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Chief Secretary for Ireland
| Name | Entered office | Left office | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Lock | 1660 | 1660 | ||
| Sir Thomas Page | 1662 | 1669 | ||
| Sir Henry Ford | 1669 | 1670 | ||
| Sir Ellis Leighton | 1670 | 1672 | ||
| Sir Henry Ford | 1672 | 1673 | ||
| Sir William Harbord | 1673 | 1676 | ||
| Sir Cyril Wyche | 1676 | 1682 | ||
| Sir WIlliam Ellis | 1682 | 1685 | ||
| Sir Paul Rycaut | 1686 | 1687 | ||
| Thomas Sheridan | 1687 | 1688 | ||
| Patrick Tyrrell | 1688 | 1689 | ||
| John Davis | 1690 | 1692 | ||
| Sir Cyril Wyche | 1692 | 1693 | ||
| Sir Richard Aldworth | 1695 | 1696 | ||
| William Palmer | 1696 | 1697 | ||
| Matthew Prior | 1697 | 1699 | ||
| Humphrey May | 1699 | 1701 | ||
| Francis Gwyn | 1701 | 1703 | ||
| Edward Southwell | 1703 | 1707 | Tory | |
| George Dodlington | 1707 | 1708 | ||
| Joseph Addison | December 1708 | August 1710 | Whig | |
| Edward Southwell | August 1710 | 1713 | Tory | |
| Sir John Stanley | 1713 | 1714 | Tory | |
| Joseph Addison | September 1714 | August 1715 | Whig | |
| Martin Bladen and Charles Delafaye | August 1715 | February 1717 | Whig | |
| Edward Webster | February 1717 | June 1720 | Whig | |
| Horatio Walpole | June 1720 | 1721 | Whig | |
| Edward Hopkins | 1721 | May 1724 | Whig | |
| Thomas Clutterbuck | May 1724 | June 1730 | Whig | |
| Walter Cary | June 1730 | April 1737 | Whig | |
| Sir Edward Walpole | April 1737 | 1739 | Whig | |
| Thomas Townshend | 1739 | 1739 | Whig | |
| Henry Legge | 1739 | 1741 | Whig | |
| Viscount Duncannon | 1741 | January 1745 | Whig | |
| Richard Liddell | January 1745 | 1746 | Whig | |
| Sewallis Shirley | 1746 | November 1746 | Whig | |
| Edward Weston | November 1746 | December 1750 | Whig | |
| Lord George Sackville | December 1750 | April 1755 | Whig | |
| Henry Seymour Conway | April 1755 | November 1756 | Whig | |
| Richard Rigby | January 1757 | April 1761 | Whig | |
| William Gerard Hamilton | 3 April 1761 | 1764 | Whig | |
| The Earl of Drogheda | 1764 | June 1765 | ||
| Viscount Conway | June 1765 | October 1766 | Whig | |
| Augustus Hervey | October 1766 | July 1767 | Whig | |
| Theophilus Jones | July 1767 | August 1767 | ||
| Lord Frederick Campbell | August 1767 | December 1768 | Tory | |
| Sir George Macartney | January 1769 | October 1772 | Tory | |
| Sir John Blaquiere | October 1772 | December 1776 | Tory | |
| Richard Heron | December 1776 | November 1780 | Tory | |
| William Eden | November 1780 | March 1782 | Tory | |
| Richard FitzPatrick | March 1782 | July 1782 | Whig | |
| William Grenville | July 1782 | April 1783 | Whig | |
| William Windham | April 1783 | August 1783 | Whig | |
| Thomas Pelham | August 1783 | January 1784 | Whig | |
| Thomas Orde | February 1784 | October 1787 | Tory | |
| Alleyne Fitzherbert | October 1787 | April 1789 | Tory | |
| Robert Hobart | April 1789 | October 1793 | Tory | |
| Sylvester Douglas | January 1794 | December 1794 | Tory | |
| Viscount Milton | December 1794 | March 1795 | Portland Whig | |
| Thomas Pelham | March 1795 | 29 March 1798 | Portland Whig | |
| Viscount Castlereagh | 29 March 1798 | 21 May 1801 | Tory | |
| Charles Abbot | 21 May 1801 | January 1802 | Tory | |
| William Wickham | February 1802 | January 1804 | Tory | |
| Sir Evan Nepean | February 1804 | January 1805 | Tory | |
| Nicholas Vansittart | January 1805 | September 1805 | Tory | |
| Charles Long | September 1805 | February 1806 | Tory | |
| William Elliot | February 1806 | March 1807 | Whig | |
| Sir Arthur Wellesley | March 1807 | April 1809 | Tory | |
| Robert Dundas | April 1809 | October 1809 | Tory | |
| William Wellesley-Pole | October 1809 | August 1812 | Tory | |
| Robert Peel | August 1812 | August 1818 | Tory | |
| Charles Grant | August 1818 | December 1821 | Tory | |
