President of the Board of Trade

Template:Short description Template:Infobox official post The president of the Board of Trade is head of the Board of Trade. A committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, it was first established as a temporary committee of inquiry in the 17th century that evolved gradually into a government department with diverse functions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The current holder of the post is Jonathan Reynolds,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> who is concurrently the secretary of state for business and trade.

History

The idea of a Board of Trade was first translated into action by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 when he appointed his son Richard Cromwell to head a body of Lords of the Privy Council, judges and merchants to consider measures to promote trade. Charles II established a Council of Trade on 7 November 1660, followed by a Council of Foreign Plantations on 1 December that year. The two were united on 16 September 1672 as the Board of Trade and Plantations.

After the Board was re-established in 1696, there were 15 (and later 16) members of the BoardTemplate:Sndthe 7 (later 8) great officers of state, and eight unofficial members, who did the majority of the work. The senior unofficial board member was the board president, commonly known as the first lord of trade. The board was abolished on 11 July 1782, but a Committee of the Privy Council was established on 5 March 1784 for the same purposes. On 23 August 1786, a new committee was set up, more strongly focused on commercial functions than the previous boards of trade. At first, the president of the Board of Trade only occasionally sat in the Cabinet. Still, from the early 19th century, it was usually a cabinet-level position.

In 2020, there was an unusual appointment of a deputy president to assist the president. Still, the holder remained only an adviser to the Board.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This appears to have been a one-off appointment, and this role no longer exists.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, the president was previously assisted by the vice president.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

List of presidents of the Board of Trade

First Lord of Trade (1672–1782)

First Lord			Term of office		Monarch
	File:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.jpg	Anthony Ashley Cooper 1st Earl of Shaftesbury	Template:Small 1672	1676	Charles II Template:Small
	File:Portrait of John Egerton 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.jpg	John Egerton 3rd Earl of Bridgewater	Template:Small 1695	Template:Small 1699	William III Template:Small
	File:Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford.jpg	Thomas Grey 2nd Earl of Stamford<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	Template:Small 1699	Template:Small 1702
					Anne Template:Small
	File:Weymouthlord.jpg	Thomas Thynne 1st Viscount Weymouth	Template:Small 1702	1705
	File:Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford.jpg	Thomas Grey 2nd Earl of Stamford	1705	Template:Small 1711
	File:FinchArms.svg	Charles Finch 4th Earl of Winchilsea	Template:Small 1711	Template:Small 1713
	File:Francis North, 2nd Baron Guildford (1673-1729), circle of Thomas Murray (1663-1734).jpg	Francis North 2nd Baron Guilford	Template:Small 1713	Template:Small 1714
					George I Template:Small
	File:Blank.png	William Berkeley 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton	Template:Small 1714	Template:Small 1715
	File:Blank.png	Henry Howard 6th Earl of Suffolk	Template:Small 1715	Template:Small 1718
	File:Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness (1681-1721), by Charles d'Agar.jpg	Robert Darcy 3rd Earl of Holderness	Template:Small 1718	Template:Small 1719
	File:Blank.png	Thomas Fane 6th Earl of Westmorland	Template:Small 1719	Template:Small 1735
					George II Template:Small
	File:Blank.png	Benjamin Mildmay 1st Earl Fitzwalter	Template:Small 1735	Template:Small 1737
	File:Blank.png	John Monson 1st Baron Monson	Template:Small 1737	Template:Small 1748
	File:2ndEarlofHalifaxByJoshuaReynoldsNSArtGallery.jpg	George Montagu-Dunk 2nd Earl of Halifax	Template:Small 1748	Template:Small 1761
					George III Template:Small
	File:1stLordSandys.jpg	Samuel Sandys 1st Baron Sandys	Template:Small 1761	Template:Small 1763
	File:CharlesTownshend.jpg	Charles Townshend	Template:Small 1763	Template:Small 1763
	File:William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne by Jean Laurent Mosnier.jpg	William Petty 2nd Earl of Shelburne	Template:Small 1763	Template:Small 1763
	File:1stMarquessOfDownshire.jpg	Wills Hill Earl of Hillsborough	Template:Small 1763	Template:Small 1765
	File:William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth, by Nathaniel Hone I, 1777, from the Hood Museum of Art - P.960.100.jpg	William Legge 2nd Earl of Dartmouth	Template:Small 1765	Template:Small 1766
	File:1stMarquessOfDownshire.jpg	Wills Hill Earl of Hillsborough	Template:Small 1766	Template:Small 1766
	File:Thomas-gainsborough-portrait-of-robert-nugent-lord-clare-c-1759 a-l-10069972-8880731.jpg	Robert Nugent Viscount Clare	Template:Small 1767	Template:Small 1768
	File:1stMarquessOfDownshire.jpg	Wills Hill Earl of Hillsborough	Template:Small 1768	Template:Small 1772
	File:William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth.jpg	William Legge 2nd Earl of Dartmouth	Template:Small 1772	Template:Small 1775
	File:MarshGeorge1800George Germain.jpg	George Germain 1st Viscount Sackville	Template:Small 1775	Template:Small 1779
	File:Romney - Frederick Howard, Fifth Earl of Carlisle.jpg	Frederick Howard 5th Earl of Carlisle	Template:Small 1779	Template:Small 1780
	File:Thomas Robinson 2nd Baron.jpg	Thomas Robinson 2nd Baron Grantham	Template:Small 1780	Template:Small 1782

