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 with the Empire’s dominions – Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, and the Irish Free State – and the self-governing Crown colony of Southern Rhodesia.
| Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs | |
|---|---|
Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government | |
| Style | The Right Honourable |
| Appointer | The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister) |
| Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| Inaugural holder | Leo Amery |
| Formation | 11 June 1925 |
| Final holder | The Viscount Addison |
| Abolished | 7 July 1947 |
| Deputy | Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs |
When initially created in 1925, the office was held in tandem with that of secretary of state for the colonies; this arrangement persisted until June 1930. On two subsequent occasions the offices were briefly held by the same person.
The secretary of state was supported by an under-secretary of state for dominion affairs. In 1947, the name of the office was changed to the secretary of state for commonwealth relations.
Secretaries of state for dominion affairs, 1925–1947
| Conservative Labour National Labour | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name Honorifics & constituency | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | Foreign Secretary | |||
| Leo Amery MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook (also Sec.State for the Colonies) | 11 June 1925 | 4 June 1929 | Conservative | Baldwin | Chamberlain | |||
| Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (also Sec.State for the Colonies) | 7 June 1929 | 5 June 1930 | Labour | MacDonald | Henderson | |||
| James Henry Thomas MP for Derby (also Sec.State for the Colonies, Aug–Nov 1931) | 5 June 1930 | 22 November 1935 | Labour | |||||
| National Labour | Reading Simon | |||||||
| Malcolm MacDonald MP for Ross and Cromarty | 22 November 1935 | 16 May 1938 | National Labour | Baldwin | Hoare Eden | |||
| Chamberlain | ||||||||
| Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley MP for Fylde | 16 May 1938 | 16 October 1938† | Conservative | Halifax | ||||
| Malcolm MacDonald MP for Ross and Cromarty (also Sec.State for the Colonies) | 31 October 1938 | 29 January 1939 | National Labour | |||||
| Sir Thomas Inskip MP for Fareham | 29 January 1939 | 3 September 1939 | Conservative | |||||
| Anthony Eden MP for Warwick and Leamington | 3 September 1939 | 14 May 1940 | Conservative | |||||
| Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote | 14 May 1940 | 3 October 1940 | Conservative | Churchill | ||||
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne MP for South Dorset until 1941 Baron Cecil of Essendon after 1941 | 3 October 1940 | 19 February 1942 | Conservative | Eden | ||||
| Clement Attlee MP for Limehouse | 19 February 1942 | 24 September 1943 | Labour | |||||
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne Baron Cecil of Essendon | 24 September 1943 | 26 July 1945 | Conservative | |||||
| Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison | 3 August 1945 | 7 July 1947 | Labour | Attlee | Bevin | |||
Viscount Addison took up the new post of secretary of state for commonwealth relations on 7 July 1947.
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