| Henry Goulburn | December 1821 | April 1827 | Tory | |
| William Lamb | April 1827 | May 1828 | Canningite | |
| Lord Francis Leveson-Gower | 21 June 1828 | 30 July 1830 | Tory | |
| Sir Henry Hardinge | 30 July 1830 | 22 November 1830 | Tory | |
| Edward Stanley | 29 November 1830 | 29 March 1833 | Whig | entered cabinet 16 June 1831 |
| Sir John Cam Hobhouse | 29 March 1833 | 14 November 1834 | Whig | |
| Sir Henry Hardinge | 16 December 1834 | 8 April 1835 | Conservative | |
| Viscount Morpeth | 22 April 1835 | 30 August 1841 | Whig | entered Cabinet 20 February 1839 |
| Lord Eliot | 6 February 1841 | 1 February 1845 | Conservative | |
| Sir Thomas Fremantle | 1 February 1845 | 14 February 1846 | Conservative | |
| Earl of Lincoln | 14 February 1846 | 27 June 1846 | Conservative | |
| Henry Labouchere | 6 July 1846 | 22 July 1847 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Sir William Somerville | 22 July 1847 | 21 February 1852 | Liberal | |
| Lord Naas | 1 March 1852 | 17 December 1852 | Conservative | |
| Sir John Young | 6 January 1853 | 1 March 1855 | Peelite | |
| Edward Horsman | 1 March 1855 | 27 May 1857 | Liberal | |
| Henry Arthur Herbert | 27 May 1857 | 21 February 1858 | Liberal | |
| Lord Naas | 4 March 1858 | 11 June 1859 | Conservative | |
| Edward Cardwell | 24 June 1859 | 29 July 1861 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Sir Robert Peel | 29 July 1861 | 7 December 1865 | Liberal | |
| Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue | 7 December 1865 | 26 June 1866 | Liberal | |
| Lord Naas from 1867, the Earl of Mayo | 10 July 1866 | 29 September 1868 | Conservative | in cabinet |
| John Wilson-Patten | 29 September 1868 | 1 December 1868 | Conservative | |
| Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue | 16 December 1868 | 12 January 1871 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Marquess of Hartington | 12 January 1871 | 17 February 1874 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Sir Michael Hicks-Beach | 27 February 1874 | 15 February 1878 | Conservative | in cabinet from 12 August 1876 |
| James Lowther | 15 February 1878 | 21 April 1880 | Conservative | |
| William Forster | 30 April 1880 | 6 May 1882 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Lord Frederick Cavendish | 6 May 1882 | 9 May 1882 | Liberal | assassinated in Phoenix Park, Dublin |
| George Otto Trevelyan | 9 May 1882 | 23 October 1884 | Liberal | |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 23 October 1884 | 9 June 1885 | Liberal | |
| Sir William Hart Dyke | 25 June 1885 | 23 January 1886 | Conservative | |
| William Henry Smith | 23 January 1886 | 28 January 1886 | Conservative | in cabinet |
| John Morley | 6 February 1886 | 20 July 1886 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Sir Michael Hicks-Beach | 5 August 1886 | 7 March 1887 | Conservative | in cabinet |
| Arthur Balfour | 7 March 1887 | 9 November 1891 | Conservative | in cabinet |
| William Jackson | 9 November 1891 | 11 August 1892 | Conservative | |
| John Morley | 22 August 1892 | 21 June 1895 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Gerald Balfour | 4 July 1895 | 9 November 1900 | Conservative | |
| George Wyndham | 9 November 1900 | 12 March 1905 | Conservative | in cabinet |
| Walter Long | 12 March 1905 | 4 December 1905 | Conservative | in cabinet |
| James Bryce | 10 December 1905 | 23 January 1907 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Augustine Birrell | 23 January 1907 | 3 May 1916 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Henry Duke | 31 July 1916 | 5 May 1918 | Conservative | in cabinet |
| Edward Shortt | 5 May 1918 | 10 January 1919 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Ian Macpherson | 10 January 1919 | 2 April 1920 | Liberal | in cabinet |
| Sir Hamar Greenwood | 2 April 1920 | 19 October 1922 | Liberal | in cabinet |
