Lloyd George ministry




See also: History of the United Kingdom during World War I § Lloyd George as Prime Minister






































































Lloyd George ministries


  • 1916–1919

  • 1919–1922



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Date formed

  • First: 6 December 1916 (1916-12-06)

  • Second: 14 December 1918 (1918-12-14)
Date dissolved

  • First: 14 December 1918 (1918-12-14)

  • Second: 19 October 1922 (1922-10-19)
People and organisations
Monarch
George V
Prime Minister
David Lloyd George
Prime Minister's history
1916–1922
Total no. of ministers
269 appointments
Member parties

  • Conservative Party


  • Labour Party (1916–1918)[1]

  • Liberal Party
Status in legislature
Majority (coalition)
Opposition party
Independent Liberal Party
Opposition leaders


  • H. H. Asquith (1916–1918)


  • Sir Donald Maclean
    (1918–1920)


  • H. H. Asquith (1920–1922)
    in the House of Commons


  • Lord Crewe
    in the House of Lords
History
Election(s)
1918 general election
Legislature term(s)

  • 30th UK Parliament

  • 31st UK Parliament
Outgoing formation
Carlton Club meeting
Predecessor
Asquith coalition ministry
Successor
Law ministry

Liberal David Lloyd George formed a coalition government in the United Kingdom in December 1916, and was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George V. It replaced the earlier wartime coalition under H. H. Asquith, which had been held responsible for losses during the Great War.[2] Those Liberals who continued to support Asquith served as the Official Opposition. The government continued in power after the end of the war in 1918, though Lloyd George was increasingly reliant on the Conservatives for support. After several scandals including allegations of the sale of honours, the Conservatives withdrew their support after a meeting at the Carlton Club in 1922, and Bonar Law formed a government.[2]




Contents






  • 1 Cabinets


    • 1.1 War Cabinet, December 1916 – January 1919


      • 1.1.1 Changes




    • 1.2 Peacetime Cabinet, January 1919 – October 1922


      • 1.2.1 Changes






  • 2 List of Ministers


  • 3 References


  • 4 Further reading


    • 4.1 Primary sources







Cabinets



War Cabinet, December 1916 – January 1919




The 1916 War Cabinet




  • Lord Curzon of Kedleston – Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords


  • Bonar Law – Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons


  • Arthur Henderson – Minister without Portfolio


  • Lord Milner – Minister without Portfolio



Changes




The 1917 Imperial War Cabinet



  • May – August 1917 – In temporary absence of Arthur Henderson, George Barnes, Minister of Pensions acts as a member of the War Cabinet.

  • June 1917 – Jan Smuts enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio

  • July 1917 – Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio

  • August 1917 – George Barnes succeeds Arthur Henderson (resigned) as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party member of the War Cabinet.

  • January 1918 – Carson resigns and is not replaced

  • April 1918 – Austen Chamberlain succeeds Lord Milner as Minister without Portfolio.

  • January 1919 – Law becomes Lord Privy Seal, remaining Leader of the House of Commons, and is succeeded as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Chamberlain; both remaining in the War Cabinet. Smuts is succeeded by Sir Eric Geddes as Minister without Portfolio.



Peacetime Cabinet, January 1919 – October 1922


Note: The War Cabinet was formally maintained for much of 1919, but as Lloyd George was out of the country for many months this made little difference; in October 1919 a formal Cabinet was reinstated.


  • David Lloyd George – Prime Minister


  • Lord Birkenhead – Lord Chancellor


  • Lord Curzon of Kedleston – Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords


  • Bonar Law – Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons


  • Austen Chamberlain – Chancellor of the Exchequer


  • Edward Shortt – Secretary of State for the Home Department


  • Arthur Balfour – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs


  • Lord Milner – Secretary of State for the Colonies


  • Winston Churchill – Secretary of State for War and Air


  • Edwin Samuel Montagu – Secretary of State for India


  • Walter Hume Long – First Lord of the Admiralty


  • Sir Albert Stanley – President of the Board of Trade


  • Robert Munro – Secretary for Scotland


  • James Ian Macpherson – Chief Secretary for Ireland


  • Lord French – Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland


  • Christopher Addison – President of the Local Government Board


  • Rowland Edmund Prothero – President of the Board of Agriculture


  • Herbert Fisher – President of the Board of Education


  • Lord Inverforth – Minister of Munitions


  • Sir Robert Horne – Minister of Labour


  • George Nicoll Barnes – Minister without Portfolio


  • Sir Eric Geddes – Minister without Portfolio



Changes



  • May 1919 – Sir Auckland Geddes succeeds Sir Albert Stanley as President of the Board of Trade. Sir Eric Geddes becomes Minister of Transport.

