Conservative government, 1922–1924 explained

The Conservative Government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ministries: the Law ministry (from 1922 to 1923) and then the first Baldwin ministry (from 1923 onwards).

The government was led by Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, appointed respectively as Prime Minister by King George V.

Cabinets

Law's Cabinet, October 1922 – May 1923

Cabinet Name:	Law ministry
Incumbent:	1922-1923
Government Head Title:	Prime Minister
Government Head:	Bonar Law
State Head Title:	Monarch
State Head:	George V
Political Party:	Conservative Party
Legislature Term:	31st UK Parliament 32nd UK Parliament
Election:	1922 general election
Opposition Party:	Labour Party
Opposition Leaders:	Ramsay MacDonald
Previous:	Lloyd George ministry
Successor:	First Baldwin ministry

Bonar Law – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
The Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
The Marquess of Salisbury – Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Stanley Baldwin – Chancellor of the Exchequer
William Clive Bridgeman – Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
The Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War
The Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India
The Viscount Novar – Secretary for Scotland
Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty
Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the Board of Trade
Sir Robert Sanders – Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood – President of the Board of Education
Sir Anderson Barlow – Minister of Labour
Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen – Minister of Health

Changes

April 1923 – Griffith-Boscawen resigned as Minister of Health after losing his seat and was succeeded by Neville Chamberlain.

Baldwin's Cabinet, May 1923 – January 1924

Cabinet Name:	First Baldwin ministry
Incumbent:	1923-1924
Government Head Title:	Prime Minister
Government Head:	Stanley Baldwin
State Head Title:	Monarch
State Head:	George V
Political Party:	Conservative Party
Legislature Term:	32nd UK Parliament 33rd UK Parliament
Election:	1922 general election
Last Election:	1923 general election
Opposition Party:	Labour Party
Opposition Leaders:	Ramsay MacDonald
Previous:	Law ministry
Successor:	First MacDonald ministry

Stanley Baldwin – Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
The Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
The Marquess of Salisbury – Lord President of the Council
The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (Viscount Cecil of Chelwood from 28 December 1923)
William Clive Bridgeman – Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
The Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War
The Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India
Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for Air
The Viscount Novar – Secretary for Scotland
Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty
Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the Board of Trade
Sir Robert Sanders – Minister of Agriculture
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood – President of the Board of Education
Sir Anderson Barlow – Minister of Labour
Neville Chamberlain – Minister of Health
Sir William Joynson-Hicks – Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans – Postmaster-General

Changes

August 1923 – Neville Chamberlain took over from Baldwin as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir William Joynson-Hicks succeeded Chamberlain as Minister of Health. Joynson-Hicks' successor as Financial Secretary to the Treasury was not in the Cabinet.

List of ministers

Members of the Cabinet are shown in bold face.

