1998 - 2001        Margaret Beckett

1997 - 1998        Ann Taylor

1992 - 1997        Anthony Newton

1990 - 1992        John MacGregor

1989 - 1990        Sir Geoffrey Howe

1987 - 1989        John Wakeham

1982 - 1987        John Biffen

1981 - 1982        Francis Pym

1979 - 1981        Norman St. Joh-Stevas

1976 - 1979        Michael Foot

1974 - 1976        Edward Short

1972 - 1974        James Prior

1972                  Robert Carr

1970 - 1972        William Whitelaw

1968 - 1970        Fred Peart

1966 - 1968        Richard Crossman

1964 - 1966        Herbert Bowden

1963 - 1964        Selwyn Lloyd

1961 - 1963        Iain Macleod    

1955 - 1961        Richard Austen Butler

1951 - 1955        Harry Crookshank

1951                  James Chuter Ede

1945 - 1951        Herbert Stanley Morrison

1942 - 1945        Anthony Eden

1942                  Sir Stafford Cripps

1940 - 1942        Winston Churchill

1937 - 1940        Neville Chamberlain

1935 - 1937        Stanley Baldwin

1929 - 1935        Ramsey MacDonald

1924 - 1929        Stanley Baldwin

1924                  Ramsey MacDonald

1923 - 1924        Stanley Baldwin

1922 - 1923        Andrew Bonar Law

1921 - 1922        Austen Chamberlain

1916 - 1921        Andrew Bonar Law

1908 - 1916        Herbert Henry Asquith

1905 - 1908        Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

1895 - 1905        Arthur James Balfour