  • October 1919 – Lord Curzon of Kedleston succeeds Balfour as Foreign Secretary. Balfour succeeds Curzon as Lord President. The Local Government Board is abolished. Christopher Addison becomes Minister of Health. The Board of Agriculture is abolished. Lord Lee of Fareham becomes Minister of Agriculture. Sir Eric Geddes becomes Minister of Transport.

  • January 1920 – George Barnes leaves the cabinet.

  • March 1920 – Sir Robert Horne succeeds Sir Auckland Geddes as President of the Board of Trade. Thomas James McNamara succeeds Horne as Minister of Labour.

  • April 1920 – Sir Hamar Greenwood succeeds Ian Macpherson as Chief Secretary for Ireland. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans joins the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio.

  • February 1921 – Winston Churchill succeeds Lord Milner as Colonial Secretary. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans succeeds Churchill as War Secretary. Churchill's successor as Air Secretary was not in the Cabinet. Lord Lee of Fareham succeeds Walter Long at the Admiralty. Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen succeeds Lee as Minister of Agriculture.

  • March 1921 – Austen Chamberlain succeeds Bonar Law as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Commons. Sir Robert Horne succeeds Chamberlain at the Exchequer. Stanley Baldwin succeeds Horne at the Board of Trade.

  • April 1921 – Lord French resigns from the cabinet, remaining Lord Lieutenant. Christopher Addison becomes a Minister without Portfolio. Sir Alfred Mond succeeds him as Minister of Health. The Ministry of Munitions is abolished.

  • November 1921 – Sir Eric Geddes resigns from the cabinet. His successor as Minister of Transport is not in the Cabinet. The Attorney General, Sir Gordon Hewart, enters the Cabinet.

  • March 1922 – Lord Peel succeeds Edwin Montagu as India Secretary.

  • April 1922 – The First Commissioner of Works, Lord Crawford, enters the Cabinet.



List of Ministers


Members of the Cabinet are listed in boldface. Members of the War Cabinet, 6 December 1916 to 31 October 1919, are indicated.





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Office
 Name
 Date
 Party
 Notes

Prime Minister
and First Lord of the Treasury

David Lloyd George
 6 December 1916 –
19 October 1922
 Liberal
 In the War Cabinet 6 December 1916 – 31 October 1919

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Bonar Law
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Also Leader of the House of Commons; in the War Cabinet since 6 December 1916


Austen Chamberlain
 10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919


Sir Robert Horne
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Financial Secretaries to the Treasury

Sir Hardman Lever
 15 December 1916 –
19 May 1919
 Liberal


Stanley Baldwin
 18 June 1917 –
1 April 1921
 Conservative


Hilton Young
 21 April 1921 –
19 October 1922
 Liberal

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury
and Government Chief Whips in the House of Commons

Lord Edmund Talbot
 14 December 1916 –
1 April 1921
 Conservative


Neil Primrose
 14 December 1916 –
2 March 1917
 Liberal


Frederick Guest
 2 March 1917 –
1 April 1921
 Liberal


Charles McCurdy
 1 April 1921 –
19 October 1922
 Liberal


Leslie Orme Wilson
 1 April 1921 –
19 October 1922
 Conservative

Junior Lords of the Treasury

James Hope
 14 December 1916 –
27 January 1919
 Conservative


John Pratt
 14 December 1916 –
8 August 1919
 Liberal


Stanley Baldwin
 29 January 1917 –
18 June 1917
 Conservative


James Parker
 29 January 1917 –
19 October 1922
 Labour


Josiah Towyn Jones
 29 January 1917 –
4 July 1922
 Liberal


Robert Sanders
 5 February 1919 –
1 April 1921
 Liberal
 Created a Baronet 28 January 1920


