Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

The Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Until 1979 the office was styled Minister instead, but the department remained a ministry after this was changed.

Table of contents

1 List 1.1 President of the Board of Agriculture 1.2 Minister of Agriculture 1.3 Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1.4 Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

List

President of the Board of Agriculture

• Henry Chaplin (1889-1892)
• ? 1892-1895
• Walter Hume Long (1895-1900)
• R. W. Hanbury (1900-1903)
• Lord Onslow (1903-1905)
• Ailwyn Fellowes (1905)
• Lord Carrington (1905-1911)
• Walter Runciman (1911-1914)
• Lord Lucas (1914-1915)
• Lord Selborne (1915-1916)
• Lord Crawford (1916)
• ? 1916-1919
• R. E. Prothero (1919)

Minister of Agriculture

• Lord Lee (1919-1921)
• Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (1921-1922)
• R. Sanders (1922-1924)
• N. Buxton (1924)
• E.F.L. Wood (1924-1925)
• Walter Guinness (1925-1929)
• N. Buxton (1929-1931)
• John Gilmour (1931-1935)
• W. Elliot (1935-1937)
• William Shepherd Morrison (1937-1939)
• Sir Reginald Dorman Smith (1939-1940)

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

• James Prior (1970-1972)
• Joseph Godber (1972-1974)
• Fredrick Peart (1974-1976)
• John Silkin (1976-1979)

Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

• Peter Walker (1979-1983)
• Michael Jopling (1983-1997)
• John MacGregor (1987-1989)
• John Gummer (1989-1993)
• Gillian Shephard (1993-1994)
• William Waldegrave (1994-1995)
• Douglas Hogg (1995-1997)
• Jack Cunningham (1997-1998)
• Nick Brown (1998-2001)

After 2001, it merged with Secretary of State for the Environment into the office of Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.