President of the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations (1784–1786)

President of the Committee			Term of office		Party	Ministry	Monarch
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Viscount Sydney by Gilbert Stuart.jpg	Thomas Townshend 1st Viscount Sydney	Template:Small 1784	Template:Small 1786	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	Template:Party shading/Tories | Pitt I	George III Template:Small

President of the Board of Trade (1786–1963)

President of the Board Constituency			Term of office		Party	Ministry	Monarch	Ref
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool by George Romney.jpg	Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl of Liverpool	23 August 1786	7 June 1804	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory	Template:Party shading/Tories |Pitt I	George III Template:Small
Template:Party shading/Tories| Addington
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	James Graham 3rd Duke of Montrose	7 June 1804	5 February 1806	Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory	Template:Party shading/Tories| Pitt II
	File:Sir Thomas Lawrence - William Eden, First Lord Auckland, M. P. - 2005.201 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg	William Eden 1st Baron Auckland	5 February 1806	31 March 1807	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)| Independent	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)| All the Talents
rowspan=3 height=15 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst by William Salter.jpg	Henry Bathurst 3rd Earl Bathurst	31 March 1807	29 September 1812	rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory	Template:Party shading/Tories| Portland II
Template:Party shading/Tories| Perceval
rowspan="5" Template:Party shading/Tories| Liverpool
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty by Joseph Paelinck.jpg	Richard Trench 2nd Earl of Clancarty	29 September 1812	24 January 1818	Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon by Sir Thomas Lawrence cropped.jpg	F. J. Robinson Template:Small	24 January 1818	21 February 1823	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory
George IV Template:Small
	height="15" rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:William Huskisson by Richard Rothwell.jpg	William Huskisson Template:Small	21 February 1823	4 September 1827	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory
	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)| Canning
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord-glenelg.jpg	Charles Grant Template:Small	4 September 1827	11 June 1828	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)| Goderich
	rowspan="4" Template:Party shading/Tories| Wellington–Peel
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Vesy fitz small.jpg	William Vesey-FitzGerald Template:Small	11 June 1828	2 February 1830	Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory	Template:Efn-lg
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:John Charles Herries.jpg	John Charles Herries Template:Small	2 February 1830	22 November 1830	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory
William IV Template:Small
	rowspan=2 height=15 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland.png	George Eden Lord Auckland	22 November 1830	5 June 1834	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Whigs| Whig	Template:Party shading/Whigs| Grey
	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Whigs| Melbourne I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Sydenham.jpg	Charles Poulett Thomson Template:Small	5 June 1834	14 November 1834	Template:Party shading/Whigs| Whig
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:AlexanderBaring.jpg	Alexander Baring Template:Small	15 December 1834	8 April 1835	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Tories| Tory	Template:Party shading/Tories| Wellington Caretaker
	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Peel I
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Sydenham.jpg	Charles Poulett Thomson Template:Small	8 April 1835	29 August 1839	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Whigs| Whig	rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Whigs| Melbourne II
Victoria Template:Small
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Baugniet00a.jpg	Henry Labouchere Template:Small	29 August 1839	30 August 1841	Template:Party shading/Whigs| Whig
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon by Sir Thomas Lawrence cropped.jpg	F. J. Robinson Earl of Ripon	3 September 1841	15 May 1843	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative	rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Peel II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:William Ewart Gladstone CDV 1861 for infobox.jpg	William Ewart Gladstone Template:Small	15 May 1843	5 February 1845	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Dalhousie.jpg	James Broun-Ramsay Earl of Dalhousie	5 February 1845	27 June 1846	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:4thEarlOfClarendon.jpg	George Villiers 4th Earl of Clarendon	6 July 1846	22 July 1847	Template:Party shading/Whigs| Whig	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Whigs| Russell I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Baugniet00a.jpg	Henry Labouchere Template:Small	22 July 1847	21 February 1852	Template:Party shading/Whigs| Whig
