Chief Secretary for Ireland

Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party 	Notes
Matthew Lock 	1660 	1660 	 	
Sir Thomas Page 	1662 	1669 	 	
Sir Henry Ford 	1669 	1670 	 	
Sir Ellis Leighton 	1670 	1672 	 	
Sir Henry Ford 	1672 	1673 	 	
Sir William Harbord 	1673 	1676 	 	
Sir Cyril Wyche 	1676 	1682 	 	
Sir WIlliam Ellis 	1682 	1685 	 	
Sir Paul Rycaut 	1686 	1687 	 	
Thomas Sheridan 	1687 	1688 	 	
Patrick Tyrrell 	1688 	1689 	 	
John Davis 	1690 	1692 	 	
Sir Cyril Wyche 	1692 	1693 	 	
Sir Richard Aldworth 	1695 	1696 	 	
William Palmer 	1696 	1697 	 	
Matthew Prior 	1697 	1699 	 	
Humphrey May 	1699 	1701 	 	
Francis Gwyn 	1701 	1703 	 	
Edward Southwell 	1703 	1707 	Tory 	
George Dodlington 	1707 	1708 	 	
Joseph Addison 	December 1708 	August 1710 	Whig 	
Edward Southwell 	August 1710 	1713 	Tory 	
Sir John Stanley 	1713 	1714 	Tory 	
Joseph Addison 	September 1714 	August 1715 	Whig 	
Martin Bladen and Charles Delafaye	August 1715 	February 1717 	Whig 	
Edward Webster 	February 1717 	June 1720 	Whig 	
Horatio Walpole 	June 1720 	1721 	Whig 	
Edward Hopkins 	1721 	May 1724 	Whig 	
Thomas Clutterbuck 	May 1724 	June 1730 	Whig 	
Walter Cary 	June 1730 	April 1737 	Whig 	
Sir Edward Walpole 	April 1737 	1739 	Whig 	
Thomas Townshend 	1739 	1739 	Whig 	
Henry Legge 	1739 	1741 	Whig 	
Viscount Duncannon 	1741 	January 1745 	Whig 	
Richard Liddell 	January 1745 	1746 	Whig 	
Sewallis Shirley 	1746 	November 1746 	Whig 	
Edward Weston 	November 1746 	December 1750 	Whig 	
Lord George Sackville 	December 1750 	April 1755 	Whig 	
Henry Seymour Conway 	April 1755 	November 1756 	Whig 	
Richard Rigby 	January 1757 	April 1761 	Whig 	
William Gerard Hamilton 	3 April 1761 	1764 	Whig 	
The Earl of Drogheda 	1764 	June 1765 	 	
Viscount Conway 	June 1765 	October 1766 	Whig 	
Augustus Hervey 	October 1766 	July 1767 	Whig 	
Theophilus Jones 	July 1767 	August 1767 	 	
Lord Frederick Campbell 	August 1767 	December 1768 	Tory 	
Sir George Macartney 	January 1769 	October 1772 	Tory 	
Sir John Blaquiere 	October 1772 	December 1776 	Tory 	
Richard Heron 	December 1776 	November 1780 	Tory 	
William Eden 	November 1780 	March 1782 	Tory 	
Richard FitzPatrick 	March 1782 	July 1782 	Whig 	
William Wyndham Grenville 	July 1782 	April 1783 	Whig 	
William Windham 	April 1783 	August 1783 	Whig 	
Thomas Pelham 	August 1783 	January 1784 	Whig 	
Thomas Orde 	February 1784 	October 1787 	Tory 	
Alleyne Fitzherbert 	October 1787 	April 1789 	Tory 	
Robert Hobart 	April 1789 	October 1793 	Tory 	
Sylvester Douglas 	January 1794 	December 1794 	Tory 	
Viscount Milton 	December 1794 	March 1795 	Portland Whig	
Thomas Pelham 	March 1795 	29 March 1798 	Portland Whig	
Viscount Castlereagh 	29 March 1798 	21 May 1801 	Tory 	
Charles Abbot 	21 May 1801 	January 1802 	Tory 	
William Wickham 	February 1802 	January 1804 	Tory 	
Sir Evan Nepean 	February 1804 	January 1805 	Tory 	
Nicholas Vansittart 	January 1805 	September 1805 	Tory 	
Charles Long 	September 1805 	February 1806 	Tory 	
William Elliot 	February 1806 	March 1807 	Whig 	
Sir Arthur Wellesley 	March 1807 	April 1809 	Tory 	
Robert Dundas 	April 1809 	October 1809 	Tory 	
William Wellesley-Pole 	October 1809 	August 1812 	Tory 	
Robert Peel 	August 1812 	August 1818 	Tory 	
Charles Grant 	August 1818 	December 1821 	Tory 	
Henry Goulburn 	December 1821 	April 1827 	Tory 	
William Lamb 	April 1827 	May 1828 	Canningite 	
