Chief Secretary for Ireland
The Chief Secretary was the most important position for determining British policy in Ireland after the Lord Lieutenant , and was frequently a cabinet level position in the 19th and early twentieth centuries.
Chief Secretary's office in Dublin Castle
Chief Secretaries for Ireland, 1660-1922
Matthew Lock 1660
Sir Thomas Page 1662-1669
Sir Henry Ford 1669-1670
Sir Ellis Leighton 1670-1672
Sir Henry Ford 1672-1673
Sir William Harbord 1673-1676
Sir Cyril Wyche 1676-1682
Sir William Ellis 1682-1685
Sir Paul Rycaut 1686-1687
Thomas Sheridan 1687-1688
Patrick Tyrrell 1688-1689
John Davis 1690-1692
Sir Cyril Wyche 1692-1693
Sir Richard Aldworth 1695-1696
William Palmer 1696-1697
Matthew Prior 1697-1699
Humphrey May 1699-1701
Francis Gwyn 1701-1703
Edward Southwell 1703-1707
George Dodington 1707-1708
Joseph Addison 1708-1710
Edward Southwell 1710-1713
Sir John Stanley 1713-1714
Joseph Addison 1714-1715
Martin Bladen and Charles Delafaye 1715-1717
Edward Webster 1717-1720
Horatio Walpole 1720-1721
Edward Hopkins 1721-1724
Thomas Clutterbuck 1724-1730
Walter Cary 1730-1737
Sir Edward Walpole 1737-1739
Thomas Townshend 1739
Henry Bilson Legge 1739-1741
William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon 1741-1745
Richard Lidell 1745-1746
Sewallis Shirley 1746
Edward Weston 1746-1750
Lord George Sackville 1750-1755
Henry Seymour Conway 1755-1757
Richard Rigby 1757-1761
William Gerard Hamilton 1761-1764
Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda 1764-1765
Francis Seymour Conway, Viscount Conway 1765-1766
Augustus John Hervey 1766-1767
Theophilus Jones 1767
Lord Frederick Campbell 1767-1768
Sir George Macartney 1769-1772
Sir John Blaquiere 1772-1776
Sir Richard Heron 1776-1780
William Eden 1780-1782
Richard FitzPatrick 1782
William Wyndham Grenville 1782-1783
William Windham 1783
Thomas Pelham 1783-1784
Thomas Orde 1784-1787
Alleyne FitzHerbert 1787-1789
Robert Hobart 1789-1793
Sylvester Douglas 1793-1794
George Damer, Viscount Milton 1794-1795
Thomas Pelham 1795-1798
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh 1798-1801
Charles Abbot 1801-1802
William Wickham 1802-1804
Sir Evan Nepean 1804-1805
Nicholas Vansittart 1805
Charles Long 1805-1806
William Elliot 1806-1807
Sir Arthur Wellesley 1807-1809
Robert Dundas 1809
William Wellesley-Pole 1809-1812
Robert Peel 1812-1818
Charles Grant 1818-1821
Henry Goulburn 1821-1827
William Lamb 1827-1828
Sir Francis Leveson Gower 1828-1830
Sir Henry Hardinge 1830
Edward Geoffrey Smith-Stanley 1830-1833
Sir John Cam Hobhouse 1833
Edward John Littleton 1833-1834
Sir Henry Hardinge 1834-1835
George Howard, Viscount Morpeth 1835-1841
Edward Granville Eliot, Lord Eliot 1841-1845
Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1845-1846
Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln 1846
Henry Labouchere 1846-1847
Sir William Meredyth Somerville 1847-1852
Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas 1852
Sir John Young 1853-1855
Edward Horsman 1855-1857
Henry Arthur Herbert 1857-1858
Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas 1858-1859
Edward Cardwell 1859-1861
Sir Robert Peel 1861-1865
Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue 1865-1866
Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo 1866-1868
John Wilson-Patten 1868
Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue 1868-1871
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1871-1874
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 1874-1878
James Lowther 1878-1880
William Edward Forster 1880-1882
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish 1882
George Otto Trevelyan 1882-1884
Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1884-1885
Sir William Hart Dyke 1885-1886
William Henry Smith 1886
John Morley 1886
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 1886-1887
Arthur James Balfour 1887-1891
William Lawies Jackson 1891-1892
John Morley 1892-1895
Gerald William Balfour 1895-1900
George Wyndham 1900-1905
Walter Hume Long 1905
James Bryce 1905-1907
Augustine Birrell 1907-1916
Henry Edward Duke 1916-1918
Edward Shortt 1918-1919
James Ian Macpherson 1919-1920
Sir Hamar Greenwood 1920-1922
