Liverpool ministry explained

Incumbent:	1812–1827
Government Head Title:	Prime Minister
Government Head:	Lord Liverpool
State Head Title:	Monarch
Represented By:	Prince Regent (1812–1820)
Political Party:	Tory Party
Legislature Status:	Majority
Opposition Party:	Whig Party
Previous:	Perceval ministry
Successor:	Canning ministry

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool was invited by the Prince Regent to form a government on 8 June 1812.^[1] This is a list of members of the government of the United Kingdom in office under the leadership of Lord Liverpool from 1812 to 1827. He was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by the Prince Regent after the assassination of Spencer Perceval.

Cabinet

1812–1827

Lord Liverpool – First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Eldon – Lord Chancellor
Lord Harrowby – Lord President of the Council
Lord Westmorland – Lord Privy Seal
Lord Sidmouth – Secretary of State for the Home Department
Lord Castlereagh (Lord Londonderry after 1821) – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Commons
Lord Bathurst – Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
Lord Melville – First Lord of the Admiralty
Nicholas Vansittart – Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Mulgrave – Master-General of the Ordnance
Lord Buckinghamshire – President of the Board of Control
Charles Bathurst – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Camden – minister without portfolio

Changes

Late 1812 – Lord Camden leaves the Cabinet
September 1814 – William Wellesley-Pole (Lord Maryborough from 1821), the Master of the Mint, enters the Cabinet
February 1816 – George Canning succeeds Lord Buckinghamshire at the Board of Control
January 1818 – Frederick John Robinson, the President of the Board of Trade, enters the Cabinet
January 1819 – The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Mulgrave as Master-General of the Ordnance. Lord Mulgrave becomes minister without portfolio
1820 – Lord Mulgrave leaves the cabinet
January 1821 – Charles Bathurst succeeds Canning as President of the Board of Control, remaining also at the Duchy of Lancaster
January 1822 – Robert Peel succeeds Lord Sidmouth as Home Secretary
February 1822 – Charles Williams-Wynn succeeds Charles Bathurst at the Board of Control. Bathurst remains at the Duchy of Lancaster and in the Cabinet
September 1822 – Following the suicide of Lord Londonderry, George Canning becomes Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons
January 1823 – Vansittart, elevated to the peerage as Lord Bexley, succeeds Charles Bathurst as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. F.J. Robinson succeeds Vansittart as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is succeeded at the Board of Trade by William Huskisson
1823 – Lord Maryborough, the Master of the Mint, leaves the Cabinet. His successor in the office is not a Cabinet member

Full list of ministers

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.

