Secretary Of State For The Home Department

The Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Home Secretary) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in the United Kingdom; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration. The Home Office has also previously dealt with social issues, including social exclusion, equality and race relations, but the responsibility for these areas is now held by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Unlike many other governments, the British government has separate departments for the issues dealt with by the Home Office and for legal, judicial and civil rights issues; these have been dealt with by the Lord Chancellor's Department. The Lord Chancellor enjoys infamy because despite the significance of his role (which spans all three branches of government) he is unelected. There have been repeated calls for the scrapping of the office and its replacement with a Justice Department headed by an elected Cabinet member, or the merger of the department with the Home Office. In June 2003 the government announced, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, that it intended to abolish the Lord Chancellor and replace his department with a Department of Constitutional Affairs headed by a Secretary of State.

Home Secretaries since 1782

William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne 1782
Thomas Townshend 1782-1783
Frederick North, Lord North 1783
Thomas Townshend, 1st Lord Sydney 1783-1789
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville 1789-1791
Henry Dundas 1791-1794
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1794-1801
Thomas Pelham 1801-1803
Charles Philip Yorke 1803-1804
Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury 1804-1806
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer 1806-1807
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool 1807-1809
Richard Ryder 1809-1812
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1812-1822
Sir Robert Peel 1822-1827
William Sturges-Bourne 1827
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne 1827-1828
Sir Robert Peel 1828-1830
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 1830-1834
John Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough 1834
Henry Goulburn 1834-1835
Lord John Russell 1835-1839
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby 1839-1841
Sir James Graham 1841-1846
Sir George Grey 1846-1852
Spencer Horatio Walpole 1852
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1852-1855
Sidney Herbert 1855
Sir George Grey 1855-1858
Spencer Horatio Walpole 1858-1859
Thomas Sutton Southern Escourt 1859
Sir George Cornewall Lewis 1859-1861
Sir George Grey 1861-1866
Spencer Horatio Walpole 1866-1867
Gathorne Hardy 1867-1868
Henry Austin Bruce 1868-1873
Robert Lowe 1873-1874
Sir Richard Assheton Cross 1874-1880
Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1880-1885
Sir Richard Assheton Cross 1885-1886
Hugh Childers 1886
Henry Matthews 1886-1892
Herbert Henry Asquith 1892-1895
Sir Matthew White Ridley 1895-1900
Charles Thomson Ritchie 1900-1902
Aretas Akers-Douglas 1902-1905
Herbert John Gladstone 1905-1910
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1910-1911
Reginald McKenna 1911-1915
Sir John Allsebrook Simon 1915-1916
Herbert Samuel 1916
Sir George Cave 1916-1919
Edward Shortt 1919-1922
William Clive Bridgeman 1922-1924
Arthur Henderson 1924
Sir William Joynson-Hicks 1924-1929
John Robert Clynes 1929-1931
Sir Herbert Samuel 1931-1932
Sir John Gilmour 1932-1935
Sir John Allsebrooke Simon 1935-1937
Sir Samuel Hoare 1937-1939
Sir John Anderson 1939-1940
Herbert Stanley Morrison 1940-1945
Sir Donald Bradley Somervell 1945
James Chuter Ede 1945-1951
Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe 1951-1954
Gwilym Lloyd George 1954-1957
Richard Austen Butler 1957-1962
Henry Brooke 1962-1964
Sir Frank Soskice 1964-1965
Roy Jenkins 1965-1967
James Callaghan 1967-1970
Reginald Maudling 1970-1972
Robert Carr 1972-1974
Roy Jenkins 1974-1976
Merlyn Rees 1976-1979
William Whitelaw 1979-1983
Leon Brittan 1983-1985
Douglas Hurd 1985-1989
David Waddington 1989-1990
Kenneth Baker 1990-1992
Kenneth Clarke 1992-1993
Michael Howard 1993-1997
Jack Straw 1997-2001
David Blunkett 2001-

Commercial Usage: Secretary Of State For The Home Department

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Alternative Orthography: Secretary Of State For The Home Department

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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Secretary Of State For The Home Department

Definition: Secretary Of State For The Home Department