Lijst van Britse ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken

Dit is een lijst van Foreign Secretaries van het Verenigd Koninkrijk sinds 1846.

Ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken van het Verenigd Koninkrijk (1846–heden)

Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs			Ambtstermijn		Partij	Premier	Kabinet	Overige functie(s)
		Burggraaf Palmerston Henry John Temple (1784–1865)	30 juni 1846	25 december 1851 [1]	Whig Party	John Russell (1846–1852)	Russell I
		Graaf Granville Granville Leveson-Gower (1815–1891)	25 december 1851	22 februari 1852	Whig Party
		Graaf van Malmesbury James Harris (1807–1889)	22 februari 1852	28 december 1852	Conservative Party	Edward Smith-Stanley (1852)	Smith-Stanley I
		Graaf Russell John Russell (1792–1878)	28 december 1852	20 februari 1853 [2]	Whig Party	George Hamilton -Gordon (1852–1855)	Hamilton-Gordon
		Graaf van Clarendon George Villiers (1800–1870)	20 februari 1853	20 februari 1858	Whig Party
						Henry John Temple (1855–1858)	Temple I
		Graaf van Malmesbury James Harris (1807–1889)	20 februari 1858	12 juni 1859	Conservative Party	Edward Smith-Stanley (1858–1859)	Smith-Stanley II
		Graaf Russell John Russell (1792–1878)	12 juni 1859	18 oktober 1865	Liberal Party	Henry John Temple (1859–1865)	Temple II
		Graaf van Clarendon George Villiers (1800–1870)	18 oktober 1865	28 juni 1866	Liberal Party	John Russell (1865–1866)	Russell II
		Heer Stanley Edward Stanley (1823–1893)	28 juni 1866	3 december 1868	Conservative Party	Edward Smith-Stanley (1866–1868)	Smith-Stanley III
						Benjamin Disraeli (1868)	Disraeli I
		Graaf van Clarendon George Villiers (1800–1870)	3 december 1868	27 juni 1870 [3]	Liberal Party	William Ewart Gladstone (1868–1874)	Gladstone I
			Vacant
		Graaf Granville Granville Leveson-Gower (1815–1891)	1 juli 1870	20 februari 1874	Liberal Party			Leader of the House of Lords
		Graaf van Derby Edward Stanley (1823–1893)	20 februari 1874	2 april 1878	Conservative Party	Benjamin Disraeli (1874–1880)	Disraeli II
		Markies van Salisbury Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1830–1903)	2 april 1878	23 april 1880	Conservative Party
		Graaf Granville Granville Leveson-Gower (1815–1891)	23 april 1880	23 juni 1885	Liberal Party	William Ewart Gladstone (1880–1885)	Gladstone II	Leader of the House of Lords
		Markies van Salisbury Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1830–1903)	23 juni 1885	28 januari 1886	Conservative Party	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1885–1886)	Gascoyne-Cecil I	Premier
								Leader of the House of Lords
		Graaf van Rosebery Archibald Primrose (1847–1929)	28 januari 1886	20 juli 1886	Liberal Party	William Ewart Gladstone (1886)	Gladstone III
		Graaf van Iddesleigh Stafford Northcote (1818–1887)	20 juli 1886	12 januari 1887 [3]	Conservative Party	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1886–1892)	Gascoyne-Cecil II
		Markies van Salisbury Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1830–1903)	12 januari 1887	15 augustus 1892	Conservative Party			Premier
								Leader of the House of Lords
		Graaf van Rosebery Archibald Primrose (1847–1929)	15 augustus 1892	5 maart 1894	Liberal Party	William Ewart Gladstone (1892–1894)	Gladstone IV
		Graaf Kimberley John Wodehouse (1826–1902)	5 maart 1894	25 juni 1895	Liberal Party	Archibald Primrose (1894–1895)	Primrose
