Secretary of State for the Colonies

==Secretaries of State for the American Colonies, 1768-1782==
Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party	Notes
The Earl of Hillsborough	27 February 1768	27 August 1772 	Tory 	
The Earl of Dartmouth 	27 August 1772 	10 November 1775	Tory 	
Lord George Germain 	10 November 1775	February 1782 	Tory 	
Welbore Ellis 	February 1782 	8 March 1782 	Tory 	
==Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1854-1966==
Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party 	Notes
Sir George Grey 	12 June 1854 	8 February 1855 	Liberal 	
Sidney Herbert 	8 February 1855 	23 February 1855 	Peelite 	
Lord John Russell 	23 February 1855	21 July 1855 	Liberal 	
Sir William Molesworth, Bt. 	21 July 1855 	21 November 1855 	Liberal 	
Henry Labouchere 	21 November 1855	21 February 1858 	Liberal 	
Lord Stanley 	26 February 1858	5 June 1858 	Conservative 	
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton 	5 June 1858 	11 June 1859 	Conservative 	
The Duke of Newcastle 	18 June 1859 	7 April 1864 	Liberal 	
Edward Cardwell 	7 April 1864 	26 June 1866 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Carnarvon 	6 July 1866 	8 March 1867 	Conservative 	
The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 	8 March 1867 	1 December 1868 	Conservative 	
The Earl Granville 	9 December 1868 	6 July 1870 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Kimberley 	6 July 1870 	17 February 1874 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Carnarvon 	21 February 1874	4 February 1878 	Conservative 	
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bt. 	4 February 1878 	21 April 1880 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Kimberley 	21 April 1880 	16 December 1882 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Derby 	16 December 1882	9 June 1885 	Liberal 	
Frederick Stanley 	24 June 1885 	28 January 1886 	Conservative 	
The Earl Granville 	6 February 1886 	20 July 1886 	Liberal 	
Edward Stanhope 	3 August 1886 	14 January 1887 	Conservative 	
Sir Henry Holland, Bt., later The Lord Knutsford	14 January 1887 	11 August 1892 	Conservative 	
The Marquess of Ripon 	18 August 1892 	21 June 1895 	Liberal 	
Joseph Chamberlain 	29 June 1895 	16 September 1903	Liberal Unionist/Unionist	
Alfred Lyttelton 	11 October 1903 	4 December 1905 	Unionist 	
The Earl of Elgin 	10 December 1905	12 April 1908 	Liberal 	
The Earl of Crewe 	12 April 1908 	3 November 1910 	Liberal 	
Lewis Harcourt 	3 November 1910 	25 May 1915 	Liberal 	
Andrew Bonar Law 	25 May 1915 	10 December 1916 	Unionist 	
Walter Long 	10 December 1916	10 January 1919 	Unionist 	
The Viscount Milner 	10 January 1919 	13 February 1921 	Unionist 	
Winston Spencer Churchill 	13 February 1921	19 October 1922 	Liberal 	
The Duke of Devonshire 	24 October 1922 	22 January 1924 	Conservative 	
James Thomas 	22 January 1924 	3 November 1924 	Labour 	
Leo Amery 	6 November 1924 	4 June 1929 	Conservative 	
The Lord Passfield 	7 June 1929 	24 August 1931 	Labour 	
James Thomas 	25 August 1931 	5 November 1931 	National Labour 	
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister 	5 November 1931 	7 June 1935 	Conservative 	
Malcolm MacDonald 	7 June 1935 	22 November 1935 	National Labour 	
James Thomas 	22 November 1935	22 May 1936 	National Labour 	
William Ormsby-Gore 	28 May 1936 	16 May 1938 	Conservative 	
Malcolm MacDonald 	16 May 1938 	12 May 1940 	National Labour 	
The Lord Lloyd 	12 May 1940 	8 February 1941 	Conservative 	
The Lord Moyne 	8 February 1941 	22 February 1942 	Conservative 	
Viscount Cranborne 	22 February 1942	22 November 1942 	Conservative 	
Oliver Stanley 	22 November 1942	26 July 1945 	Conservative 	
George Hall 	3 August 1945 	4 October 1946 	Labour 	
Arthur Creech Jones 	4 October 1946 	28 February 1950 	Labour 	
Jim Griffiths 	28 February 1950	26 October 1951 	Labour 	
Oliver Lyttelton 	28 October 1951 	28 July 1954 	Conservative 	
Alan Lennox-Boyd 	28 July 1954 	14 October 1959 	Conservative 	
Iain Macleod 	14 October 1959 	9 October 1961 	Conservative 	
Reginald Maudling 	9 October 1961 	13 July 1962 	Conservative 	
Duncan Sandys 	13 July 1962 	16 October 1964 	Conservative 	
Anthony Greenwood 	18 October 1964 	23 December 1965 	Labour 	
The Earl of Longford 	23 December 1965	6 April 1966 	Labour 	
Frederick Lee 	6 April 1966 	1 August 1966 	Labour 	
Merged with Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations to create the new position of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs.