Leader of the House of Lords

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The '''leader of the House of Lords''' is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. ("Government" here means the controlling faction of the parliament, headed by the Prime Minister.) The post is also the leader of the governing party in the House of Lords who acts as the government party chairperson in the house. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unless the Leader is also a departmental minister, being Leader constitutes the bulk of their government responsibilities, but it has never been an independent salaried office. The Office of the Leader of the House of Lords is a ministerial department.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/212617/lmr2009.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090729153748/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/212617/lmr2009.pdf |archive-date=29 July 2009 }}</ref>

Though the leader of the House is a member of the cabinet and remains a partisan figure, the leader also has responsibilities to the House as a whole. In contrast to the House of Commons, where proceedings are controlled by the speaker, proceedings in the Lords are controlled by peers themselves, under the rules set out in the Standing Orders. The leader of the House has the responsibility of reminding the House of these rules and facilitating the Lords' self-regulation, though any member may draw attention to breaches of order or failure to observe customs. The Leader is often called upon to advise on procedures and points of order and is required to determine the order of speakers on Supplementary Questions, subject to the wishes of the House. However, like the Lord Speaker, the Leader of the House has no power to rule on points of order or to intervene during an inappropriate speech.

Until the election of the first Lord Speaker on 4 July 2006, the Leader of the House had responsibility for making preliminary decisions on requests for Private Notice Questions and for waiving the ''sub judice'' rule in certain cases. Those functions were transferred to the Lord Speaker.

==History== The title seems to have come into use some time after 1800, as a formal way of referring to the peer who managed government business in the upper House, irrespective of which salaried position they held in the cabinet. However, it may have been used as early as 1689, applied to George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, when he was Speaker of the House of Lords during the Convention Parliament of that year.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

The role developed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, at the same time as the role of Prime Minister and the system of Cabinet government. In the wake of the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution and the succession of the Hanoverians to the throne, Britain evolved a system of government where ministers were sustained in office by their ability to carry legislation through Parliament. It was therefore necessary for a member of the government to take responsibility for steering government legislation through each House.

The Earl of Sunderland initiated aspects of the role during the Whig Junto under Queen Anne. Sunderland and the other Whigs were dismissed from office in reaction to their co-ordination of government matters, which was taken as a threat to the power of the monarch. Sunderland returned to power under George I, as Lord Privy Seal. The first documentary evidence of the existence of the role comes from 1717, when Sunderland became Secretary of State for the Northern Department: in the form of lists of peers invited to the office of the Northern Secretary immediately before sessions of Parliament.

When the Prime Minister sat in the House of Lords, which was common until the beginning of the twentieth century, he usually held the position of Leader of the House of Lords. When the Prime Minister sat in the Commons, the position of Leader of the Lords was often held by the Foreign Secretary or Colonial Secretary. In some coalition governments, it was held by the party leader who was not Prime Minister.

Since the end of the Marquess of Salisbury's last government, in 1902, the position clearly exists in its own right as a member of the cabinet. Since 1966 it has only been combined with sinecure positions and the holder has not been a departmental minister though some have held additional responsibilities such as Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham also being designated "Minister for Science" or Margaret Baroness Jay also being "Minister for Women". The first female Leader of the Lords was Janet Young, Baroness Young in 1981–1983. Lord Peart, The Viscount Whitelaw and Lord Wakeham served as Leader of the Lords having previously been Leader of the House of Commons.

===Families=== * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1885 to 1886, from 1886 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1902. His son James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader from 1925 to 1929. His son in turn, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader first from 1942 to 1945 as Viscount Cranborne by means of a writ of acceleration, and as the Marquess of Salisbury from 1951 to 1957. His grandson, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, served as Leader from 1994 to 1997, as Viscount Cranborne, again by means of a writ of acceleration. * Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1931 to 1935. His son Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham served as Leader from 1960 to 1963.

==Responsibilities== *The organisation of government business in the House. *Management and delivery of the Government's legislative programme (through the House of Lords) and facilitating the passage of individual bills. *Leading the House (in the Chamber and as a key member of domestic committees to do with procedure, conduct, and the internal governance of the House). *Issues connected to the House of Lords and its governance. *Speaking for the Government in the Chamber on a range of issues, including repeating in the House of Lords statements made to the Commons by the Prime Minister. *Ceremonial and other duties as the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. *Providing assistance to all Lords and offering advice on procedure. *Expressing the collective feelings of the House on formal occasions, such as motions of thanks or congratulations.

==List== ''Because the post is a parliamentary one and not a ministerial office in its own right, it is not always included in official lists of government offices, especially for earlier periods. This can make it difficult to determine who the Leader of the House of Lords was in a particular ministry.'' {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:Center" ! colspan=3 | Leader ! colspan=2 | Term of office ! {{Small|Other ministerial offices held as Leader of the House of Lords}} ! Political party ! colspan=2 | Prime Minister

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | Charles Spencer '''3rd Earl of Sunderland'''<ref name=sainty>J. C. Sainty, "List of peers responsible for the management of the House of Lords 1717–1803" in Clyve Jones and David L. Jones eds, ''Peers, Politics and Power: The House of Lords 1603–1911'' (Hambledon, 1986) [https://books.google.com/books?id=e-2iTk7OvekC&pg=PA221 pp. 221–227].</ref> | {{Small|April}} 1717 | {{Small|March}} 1718 | rowspan="8" style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Northern Department | | colspan=2 | No such office

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | James Stanhope '''1st Earl Stanhope'''<ref name=sainty/> {{Small|Viscount Stanhope until April 1718}} | {{Small|March}} 1718 | {{Small|5 February}} 1721 | | colspan=2 | No such office

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Charles Townshend '''2nd Viscount Townshend'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|February}} 1721 | {{Small|May}} 1730 | Whig | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Robert Walpole

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | William Stanhope '''1st Earl of Harrington'''<ref name=sainty/> {{Small|Lord Harrington until 1742}} | {{Small|May}} 1730 | {{Small|February}} 1742 | |- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | John Carteret '''2nd Earl Granville''' {{Small|Baron Carteret until 1744}} | rowspan=2 | {{Small|12 February}} 1742 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|24 November}} 1744 | rowspan=2 | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ''(until July 1743)''

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=4 | Henry Pelham ''(from 27 August 1743)''

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | William Stanhope '''1st Earl of Harrington'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|November}} 1744 | {{Small|October}} 1746 | |- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Philip Dormer Stanhope '''4th Earl of Chesterfield'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|October}} 1746 | {{Small|February}} 1748 | Whig

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | Thomas Pelham-Holles '''1st Duke of Newcastle''' | rowspan=2 | {{Small|February}} 1748 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|16 November}} 1756 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Northern Department {{Small|until March 1754}}– Prime Minister {{Small|from March 1754}} | rowspan=2 | Whig

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | William Cavendish '''4th Duke of Devonshire''' | {{Small|16 November}} 1756 | {{Small|25 June}} 1757 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Thomas Pelham-Holles '''1st Duke of Newcastle''' | {{Small|2 July}} 1757 | {{Small|26 May}} 1762 | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" |rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | Charles Wyndham '''2nd Earl of Egremont'''<ref name=sainty/> | rowspan=2 | {{Small|May}} 1762 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|21 August}} 1763 | rowspan="3" style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Southern Department | rowspan=2 | | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ''(until April 1763)''

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | George Grenville ''(from 16 April 1763)''

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | George Montagu Dunk '''2nd Earl of Halifax'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|August}} 1763 | {{Small|July}} 1765 | |- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Charles Watson-Wentworth '''2nd Marquess of Rockingham''' | {{Small|13 July}} 1765 | {{Small|30 July}} 1766 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Whig {{Small|(Rockingham)}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | Augustus FitzRoy '''3rd Duke of Grafton''' | rowspan=2 | 1766 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|28 January}} 1770 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – First Lord of the Treasury – Prime Minister {{Small|from October 1768}} | rowspan=2 | Whig {{Small|(Chathamite)}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ''(William Pitt the Elder) (until October 1768)''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself (from 14 October 1768)''