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Joseph Warner Henley.jpg	J. W. Henley Template:Small	27 February 1852	17 December 1852	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Derby–Disraeli I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:1stViscountCardwell.jpg	Edward Cardwell Template:Small	28 December 1852	31 March 1855	Template:Party shading/Peelite|Peelite	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Aberdeen
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Stanley of Adderley2.JPG	Edward Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley	31 March 1855	21 February 1858	Template:Party shading/Whigs| Whig	Template:Party shading/Whigs|Palmerston
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Joseph Warner Henley.jpg	J. W. Henley Template:Small	26 February 1858	3 March 1859	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Derby–Disraeli II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Richard Hely-Hutchinson 4th Earl of Donoughmore	3 March 1859	11 June 1859	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Thomas Milner Gibson.JPG	Thomas Milner Gibson Template:Small	6 July 1859	26 June 1866	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)| Liberal	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)|Palmerston II
	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)|Russell III
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.jpg	Stafford Northcote 1st Earl of Iddesleigh	6 July 1866	8 March 1867	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Derby–Disraeli III
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon.jpg	Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke of Richmond	8 March 1867	1 December 1868	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:John Bright.jpg	John Bright Template:Small	9 December 1868	14 January 1871	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)| Liberal	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:1st Baron Carlingford.jpg	Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue Template:Small	14 January 1871	17 February 1874	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Bowyer Adderley, Lord Norton.jpg	Charles Adderley 1st Baron Norton	21 February 1874	4 April 1878	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Disraeli II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:DFS Ryder 3rd Earl of Harrowby, Lock & Whitfield.jpg	Viscount Sandon Template:Small	4 April 1878	21 April 1880	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Joseph Chamberlain in colour.jpg	Joseph Chamberlain Template:Small	3 May 1880	9 June 1885	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)| Liberal	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon.jpg	Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke of Richmond	24 June 1885	19 August 1885	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Salisbury I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Edward Stanhope.jpg	Edward Stanhope Template:Small	19 August 1885	28 January 1886	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Anthony Mundella.JPG	A. J. Mundella Template:Small	17 February 1886	20 July 1886	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)| Liberal	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone III
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Frederick Arthur Stanley.jpg	Frederick Stanley Lord Stanley of Preston	3 August 1886	21 February 1888	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Salisbury II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:St Aldwyn Michael Edward Hicks-Beach (1st Earl).jpg	Michael Hicks Beach 1st Earl St Aldwyn	21 February 1888	11 August 1892	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)|Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Anthony Mundella.JPG	A. J. Mundella Template:Small	18 August 1892	28 May 1894	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)|Liberal	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Gladstone IV
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:1st Viscount Bryce 1902b.jpg	James Bryce Template:Small	28 May 1894	21 June 1895	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Rosebery
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Thomson Ritchie headshot.jpg	Charles Ritchie Template:Small	29 June 1895	7 November 1900	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Salisbury III
	rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:GeraldBalfour.jpg	Gerald Balfour Template:Small	7 November 1900	12 March 1905	rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|Salisbury IV
Edward VII Template:Small
	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)|Balfour
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury.jpg	James Gascoyne-Cecil 4th Marquess of Salisbury	12 March 1905	4 December 1905	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:David Lloyd George 1902.jpg	David Lloyd George Template:Small	10 December 1905	12 April 1908	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK)|Campbell-Bannerman
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Churchill 1904 Q 42037.jpg	Winston Churchill Template:Small	12 April 1908	14 February 1910	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Asquith I
	rowspan="3" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton.jpg	Sydney Buxton Template:Small	14 February 1910	11 February 1914	rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Asquith II
George V Template:Small
	rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Asquith III