Sir Godfrey Collins
 8 August 1919 –
10 February 1920
 Liberal


William Edge
 18 August 1919 –
1 August 1922
 Liberal


Sir William Sutherland
 15 February 1920 –
7 April 1922
 Liberal


Sir John Gilmour
 1 April 1921 –
19 October 1922
 Conservative


Thomas Arthur Lewis
 4 July 1922 –
26 July 1922
 Liberal

Lord Chancellor

The Lord Finlay
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


The Lord Birkenhead
 10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Created Viscount Birkenhead 15 June 1921

Lord President of the Council

The Earl Curzon of Kedleston
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Also Leader of the House of Lords; in the War Cabinet since 6 December 1916


Arthur Balfour
 23 October 1919
 Conservative

Lord Privy Seal

The Earl of Crawford
 15 December 1916
 Conservative


Bonar Law
 10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Also Leader of the House of Commons; left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919


Austen Chamberlain
 23 March 1921
 Conservative
 Also Leader of the House of Commons

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Arthur Balfour
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


The Earl Curzon of Kedleston
 23 October 1919
 Conservative
 Also Leader of the House of Lords; left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919; created Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 28 June 1921

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Lord Robert Cecil
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Cecil Harmsworth
 10 January 1919
 Liberal

Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

The Lord Newton
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Post abolished 10 January 1919

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Sir George Cave
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Created Viscount Cave 14 November 1918


Edward Shortt
 10 January 1919
 Liberal

Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

William Brace
 10 December 1916
 Labour


Sir Hamar Greenwood
 10 January 1919
 Liberal


John Baird
 29 April 1919
 Conservative
 Succeeded as 2nd Baronet 21 June 1920

First Lord of the Admiralty

Sir Edward Carson
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Sir Eric Geddes
 17 July 1917
 Conservative


Walter Long
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


The Lord Lee of Fareham
 13 February 1921
 Conservative

Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty

Thomas James Macnamara
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


Sir James Craig
 2 April 1920
 Conservative


Leo Amery
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Additional Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty

The Earl of Lytton
 7 February 1917
 Conservative
 Post abolished 27 January 1919

Civil Lord of the Admiralty

E. G. Pretyman
 14 December 1916
 Conservative


The Earl of Lytton
 27 January 1919
 Conservative


The Earl of Onslow
 26 October 1920
 Conservative


Bolton Eyres-Monsell
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Second Civil Lord of the Admiralty

Arthur Pease
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Post abolished 10 January 1919

President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries

Rowland Prothero
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Board replaced with Ministry 15 August 1919

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries

Sir Richard Winfrey
 14 December 1916 –
10 January 1919
 Liberal


The Duke of Marlborough
 18 February 1917 –
21 March 1918
 Conservative


The Viscount Goschen
 26 March 1918 –
18 June 1918
 Conservative


The Lord Clinton
 18 June 1918 –
10 January 1919
 Conservative


Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
 10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Board replaced with Ministry 15 August 1919

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries

The Lord Lee of Fareham
 15 August 1919
 Conservative


Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
 13 February 1921
 Conservative

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
 15 August 1919
 Conservative
 Also Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 18 November 1919


vacant
 13 February 1921
  


The Earl of Onslow
 5 April 1921
 Conservative


The Earl of Ancaster
 7 April 1921
 Conservative
 Also Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 28 October 1921

President of the Air Board

The Viscount Cowdray
 3 January 1917
 Liberal
 Air Board replaced with Air Council 26 November 1917

Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board

John Baird
 14 December 1916
 Conservative
 Air Board replaced with Air Council 26 November 1917

