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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

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This article is about a junior ministerial role in Britain's Foreign & Commonwealth Office. For the senior civil servant in that department, see Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is a vacant junior position in the British government, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. The post is based at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which was created by the merger of the Foreign Office, where the position was initially based, with the Commonwealth Office in 1968 and the Department for International Development in 2020. Notable holders of the office include Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, and Anthony Eden.

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent
Vacant
since 11 May 2010
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Reports toSecretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
NominatorPrime Minister of the United Kingdom
AppointerThe Prime Minister
approved and sworn in by the Queen-in-Council
Term lengthNo fixed term
Formation1782
First holderWilliam Fraser

List of ministers

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NamePortraitTerm of officePolitical partyP.M.F.Sec.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
William Fraser 17821789
Richard Brinsley Sheridan 17821782WhigThe Marquess of RockinghamFox
George Maddison 17821783The Earl of ShelburneThe Lord Grantham
The Duke of PortlandFox
St Andrew St John 17831789Pitt the YoungerThe Earl Temple
The Duke of Leeds
Hon. Dudley Ryder 17891789Tory
Sir James Burges, Bt 1789January 1796
The Lord Grenville
George Canning January 1796April 1799Tory
John Hookham Frere April 1799September 1800
Edward Fisher September 1800February 1801
Lord Hervey February 1801November 1803AddingtonThe Lord Hawkesbury
Charles Arbuthnot November 1803June 1804Tory
William Eliot June 1804February 1805Pitt the YoungerThe Lord Harrowby
Robert Ward February 1805February 1806The Lord Mulgrave
George Walpole February 1806March 1807The Lord GrenvilleFox
The Viscount Howick
Sir Francis Vincent February 1806March 1807The Duke of PortlandCanning
The Viscount FitzHarris March 1807August 1807
Charles Bagot August 1807December 1809
PercevalThe Earl Bathurst
Culling Charles Smith December 1809February 1812The Marquess Wellesley
Edward Cooke February 18121817[1]
The Earl of LiverpoolThe Marquess of Londonderry
Joseph Planta 25 July 181722 January 1822[2]Tory
The Earl of Clanwilliam January 1822January 1823
Canning
Lord Francis Conyngham January 1823January 1826Tory
The Lord Howard de Walden July 1824June 1828
The Earl of Dudley
The Marquess of Clanricarde January 18261827
Lord Dunglass June 1828November 1830The Duke of Wellington
The Earl of Aberdeen
Sir George Shee 26 November 183013 November 1834WhigThe Earl GreyThe Viscount Palmerston
The Viscount Melbourne
The Viscount Fordwich 13 November 183417 December 1834The Duke of WellingtonThe Duke of Wellington
The Viscount Mahon 17 December 183418 April 1835ConservativePeel
William Fox-Strangways 18 April 18357 March 1840WhigThe Viscount MelbourneThe Viscount Palmerston
Lord Leveson 7 March 18404 September 1841
The Viscount Canning 4 September 184127 January 1846ConservativePeelThe Earl of Aberdeen
George Smythe 27 January 18466 July 1846
Edward Stanley 6 July 184612 February 1852WhigRussellThe Viscount Palmerston
The Earl Granville
Austen Henry Layard 12 February 185218 May 1852
Lord Stanley 18 May 185228 December 1852ConservativeThe Earl of DerbyThe Earl of Malmesbury
The Lord Wodehouse 28 December 18525 July 1856WhigThe Earl of AberdeenLord John Russell
The Earl of Clarendon
The Earl of Shelburne 5 July 185626 February 1858The Viscount Palmerston
William Vesey-FitzGerald 26 February 185819 June 1859ConservativeThe Earl of DerbyThe Earl of Malmesbury
The Lord Wodehouse 19 June 185915 August 1861LiberalThe Viscount PalmerstonThe Earl Russell
Austen Henry Layard 15 August 18616 July 1866
The Earl RussellThe Earl of Clarendon
Edward Egerton 6 July 186612 December 1868ConservativeThe Earl of DerbyThe Lord Stanley
Disraeli
Arthur Otway 12 December 18689 January 1871LiberalGladstoneThe Earl of Clarendon
The Earl Granville
The Viscount Enfield 9 January 187123 February 1874
Robert Bourke 23 February 187428 April 1880ConservativeDisraeliThe 15th Earl of Derby
The Marquess of Salisbury
Sir Charles Dilke 28 April 18801 January 1883LiberalGladstoneThe Earl Granville
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice 1 January 188325 June 1885
Robert Bourke 25 June 188528 January 1886ConservativeThe Marquess of SalisburyThe Marquess of Salisbury
James Bryce 7 February 188620 July 1886LiberalGladstoneThe Earl of Rosebery
Sir James Fergusson 4 August 188622 September 1891ConservativeThe Marquess of SalisburyThe Earl of Iddesleigh
The Marquess of Salisbury
James Lowther 22 September 189118 August 1892
Sir Edward Grey 18 August 189220 June 1895LiberalGladstoneThe Earl of Rosebery