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:John Burns.jpg	John Burns Template:Small	11 February 1914	5 August 1914	Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Portrait of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford.jpg	Walter Runciman Template:Small	5 August 1914	5 December 1916	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Liberal (UK) | Liberal
	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Asquith Coalition
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Stanley by Hugh Cecil.jpg	Albert Stanley Template:Small	10 December 1916	26 May 1919	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Lloyd George I
	rowspan="4" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Lloyd George II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Auckland Geddes.png	Auckland Geddes Template:Small	26 May 1919	19 March 1920	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Robert Horne cropped.jpg	Robert Horne Template:Small	19 March 1920	1 April 1921	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233.jpg	Stanley Baldwin Template:Small	1 April 1921	19 October 1922	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Swinton.jpg	Philip Cunliffe-Lister Template:Small	24 October 1922	22 January 1924	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK) | Law
	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK) |Baldwin I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Sidney Webb.jpg	Sidney Webb Template:Small	22 January 1924	3 November 1924	Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Labour	Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) |MacDonald I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Swinton.jpg	Philip Cunliffe-Lister Template:Small	6 November 1924	4 June 1929	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK) |Baldwin II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Willie Graham.jpg	William Graham Template:Small	7 June 1929	24 August 1931	Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Labour	Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) |MacDonald II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Lord Swinton.jpg	Philip Cunliffe-Lister Template:Small	25 August 1931	5 November 1931	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |National I
	rowspan="4" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Portrait of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford.jpg	Walter Runciman Template:Small	5 November 1931	28 May 1937	rowspan="4" Template:Party shading/National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)|Liberal National	rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |National II
Edward VIII Template:Small
George VI Template:Small
	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |National III
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Oliver Stanley Template:Small	28 May 1937	5 January 1940	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |National IV
	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Chamberlain War
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Andrew Rae Duncan Template:Small	5 January 1940	3 October 1940	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)| Independent
	rowspan="5" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Churchill War
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Oliver Lyttelton Template:Small	3 October 1940	29 June 1941	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Andrew Rae Duncan Template:Small	29 June 1941	4 February 1942	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK)| Independent
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:The Home Front in Britain during the Second World War- Personalities TR41.jpg	John Jestyn Llewellin Template:Small	4 February 1942	22 February 1942	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Hugh Dalton HU 059487 crop.jpg	Hugh Dalton Template:Small	22 February 1942	23 May 1945	Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Labour
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Oliver Lyttelton Template:Small	25 May 1945	26 July 1945	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Churchill Caretaker
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Stafford Cripps 1947.jpg	Stafford Cripps Template:Small	27 July 1945	29 September 1947	Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Labour	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) |Attlee I
	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Harold Wilson (1967).jpg	Harold Wilson Template:Small	29 September 1947	23 April 1951	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Labour
	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) |Attlee II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (cropped).png	Hartley Shawcross Template:Small	24 April 1951	26 October 1951	Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK)|Labour
	rowspan="3" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Peter Thorneycroft cropped.png	Peter Thorneycroft Template:Small	30 October 1951	13 January 1957	rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)|Churchill III
Elizabeth II Template:Small
	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)|Eden
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	David Eccles Template:Small	13 January 1957	14 October 1959	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)|Macmillan I
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Reginald Maudling Template:Small	14 October 1959	9 October 1961	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)|Macmillan II
	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Frederick Erroll Template:Small	9 October 1961	20 October 1963	Template:Party shading/Conservative Party (UK)| Conservative

