Hartington's Amendment to the Address having been carried.
Granville unable to form a Ministry.]

1859. Henry John, Viscount Palmerston: First Lord of the Treasury and

June

18.

Premier.

Earl Granville: Lord President of the Council.

Duke of Argyll: Lord Privy Seal.

Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart.: Home Secretary.

Lord John Russell (created Earl Russell 1861): Foreign Secretary.
Duke of Newcastle: Colonial Secretary.

Sidney Herbert: War Secretary.

Sir Charles Wood, Bart.: India Secretary.

W. E. Gladstone Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Duke of Somerset: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Thomas Milner Gibson: President of the Poor Law Board, and then
President of the Board of Trade.

Edward Cardwell: Irish Secretary.

James, Earl of Elgin: Postmaster-General.

Charles P. Villiers: President of the Poor Law Board, vice Gibson.
Lord Campbell: Lord Chancellor.

Sir George Grey, Bart.: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
[Changes-Lord Stanley of Alderley appointed Postmaster-General,
August 17, 1860, vice Earl of Elgin, sent ambassador to China.
Sir Richard Bethell, appointed Lord Chancellor, and created Lord
Westbury, June 26, 1861, vice Lord Campbell, deceased. Sidney
Herbert resigned and created Lord Herbert of Lea, July 1861,
died August 2, 1861. Sir J. C. Lewis appointed Secretary for War,
July 23, 1861, vice Herbert. Sir George Grey appointed Home
Secretary July 25, 1861, vice Lewis. Edward Cardwell appointed
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, July 25, 1861, vice Grey.
Sir Robert Peel appointed Irish Secretary (without seat in Cabinet),
July 1861, vice Cardwell. Earl de Grey and Ripon appointed
Secretary for War, April 28, 1863, vice Lewis, deceased. Edward
Cardwell appointed Colonial Secretary, April 7, 1864, vice Duke of
Newcastle, resigned. Earl of Clarendon appointed Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, April 7, 1864, vice Cardwell. Lord
Cranworth appointed Lord Chancellor, July 7, 1865, vice Lord
Westbury, resigned.]

Death of Palmerston.

1865. John, Earl Russell: First Lord of the Treasury and Premier. Nov. Earl Granville: Lord President of the Council.

6.

Duke of Argyll: Lord Privy Seal.

Sir George Grey: Home Secretary.
Earl of Clarendon: Foreign Secretary.
Edward Cardwell Colonial Secretary.
Earl de Grey and Ripon: War Secretary.
Sir Charles Wood: India Secretary.

W. E. Gladstone: Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Duke of Somerset: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Thomas Milner Gibson: President of the Board of Trade.

Charles Pelham Villiers: President of the Poor Law Board.

Lord Stanley of Alderley: Postmaster-General.

Lord Cranworth: Lord Chancellor.

George Joachim Goschen: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (appointed January 1886).

[Changes-Earl de Grey and Ripon appointed India Secretary, February 16, 1866, vice Sir Charles Wood, resigned, and created Viscount Halifax. Marquis of Hartington appointed Secretary for War, February 16, 1866, vice Earl de Grey and Ripon.]

[Russell resigns, being defeated on admendment to the Reform Bill.] 1866. Edward G., Earl of Derby: First Lord of the Treasury and Premier. July. Duke of Buckingham and Chandos: Lord President of the Council. Earl of Malmesbury: Lord Privy Seal. Spencer H. Walpole: Home Secretary. Lord Stanley: Foreign Secretary. Earl of Carnarvon : Colonial Secretary. Jonathan Peel: War Secretary.

Viscount Cranborne: India Secretary.

Benjamin Disraeli : Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Sir J. S. Pakington: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bart.: President Board of Trade.
Gathorne Hardy: President of the Poor Law Board.

Lord Chelmsford: Lord Chancellor.

