- United Kingdom coalition government (1916–1922)
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The Coalition Government of David Lloyd George came to power in the United Kingdom in December 1916, replacing the earlier wartime coalition under H.H. Asquith, which had been held responsible for reverses during the Great War. Those Liberals who continued to support Asquith served as the Opposition. The Government continued in power after the end of the war, though Lloyd George was increasingly reliant on the Conservatives for support. After several scandals including allegations of the sale of honours, the Conservatives withdrew their support after a meeting at the Carlton Club in 1922, and Andrew Bonar Law formed a government.
Members of the Cabinet are in bold face. Members of the War Cabinet, 6 December 1916 to 31 October 1919, are indicated.
Office Name Date Party Notes Prime Minister
and First Lord of the TreasuryDavid Lloyd George 6 December 1916 – 19 October 1922 Liberal in the War Cabinet 6 December 1916 – 31 October 1919 Chancellor of the Exchequer Andrew Bonar Law 10 December 1916 Conservative also Leader of the House of Commons; in the War Cabinet since 6 December 1916 Austen Chamberlain 10 January 1919 Conservative left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919 Sir Robert Horne 1 April 1921 Conservative Financial Secretaries to the Treasury Sir Hardman Lever, Bt 15 December 1916 – 19 May 1919 Liberal Stanley Baldwin 18 June 1917 – 1 April 1921 Conservative Hilton Young 21 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 Liberal Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury
and Government Chief Whips in the House of CommonsLord Edmund Talbot 14 December 1916 – 1 April 1921 Conservative Neil Primrose 14 December 1916 – 2 March 1917 Liberal Frederick Guest 2 March 1917 – 1 April 1921 Liberal Charles McCurdy 1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 Liberal Leslie Orme Wilson 1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 Conservative Junior Lords of the Treasury James Hope 14 December 1916 – 27 January 1919 Conservative John Pratt 14 December 1916 – 8 August 1919 Liberal Stanley Baldwin 29 January 1917 – 18 June 1917 Conservative James Parker 29 January 1917 – 19 October 1922 Labour Josiah Towyn Jones 29 January 1917 – 4 July 1922 Liberal Robert Sanders 5 February 1919 – 1 April 1921 Liberal created a Baronet 28 January 1920 Sir Godfrey Collins 8 August 1919 – 10 February 1920 Liberal William Edge 18 August 1919 – 1 August 1922 Liberal Sir William Sutherland 15 February 1920 – 7 April 1922 Liberal Sir John Gilmour, Bt 1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 Conservative Thomas Arthur Lewis 4 July 1922 – 26 July 1922 Liberal Lord Chancellor The Lord Finlay 10 December 1916 Conservative The Lord Birkenhead 10 January 1919 Conservative created Viscount Birkenhead 15 June 1921 Lord President of the Council The Earl Curzon of Kedleston 10 December 1916 Conservative also Leader of the House of Lords; in the War Cabinet since 6 December 1916 Arthur Balfour 23 October 1919 Conservative Lord Privy Seal The Earl of Crawford 15 December 1916 Conservative Andrew Bonar Law 10 January 1919 Conservative also Leader of the House of Commons; left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919 Austen Chamberlain 23 March 1921 Conservative also Leader of the House of Commons Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Balfour 10 December 1916 Conservative The Earl Curzon of Kedleston 23 October 1919 Conservative also Leader of the House of Lords; left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919; created Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 28 June 1921 Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Robert Cecil 10 December 1916 Conservative Cecil Harmsworth 10 January 1919 Liberal Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs The Lord Newton 10 December 1916 Conservative post abolished 10 January 1919 Secretary of State for the Home Department Sir George Cave 10 December 1916 Conservative created Viscount Cave 14 November 1918 Edward Shortt 10 January 1919 Liberal Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department William Brace 10 December 1916 Labour Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt 10 January 1919 Liberal John Baird 29 April 1919 Conservative succeeded as 2nd Baronet 21 June 1920 First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Edward Carson 10 December 1916 Conservative Sir Eric Geddes 17 July 1917 Conservative Walter Long 10 January 1919 Conservative The Lord Lee of Fareham 13 February 1921 Conservative Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Thomas James Macnamara 10 December 1916 Liberal Sir James Craig, Bt 2 April 1920 Conservative Leo Amery 1 April 1921 Conservative Additional Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty The Earl of Lytton 7 February 1917 Conservative post abolished 27 January 1919 Civil Lord of the Admiralty E. G. Pretyman 14 December 1916 Conservative The Earl of Lytton 27 January 1919 Conservative The Earl of Onslow 26 October 1920 Conservative Bolton Eyres-Monsell 1 April 1921 Conservative Second