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Conservative government 1922–24

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Conservative government 1922–24

The Conservative government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ministries: the Law ministry and then the First Baldwin ministry.

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Bonar Law's Cabinet, October 1922 – May 1923

  • Andrew Bonar Law – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
  • Lord Cave – Lord Chancellor
  • Lord 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
  • Lord Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
  • The Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
  • Lord Derby – Secretary of State for War
  • Lord Peel – Secretary of State for India
  • Lord 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 Frederick Lindley Wood – President of the Board of Education
  • Sir Montague 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
  • Lord Cave – Lord Chancellor
  • Lord Salisbury – Lord President of the Council
  • Lord Robert Cecil – Lord Privy Seal (Viscount Cecil of Chelwood from 28 December 1923)
  • William Clive Bridgeman – Home Secretary
  • Lord Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
  • The Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
  • Lord Derby – Secretary of State for War
  • Lord Peel – Secretary of State for India
  • Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for Air
  • Lord 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 Frederick Lindley Wood – President of the Board of Education
  • Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow – Minister of Labour
  • Neville Chamberlain – Minister of Health
  • Sir William Joynson-Hicks – Financial Secretary to the Treasury
  • Sir Laming Worthington-Evans – 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.

    References

    Conservative government 1922–24 Wikipedia
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