Lord Naas (afterwards Earl of Mayo): Irish Secretary.
Lord John Manners: First Commissioner of Works.
[Changes-Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, and Lord Cranborne
resigned, March 1867. Duke of Buckingham and Chandos ap-
pointed Colonial Secretary, March 8, 1867, vice Earl of Carnarvon.
Duke of Marlborough appointed Lord President of the Council,
March 8, 1867, vice Duke of Buckingham. Sir J. S. Pakington
appointed Secretary for War, March 8, 1867, vice Peel. Henry
Thomas Lowry Corry appointed First Lord of the Admiralty,
March 8, 1867, vice Pakington. Sir Stafford Henry Northcote
appointed Secretary for India, March 8, 1867, vice Lord Cran-
borne. Duke of Richmond appointed President of the Board of
Trade, March 8, 1867, vice Northcote. Gathorne Hardy appointed
Home Secretary, May 7, 1867, vice Walpole, resigned. Earl of
Devon appointed President Poor Law Board (without seat in
Cabinet), May 17, 1867, vice Derby.

Earl of Derby resigned through ill-health, February 1868, and died
October 23, 1869.]

1868. Benjamin Disraeli : First Lord of the Treasury and Premier.
Feb. Duke of Marlborough: Lord President of the Council.
Earl of Malmesbury: Lord Privy Seal.

Gathorne Hardy: Home Secretary.
Lord Stanley Foreign Secretary.

Duke of Buckingham and Chandos: Colonial Secretary.
Sir J. S. Pakington: War Secretary.

Sir Stafford Henry Northcote: India Secretary.

George Ward Hunt: Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Henry Thomas Lowry Corry: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Duke of Richmond: President of the Board of Trade.

Earl of Mayo: Irish Secretary (resigned September 1868, and succeeded
by Colonel John Wilson Patten, not in Cabinet).

Lord John Manners: First Commissioner of Works.
Lord Cairns: Lord Chancellor.

[Disraeli resigns, not being returned with a majority at the General Election on account of Gladstone's Irish Disestablishment policy.] 1868. William Ewart Gladstone: First Lord of the Treasury and Premier. Dec. Earl de Grey and Ripon: Lord President of the Council.

Earl of Kimberley: Lord Privy Seal.

Henry Austin Bruce: Home Secretary.
Earl of Clarendon : Foreign Secretary.
Earl Granville: Colonial Secretary.
Edward Cardwell: War Secretary.
Duke of Argyll: India Secretary.

Robert Lowe: Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Hugh C. E. Childers: First Lord of the Admiralty.
John Bright: President of the Board of Trade.
Chichester S. Fortescue: Irish Secretary.

Marquis of Hartington: Postmaster-General.

George Joachim Goschen: President Poor Law Board.

Sir William Page Wood (created Lord Hatherley): Lord Chancellor.
[Changes-W. E. Forster, Vice-President Education, brought into the
Cabinet, July 1870. Earl Granville appointed Foreign Secretary,
July 6, 1870, vice Earl of Clarendon, deceased. Earl of Kimberley
appointed Colonial Secretary, July 6, 1870, vice Earl Granville.
Viscount Halifax appointed Lord Privy Seal, July 6, 1870, vice
Kimberley. Chichester S. Fortescue appointed President of Board
of Trade, January 14, 1871, vice Bright, resigned. Marquis of
Hartington appointed Irish Secretary, January 1871, vice Fortescue.
William Monsell appointed Postmaster-General, January 9, 1871,
vice Hartington, but without seat in Cabinet. George Joachim
Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, March 9, 1871, vice Childers,
resigned. James Stansfeld appointed President Local Government
Board, August 1871. Hugh C. E. Childers, Chancellor Duchy of
Lancaster, August 9, 1872, vice Lord Dufferin, who was not in
Cabinet. Sir Roundell Palmer appointed Lord Chancellor and
created Lord Selborne, October 15, 1872, vice Lord Hatherley,
resigned. H. A. Bruce, Lord President of the Council, August 9,
1873, and created Lord Aberdare, vice Earl de Grey and Ripon,
resigned. Robert Lowe, Home Secretary, August 9, 1873, vice
Bruce. W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, vice Lowe,
August 9, 1873, and held the office jointly with that of First Lord
of the Treasury and Premiership. John Bright, Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, September 30, 1873, vice Childers, resigned.]
[Gladstone resigns on defeat of Irish University Bill. Disraeli cannot
form a Ministry. Gladstone resumes office, and then dissolves.
On return of Conservative majority he resigns.]