President of the Air Council

The Lord Rothermere
 26 November 1917
 Liberal


The Lord Weir
 26 April 1918
 Liberal
 Post abolished 10 January 1919

Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Council

John Baird
 26 November 1917
 Conservative
 Post abolished 10 January 1919

Secretary of State for Air

Winston Churchill
 10 January 1919
 Liberal


Frederick Guest
 1 April 1921
 Liberal

Under-Secretary of State for Air

J. E. B. Seely
 10 January 1919
 Liberal


George Tryon
 22 December 1919
 Conservative


The Marquess of Londonderry
 2 April 1920
 Conservative


The Lord Gorell
 18 July 1921
 Liberal

Minister of Blockade

Lord Robert Cecil
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
 18 July 1918
 Conservative
 Office abolished 10 July 1919

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Blockade

Frederick Leverton Harris
 22 December 1916
 Conservative
 Office abolished 10 January 1919

Secretary of State for the Colonies

Walter Long
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


The Viscount Milner
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


Winston Churchill
 13 February 1921
 Liberal

Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

Arthur Steel-Maitland
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Created a Baronet 13 July 1917


William Hewins
 26 September 1917
 Conservative


Leo Amery
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


E. F. L. Wood
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

President of the Board of Education

Herbert Fisher
 10 December 1916
 Liberal

Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education

Herbert Lewis
 10 December 1916
 Liberal
 Knighted in 1922

Minister of Food Control

The Lord Devonport
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


The Lord Rhondda
 19 June 1917
 Liberal
 Created Viscount Rhondda 19 June 1918


J. R. Clynes
 9 July 1918
 Labour


George Roberts
 10 January 1919
 Labour


Charles McCurdy
 19 March 1920
 Liberal
 Office abolished 31 March 1921

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control

Charles Bathurst
 12 December 1916
 Conservative
 Knighted in 1917


J. R. Clynes
 2 July 1917
 Labour


Waldorf Astor
 18 July 1918
 Conservative


Charles McCurdy
 27 January 1919
 Liberal


Sir William Mitchell-Thomson
 19 April 1920
 Conservative
 Office abolished 31 March 1921

President of the Local Government Board

The Lord Rhondda
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


William Fisher
 28 June 1917
 Conservative


Sir Auckland Geddes
 4 November 1918
 Conservative


Christopher Addison
 10 January 1919
 Liberal
 Board became Ministry of Health 24 June 1919

Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board

William Hayes Fisher
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Stephen Walsh
 28 June 1917
 Labour


Waldorf Astor
 27 January 1919
 Conservative
 Board became Ministry of Health 24 June 1919

Minister of Health

Christopher Addison
 24 June 1919
 Liberal


Sir Alfred Mond
 1 April 1921
 Liberal

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health

Waldorf Astor
 24 June 1919
 Conservative
 Succeeded as 2nd Viscount Astor 18 October 1919


The Earl of Onslow
 7 April 1921
 Conservative

Secretary of State for India

Austen Chamberlain
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Edwin Samuel Montagu
 17 July 1917
 Liberal


The Viscount Peel
 19 March 1922
 Conservative

Under-Secretary of State for India

The Lord Islington
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


The Lord Sinha
 10 January 1919
 Liberal


The Earl of Lytton
 22 September 1920
 Conservative


The Earl Winterton
 20 March 1922
 Conservative

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

The Viscount French of Ypres
 6 May 1918 –
2 May 1921
Entered the Cabinet 28 October 1918; left the Cabinet 2 April 1921

Chief Secretary for Ireland

Henry Duke
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Knighted in 1918


Edward Shortt
 5 May 1918
 Liberal


Ian Macpherson
 10 January 1919
 Liberal


Sir Hamar Greenwood
 2 April 1920
 Liberal

Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture for Ireland

Thomas Wallace Russell
 10 December 1916
 Liberal
 Created a Baronet 20 June 1917


Hugh T. Barrie
 15 January 1919
 Conservative

Minister of Labour

John Hodge
 10 December 1916
 Labour


George Roberts
 17 August 1917
 Labour


Sir Robert Horne
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


Thomas James Macnamara
 19 March 1920
 Liberal

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour

William Bridgeman
 22 December 1916
 Conservative


George James Wardle
 10 January 1919
 Labour


Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow
 2 April 1920
 Conservative

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Sir Frederick Cawley
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