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | Thomas Thynne '''3rd Viscount Weymouth'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|January}} 1770 | {{Small|December}} 1770 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Southern Department | | rowspan=5 style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=5 | Lord North

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | William Nassau de Zuylestein '''4th Earl of Rochford'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|December}} 1770 | {{Small|November}} 1775 | |- style="height:1em" | | 75px | Henry Howard '''12th Earl of Suffolk'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|November}} 1775 | {{Small|6 March}} 1779 | style="text-align:left"| – Secretary of State for the Northern Department | |- style="height:1em" | | 75px | Thomas Thynne '''3rd Viscount Weymouth'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|March}} 1779 | {{Small|November}} 1779 | style="text-align:left"| – Secretary of State {{Small|until October 1779}} - Secretary of State for the Southern Department {{Small|from October 1779}} | |- style="height:1em" | | 75px | David Murray '''7th Viscount Stormont'''<ref name=sainty/> | {{Small|November}} 1779 | {{Small|March}} 1782 | style="text-align:left"| – Secretary of State for the Northern Department | |- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | William Petty '''2nd Earl of Shelburne''' | rowspan=2 | {{Small|March}} 1782 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|April}} 1783 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Home Department {{Small|until July 1782}} – Prime Minister {{Small|from July 1782}} | rowspan=2 | Whig {{Small|(Rockingham)}} | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ''(until 1 July 1782)'' |- | ''Himself (from 4 July 1782)''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | William Cavendish-Bentinck '''3rd Duke of Portland''' | {{Small|2 April}} 1783 | {{Small|December}} 1783 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Whig {{Small|(Foxite)}} | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself'' {{Small|(figurehead)}}

|- style="height:1em" | | 75px | George Nugent-Temple-Grenville '''3rd Earl Temple'''<ref name=c&s>Chris Cook and John Stevenson, ''British Historical Facts 1760–1830'' (1980) pp. 50–51.</ref> | {{Small|December}} 1783 | {{Small|December}} 1783 | style="text-align:left" | – Home Secretary – Foreign Secretary | – | rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=4 | William Pitt the Younger

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Thomas Townshend '''1st Baron Sydney'''<ref name=c&s/> | {{Small|December}} 1783 | {{Small|June}} 1789 | style="text-align:left" | – Home Secretary | Whig

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Francis Osborne '''5th Duke of Leeds'''<ref name=c&s/> | 1789 | 1790 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Tory

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 75px | William Grenville '''1st Baron Grenville'''<ref name=c&s/> | {{Small|November}} 1790 | {{Small|February}} 1801 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Home Department {{Small|until June 1791}} – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs {{Small|from June 1791}} | Tory

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Robert Hobart '''Baron Hobart'''<ref>M. W. McCahill, ''The House of Lords in the Age of George III (1760–1811)'' (2009) p. 242.</ref> | {{Small|March}} 1801 | {{Small|October}} 1801 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | Tory | rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=3 | Henry Addington

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Thomas Pelham '''Baron Pelham'''<ref name=c&s/> | {{Small|October}} 1801 | {{Small|August}} 1803 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Home Department | Tory

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | Robert Jenkinson '''Baron Hawkesbury'''<ref name=c&s/> | rowspan=2 | {{Small|November}} 1803 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|February}} 1806 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs {{Small|until May 1804}} – Secretary of State for the Home Department {{Small|from May 1804}} | rowspan=2 | Tory

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | William Pitt the Younger

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | William Grenville '''1st Baron Grenville'''<ref name=c&s/> | {{Small|11 February}} 1806 | {{Small|March}} 1807 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself'' {{Small|(Ministry of All the Talents)}}

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=3 | 75px | rowspan=3 | Robert Jenkinson '''2nd Earl of Liverpool'''<ref name=c&s/> {{Small|Baron Hawkesbury}} {{Small|until 1808}} Earl of Liverpool {{Small|from 1808}} | rowspan=3 | {{Small|25 March}} 1807 | rowspan=3 | {{Small|April}} 1827 | rowspan=3 style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Home Department {{Small|until November 1809}} – Secretary of State for War and the Colonies {{Small|November 1809 – June 1812}} – Prime Minister {{Small|from June 1812}} | rowspan=3 | Tory | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 3rd Duke of Portland

