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Second Salisbury ministry

The Second Salisbury ministry was formed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by the Marquess of Salisbury on 25 July 1886, after the 1886 general election.

Contents

August 1886 – January 1887

  • Lord Salisbury – Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, and Leader of the House of Lords
  • Lord Halsbury – Lord Chancellor
  • Lord Cranbrook – Lord President of the Council
  • Lord Cadogan – Lord Privy Seal
  • Henry Matthews – Secretary of State for the Home Department
  • Lord Iddesleigh – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Edward Stanhope – Secretary of State for the Colonies
  • William Henry Smith – Secretary of State for War
  • Lord Cross – Secretary of State for India
  • Lord George Hamilton – First Lord of the Admiralty
  • Lord Randolph Churchill – Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
  • Lord Stanley of Preston – President of the Board of Trade
  • Lord John Manners – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • Sir Michael Hicks Beach – Chief Secretary for Ireland
  • Arthur James Balfour – Secretary for Scotland

    • January 1887 – August 1892

  • Lord Salisbury – Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
  • William Henry Smith – First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons
  • Lord Halsbury – Lord Chancellor
  • Lord Cranbrook – Lord President of the Council
  • Lord Cadogan – Lord Privy Seal
  • Henry Matthews – Secretary of State for the Home Department
  • Sir Henry Holland – Secretary of State for the Colonies
  • Edward Stanhope – Secretary of State for War
  • Lord Cross – Secretary of State for India
  • Lord George Hamilton – First Lord of the Admiralty
  • George Goschen – Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Lord Stanley of Preston – President of the Board of Trade
  • Lord John Manners – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • Arthur James Balfour – Chief Secretary for Ireland
  • Charles Thomson Ritchie – President of the Local Government Board
  • Sir Michael Hicks Beach – Minister without Portfolio

    • Changes

  • February 1888; Sir Michael Hicks Beach succeeds Lord Stanley of Preston as President of the Board of Trade
  • September 1889; Henry Chaplin enters the Cabinet as President of the Board of Agriculture.
  • October 1891; Arthur James Balfour succeeds William Henry Smith (deceased) as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons. William Lawies Jackson succeeds him as Irish Secretary.

    • References

    Second Salisbury ministry Wikipedia
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