Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
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[edit] Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1768-1782
[edit] 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: I. 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1825 and 1854-1966
- 1825: Robert William Hay
- 1854: H. Merivale
- 1859: Sir Frederick Rogers, later Lord Blachford
- 1871: (Sir) R.G.W. Herbert
- 1892: Sir R.H. Meade
- 1897: (Sir) E. Wingfield
- 1900: (Sir) M. Ommanney
- 1907: Sir F. Hopwood
- 1911: Sir J. Anderson
- 1916: Sir G. Fiddes
- 1921: Sir J. Masterton-Smith
- 1925: Sir S. Wilson
- 1933: Sir John Maffey
- 1937: Sir C. Parkinson
- 1940: Sir G. Gater
- 1940: Sir C. Parkinson
- 1942: Sir G. Gater
- 1947: Sir T. Lloyd
- 1956: Sir J. Macpherson
- 1959: Sir H. Poynton
