User talk:The Celestial City/List of office holders of the Great Offices of State2

This is an interesting exercise. I wouldn't recommend a sortable table, as the sortability doesn't really work. I'm also not terribly keen on the use of colours, as on tables showing political offices, colour usually shows political party affiliation. Just to let you know, the offices of Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary did not exist until 1782 - the responsibilities were held by the Southern Secretary and the Northern Secretary. BartBassist (talk) 00:25, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

What do you make of the following format proposition? (I haven't put everyone on it, I've just constructed something to give a general idea. It would need a new table every 30 years or so.

1721–1782

Offices:

• PM = Prime Minister
• Ch = Chancellor of the Exchequer
• S = Southern Secretary
• N = Northern Secretary

Ministries:

• 1 = Walpole/Townshend Ministry
• 2 = Walpole Ministry
• 3 = Carteret Ministry
• 4 = Broad Bottom Ministry
• 5 = First Newcastle Ministry
• 6 = Devonshire/Pitt Ministry
• 7 = 1757 Caretaker Ministry
• 8 = Second Newcastle Ministry
• 9 = Bute Ministry
• 10 = Grenville Ministry
• 11 = First Rockingham Ministry
• 12 = Chatham Ministry
• 13 = Grafton Ministry
• 14 = North Ministry

Portrait	Name	1		2	3		4				5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
		1721	1724	1730	1742	1743	1744	1746	1748	1751	1754	1756	1757	1757	1762	1763	1765	1766	1768	1770
	Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745) MP for King's Lynn until 1742 Earl of Orford from 1742	PM, Ch
	Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674–1738)	N
	John Carteret, Lord Carteret (1690–1763)	S			N
	Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768)		S						N		PM			PM
	William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington (c.1690–1756)			N			N
	Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673–1743)				PM
	Samuel Sandys (1695–1770) MP for Worcester				Ch
	Henry Pelham (1694–1754) MP for Sussex					PM, Ch
	Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773)							N
	John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710–1771)								S
	Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness (1718–1778)									S	N
	Frederick North, Lord North (1732–1792) MP for Banbury																		Ch	PM, Ch

1951–1979

Offices:

• PM = Prime Minister
• Ch = Chancellor of the Exchequer
• F = Foreign Secretary
• H = Home Secretary

Ministries:

• Churchill III = Third Churchill Ministry
• Eden = Eden Ministry
• Macmillan = Macmillan Ministry
• Home = Douglas-Home Ministry
• Wilson I = First Wilson Ministry (NB Foreign Secs currently missing)
• Heath = Heath Ministry
• Wilson II = Second Wilson Ministry
• Callaghan = Callaghan Ministry

Portrait	Name	Churchill III		Eden		Macmillan			Home	Wilson I			Heath		Wilson II	Callaghan
		Oct 1951	Oct 1954	Apr 1955	Dec 1955	Jan 1957	Jul 1960	Jul 1962	Oct 1963	Oct 1964	Dec 1965	Nov 1967	Jun 1970	Jul 1972	Mar 1974	Apr 1976	Sep 1976	Feb 1977
	Sir Winston Churchill (see above)	PM
	Sir Anthony Eden (see above)	F		PM
	R. A. Butler (1902–1982) MP for Saffron Walden	Ch				H			F
	Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (1900–1967) MP for Liverpool West Derby	H
	Gwilym Lloyd George (1894–1967) MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North		H
File:Macmillan cph.3b40592.jpg	Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) MP for Bromley			F	Ch	PM
	Selwyn Lloyd (1904–1978) MP for Wirral				F		Ch
	Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995) Earl of Home until 1963 MP for Kinross and Western Perthshire from 1963						F		PM				F
60px	Reginald Maudling (1917–1979) MP for Barnet							Ch					H
	Henry Brooke (1903–1984) MP for Hampstead							H
	Harold Wilson (1916–1995) MP for Huyton									PM					PM
	James Callaghan (1912–2005) MP for Cardiff South East									Ch		H			F	PM
	Frank Soskice (1902–1979) MP for Newport									H
	Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) MP for Birmingham Stechford										H	Ch			H
	Edward Heath (1916–2005) MP for Bexley												PM
	(Iain Macleod died July 1970) Anthony Barber (1920–2005) MP for Altrincham and Sale												Ch
	Robert Carr (1916– ) MP for Mitcham													H
	Denis Healey (1917– ) MP for Leeds East														Ch
	Anthony Crosland (1918–1977) MP for Great Grimsby															F
	Merlyn Rees (1920–2006) MP for Leeds South																H
	David Owen (1938– ) MP for Plymouth Devonport																	F
Portrait	Name	Oct 1951	Oct 1954	Apr 1955	Dec 1955	Jan 1957	Jul 1960	Jul 1962	Oct 1963	Oct 1964	Dec 1965	Sp/Nv 1967	Jun 1970	Jul 1972	Mar 1974	Apr 1976	Sep 1976	Feb 1977
		Churchill III		Eden		Macmillan			Home	Wilson I			Heath		Wilson II	Callaghan