1874. Benjamin Disraeli : First Lord of the Treasury and Premier.
Feb. Duke of Richmond: Lord President of the Council.
Earl of Malmesbury: Lord Privy Seal.
Richard Assheton Cross: Home Secretary.
Earl of Derby: Foreign Secretary.
Earl of Carnarvon : Colonial Secretary.
Gathorne Hardy: War Secretary.

Marquis of Salisbury: India Secretary.

Sir Stafford Henry Northcote: Chancellor of the Exchequer.
George Ward Hunt: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Lord John Manners: Postmaster-General.

Lord Cairns (created Earl Cairns, September 23, 1878): Lord
Chancellor.

[Changes B. Disraeli, afterwards Earl of Beaconsfield, Lord Privy
Seal, vice Earl of Malmesbury, August 12, 1876, and held the
office jointly with that of First Lord of the Treasury and Premier-
ship. Sir Michael E. Hicks-Beach, Bart., Irish Secretary, to be
of the Cabinet, February 1877. William Henry Smith, First Lord
of the Admiralty, August 14, 1877, vice Hunt, deceased. Duke of
Northumberland, Lord Privy Seal, February 4, 1878, vice Earl of
Beaconsfield, resigned. Hicks-Beach, Colonial Secretary, Febru-
ary 4, 1878, vice Earl of Carnarvon, resigned. James Lowther,
Irish Secretary, without seat in Cabinet, February 1878, vice Hicks-
Beach. Marquis of Salisbury, Foreign Secretary, April 2, 1878,
vice Earl of Derby, resigned. Gathorne Hardy, India Secretary,
April 2, 1878 (created Viscount Cranbrook, May 3, 1878), vice

Salisbury. Colonel Frederick Arthur Stanley, Secretary for War, April 2, 1878, vice Hardy. Viscount Sandon, President Board of Trade, with seat in Cabinet, April 4, 1878, vice Adderley.] [Disraeli dissolves, and the Liberals are returned with a majority.] 1880. William Ewart Gladstone: First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of April the Exchequer, and Premier.

28. Earl Spencer, Lord President of the Council.

Duke of Argyll: Lord Privy Seal.

William G. G. Vernon Harcourt: Home Secretary.

Earl Granville: Foreign Secretary.

Earl of Kimberley: Colonial Secretary.
Hugh C. E. Childers: War Secretary.

Marquis of Hartington: India Secretary.

Earl of Northbrook: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Joseph Chamberlain : President Board of Trade.

John George Dodson: President Local Government Board.
William Edward Forster: Irish Secretary.

Lord Selborne: Lord Chancellor (created Earl Selborne, December 29,
1881).

John Bright: Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster.

[Changes-Lord Carlingford, Lord Privy Seal, May 2, 1881, vice Duke of Argyll, resigned. Earl Spencer, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, April 28, 1882, vice Earl Cowper, who was not in Cabinet. Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, Irish Secretary, without seat in Cabinet, May 1882 (assassinated May 6, 1882), vice Forster, resigned. George Otto Trevelyan, Irish Secretary, without seat in Cabinet, May 9, 1882, vice Cavendish. Earl of Kimberley, Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster, July 25, 1882, vice Bright, resigned. H. C. E. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 16, 1882, vice Gladstone, resigned. Marquis of Hartington, War Secretary, December 16, 1882, vice Childers. Kimberley, India Secretary, December 16, 1882, vice Hartington. Derby, Colonial Secretary, December 16, 1882, vice Kimberley. J. G. Dodson, Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster, December 28, 1882, vice Kimberley. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., President Local Government Board, December 28, 1882, vice Dodson. Lord Carlingford, Lord President of the Council, March 19, 1883, vice Spencer, resigned. G. O. Trevelyan, Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster, October 29, 1884, vice Dodson, resigned. Henry CampbellBannerman, Irish Secretary, without seat in Cabinet, October 20, 1884, vice Trevelyan. G. J. Shaw-Lefevre (appointed PostmasterGeneral, without seat in Cabinet), vice Fawcett, deceased (also not in Cabinet), to be of Cabinet, February 1885. Earl of Rosebery, First Commissioner of Works, February 1885, vice Shaw-Lefevre. Earl of Rosebery, Lord Privy Seal, March 5, 1885, vice Carlingford, resigned.]

