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==Secretaries of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1947–1966==
==Secretaries of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1947–1966==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:Center;"
! colspan=2|Name
! colspan=2| Portrait
! Name
! Portrait
! colspan=2|Term of office
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! Political party
! colspan=2|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|P.M.]]
! colspan=2 | Ministry
! [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs|F.Sec.]]
|-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| [[Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison|The Viscount Addison]]
| [[Image:Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison.jpg|75px]]
| [[Image:Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison.jpg|60px]]
| [[Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison|Christopher Addison<br>'''The Viscount Addison''']]
| 7 July 1947
| <small>7 July</small><br>1947
| 7 October 1947
| <small>7 October</small><br>1947
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| rowspan=4 style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=3 style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=4|[[Clement Attlee|Attlee]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Attlee ministry|Attlee<br><small>(I & II)]]
| rowspan=3|[[Ernest Bevin|Bevin]]
|-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| [[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker|Philip Noel-Baker]]
| [[Image:Philip Noel-Baker 1942.jpg|75px]]
| [[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker|'''Philip Noel-Baker''']]<br><small>MP for [[Derby (UK Parliament constituency)|Derby]]
| [[Image:Philip Noel-Baker 1942.jpg|60px]]
| 7 October 1947
| <small>7 October</small><br>1947
| 28 February 1950
| <small>28 February</small><br>1950
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|-
|-
! rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2|[[Patrick Gordon Walker]]
| [[Image:Patrick Gordon Walker.jpg|75px]]
| rowspan=2|[[Image:Patrick Gordon Walker.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Patrick Gordon Walker]]'''<br><small>MP for [[Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency)|Smethwick]]
| rowspan=2|28 February 1950
| <small>28 February</small><br>1950
| rowspan=2|26 October 1951
| <small>26 October</small><br>1951
| rowspan=2|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|-
| [[Herbert Morrison|Morrison]]
|-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent (politician)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Independent (politician)/meta/color}}" |
| [[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay|General The Lord Ismay]]
| [[Image:Ismay cropped.jpg|75px]]
| [[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay|General Hastings Ismay<br>'''The Lord Ismay''']]
⚫
| [[Image:Ismay cropped.jpg|60px]]
| 28 October 1951
| <small>28 October</small><br>1951
| 12 March 1952
| <small>12 March</small><br>1952
| –
| ''none''
| rowspan=3 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=3 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=3|[[Winston Churchill|Churchill]]
| rowspan=3 | [[Third Churchill ministry|Churchill III]]
| rowspan=3|[[Anthony Eden|Eden]]
|-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury|The Marquess of Salisbury]]
| [[Image:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1947.jpg|75px]]
| [[Image:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1947.jpg|60px]]
| [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil<br>'''The Marquess of Salisbury''']]
| 12 March 1952
| <small>12 March</small><br>1952
| 24 November 1952
| <small>24 November</small><br>1952
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
⚫
| [[Image:The Viscount Swinton.jpg|75px]]<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Swinton1929.png|75px]] -->
| [[Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton|The Viscount Swinton]]
| [[Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton|Philip Cunliffe-Lister<br>'''The Viscount Swinton''']]
⚫
| [[Image:The Viscount Swinton.jpg|60px]]<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Swinton1929.png|60px]] -->
| 24 November 1952
| <small>24 November</small><br>1952
| 7 April 1955
| <small>7 April</small><br>1955
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|-
|-
⚫
! rowspan=3 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
⚫
| rowspan=3|[[Alec Douglas-Home|The Earl of Home]]
| rowspan=3|[[Image:Alec Douglas-Home (c1963).jpg|60px]]
⚫
| rowspan=3|7 April 1955
⚫
| rowspan=3|27 July 1960
⚫
| rowspan=3|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2|[[Anthony Eden|Eden]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Image:Alec Douglas-Home (c1963).jpg|75px]]
⚫
| rowspan=2 | [[Alec Douglas-Home|Alec Douglas-Home<br>'''The Earl of Home''']]
| [[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]]
⚫
| rowspan=2 | <small>7 April</small><br>1955
⚫
| rowspan=2 | <small>27 July</small><br>1960
⚫
| rowspan=2 | [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| [[Eden ministry|Eden<br><small>(I & II)]]
|-
|-
⚫
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2|[[Selwyn Lloyd|Lloyd]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Conservative government, 1957–1964|Macmillan<br><small>(I & II)]]
|-
|-
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2|[[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Image:Duncan Sandys 1975.png|75px]]
| rowspan=2 | '''[[Duncan Sandys]]'''<br><small>MP for [[Streatham (UK Parliament constituency)|Streatham]]
|-
⚫
| rowspan=2 | <small>27 July</small><br>1960
⚫
! rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2|[[Duncan Sandys]]
| rowspan=2 | <small>16 October</small><br>1964
| rowspan=2|[[Image:Duncan Sandys 1975.png|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
⚫
| rowspan=2|27 July 1960
| rowspan=2|16 October 1964
| rowspan=2|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| [[Alec Douglas-Home|D-Home]]
|-
|-
| style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| [[Alec Douglas-Home|D-Home]]
| [[Conservative government, 1957–1964|Douglas-Home]]
| [[Rab Butler|Butler]]
|-
|-
! rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
⚫
| [[Image:No image.svg|75px]]
| rowspan=2|[[Arthur Bottomley]]
| '''[[Arthur Bottomley]]'''<br><small>MP for [[Middlesbrough East (UK Parliament constituency)|Middlesbrough East]]
| rowspan=2|[[Image:No image.svg|60px]]
| rowspan=2|18 October 1964
| <small>18 October</small><br>1964
| rowspan=2|1 August 1966
| <small>1 August</small><br>1966
| rowspan=2|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| style="background-color: {{Labour Party (UK)/meta/color}}" |
| rowspan=2|[[Harold Wilson|Wilson]]
| [[Labour government, 1964–1970|Wilson I]]
| [[Patrick Gordon Walker|Walker]]
|-
|-
| [[Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham|Stewart]]
|}
|}


