Second Russell ministry

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[edit] The Cabinet


OFFICE	NAME	TERM

First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords	The Earl Russell	October 1865–June 1866

Lord Chancellor	The Lord Cranworth	October 1865–June 1866
Lord President of the Council	The Earl Granville	October 1865–June 1866
Lord Privy Seal	The Duke of Argyll	October 1865–June 1866
Chancellor of the Exchequer Leader of the House of Commons	William Ewart Gladstone	October 1865–June 1866
Home Secretary	Sir George Grey, Bt	October 1865–June 1866
Foreign Secretary	The Earl of Clarendon	October 1865–June 1866
Secretary of State for the Colonies	Edward Cardwell	October 1865–June 1866
Secretary of State for War	The Earl de Grey	October 1865–February 1866
	Marquess of Hartington	February–June 1866
Secretary of State for India	Sir Charles Wood, Bt	October 1865–February 1866
	The Earl de Grey	February–June 1866
First Lord of the Admiralty	The Duke of Somerset	October 1865–June 1866
President of the Board of Trade	Thomas Milner Gibson	October 1865–June 1866
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	George Goschen	January–June 1866^[1]
President of the Poor Law Board	Charles Pelham Villiers	October 1865–June 1866
Postmaster General	The Lord Stanley of Alderley	October 1865–June 1866

February, 1866: The Lord de Grey succeeds Sir Charles Wood as Secretary for India. Lord Hartington succeeds Grey as Secretary for War.

^ The post had been vacant. John Prest, Lord John Russell (University of South Carolina Press, 1972), 431.

Preceded by Second Palmerston ministry	British ministries 1865–1866	Succeeded by Third Derby ministry

For a more detailed list, including ministers not in the Cabinet, see Liberal Government 1859-1866.