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

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
  


• 1873: Lord Tenterden
  


• 1882: Sir Julian Pauncefote
  


• 1889: Sir Philip Currie
  


• 1894: Sir Thomas Sanderson
  


• 1906: Sir Charles Hardinge (later Lord Hardinge of Penshurst)


• 1910: Sir Arthur Nicolson
  


• 1916: Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
  


• 1920: Sir Eyre Crowe
  


• 1925: Sir William Tyrrell
  


• 1928: Sir Ronald Lindsay
  


• 1930: Sir Robert 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)


• 1953: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick
  


• 1957: Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar
  


• 1962: Sir Harold Caccia
  


• 1965: Sir Paul Gore-Booth (also Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1968; later created Baron Gore-Booth of Maltby)


• 1969: Sir Denis Greenhill
  


• 1973: Sir Thomas 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 of Shortlands)


• 2010: Sir Simon Fraser
  


• 2015: Sir Simon McDonald