Office	Name	Dates
scope=row rowspan=2	Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Commons	Bonar Law	23 October 192220 May 1923
Stanley Baldwin	22 May 192322 January 1924
scope=row rowspan=2	Chancellor of the Exchequer	Stanley Baldwin	27 October 1922
Neville Chamberlain	27 August 1923
scope=row rowspan=4	Financial Secretary to the Treasury	John Waller Hills	6 November 1922
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter	12 March 1923
Sir William Joynson-Hicks	25 May 1923
Hon. Walter Guinness	5 October 1923
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	Leslie Orme Wilson	31 October 1922
Bolton Eyres-Monsell	25 July 1923
scope=row rowspan=7	Junior Lords of the Treasury	Douglas King	31 October 192222 January 1924
Albert Buckley	31 October 192212 March 1923
George Hennessy	11 December 192222 January 1924
Frederick Thomson	7 February 192310 April 1923
William Cope	20 March 192322 January 1924
Patrick Ford	10 April 192320 December 1923
Sir John Gilmour	20 December 192322 January 1924
scope=row	Lord Chancellor	The Viscount Cave	24 October 1922
scope=row	Lord President of the Council	The Marquess of Salisbury	24 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Lord Privy Seal	vacant
Lord Robert Cecil	28 May 1923
scope=row	Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords	The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	24 October 1922
scope=row	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Ronald McNeill	31 October 1922
scope=row	Secretary of State for the Home Department	William Bridgeman	24 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	Hon. George Frederick Stanley	31 October 1922
Godfrey Locker-Lampson	12 March 1923
scope=row	First Lord of the Admiralty	Leo Amery	24 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty	Bolton Eyres-Monsell	31 October 1922
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter	25 May 1923
scope=row	Civil Lord of the Admiralty	The Marquess of Linlithgow	31 October 1922
scope=row	Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	Sir Robert Sanders	24 October 1922
scope=row	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	The Earl of Ancaster	31 October 1922
scope=row	Secretary of State for Air	Sir Samuel Hoare	31 October 1922
scope=row	Under-Secretary of State for Air	The Duke of Sutherland	31 October 1922
scope=row	Secretary of State for the Colonies	The Duke of Devonshire	24 October 1922
scope=row	Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies	Hon. William Ormsby-Gore	31 October 1922
scope=row	President of the Board of Education	Hon. E. F. L. Wood	24 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education	Lord Eustace Percy	21 March 1923
The Earl of Onslow	25 May 1923
scope=row rowspan=3	Minister of Health	Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	24 October 1922
Neville Chamberlain	7 March 1923
Sir William Joynson-Hicks	27 August 1923
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health	The Earl of Onslow	31 October 1922
Lord Eustace Percy	25 May 1923
scope=row	Secretary of State for India	The Viscount Peel	24 October 1922
scope=row	Under-Secretary of State for India	The Earl Winterton	31 October 1922
scope=row	Minister of Labour	Anderson Barlow	31 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour	Archibald Boyd-Carpenter	6 November 1922
Henry Betterton	12 March 1923
scope=row rowspan=2	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Marquess of Salisbury	24 October 1922
J. C. C. Davidson	25 May 1923
scope=row rowspan=4	Paymaster General	vacant
Neville Chamberlain	5 February 1923
Sir William Joynson-Hicks	15 March 1923
Archibald Boyd-Carpenter	25 May 1923
scope=row	Minister of Pensions	George Tryon	31 October 1922
scope=row	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions	Charles Curtis Craig	13 February 1923
scope=row rowspan=3	Postmaster General	Neville Chamberlain	31 October 1922
Sir William Joynson-Hicks	7 March 1923
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans	28 May 1923
scope=row	Secretary for Scotland	The Viscount Novar	24 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland	James Kidd	31 October 1922
Walter Elliot	15 January 1923
scope=row	President of the Board of Trade	Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame	24 October 1922
scope=row	Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade	Viscount Wolmer	31 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=3	Secretary for Overseas Trade	Sir William Joynson-Hicks	31 October 1922
Albert Buckley	12 March 1923
none	18 November 1923
scope=row	Secretary for Mines	George Lane-Fox	6 November 1922
scope=row	Minister of Transport	Sir John Baird	31 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport	Wilfrid Ashley	31 October 1922
John Moore-Brabazon	8 October 1923
scope=row	Secretary of State for War	The Earl of Derby	24 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Under-Secretary of State for War	Hon. Walter Guinness	31 October 1922
Wilfrid Ashley	8 October 1923
scope=row rowspan=2	Financial Secretary to the War Office	Stanley Jackson	31 October 1922
Rupert Gwynne	15 March 1923
scope=row	First Commissioner of Works	Sir John Baird	31 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Parliamentary Secretary to the Office of Works	Wilfrid Ashley	31 October 1922
none	8 October 1923
scope=row	Attorney General	Sir Douglas Hogg	24 October 1922
scope=row	Solicitor General	Sir Thomas Inskip	31 October 1922
scope=row	Lord Advocate	William Watson	24 November 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Solicitor General for Scotland	David Fleming	6 November 1922
Frederick Thomson	5 April 1923
scope=row	Lord Steward of the Household	The Earl of Shaftesbury	20 November 1922
scope=row	Lord Chamberlain of the Household	The Earl of Cromer	20 November 1922
scope=row	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	Douglas Hacking	20 November 1922
scope=row	Treasurer of the Household	George Gibbs	6 November 1922
scope=row	Comptroller of the Household	Harry Barnston	31 October 1922
scope=row rowspan=2	Assistant Whips^[1]	Richard Foulis Roundell	27 November 192222 January 1924
Philip Colfox	27 November 192210 December 1923
scope=row	Master of the Horse	The Marquess of Bath	20 November 1922
scope=row	Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms	The Earl of Clarendon	20 November 1922
scope=row	Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	The Lord Hylton	20 November 1922
scope=row rowspan=6	Lords in Waiting	The Viscount Valentia	20 November 192222 January 1924
The Lord Somerleyton	20 November 192222 January 1924
The Earl of Bradford	20 November 192222 January 1924
The Earl of Lucan	20 November 192222 January 1924
The Earl of Malmesbury	20 November 192222 January 1924
The Earl of Albemarle	20 November 192222 January 1924

Notes

References

Book: Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000 . D. Butler and G. Butler.

Notes and References

J C Sainty 'Assistant Whips 1922-1964' in Parliamentary History Vol 4 (1985) pp 201-04