President of the Board of Trade (1963–present)

President of the Board Template:Small			Term of office		Concurrent office(s)	Party	Ministry	Monarch	Ref
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Sir Edward Heath.jpg	Edward Heath Template:Small	Template:Small 1963	Template:Small 1964	[[Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development|Template:Small Industry, Trade and Regional Development]]	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Douglas-Home	Elizabeth II Template:Small
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Douglas Jay Template:Small	Template:Small 1964	Template:Small 1967	None	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour	Template:Party shading/Labour |Wilson I
rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Labour |Wilson II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Charles-Anthony-Raven-Crosland (cropped).jpg	Anthony Crosland Template:Small	Template:Small 1967	Template:Small 1969		Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Roy Mason Template:Small	Template:Small 1969	Template:Small 1970		Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		Michael Noble Template:Small	Template:Small 1970	Template:Small 1970		Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative	rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Heath
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |		John Davies Template:Small	Template:Small 1970	Template:Small 1972	[[Secretary of State for Trade and Industry|Template:Small Trade and Industry]]	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Peter Walker Template:Small	Template:Small 1972	Template:Small 1974		Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Peter Shore Template:Small	Template:Small 1974	Template:Small 1976	[[Secretary of State for Trade|Template:Small Trade]]	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour	Template:Party shading/Labour |Wilson III
Template:Party shading/Labour |Wilson IV
style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Blank.png	Edmund Dell Template:Small	Template:Small 1976	Template:Small 1978		Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour	rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour |Callaghan
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style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	File:Patricia Hewitt.jpg	Patricia Hewitt Template:Small	Template:Small 2001	Template:Small 2005		Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour	Template:Party shading/Labour | Blair II
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Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | May II
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					[[Secretary of State for Business and Trade|Template:Small Business and Trade]]
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 from: 1711 till: 1713 color:Independent  text:"Charles Finch"
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 from: 1713 till: 1714 color:Independent  text:"Francis North
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 from: 1714 till: 1715 color:Independent  text:"William Berkeley
bar:Suffolk
 from: 1715 till: 1718 color:Independent  text:"Henry Howard"
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 from: 1718 till: 1719 color:Independent  text:"Robert Darcy
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 from: 1719 till: 1735 color:Independent  text:"Thomas Fane
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 from: 1735 till: 1737 color:Independent  text:"Benjamin Mildmay
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 from: 1737 till: 1748 color:Independent  text:"John Monson"
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 from: 1748 till: 1761 color:Independent  text:"George Montagu-Dunk"
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 from: 1761 till: 1763 color:Independent  text:"Samuel Sandys"
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 from: 1763 till: 1763 color:Independent  text:"Charles Townshend"
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 from: 1763 till: 1763 color:Independent  text:"William Petty"
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 from: 1763 till: 1765 color:Independent
