Office |
Name |
Date |
Notes
|
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons |
The Viscount Palmerston |
6 February 1855 – 21 February 1858 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer |
William Ewart Gladstone |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Sir George Cornewall Lewis |
28 February 1855 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury |
William Goodenough Hayter |
5 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
James Wilson |
5 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Junior Lords of the Treasury |
Lord Alfred Hervey |
1 January 1853 – 7 March 1855 |
continued in office
|
Lord Elcho |
1 January 1853 – 7 March 1855
|
Chichester Fortescue |
6 March 1854 – 16 April 1855
|
The Viscount Monck |
7 March 1855 – 21 February 1858 |
|
Viscount Duncan |
7 March 1855 – 21 February 1858
|
Henry Brand |
16 April 1855 – 21 February 1858
|
Lord Chancellor |
The Lord Cranworth |
28 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords |
The Earl Granville |
8 February 1855 |
|
Lord Privy Seal |
The Duke of Argyll |
4 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
The Earl of Harrowby |
7 December 1855 |
|
The Marquess of Clanricarde |
3 February 1858
|
Secretary of State for the Home Department |
Sir George Grey |
8 February 1855 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department |
Henry Fitzroy |
28 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
William Cowper |
16 February 1855 |
|
William Nathaniel Massey |
13 August 1855
|
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
The Earl of Clarendon |
21 February 1853 |
continued in office
|
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
The Lord Wodehouse |
28 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Earl of Shelburne |
5 July 1856 |
|
Secretary of State for War |
The Lord Panmure |
8 February 1855 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for War |
Frederick Peel |
February 1855 |
|
Sir John Ramsden |
May 1857
|
Secretary of State for the Colonies |
Sidney Herbert |
8 February 1855 |
|
Lord John Russell |
23 February 1855
|
Sir William Molesworth |
21 July 1855
|
Henry Labouchere |
21 November 1855
|
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
John Ball |
8 February 1855 |
|
Chichester Fortescue |
June 1857
|
First Lord of the Admiralty |
Sir James Graham |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Sir Charles Wood |
13 March 1855 |
|
First Secretary of the Admiralty |
Ralph Bernal Osborne |
6 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Civil Lord of the Admiralty |
Sir Robert Peel |
13 March 1855 |
|
Thomas Baring |
27 May 1857
|
President of the Board of Control |
Sir Charles Wood |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Robert Vernon Smith |
3 March 1855 |
|
Joint Secretary to the Board of Control |
Henry Danby Seymour |
3 April 1855 |
|
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
vacant |
|
|
The Earl of Harrowby |
31 March 1855
|
Matthew Talbot Baines |
7 December 1855
|
Minister without Portfolio |
The Marquess of Lansdowne |
28 December 1852 – 21 February 1858 |
|
Postmaster-General |
The Viscount Canning |
5 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
The Duke of Argyll |
30 November 1855 |
|
President of the Board of Trade |
Edward Cardwell |
28 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
The Lord Stanley of Alderley |
31 March 1855 |
entered the Cabinet 27 November 1855
|
Vice-President of the Board of Trade |
The Lord Stanley of Alderley |
4 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Edward Pleydell-Bouverie |
31 March 1855 |
|
Robert Lowe |
13 August 1855
|
First Commissioner of Works |
Sir William Molesworth |
5 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Sir Benjamin Hall |
21 July 1855 |
|
Vice-President of the Committee on Education |
William Cowper |
5 February 1857 |
|
President of the Board of Health |
Sir Benjamin Hall |
14 January 1854 |
continued in office
|
William Cowper |
13 August 1855 |
|
William Monsell |
9 February 1857
|
William Cowper |
24 September 1857
|
Chief Secretary for Ireland |
Sir John Young |
6 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Edward Horsman |
1 March 1855 |
|
Henry Arthur Herbert |
27 May 1857
|
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
The Earl of Carlisle |
7 March 1855 |
|
Master-General of the Ordnance |
The Lord Raglan |
30 September 1852 |
Board of Ordnance abolished 25 May 1855 and duties vested in Secretary of State for War; the post of Surveyor-General remained but was not filled.
|
Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance |
Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross |
6 May 1854
|
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance |
vacant |
—
|
Storekeeper of the Ordnance |
Sir Thomas Hastings |
25 July 1845
|
Clerk of the Ordnance |
William Monsell |
13 January 1853 |
clerkship abolished 1857
|
Paymaster General |
Lord Stanley of Alderley |
4 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Edward Pleydell-Bouverie |
31 March 1855 |
|
Robert Lowe |
13 August 1855
|
President of the Poor Law Board |
Matthew Talbot Baines |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Edward Pleydell-Bouverie |
13 August 1855 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board |
Grenville Berkeley |
7 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Ralph Grey |
9 May 1856 |
|
Attorney General |
Sir Alexander Cockburn |
28 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Sir Richard Bethell |
15 November 1856 |
|
Solicitor General |
Sir Richard Bethell |
28 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
James Stuart-Wortley |
22 November 1856 |
|
Sir Henry Singer Keating |
28 May 1857
|
Judge Advocate General |
Charles Pelham Villiers |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Lord Advocate |
James Moncreiff |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Solicitor General for Scotland |
Edward Maitland |
14 February 1855 |
|
Attorney General for Ireland |
Abraham Brewster |
April 1853 |
continued in office
|
William Keogh |
March 1855 |
|
John Fitzgerald |
March 1856
|
Solicitor General for Ireland |
William Keogh |
April 1853 |
continued in office
|
John Fitzgerald |
March 1855 |
|
Jonathan Christian |
March 1856
|
Lord Steward of the Household |
The Earl Spencer |
10 January 1854 |
continued in office
|
The Earl of St Germans |
23 November 1857 |
|
Lord Chamberlain of the Household |
The Marquess of Breadalbane |
15 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household |
Lord Ernest Bruce |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Master of the Horse |
The Duke of Wellington |
21 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Treasurer of the Household |
Earl of Mulgrave |
4 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Comptroller of the Household |
Viscount Drumlanrig |
4 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Viscount Castlerosse |
25 July 1856 |
|
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms |
The Lord Foley |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard |
The Viscount Sydney |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Master of the Buckhounds |
The Earl of Bessborough |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal |
Lord Alfred Paget |
30 December 1852 |
continued in office
|
Mistress of the Robes |
The Duchess of Sutherland |
15 January 1853 |
continued in office
|
Lords in Waiting |
The Earl Somers |
13 January 1853 – 22 February 1857 |
|
The Lord Camoys |
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Lord Rivers |
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Lord Waterpark |
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Lord de Tabley |
13 January 1853 – 21 February 1858
|
The Earl of Listowel |
1 October 1853 – 21 February 1856
|
The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye |
28 November 1854 – 21 February 1858
|
The Earl of Caithness |
15 April 1856 – 21 February 1858
|
The Lord Cremorne |
22 February 1857 – 21 February 1858
|