Second Salisbury ministry explained

Incumbent:	1886–1892
Government Head Title:	Prime Minister
Government Head:	Lord Salisbury
State Head Title:	Monarch
State Head:	Victoria
Total Number:	113 appointments
Political Parties:	Conservative Party
Election:	1886 general election
Last Election:	1892 general election
Opposition Party:	Liberal Party
Previous:	Third Gladstone ministry
Successor:	Fourth Gladstone ministry

The Marquess of Salisbury formed his second ministry, in an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party, following the 1886 general election and his reappointment as the British prime minister by Queen Victoria.

Cabinet

Changes

• In 1887 a Liberal Unionist, George Goschen, joined the ministry as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• February 1888Sir Michael Hicks Beach succeeds Lord Stanley of Preston as President of the Board of Trade.
• September 1889Henry Chaplin enters the Cabinet as President of the Board of Agriculture.
• October 1891Arthur Balfour succeeds the late William Henry Smith as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons. William Jackson succeeds him as Chief Secretary for Ireland.

List of ministers

Office	Name	Tenure
	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury
First Lord of the Treasury<	--Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury-->
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	William Henry Smith
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Arthur Balfour
Chancellor of the Exchequer	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Lord Randolph Churchill
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	George Goschen
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	scope=row	Aretas Akers-Douglas
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	scope=row	William Jackson
	scope=row	John Eldon Gorst
Junior Lords of the Treasury	scope=row	Sidney Herbert
	scope=row	William Walrond
	scope=row	Herbert Maxwell, Bt
Lord Chancellor	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Hardinge Giffard, Lord Halsbury
Lord President of the Council	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount Cranbrook
Lord Privy Seal	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	George Cadogan, Earl Cadogan
Secretary of State for the Home Department	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Henry Matthews
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	scope=row	Charles Stuart-Wortley
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Stafford Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	scope=row	James Fergusson, Bt
	scope=row	James Lowther
Secretary of State for War	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	William Henry Smith
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Edward Stanhope
Under-Secretary of State for War	scope=row	George Harris, Lord Harris
	scope=row	Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, Earl Brownlow
Financial Secretary to the War Office	scope=row	St John Brodrick
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance	scope=row	Henry Northcote
Secretary of State for the Colonies	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Edward Stanhope
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Henry Holland
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies	scope=row	Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of Dunraven
	scope=row	William Onslow, Earl of Onslow
	scope=row	Baron Henry de Worms
Secretary of State for India	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	R. A. Cross, Viscount Cross
Under-Secretary of State for India	scope=row	John Eldon Gorst
	scope=row	George Curzon
First Lord of the Admiralty	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Lord George Hamilton
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty	scope=row	Arthur Forwood
Civil Lord of the Admiralty	scope=row	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
President of the Board of Agriculture	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Henry Chaplin
Chief Secretary for Ireland	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Michael Hicks Beach
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Arthur Balfour
	scope=row	William Jackson
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	scope=row	Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry
	scope=row	Lawrence Dundas, Earl of Zetland
Lord Chancellor of Ireland	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Edward Gibson, Lord Ashbourne
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount Cranbrook
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Lord John Manners
President of the Local Government Board	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Charles Ritchie
Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board	scope=row	Walter Long
Minister without Portfolio	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Michael Hicks Beach
Secretary for Scotland	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Arthur Balfour
	scope=row	Schomberg Kerr, Marquess of Lothian
President of the Board of Trade	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Frederick Stanley
	scope=row style="font-weight:bold"	Michael Hicks Beach
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade	scope=row	Baron Henry de Worms
	scope=row	William Onslow, Earl of Onslow
	scope=row	Alexander Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Vice-President of the Committee on Education	scope=row	Henry Holland
	scope=row	William Hart Dyke
Paymaster General	scope=row	Frederick Lygon, Earl Beauchamp
	scope=row	Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, Earl Brownlow
	scope=row	Victor Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey
	scope=row	Robert Windsor-Clive, Lord Windsor
Postmaster General	scope=row	Henry Cecil Raikes
	scope=row	James Fergusson, Bt
First Commissioner of Works	scope=row	David Plunket
Attorney General	scope=row	Richard Webster
Solicitor General	scope=row	Edward Clarke
Judge Advocate General	scope=row	William Thackeray Marriott
Lord Advocate	scope=row	John Macdonald
	scope=row	James Robertson
	scope=row	vacant
	scope=row	Charles Pearson
Solicitor General for Scotland	scope=row	James Robertson
	scope=row	Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
	scope=row	Charles Pearson
	scope=row	Andrew Murray
Attorney-General for Ireland	scope=row	Hugh Holmes
	scope=row	John George Gibson
	scope=row	Peter O'Brien
	scope=row	Dodgson Hamilton Madden
Solicitor-General for Ireland	scope=row	John George Gibson
	scope=row	Dodgson Hamilton Madden
	scope=row	John Atkinson
	scope=row	Edward Carson
Lord Steward of the Household	scope=row	William Edgcumbe, Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
Lord Chamberlain of the Household	scope=row	Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, Earl of Lathom
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	scope=row	William Legge, Viscount Lewisham
	scope=row	Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley
Master of the Horse	scope=row	William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland
Treasurer of the Household	scope=row	William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone
	scope=row	Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox
Comptroller of the Household	scope=row	Lord Arthur Hill
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms	scope=row	George Barrington, Viscount Barrington
	scope=row	Robert St Clair-Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn
	scope=row	Charles Pelham, Earl of Yarborough
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	scope=row	Algernon Keith-Falconer, Earl of Kintore
	scope=row	William Pery, Earl of Limerick
Master of the Buckhounds	scope=row	George Coventry, Earl of Coventry
Mistress of the Robes	scope=row	Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch
Lords-in-Waiting	scope=row	William Onslow, Earl of Onslow
	scope=row	William Pery, Earl of Limerick
	scope=row	John Henniker-Major, Lord Henniker
	scope=row	John Hope, Earl of Hopetoun
	scope=row	William Elphinstone, Lord Elphinstone
	scope=row	Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, Lord de Ros
	scope=row	William Waldegrave, Earl Waldegrave
	scope=row	Alexander Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh
	scope=row	Charles Marsham, Earl of Romney
	scope=row	George Byng, Viscount Torrington
	scope=row	Victor Spencer, Lord Churchill
	scope=row	Edward Fellowes, Lord de Ramsey
Extra Lord in Waiting	scope=row	Mortimer Sackville-West, Lord Sackville

References

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