Office	Name	Date
scope=row	First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords	The Earl of Liverpool	8 June 1812 – 9 April 1827
scope=row rowspan=2	Chancellor of the Exchequer	Nicholas Vansittart	9 June 1812
F. J. Robinson	21 January 1823
scope=row rowspan=4	Secretaries to the Treasury	Richard Wharton	Continued in office – 1814
Charles Arbuthnot	Continued in office – 1823
Stephen Rumbold Lushington	1814–1827
John Charles Herries	1823–1827
scope=row rowspan=11	Junior Lords of the Treasury	William Vesey-FitzGerald	16 June 1812 – 7 January 1817
Berkeley Paget	16 June 1812 – 13 June 1826
F. J. Robinson	16 June 1812 – 25 November 1813
James Brogden	16 June 1812 – 20 December 1813
Viscount Lowther	25 November 1813 – 30 April 1827
Charles Grant	20 December 1813 – 25 March 1819
John Maxwell-Barry	7 January 1817 – 3 May 1823
William Odell	7 January 1817 – 25 March 1819
Lord Granville Somerset	25 March 1819 – 30 April 1827
Edmond Alexander Macnaghten	25 March 1819 – 30 April 1827
Earl of Mount Charles	13 June 1826 – 30 April 1827
scope=row	Lord Chancellor	The Lord Eldon	Continued in office
scope=row	Lord President of the Council	The Earl of Harrowby	11 June 1812
scope=row	Lord Privy Seal	The Earl of Westmorland	Continued in office
scope=row rowspan=2	Home Secretary	The Viscount Sidmouth	11 June 1812
Robert Peel	17 January 1822
scope=row rowspan=4	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	Henry Goulburn	Continued in office
John Hiley Addington	August 1812
Henry Clive	April 1818
George Robert Dawson	January 1822
scope=row rowspan=2	Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Leader of the House of Commons	Viscount Castlereagh	Continued in office
George Canning	16 September 1822
scope=row rowspan=6	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Edward Cooke	Continued in office
Joseph Planta	25 July 1817
The Earl of Clanwilliam	22 January 1822
Lord Francis Conyngham	January 1823 – January 1826
The Lord Howard de Walden	July 1824 – April 1827
The Marquess of Clanricarde	January 1826 – April 1827
scope=row	Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	The Earl Bathurst	11 June 1812
scope=row rowspan=4	Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	Henry Bunbury	Continued in office – 1816
Robert Peel	Continued in office – 1812
Henry Goulburn	1812–1821
Robert Wilmot Horton	1821
scope=row	First Lord of the Admiralty	The Viscount Melville	Continued in office
scope=row	First Secretary to the Admiralty	John Wilson Croker	Continued in office
scope=row rowspan=8	Civil Lords of the Admiralty	F. J. Robinson	Continued in office – 5 October 1812
Lord Walpole	Continued in office – 5 October 1812
William Dundas	Continued in office – 23 August 1814
Sir George Warrender	5 October 1812 – 8 February 1822
John Osborn	5 October 1812 – 16 February 1824
The Marquess of Worcester	24 May 1816 – 15 March 1819
Sir George Clerk	15 March 1819 – 2 May 1827
Lord William Douglas	8 February – 23 March 1822 16 February 1824 – 2 May 1827
scope=row rowspan=4	President of the Board of Trade	The Earl Bathurst	Continued in office
The Earl of Clancarty	29 September 1812
F. J. Robinson	24 January 1818
William Huskisson	31 January 1823
scope=row rowspan=4	Vice-President of the Board of Trade	George Rose	Continued in office
F. J. Robinson	29 September 1812
Thomas Wallace	24 January 1818
Charles Grant	3 April 1823
scope=row rowspan=4	President of the Board of Control	The Earl of Buckinghamshire	Continued in office
George Canning	20 June 1816
Charles Bragge Bathurst	16 January 1821
Charles Williams-Wynn	8 February 1822
scope=row rowspan=2	Secretary to the Board of Control	John Bruce	Continued in office
Thomas Courtenay	20 August 1812
scope=row rowspan=3	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Earl of Buckinghamshire	23 June 1812
Charles Bathurst	23 August 1812
Nicholas Vansittart	13 February 1823
scope=row rowspan=2	Master-General of the Ordnance	The Earl of Mulgrave	Continued in office
The Duke of Wellington	1 January 1819
scope=row rowspan=5	Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance	Sir Thomas Trigge	Continued in office – 11 January 1814
Sir Hildebrand Oakes	9 March 1814 – 9 September 1822
The Viscount Beresford	18 February 1823
Sir George Murray	22 March 1824
Sir William Henry Clinton	30 April 1825
scope=row rowspan=2	Treasurer of the Ordnance	Thomas Alcock	Continued in office
William Holmes	20 June 1818
scope=row rowspan=2	Surveyor-General of the Ordnance	Robert Moorsom	Continued in office
