1786 August Lord Hawkesbury (1796 became Earl of Liverpool)
1804 June 3rd Duke of Montrose
1806 February 1st Lord Auckland
1807 March 3rd Earl Bathurst
1809 Viscount Melville
1812 3rd Earl Bathurst
1815 September 2nd Earl of Clancarty
1818 January Frederic Robinson (later Earl of Ripon)
1823 January William Huskisson
1827 September Charles Grant (later Lord Glenelg)
1828 June W Vesey Fitzgerald
1830 February J C Herries
1830 November 2nd Lord Auckland
1834 June Charles Poulett Thomson (later Lord Sydenham)
1834 December A Baring (later Lord Ashburton)
1835 April Charles Poulett Thomson (later Lord Sydenham)
1839 August Henry Labouchere (later Lord Taunton)
1841 September Earl of Ripon
1843 May William Gladstone
1845 February Earl of Dalhousie
1846 July Earl of Clarendon
1847 July Henry Labouchere (later Lord Taunton)
1852 February Joseph Henley
1852 December Edward Cardwell (later Viscount Cardwell)
1855 March Lord Stanley of Alderley
1858 April Joseph Henley
1859 March 4th Earl of Donoughmore
1859 July Thomas Milner Gibson
1866 July Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart (later Earl of Iddesleigh)
1867 March 6th Duke of Richmond
1868 December John Bright
1870 January Chichester Fortescue (later Lord Carlingford)
1874 March Sir Charles Adderley (later Lord Norton)
1878 April Viscount Sandon (later Earl of Harrowby)
1880 April Joseph Chamberlain
1885 June 3rd Duke of Richmond and Gordon
1885 August Edward Stanhope
1886 February Anthony Mundella
1886 August Sir Frederick Stanley (later Earl of Derby)
1888 February Sir Michael Hicks-Beach (later Earl of St Aldwyn)
1892 August Anthony Mundella
1894 May James Bryce (later Viscount Bryce of Dechmont)
1895 June Charles Ritchie (later Lord Ritchie of Dundee)
1900 November Gerald Balfour (later Earl Balfour)
1905 March 4th Marquess of Salisbury
1905 December David Lloyd George (later Earl Lloyd George)
1908 April Winston Churchill (later Sir Winston Churchill)
1910 February Sydney Buxton (later Earl Buxton)
1914 February John Burns
1914 August Walter Runciman (later Viscount Runciman)
1916 December Sir Albert Stanley (later Baron Ashfield)
1919 May Sir Auckland Geddes
1920 March Sir Robert Horne (later Viscount Horne)
1921 April Stanley Baldwin (later Earl Baldwin)
1922 October Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame (later Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister, later Viscount Swinton, later Earl Swinton)
1924 January Sidney Webb (later Baron Passfield)
1924 November Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame
1929 June William Graham
1931 August Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (formerly Sir P. Lloyd-Greame, later Viscount Swinton, later Earl Swinton)
1931 November Walter Runciman (later Viscount Runciman)
1937 May Oliver Stanley
1940 January Sir Andrew Duncan
1940 October Oliver Lyttleton (later Viscount Chandos)
1941 June Sir Andrew Duncan
1942 February Col. J J Llewellin (later Baron Llewellin)
1942 February Hugh Dalton (later Baron Dalton)
1945 May Oliver Lyttleton (later Viscount Chandos)
1945 July Sir Stafford Cripps
1947 September Harold Wilson (later Sir Harold Wilson, later Lord Wilson of Rievaulx)
1951 April Sir Hartley Shawcross (later Baron Shawcross)
1951 October Peter Thorneycroft (later Baron Thorneycroft)
1957 January Sir David Eccles (later Viscount Eccles)
1959 October Reginald Maudling
1961 October Frederick J Erroll (later Baron Erroll)
1963 October Edward Heath (Secretary of State for Industry, Trade, Regional Development and President of the Board of Trade)
1964 October Douglas Jay
1967 August Anthony Crosland
1969 October Roy Mason
1970 June Michael Noble
The Department came into being on 20 October 1970 merging the two previous departments: the Board of Trade and Ministry of Technology. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade.
1970 October John Davies
1972 November Peter Walker
The Department of Trade and Industry was split into three new departments following the general election of February, 1974. Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade.
1974 March Peter Shore
1976 April Edmund Dell
1978 November John Smith
1979 May John Nott (later Sir John Nott)
1981 January John Biffen
1982 April Lord Cockfield
Secretary of State for Industry.
1974 March Anthony Benn
1975 June Eric Varley (later Lord Varley of Chesterfield)
1979 May Sir Keith Joseph (later Lord Joseph of Portsoken)
1981 September Patrick Jenkin (later Lord Jenkin of Roding)
Following the general election, the Prime Minister announced, on 11 June 1983, that the Departments of Industry and Trade would be merged to form the Department of Trade and Industry. After the general election of 5 May
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade.
1983 June Cecil Parkinson (later Lord Parkinson of Carnforth)
1983 October Norman Tebbit (later Lord Tebbit of Chingford)
1985 September Leon Brittan (later Sir Leon Brittan)
1986 January Paul Channon
1987 June Lord Young of Graffham
1989 July Nicholas Ridley (later Lord Ridley of Liddesdale)
1990 July Peter Lilley
1992 April Michael Heseltine
1995 July Ian Lang
1997 May Margaret Beckett
1998 July Peter Mandelson
1998 December Stephen Byers
2001 June Patricia Hewitt
2005 May Alan Johnson
2006 May Alistair Darling
As part of the changes to Government Departments made in July 2007, the work of the Office of Science and Innovation moved into a new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. The rest of DTI and the Better Regulation Executive (BRE) from the Cabinet Office became a new “Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform”.
2007 July John Hutton