Lord Francis Leveson-Gower 	21 June 1828 	30 July 1830 	Tory 	
Sir Henry Hardinge 	30 July 1830 	22 November 1830 	Tory 	
Edward Stanley 	29 November 1830 	29 March 1833 	Whig 	entered cabinet 16 June 1831
Sir John Cam Hobhouse 	29 March 1833 	14 November 1834 	Whig 	
Sir Henry Hardinge 	16 December 1834 	8 April 1835 	Conservative 	
Viscount Morpeth 	22 April 1835 	30 August 1841 	Whig 	entered Cabinet 20 February 1839
Lord Eliot 	6 February 1841 	1 February 1845 	Conservative 	
Sir Thomas Fremantle 	1 February 1845 	14 February 1846 	Conservative 	
Earl of Lincoln 	14 February 1846 	27 June 1846 	Conservative 	
Henry Labouchere 	6 July 1846 	22 July 1847 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Sir William Somerville 	22 July 1847 	21 February 1852 	Liberal 	
Lord Naas 	1 March 1852 	17 December 1852 	Conservative 	
Sir John Young 	6 January 1853 	1 March 1855 	Peelite 	
Edward Horsman 	1 March 1855 	27 May 1857 	Liberal 	
Henry Arthur Herbert 	27 May 1857 	21 February 1858 	Liberal 	
Lord Naas 	4 March 1858 	11 June 1859 	Conservative 	
Edward Cardwell 	24 June 1859 	29 July 1861 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Sir Robert Peel 	29 July 1861 	7 December 1865 	Liberal 	
Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue 	7 December 1865 	26 June 1866 	Liberal 	
Lord Naas later The Earl of Mayo 	10 July 1866 	29 September 1868	Conservative 	in cabinet
John Wilson-Patten 	29 September 1868	1 December 1868 	Conservative 	
Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue 	16 December 1868 	12 January 1871 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Marquess of Hartington 	12 January 1871 	17 February 1874 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 	27 February 1874 	15 February 1878 	Conservative 	in cabinet from 12 August 1876
James Lowther 	15 February 1878 	21 April 1880 	Conservative 	
William Forster 	30 April 1880 	6 May 1882 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Lord Frederick Cavendish 	6 May 1882 	9 May 1882 	Liberal 	assassinated in Phoenix Park, Dublin
George Otto Trevelyan 	9 May 1882 	23 October 1884 	Liberal 	
Henry Campbell-Bannerman 	23 October 1884 	9 June 1885 	Liberal 	
Sir William Hart Dyke 	25 June 1885 	23 January 1886 	Conservative 	
William Henry Smith 	23 January 1886 	28 January 1886 	Conservative 	in cabinet
John Morley 	6 February 1886 	20 July 1886 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 	5 August 1886 	7 March 1887 	Conservative 	in cabinet
Arthur Balfour 	7 March 1887 	9 November 1891 	Conservative 	in cabinet
William Jackson 	9 November 1891 	11 August 1892 	Conservative 	
John Morley 	22 August 1892 	21 June 1895 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Gerald Balfour 	4 July 1895 	9 November 1900 	Conservative 	
George Wyndham 	9 November 1900 	12 March 1905 	Conservative 	in cabinet
Walter Long 	12 March 1905 	4 December 1905 	Conservative 	in cabinet
James Bryce 	10 December 1905 	23 January 1907 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Augustine Birrell 	23 January 1907 	3 May 1916 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Henry Duke 	31 July 1916 	5 May 1918 	Conservative 	in cabinet
Edward Shortt 	5 May 1918 	10 January 1919 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Ian Macpherson 	10 January 1919 	2 April 1920 	Liberal 	in cabinet
Sir Hamar Greenwood 	2 April 1920 	19 October 1922 	Liberal 	in cabinet