The Lord Beaverbrook
 10 February 1918
 Conservative


William Hayes Fisher
 4 November 1918
 Conservative
 Created Baron Downham 16 November 1918


The Earl of Crawford
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


The Viscount Peel
 1 April 1921
 Conservative


Sir William Sutherland
 7 April 1922
 Liberal

Minister of Information

The Lord Beaverbrook
 10 February 1918
 Conservative


William Hayes Fisher
 4 November 1918
 Conservative
 Created Baron Downham 16 November 1918; office abolished 10 January 1919

Minister of Munitions

Christopher Addison
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


Winston Churchill
 17 July 1917
 Liberal


The Lord Inverforth
 10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Office abolished 21 March 1921

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Munitions

Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
 14 December 1916 –
30 January 1918
 Conservative


F. G. Kellaway
 14 December 1916 –
1 April 1920
 Liberal


J. E. B. Seely
 10 July 1918 –
10 January 1919
 Liberal


John Baird
 10 January 1919 –
29 April 1919
 Liberal

Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions

Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
 30 January 1918 –
18 July 1918
 Conservative


James Hope
 27 January 1919 –
31 March 1921
 Conservative

Director of National Service

Neville Chamberlain
 15 December 1916
 Conservative


Sir Auckland Geddes
 17 August 1917
 Conservative
 Post abolished 19 December 1919

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of National Service

Stephen Walsh
 17 March 1917 –
28 June 1917
 Labour


Cecil Beck
 28 June 1917 –
19 December 1919
 Liberal


The Viscount Peel
 15 April 1918 –
10 January 1919
 Conservative

Paymaster-General

Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett
 15 December 1916
 Liberal


Sir Tudor Walters
 26 October 1919
 Liberal

Minister of Pensions

George Nicoll Barnes
 10 December 1916
 Labour
 In the War Cabinet 29 May 1917 – 3 August 1917


John Hodge
 17 August 1917
 Labour


Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


Ian Macpherson
 2 April 1920
 Liberal

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions

Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
 22 December 1916
 Conservative


Sir James Craig
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


George Tryon
 2 April 1920
 Conservative

Postmaster General

Albert Illingworth
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


F. G. Kellaway
 1 April 1921
 Liberal

Assistant Postmaster General

Herbert Pease
 10 December 1916
 Conservative

Minister without Portfolio

Arthur Henderson
 10 December 1916 –
12 August 1917
 Labour
 In the War Cabinet 10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917


The Viscount Milner
 10 December 1916 –
18 April 1918
 Conservative
 In the War Cabinet 10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918


Jan Smuts
 22 June 1917 –
10 January 1919
In the War Cabinet 22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919


Sir Edward Carson
 17 July 1917 –
21 January 1918
 Conservative


George Nicoll Barnes
 13 August 1917 –
27 January 1920
 Labour
 In the War Cabinet 13 August 1917 – 10 January 1919


Austen Chamberlain
 18 April 1918 –
10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Entered the War Cabinet 18 April 1918


Sir Eric Geddes
 10 January 1919 –
19 May 1919
 Conservative
 In the War Cabinet 10 January 1919 – 31 October 1919


Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
 10 January 1919 –
13 February 1921
 Conservative


Christopher Addison
 1 April 1921 –
14 July 1921
 Liberal

Minister of Reconstruction

Christopher Addison
 17 July 1917
 Liberal


Sir Auckland Geddes
 10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Office abolished 19 December 1919

Secretary for Scotland

Robert Munro
 10 December 1916
 Liberal

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland

John Pratt
 8 August 1919
 Liberal
 Knighted 1922

Minister of Shipping

Sir Joseph Maclay
 10 December 1916
 Liberal
 Office abolished 31 March 1921
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping

Sir Leo Chiozza Money
 22 December 1916
 Liberal


Leslie Orme Wilson
 10 January 1919
 Conservative

Minister of Supply

The Lord Inverforth
 10 January 1919
 Conservative
 Office abolished 31 March 1921

President of the Board of Trade

Sir Albert Stanley
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Sir Auckland Geddes
 26 May 1919
 Conservative


