Leader of the House of Lords

United Kingdom
Leader of the House of Lords
United Kingdom; Leader of the House of Lords
	Incumbent; Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston; since 15 July 2014
	Office of the Leader of the House
Inaugural holder	Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Formation	1721
Deputy	Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe[citation needed]

The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unless the Leader is also a departmental minister, being Leader constitutes the bulk of his or her government responsibilities, but it has never been an independent salaried office. The Office of the Leader of the House of Lords is a ministerial department.^[1]

Though the Leader of the House is a member of the cabinet and remains a partisan figure, he or she also has responsibilities to the House as a whole. In contrast to the House of Commons, where proceedings are controlled by the Speaker, proceedings in the Lords are controlled by peers themselves, under the rules set out in the Standing Orders. The Leader of the House has the responsibility of reminding the House of these rules and facilitating the Lords' self-regulation, though any member may draw attention to breaches of order or failure to observe customs. The Leader is often called upon to advise on procedures and points of order, and is required to determine the order of speakers on Supplementary Questions, subject to the wishes of the House. However, like the Lord Speaker, the Leader of the House has no power to rule on points of order or to intervene during an inappropriate speech.

Until the election of the first Lord Speaker on 4 July 2006, the Leader of the House had responsibility for making preliminary decisions on requests for Private Notice Questions, and for waiving the sub judice rule in certain cases. Those functions were transferred to the Lord Speaker.

History

The title seems to have come into use some time after 1800, as a formal way of referring to the peer who managed government business in the upper House, irrespective of which salaried position they held in the cabinet. However, it may have been used as early as 1689, applied to George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, when he was Speaker of the House of Lords during the Convention Parliament of that year.

The role developed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, at the same time as the role of Prime Minister and the system of Cabinet government. In the wake of the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution and the succession of the Hanoverians to the throne, Britain evolved a system of government where ministers were sustained in office by their ability to carry legislation through Parliament. It was therefore necessary for a member of the government to take responsibility for steering government legislation through each House.

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, initiated aspects of the role during the Whig Junta under Queen Anne. Sunderland and the other Whigs were dismissed from office in reaction to their co-ordination of government matters, which was taken as a threat to the power of the monarch. Sunderland returned to power under George I, as Lord Privy Seal. The first documentary evidence of the existence of the role comes from 1717, when Sunderland became Secretary of State for the Northern Department: in the form of lists of peers invited to the office of the Northern Secretary immediately before sessions of Parliament.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Prime Minister himself usually took responsibility for steering business through the House in which he sat. When the Prime Minister sat in the Commons, the position of Leader of the Lords was often held by the Foreign Secretary or Colonial Secretary. In some coalition governments, it was held by the party leader who was not Prime Minister.

Since the end of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury's last government, in 1902, the position clearly exists in its own right as a member of the cabinet. Since 1966 it has only been combined with sinecure positions and the holder has not been a departmental minister though some have held additional responsibilities such as Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham also being designated "Minister for Science" or Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington also being "Minister for Women".

The first female Leader of the Lords was Janet Young, Baroness Young in 1981–1983.

Leaders of the House of Lords

Because the post is a parliamentary one and not a ministerial office in its own right, it is not always included in official lists of government offices, especially for earlier periods. This can make it difficult to determine who the Leader of the House of Lords was in a particular ministry.

18th century

Name		Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend	Northern Secretary	1721 – 1730	Whig	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Robert Walpole
?			1730 – February 1742			Robert Walpole
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	John Carteret, 2nd Baron Carteret (2nd Earl Granville from October 1744)	Northern Secretary	12 February 1742 – 24 November 1744	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (until July 1743)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|		Northern Secretary	12 February 1742 – 24 November 1744		Henry Pelham (from 27 August 1743)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle		1744 – 16 November 1756		Henry Pelham (from 27 August 1743)
Prime Minister (from 16 March 1754)	Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1744 – 16 November 1756		Himself
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire	Prime Minister	16 November 1756 – 25 June 1757		style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle		2 July 1757 – 26 May 1762		style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute		26 May 1762 – 8 April 1763	Tory	style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
?			1763 – 1765		style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	George Grenville
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham	Prime Minister	13 July 1765 – 30 July 1766	Rockingham Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton		1766 – 28 January 1770	Chathamite Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (until October 1768)
Prime Minister	Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1766 – 28 January 1770	Chathamite Whig	Himself (from 14 October 1768)
?			1770 – 1782		style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Frederick North
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham	Prime Minister	27 March – July 1782	Rockingham Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne		14 July 1782 – April 1783	Rockingham Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland		2 April – December 1783	Whig (Fox-North Coalition)	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself (figurehead)
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney	Home Secretary	December 1783 – June 1789	Whig	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Pitt the Younger
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds	Foreign Secretary	1789 – 1790	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville	Home Secretary (until June 1791) Foreign Secretary (from June 1791)	November 1790 – February 1801	Tory

