Secretaries of State for the Home Department (UK)

The Right Honourable Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, QC, PC (born 25 September 1939) is a barrister, a British politician, and a former Conservative Member of Parliament and former member of the European Commission. His brother is Sir Samuel Brittan, who was Editor of the Financial Times and financial journalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leon Brittan"

The Right Honourable Merlyn Rees, later Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC ( December 18, 1920 – January 5, 2006) was a British Labour party Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992. In that year, he was created a life peer and entered the House of Lords (changing his name by deed poll to Merlyn Merlyn-Rees in order to be known as Lord Merlyn-Rees) (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3664283.stm). ...more on Wikipedia about "Merlyn Rees"

The Right Honourable Michael Howard, QC, MP (born July 7, 1941) is a British politician and was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party from November 2003 to December 2005. Since becoming an MP at the 1983 General Election, he held a number of positions in successive Conservative governments until their loss of power in 1997, most notably Home Secretary under John Major. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michael Howard"

The Right Honourable Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL ( 1902– 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British politician, one of the few to have served in all three posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rab Butler"

The Right Honourable Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, KG, PC ( 7 June 1770– 4 December 1828), known as Lord Hawkesbury from 1796 to 1808, was a British statesman who served Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool"

The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet ( 5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was British Prime Minister from December 1834 to April 1835, and again from September 1841 to July 1846. Born in Bury in Lancashire to an industrialist and Member of Parliament (Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet), and educated first at Hipperholme Grammar School, then at Harrow School and finally Christ Church, Oxford. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Peel"

The Right Honourable Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM , PC ( November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician. Prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he went on to be one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the early 1980s. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roy Jenkins" The Ultimate http://www.shortopedia.com Machine.

The Right Honourable Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood ( 1880- 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a British Conservative politician who served in various capacities in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Samuel Hoare"

Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney ( 24 February 1732 - 30 June 1800), the British politician after whom the city of Sydney, Australia, is named, was born at Frognal House, near Chislehurst in Kent. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge University. Townshend was elected to the House of Commons in 1754 as Whig member for Whitchurch and held that seat till his elevation to the peerage. He initially aligned himself with his great uncle Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle but later joined William Pitt the Elder in opposition to George Grenville. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney"

William Clive Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman, PC ( 31 December 1864 - 14 August 1935) was a British Conservative politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Clive Bridgeman"

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford 23 June 1865- 8 June 1932, popularly known as Jix, was a UK Conservative politician, most known for his tenure as Home Secretary during which he gained a reputation for strict authoritarianism. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford"

The Right Honourable William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC ( 15 March 1779– 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830-1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835-1841), and a mentor of Queen Victoria. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne"

The Right Honourable William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL ( June 28, 1918 – July 1, 1999), commonly known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw"

The Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville ( October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville" My www.shortopedia.com is mine.

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS ( 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. At various times a soldier, journalist, author, and politician, Churchill is generally regarded as one of the most important leaders in British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. In a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002 to identify the " 100 Greatest Britons", participants voted Churchill to be history's "greatest" Briton. ...more on Wikipedia about "Winston Churchill"

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