Civil Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Pease 10 December 1916 Conservative post abolished 10 January 1919 President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Rowland Prothero 10 December 1916 Conservative Board replaced with Ministry 15 August 1919 Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Sir Richard Winfrey 14 December 1916 – 10 January 1919 Liberal The Duke of Marlborough 18 February 1917 – 21 March 1918 Conservative The Viscount Goschen 26 March 1918 – 18 June 1918 Conservative The Lord Clinton 18 June 1918 – 10 January 1919 Conservative Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen 10 January 1919 Conservative Board replaced with Ministry 15 August 1919 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries The Lord Lee of Fareham 15 August 1919 Conservative Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen 13 February 1921 Conservative Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen 15 August 1919 Conservative also Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 18 November 1919 vacant 13 February 1921 The Earl of Onslow 5 April 1921 Conservative The Earl of Ancaster 7 April 1921 Conservative also Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 28 October 1921 President of the Air Board The Viscount Cowdray 3 January 1917 Liberal Air Board replaced with Air Council 26 November 1917 Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board John Baird 14 December 1916 Conservative Air Board replaced with Air Council 26 November 1917 President of the Air Council The Lord Rothermere 26 November 1917 Liberal The Lord Weir 26 April 1918 Liberal post abolished 10 January 1919 Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Council John Baird 26 November 1917 Conservative post abolished 10 January 1919 Secretary of State for Air Winston Churchill 10 January 1919 Liberal Frederick Guest 1 April 1921 Liberal Under-Secretary of State for Air J. E. B. Seely 10 January 1919 Liberal George Tryon 22 December 1919 Conservative The Marquess of Londonderry 2 April 1920 Conservative The Lord Gorell 18 July 1921 Liberal Minister of Blockade Lord Robert Cecil 10 December 1916 Conservative Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt 18 July 1918 Conservative office abolished 10 July 1919 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Blockade Frederick Leverton Harris 22 December 1916 Conservative office abolished 10 January 1919 Secretary of State for the Colonies Walter Long 10 December 1916 Conservative The Viscount Milner 10 January 1919 Conservative Winston Churchill 13 February 1921 Liberal Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Arthur Steel-Maitland 10 December 1916 Conservative created a Baronet 13 July 1917 William Hewins 26 September 1917 Conservative Leo Amery 10 January 1919 Conservative E. F. L. Wood 1 April 1921 Conservative President of the Board of Education Herbert Fisher 10 December 1916 Liberal Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education Herbert Lewis 10 December 1916 Liberal knighted in 1922 Minister of Food Control The Lord Devonport 10 December 1916 Liberal The Lord Rhondda 19 June 1917 Liberal created Viscount Rhondda 19 June 1918 J. R. Clynes 9 July 1918 Labour George Roberts 10 January 1919 Labour Charles McCurdy 19 March 1920 Liberal office abolished 31 March 1921 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control Charles Bathurst 12 December 1916 Conservative knighted in 1917 J. R. Clynes 2 July 1917 Labour Waldorf Astor 18 July 1918 Conservative Charles McCurdy 27 January 1919 Liberal Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, Bt 19 April 1920 Conservative office abolished 31 March 1921 President of the Local Government Board The Lord Rhondda 10 December 1916 Liberal William Fisher 28 June 1917 Conservative Sir Auckland Geddes 4 November 1918 Conservative Christopher Addison 10 January 1919 Liberal Board became Ministry of Health 24 June 1919 Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board William Hayes Fisher 10 December 1916 Conservative Stephen Walsh 28 June 1917 Labour Waldorf Astor 27 January 1919 Conservative Board became Ministry of Health 24 June 1919 Minister of Health Christopher Addison 24 June 1919 Liberal Sir Alfred Mond, Bt 1 April 1921 Liberal Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health Waldorf Astor 24 June 1919 Conservative succeeded as 2nd Viscount Astor 18 October 1919 The Earl of Onslow 7 April 1921 Conservative Secretary of State for India Austen Chamberlain 10 December 1916 Conservative Edwin Samuel Montagu 17 July 1917 Liberal The Viscount Peel 19 March 1922 Conservative Under-Secretary of State for India The Lord Islington 10 December 1916 Liberal The Lord Sinha 10 January 1919 Liberal The Earl of Lytton 22 September 1920 Conservative The Earl Winterton 20 March 1922 Conservative Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Viscount French of Ypres 6 May 1918 – 2 May 1921 entered the Cabinet 28 October 1918; left the Cabinet 2 April 1921 Chief Secretary for Ireland Henry Duke 10 December 1916 Conservative knighted in 1918 Edward Shortt 5 May 1918 Liberal Ian Macpherson 10 January 1919 Liberal Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt 2 April 1920 Liberal Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture for Ireland Thomas Wallace Russell 10 December 1916 Liberal created a Baronet 20 June 1917 Hugh T. Barrie 15 January 1919 Conservative Minister of Labour John Hodge 10 December 1916 Labour George Roberts 17 August 1917 Labour Sir Robert Horne 10 January 1919 Conservative Thomas James Macnamara 19 March 1920 Liberal Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour William Bridgeman 22 December 1916 Conservative George James Wardle 10 January 1919 Labour Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow, Bt 2 April 1920 Conservative Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Sir Frederick Cawley, Bt 10 December 1916 Liberal The Lord Beaverbrook 10 February 1918 Conservative William Hayes Fisher 4 November 1918 Conservative created Baron Downham 16 November 1918 The Earl of Crawford 10 January 1919 Conservative The Viscount Peel 1 April 1921 Conservative Sir William Sutherland 7 April 1922 Liberal Minister of Information The Lord Beaverbrook 10 February 1918 Conservative William Hayes Fisher 4 November 1918 Conservative created Baron Downham 16 November 1918; office abolished 10 January 1919 Minister of Munitions Christopher Addison 10 December 1916 Liberal Winston Churchill 17 July 1917 Liberal The Lord Inverforth 10 January 1919 Conservative office abolished 21 March 1921 Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Munitions Sir Laming Worthington-Evans 14 December 1916 – 30 January 1918 Conservative F. G. Kellaway 14 December 1916 – 1 April 1920 Liberal J. E. B. Seely 10 July 1918 – 10 January 1919 Liberal John Baird 10 January 1919 – 29 April 1919 Liberal Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt 30 January 1918 – 18 July 1918 Conservative James Hope 27 January 1919 – 31 March 1921 Conservative Minister of National Service Neville Chamberlain 15 December 1916 Conservative Sir Auckland Geddes 17 August 1917 Conservative post abolished 19 December 1919 Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of National Service Stephen Walsh 17 March 1917 – 28 June 1917 Labour Cecil Beck 28 June 1917 – 19 December 1919 Liberal The Viscount Peel 15 April 1918 – 10 January 1919 Conservative Paymaster-General Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett 15 December 1916 Liberal Sir Tudor Walters 26 October 1919 Liberal Minister of Pensions George Nicoll Barnes 10 December 1916 Labour in the War Cabinet 29 May 1917 – 3 August 1917 John Hodge 17 August 1917 Labour Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt 10 January 1919 Conservative Ian Macpherson 2 April 1920 Liberal Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen 22 December 1916 Conservative Sir James Craig, Bt 10 January 1919 Conservative George Tryon 2 April 1920 Conservative Postmaster General Albert Illingworth 10 December 1916 Liberal F. G. Kellaway 1 April 1921 Liberal Assistant Postmaster General Herbert Pease 10 December 1916 Conservative Minister without Portfolio Arthur Henderson 10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917 Labour in the War Cabinet 10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917 The Viscount Milner 10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918 Conservative in the War Cabinet 10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918 Jan Smuts 22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919 in the War Cabinet 22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919 Sir Edward Carson 17 July 1917 – 21 January 1918 Conservative George Nicoll Barnes 13 August 1917 – 27 January 1920 Labour in the War Cabinet 13 August 1917 – 10 January 1919 Austen Chamberlain 18 April 1918 – 10 January 1919 Conservative entered the War Cabinet 18 April 1918 Sir Eric Geddes 10 January 1919 – 19 May 1919 Conservative in the War Cabinet 10 January 1919 – 31 October 1919 Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt 10 January 1919 – 13 February 1921 Conservative Christopher Addison 1 April 1921 – 14 July 1921 Liberal Minister of Reconstruction Christopher Addison 17 July 1917 Liberal Sir Auckland Geddes 10 January 1919 Conservative office abolished 19 December 1919 Secretary for Scotland Robert Munro 10 December 1916 Liberal Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland John Pratt 8 August 1919 Liberal knighted 1922 Minister of Shipping Sir James Maclay, Bt 10 December 1916 Liberal office abolished 31 March 1921 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping Sir Leo Chiozza Money 22 December 1916 Liberal Leslie Orme Wilson 10 January 1919 Conservative Minister of Supply The Lord Inverforth 10 January 1919 Conservative office abolished 31 March 1921 President of the Board of Trade Sir Albert Stanley 10 December 1916 Conservative Sir Auckland Geddes 26 May 1919 Conservative Sir Robert Horne 19 March 1920 Conservative Stanley Baldwin 1 April 1921 Conservative Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade George Roberts 14 December 1916 Labour George Wardle 17 August 1917 Labour William Bridgeman 10 January 1919 Conservative Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame 22 August 1920 