Secretary of State for the Southern Department

The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a position in the cabinet of the government of United Kingdom up to 1782.

Secretaries of State for the Southern Department, 1660-1782

• Sir Edward Nicholas: 1 June 1660 - 20 October 1662
• Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington: 20 October 1662 - 11 September 1674
• Henry Coventry: 11 September 1674 - 26 April 1680
• Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland: 26 April 1680 - 2 February 1681
• Sir Leoline Jenkins: 2 February 1681 - 14 April 1684
• Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland: 14 April 1684 - 28 October 1688
• Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton: 28 October - 2 December 1688
• Charles Talbot, 12th Earl of Shrewsbury: 14 February 1689 - 2 June 1690
• Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham: 2 June 1690 - November 1693
• Sir John Trenchard: November 1693 - 27 April 1695
• Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury: 27 April 1695 - 12 December 1698
• James Vernon: 12 December 1698 - 14 May 1699
• Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey: 14 May 1699 - 27 June 1700
• James Vernon: 27 June 1700 - 4 January 1702
• Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester 4 January - 1 May 1702
• Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham: 2 May 1702 - 22 April 1704
• Sir Charles Hedges: 18 May 1704 - 3 December 1706
• Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland: 3 December 1706 - 13 June 1710
• William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth: 15 June 1710 - 6 August 1713
• Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke: 17 August 1713 - 31 August 1714
• James Stanhope: 27 September 1714 - 22 June 1716
• Paul Methuen: 22 June 1716 - 10 April 1717
• Joseph Addison: 12 April 1717 - 14 March 1718
• James Craggs the Younger: 16 March 1718 - 16 February 1721
• John Carteret, 3rd Lord Carteret: 4 March 1721 - 31 March 1724
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle: 6 April 1724 - 10 February 1746
• John Carteret, 3rd Lord Carteret: 10 February - 14 February 1746
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle: 14 February 1746 - 12 February 1748
• John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford: 12 February 1748 - 13 June 1751
• Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse: 18 June 1751 - 23 March 1754
• Sir Thomas Robinson: 23 March 1754 - October 1755
• Henry Fox: 14 November 1755 - 13 November 1756
• William Pitt the Elder: 4 December 1756 - 6 April 1757
• Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse: 6 April - 27 June 1757
• William Pitt the Elder: 27 June 1757 - 5 October 1761
• Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont: 9 October 1761 - 21 August 1763
• George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax: 9 September 1763 - 10 July 1765
• Henry Seymour Conway: 12 July 1765 - 23 May 1766
• Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox: 23 May - 29 July 1766
• William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne: 30 July 1766 - 20 October 1768
• Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth: 21 October 1768 - 12 December 1770
• William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford: 19 December 1770 - 9 November 1775
• Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth: 9 November 1775 - 24 November 1779
• Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough: 24 November 1779 - 27 March 1782