Sir Robert Horne
 19 March 1920
 Conservative


Stanley Baldwin
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade

George Roberts
 14 December 1916
 Labour


George Wardle
 17 August 1917
 Labour


William Bridgeman
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame
 22 August 1920
 Conservative


Sir William Mitchell-Thomson
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Secretary for Overseas Trade

Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland
 14 September 1917
 Conservative


Sir Hamar Greenwood
 29 April 1919
 Liberal


F. G. Kellaway
 2 April 1920
 Liberal


Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Parliamentary Secretary for Mines

William Bridgeman
 22 August 1920
 Conservative

Minister of Transport

Sir Eric Geddes
 19 May 1919
 Conservative


The Viscount Peel
 7 November 1921
 Conservative


The Earl of Crawford
 12 April 1922
 Conservative

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport

Sir Rhys Williams
 23 September 1919
 Liberal


Arthur Neal
 28 November 1919
 Liberal

Secretary of State for War

The Earl of Derby
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


The Viscount Milner
 18 April 1918
 Conservative


Winston Churchill
 10 January 1919
 Liberal


Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
 13 February 1921
 Conservative

Under-Secretary of State for War

Ian Macpherson
 14 December 1916
 Liberal


Viscount Peel
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


Sir Robert Sanders
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Financial Secretary to the War Office

Henry Forster
 10 December 1916
 Conservative
 Created Baron Forster 12 December 1919


Sir Archibald Williamson
 18 December 1919
 Liberal


George Frederick Stanley
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office

The Earl Stanhope
 14 December 1916
 Conservative
 Post abolished 10 January 1919

First Commissioner of Works

Sir Alfred Mond
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


The Earl of Crawford
 1 April 1921
 Conservative
 Entered the Cabinet 7 April 1922

Attorney General

Sir F. E. Smith
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Sir Gordon Hewart
 10 January 1919
 Liberal
 Entered the Cabinet 7 November 1921


Sir Ernest Pollock
 6 March 1922
 Conservative

Solicitor General

Sir Gordon Hewart
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


Sir Ernest Pollock
 10 January 1919
 Conservative


Leslie Scott
 6 March 1922
 Conservative
 Knighted in 1922

Lord Advocate

James Clyde
 10 December 1916
 Conservative


Thomas Morison
 25 March 1920
 Liberal


Charles David Murray
 5 March 1922
 Conservative

Solicitor General for Scotland

Thomas Morison
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


Charles David Murray
 25 March 1920
 Conservative


Andrew Briggs Constable
 16 March 1922
 Conservative


William Watson
 24 July 1922
 Conservative

Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Sir John O'Brien
 10 December 1916
 Liberal


Sir James Campbell
 4 June 1918
 Conservative


Sir John Ross
 27 June 1921
 Conservative

Attorney General for Ireland

James O'Connor
 8 January 1917


Arthur Samuels
 7 April 1918
 Conservative


Denis Henry
 6 July 1919
 Conservative


Thomas Brown
 5 August 1921
 Conservative


vacant
 16 August 1921
  

Solicitor General for Ireland

James Chambers
 19 March 1917
 Conservative


Arthur Samuels
 12 September 1917
 Conservative


John Powell
 7 April 1918
 Conservative


Denis Henry
 27 November 1918
 Conservative


David Wilson
 6 July 1919
 Conservative


Thomas Brown
 12 June 1921
 Conservative


vacant
 5 August 1921
  

Lord Steward of the Household

The Lord Farquhar
 14 December 1916
 Conservative
 Created Viscount Farquhar 21 June 1917

Lord Chamberlain of the Household

The Lord Sandhurst
 14 December 1916
 Liberal
 Created Viscount Sandhurst 1 January 1917


