Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

This is a list of Permanent Under-Secretaries in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (and its predecessors) since 1790.

Permanent Under Secretary of Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs and Head of HM Diplomatic Service
Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent Sir Simon McDonald since September 2015
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Appointer	Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	George Aust
Formation	1790

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Not to be confused with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Permanent Under-Secretaries at the Foreign Office, 1790 to present

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 Unwin Addington
1854: Edmund Hammond (later Lord Hammond)
1873: Lord Tenterden
1882: Sir Julian Pauncefote (later Lord Pauncefote)
1889: Sir Philip Currie (later Lord Currie)
1894: Sir Thomas Sanderson (later Lord Sanderson)
1906: Sir Charles Hardinge (later Lord Hardinge of Penshurst)
1910: Sir Arthur Nicolson (later Lord Carnock)
1916: Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
1920: Sir Eyre Crowe (died in office)
1925: Sir William Tyrrell (later Lord Tyrrell)
1928: Sir Ronald Lindsay
1930: Sir Robert Vansittart (later Lord 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) (later Lord Strang)
1953: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick
1957: Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar (later Lord Inchyra)
1962: Sir Harold Caccia (later Lord Caccia)
1965: Sir Paul Gore-Booth (also Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1968; later Lord Gore-Booth)
1969: Sir Denis Greenhill (later Lord Greenhill of Harrow)
1973: Sir Thomas Brimelow (later Lord Brimelow)
1975: Sir Michael Palliser
1982: Sir Antony Acland
1986: Sir Patrick Wright (later Lord Wright of Richmond)
1991: Sir David Gillmore (later Lord Gillmore of Thamesfield)
1994: Sir John Coles
1997: Sir John Kerr (later Lord Kerr of Kinlochard)
2002: Sir Michael Jay (later Lord Jay of Ewelme)
2006: Sir Peter Ricketts (later Lord Ricketts)
2010: Sir Simon Fraser
2015: Sir Simon McDonald

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