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This is a list of 'Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs' in the British Foreign Office since 1782.
Not to be confused with Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office

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Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, 1782-1968

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, 1782-1968

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State is the junior minister.

★ 1782: Richard Brinsley Sheridan ''and'' William Fraser

★ 1782: George Maddison (replacing Sheridan)

★ 1783: The Hon. St Andrew St John ''and'' William Fraser

★ 1789: James Bland Burgess ''and'' Dudley Ryder

★ August 1789: James Bland Burgess

★ January 1796: George Canning

★ April 1799: John Hookham Frere

★ September 1800: Edward Fisher

★ February 1801: Lord Hervey

★ November 1803: Charles Arbuthnot

★ June 1804: The Hon. William Eliot

★ February 1805: Robert Ward

★ February 1806: The Hon. George Walpole ''and'' Sir Francis Vincent, Bt

★ March 1807: Viscount FitzHarris

★ August 1807: The Hon. Charles Bagot

★ December 1809: Culling Charles Smith

★ February 1812: Edward Cooke

★ January 1822: Earl of Clanwilliam

★ January 1823: Lord Francis Conyngham (until 1826)

★ July 1824: Lord Howard de Walden (until 1828)

★ January 1826: Marquess of Clanricarde (until 1827)

★ June 1828: Lord Dunglass

★ November 1830: Sir George Shee, Bt

★ November 1834: Viscount Fordwich

★ December 1834: Viscount Mahon

★ April 1835: William Fox-Strangways

★ March 1840: The Lord Leveson

★ September 1841: Viscount Canning

★ January 1846: The Hon. George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe

★ July 1846: Edward John Stanley

★ February 1852: Austen Henry Layard

★ May 1852: Lord Stanley

★ December 1852: Lord Wodehouse

★ July 1856: Earl of Shelburne

★ February 1858: William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald

★ June 1859: Lord Wodehouse

★ August 1861: Austen Henry Layard

★ July 1866: Edward Christopher Egerton

★ December 1868: Arthur John Otway

★ January 1871: The Viscount Enfield

★ February 1874: Robert Bourke

★ April 1880: Sir Charles Dilke

★ January 1883: Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice

★ June 1885: Robert Bourke

★ February 1886: James Bryce

★ August 1886: Sir James Fergusson

★ September 1891: James William Lowther

★ August 1892: Sir Edward Grey

★ June 1895: George Nathaniel Curzon

★ October 1898: William St John Brodrick

★ November 1900: Viscount Cranborne

★ October 1903: Earl Percy

★ December 1905: Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, from 1906 Baron Fitzmaurice

★ October 1908: Thomas McKinnon Wood

★ October 1911: Francis Dyke Acland

★ February 1915: Neil Primrose

★ May 1915: Lord Robert Cecil

★ January 1919: Cecil Harmsworth

★ October 1922: Ronald McNeill

★ January 1924: Arthur Ponsonby

★ November 1924: Ronald McNeill

★ December 1925: Godfrey Locker-Lampson

★ June 1929: Hugh Dalton

★ September 1931: Anthony Eden

★ January 1934: Earl Stanhope (to 16 June 1936)

★ August 1935: Viscount Cranborne (to Feb 1938)

★ July 1936: Earl of Plymouth (to May 1939)

★ February 1938: Richard Austen Butler (to July 1941)

★ July 1941: Richard Law

★ September 1943: George Hall

★ May 1945: Lord Dunglass (to July 1945)

★ May 1945: Lord Lovat (to July 1945)
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