Home Secretary
United Kingdom Secretary of State for the Home Department | |
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Arms of Her Majesty's Government | |
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Home Office | |
Style | The Right Honourable |
Member of | British Cabinet |
Reports to | The Prime Minister |
Appointer |
Elizabeth II as Monarch of the United Kingdom |
Inaugural holder | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne |
Formation | 27 March 1782 |
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Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is one of the United Kingdom's four Great Offices of State. As minister in charge of the Home Office, the Home Secretary is responsible for the internal affairs of England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole of the UK.
The remit of the Home Office also includes policing in England and Wales and matters of national security, as the Security Service, MI5, is directly accountable to the Home Secretary. Formerly, the Home Secretary was the minister responsible for prisons and probation in England and Wales; however, in 2005 those responsibilities were transferred to the newly created Ministry of Justice under the Lord Chancellor.
The current Home Secretary is The Rt Honourable Theresa May, MP, appointed on 12 May 2010 by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to serve in the Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government.
List of Home Secretaries
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Home Secretaries, 1782–1801
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
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The Earl of Shelburne | 27 March 1782 | 10 July 1782 | Whig | The Marquess of Rockingham | |||
Thomas Townsend | 10 July 1782 | 2 April 1783 | Whig | The Earl of Shelburne | |||
Lord North | 2 April 1783 | 19 December 1783 | Tory | The Duke of Portland (Fox-North Coalition) | |||
The Earl Temple | 19 December 1783 | 23 December 1783 | Whig | William Pitt the Younger | |||
The Lord Sydney | 23 December 1783 | 5 June 1789 | Whig | ||||
The Lord Grenville | 5 June 1789 | 8 June 1791 | Tory | ||||
Henry Dundas | 8 June 1791 | 11 July 1794 | Tory | ||||
The Duke of Portland | 11 July 1794 | 30 July 1801 | Tory |
Home Secretaries, 1801–1900
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
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Lord Pelham | 30 July 1801 | 17 August 1803 | Whig | Henry Addington | |||
Charles Philip Yorke | 17 August 1803 | 12 May 1804 | Tory | ||||
The Lord Hawkesbury | 12 May 1804 | 5 February 1806 | Tory | William Pitt the Younger | |||
The Earl Spencer | 5 February 1806 | 25 March 1807 | Whig | Lord Grenville (Ministry of All the Talents) | |||
The Lord Hawkesbury (Earl of Liverpool from 1808) |
25 March 1807 | 1 November 1809 | Tory | The Duke of Portland | |||
Richard Ryder | 1 November 1809 | 8 June 1812 | Tory | Spencer Perceval | |||
The Viscount Sidmouth | 11 June 1812 | 17 January 1822 | Tory | Lord Liverpool | |||
Robert Peel | 17 January 1822 | 10 April 1827 | Tory | ||||
William Sturges Bourne | 30 April 1827 | 16 July 1827 | Tory | George Canning | |||
The Marquess of Lansdowne | 16 July 1827 | 22 January 1828 | Whig | The Viscount Goderich | |||
Robert Peel | 26 January 1828 | 22 November 1830 | Tory | The Duke of Wellington | |||
The Viscount Melbourne | 22 November 1830 | 16 July 1834 | Whig | Earl Grey | |||
Viscount Duncannon | 19 July 1834 | 15 November 1834 | Whig | The Viscount Melbourne | |||
The Duke of Wellington | 15 November 1834 | 15 December 1834 | Tory | The Duke of Wellington | |||
Henry Goulburn | 15 December 1834 | 18 April 1835 | Conservative | Sir Robert Peel | |||
Lord John Russell | 18 April 1835 | 30 August 1839 | Whig | The Viscount Melbourne | |||
The Marquess of Normanby | 30 August 1839 | 30 August 1841 | Whig | ||||
Sir James Graham, Bt | 6 September 1841 | 30 June 1846 | Conservative | Sir Robert Peel | |||
Sir George Grey, Bt | 8 July 1846 | 23 February 1852 | Whig | Lord John Russell | |||
Spencer Horatio Walpole | 27 February 1852 | 19 December 1852 | Conservative | The Earl of Derby | |||
The Viscount Palmerston | 28 December 1852 | 6 February 1855 | Whig | The Earl of Aberdeen (Coalition) | |||
Sir George Grey, Bt | 8 February 1855 | 26 February 1858 | Whig | The Viscount Palmerston | |||
Spencer Horatio Walpole | 26 February 1858 | 3 March 1859 | Conservative | The Earl of Derby | |||
Thomas H. Sotheron-Estcourt | 3 March 1859 | 18 June 1859 | Conservative | ||||
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt | 18 June 1859 | 25 July 1861 | Liberal | The Viscount Palmerston | |||
Sir George Grey, Bt | 25 July 1861 | 28 June 1866 | Liberal | ||||
The Earl Russell | |||||||
Spencer Horatio Walpole | 6 July 1866 | 17 May 1867 | Conservative | The Earl of Derby | |||
Gathorne Hardy | 17 May 1867 | 3 December 1868 | Conservative | ||||
Benjamin Disraeli | |||||||
Henry Austin Bruce | 9 December 1868 | 9 August 1873 | Liberal | William Ewart Gladstone | |||
Robert Lowe | August 1873 | 20 February 1874 | Liberal | ||||
R. A. Cross | 21 February 1874 | 23 April 1880 | Conservative | Benjamin Disraeli | |||
Sir William Vernon Harcourt | 28 April 1880 | 23 June 1885 | Liberal | William Ewart Gladstone | |||
R. A. Cross | 24 June 1885 | 1 February 1886 | Conservative | The Marquess of Salisbury | |||
Hugh Childers | 6 February 1886 | 25 July 1886 | Liberal | William Ewart Gladstone | |||
Henry Matthews | 3 August 1886 | 15 August 1892 | Conservative | The Marquess of Salisbury | |||
H. H. Asquith | 18 August 1892 | 25 June 1895 | Liberal | William Ewart Gladstone | |||
The Earl of Rosebery | |||||||
Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt | 29 June 1895 | 12 November 1900 | Conservative | The Marquess of Salisbury (Unionist Coalition) |
Home Secretaries, 1900–2001
Home Secretaries, 2001–present
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |||
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David Blunkett | 8 June 2001 | 15 December 2004 | Labour | Tony Blair | |||
Charles Clarke | 15 December 2004 | 5 May 2006 | Labour | ||||
John Reid | 5 May 2006 | 27 June 2007 | Labour | ||||
Jacqui Smith | 28 June 2007 | 5 June 2009 | Labour | Gordon Brown | |||
Alan Johnson | 5 June 2009 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | ||||
Theresa May | 12 May 2010 | Incumbent | Conservative |
David Cameron (Coalition) |
See also
- Cabinet (government)
- Departments of the United Kingdom Government
- Ministry of Justice
- List of British ministries
- Great Offices of State
- Shadow Home Secretary
References
- List of Home Secretaries from UKpolitics
External links
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- Home Office website
- Electronic list of ministerial responsibilities
- Her Majesty's Government (Cabinet Ministers)
- Ministry of Justice
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