The Duke of Atholl
 20 November 1921
 Conservative

Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

Cecil Beck
 14 December 1916
 Liberal


William Dudley Ward
 9 December 1917
 Liberal

Master of the Horse

The Earl of Chesterfield
 14 December 1916
 Liberal

Treasurer of the Household

James Craig
 14 December 1916
 Conservative
 Created a Baronet 5 February 1918


vacant
 22 January 1918
  


Robert Sanders
 11 June 1918
 Conservative


Bolton Eyres-Monsell
 5 February 1919
 Conservative


George Gibbs
 1 April 1921
 Conservative

Comptroller of the Household

Sir Edwin Cornwall
 14 December 1916
 Liberal


George Frederick Stanley
 28 February 1919
 Conservative


Harry Barnston
 7 April 1921
 Conservative

Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

The Lord Colebrooke
 14 December 1916
 Liberal
 Also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords

Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

The Lord Suffield
 14 December 1916
 Conservative


The Lord Hylton
 21 May 1918
 Conservative
 Also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords

Lords in Waiting

The Lord Herschell
 14 December 1916 –
11 February 1919
 Liberal


The Lord Stanmore
 14 December 1916 –
19 October 1922
 Liberal


The Lord Ranksborough
 14 December 1916 –
4 April 1921
 Liberal


The Viscount Valentia
 14 December 1916 –
19 October 1922
 Conservative


The Lord Hylton
 14 December 1916 –
18 May 1918
 Conservative
 Also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords


The Lord Somerleyton
 18 May 1918 –
19 October 1922
 Conservative


The Earl of Jersey
 11 January 1919 –
17 August 1919
 Conservative


The Earl of Bradford
 11 February 1919 –
19 October 1922
 Conservative


The Earl of Onslow
 17 August 1919 –
21 November 1920
 Conservative


The Earl of Lucan
 12 November 1920 –
19 October 1922
 Conservative


The Earl of Clarendon
 4 April 1921 –
19 October 1922
 Conservative


References





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  2. ^ ab Gilbert, Bentley (1992). David Lloyd George: A Political Life: Organizer of Victory, 1912–1916. Ohio State University Press.




Further reading



  • Burk. K. M. ed. War and the State: The Transformation of British Government 1914–1918 (1982).

  • Burk. K. M. Britain, America and the Sinews of War 1914–1918 (1985).

  • Butler, David, and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts (Macmillan, 2000).

  • Cassar, George H. Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918 (2009) full text online at JSTOR; excerpts

  • French, David. The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916–1918 (1995) online

  • Fry, Michael. "Political Change in Britain, August 1914 to December 1916: Lloyd George Replaces Asquith: The Issues Underlying the Drama." Historical Journal 31.03 (1988): 609–627.

  • Gardner, Lloyd C. Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923 (1987) diplomatic history

  • Grieves, Keith. The politics of manpower, 1914–18 (Manchester UP, 1988).

  • Grigg, John. Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912–1916 (1985)

  • Grigg, John. Lloyd George: War Leader 1916–1918 (2002).

  • Keohane, Nigel. The party of patriotism: the Conservative Party and the First World War (Routledge, 2016).

  • McEwen, John M. "The Struggle for Mastery in Britain: Lloyd George versus Asquith, December 1916." Journal of British Studies 18#1 (1978): 131–156.


  • Morgan, Kenneth O. Consensus and disunity: the Lloyd George coalition government, 1918–1922 (1979)

  • Morgan, Kenneth O. "George, David Lloyd, first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863–1945)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 accessed 11 Feb 2017 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34570

  • Paxman, Jeremy. Great Britain's Great War (2013), based on TV series.

  • Simmonds, Alan G.V. Britain and World War One (Routledge, 2013).

  • Somervell, D.C. The Reign of King George V, (1936) pp 161–306. online free

  • Taylor, A.J.P. English History: 1914–1945 (1965), pp 66–128

  • Wrigley, Chris. Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: The Post-War Coalition 1918–1922 (1990).



Primary sources



  • Lloyd George, David. War Memoirs (6 vols. 1933–36).
    • Egerton, George W. "The Lloyd George" War Memoirs": A Study in the Politics of Memory." Journal of Modern History 60#1 (1988): 55–94. in JSTOR


  • Stubbs, John O. "Beaverbrook As Historian: 'Politicians and the War, 1914–1916' Reconsidered." Albion 14#3 (1982): 235–253.






Preceded by
Asquith coalition ministry
Government of the United Kingdom
1916–1922
 Succeeded by
Law ministry








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