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Spencer Perceval

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | F. J. Robinson '''1st Viscount Goderich'''<ref name=c&s/> | rowspan=2 | {{Small|30 April}} 1827 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|January}} 1828 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | Secretary of State for War and the Colonies {{Small|until September 1827}} – Prime Minister {{Small|from August 1827}} | rowspan=2 | Tory | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | George Canning

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Arthur Wellesley '''1st Duke of Wellington'''<ref name=c&s/> | {{Small|January}} 1828 | {{Small|November}} 1830 | rowspan="3" style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Tory | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Charles Grey '''2nd Earl Grey''' | {{Small|22 November}} 1830 | {{Small|9 July}} 1834 | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | William Lamb '''2nd Viscount Melbourne''' | {{Small|16 July}} 1834 | {{Small|14 November}} 1834 | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | Arthur Wellesley '''1st Duke of Wellington''' | rowspan=2 | {{Small|17 November}} 1834 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|8 April}} 1835 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister {{Small|until December 1834}} – Secretary of State for the Home Department {{Small|until December 1834}} – Secretary of State for War and the Colonies {{Small|until December 1834}} – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | rowspan=2 | Tory | style="background-color:{{Party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself'' {{Small|(Caretaker)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Robert Peel

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | William Lamb '''2nd Viscount Melbourne''' | {{Small|18 April}} 1835 | {{Small|30 August}} 1841 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Arthur Wellesley '''1st Duke of Wellington''' | {{Small|3 September}} 1841 | {{Small|27 June}} 1846 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister without portfolio | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Robert Peel

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice '''3rd Marquess of Lansdowne''' | {{Small|6 July}} 1846 | {{Small|21 February}} 1852 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Lord John Russell

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Edward Smith-Stanley '''14th Earl of Derby''' | {{Small|23 February}} 1852 | {{Small|17 December}} 1852 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Peelite}}" | | 75px | George Hamilton-Gordon '''4th Earl of Aberdeen''' | {{Small|19 December}} 1852 | {{Small|30 January}} 1855 | Peelite | style="background-color:{{Party color|Peelite}}" | | ''Himself'' {{Small|(Coalition)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | 75px | Granville Leveson-Gower '''2nd Earl Granville''' | {{Small|8 February}} 1855 | {{Small|21 February}} 1858 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Whig | style="background-color:{{Party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Edward Smith-Stanley '''14th Earl of Derby''' | {{Small|21 February}} 1858 | {{Small|11 June}} 1859 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Granville Leveson-Gower '''2nd Earl Granville''' | {{Small|18 June}} 1859 | {{Small|29 October}} 1865 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | Viscount Palmerston

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | John Russell '''1st Earl Russell''' | {{Small|29 October}} 1865 | {{Small|26 June}} 1866 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Edward Smith-Stanley '''14th Earl of Derby''' | {{Small|28 June}} 1866 | {{Small|25 February}} 1868 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | James Harris '''3rd Earl of Malmesbury''' | {{Small|27 February}} 1868 | {{Small|1 December}} 1868 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Benjamin Disraeli

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Granville Leveson-Gower '''2nd Earl Granville''' | {{Small|9 December}} 1868 | {{Small|17 February}} 1874 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Colonies {{Small|until July 1870}} – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs {{Small|from July 1870}} | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | William Ewart Gladstone

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Charles Gordon-Lennox '''6th Duke of Richmond''' | {{Small|21 February}} 1874 | {{Small|21 August}} 1876 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Benjamin Disraeli

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Benjamin Disraeli '''1st Earl of Beaconsfield''' | {{Small|21 August}} 1876 | {{Small|21 April}} 1880 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|from August 1876 until February 1878}} | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Granville Leveson-Gower '''2nd Earl Granville''' | {{Small|28 April}} 1880 | {{Small|9 June}} 1885 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | William Ewart Gladstone

