The Conservative Government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ministries: the Law ministry (from 1922 to 1923) and then the first Baldwin ministry (from 1923 onwards).
The government was led by Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, appointed respectively as Prime Minister by King George V.
Cabinets
Law's cabinet, October 1922 – May 1923
Bonar Law – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury – Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Stanley Baldwin – Chancellor of the Exchequer William Clive Bridgeman – Secretary of State for the Home Department George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War William Peel, 1st Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar – Secretary for Scotland Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the Board of Trade Sir Robert Sanders – Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Edward Wood – President of the Board of Education Sir Anderson Barlow – Minister of Labour Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen – Minister of Health
Changes April 1923 – Griffith-Boscawen resigned as Minister of Health after losing his seat and was succeeded by Neville Chamberlain.
Baldwin's cabinet, May 1923 – January 1924
Stanley Baldwin – Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury – Lord President of the Council Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (Viscount Cecil of Chelwood from 28 December 1923) William Clive Bridgeman – Secretary of State for the Home Department George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War William Peel, 1st Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for Air Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar – Secretary for Scotland Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the Board of Trade Sir Robert Sanders – Minister of Agriculture Edward Wood – President of the Board of Education Sir Anderson Barlow – Minister of Labour Neville Chamberlain – Minister of Health Sir William Joynson-Hicks – Financial Secretary to the Treasury Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet – Postmaster-General
Changes August 1923 – Neville Chamberlain took over from Baldwin as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir William Joynson-Hicks succeeded Chamberlain as Minister of Health. Joynson-Hicks' successor as Financial Secretary to the Treasury was not in the Cabinet.
List of ministers Members of the Cabinet are shown in bold face.
Office Name Dates Prime MinisterFirst Lord of the TreasuryLeader of the House of Commons Bonar Law 23 October 192220 May 1923 Stanley Baldwin 22 May 192322 January 1924 Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin 27 October 1922 Neville Chamberlain 27 August 1923 Financial Secretary to the Treasury John Waller Hills 6 November 1922 Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 12 March 1923 Sir William Joynson-Hicks 25 May 1923 Walter Guinness 5 October 1923 Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Leslie Orme Wilson 31 October 1922 Bolton Eyres-Monsell 25 July 1923 Junior Lords of the Treasury Douglas King 31 October 192222 January 1924 Albert Buckley 31 October 192212 March 1923 George Hennessy 11 December 192222 January 1924 Frederick Thomson 7 February 192310 April 1923 William Cope 20 March 192322 January 1924 Patrick Ford 10 April 192320 December 1923 Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet 20 December 192322 January 1924 Lord Chancellor George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave 24 October 1922 Lord President of the Council James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury 24 October 1922 Lord Privy Sealvacant Lord Robert Cecil 28 May 1923 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 24 October 1922 Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ronald McNeill 31 October 1922 Secretary of State for the Home Department William Bridgeman 24 October 1922 Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department George Frederick Stanley 31 October 1922 Godfrey Locker-Lampson 12 March 1923 First Lord of the Admiralty Leo Amery 24 October 1922 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Bolton Eyres-Monsell 31 October 1922 Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 25 May 1923 Civil Lord of the Admiralty Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow 31 October 1922 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Sir Robert Sanders 24 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster 31 October 1922 Secretary of State for Air Sir Samuel Hoare 31 October 1922 Under-Secretary of State for Air George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland 31 October 1922 Secretary of State for the Colonies Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire 24 October 1922 Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies William Ormsby-Gore 31 October 1922 President of the Board of Education E. F. L. Wood 24 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education Lord Eustace Percy 21 March 1923 Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow 25 May 1923 Minister of Health Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen 24 October 1922 Neville Chamberlain 7 March 1923 Sir William Joynson-Hicks 27 August 1923 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow 31 October 1922 Lord Eustace Percy 25 May 1923 Secretary of State for India William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel 24 October 1922 Under-Secretary of State for India Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 31 October 1922 Minister of Labour Anderson Barlow 31 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 6 November 1922 Henry Betterton 12 March 1923 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury 24 October 1922 J. C. C. Davidson 25 May 1923 Paymaster Generalvacant Neville Chamberlain 5 February 1923 Sir William Joynson-Hicks 15 March 1923 Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 25 May 1923 Minister of Pensions George Tryon 31 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions Charles Curtis Craig 13 February 1923 Postmaster General Neville Chamberlain 31 October 1922 Sir William Joynson-Hicks 7 March 1923 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet 28 May 1923 Secretary for Scotland Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar 24 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland James Kidd 31 October 1922 Walter Elliot 15 January 1923 President of the Board of Trade Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame 24 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer 31 October 1922 Secretary for Overseas Trade Sir William Joynson-Hicks 31 October 1922 Albert Buckley 12 March 1923none 18 November 1923 Secretary for Mines George Lane-Fox 6 November 1922 Minister of Transport Sir John Baird 31 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport Wilfrid Ashley 31 October 1922 John Moore-Brabazon 8 October 1923 Secretary of State for War Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby 24 October 1922 Under-Secretary of State for War Walter Guinness 31 October 1922 Wilfrid Ashley 8 October 1923 Financial Secretary to the War Office Stanley Jackson 31 October 1922 Rupert Gwynne 15 March 1923 First Commissioner of Works Sir John Baird 31 October 1922 Parliamentary Secretary to the Office of Works Wilfrid Ashley 31 October 1922none 8 October 1923 Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg 24 October 1922 Solicitor General Sir Thomas Inskip 31 October 1922 Lord Advocate William Watson 24 November 1922 Solicitor General for Scotland David Fleming 6 November 1922 Frederick Thomson 5 April 1923 Lord Steward of the Household Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury 20 November 1922 Lord Chamberlain of the Household Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer 20 November 1922 Vice-Chamberlain of the Household Douglas Hacking 20 November 1922 Treasurer of the Household George Gibbs 6 November 1922 Comptroller of the Household Harry Barnston 31 October 1922 Assistant WhipsJ C Sainty 'Assistant Whips 1922-1964' in Parliamentary History Vol 4 (1985) pp 201-04 Richard Roundell 27 November 192222 January 1924 Philip Colfox 27 November 192210 December 1923 Master of the Horse The Marquess of Bath 20 November 1922 Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon 20 November 1922 Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton 20 November 1922 Lords in Waiting Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia 20 November 192222 January 1924 Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton 20 November 192222 January 1924 Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford 20 November 192222 January 1924 George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan 20 November 192222 January 1924 James Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury 20 November 192222 January 1924 Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle 20 November 192222 January 1924
Notes
See also
First Shadow Cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald
References