President of the Board of Agriculture - Definition and Overview

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Successive Ministers were asked to upgrade the Ministry to a Department of State and take the title 'Secretary of State', but all refused.

List

President of the Board of Agriculture

• Henry Chaplin (September 9 1889 - August 11, 1892)
• Herbert Gardner (August 25, 1892 - June 21, 1895)
• Walter Hume Long (July 4 1895 - November 16, 1900)
• Robert Hanbury (November 16, 1900 - April 28, 1903)
• Earl Onslow (May 19, 1903 - March 12, 1905)
• Ailwyn Fellowes (March 12, 1905 - December 4, 1905)
• Lord Carrington (December 10, 1905 - October 23, 1911)
• Walter Runciman (October 23, 1911 - August 6, 1914)
• Lord Lucas (August 6, 1914 - May 25, 1915)
• Earl of Selborne (May 25, 1915 - July 11, 1916)
• Earl of Crawford (July 11, 1916 - December 10, 1916)
• Rowland Edmund Prothero (December 10, 1916 - August 15, 1919)

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries

• Lord Lee (August 15, 1919 - February 13, 1921)
• Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (February 13, 1921 - October 24, 1922)
• Sir Robert Sanders (October 24, 1922 - January 22, 1924)
• Noel Buxton (January 22, 1924 - November 3, 1924)
• Edward F.L. Wood (November 6, 1924 - November 4, 1925)
• Walter Guinness (November 4, 1925 - June 4, 1929)
• Noel Buxton (June 7, 1929 - June 5, 1930)
• Christopher Addison (June 5, 1930 - August 24, 1931)
• Sir John Gilmour (August 25, 1931 - September 28, 1932)
• Walter Elliot (September 28, 1932 - October 29, 1936)
• William Shepherd Morrison (October 29, 1936 - January 29, 1939)
• Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith (January 29, 1939 - May 14, 1940)
• Robert Hudson (May 14, 1940 - July 26, 1945)
• Tom Williams (August 3, 1945 - October 26, 1951)
• Sir Thomas Dugdale (October 31, 1951 - July 20, 1954)
• Derick Heathcoat-Amory (July 28, 1954 - October 18, 1954)

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

The separate position of Minister of Food was merged into Agriculture and Fisheries.

• Derick Heathcoat-Amory (October 18, 1954 - January 6, 1958)
• John Hare (January 6, 1958 - July 27, 1960)
• Christopher Soames (July 27, 1960 - October 16, 1964)
• Fred Peart (October 18, 1964 - April 6, 1968)
• Cledwyn Hughes (April 6. 1968 - June 19, 1970)
• James Prior (June 20, 1970 - November 5, 1972)
• Joseph Godber (November 5, 1972 - March 4, 1974)
• Fred Peart (March 5, 1974 - September 10, 1976)
• John Silkin (September 10, 1976 - May 4, 1979)
• Peter Walker (May 5, 1979 - June 11, 1983)
• Michael Jopling (June 11, 1983 - June 13, 1987)
• John MacGregor (June 13, 1987 - July 24, 1989)
• John Gummer (July 24, 1989 - May 27, 1993)
• Gillian Shephard (May 27, 1993 - July 20, 1994)
• William Waldegrave (July 20, 1994 - July 5, 1995)
• Douglas Hogg (July 5, 1995 - May 2, 1997)
• Jack Cunningham (May 3, 1997 - July 27, 1998)
• Nick Brown (July 27, 1998 - June 8, 2001)

On June 8, 2001, the Ministry merged with Secretary of State for the Environment into the office of Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.