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 from: 1765 till: 1766 color:Independent
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 from: 1767 till: 1768 color:Independent  text:"Robert Nugent"
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 from: 1775 till: 1779 color:Independent  text:"George Germain
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 from: 1779 till: 1780 color:Independent  text:"Frederick Howard
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 from: 1812 till: 1818 color:Tory         text:"Richard Trench
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bar:Grant
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 from: 1828 till: 1830 color:Tory         text:"William Vesey-FitzGerald"
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 from: 1830 till: 1830 color:Tory         text:"John Charles Herries"
bar:Eden
 from: 1830 till: 1834 color:Whig         text:"George Eden"
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 from: 1834 till: 1835 color:Tory         text:"Alexander Baring"
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 from: 1852 till: 1855 color:Peelite      text:"Edward Cardwell"
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 from: 1859 till: 1859 color:Conservative text:"Richard Hely-Hutchinson"
bar:Gibson
 from: 1859 till: 1866 color:Liberal      text:"Thomas Milner Gibson"
bar:Iddesleigh
 from: 1866 till: 1867 color:Conservative text:"Stafford Northcote"
bar:Richmond
 from: 1867 till: 1878 color:Conservative
 from: 1885 till: 1885 color:Conservative text:"Charles Gordon-Lennox"
bar:Bright
 from: 1868 till: 1871 color:Liberal      text:"John Bright"
bar:Parkinson-Fortescue
 from: 1871 till: 1874 color:Liberal      text:"Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue"
bar:Norton
 from: 1874 till: 1878 color:Conservative text:"Charles Adderley"
bar:Sandon
 from: 1878 till: 1880 color:Conservative text:"Dudley Ryder"
bar:Chamberlain
 from: 1880 till: 1885 color:Liberal      text:"Joseph Chamberlain"
bar:Stanhope
 from: 1885 till: 1886 color:Conservative text:"Edward Stanhope"
bar:Mundella
 from: 1886 till: 1886 color:Liberal
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bar:Preston
 from: 1886 till: 1888 color:Conservative text:"Frederick Stanley"
bar:Aldwyn
 from: 1888 till: 1892 color:Conservative text:"Michael Hicks Beach"
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 from: 1894 till: 1895 color:Liberal      text:"James Bryce"
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 from: 1895 till: 1900 color:Conservative text:"Charles Ritchie"
bar:Balfour
 from: 1900 till: 1905 color:Conservative text:"Gerald Balfour"
bar:Salisbury
 from: 1905 till: 1905 color:Conservative text:"James Gascoyne-Cecil"
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 from: 1905 till: 1908 color:Liberal      text:"David Lloyd George"
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 from: 1908 till: 1910 color:Liberal      text:"Winston Churchill"
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 from: 1910 till: 1914 color:Liberal      text:"Sydney Buxton"
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 from: 1914 till: 1914 color:Liberal      text:"John Burns"
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 from: 1914 till: 1916 color:Liberal   
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 from: 1916 till: 1919 color:Conservative text:"Albert Stanley"
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 from: 1919 till: 1920 color:Conservative text:"Auckland Geddes"
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 from: 1920 till: 1921 color:Conservative text:"Robert Horne"
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 from: 1921 till: 1922 color:Conservative text:"Stanley Baldwin"
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 from: 1922 till: 1924 color:Conservative
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 from: 1931 till: 1931 color:Conservative text:"Philip Cunliff-Lister"
bar:Webb
 from: 1924 till: 1924 color:Labour       text:"Sidney Webb"
bar:Graham
 from: 1929 till: 1931 color:Labour       text:"William Graham"