Conservative Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, Bt 1 April 1921 Conservative Secretary for Overseas Trade Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt 14 September 1917 Conservative Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt 29 April 1919 Liberal F. G. Kellaway 2 April 1920 Liberal Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame 1 April 1921 Conservative Parliamentary Secretary for Mines William Bridgeman 22 August 1920 Conservative Minister of Transport Sir Eric Geddes 19 May 1919 Conservative The Viscount Peel 7 November 1921 Conservative The Earl of Crawford 12 April 1922 Conservative Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport Sir Rhys Williams 23 September 1919 Liberal Arthur Neal 28 November 1919 Liberal Secretary of State for War The Earl of Derby 10 December 1916 Conservative The Viscount Milner 18 April 1918 Conservative Winston Churchill 10 January 1919 Liberal Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt 13 February 1921 Conservative Under-Secretary of State for War Ian Macpherson 14 December 1916 Liberal Viscount Peel 10 January 1919 Conservative Sir Robert Sanders 1 April 1921 Conservative Financial Secretary to the War Office Henry Forster 10 December 1916 Conservative created Baron Forster 12 December 1919 Sir Archibald Williamson 18 December 1919 Liberal George Frederick Stanley 1 April 1921 Conservative Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office The Earl Stanhope 14 December 1916 Conservative post abolished 10 January 1919 First Commissioner of Works Sir Alfred Mond, Bt 10 December 1916 Liberal The Earl of Crawford 1 April 1921 Conservative entered the Cabinet 7 April 1922 Attorney General Sir F. E. Smith 10 December 1916 Conservative Sir Gordon Hewart 10 January 1919 Liberal entered the Cabinet 7 November 1921 Sir Ernest Pollock 6 March 1922 Conservative Solicitor General Sir Gordon Hewart 10 December 1916 Liberal Sir Ernest Pollock 10 January 1919 Conservative Leslie Scott 6 March 1922 Conservative knighted in 1922 Lord Advocate James Clyde 10 December 1916 Conservative Thomas Morison 25 March 1920 Liberal Charles David Murray 5 March 1922 Conservative Solicitor General for Scotland Thomas Morison 10 December 1916 Liberal Charles David Murray 25 March 1920 Conservative Andrew Briggs Constable 16 March 1922 Conservative William Watson 24 July 1922 Conservative Lord Chancellor of Ireland Sir John O'Brien, Bt 10 December 1916 Liberal Sir James Campbell, Bt 4 June 1918 Conservative Sir John Ross, Bt 27 June 1921 Conservative Attorney General for Ireland James O'Connor 8 January 1917 Irish Nationalist Arthur Samuels 7 April 1918 Conservative Denis Henry 6 July 1919 Conservative Thomas Brown 5 August 1921 Conservative vacant 16 August 1921 Solicitor General for Ireland James Chambers 19 March 1917 Conservative Arthur Samuels 12 September 1917 Conservative John Powell 7 April 1918 Conservative Denis Henry 27 November 1918 Conservative David Wilson 6 July 1919 Conservative Thomas Brown 12 June 1921 Conservative vacant 5 August 1921 Lord Steward of the Household The Lord Farquhar 14 December 1916 Conservative created Viscount Farquhar 21 June 1917 Lord Chamberlain of the Household The Lord Sandhurst 14 December 1916 Liberal created Viscount Sandhurst 1 January 1917 The Duke of Atholl 20 November 1921 Conservative Vice-Chamberlain of the Household Cecil Beck 14 December 1916 Liberal William Dudley Ward 9 December 1917 Liberal Master of the Horse The Earl of Chesterfield 14 December 1916 Liberal Treasurer of the Household James Craig 14 December 1916 Conservative created a Baronet 5 February 1918 vacant 22 January 1918 Robert Sanders 11 June 1918 Conservative Bolton Eyres-Monsell 5 February 1919 Conservative George Gibbs 1 April 1921 Conservative Comptroller of the Household Sir Edwin Cornwall, Bt 14 December 1916 Liberal George Frederick Stanley 28 February 1919 Conservative Harry Barnston 7 April 1921 Conservative Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms The Lord Colebrooke 14 December 1916 Liberal also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard The Lord Suffield 14 December 1916 Conservative The Lord Hylton 21 May 1918 Conservative also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords Lords in Waiting The Lord Herschell 14 December 1916 – 11 February 1919 Liberal The Lord Stanmore 14 December 1916 – 19 October 1922 Liberal The Lord Ranksborough 14 December 1916 – 4 April 1921 Liberal The Viscount Valentia 14 December 1916 – 19 October 1922 Conservative The Lord Hylton 14 December 1916 – 18 May 1918 Conservative also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords The Lord Somerleyton 18 May 1918 – 19 October 1922 Conservative The Earl of Jersey 11 January 1919 – 17 August 1919 Conservative The Earl of Bradford 11 February 1919 – 19 October 1922 Conservative The Earl of Onslow 17 August 1919 – 21 November 1920 Conservative The Earl of Lucan 12 November 1920 – 19 October 1922 Conservative The Earl of Clarendon 4 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 Conservative Source: D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts (Macmillan, 2000)
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