History of English and British government departments with responsibility for foreign affairs and those with responsibility for the colonies, dominions and the Commonwealth
^"Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs". gov.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^"Afghanistan: The questions facing Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab". BBC News. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will be grilled by the Foreign Affairs Committee over his handling of the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
^Archives, The National. "Senior Cabinet posts". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
^ ab"Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
^. GCHQ. 23 March 2016. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2017. Day-to-day ministerial responsibility for GCHQ lies with the Foreign Secretary.
^"Written Answers to Questions: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: 1 Carlton Gardens". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. 6 May 2009. col. 165W.
^"Dominic Raab and Liz Truss agree to share 115-room mansion". BBC News. 13 October 2021.
^Hughes, Laura (25 December 2021). "Britain's Foreign Office has badly lost its way, say critics". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^Sainty, J. C. (1973). "Introduction". Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 2 - Officials of the Secretaries of State 1660-1782. British History Online. University of London. pp. 1–21. At the Restoration [in 1660] the practice of appointing two Secretaries of State, which was well established before the Civil War, was resumed. Apart from the modifications which were made necessary by the occasional existence of a third secretaryship, the organisation of the secretariat underwent no fundamental change from that time until the reforms of 1782 which resulted in the emergence of the Home and Foreign departments. ... English domestic affairs remained the responsibility of both Secretaries throughout the period. In the field of foreign affairs there was a division into a Northern and a Southern Department, each of which was the responsibility of one Secretary. The distinction between the two departments emerged only gradually. It was not until after 1689 that their names passed into general currency. Nevertheless the division of foreign business itself can, in its broad outlines, be detected in the early years of the reign of Charles II.
^"India Office". British Museum. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^"Margaret Beckett". European Leadership Network. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^"Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID : Government Response to Committee's Second Report". UK Parliament. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^Including honorifics and constituencies for elected MPs.
^ abIncluding honorifics and constituencies for elected MPs.
^"Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on May over Brexit". BBC News. 9 July 2018.
^"Jeremy Hunt replaces Boris Johnson as foreign secretary". BBC News. 9 July 2018.
^Andrew Sparrow (24 July 2019). "Raab appointed foreign secretary and first secretary of state". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
Further reading
Cecil, Algernon. British foreign secretaries, 1807–1916: studies in personality and policy (1927). pp. 89–130. online
Goodman, Sam. The Imperial Premiership: The Role of the Modern Prime Minister in Foreign Policy Making, 1964–2015 (Oxford UP, 2016).
Hughes, Michael. British Foreign Secretaries in an Uncertain World, 1919–1939. (Routledge, 2004).
Johnson, Gaynor. "Introduction: The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century," Contemporary British History, (2004) 18:3, 1–12, DOI: 10.1080/1361946042000259279
Neilson, Keith, and Thomas G. Otte. The permanent under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1854–1946 (Routledge, 2008).
Otte, Thomas G. The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865–1914 (Cambridge UP, 2011).
Seldon, Anthony. The Impossible Office? The History of the British Prime Minister (2021) excerpt major scholarly history. Covers the relations with Prime Minister in Chapter 8.
Steiner, Zara. The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1898–1914 (1986).
Temperley, Harold. "British Secret Diplomacy from Canning to Grey." Cambridge Historical Journal 6.1 (1938): 1–32.
Theakston, Kevin, ed. British foreign secretaries since 1974 (Routledge, 2004).
Wilson, Keith M., ed. British foreign secretaries and foreign policy: from Crimean War to First World War (1987).
