Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The position of Secretary of State for War, a British cabinet-level position, first applied to Henry Dundas (appointed in 1794). In 1801 the post became that of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The position was re-instated in 1854 and remained until 1 April 1964, when the cabinet position (along with that of First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for Air) was replaced by the Secretary of State for Defence - in charge of a new united Ministry of Defence. The former office of the Secretary of State for War became the that of the new Minister of Defence for the Army. Secretaries of State for War, 1794-1801 Henry Dundas 1794 - 1801 Secretaries of State for War, 1854-1966 Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle 1854 - 1855 Fox Maule-Ramsey, Lord Panmure 1855 - 1858 Jonathan Peel 1858 - 1859 Sidney Herbert 1859 - 1861 Sir George Cornewall Lewis 1861 - 1863 George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon 1865 - 1866 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1866 Jonathan Peel 1866 - 1867 Sir John Pakington 1867 - 1868 Edward Cardwell 1868 - 1874 Gathorne Hardy 1874 - 1878 Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley 1878 - 1880 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers 1880 - 1882 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1882 - 1885 William Henry Smith 1885 - 1886 Gathorne Hardy, Viscount Cranbrook 1886 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1886 William Henry Smith 1886 - 1887 Edward Stanhope 1887 - 1892 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1892 - 1895 Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1895 - 1900 William St. John Brodrick 1900 - 1903 Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster 1903 - 1905 Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1911) 1905 - 1912 John Edward Seely 1912 - 1914 Herbert Henry Asquith 1914 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum 1914 - 1916 David Lloyd George 1916 Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby 1916 - 1918 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 1918 - 1919 Winston Churchill 1919 - 1921 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans 1921 - 1922 Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby 1922 - 1924 Stephen Walsh 1924 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans 1924 - 1929 Thomas Shaw 1929 - 1931 Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1931 Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham 1931 - 1935 Edward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax 1935 - 1937 Leslie Hore-Belisha 1937 - 1940 Oliver Frederick Stanley 1940 Anthony Eden 1940 Henry Reginald Margesson 1940 - 1942 Sir Percy James Grigg 1942 - 1945 John Lawson 1945 - 1946 Frederick Bellenger 1946 - 1947 Emanuel Shinwell 1947 - 1950 John Strachey 1950 - 1951 Anthony Henry Head 1951 - 1956 John Hugh Hare 1956 - 1958 Christopher Soames 1958 - 1960 John Profumo 1960 - 1963 James Ramsden 1963 - 1964 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.