The Earl of Rosebery
The Earl of Kimberley
George Curzon 20 June 189515 October 1898ConservativeThe Marquess of SalisburyThe Marquess of Salisbury
St John Brodrick 15 October 189812 November 1900
The Viscount Cranborne 12 November 19009 October 1903The Marquess of Lansdowne
Balfour
Earl Percy 9 October 190318 December 1905
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice[3] 18 December 190519 October 1908LiberalCampbell-BannermanGrey
Asquith
Thomas McKinnon Wood 19 October 190823 October 1911
Francis Dyke Acland 23 October 19114 February 1915
Neil Primrose 4 February 191530 May 1915
Lord Robert Cecil 30 May 191510 January 1919
Lloyd GeorgeBalfour
Cecil Harmsworth 10 January 191931 October 1922
Ronald McNeill 31 October 192223 January 1924ConservativeLaw
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Baldwin
Arthur Ponsonby 23 January 192411 November 1924LabourMacDonaldMacDonald
Ronald McNeill 11 November 19247 December 1925ConservativeBaldwinChamberlain
Godfrey Locker-Lampson 7 December 192511 June 1929
Hugh Dalton 11 June 19293 September 1931LabourMacDonaldHenderson
Anthony Eden 3 September 193118 January 1934ConservativeThe Marquess of Reading
Simon
The Earl Stanhope 18 January 193416 June 1936
BaldwinHoare
Eden
The Viscount Cranborne 18 June 193520 February 1938Baldwin (1935–37)
Chamberlain (1937–40)		Eden (1935–38)
The Viscount Halifax (1938–40)
The Earl of Plymouth 30 July 193612 May 1940
Rab Butler 25 February 193820 July 1941ChamberlainThe Viscount Halifax
Churchill
Eden
Richard Law 20 July 194125 September 1943
George Hall 25 September 194326 May 1945Labour
Lord Dunglass 26 May 194526 July 1945Conservative
The Lord Lovat 26 May 194526 July 1945
Hector McNeil 4 August 19454 October 1946LabourAttleeBevin
Christopher Mayhew 4 October 19462 March 1950
The Lord Henderson 7 June 194826 October 1951
Ernest Davies 2 March 195026 October 1951
Morrison
The Marquess of Reading 31 October 195111 November 1953ConservativeChurchillEden
Anthony Nutting 31 October 195118 October 1954
Douglas Dodds-Parker 11 November 195318 October 1954
Robin Turton 18 October 195420 December 1955Churchill (1954–55)
Eden (1955–56)		Eden (1954–55)
Macmillan (1955)
Lloyd (1955–56)
Lord John Hope 18 October 19549 November 1956
Douglas Dodds-Parker 20 December 19559 January 1957EdenLloyd
David Ormsby-Gore 9 November 19569 January 1957
Ian Harvey 18 January 195724 November 1958Macmillan
The Earl of Gosford 18 January 195723 October 1958
The Marquess of Lansdowne 23 October 195820 April 1962
The Earl of Home
John Profumo 28 November 195816 January 1959Lloyd
Robert Allan 16 January 19597 October 1960
Joseph Godber 28 October 196027 June 1961The Earl of Home
Peter Thomas 27 June 196127 June 1963
Peter Smithers 16 July 196229 January 1964
Douglas-HomeButler
Robert Mathew 30 January 196416 October 1964
The Lord Walston 20 October 19647 January 1967LabourWilsonWalker
Stewart
Brown
Bill Rodgers 7 January 19673 July 1968
Maurice Foley 3 July 196817 October 1968Stewart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Maurice Foley 17 October 196819 June 1970LabourWilsonStewart
William Whitlock 17 October 196813 October 1969
Evan Luard 13 October 196919 June 1970
Anthony Royle 24 June 19708 January 1974ConservativeHeathDouglas-Home
The Marquess of Lothian 24 June 19709 April 1972
Anthony Kershaw 15 October 19705 June 1973
Peter Blaker 8 January 19744 March 1974
The Lord Goronwy-Roberts 8 March 19744 December 1975LabourWilsonCallaghan
Joan Lestor 8 March 197412 June 1975
Ted Rowlands 12 June 197514 April 1976
John Tomlinson 17 March 19764 May 1979CallaghanCrosland (1976–77)
Owen (1977–79)
Evan Luard 14 April 19764 May 1979
Richard Luce 6 May 197914 September 1981ConservativeThatcherThe Lord Carrington
The Lord Trefgarne 14 September 19816 April 1982
Malcolm Rifkind 6 April 198213 June 1983Pym
Ray Whitney 13 June 198311 September 1984Howe
Tim Renton 11 September 19842 September 1985
Timothy Eggar 2 September 198524 July 1989
Tim Sainsbury 24 July 198924 July 1990Major
Hurd
Hon. Mark Lennox-Boyd 24 July 199020 July 1994
Major
Office vacant from 1994 to 1996
Liam Fox 23 July 19961 May 1997ConservativeMajorRifkind
The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean 2 May 199728 June 1999LabourBlairCook
The Baroness Scotland of Asthal 28 July 199912 June 2001
The Baroness Amos 12 June 200113 June 2003Straw
Ben Bradshaw 12 June 200129 May 2002
Mike O'Brien 29 May 200213 June 2003
Bill Rammell 28 October 200210 May 2005
Chris Mullin 13 June 200310 May 2005
The Lord Triesman 10 May 200528 June 2007
Beckett
Meg Munn 29 June 20075 October 2008BrownMiliband
Gillian Merron 5 October 20089 June 2009
Chris Bryant 9 June 200911 May 2010
Role merged into Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Jupp, P. J. (September 2004), "Cooke, Edward (bap. 1755, d. 1820)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 15 March 2009
  2. ^ Haydn's Book of Dignities
  3. ^ Created Baron Fitzmaurice in January 1906
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