Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

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.

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

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Portrait		Name Honorifics & constituency	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister		Foreign Secretary
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Leo Amery MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook (also Sec.State for the Colonies)	11 June 1925	4 June 1929	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Baldwin	Chamberlain
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (also Sec.State for the Colonies)	7 June 1929	5 June 1930	Labour	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	MacDonald	Henderson
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		James Henry Thomas MP for Derby (also Sec.State for the Colonies, Aug–Nov 1931)	5 June 1930	22 November 1935	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |					National Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Reading Simon
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Malcolm MacDonald MP for Ross and Cromarty	22 November 1935	16 May 1938	National Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Baldwin	Hoare Eden
height=15 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |						Chamberlain
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley MP for Fylde	16 May 1938	16 October 1938†	Conservative		rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Halifax
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Malcolm MacDonald MP for Ross and Cromarty (also Sec.State for the Colonies)	31 October 1938	29 January 1939	National Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Sir Thomas Inskip MP for Fareham	29 January 1939	3 September 1939	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Anthony Eden MP for Warwick and Leamington<ref>Also Secretary of State for War.</ref>	3 September 1939	14 May 1940	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote<ref name="Lords">Also Leader of the House of Lords.</ref>	14 May 1940	3 October 1940	Conservative	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Churchill
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		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
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Clement Attlee MP for Limehouse<ref>Also Deputy Prime Minister</ref>	19 February 1942	24 September 1943	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne Baron Cecil of Essendon<ref name="Lords"/>	24 September 1943	26 July 1945	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison<ref name="Lords"/>	3 August 1945	7 July 1947	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Attlee	Bevin

Viscount Addison took up the new post of secretary of state for commonwealth relations on 7 July 1947.