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foreign, secretary, other, uses, foreign, secretary, disambiguation, secretary, state, foreign, commonwealth, development, affairs, secretary, state, government, united, kingdom, with, responsibility, foreign, commonwealth, development, office, seen, most, sen. For other uses see Foreign secretary disambiguation The secretary of state for foreign Commonwealth and development affairs is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom with responsibility for the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office 1 Seen as one of the most senior ministers in the government and a Great Office of State the incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development AffairsRoyal Arms of His Majesty s GovernmentIncumbentJames Cleverlysince 6 September 2022Foreign Commonwealth and Development OfficeStyleForeign Secretary informal The Right Honourable UK and the Commonwealth Member ofCabinetPrivy CouncilNational Security CouncilReports toPrime MinisterResidenceNo 1 Carlton Gardens official Chevening country house SeatWestminsterNominatorPrime MinisterAppointerThe King on the advice of the Prime Minister Term lengthAt His Majesty s pleasureFormation27 March 1782 240 years ago 1782 03 27 First holderCharles James FoxWebsitewww gov ukThe office holder works alongside the other Foreign Office ministers The corresponding shadow minister is the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs The performance of the secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee 2 The current foreign secretary is James Cleverly MP appointed in the September 2022 cabinet reshuffle Contents 1 Responsibilities 2 Residence 3 History 4 List of foreign secretaries 4 1 Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs 1782 1968 4 2 Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1968 2020 4 3 Secretaries of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs 2020 present 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksResponsibilities EditCorresponding to what is generally known as a foreign minister in many other countries the foreign secretary s remit includes British relations with foreign countries and governments 3 Promotion of British interests abroad 4 Matters pertaining to the Commonwealth of Nations and the Overseas Territories 4 Oversight for the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 and the Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ 5 Residence EditThe official residence of the foreign secretary is 1 Carlton Gardens in London 6 The foreign secretary also has the use of Chevening House a country house in Kent South East England 7 and works out of the Foreign Office in Whitehall 8 History EditHistory of English and British government departments with responsibility for foreign affairs and those with responsibility for the colonies dominions and the Commonwealth Northern Department1660 1782Secretaries Undersecretaries Southern Department1660 1768Secretaries Undersecretaries Colonial Office1768 1782Secretaries Undersecretaries Southern Department1768 1782Secretaries UndersecretariesForeign Office1782 1968Secretaries Ministers Undersecretaries Home Office1782 1794Secretaries UndersecretariesWar Office1794 1801Secretaries UndersecretariesWar and Colonial Office1801 1854Secretaries UndersecretariesColonial Office1854 1925Secretaries Undersecretaries India Office1858 1937Secretaries UndersecretariesColonial Office1925 1966Secretaries Ministers Undersecretaries Dominions Office1925 1947Secretaries Undersecretaries India Office and Burma Office1937 1947Secretaries UndersecretariesCommonwealth Relations Office1947 1966Secretaries Ministers UndersecretariesCommonwealth Office1966 1968Secretaries Ministers UndersecretariesForeign and Commonwealth Office1968 2020Secretaries Ministers UndersecretariesForeign Commonwealth and Development OfficeSince 2020Secretaries Ministers UndersecretariesThe title secretary of state in the government of England dates back to the early 17th century The position of secretary of state for foreign affairs was created in the British governmental reorganisation of 1782 in which the Northern and Southern Departments became the Foreign Office and Home Office respectively 9 The India Office which like the Colonial Office and the Dominions Office had been a constituent predecessor department of the Foreign Office was closed down in 1947 10 Eventually the position of secretary of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairs came into existence in 1968 with the merger of the functions of secretary of the state for foreign affairs and the secretary of state for Commonwealth affairs into a single department of state Margaret Beckett appointed in 2006 by Tony Blair was the first woman to have held the post 11 The post of secretary of state for foreign Commonwealth and development affairs was created in 2020 when position holder Dominic Raab absorbed the responsibilities of the secretary of state