Office
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Name
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Party
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Dates
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Notes
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Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Commons
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Neville Chamberlain
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style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
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Conservative
|
3 September 1939 – 10 May 1940
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Member of War Cabinet
|
Lord Chancellor
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The Viscount Caldecote
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style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
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Conservative
|
3 September 1939
|
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Lord President of the Council Leader of the House of Lords
|
The Earl Stanhope
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style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
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Conservative
|
3 September 1939
|
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Lord Privy Seal
|
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 September 1939
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Sir Kingsley Wood
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 April 1940
|
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
|
Sir John Simon
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
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Liberal National
|
September 1939
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
|
David Margesson
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
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Financial Secretary to the Treasury
|
Harry Crookshank
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Lords of the Treasury
|
James Stuart
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|
Thomas Dugdale
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 12 February 1940
|
|
Patrick Munro
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
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Stephen Furness
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|
Sir James Edmondson
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 13 November 1939
|
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Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
13 November 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|
William Boulton
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
12 February 1940 – 10 May 1940
|
|
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
|
The Viscount Halifax
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
|
R. A. Butler
|
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|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|
Secretary of State for the Home Department
|
Sir John Anderson
|
style="background: Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color" |
|
National
|
3 September 1939
|
|
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
|
Osbert Peake
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Ministry of Home Security
|
Alan Lennox-Boyd
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
6 September 1939
|
|
William Mabane
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
24 October 1939
|
|
First Lord of the Admiralty
|
Winston Churchill
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 September 1939
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
|
Geoffrey Shakespeare
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
September 1939
|
|
Sir Victor Warrender, Bt
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 April 1940
|
|
Civil Lord of the Admiralty
|
Sir Austin Hudson, Bt
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
|
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
|
The Lord Denham
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
19 September 1939
|
|
Secretary of State for Air
|
Sir Kingsley Wood
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 April 1940
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Under-Secretary of State for Air
|
Harold Balfour
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Secretary of State for the Colonies
|
Malcolm MacDonald
|
style="background: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" |
|
Labour National
|
September 1939
|
|
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
|
The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Minister for Coordination of Defence
|
The Lord Chatfield
|
style="background: Template:Independent politician/meta/color" |
|
Independent
|
September 1939
|
Member of War Cabinet until 3 April 1940; Office abolished 3 April 1940
|
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
|
Anthony Eden
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 September 1939
|
|
Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs |
The Duke of Devonshire
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Minister for Economic Warfare
|
Ronald Cross
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 September 1939
|
|
President of the Board of Education |
The Earl De La Warr
|
style="background: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" |
|
Labour National
|
September 1939
|
|
Herwald Ramsbotham
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 April 1940
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education
|
Kenneth Lindsay
|
style="background: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" |
|
Labour National
|
September 1939
|
|
Minister of Food
|
William Morrison
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
4 September 1939
|
Combined with Duchy of Lancaster
|
The Lord Woolton
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 April 1940
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food
|
Alan Lennox-Boyd
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
11 October 1939
|
|
Minister of Health
|
Walter Elliot
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
|
Florence Horsbrugh
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Secretary of State for India and Burma
|
The Marquess of Zetland
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma
|
Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill
|
style="background: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" |
|
Ulster Unionist
|
11 September 1939
|
|
Minister of Information
|
The Lord Macmillan
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
4 September 1939
|
|
Sir John Reith
|
style="background: Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color" |
|
National
|
5 January 1940
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Information
|
Sir Edward Grigg
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
19 September 1939
|
Office vacant 3 April 1940
|
Minister of Labour and National Service
|
Ernest Brown
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
3 September 1939
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour and National Service
|
Ralph Assheton
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
6 September 1939
|
|
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
William Morrison
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
From 4 September 1939 – 3 April 1940 combined with Minister for Food
|
George Tryon
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
3 April 1940
|
Lord Tryon
|
Paymaster General
|
The Earl Winterton
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
Vacant
|
|
|
November 1939
|
|
Minister for Pensions
|
Sir Walter Womersley
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
Minister without Portfolio
|
The Lord Hankey
|
style="background: Template:Independent politician/meta/color" |
|
Independent
|
3 September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Postmaster-General
|
George Tryon
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
William Morrison
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
3 April 1940
|
|
Assistant Postmaster-General |
William Mabane
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
September 1939
|
|
Charles Waterhouse
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
24 October 1939
|
|
Secretary of State for Scotland
|
John Colville
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
|
John McEwen
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
6 September 1939
|
|
Minister of Shipping
|
Sir John Gilmour, Bt
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
13 October 1939
|
|
Robert Hudson
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
3 April 1940
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Shipping
|
Sir Arthur Salter
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
13 November 1939
|
|
Minister of Supply
|
Leslie Burgin
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
September 1939
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply
|
John Llewellin
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
President of the Board of Trade
|
Hon. Oliver Stanley
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
Sir Andrew Duncan
|
style="background: Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color" |
|
National
|
5 January 1940
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
|
Gwilym Lloyd George
|
style="background: Template:Independent Liberal/meta/color" |
|
Independent Liberal
|
6 September 1939
|
|
Secretary for Overseas Trade |
Robert Hudson
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
Geoffrey Shakespeare
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
3 April 1940
|
|
Secretary for Mines
|
Geoffrey Lloyd
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
Minister of Transport
|
Euan Wallace
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
September 1939
|
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
|
Robert Bernays
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
September 1939
|
|
Secretary of State for War
|
Leslie Hore-Belisha
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
September 1939
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Hon. Oliver Stanley
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative Party
|
5 January 1940
|
Member of War Cabinet
|
Under-Secretary of State for War
|
The Viscount Cobham
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
19 September 1939
|
|
Financial Secretary to the War Office
|
Sir Victor Warrender, Bt
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Sir Edward Grigg
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
3 April 1940
|
|
First Commissioner of Works
|
Herwald Ramsbotham
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
The Earl De La Warr
|
style="background: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" |
|
Labour National
|
3 April 1940
|
|
Attorney General
|
Sir Donald Somervell
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Solicitor General
|
Sir Terence O'Connor
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Lord Advocate
|
Thomas Cooper
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Solicitor General for Scotland |
James Reid
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Treasurer of the Household
|
Charles Waterhouse
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Robert Grimston
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
12 November 1939
|
|
Comptroller of the Household
|
Charles Kerr
|
style="background: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |
|
Liberal National
|
September 1939
|
|
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
|
Robert Grimston
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Sir James Edmondson
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
12 November 1939
|
|
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
|
The Earl of Lucan
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
|
The Lord Templemore
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939
|
|
Lords-in-Waiting
|
The Earl Fortescue
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|
The Earl of Birkenhead
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|
The Viscount Bridport
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|
The Lord Ebury
|
style="background: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
|
Conservative
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940
|
|