The '''Chief Secretary''' was the most important position for determining [[United Kingdom|British]] policy in [[Ireland]] after the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland|Lord Lieutenant]], and was frequently a cabinet level position in the 19th and early twentieth centuries.
<div style="float:right; width:400px; padding:2px; margin-left:1em; text-align:center"> [[Image:Chiefsecoffice.jpg]]<br>'''Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle'''<br><small>By the late 19th century, power had effectively shifted from the Lord Lieutenant across the courtyard of Dublin Castle to his number two, the Chief Secretary for Ireland.</small></div>
==Chief Secretaries for Ireland, 1660-1922==
*Matthew Lock 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
*George Dodington 1707-1708
*[[Joseph Addison]] 1708-1710
*Edward Southwell 1710-1713
*Sir John Stanley 1713-1714
*[[Joseph Addison]] 1714-1715
*Martin Bladen and Charles Delafaye 1715-1717
*Edward Webster 1717-1720
*[[Horatio Walpole, 1st Lord Walpole|Horatio Walpole]] 1720-1721
*Edward Hopkins 1721-1724
*Thomas Clutterbuck 1724-1730
*Walter Cary 1730-1737
*Sir Edward Walpole 1737-1739
*Thomas Townshend 1739
*[[Henry Bilson Legge]] 1739-1741
*[[William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough|William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon]] 1741-1745
*Richard Lidell 1745-1746
*Sewallis Shirley 1746
*Edward Weston 1746-1750
*[[George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville|Lord George Sackville]] 1750-1755
*[[Henry Seymour Conway]] 1755-1757
*[[Richard Rigby]] 1757-1761
*William Gerard Hamilton 1761-1764
*[[Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda|Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda]] 1764-1765
*[[Francis Seymour Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford|Francis Seymour Conway, Viscount Conway]] 1765-1766
*[[Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol|Augustus John Hervey]] 1766-1767
*Theophilus Jones 1767
*Lord Frederick Campbell 1767-1768
*[[George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney|Sir George Macartney]] 1769-1772
*[[John Blaquiere, 1st Lord de Blaquiere|Sir John Blaquiere]] 1772-1776
*Sir Richard Heron 1776-1780
*[[William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland|William Eden]] 1780-1782
*Richard FitzPatrick 1782
*[[William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville|William Wyndham Grenville]] 1782-1783
*[[William Windham]] 1783
*[[Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester|Thomas Pelham]] 1783-1784
*[[Thomas Orde, 1st Lord Bolton|Thomas Orde]] 1784-1787
*[[Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Lord St Helens|Alleyne FitzHerbert]] 1787-1789
*[[Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire|Robert Hobart]] 1789-1793
*[[Sylvester Douglas, 1st Lord Glenbervie|Sylvester Douglas]] 1793-1794
*[[George Damer, 2nd Earl of Dorchester|George Damer, Viscount Milton]] 1794-1795
*[[Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester|Thomas Pelham]] 1795-1798
*[[Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh]] 1798-1801
*[[Charles Abbot, 1st Lord Colchester|Charles Abbot]] 1801-1802
*[[William Wickham]] 1802-1804
* Sir [[Evan Nepean]] 1804-1805
*[[Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Lord Bexley|Nicholas Vansittart]] 1805
*[[Charles Long, 1st Lord Farnborough|Charles Long]] 1805-1806
*[[William Elliot]] 1806-1807
*[[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Sir Arthur Wellesley]] 1807-1809
*[[Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville|Robert Dundas]] 1809
*[[William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington|William Wellesley-Pole]] 1809-1812
*[[Robert Peel]] 1812-1818
*[[Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg|Charles Grant]] 1818-1821
*[[Henry Goulburn]] 1821-1827
*[[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|William Lamb]] 1827-1828
*[[Francis Leveson Gower, 1st Earl of Ellesmere|Sir Francis Leveson Gower]] 1828-1830
*[[Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge|Sir Henry Hardinge]] 1830
*[[Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Edward Geoffrey Smith-Stanley]] 1830-1833
*[[John Cam Hobhouse|Sir John Cam Hobhouse]] 1833
*[[Edward John Littleton, 1st Lord Hatherton|Edward John Littleton]] 1833-1834
*[[Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge|Sir Henry Hardinge]] 1834-1835
*[[George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle|George Howard, Viscount Morpeth]] 1835-1841
*[[Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans|Edward Granville Eliot, Lord Eliot]] 1841-1845
*[[Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe|Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle]] 1845-1846
*[[Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle|Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln]] 1846
*[[Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton|Henry Labouchere]] 1846-1847
*[[William Meredyth Somerville, 1st Baron Meredyth|Sir William Meredyth Somerville]] 1847-1852
*[[Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo|Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas]] 1852
*[[John Young, 1st Lord Lisgar|Sir John Young]] 1853-1855
*[[Edward Horsman]] 1855-1857
*[[Henry Arthur Herbert]] 1857-1858
*[[Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo|Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas]] 1858-1859
*[[Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell of Ellerbeck|Edward Cardwell]] 1859-1861
*[[Robert Peel the Younger|Sir Robert Peel]] 1861-1865
*[[Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford|Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue]] 1865-1866
*[[Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo]] 1866-1868
*[[John Wilson-Patten, 1st Lord Winmarleigh|John Wilson-Patten]] 1868
*[[Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford|Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue]] 1868-1871
*[[Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire|Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington]] 1871-1874
*[[Michael Hicks-Beach|Sir Michael Hicks-Beach]] 1874-1878
*[[James Lowther]] 1878-1880
*[[William Edward Forster]] 1880-1882
*[[Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish]] 1882
*[[George Otto Trevelyan]] 1882-1884
*[[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]] 1884-1885
*[[William Hart Dyke|Sir William Hart Dyke]] 1885-1886
*[[William Henry Smith]] 1886
*[[John Morley]] 1886
*[[Michael Hicks-Beach|Sir Michael Hicks-Beach]] 1886-1887
*[[Arthur James Balfour]] 1887-1891
*[[William Lawies Jackson, 1st Lord Allerton|William Lawies Jackson]] 1891-1892
*[[John Morley]] 1892-1895
*[[Gerald William Balfour]] 1895-1900
*[[George Wyndham]] 1900-1905
*[[Walter Hume Long]] 1905
*[[James Bryce]] 1905-1907
*[[Augustine Birrell]] 1907-1916
*[[Henry Edward Duke]] 1916-1918
*[[Edward Shortt]] 1918-1919
*[[James Ian Macpherson]] 1919-1920
*[[Hamar Greenwood|Sir Hamar Greenwood]] 1920-1922
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