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil '''3rd Marquess of Salisbury''' | {{Small|23 June}} 1885 | {{Small|28 January}} 1886 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Granville Leveson-Gower '''2nd Earl Granville''' | {{Small|6 February}} 1886 | {{Small|20 July}} 1886 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Colonies | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | William Ewart Gladstone

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil '''2nd Marquess of Salisbury''' | {{Small|25 July}} 1886 | {{Small|11 August}} 1892 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs {{Small|from January 1887}} | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | John Wodehouse '''1st Earl of Kimberley''' | {{Small|18 August}} 1892 | {{Small|5 March}} 1894 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | William Ewart Gladstone

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Archibald Primrose '''5th Earl of Rosebery''' | {{Small|5 March}} 1894 | {{Small|21 June}} 1895 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil '''3rd Marquess of Salisbury''' | {{Small|25 June}} 1895 | {{Small|11 July}} 1902 | style="text-align:left" | – Prime Minister – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs {{Small|until November 1900}} – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|from 12 November 1900}} | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ''Himself''

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}" | | 75px | Spencer Cavendish '''8th Duke of Devonshire''' | {{Small|12 July}} 1902 | {{Small|13 October}} 1903 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Liberal Unionist | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Arthur Balfour {{Small|(Conservative)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Unionist Party}}" | | 75px | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice '''5th Marquess of Lansdowne''' | {{Small|13 October}} 1903 | {{Small|4 December}} 1905 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Liberal Unionist

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | George Robinson '''1st Marquess of Ripon''' | {{Small|10 December}} 1905 | {{Small|14 April}} 1908 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | Henry Campbell-Bannerman

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Robert Crewe-Milnes '''1st Marquess of Crewe''' {{Small|Earl of Crewe}} {{Small|until 1911}} Marquess of Crewe {{Small|from 1911}} | {{Small|14 April}} 1908 | {{Small|10 December}} 1916 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Colonies {{Small|May 1908– November 1910}} – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal{{Small|October 1908 – October 1911; February 1912 – May 1915}} – Secretary of State for India {{Small|November 1910 – March 1911; May 1911 – May 1915}} – Lord President of the Council {{Small|from May 1915}} – President of the Board of Education {{Small|from August 1916}} | Liberal | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | H. H. Asquith

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=3 | 75px | rowspan=3 | George Curzon '''1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston''' {{Small|Earl Curzon of Kedleston}} {{Small|until 1921}} Marquess Curzon of Kedleston {{Small|from 1921}} | rowspan=3 | {{Small|10 December}} 1916 | rowspan=3 | {{Small|22 January}} 1924 | rowspan=3 style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council {{Small|until October 1919}} – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from {{Small|October 1919}} | rowspan=3 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | David Lloyd George {{Small|(Liberal)}}

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Bonar Law

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Stanley Baldwin

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Richard Haldane '''1st Viscount Haldane''' | {{Small|22 January}} 1924 | {{Small|3 November}} 1924 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Ramsay MacDonald

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | George Curzon '''1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston''' | {{Small|3 November}} 1924 | {{Small|20 March}} 1925 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Stanley Baldwin

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | James Gascoyne-Cecil '''4th Marquess of Salisbury''' | {{Small|27 April}} 1925 | {{Small|4 June}} 1929 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Charles Cripps '''1st Baron Parmoor''' | {{Small|7 June}} 1929 | {{Small|24 August}} 1931 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Ramsay MacDonald

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Rufus Isaacs '''1st Marquess of Reading''' | {{Small|24 August}} 1931 | {{Small|5 November}} 1931 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Liberal | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|National Labour Organisation}}" | | rowspan=2 | Ramsay MacDonald

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Douglas Hogg '''1st Viscount Hailsham''' | {{Small|5 November}} 1931 | {{Small|7 June}} 1935 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for War | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart '''7th Marquess of Londonderry''' | {{Small|7 June}} 1935 | {{Small|22 November}} 1935 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Stanley Baldwin