for international development 12 List of foreign secretaries EditSecretaries of State for Foreign Affairs 1782 1968 Edit Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 13 Portrait Name 14 Term of office Party Ministry Monarch Reign Charles James Fox 13 MP for Westminster 27 March 1782 5 July 1782 Whig Rockingham II George III 1760 1820 1782 1 Thomas Robinson2nd Baron Grantham 13 13 July 1782 2 April 1783 Whig Shelburne Whig Tory Charles James Fox 13 MP for Westminster 2 April 1783 19 December 1783 Whig Fox North George Nugent Temple Grenville3rd Earl Temple 13 19 December 1783 23 December 1783 Tory Pitt I His Grace Francis Osborne5th Duke of Leeds 13 23 December 1783 May 1791 Tory William Grenville1st Baron Grenville 13 PC FRS 8 June 1791 20 February 1801 Tory Robert Jenkinson2nd Earl of Liverpool KG PC 13 MP for Rye 1782 2 20 February 1801 14 May 1804 ToryAddington Dudley Ryder2nd Baron Harrowby 13 14 May 1804 11 January 1805 Tory Pitt II Henry Phipps3rd Baron Mulgrave 13 11 January 1805 7 February 1806 Tory Charles James Fox 13 MP for Westminster 7 February 1806 13 September 1806 Whig All the Talents Whig Tory Charles GreyViscount Howick 13 MP for Northumberland 24 September 1806 25 March 1807 Whig George Canning 13 MP for Newtown Isle of Wight Hastings 1782 3 25 March 1807 11 October 1809 Tory Portland II Henry Bathurst3rd Earl Bathurst 13 11 October 1809 6 December 1809 Tory Perceval Richard Wellesley1st Marquess Wellesley 13 6 December 1809 4 March 1812 Independent Robert Stewart2nd Marquess of Londonderry 13 4 March 1812 12 August 1822 Tory LiverpoolGeorge IV George Canning 13 MP for 3 constituencies respectively 16 September 1822 30 April 1827 Tory John Ward1st Earl of Dudley 13 30 April 1827 2 June 1828 Tory Canning Canningite Whig Goderich Wellington Peel George Hamilton Gordon4th Earl of Aberdeen 13 2 June 1828 22 November 1830 ToryWilliam IV Henry John Temple3rd Viscount Palmerston 13 MP for 3 constituencies respectively 22 November 1830 14 November 1834 Whig GreyMelbourne I Arthur Wellesley1st Duke of Wellington 13 14 November 1834 18 April 1835 Tory Wellington CaretakerConservative Peel I Henry John Temple3rd Viscount Palmerston 13 MP for Tiverton 18 April 1835 2 September 1841 Whig Melbourne IIVictoria 1837 1901 George Hamilton Gordon4th Earl of Aberdeen 13 2 September 1841 6 July 1846 Conservative Peel II Henry John Temple3rd Viscount Palmerston 13 MP for Tiverton 6 July 1846 26 December 1851 Whig Russell I Granville Leveson Gower2nd Earl Granville 13 26 December 1851 27 February 1852 Whig James Howard Harris3rd Earl of Malmesbury 13 27 February 1852 28 December 1852 Conservative Who Who Lord John Russell 13 MP for the City of London 28 December 1852 21 February 1853 Whig Aberdeen Peelite Whig George Villiers4th Earl of Clarendon 13 21 February 1853 26 February 1858 WhigPalmerston I James Howard Harris3rd Earl of Malmesbury 13 26 February 1858 18 June 1859 Conservative Derby Disraeli II John Russell1st Earl Russell 13 18 June 1859 3 November 1865 Liberal Palmerston II George Villiers4th Earl of Clarendon 3 November 1865 6 July 1866 Liberal Russell II Edward StanleyLord Stanley 13 MP for King s Lynn 6 July 1866 9 December 1868 Conservative Derby Disraeli III George Villiers4th Earl of Clarendon 13 9 December 1868 6 July 1870 Liberal Gladstone I Granville Leveson Gower2nd Earl Granville 13 6 July 1870 21 February 1874 Liberal Edward Stanley15th Earl of Derby 13 21 February 1874 2 April 1878 Conservative Disraeli II Robert Gascoyne Cecil3rd Marquess of Salisbury 13 2 April 1878 28 April 1880 Conservative Granville Leveson Gower2nd Earl Granville 13 28 April 1880 24 June 1885 Liberal Gladstone II Robert Gascoyne Cecil3rd Marquess of Salisbury 13 24 June 1885 6 February 1886 Conservative Salisbury I Archibald Primrose5th Earl of Rosebery 13 6 February 1886 3 August 1886 Liberal Gladstone III Stafford Northcote1st Earl of Iddesleigh 13 3 August 1886 12 January 1887 Conservative Salisbury II Robert Gascoyne Cecil3rd Marquess of Salisbury 13 14 January 1887 11 August 1892 Conservative Archibald Primrose5th Earl of Rosebery 13 18 August 1892 11 March 1894 Liberal Gladstone IV John Wodehouse1st Earl of Kimberley 13 11 March 1894 21 June 1895 Liberal Rosebery Robert Gascoyne Cecil3rd Marquess of Salisbury 13 29 June 1895 12 November 1900 Conservative Salisbury III amp IV Con Lib U Henry Petty Fitzmaurice5th Marquess of Lansdowne 13 12 November 1900 4 December 1905 Liberal Unionist Edward VII 1901 1910 Balfour Edward Grey 13 MP for Berwick upon Tweed 10 December 1905 10 December 1916 Liberal Campbell Bannerman Asquith I III George V Asquith Coalition Lib Con et al Arthur Balfour 13 MP for the City of London 10 December 1916 23 October 1919 Conservative Lloyd George I amp II George Curzon1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 13 23 October 1919 22 January 1924 ConservativeLawBaldwin I Ramsay MacDonald 13 MP for Aberavon 22 January 1924 3 November 1924 Labour MacDonald I Austen Chamberlain 13 MP for