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APPENDIX 3

Secretaries of State for the Colonies, 1794–1855

Evan Nepean, as under secretary of state to Lord Sydney in the Home Department, was chiefly responsible for the arrangements for the First Fleet and the administration of the colony up to 1794. Thereafter it passed into the hands of a succession of secretaries of state for [war and] the colonies:

 

Month appointed

H. Dundas

July 1794

Lord Hobart

Mar. 1791

Earl of Camden

May 1804

Viscount Castlereagh

July 1805

W. Windham

Feb. 1806

Viscount Castlereagh

Mar. 1807

Earl of Liverpool

Nov. 1809

Earl of Bathurst

June 1812

Viscount Goderich

Apr. 1827

W. Huskisson

Sept. 1827

Sir George Murray

May 1828

Viscount Goderich

Nov. 1830

E. G. Smith Stanley

Apr. 1833

T. Spring Rice

June 1834

Duke of Wellington

Nov. 1834

Earl of Aberdeen

Dec. 1834

C. Grant

Apr. 1835

Marquess of Normanby

Feb. 1839

Lord John Russell

Sept. 1839

Lord Stanley

Sept. 1841

W. E. Gladstone

Dec. 1845

Earl Grey

July 1846

Sir John Pakington

Feb. 1852

Duke of Newcastle

Dec. 1852

Sir Henry George Grey

June 1854

Hon. S. Herbert

Feb. 1855

Lord J. Russell

May 1855

Sir W. Molesworth

July 1855

H. Labouchere

Nov. 1855

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