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | Edward Wood '''3rd Viscount Halifax''' | rowspan=2 | {{Small|22 November}} 1935 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|21 February}} 1938 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|until May 1937}} – Lord President of the Council {{Small|from 28 May 1937}} | rowspan=2 | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Neville Chamberlain

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | James Stanhope '''7th Earl Stanhope''' | {{Small|21 February}} 1938 | {{Small|14 May}} 1940 | style="text-align:left" | – President of the Board of Education {{Small|until October 1938}} – First Lord of the Admiralty {{Small|October 1938 to September 1939}} – Lord President of the Council {{Small|September 1939 to May 1940}} | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Thomas Inskip '''1st Viscount Caldecote''' | {{Small|14 May}} 1940 | {{Small|3 October}} 1940 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs | Conservative | rowspan=5 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=5 | Winston Churchill

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Edward Wood '''1st Viscount Halifax''' | {{Small|3 October}} 1940 | {{Small|22 December}} 1940 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | George Lloyd '''1st Baron Lloyd''' | {{Small|22 December}} 1940 | {{Small|4 February}} 1941 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Colonies | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Walter Guinness '''1st Baron Moyne''' | {{Small|8 February}} 1941 | {{Small|21 February}} 1942 | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil '''Viscount Cranborne''' | {{Small|21 February}} 1942 | {{Small|26 July}} 1945 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for the Colonies {{Small|to November 1942}} – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|November 1942 to September 1943}} – Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs {{Small|September 1943 to 1945}} | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Christopher Addison '''1st Viscount Addison''' | {{Small|3 August}} 1945 | {{Small|26 October}} 1951 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs {{Small|until July 1947}} – Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations {{Small|July 1947 – October 1947}} – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|October 1947 – March 1951}} – Paymaster General {{Small|July 1948– April 1949}} – Lord President of the Council {{Small|from March 1951}} | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Clement Attlee

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | 75px | rowspan=2 | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil '''5th Marquess of Salisbury''' | rowspan=2 | {{Small|28 October}} 1951 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|29 March}} 1957 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|until May 1952}} – Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations {{Small|March 1952– November 1952}} – Lord President of the Council {{Small|from November 1952}} | rowspan=2 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Winston Churchill

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Anthony Eden

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Alec Douglas-Home '''14th Earl of Home''' | {{Small|29 March}} 1957 | {{Small|27 July}} 1960 | style="text-align:left" | – Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations – Lord President of the Council {{Small|until September 1957; from October 1959}} | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Harold Macmillan

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Quintin Hogg '''2nd Viscount Hailsham''' | {{Small|27 July}} 1960 | {{Small|20 October}} 1963 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council – Minister for Science | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Peter Carington '''6th Baron Carrington'''<ref name=Purvis>Matthew Purvis, [http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LIF-2016-0039/LIF-2016-0039.pdf Leader of the House of Lords: Holders of the Post]. House of Lords Library, 15 July 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.</ref> | {{Small|20 October}} 1963 | {{Small|16 October}} 1964 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister without portfolio | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Alec Douglas-Home

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Frank Pakenham '''7th Earl of Longford'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|18 October}} 1964 | {{Small|16 January}} 1968 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal{{Small|until December 1965; from April 1966}} – Secretary of State for the Colonies {{Small|December 1965 – April 1966}} | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Harold Wilson

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Edward Shackleton '''Baron Shackleton'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|16 January}} 1968 | {{Small|19 June}} 1970 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|until April 1968; from October 1968}} – Paymaster General {{Small|April 1968 – November 1968}} | Labour

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | George Jellicoe '''2nd Earl Jellicoe'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|20 June}} 1970 | {{Small|23 May}} 1973 | rowspan="5" style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Conservative | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Edward Heath

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | David Hennessy '''3rd Baron Windlesham'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|5 June}} 1973 | {{Small|4 March}} 1974 | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 | Malcolm Shepherd '''2nd Baron Shepherd'''<ref name=Purvis/> | rowspan=2 | {{Small|7 March}} 1974 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|10 September}} 1976 | rowspan=2 | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Harold Wilson

