THE SECRETARIES OF STATE.

[Until the reign of Henry VIII. there was only one Secretary of State; and until the reign of Elizabeth, the Secretaries were never of the Privy Council. From the death of Queen Anne to the Rebellion of 1745, there was a third Secretary for Scotland; and from 1768, to the loss of America, in 1782, there was one for the Colonies, which office was revived in 1804, in conjunction with the War Department. The departments of the two Secretaries were, previous to 1782, divided into Northern and Southern, now styled the Home and Foreign Departments. From 1782 until 1854 there were two, and sometimes three, Secretaries of State. In that year a fourth was added, in consequence of the separation of the Department of War from that of the Colonies, and in 1858 the creation of a Secretary of State for India increased the number to five, at which it now remains. With the Home Secretary, all grants, pardons, and regulations in civil matters of every kind, are made out and executed. To the Foreign Secretary belong ull despatches to and from other courts, and all business appertaining to the same. They have the custody of the privy signet, because the Queen's private letters are sealed with it. There are four Clerks of the Signet, who make out grants, patents, &c. which have the sign manual, to which the Signet being added, it is a warrant to the Privy Seal, as the Privy Seal is a warrant to the Great Seal. The Paper Office belongs to the Secretaries of State, where all papers, letters, memorials, negotiations, &c., are deposited and preserved.]

Home Department; previous to 1782 styled the Northern Department.

Duke of Portland.

Lord Pelham.

Right Hon. Charles Yorke.
Earl Spencer.

Lord Hawkesbury.

Right Hon. Richard Ryder.
Viscount Sidmouth.
Right Hon. Robert Peel.

Right Hon. William-Sturges Bourne.
Marquess of Lansdowne.
Right Hon. Robert Peel.
Viscount Melbourne.
Lord Duncannon.

Right Hon. Henry Goulburn.
Lord John Russell.
Marquess of Normanby.

Sir James- Robert-George Graham, bart.
Sir George Grey, bart.

Right Hon. Spencer-Horatio Walpole.
Viscount Palmerston.

Foreign Department; previous to 1782 styled the Southern Department.

Lord Hawkesbury.

Lord Harrowby.
Earl of Mulgrave.

Right Hon. Charles-James Fox.
Viscount Howick.

Right Hon. George Canning,
Earl Bathurst.
Marquess Wellesley.
Viscount Castlereagh.
Right Hon. George Canning.
Viscount Dudley.
Earl of Aberdeen.
Viscount Palmerston.
Duke of Wellington.
Viscount Palmerston.
Earl of Aberdeen.
Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Granville.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Lord John Russell.
Earl of Clarendon.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Lord John Russell.
Earl of Clarendon.
Lord Stanley.
Earl of Clarendon.
Earl Granville,

Earl of Derby.
Marquis of Salisbury.

Earl Granville.

1841, Sept. 3,

1845, Dec. 23,

1846, July 6, 1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

Viscount Castlereagh.
Right Hon. William Windham.
Viscount Castlereagh.
Earl of Liverpool.
Earl Bathurst.
Viscount Goderich.
Right Hon. William Huskisson.
Sir George Murray.
Viscount Goderich.

Right Hon. Edward G. Stanley.
Right Hon. Thomas-Spring Re.
Earl of Aberdeen.

Right Hon. Charles Grant.
Marquess of Normanby.
Lord John Russell.

Lord Stanley.

Right Hon. William-Ewart Gladstone.
Earl Grey.

Right Hon. Sir John S. Pakington, bart.
Duke of Newcastle.

[1854, June 10.—The Departments were divided.]

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1880, April

Under Secretaries for the War Department.
Earl of Morley.

Mr. Campbell- Bannerman. (Financial.)
Mr. R. W. Thompson, C. B. (Permanent.)

Secretaries of State for the Colonies Department.
Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bart.
Lord John Russell.

1854, June 10,

1855, May 15, July 21,

1874, Mar.

1878,

1880, April

Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bart.
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere.
Right Hon. Lord Stanley.

Right Hon. Sir Edward Lytton-Bulwer, bart.
Duke of Newcastle.

Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

Earl of Carnarvon.

Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

Earl Granville.

Earl of Kimberley.

Earl of Carnarvon.

Right Hon. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, bart.
Earl of Kimberley.

Under Secretaries of State for the Colonies Department.
Right Hon. M.-E. Grant-Duff.

1880, April

Mr. R. G. W. Herbert. (Permanent.)

The Board of Control, now Styled

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.

President.

Viscount Lewisham.
Viscount Castlereagh,
Earl of Minto.

Right Hon. Thomas Grenville.
Right Hon. George Tierney.
Right Hon. Robert Dundas.
Earl of Harrowby.

Right Hon. Robert Dundas.
Earl of Buckinghamshire.
Right Hon. George Canning,
Right Hon. C. Bathurst.
Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn.
Viscount Melville.

Lord Ellenborough.
Right Hon. Charles Grant.
Lord Ellenborough.

Right Hon. Sir John-Cam Hobhouse, bart.
Lord Ellenborough.

1843, May 17, 1846, July 6, 1852, Feb. 5, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

1855, Feb. 28, 1858, Feb. 26, May 31,

1858, Sept. 2,

1859, June 18, 1866, Feb. 16, July 6,

1867,

1868, Dec. 10,

1874,

1878,

1880, April

1880, August

1880, May 6,

Earl of Ripon.

Lord Broughton.
Right Hon. Fox Maule.
Right Hon. John-Charles Herries.
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bart.
Right Hon. Robert-Vernon Smith.
Right Hon. Earl of Ellenborough.
Right Hon. Lord Stanley.

[By Act of Parliament, Session 1858.]

Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India.
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bart.
The Earl De Grey and Ripon.

Right Hon. Lord Cranborne.

Right Hon. Sir Stafford-H. Northcote, bt.
Duke of Argyll.

Marquis of Salisbury.

Right Hon. Viscount Cranbrook.

Marquis of Hartington.

Under-Secretaries.

Viscount Enfield.

Sir Louis Mallet, C. B. (Permanent.)

GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.
Marquis of Ripon.

THE COMMISSIONERS OF ROYAL PARKS, PALACES, WORKS, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Right Hon. Lord Seymour.

Lord John Manners.

Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, bart.
Sir Benjamin Hall, bart.

Right Hon. Lord John-James-Robert Manners.
Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy.

Right Hon. Francis-William Cowper.
Right Hon. Lord John-James-R. Manners.
Right Hon. Austen-Henry Layard.
Right Hon. Acton-Smee Ayrton.
Right Hon. William-Patrick Adam.
Right Hon. Lord Henry Lennox.
Right Hon. Gerard-J. Noel.
Right Hon. G. J. Shaw-Leferve.

THE COMMISSIONERS OF WOODS, FORESTS, AND LAND

REVENUES.

1850, Aug. 10, Hon, Charles-Alexander Gore. 1855, Mar. 16, Hon. James-Kenneth Howard..