		Markies van Salisbury Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1830–1903)	25 juni 1895	10 november 1900	Conservative Party	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1895–1902)	Gascoyne- Cecil III	Premier
								Leader of the House of Lords
		Markies van Lansdowne Henry Petty- Fitzmaurice (1845–1927)	10 november 1900	5 december 1905	Liberal Unionist Party		Gascoyne- Cecil IV
						Arthur Balfour (1902–1905)	Balfour	Leader of the House of Lords (1903–1905)
		Sir Edward Grey (1862–1933)	5 december 1905	7 december 1916	Liberal Party	Henry Campbell- Bannerman (1905–1908)	Campbell- Bannerman
						Herbert Henry Asquith (1908–1916)	Asquith I
							Asquith II
							Asquith III
							Asquith IV
		Arthur Balfour (1848–1930)	7 december 1916	23 oktober 1919	Conservative Party	David Lloyd George (1916–1922)	Lloyd George I
							Lloyd George II
		Markies van Curzon van Kedleston George Curzon (1859–1925)	23 oktober 1919	22 januari 1924	Conservative Party			Leader of the House of Lords
						Bonar Law (1922–1923)	Law
						Stanley Baldwin (1923–1924)	Baldwin I
		Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937)	22 januari 1924	3 november 1924	Labour Party	Ramsay MacDonald (1924)	MacDonald I	Premier
		Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937)	4 november 1924	5 juni 1929	Conservative Party	Stanley Baldwin (1924–1929)	Baldwin II
		Arthur Henderson (1863–1935)	5 juni 1929	26 augustus 1931	Labour Party	Ramsay MacDonald (1929–1935)	MacDonald II
		Markies van Reading Rufus Isaacs (1860–1935)	26 augustus 1931	5 november 1931	Liberal Party		MacDonald III (Nationaal Kabinet I)	Leader of the House of Lords
		Sir John Simon (1873–1954)	5 november 1931	7 juni 1935	National Liberal Party		MacDonald IV (Nationaal Kabinet II)
		Sir Samuel Hoare (1880–1959)	7 juni 1935	22 december 1935 [1]	Conservative Party	Stanley Baldwin (1935–1937)	Baldwin III (Nationaal Kabinet III)
		Anthony Eden (1897–1977)	22 december 1935	20 februari 1938 [1]	Conservative Party
						Neville Chamberlain (1937–1940)	Chamberlain I (Nationaal Kabinet IV)
		Burggraaf Halifax Edward Wood (1881–1959)	20 februari 1938	22 december 1940 [4]	Conservative Party
							Chamberlain II
						Winston Churchill (1940–1945)	Churchill I	Leader of the House of Lords (1940)
		Anthony Eden (1897–1977)	22 december 1940	26 juli 1945	Conservative Party			Leader of the House of Commons (1942–1945)
							Churchill II
		Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)	26 juli 1945	9 maart 1951 [5]	Labour Party	Clement Attlee (1945–1951)	Attlee I
							Attlee II
		Herbert Morrison (1888–1965)	9 maart 1951	26 oktober 1951	Labour Party			Vicepremier
		Sir Anthony Eden (1897–1977)	26 oktober 1951	5 april 1955	Conservative Party	Winston Churchill (1951–1955)	Churchill III	Vicepremier
		Harold Macmillan (1894–1986)	5 april 1955	20 december 1955 [6]	Conservative Party	Anthony Eden (1955–1957)	Eden
		Selwyn Lloyd (1904–1978)	20 december 1955	27 juli 1960 < [6]	Conservative Party
						Harold Macmillan (1957–1963)	Macmillan I
							Macmillan II
		Graaf van Home Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995)	27 juli 1960	19 oktober 1963	Conservative Party
		Rab Butler (1902–1982)	19 oktober 1963	16 oktober 1964	Conservative Party	Alec Douglas-Home (1963–1964)	Douglas-Home	Vicepremier
								First Secretary of State
		Patrick Gordon Walker (1907–1980)	16 oktober 1964	22 januari 1965 [1]	Labour Party	Harold Wilson (1964–1970)	Wilson I
		Michael Stewart (1906–1990)	22 januari 1965	11 augustus 1966 [7]	Labour Party			First Secretary of State
