Lord President of the Council
The Lord President of the Council is a British cabinet position, the holder of which acts as Lord President of the Privy Council. His principal responsibility is to preside at meetings of the Privy Council, at which the British monarch formally Assents to Orders-in-Council. In recent years, the Lord President has also served as Leader of the House of Commons.
Lord Presidents since 1678
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 1679
- John Robartes, Earl of Radnor 1679-1684
- Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester 1684-1685
- George Saville, 1st Marquess of Halifax 1685
- Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland 1685-1688
- Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen, 1st Duke of Leeds (1694) 1689-1699
- Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke 1699-1702
- Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset 1702
- Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke 1702-1708
- John Somers, Lord Somers 1708-1710
- Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester 1710-1711
- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckinghamshire 1711-1714
- Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham 1714-1716
- William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire 1716-1717
- Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland 1717-1719
- Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull 1719-1720
- Charles Townshend, Viscount Townshend 1720-1721
- Henry Boyle, 1st Lord Carleton 1721-1725
- William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire 1725-1729
- Thomas Trevor, Lord Trevor 1729-1730
- Spencer Compton, later 1st Earl of Wilmington 1730-1742
- William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington 1742-1745
- Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset 1745-1751
- [[John Carteret, 1st Earl of Granville] 1751-1763
- John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford 1763-1765
- Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham 1765-1766
- Robert Henley, Earl of Northington 1766-1767
- Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower 1767-1779
- Henry Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst 1779-1782
- Charles Pratt, Lord Camden 1782-1783
- David Murray, Viscount Stormont 1783
- Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl GOwer 1783-1784
- Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden 1784-1794
- William Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzwilliam 1794
- David Murray, Earl of Mansfield 1794-1796
- John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham 1796-1801
- William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1801-1805
- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1805
- John Jeffreys, Earl Camden 1805-1806
- William Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzwilliam 1806
- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1806-1807
- John Jeffreys, Earl Camden 1807-1812
- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth 1812
- Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby 1812-1827
- William Cavendish-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland 1827-1828
- Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst 1828-1830
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne 1830-1834
- James Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn 1834-1835
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne 1835-1841
- James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Lord Wharncliffe 1841-1846
- Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry 1846
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne 1846-1852
- William Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale 1852
- Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1852-1854
- Lord John Russell 1854-1855
- Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1855-1858
- James Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury 1858-1859
- Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1859-1866
- Richard Temple-Grenville, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1866-1867
- John Spencer Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough 1867-1868
- George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1871) 1868-1873
- Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Lord Aberdare 1873-1874
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 1874-1880
- John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer 1880-1883
- Chichester Parkinston-Fortescue 1883-1885
- Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook 1885-1886
- John Poynts Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer 1886
- Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook 1886-1892
- John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1892-1894
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1894-1895
- Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire 1895-1903
- Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry 1903-1905
- Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe 1905-1908
- Edward Marjoribanks, Lord Tweedmouth 1908
- Henry Hartley Fowler, Viscount Wolverhampton 1908-1910
- William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp 1910
- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn 1910-1914
- William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp 1914-1915
- Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1915-1916
- George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon 1916-1919
- Arthur James Balfour 1919-1922
- James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury 1922-1924
- Charles Cripps, 1st Lord Parmoor 1924
- George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kettleston 1924-1925
- Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour 1925-1929
- Charles Cripps, 1st Lord Parmoor 1929-1931
- Stanley Baldwin 1931-1935
- Ramsay MacDonald 1935-1937
- Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax 1937-1938
- Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham 1938-1939
- James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope 1939-1940
- Neville Chamberlain 1940
- Sir John Anderson 1940-1943
- Clement Attlee 1943-1945
- Frederick Marquis, Lord Woolton 1945
- Herbert Stanley Morrison 1945-1951
- Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison 1951
- Frederick Marquis, Lord Woolton 1951-1952
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury 1952-1957
- Alexander Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home 1957
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- William Whitelaw 1970-1972
- Robert Carr 1972
- James Prior 1972-1974
- Edward Short 1974-1976
- Michael Foot 1976-1979
- Lord Soames 1979-1981
- Francis Pym 1981-1982
- John Biffen 1982-1983
- Viscount Whitelaw 1983-1988
- John Wakeham 1987-1989
- Sir Geoffrey Howe 1989-1990
- John MacGregor 1990-1992
- Tony Newton 1992-1997
- Ann Taylor 1997-1998
- Margaret Beckett 1998-2001
- Robin Cook 2001-2003
- John Reid 2003-