The
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was a British cabinet level position responsible for the army and the British colonies (other than India). The Department was created in
1801. In
1854 it was split into the separate offices of
Secretary of State for War and
Secretary of State for the Colonies
- Robert Hobart, Lord Hobart 1801 - 1804
- John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl Camden 1804 - 1805
- Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh 1805 - 1806
- William Windham 1806 - 1807
- Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh 1807 - 1809
- Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool 1809 - 1812
- Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst[?] 1812 - 1827
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich 1827
- William Huskisson 1827 - 1828
- Sir George Murray 1828 - 1830
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich 1830 - 1833
- Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Lord Stanley 1833 - 1834
- Thomas Spring Rice 1834
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1834 - 1835
- Charles Grant, Lord Glenelg 1835 - 1839
- Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby 1839
- Lord John Russell 1839 - 1841
- Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Lord Stanley 1841 - 1845
- William Ewart Gladstone 1845 - 1846
- Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey 1846 - 1852
- Sir John Pakington 1852
- Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle 1852 - 1854