1979–

Offices:

• PM = Prime Minister
• Ch = Chancellor of the Exchequer
• F = Foreign Secretary
• H = Home Secretary

Ministries:

• Thatcher = Thatcher Ministry
• Major = Major Ministry
• Blair = Blair Ministry
• Brown = Brown Ministry
• Cameron = Cameron Ministry

Portrait	Name	Thatcher						Major				Blair				Brown		Cameron
		May 1979	Apr 1982	Jun 1983	Sep 1985	Jul 1989	Oct 1989	Nov 1990	Apr 1992	May 1993	Jul 1995	May 1997	Jun 2001	Dec 2004	May 2006	Jun 2007	Jun 2009	May 2010
	Margaret Thatcher (1925– ) MP for Finchley	PM
	Sir Geoffrey Howe (1926– ) MP for East Surrey	Ch		F
	Peter Carington, 6th Lord Carrington (1919– )	F
	William Whitelaw (1918–1999) MP for Penrith and The Border	H
File:Zconcam61.jpg	Francis Pym (1922–2008) MP for Cambridgeshire		F
	Nigel Lawson (1932– ) MP for Blaby			Ch
	Leon Brittan (1939– ) MP for Richmond (Yorks)			H
	Douglas Hurd (1930– ) MP for Witney				H		F
	John Major (1943– ) MP for Huntingdon					F	Ch	PM
	David Waddington (1929– ) MP for Ribble Valley						H
	Norman Lamont (1942– ) MP for Kingston-upon-Thames							Ch
	Kenneth Baker (1934– ) MP for Mole Valley							H
	Kenneth Clarke (1940– ) MP for Rushcliffe								H	Ch
	Michael Howard (1941– ) MP for Folkestone and Hythe									H
File:Global zero malcom rifkind.jpg	Malcolm Rifkind (1946– ) MP for Edinburgh Pentlands										F
	Tony Blair (1953– ) MP for Sedgefield											PM
	Gordon Brown (1951– ) MP for Dunfermline East until 2005 MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2005											Ch				PM
	Robin Cook (1946–2005) MP for Blackburn											F
	Jack Straw (1946– ) MP for Livingston											H	F
	David Blunkett (1947– ) MP for Sheffield Brightside												H
	Charles Clarke (1950– ) MP for Norwich South													H
	Margaret Beckett (1943– ) MP for Derby South														F
	John Reid (1947– ) MP for Airdrie and Shotts														H
	Alistair Darling (1953– ) MP for Edinburgh South West															Ch
	David Miliband (1965– ) MP for South Shields															F
	Jacqui Smith (1962– ) MP for Redditch															H
	Alan Johnson (1950– ) MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle																H
	David Cameron (1966– ) MP for Witney																	PM
	George Osborne (1971– ) MP for Tatton																	Ch
	William Hague (1961– ) MP for Richmond (Yorks)																	F
	Theresa May (1956– ) MP for Maidenhead																	H
Portrait	Name	May 1979	Apr 1982	Jun 1983	Sep 1985	Jul 1989	Oct 1989	Nov 1990	Apr 1992	May 1993	Jul 1995	May 1997	Jun 2001	Dec 2004	May 2006	Jun 2007	Jun 2009	May 2010
		Thatcher						Major				Blair				Brown		Cameron