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This is a list of Permanent Under-Secretaries in the British Foreign Office since 1790.
Not to be confused with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Permanent Under-Secretaries at the Foreign Office, 1790-
These are the Permanent Secretaries or senior civil servants at the Foreign Office.
- February 1790: George Aust
- October 1795: George Hammond (resigned 1806)
- March 1807: George Hammond
- October 1809: William Richard Hamilton
- July 1817: Joseph Planta
- April 1827: John Backhouse
- 1842: Henry U. Addington
- 1854: Edmund Hammond (later Lord Hammond)
- 1873: Lord Tenterden
- 1882: Sir Julian Pauncefote (later Lord Pauncefote)
- 1889: Sir Philip Currie
- 1894: Sir Thomas Sanderson (later Lord Sanderson)
- 1906: Sir Charles Hardinge (later Lord Hardinge of Penshurst)
- 1910: Sir Arthur Nicolson
- 1916: Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
- 1920: Sir Eyre Crowe
- 1925: Sir William Tyrrell
- 1928: Sir Ronald Lindsay
- 1930: Sir Robert Vansittart
- 1938: Sir Alexander Cadogan
- 1946: Sir Orme Sargent (jointly with Sir William Strang, Head of the German Section 1947-1949)
- 1949: Sir William Strang (jointly with the Heads of the German Section: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick 1949-1950, Sir D. Gainer 1950-1951)
- 1953: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick
- 1957: Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar
- 1962: Sir Harold Caccia
- 1965: Sir Paul Gore-Booth (also Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1968 and later created Baron Gore-Booth of Maltby)
- 1969: Sir Denis Greenhill
- 1973: Sir Thomas Brimelow
- 1975: Sir Michael Palliser
- 1982: Sir Antony Acland
- 1986: Sir Patrick Wright
- 1991: Sir David Gillmore
- 1994: Sir John Coles
- 1997: Sir John Kerr
- 2002: Sir Michael Jay
- 2006: Sir Peter Ricketts
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