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    The Secretary of State for the Southern Department was a position in the cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782, when the...
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    The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of Great Britain up to 1782. Then the Northern Department...
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    The secretary of state for the colonies or colonial secretary was the Cabinet of the United Kingdom's minister in charge of managing the British Empire...
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    1660, the two posts were specifically designated as the Secretary of State for the Northern Department and the Secretary of State for the Southern Department...
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    principal secretaries of state, or secretaries of state, are senior ministers of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. Secretaries of state head...
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    created Secretary of State for the Colonies. Domestic affairs in England and Wales were shared indifferently between the Southern and Northern Departments. Scotland...
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    The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the...
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    became Member of Parliament for Tregony, in 1717 Secretary at War, and in the following year Secretary of State for the Southern Department. Craggs was...
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    The position of secretary of state for dominion affairs was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for British relations...
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    by the monarch on the advice of the secretary of state for the Southern Department and the Board of Trade. The role of the governor was to act as the de...
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    Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the British Cabinet minister and the political...
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  • Fox, 1st Baron Holland (1705–1774), Secretary at War, 1746–1754, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, 1755–1756, and Paymaster General, 1757–1765...
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    served as Secretary of State for Scotland, the Northern Department and the Southern Department, before acting as Jacobite Secretary of State and chief...
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    The Hague. In 1751 he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department, transferring in 1754 to the Northern Department, and he remained in office...
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  • 1st Earl Stanhope (1673–1721), Secretary of State for the Southern Department, 1714–1717, 1718–1721, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1717–1718, and soldier...
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  • Thumbnail for Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
    Historically, the State Department Spokesperson and the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs were synonymous names for the same role. However...
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    Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham (category Secretaries of state for the Southern Department)
    appointed to the Privy Council. In 1754 Robinson was appointed Secretary of State for the Southern Department and Leader of the House of Commons by the prime...
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    Sunderland became Secretary of State for the Northern Department: in the form of lists of peers invited to the office of the Northern Secretary immediately...
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    the War Department. The War Office was renamed the War and Colonial Office in 1801,[citation needed] under a new Secretary of State for War and the Colonies...
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  • Thumbnail for John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
    qualified to hold his own in the intrigues of Court and Parliament in London. Appointed as Secretary of State for the Southern Department on his return home, he...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
    the grant to her husband, Prince George, through the influence of Marlborough he was foisted into the ministry as Secretary of State for the Southern...
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  • Thumbnail for Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath
    transferred from the Northern Department to become Secretary of State for the Southern Department, but he resigned in December 1770 in the midst of the "Falklands...
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    remaining there until the outbreak of war in 1701. He was then briefly appointed Secretary of State for the Southern Department, a post he held between...
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    served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1761 to 1763. He was the eldest son and heir of Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, of Orchard...
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  • The secretary of state for Commonwealth relations was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for dealing with the United...
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    member of the Board of Trade and Plantations, and eight years later he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department and joint keeper of the signet...
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    continuous operation for more than 250 years. November 11 – The Earl of Egremont, serving as Secretary of State for the Southern Department, initiated a policy...
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    as Secretary of State for the Southern Department and as Leader of the House of Commons; in 1761 he was created Baron Grantham, of Grantham in the County...
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    The secretary of state for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, also known as the foreign secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Seymour Conway
    Henry Seymour Conway (category Secretaries of state for the Southern Department)
    including Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Leader of the House of Commons and Secretary of State for the Northern...
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