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | James Callaghan

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Fred Peart '''Baron Peart'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|10 September}} 1976 | {{Small|4 May}} 1979 | Labour

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Christopher Soames '''Baron Soames'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|5 May}} 1979 | {{Small|14 September}} 1981 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Conservative | rowspan=4 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | Margaret Thatcher

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | Janet Young '''Baroness Young'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|14 September}} 1981 | {{Small|11 June}} 1983 | style="text-align:left" | – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster {{Small|until April 1982}} – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|from April 1982}} | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | William Whitelaw '''1st Viscount Whitelaw'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|11 June}} 1983 | {{Small|10 January}} 1988 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | John Ganzoni '''2nd Baron Belstead'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|10 January}} 1988 | {{Small|28 November}} 1990 | rowspan="5" style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | David Waddington '''Baron Waddington'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|28 November}} 1990 | {{Small|11 April}} 1992 | Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=3 | John Major

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | John Wakeham '''Baron Wakeham'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|11 April}} 1992 | {{Small|20 July}} 1994 | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 88x88px | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil '''Viscount Cranborne'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|20 July}} 1994 | {{Small|2 May}} 1997 | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Ivor Richard '''Baron Richard'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|2 May}} 1997 | {{Small|27 July}} 1998 | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=4 | Tony Blair

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 100x100px | Margaret Jay '''Baroness Jay of Paddington'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|27 July}} 1998 | {{Small|8 June}} 2001 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal – Minister for Women | Labour

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Gareth Williams '''Baron Williams of Mostyn'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|8 June}} 2001 | {{Small|20 September}} 2003 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal {{Small|until June 2003}} – Lord President of the Council {{Small|from June 2003}} | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Valerie Amos '''Baroness Amos'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|6 October}} 2003 | {{Small|27 June}} 2007 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council | Labour

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 104x104px | Catherine Ashton '''Baroness Ashton of Upholland'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|28 June}} 2007 | {{Small|2 October}} 2008 | Labour | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=2 | Gordon Brown

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 125x125px | Janet Royall '''Baroness Royall of Blaisdon'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|2 October}} 2008 | {{Small|11 May}} 2010 | style="text-align:left" | – Lord President of the Council {{Small|until June 2009}} – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster {{Small|from June 2009}} | Labour

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75x75px | Thomas Galbraith '''2nd Baron Strathclyde'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|12 May}} 2010 | {{Small|7 January}} 2013 | style="text-align:left" | – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | Conservative | rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan=3 | David Cameron

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 75px | Jonathan Hill '''Baron Hill of Oareford'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|7 January}} 2013 | {{Small|15 July}} 2014 | style="text-align:left" | – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | 100x100px | Tina Stowell '''Baroness Stowell of Beeston'''<ref name=Purvis/> | {{Small|15 July}} 2014 | {{Small|14 July}} 2016 | rowspan="6" style="text-align:left" | – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | Conservative

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}"| | rowspan=2 | 99x99px | rowspan=2 | Natalie Evans '''Baroness Evans of Bowes Park'''<ref name=Purvis/> | rowspan=2 | {{Small|14 July}} 2016 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|6 September}} 2022

| rowspan=2 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Theresa May

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Boris Johnson

|- style="height:1em" | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}"| | rowspan=2 | 99x99px | rowspan=2 | Nicholas True '''Baron True'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministerial Appointments: September 2022 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-september-2022 |website=GOV.UK |access-date=6 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref> | rowspan=2 | {{Small|6 September}} 2022 | rowspan=2 | {{Small|5 July}} 2024

| rowspan=2 | Conservative | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Liz Truss

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Rishi Sunak

|- style="height:1em" | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | 99x99px | Angela Smith '''Baroness Smith of Basildon''' | {{Small|5 July}} 2024 | ''Incumbent'' | Labour | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Keir Starmer |}

