Conservative government, 1922–1924

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

Bonar Law – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th 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
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st 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 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

Stanley Baldwin – Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury – Lord President of the Council
Robert Cecil, 1st 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
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India
Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for Air
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st 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 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, 1st Baronet – 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.

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! Office

! Name

! Dates

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Prime Minister<br />First Lord of the Treasury<br />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

| 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, 2nd Baronet

| 20 December 192322 January 1924

! scope=row | Lord Chancellor

| George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave

| 24 October 1922

! scope=row | Lord President of the Council

| James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th 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 <br/>and Leader of the House of Lords

| George Curzon, 1st 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

| 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

| Victor Hope, 2nd 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

| Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd 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

| George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland

| 31 October 1922

! scope=row | Secretary of State for the Colonies

| Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire

| 24 October 1922

! scope=row | Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

| William Ormsby-Gore

| 31 October 1922

! scope=row | President of the Board of Education

| E. F. L. Wood

| 24 October 1922

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education

| Lord Eustace Percy

| 21 March 1923

| Richard Onslow, 5th 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

| Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow

| 31 October 1922

| Lord Eustace Percy

| 25 May 1923

! scope=row | Secretary of State for India

| William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel

| 24 October 1922

! scope=row | Under-Secretary of State for India

| Edward Turnour, 6th 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

| James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th 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, 1st Baronet

| 28 May 1923

! scope=row | Secretary for Scotland

| Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st 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

| Roundell Palmer, 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

| Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby

| 24 October 1922

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Under-Secretary of State for War

| 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

| Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury

| 20 November 1922

! scope=row | Lord Chamberlain of the Household

| Rowland Baring, 2nd 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

| Richard 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

| George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon

| 20 November 1922

! scope=row | Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

| Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton

| 20 November 1922

! scope=row rowspan=6 | Lords in Waiting

| Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia