Carteret ministry

List of ministers

Office	Name	Date
Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury	The Earl of Wilmington	16 February 1742 –  2 July 1743
	Henry Pelham	1743 – 1744
Lord Chancellor	The Lord Hardwicke	1742 – 1744
Lord President of the Council	The Earl of Harrington	1742 – 1744
Lord Privy Seal	The Lord Gower	1742 – 1743
	The Earl of Cholmondeley	1743 – 1744
Northern Secretary	The Lord Carteret	1742 – 1744
Southern Secretary	The Duke of Newcastle	1742 – 1743
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Samuel Sandys	1742 – 1743
	Henry Pelham	1743 – 1744
Master-General of the Ordnance	The Duke of Montagu	1742 – 1743
Secretary at War	Thomas Winnington	1741 – 1744
First Lord of the Admiralty	The Earl of Winchilsea	1742 – 1744
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Earl of Cholmondeley	1742 – 1743
	The Lord Edgcumbe	1743 – 1744
Paymaster of the Forces	Henry Pelham	1742 – 1743
	Thomas Winnington	1743 – 1744

• Henry Pelham, who had been Paymaster of the Forces, became First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1743; he would continue to exercise those offices well into the next decade, as head of the first and second Pelham ministries.

References

• Venning, T. (2005). Compendium of British Office Holders. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p.104.