Birmingham West 6 November 1924 4 June 1929 Conservative Baldwin II Arthur Henderson 13 MP for Burnley 7 June 1929 24 August 1931 Labour MacDonald II Rufus Isaacs1st Marquess of Reading 13 25 August 1931 5 November 1931 Liberal National I N Lab Con et al John Simon 13 MP for Spen Valley 5 November 1931 7 June 1935 Liberal National National II Samuel Hoare 13 MP for Chelsea 7 June 1935 18 December 1935 Conservative National III Con N Lab et al Anthony Eden 13 MP for Warwick amp Leamington 22 December 1935 20 February 1938 ConservativeEdward VIII 1936 George VI National IV Edward Wood3rd Viscount Halifax 13 21 February 1938 22 December 1940 ConservativeChamberlain WarChurchill War All parties Anthony Eden 13 MP for Warwick amp Leamington 22 December 1940 26 July 1945 ConservativeChurchill Caretaker Con Lib N Ernest Bevin 13 MP for Wandsworth Central Woolwich East 1782 4 27 July 1945 9 March 1951 Labour Attlee I amp II Herbert Morrison 13 MP for Lewisham South 9 March 1951 26 October 1951 Labour Anthony Eden 13 MP for Warwick amp Leamington 28 October 1951 7 April 1955 Conservative Churchill IIIElizabeth II Harold Macmillan 13 MP for Bromley 7 April 1955 20 December 1955 Conservative Eden Selwyn Lloyd 13 MP for Wirral 20 December 1955 27 July 1960 ConservativeMacmillan I amp II Alec Douglas Home14th Earl of Home 13 27 July 1960 18 October 1963 Conservative Richard Austen Butler 13 MP for Saffron Walden 20 October 1963 16 October 1964 Conservative Douglas Home Patrick Gordon Walker 13 Neither an MP nor a Lord 1782 5 16 October 1964 22 January 1965 Labour Wilson I amp II Michael Stewart 13 MP for Fulham 22 January 1965 11 August 1966 Labour George Brown 13 MP for Belper 11 August 1966 16 March 1968 Labour Michael Stewart 13 MP for Fulham 16 March 1968 17 October 1968 Labour Died in office The Prince of Wales served as prince regent from 5 February 1811 Elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in November 1803 Elected to a new constituency in the 1807 general election Elected to a new constituency in the 1950 general election Walker was the MP for Smethwick and Labour s shadow Foreign Secretary prior to the 1964 general election He lost his seat in the election but was appointed to the post anyway He resigned after fighting and losing a 1965 by election in Leyton Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1968 2020 Edit Post created through the merger of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Portrait Name 15 Birth Death Term of office Party Ministry Sovereign Reign Michael Stewart 13 MP for Fulham 1906 1990 17 October 1968 19 June 1970 Labour Wilson I amp II Elizabeth II 1952 2022 Alec Douglas Home 13 MP for Kinross and Western Perthshire 1903 1995 20 June 1970 4 March 1974 Conservative Heath James Callaghan 13 MP for Cardiff South East 1912 2005 5 March 1974 5 April 1976 Labour Wilson III amp IV Anthony Crosland 13 MP for Great Grimsby 1918 1977 8 April 1976 19 February 1977 Labour Callaghan David Owen 13 MP for Plymouth Devonport born 1938 22 February 1977 4 May 1979 Labour Peter Carington6th Baron Carrington 13 KCMGMC PC DL 1919 2018 4 May 1979 5 April 1982 Conservative Thatcher I Francis Pym 13 MP for Cambridgeshire 1922 2008 6 April 1982 11 June 1983 Conservative Geoffrey Howe 13 MP for East Surrey 1926 2015 11 June 1983 24 July 1989 Conservative Thatcher II Thatcher III John Major 13 MP for Huntingdon born 1943 24 July 1989 26 October 1989 Conservative Douglas Hurd 13 MP for Witney born 1930 26 October 1989 5 July 1995 ConservativeMajor I Major II Malcolm Rifkind 13 MP for Edinburgh Pentlands born 1946 5 July 1995 2 May 1997 Conservative Robin Cook 13 MP for Livingston 1946 2005 2 May 1997 8 June 2001 Labour Blair I Jack Straw 13 MP for Blackburn born 1946 8 June 2001 5 May 2006 Labour Blair II Blair III Margaret Beckett 13 MP for Derby South born 1943 5 May 2006 27 June 2007 Labour David Miliband 13 MP for South Shields born 1965 28 June 2007 11 May 2010 Labour Brown William Hague 13 MP for Richmond Yorks born 1961 12 May 2010 14 July 2014 Conservative Cameron Clegg Con L D Philip Hammond 13 MP for Runnymede and Weybridge born 1955 14 July 2014 13 July 2016 ConservativeCameron II Boris Johnson 13 16 MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip born 1964 13 July 2016 9 July 2018 Conservative May I May II Jeremy Hunt 17 MP for South West Surrey born 1966 9 July 2018 24 July 2019 Conservative Dominic Raab 18 MP for Esher and Walton born 1974 24 July 2019 2 September 2020 Conservative Johnson I Johnson IISecretaries of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs 2020 present Edit Post created through the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development Portrait Name 15 Birth Death Term of office Party Ministry Sovereign Reign Dominic RaabMP for Esher and Walton born 1974 2 September 2020 15 September 2021 Conservative Johnson II Elizabeth II 1952 2022 Liz TrussMP for South West Norfolk born 1975 15 September 2021 6 September 2022 Conservative James