User talk:The Celestial City/List of office holders of the Great Offices of State2

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This is an interesting exercise. I wouldn't recommend a sortable table, as the sortability doesn't really work. I'm also not terribly keen on the use of colours, as on tables showing political offices, colour usually shows political party affiliation. Just to let you know, the offices of Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary did not exist until 1782 - the responsibilities were held by the Southern Secretary and the Northern Secretary. BartBassist (talk) 00:25, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

What do you make of the following format proposition? (I haven't put everyone on it, I've just constructed something to give a general idea. It would need a new table every 30 years or so.

1721–1782
Offices:
 * PM = Prime Minister
 * Ch = Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * S = Southern Secretary
 * N = Northern Secretary

Ministries:
 * 1 = Walpole/Townshend Ministry
 * 2 = Walpole Ministry
 * 3 = Carteret Ministry
 * 4 = Broad Bottom Ministry
 * 5 = First Newcastle Ministry
 * 6 = Devonshire/Pitt Ministry
 * 7 = 1757 Caretaker Ministry
 * 8 = Second Newcastle Ministry
 * 9 = Bute Ministry
 * 10 = Grenville Ministry
 * 11 = First Rockingham Ministry
 * 12 = Chatham Ministry
 * 13 = Grafton Ministry
 * 14 = North Ministry

1951–1979
Offices:
 * PM = Prime Minister
 * Ch = Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * F = Foreign Secretary
 * H = Home Secretary

Ministries:
 * Churchill III = Third Churchill Ministry
 * Eden = Eden Ministry
 * Macmillan = Macmillan Ministry
 * Home = Douglas-Home Ministry
 * Wilson I = First Wilson Ministry (NB Foreign Secs currently missing)
 * Heath = Heath Ministry
 * Wilson II = Second Wilson Ministry
 * Callaghan = Callaghan Ministry

1979–
Offices:
 * PM = Prime Minister
 * Ch = Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * F = Foreign Secretary
 * H = Home Secretary

Ministries:
 * Thatcher = Thatcher Ministry
 * Major = Major Ministry
 * Blair = Blair Ministry
 * Brown = Brown Ministry
 * Cameron = Cameron Ministry