19th century

Name		Portrait	Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
? (Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham?)				February – March 1801	Tory	style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Pitt the Younger
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Robert Hobart, Lord Hobart^[2]		Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	March – ? 1801		rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Henry Addington
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Thomas Pelham, Lord Pelham		Home Secretary	1801 – 1803
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury		Foreign Secretary (until May 1804)	1803 – February 1806
Home Secretary (from 12 May 1804)	Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury		style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	1803 – February 1806		William Pitt the Younger
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville		Prime Minister	11 February 1806 – March 1807	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself (Ministry of All the Talents)
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury (2nd Earl of Liverpool from 1808)		Home Secretary (until November 1809)	25 March 1807 – April 1827	Tory	style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
War & Colonial Secretary (1 November 1809 – June 1812)			style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|			Spencer Perceval
Prime Minister (from 8 June 1812)			style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|			Himself
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich		War & Colonial Secretary (until September 1827)	30 April 1827 – January 1828		style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	George Canning
Prime Minister (from 31 August 1827)	F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich		style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	30 April 1827 – January 1828		Himself
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington		Prime Minister	January 1828 – November 1830		style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey			22 November 1830 – 9 July 1834	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne			16 July – 14 November 1834	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington		Caretaker: Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, War & Colonial Secretary	17 November 1834 – 8 April 1835	Tory	style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself (Caretaker)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington		Foreign Secretary	17 November 1834 – 8 April 1835	Tory	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Peel
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne		Prime Minister	18 April 1835 – 30 August 1841	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington		Minister without Portfolio	3 September 1841 – 27 June 1846	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Peel
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne		Lord President of the Council	6 July 1846 – 21 February 1852	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	John Russell
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby		Prime Minister	23 February – 17 December 1852	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" \|	George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen		Prime Minister	19 December 1852 – 30 January 1855	Peelite	style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" \|	Himself (Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville		Lord President of the Council	8 February 1855 – 21 February 1858	Whig	style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" \|	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby		Prime Minister	21 February 1858 – 11 June 1859	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville		Lord President of the Council	18 June 1859 – 29 October 1865	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Russell, 1st Earl Russell		Prime Minister	29 October 1865 – 26 June 1866	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby		Prime Minister	28 June 1866 – 25 February 1868	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury	File:3rd Earl of Malmesbury.jpg	Lord Privy Seal	27 February – 1 December 1868	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Benjamin Disraeli
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville		Colonial Secretary (until July 1870) Foreign Secretary (from 6 July 1870)	9 December 1868 – 17 February 1874	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond		Lord President of the Council	21 February 1874 – 21 August 1876	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Benjamin Disraeli
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield		Prime Minister	21 August 1876 – 21 April 1880	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville		Foreign Secretary	28 April 1880 – 9 June 1885	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury		Prime Minister Foreign Secretary	23 June 1885 – 28 January 1886	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville		Colonial Secretary	6 February – 20 July 1886	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury		Prime Minister Foreign Secretary (from 14 January 1887)	25 July 1886 – 11 August 1892	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley		Lord President of the Council	18 August 1892 – 5 March 1894	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery		Prime Minister	5 March 1894 – 21 June 1895	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury		Prime Minister Foreign Secretary (until November 1900) Lord Privy Seal (from 12 November 1900)	25 June 1895 – 11 July 1902	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Himself

Edwardian and wartime

Name		Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire	Lord President of the Council	12 July 1902 – 13 October 1903	Liberal Unionist	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Arthur Balfour (Conservative)
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne	Foreign Secretary	13 October 1903 – 4 December 1905	Liberal Unionist		Arthur Balfour (Conservative)
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon	Lord Privy Seal	10 December 1905 – 14 April 1908	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Henry Campbell-Bannerman
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe (1st Marquess of Crewe from July 1911)	Colonial Secretary (May 1908 – November 1910) Lord Privy Seal (October 1908 – October 1911; February 1912 – May 1915) India Secretary (November 1910 – March 1911; 25 May 1911 – May 1915) Lord President of the Council (from 25 May 1915) President of the Board of Education (from 18 August 1916)	14 April 1908 – 10 December 1916	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	H. H. Asquith
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston (1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from July 1921)	Lord President of the Council (until October 1919) Foreign Secretary (from 23 October 1919)	10 December 1916 – 22 January 1924	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	David Lloyd George
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|					Bonar Law
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|					Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane	Lord Chancellor	22 January – 3 November 1924	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	Lord President of the Council	3 November 1924 – 20 March 1925	Conservative	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury	Lord Privy Seal	27 April 1925 – 4 June 1929	Conservative		Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor	Lord President of the Council	7 June 1929 – 24 August 1931	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading	Foreign Secretary	24 August – 5 November 1931	Liberal	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" \|	Ramsay MacDonald (Nat. Govts: I & II)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham	Secretary of State for War	5 November 1931 – 7 June 1935	Conservative		Ramsay MacDonald (Nat. Govts: I & II)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry	Lord Privy Seal	7 June – 22 November 1935		rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Stanley Baldwin (Nat. Govt)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax	Lord Privy Seal (until May 1937) Lord President of the Council (from 28 May 1937)	22 November 1935 – 21 February 1938			Stanley Baldwin (Nat. Govt)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax		22 November 1935 – 21 February 1938		Neville Chamberlain (Nat. Govt)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope	President of the Board of Education (until October 1938) First Lord of the Admiralty (27 October 1938 – September 1939)	21 February 1938 – 14 May 1940		Neville Chamberlain (Nat. Govt)
Lord President of the Council (from 3 September 1939)	James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	21 February 1938 – 14 May 1940		Neville Chamberlain (War coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote	Dominions Secretary	14 May – 3 October 1940		rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Winston Churchill (War coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax	Foreign Secretary	3 October – 22 December 1940
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd	Colonial Secretary	22 December 1940 – 4 February 1941
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne	Colonial Secretary	8 February 1941 – 21 February 1942
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne	Colonial Secretary (until November 1942) Lord Privy Seal (22 November 1942 – September 1943) Dominions Secretary (from 24 September 1943–45)	21 February 1942 – 26 July 1945
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne		21 February 1942 – 26 July 1945		Winston Churchill (Caretaker coalition)