CleverlyMP for Braintree born 1969 6 September 2022 Incumbent Conservative TrussCharles III 2022 present SunakSee also EditParliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations Secretary of State for the Colonies Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Foreign minister Great Offices of StateReferences Edit Secretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs gov uk Retrieved 30 June 2021 Afghanistan The questions facing Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab BBC News 1 September 2021 Retrieved 4 September 2021 Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will be grilled by the Foreign Affairs Committee over his handling of the UK s withdrawal from Afghanistan Archives The National Senior Cabinet posts www nationalarchives gov uk a b Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Government of the United Kingdom Retrieved 4 September 2014 Ministerial responsibility GCHQ 23 March 2016 Archived from the original on 7 July 2018 Retrieved 25 May 2017 Day to day ministerial responsibility for GCHQ lies with the Foreign Secretary Written Answers to Questions Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1 Carlton Gardens Parliamentary Debates Hansard House of Commons 6 May 2009 col 165W Dominic Raab and Liz Truss agree to share 115 room mansion BBC News 13 October 2021 Hughes Laura 25 December 2021 Britain s Foreign Office has badly lost its way say critics Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 4 February 2022 Sainty J C 1973 Introduction Office Holders in Modern Britain Volume 2 Officials of the Secretaries of State 1660 1782 British History Online University of London pp 1 21 At the Restoration in 1660 the practice of appointing two Secretaries of State which was well established before the Civil War was resumed Apart from the modifications which were made necessary by the occasional existence of a third secretaryship the organisation of the secretariat underwent no fundamental change from that time until the reforms of 1782 which resulted in the emergence of the Home and Foreign departments English domestic affairs remained the responsibility of both Secretaries throughout the period In the field of foreign affairs there was a division into a Northern and a Southern Department each of which was the responsibility of one Secretary The distinction between the two departments emerged only gradually It was not until after 1689 that their names passed into general currency Nevertheless the division of foreign business itself can in its broad outlines be detected in the early years of the reign of Charles II India Office British Museum Retrieved 4 February 2022 Margaret Beckett European Leadership Network Retrieved 4 February 2022 Merging success Bringing together the FCO and DFID Government Response to Committee s Second Report UK Parliament Retrieved 4 February 2022 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg Past Foreign Secretaries gov uk Government of the United Kingdom Retrieved 8 September 2017 Including honorifics and constituencies for elected MPs a b Including honorifics and constituencies for elected MPs Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on May over Brexit BBC News 9 July 2018 Jeremy Hunt replaces Boris Johnson as foreign secretary BBC News 9 July 2018 Andrew Sparrow 24 July 2019 Raab appointed foreign secretary and first secretary of state The Guardian Retrieved 14 August 2019 Further reading EditCecil Algernon British foreign secretaries 1807 1916 studies in personality and policy 1927 pp 89 130 online Goodman Sam The Imperial Premiership The Role of the Modern Prime Minister in Foreign Policy Making 1964 2015 Oxford UP 2016 Hughes Michael British Foreign Secretaries in an Uncertain World 1919 1939 Routledge 2004 Johnson Gaynor Introduction The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century Contemporary British History 2004 18 3 1 12 DOI 10 1080 1361946042000259279 Neilson Keith and Thomas G Otte The permanent under secretary for foreign affairs 1854 1946 Routledge 2008 Otte Thomas G The Foreign Office Mind The Making of British Foreign Policy 1865 1914 Cambridge UP 2011 Seldon Anthony The Impossible Office The History of the British Prime Minister 2021 excerpt major scholarly history Covers the relations with Prime Minister in Chapter 8 Steiner Zara The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy 1898 1914 1986 Temperley Harold British Secret Diplomacy from Canning to Grey Cambridge Historical Journal 6 1 1938 1 32 Theakston Kevin ed British foreign secretaries since 1974 Routledge 2004 Wilson Keith M ed British foreign secretaries and foreign policy from Crimean War to First World War 1987 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Foreign Secretaries of the United Kingdom FCO website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Foreign Secretary amp oldid 1146134041, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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