title: Secretary for Overseas Trade
text: # Secretary for Overseas Trade
  
  The Secretary for Overseas Trade was a junior Ministerial position in the United Kingdom government from 1917 until 1953, subordinate to the President of the Board of Trade. The office was replaced by the Minister of State for Trade on 3 September 1953.
  
  ## Secretaries for Overseas Trade, 1917-1953
  
  | Name | Entered office | Left office |
  | - | - | - |
  | Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt | 1917 | 1919 |
  | Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt | 1919 | 1920 |
  | F. G. Kellaway | 1920 | 1921 |
  | Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame | 1921 | 1922 |
  | Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt | 1922 | March 1923 |
  | Albert Buckley | March 1923 | November 1923 |
  | Vacant | November 1923 | 1924 |
  | William Lunn | 1924 | 1924 |
  | Arthur Samuel | 1924 | 1927 |
  | Douglas Hacking | 1927 | 1929 |
  | George Gillett | 1929 | 1931 |
  | Sir Hilton Young | 1931 | 1931 |
  | John Colville | 1931 | 1935 |
  | Euan Wallace | 1935 | 1937 |
  | Robert Hudson | 1937 | 1940 |
  | Geoffrey Shakespeare | 1940 | 1940 |
  | Harcourt Johnstone | 1940 | 1945 |
  | Spencer Summers | 1945 | 1945 |
  | Hilary Marquand | 1945 | 1947 |
  | Harold Wilson | 1947 | 1947 |
  | Arthur Bottomley | 1947 | 1951 |
  | Henry Hopkinson | 1951 | 1952 |
  | Harry Mackeson | 1952 | 3 September 1953 |
  