Post-War

Name		Portrait	Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison		Dominions Secretary (until July 1947) Commonwealth Secretary (7 July – October 1947) Lord Privy Seal (7 October 1947 – March 1951) Paymaster General (2 July 1948 – April 1949) Lord President of the Council (from 9 March 1951)	3 August 1945 – 26 October 1951	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Clement Attlee
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury		Lord Privy Seal (until May 1952) Commonwealth Secretary (12 March – November 1952) Lord President of the Council (from 24 November 1952)	28 October 1951 – 29 March 1957	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Winston Churchill
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury			28 October 1951 – 29 March 1957		Anthony Eden
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home		Commonwealth Secretary Lord President of the Council (until September 1957 & from 14 October 1959)	29 March 1957 – 27 July 1960		rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham		Lord President of the Council Minister for Science	27 July 1960 – 20 October 1963			Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington		Minister without Portfolio	20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964		style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Alec Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford		Lord Privy Seal (until December 1965 & from 6 April 1966) Colonial Secretary (23 December 1965 – April 1966)	18 October 1964 – 16 January 1968	Labour	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton		Lord Privy Seal (until April 1968 & from 18 October 1968) Paymaster-General (6 April–November 1968)	16 January 1968 – 19 June 1970	Labour		Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe		Lord Privy Seal	20 June 1970 – 23 May 1973	Conservative	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Edward Heath
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham			5 June 1973 – 4 March 1974	Conservative		Edward Heath
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd			7 March 1974 – 10 September 1976	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Harold Wilson
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd			7 March 1974 – 10 September 1976		James Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Fred Peart, Baron Peart			10 September 1976 – 4 May 1979		James Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Christopher Soames, Baron Soames		Lord President of the Council	5 May 1979 – 14 September 1981	Conservative	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Margaret Thatcher
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Janet Young, Baroness Young		Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (until April 1982) Lord Privy Seal (from 6 April 1982)	14 September 1981 – 11 June 1983
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Willie Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw	File:William Whitelaw.jpg	Deputy Prime Minister Lord President of the Council	11 June 1983 – 10 January 1988
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead		Lord Privy Seal	10 January 1988 – 28 November 1990
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	David Waddington, Baron Waddington			28 November 1990 – 11 April 1992		rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Major
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham			11 April 1992 – 20 July 1994
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne			20 July 1994 – 2 May 1997
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Ivor Richard, Baron Richard			2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998	Labour	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington			27 July 1998 – 8 June 2001	Labour		Tony Blair

21st century

Name		Concurrent office(s)	Tenure	Political party	Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn	Lord Privy Seal	8 June 2001 – 20 September 2003	Labour	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos	Lord President of the Council	6 October 2003 – 27 June 2007			Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland	Lord President of the Council	27 June 2007 – 2 October 2008		rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Gordon Brown
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon	Lord President of the Council (until June 2009) Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (from 5 June 2009)	2 October 2008 – 11 May 2010			Gordon Brown
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Tom Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	12 May 2010 – 7 January 2013	Conservative	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	David Cameron (Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	7 January 2013 – 15 July 2014
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston	Lord Privy Seal	15 July 2014 – present
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston	Lord Privy Seal	15 July 2014 – present		David Cameron

References

^ http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/212617/lmr2009.pdf ^{[dead link]}
^ M. W. McCahill, The House of Lords in the Age of George III (1760-1811) (2009) p. 242.

External links

Leader of the House of Lords Official site

[1] ttp://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/212617/lmr2009.pdf ^{[dead link]}

[2] M. W. McCahill, The House of Lords in the Age of George III (1760-1811) (2009) p. 242.

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