1841 The Viscount Canning 4 September 1841 27 January 1846 Conservative Peel The Earl of Aberdeen George Smythe 27 January 1846 6 July 1846 Edward Stanley 6 July 1846 12 February 1852 Whig Russell The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Granville Austen Henry Layard 12 February 1852 18 May 1852 Lord Stanley 18 May 1852 28 December 1852 Conservative The Earl of Derby The Earl of Malmesbury The Lord Wodehouse 28 December 1852 5 July 1856 Whig The Earl of Aberdeen Lord John Russell The Earl of Clarendon The Earl of Shelburne 5 July 1856 26 February 1858 The Viscount Palmerston William Vesey FitzGerald 26 February 1858 19 June 1859 Conservative The Earl of Derby The Earl of Malmesbury The Lord Wodehouse 19 June 1859 15 August 1861 Liberal The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell Austen Henry Layard 15 August 1861 6 July 1866 The Earl Russell The Earl of Clarendon Edward Egerton 6 July 1866 12 December 1868 Conservative The Earl of Derby The Lord Stanley Disraeli Arthur Otway 12 December 1868 9 January 1871 Liberal Gladstone The Earl of Clarendon The Earl Granville The Viscount Enfield 9 January 1871 23 February 1874 Robert Bourke 23 February 1874 28 April 1880 Conservative Disraeli The 15th Earl of Derby The Marquess of Salisbury Sir Charles Dilke 28 April 1880 1 January 1883 Liberal Gladstone The Earl Granville Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice 1 January 1883 25 June 1885 Robert Bourke 25 June 1885 28 January 1886 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Marquess of Salisbury James Bryce 7 February 1886 20 July 1886 Liberal Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery Sir James Fergusson 4 August 1886 22 September 1891 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Earl of Iddesleigh The Marquess of Salisbury James Lowther 22 September 1891 18 August 1892 Sir Edward Grey 18 August 1892 20 June 1895 Liberal Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery The Earl of Rosebery The Earl of Kimberley George Curzon 20 June 1895 15 October 1898 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Marquess of Salisbury St John Brodrick 15 October 1898 12 November 1900 The Viscount Cranborne 12 November 1900 9 October 1903 The Marquess of Lansdowne Balfour Earl Percy 9 October 1903 18 December 1905 Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice 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 The 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 The Marquess of Reading Simon The Earl Stanhope 18 January 1934 16 June 1936 Baldwin Hoare Eden The Viscount Cranborne 18 June 1935 20 February 1938 Baldwin 1935 37 Chamberlain 1937 40 Eden 1935 38 The Viscount Halifax 1938 40 The Earl of Plymouth 30 July 1936 12 May 1940 Rab Butler 25 February 1938 20 July 1941 Chamberlain The Viscount Halifax Churchill Eden Richard Law 20 July 1941 25 September 1943 George Hall 25 September 1943 26 May 1945 Labour Lord Dunglass 26 May 1945 26 July 1945 Conservative The 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 The Lord Henderson 7 June 1948 26 October 1951 Ernest Davies 2 March 1950 26 October 1951 Morrison The 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 The Earl of Gosford 18 January 1957 23 October 1958 The Marquess of Lansdowne 23 October 1958 20 April 1962 The Earl of 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 The Earl of 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 The Lord 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 The 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 The Lord 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 The Lord Carrington The Lord 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 Hon 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 The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean 2 May 1997 28 June 1999 Labour Blair Cook The Baroness Scotland of Asthal 28 July 1999 12 June 2001 The 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 The Lord 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 PacificSee alsoForeign Commonwealth and Development Office Foreign Secretary Minister of State for Europe Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa Under Secretary of State for the Home Department UndersecretaryReferencesJupp P J September 2004 Cooke Edward bap 1755 d 1820 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press retrieved 15 March 2009 Haydn s Book of Dignities Created Baron Fitzmaurice in January 1906