Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
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The Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
In 1801 the offices of Under-Secretary of State for War and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies were merged to create the new office. They were separated again in 1854.
[edit] Under-Secretaries of State for War and the Colonies, 1801-1854
- 1801: John Sullivan
- 1804: E. Cooke
- 1806: Sir G. Shee, Bt and Sir J. Cockburn
- 1807: E. Cooke (replacing Shee) and C.W. Stewart (replacing Cockburn)
- 1809: Frederick John Robinson (replacing Stewart) and Charles Jenkinson (replacing Cooke)
- 1809: H.E. Bunbury (replacing Robinson)
- 1810: Robert Peel (replacing Jenkinson)
- 1812: Henry Goulburn (replacing Peel)
- 1821: R.W. Horton (replacing Goulburn)
- 1828: Lord Stanley (replacing Horton)
- 1828: Lord Francis Leveson-Gower (replacing Stanley)
- 1828: Horace Twiss (replacing Gower)
- Viscount Howick 1830-1834
- Sir John Shaw-Lefevre 1834
- Sir George Grey 1834
- John Stuart Wortley 1834-1835
- William Ewart Gladstone 1835
- Sir George Grey 1835-1839
- Henry Labouchere 1839
- Robert Vernon Smith 1839-1841
- George William Hope 1841-1846
- Lord Lyttelton 1846
- B. Hawes 1846
- Frederick Peel 1851
- Earl of Desart 1852
- Frederick Peel 1852-1854
Separate posts of Under-Secretary of State for War and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies re-established 1854