==Deputy Leaders== The following peers have served as Deputy Leaders of the House of Lords since 1963:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LLN-2015-007/LLN-2015-007.pdf|title=Principal Office Holders in the House of Lords|last1=Brown|first1=Thomas|last2=Evennett|first2=Heather|publisher=House of Lords|date=19 March 2015|access-date=22 April 2019}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:Center" ! colspan="3" | Leader ! Term start ! Term end ! {{Small|Other ministerial offices held as Deputy Leader of the House of Lords}} ! Political party ! Prime Minister |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |frameless|100x100px | John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham | October 1963 | October 1964 | style="text-align:left" | – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | Conservative | Alec Douglas-Home |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Arthur Champion, Baron Champion | 21 October 1964 | 7 January 1967 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | – Minister without portfolio | rowspan=3 | Labour | rowspan=3 | Harold Wilson |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton | 7 January 1967 | 16 January 1968 |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd | February 1968 | June 1970 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs (1968) – Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1968–70) |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare | 1970 | 1974 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Health and Social Security | Conservative | Edward Heath |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick | February 1974 | December 1975 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Industry | rowspan=3 | Labour | rowspan=2 | Harold Wilson |- | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |     |frameless|100x100px | rowspan="2" | Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts | rowspan=2 | December 1975 | rowspan=2 | May 1979 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs |- | | James Callaghan |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers | November 1979 | May 1983 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | rowspan=4 | Conservative | rowspan=3 | Margaret Thatcher |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | | John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead | June 1983 | January 1988 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1983–87) – Minister of State for Environment (1987–88) |- | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |     | | rowspan="2" | Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers | rowspan=2 | January 1988 | rowspan=2 | May 1997 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Home Affairs (1988–94) – Minister of State for Consumer Affairs (1994–95) – Minister of State for Environment and Countryside (1995–97) |- | | John Major |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |frameless|100x100px | Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington | 2 May 1997 | 27 July 1998 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Health | rowspan=6 | Labour | rowspan=4 | Tony Blair |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | | Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn | October 1998 | June 2001 | style="text-align:left" | – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1997–98) – Minister of State for Prisons (1998–99) – Attorney General for England and Wales (1999–2001) – Attorney General for Northern Ireland (1999–2001) |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |frameless|100x100px | Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 8 June 2001 | 6 June 2005 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Trade and Investment (2001–03) – Minister of State for the Middle East (2001–05) |- | rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |     |frameless|100x100px | rowspan="2" | Jeff Rooker, Baron Rooker | rowspan=2 | 6 June 2005 | rowspan=2 | 5 October 2008 | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Children in Northern Ireland (2005–06) – Minister of State for Sustainable Food, Farming and Animal Health (2006–08) |- | | rowspan="2" | Gordon Brown |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |frameless|100x100px | Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath | 5 October 2008 | 11 May 2010 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Sustainable Development, Climate Change Adaptation and Air Quality |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | |frameless|115x115px | Tom McNally, Baron McNally | 13 May 2010 | 15 October 2013 | style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Justice | rowspan=2 | Liberal Democrat | rowspan=3 | David Cameron |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | |frameless|100x100px | Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness | 15 October 2013 | 8 May 2015 | style="text-align:left" | – Advocate General for Scotland |- | rowspan=5 style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |             | | rowspan="5" | Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe<ref name="Howe">{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/lord-howe|title=The Rt Hon Earl Howe|publisher=UK Government|access-date=22 April 2019}}</ref> | rowspan=5 | 12 May 2015 | rowspan=5 | 5 July 2024 | rowspan=5 style="text-align:left" | – Minister of State for Defence (2015–19) | rowspan=5 | Conservative |- | rowspan="4" |frameless|100x100px | Theresa May |- | Boris Johnson |- | Liz Truss |- | Rishi Sunak |- | style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | |frameless|100x100px |Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury |9 July 2024 |''Incumbent'' | rowspan=5 style="text-align:left" | – Lord-in-waiting – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa |Labour |Keir Starmer |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100505151727/leaderofthelords.gov.uk/output/page1.asp Leader of the House of Lords Official site] * [https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_LH UK Parliamentary Archives, Records of the Leader of the House of Lords]

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