Office |
Name |
Party |
Date |
Notes
|
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Lords |
The Earl of Aberdeen |
Peelite |
19 December 1852 – 30 January 1855 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer |
William Ewart Gladstone |
Peelite |
30 December 1852 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury |
William Goodenough Hayter |
Whig |
5 January 1853 |
|
Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
James Wilson |
Whig |
5 January 1853 |
|
Junior Lords of the Treasury |
Lord Alfred Hervey |
Peelite |
1 January 1853 – 7 March 1855 |
|
Lord Elcho |
|
1 January 1853 – 7 March 1855
|
John Sadleir |
|
1 January 1853 – 6 March 1854
|
Chichester Fortescue |
|
6 March 1854 – 16 April 1855
|
Lord Chancellor |
The Lord Cranworth |
Whig |
28 December 1852 |
|
Lord President of the Council |
The Earl Granville |
Whig |
28 December 1852 |
|
Lord John Russell |
Whig |
12 June 1854 |
also Leader of the House of Commons
|
Lord Privy Seal |
The Duke of Argyll |
|
4 January 1853 |
|
Secretary of State for the Home Department |
The Viscount Palmerston |
Whig |
28 December 1852 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department |
Henry Fitzroy |
Peelite |
28 December 1852 |
|
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
Lord John Russell |
Whig |
28 December 1852 |
also Leader of the House of Commons
|
The Earl of Clarendon |
Whig |
21 February 1853 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
The Lord Wodehouse |
|
28 December 1852 |
|
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies |
The Duke of Newcastle |
Peelite |
28 December 1852 |
department abolished 10 June 1854
|
Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies |
Frederick Peel |
Peelite |
28 December 1852
|
Secretary of State for War |
The Duke of Newcastle |
Peelite |
12 June 1854 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for War |
Henry Roberts |
|
12 June 1854 |
|
Secretary of State for the Colonies |
Sir George Grey, Bt |
Whig |
12 June 1854 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
Frederick Peel |
Whig |
12 June 1854 |
|
First Lord of the Admiralty |
Sir James Graham, Bt |
Peelite |
30 December 1852 |
|
First Secretary of the Admiralty |
Ralph Bernal Osborne |
|
6 January 1853 |
|
Civil Lord of the Admiralty |
William Francis Cowper |
Whig |
30 December 1852 |
|
President of the Board of Control |
Sir Charles Wood, Bt |
Whig |
30 December 1852 |
|
Joint Secretaries to the Board of Control |
Robert Lowe |
|
30 December 1852 |
|
Sir Thomas Redington |
|
30 December 1852 |
(permanent)
|
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
Edward Strutt |
Radical |
3 January 1853 |
|
The Earl Granville |
Whig |
21 June 1854
|
Minister without Portfolio |
The Marquess of Lansdowne |
Whig |
28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858 |
|
Lord John Russell |
Whig |
26 February 1853 – 8 June 1854 |
also Leader of the House of Commons
|
Secretary at War |
Sidney Herbert |
Peelite |
30 December 1852 |
|
First Commissioner of Works |
Sir William Molesworth, Bt |
Radical |
5 January 1853 |
|
President of the Board of Health |
Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt |
Whig |
14 January 1854 |
|
Chief Secretary for Ireland |
Sir John Young, Bt |
Peelite |
6 January 1853 |
|
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
The Earl of St Germans |
Peelite |
5 January 1853 |
|
Master-General of the Ordnance |
The Lord Raglan |
non-party |
30 September 1852 |
continued in office
|
Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance |
Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross |
non-party |
6 May 1854 |
|
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance |
Lauderdale Maule |
Whig |
5 January 1853 |
died 1 August 1854
|
Clerk of the Ordnance |
William Monsell |
Whig |
13 January 1853 |
|
Storekeeper of the Ordnance |
Sir Thomas Hastings |
non-party |
25 July 1845 |
continued in office
|
Paymaster General |
The Lord Stanley of Alderley |
Whig |
5 January 1853 |
|
Postmaster-General |
The Viscount Canning |
Peelite |
5 January 1853 |
|
President of the Poor Law Board |
Matthew Talbot Baines |
Whig |
30 December 1852 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board |
Grenville Berkeley |
|
7 January 1853 |
|
President of the Board of Trade |
Edward Cardwell |
Peelite |
28 December 1852 |
|
Vice-President of the Board of Trade |
The Lord Stanley of Alderley |
Whig |
4 January 1853 |
|
Attorney General |
Sir Alexander Cockburn, Bt |
Whig |
28 December 1852 |
|
Solicitor General |
Sir Richard Bethell |
|
28 December 1852 |
|
Judge Advocate General |
Charles Pelham Villiers |
|
30 December 1852 |
|
Lord Advocate |
James Moncreiff |
|
30 December 1852 |
|
Solicitor General for Scotland |
Robert Handyside |
|
17 January 1853 |
|
James Craufurd |
|
16 November 1853
|
Thomas Mackenzie |
|
11 January 1855
|
Attorney General for Ireland |
Abraham Brewster |
Peelite |
April 1853 |
|
Solicitor General for Ireland |
William Keogh |
|
April 1853 |
|
Lord Steward of the Household |
The Duke of Norfolk |
Whig |
4 January 1853 |
|
The Earl Spencer |
Whig |
10 January 1854
|
Lord Chamberlain of the Household |
The Marquess of Breadalbane |
Whig |
15 January 1853 |
|
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household |
Lord Ernest Bruce |
Peelite |
30 December 1852 |
|
Master of the Horse |
The Duke of Wellington |
|
21 January 1853 |
|
Treasurer of the Household |
Earl of Mulgrave |
Whig |
4 January 1853 |
|
Comptroller of the Household |
Viscount Drumlanrig |
|
4 January 1853 |
|
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms |
The Lord Foley |
Whig |
30 December 1852 |
|
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard |
The Viscount Sydney |
|
30 December 1852 |
|
Master of the Buckhounds |
The Earl of Bessborough |
Whig |
30 December 1852 |
|
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal |
Lord Alfred Paget |
Whig |
30 December 1852 |
|
Mistress of the Robes |
The Duchess of Sutherland |
Whig |
15 January 1853 |
|
Lords in Waiting |
The Marquess of Ormonde |
Whig |
11 January 1853 – 25 September 1854 |
|
The Earl Somers |
|
13 January 1853 – 22 February 1857
|
The Lord Camoys |
Whig |
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Lord Elphinstone |
Whig |
13 January 1853 – 1 October 1853
|
The Lord Rivers |
Peelite |
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Lord Waterpark |
Whig |
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Lord de Tabley |
|
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Earl of Listowel |
Whig |
1 October 1853 – 21 February 1856
|
The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye |
Whig |
28 November 1854 – 21 February 1858
|