Sir Ulysses Burgh	16 March 1820
scope=row rowspan=2	Clerk of the Ordnance	Robert Plumer Ward	Continued in office
Sir Henry Hardinge	29 April 1823
scope=row rowspan=2	Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance	Thomas Thoroton	Continued in office
Edmund Phipps	31 October 1812
scope=row	Storekeeper of the Ordnance	Mark Singleton	Continued in office
scope=row rowspan=3	Treasurer of the Navy	George Rose	Continued in office
F. J. Robinson	12 February 1818
William Huskisson	8 February 1823
scope=row	Secretary at War	Viscount Palmerston	Continued in office
scope=row rowspan=4	Master of the Mint	The Earl Bathurst	Continued in office
The Earl of Clancarty	30 October 1812
William Wellesley-Pole	28 September 1814
Thomas Wallace	9 October 1823
scope=row rowspan=4	Paymaster of the Forces	Charles Long	Continued in office – 1826
Lord Charles Henry Somerset	Continued in office – 1813
F. J. Robinson	9 November 1813 – 1817
William Vesey-FitzGerald	1826
scope=row rowspan=5	Postmaster General	The Earl of Chichester	Continued in office – 1826
The Earl of Sandwich	Continued in office – 1814
The Earl of Clancarty	1814–1816
The Marquess of Salisbury	1816–1823
Lord Frederick Montagu	1826–1827
scope=row rowspan=3	First Commissioner of Woods and Forests	The Lord Glenbervie	Continued in office
William Huskisson	1814
Charles Arbuthnot	1823
scope=row rowspan=2	Minister without Portfolio	The Earl Camden	June 1812 – December 1812
The Earl of Mulgrave	January 1819 – May 1820
scope=row rowspan=4	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	The Duke of Richmond	Continued in office
The Earl Whitworth	June 1813
The Earl Talbot	October 1817
The Marquess Wellesley	December 1821
scope=row rowspan=4	Chief Secretary for Ireland	William Wellesley-Pole	Continued in office
Robert Peel	August 1812
Charles Grant	August 1818
Henry Goulburn	December 1821
scope=row rowspan=6	Attorney General	Sir Thomas Plumer	26 June 1812
Sir William Garrow	4 May 1813
Sir Samuel Shepherd	7 May 1817
Sir Robert Gifford	24 July 1819
Sir John Singleton Copley	9 January 1824
Sir Charles Wetherell	20 September 1826
scope=row rowspan=7	Solicitor General	Sir William Garrow	26 June 1812
Sir Robert Dallas	4 May 1813
Sir Samuel Shepherd	22 December 1813
Sir Robert Gifford	7 May 1817
Sir John Singleton Copley	24 July 1819
Sir Charles Wetherell	9 January 1824
Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal	20 September 1826
scope=row rowspan=2	Judge Advocate General	Charles Manners-Sutton	Continued in office
Sir John Beckett	25 June 1817
scope=row rowspan=3	Lord Advocate	Archibald Colquhoun	Continued in office
Alexander Maconochie	1816
Sir William Rae Bt	1819
scope=row rowspan=4	Solicitor General for Scotland	David Monypenny	Continued in office
Alexander Maconochie	1813
James Wedderburn	1816
John Hope	1822
scope=row	Attorney General for Ireland	William Conyngham Plunket	1822
scope=row rowspan=2	Solicitor General for Ireland	Charles Kendal Bushe	Continued in office
Henry Joy	20 February 1822
scope=row rowspan=2	Lord Steward of the Household	The Earl of Cholmondeley	Continued in office
The Marquess Conyngham	11 December 1821
scope=row rowspan=3	Treasurer of the Household	Viscount Jocelyn	Continued in office
Lord Charles Bentinck	29 July 1812
William Henry Fremantle	27 May 1826
scope=row rowspan=2	Comptroller of the Household	Lord George Thynne	Continued in office
Lord George Beresford	29 July 1812
scope=row rowspan=2	Lord Chamberlain of the Household	The Marquess of Hertford	Continued in office
The Duke of Montrose	14 December 1821
scope=row rowspan=3	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	The Earl of Yarmouth	Continued in office
Viscount Jocelyn	28 July 1812
The Marquess of Graham	7 February 1821
scope=row rowspan=2	Master of the Horse	The Duke of Montrose	Continued in office
The Duke of Dorset	12 December 1821
scope=row rowspan=2	Master of the Buckhounds	The Marquess Cornwallis	Continued in office
The Lord Maryborough	22 August 1823
scope=row	Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners	The Earl of Courtown	Continued in office
scope=row	Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	The Earl of Macclesfield	Continued in office

Notes

References

Chris Cook and John Stevenson, British Historical Facts 1760–1830
Joseph Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities

Notes and References

Web site: The reconstruction of Liverpool's ministry, 1822 . 2024-07-12 . www.historyhome.co.uk.