Revision as of 08:08, 29 August 2017

The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations was a British Cabinet minister responsible for dealing with the United Kingdom's relations with members of the Commonwealth of Nations (its former colonies). The minister's department was the Commonwealth Relations Office.

The position was created in 1947 out of the old position of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. In 1966, the position was merged with that of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to form that of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, which was in turn merged with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1968 to create the new position of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Secretaries of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1947–1966

Portrait Name Term of office Political party Ministry
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Christopher Addison
The Viscount Addison 		7 July
1947 		7 October
1947 		Labour rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Attlee
(I & II)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Philip Noel-Baker
MP for Derby 		7 October
1947 		28 February
1950 		Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Patrick Gordon Walker
MP for Smethwick 		28 February
1950 		26 October
1951 		Labour
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | General Hastings Ismay
The Lord Ismay 		28 October
1951 		12 March
1952 		– rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Churchill III
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
The Marquess of Salisbury 		12 March
1952 		24 November
1952 		Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | File:The Viscount Swinton.jpg Philip Cunliffe-Lister
The Viscount Swinton 		24 November
1952 		7 April
1955 		Conservative
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alec Douglas-Home
The Earl of Home 		7 April
1955 		27 July
1960 		Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Eden
(I & II)
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Macmillan
(I & II)
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duncan Sandys
MP for Streatham 		27 July
1960 		16 October
1964 		Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Bottomley
MP for Middlesbrough East 		18 October
1964 		1 August
1966 		Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Wilson I

References


History of English and British government departments with responsibility for foreign affairs and those with responsibility for the colonies, dominions and the Commonwealth
Northern Department
1660–1782
Secretaries — Undersecretaries 		Southern Department
1660–1768
Secretaries — Undersecretaries 		—
Southern Department
1768–1782
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
1782: diplomatic responsibilities transferred to new Foreign Office 		Colonial Office
1768–1782
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Foreign Office
1782–1968
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries 		Home Office
1782–1794
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
War Office
1794–1801
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
War and Colonial Office
1801–1854
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Colonial Office
1854–1925
Secretaries — Undersecretaries 		India Office
1858–1937
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Colonial Office
1925–1966
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries 		Dominions Office
1925–1947
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
India Office and Burma Office
1937–1947
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Commonwealth Relations Office
1947–1966
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Commonwealth Office
1966–1968
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1968–2020
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Since 2020
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
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