[Gladstone defeated by a Budget amendment of Hicks-Beach.] 1885. Robert Arthur Talbot, Marquis of Salisbury: Foreign Secretary and June.

Premier.

Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (created Earl of Iddesleigh): First Lord of the Treasury.

Viscount Cranbrook: Lord President of the Council.

Earl of Harrowby: Lord Privy Seal.

Sir Richard Assheton Cross: Home Secretary.

Sir Frederick A. Stanley: Colonial Secretary.

William Henry Smith: War Secretary.

Lord Randolph H. S. Churchill: India Secretary.

Sir M. E. Hicks-Beach: Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Lord George F. Hamilton: First Lord of the Admiralty.
Duke of Richmond and Gordon: President Board of Trade.
Earl of Carnarvon: Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

Lord John S. R. Manners: Postmaster-General.
Hon. E. Stanhope Vice-President Education.

Sir H. S. Giffard (created Lord Halsbury): Lord Chancellor.
Lord Ashbourne: Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

[Changes-Hon. Edward Stanhope, President Board of Trade, August 19, 1885, vice Duke of Richmond and Gordon, appointed Secretary for Scotland. W. H. Smith, Irish Secretary, January 25, 1886, vice Sir W. Hart-Dyke, who was not in Cabinet.]

[Salisbury defeated on amendment to Address by Jesse Collings.] 1886. William Ewart Gladstone: First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Privy Feb. Seal, and Premier.

Earl Spencer: Lord President of the Council.

Hugh C. E. Childers: Home Secretary.
Earl of Rosebery: Foreign Secretary.

Earl Granville : Colonial Secretary.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman : War Secretary.

Earl of Kimberley India Secretary.

G. O. Trevelyan: Secretary for Scotland.

Sir William G. G. V. Harcourt: Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Marquis of Ripon: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Anthony John Mundella: President Board of Trade.

Joseph Chamberlain : President Local Government Board.

John Morley Irish Secretary.

Sir Farrer Herschell (created Lord Herschell): Lord Chancellor.
[Changes-Earl of Dalhousie appointed Secretary for Scotland with-
out seat in Cabinet, April 3, 1886, vice Trevelyan, resigned. James
Stansfeld, President Local Government Board, April 3, 1886, vice
Chamberlain, resigned.]

[Gladstone defeated on first Home Rule Bill, and returned with a
minority at General Election.]

1886. Robert Arthur Talbot, Marquis of Salisbury: First Lord of the Treasury and Premier.

Aug.

3.

Viscount Cranbrook: Lord President of the Council.

Henry Matthews: Home Secretary.

Earl of Iddesleigh: Foreign Secretary.

Hon. Edward Stanhope Colonial Secretary.

William Henry Smith: War Secretary.

Sir Richard Assheton Cross (created Viscount Cross, August 8, 1886):
India Secretary.

Lord Randolph H. S. Churchill: Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Lord George F. Hamilton: First Lord of the Admiralty.

Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley (created Lord Stanley of Preston, August 6, 1886) President Board of Trade.

Sir M. E. Hicks-Beach: Irish Secretary.

Lord Halsbury: Lord Chancellor.

Viscount Cranbrook (pro tem.) and then Lord John Manners :
Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster.

Lord Ashbourne: Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

[Changes-Arthur James Balfour, Secretary for Scotland, brought into Cabinet, November 1886. Marquis of Salisbury, Foreign Secretary, January 14, 1887, vice Earl of Iddesleigh, resigned, the Marquis retaining the Premiership. W. H. Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, January 14, 1887, vice Salisbury. Hon. Edward Stanhope, War Secretary, January 14, 1887, vice Smith. Sir Henry Thurstan Holland (created Lord Knutsford, February 27,