							Wilson II
		George Brown (1914–1985)	11 augustus 1966	16 maart 1968 [1]	Labour Party
		Michael Stewart (1906–1990)	16 maart 1968	19 juni 1970	Labour Party
		Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995)	19 juni 1970	4 maart 1974	Conservative Party	Edward Heath (1970–1974)	Heath	First Secretary of State
		James Callaghan (1912–2005)	4 maart 1974	8 april 1976	Labour Party	Harold Wilson (1974–1976)	Wilson III
		Tony Crosland (1918–1977)	8 april 1976	19 februari 1977 [3]	Labour Party	James Callaghan (1976–1979)	Callaghan
Vacant
		David Owen (1938)	22 februari 1977	4 mei 1979	Labour Party
		Baron Carrington Peter Carington (1919–2018)	4 mei 1979	6 april 1982 [1]	Conservative Party	Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990)	Thatcher I
		Francis Pym (1922–2008)	6 april 1982	11 juni 1983 [1]	Conservative Party
		Sir Geoffrey Howe (1926–2015)	11 juni 1983	24 juli 1989 [8]	Conservative Party		Thatcher II
							Thatcher III
		John Major (1943)	24 juli 1989	26 oktober 1989 [6]	Conservative Party
		Douglas Hurd (1930)	26 oktober 1989	5 juli 1995 [1]	Conservative Party
						John Major (1990–1997)	Major I
							Major I
		Malcolm Rifkind (1946)	5 juli 1995	2 mei 1997	Conservative Party
		Robin Cook (1946–2005)	2 mei 1997	8 juni 2001 [9]	Labour Party	Tony Blair (1997–2007)	Blair I
		Jack Straw (1946)	8 juni 2001	6 mei 2006 [10]	Labour Party		Blair II
							Blair III
		Margaret Beckett (1943)	6 mei 2006	28 juni 2007	Labour Party
		David Miliband (1965)	28 juni 2007	11 mei 2010	Labour Party	Gordon Brown (2007–2010)	Brown
		William Hague (1961)	11 mei 2010	14 juli 2014 [11]	Conservative Party	David Cameron (2010–2016)	Cameron I	First Secretary of State
		Philip Hammond (1955)	14 juli 2014	13 juli 2016	Conservative Party
							Cameron II
		Boris Johnson (1964)	13 juli 2016	9 juli 2018 [1]	Conservative Party	Theresa May (2016–2019)	May I
							May II
		Jeremy Hunt (1966)	9 juli 2018	24 juli 2019	Conservative Party
		Dominic Raab (1974)	24 juli 2019	15 september 2021 [12]	Conservative Party	Boris Johnson (2019–2022)	Johnson I	First Secretary of State
							Johnson II
		Liz Truss (1975)	15 september 2021	6 september 2022	Conservative Party			Minister voor Vrouwen en Gelijkheid
		James Cleverly (1969)	6 september 2022	13 november 2023 [13]	Conservative Party	Liz Truss (2022)	Truss
						Rishi Sunak (2022–2024)	Sunak
		Baron Cameron David Cameron (1966)	13 november 2023	5 juli 2024	Conservative Party
		David Lammy (1972)	5 juli 2024	heden	Labour Party	Keir Starmer (2024–heden)	Starmer

Bronnen, noten en/of referenties

1. Afgetreden
2. Afgetreden na benoeming tot minister zonder portefeuille
3. Overleden tijdens ambtstermijn
4. Afgetreden na benoeming tot ambassadeur naar de Verenigde Staten
5. Afgetreden na benoeming tot Lord Privy Seal
6. Afgetreden na benoeming tot minister van Financiën
7. Afgetreden na benoeming tot First Secretary of State en minister van Economische Zaken
8. Afgetreden na benoeming tot vicepremier, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Council en Leader of the House of Commons
9. Afgetreden na benoeming tot Lord President of the Council en Leader of the House of Commons
10. Afgetreden na benoeming tot Lord President of the Council en Lord Privy Seal
11. Afgetreden na benoeming tot Leader of the House of Commons
12. Afgetreden na benoeming tot vicepremier, minister van Justitie en Lord Chancellor
13. Afgetreden na benoeming tot minister van Binnenlandse Zaken