Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

This is a list of Permanent Under-Secretaries in the British Foreign Office since 1790.

Not to be confused with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Permanent Under-Secretaries at the Foreign Office, 1790-

These are the Permanent Secretaries or senior civil servants at the Foreign Office.

*February 1790: George Aust
*October 1795: George Hammond (resigned 1806)
*March 1807: George Hammond
*October 1809: William Richard Hamilton
*July 1817: Joseph Planta
*April 1827: John Backhouse
*1842: Henry U. Addington
*1854: Edmund Hammond (later Lord Hammond)
*1873: Lord Tenterden
*1882: Sir Julian Pauncefote (later Lord Pauncefote)
*1889: Sir Philip Currie
*1894: Sir Thomas Sanderson (later Lord Sanderson)
*1906: Sir Charles Hardinge (later Lord Hardinge of Penshurst)
*1910: Sir Arthur Nicolson
*1916: Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
*1920: Sir Eyre Crowe
*1925: Sir William Tyrrell
*1928: Sir Ronald Lindsay
*1930: Sir Robert Vansittart
*1938: Sir Alexander Cadogan
*1946: Sir Orme Sargent (jointly with Sir William Strang, Head of the German Section 1947-1949)
*1949: Sir William Strang (jointly with the Heads of the German Section: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick 1949-1950, Sir D. Gainer 1950-1951)
*1953: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick
*1957: Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar
*1962: Sir Harold Caccia
*1965: Sir Paul Gore-Booth (also Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1968 and later created Baron Gore-Booth of Maltby)
*1969: Sir Denis Greenhill
*1973: Sir Thomas Brimelow
*1975: Sir Michael Palliser
*1982: Sir Antony Acland
*1986: Sir Patrick Wright
*1991: Sir David Gillmore
*1994: Sir John Coles
*1997: Sir John Kerr
*2002: Sir Michael Jay
*2006: Sir Peter Ricketts


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