Lloyd George ministry

Lloyd George ministries
Lloyd George ministries
1916–1918; 1918–1922;
	Lloyd George’s Imperial War Cabinet in 1918
Date formed	First: 6 December 1916; Second: 14 December 1918;
Date dissolved	First: 14 December 1918; Second: 19 October 1922;
People and organisations
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Prime Minister's history	1916–1922
Total no. of members	269 appointments
Member parties	Conservative Party; Labour Party (1916–1918); 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	1918 general election
Legislature terms	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]

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War Cabinet, December 1916 – January 1919

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

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 Montagu – Secretary of State for India
Walter Long – First Lord of the Admiralty
Sir Albert Stanley – President of the Board of Trade
Robert Munro – Secretary for Scotland
Ian Macpherson – Chief Secretary for Ireland
Lord French – Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
Christopher Addison – President of the Local Government Board
Rowland Prothero – President of the Board of Agriculture
H. A. L. Fisher – President of the Board of Education
Lord Inverforth – Minister of Munitions
Sir Robert Horne – Minister of Labour
George 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.

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		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
Lord Chancellor	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
Lord President of the Council	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
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	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
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	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
Secretary of State for the Home Department	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
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	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
President of the Air Council	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
Secretary of State for Air	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
Minister of Blockade	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
Minister of Health	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
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health	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
Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture for Ireland	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
Minister of Information	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
Director of National Service	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
Paymaster General	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
Postmaster General	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
Minister of Reconstruction	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
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping	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
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport	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
First Commissioner of Works	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
	Daniel 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
Lord Chamberlain of the Household	The Duke of Atholl	20 November 1921	Conservative
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	Cecil Beck	14 December 1916	Liberal
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	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
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	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

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

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1916–1918 1918–1922
Lloyd George’s Imperial War Cabinet in 1918
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 members	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	1918 general election
Legislature terms	30th UK Parliament 31st UK Parliament
Outgoing formation	Carlton Club meeting
Predecessor	Asquith coalition ministry
Successor	Law ministry