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 from: 1937 till: 1940 color:Conservative text:"Oliver Stanley"
bar:Duncan
 from: 1940 till: 1940 color:Independent
 from: 1941 till: 1942 color:Independent  text:"Andrew Rae Duncan"
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 from: 1940 till: 1941 color:Conservative
 from: 1945 till: 1945 color:Conservative text:"Oliver Lyttelton"
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 from: 1942 till: 1942 color:Conservative text:"John Jestyn Llewellin"
bar:Dalton
 from: 1942 till: 1945 color:Labour       text:"Hugh Dalton"
bar:Cripps
 from: 1945 till: 1947 color:Labour       text:"Stafford Cripps"
bar:Wilson
 from: 1947 till: 1951 color:Labour       text:"Harold Wilson"
bar:Shawcross
 from: 1951 till: 1951 color:Labour       text:"Hartley Shawcross"
bar:Thorneycroft
 from: 1951 till: 1957 color:Conservative text:"Peter Thorneycroft"
bar:Eccles
 from: 1957 till: 1959 color:Conservative text:"David Eccles"
bar:Maudling
 from: 1959 till: 1961 color:Conservative text:"Reginald Maulding"
bar:Erroll
 from: 1961 till: 1963 color:Conservative text:"Frederick Erroll"
bar:Heath
 from: 1963 till: 1964 color:Conservative text:"Edward Heath"
bar:Jay
 from: 1964 till: 1967 color:Labour       text:"Douglas Jay"
bar:Crosland
 from: 1967 till: 1969 color:Labour       text:"Anthony Crosland"
bar:Mason
 from: 1969 till: 1970 color:Labour       text:"Roy Mason"
bar:Noble
 from: 1970 till: 1970 color:Conservative text:"Michael Noble"
bar:Davies
 from: 1970 till: 1972 color:Conservative text:"John Davies"
bar:Walker
 from: 1972 till: 1974 color:Conservative text:"Peter Walker"
bar:Shore
 from: 1974 till: 1976 color:Labour       text:"Peter Shore"
bar:Dell
 from: 1976 till: 1978 color:Labour       text:"Edmund Dell"
bar:Smith
 from: 1978 till: 1979 color:Labour       text:"John Smith"
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 from: 1979 till: 1981 color:Conservative text:"John Nott"
bar:Biffen
 from: 1981 till: 1982 color:Conservative text:"John Biffen"
bar:Cockfield
 from: 1982 till: 1983 color:Conservative text:"Arthur Cockfield"
bar:Parkinson
 from: 1983 till: 1983 color:Conservative text:"Cecil Parkinson"
bar:Tebbit
 from: 1983 till: 1985 color:Conservative text:"Norman Tebbit"
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 from: 1985 till: 1986 color:Conservative text:"Leon Brittan" 
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 from: 1986 till: 1987 color:Conservative text:"Paul Channon"
bar:Graffham
 from: 1987 till: 1989 color:Conservative text:"David Young"
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 from: 1989 till: 1990 color:Conservative text:"Nicholas Ridley"
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 from: 1990 till: 1992 color:Conservative text:"Peter Lilley"
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 from: 1992 till: 1995 color:Conservative text:"Michael Heseltine"
bar:Lang
 from: 1995 till: 1997 color:Conservative text:"Ian Lang"
bar:Beckett
 from: 1997 till: 1998 color:Labour       text:"Margaret Beckett"
bar:Mandelson
 from: 1998 till: 1998 color:Labour
 from: 2008 till: 2010 color:Labour       text:"Peter Mandelson"
bar:Byers
 from: 1998 till: 2001 color:Labour       text:"Stephen Byers"
bar:Hewitt
 from: 2001 till: 2005 color:Labour       text:"Patricia Hewitt"
bar:Johnson
 from: 2005 till: 2006 color:Labour       text:"Alan Johnson"
bar:Darling
 from: 2006 till: 2007 color:Labour       text:"Alistair Darling"
bar:Hutton
 from: 2007 till: 2008 color:Labour       text:"John Hutton"
bar:Cable
 from: 2010 till: 2015 color:LibDem       text:"Vince Cable"
bar:Javid
 from: 2015 till: 2016 color:Conservative text:"Sajid Javid"
bar:Clark
 from: 2016 till: 2016 color:Conservative text:"Greg Clark"
bar:Fox
 from: 2016 till: 2019 color:Conservative text:"Liam Fox"
bar:Truss
 from: 2019 till: 2021 color:Conservative text:"Liz Truss"
bar:Trevelyan
 from: 2021 till: 2022 color:Conservative text:"Anne-Marie Trevelyan"
bar:Badenoch
 from: 2022 till: 2024 color:Conservative text:"Kemi Badenoch"
bar:Reynolds
 from: 2024 till: $now color:Labour       text:"Jonathan Reynolds"

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