The National Government of 1935–1937 was formed by Stanley Baldwin on his reappointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George V, following the resignation of Ramsay MacDonald in June 1935.
As a National Government it was a coalition of members of the Conservative Party, Liberal Nationals and National Labour, as well as a number of individuals who belonged to no political party. The Government oversaw the Edward VIII abdication crisis and three monarchs in 1936. In May 1937, Baldwin retired and was replaced as prime minister by Neville Chamberlain.
Cabinet
thumb|upright|[[Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister]]
1935–1937
{| class=wikitable
|-
!Office||Name||Term
|-
|align="left"|Prime Minister||align="left"|Stanley Baldwin||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|Lord President of the Council||align="left"|Ramsay MacDonald||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain||align="left"|Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Leader of the House of Lords<br />Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal||align="left"|Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry||align="left"|1935
|-
|align="left"|Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs||align="left"|Sir Samuel Hoare||align="left"|1935
|-
|align="left"|Anthony Eden||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|Secretary of State for the Home Department||align="left"|Sir John Simon||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left" rowspan="3"|Secretary of State for the Colonies||align="left"|Malcolm MacDonald||align="left"|1935
|-
|align="left"|James Henry Thomas||align="left"|1935–1936
|-
|align="left"|William Ormsby-Gore||align="left"|1936–1937
|-
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Secretary of State for War||align="left"|Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax||align="left"|1935
|-
|align="left"|Duff Cooper||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|Secretary of State for India||align="left"|Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|Secretary of State for Air||align="left"|Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs||align="left"|James Henry Thomas||align="left"|1935
|-
|align="left"|Malcolm MacDonald||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left" rowspan="2"|Secretary of State for Scotland||align="left"|Sir Godfrey Collins||align="left"|1935–1936
|-
|align="left"|Walter Elliot||align="left"|1936–1937
|-
|align="left"|Chancellor of the Exchequer||align="left"|Neville Chamberlain||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|Minister without Portfolio||align="left"|Anthony Eden||align="left"|1935
|-
|align="left"|Minister without Portfolio||align="left"|Lord Eustace Percy||align="left"|1935–1936
|-
|align="left" rowspan="2"|First Lord of the Admiralty||align="left"|Bolton Eyres-Monsell (from November 1935 as Viscount Monsell)||align="left"|1935–1936
|-
|align="left"|Sir Samuel Hoare||align="left"|1936–1937
|-
|align="left"|President of the Board of Trade||align="left"|Walter Runciman||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|Minister of Health||align="left"|Sir Kingsley Wood||align="left"|1935–1937
|-
|align="left"|President of the Board of Education||align="left"|Oliver Stanley||align="left"|1935–1937
|}
Notes
- Anthony Eden served as Minister without Portfolio, with specific responsibility for League of Nations Affairs (and was often referred to as "Minister for League of Nations Affairs) for approximately six months; during this time, he enjoyed equal status with the Foreign Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) and sat in the cabinet.
List of ministers
Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.
{| class="wikitable"
! Office
! Name
! colspan="2" | Party
! Dates
! Notes
|-
| Prime Minister,<br />First Lord of the Treasury<br />and Leader of the House of Commons
| Stanley Baldwin
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
| Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Lord President of the Council
| Ramsay MacDonald
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Leader of the House of Lords<br />Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
| Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 22 November 1935
|
|-
| Chancellor of the Exchequer
| Neville Chamberlain
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
| David Margesson
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Financial Secretary to the Treasury
| Duff Cooper
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| William Morrison
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 22 November 1935
|
|-
| John Colville
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 29 October 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="7" | Lords of the Treasury
| James Stuart
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – May 1937
|
|-
| Archibald Southby
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – 28 May 1937
| Knighted
|-
| Sir Walter Womersley
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – 6 December 1935
|
|-
| George Frederick Davies
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – 6 December 1935
|
|-
| James Blindell
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 18 June 1935 – 28 May 1937
| Knighted
|-
| Arthur Hope
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 6 December 1935 – 28 May 1937
|
|-
| Henry Morris-Jones
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 6 December 1935 – 28 May 1937
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
| Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Anthony Eden
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 22 December 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
| James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – 16 June 1936
|
|-
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 6 August 1935 – May 1937
|
|-
| Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 30 July 1936 – May 1937
|
|-
| Secretary of State for the Home Department<br />and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
| Sir John Simon
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
| Euan Wallace
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Geoffrey Lloyd
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 November 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | First Lord of the Admiralty
| Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 5 June 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
| Sir Victor Warrender, 8th Baronet
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Lord Stanley
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 November 1935
|
|-
| Civil Lord of the Admiralty
| Kenneth Lindsay
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
| Walter Elliot
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| William Morrison
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 29 October 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
| Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 18 June 1935
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| Herwald Ramsbotham
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 November 1935
|-
| Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 30 July 1936
| also Deputy Minister of Fisheries
|-
| Secretary of State for Air
| Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Under-Secretary of State for Air
| Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Secretary of State for the Colonies
| Malcolm MacDonald
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| James Henry Thomas
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 22 November 1935
|
|-
| William Ormsby-Gore
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 May 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
| Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 30 July 1936
|
|-
| Minister for Coordination of Defence
| Sir Thomas Inskip
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 13 March 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
| James Henry Thomas
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Malcolm MacDonald
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 22 November 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
| Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Douglas Hacking
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 November 1935
|
|-
| Edward Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 4 March 1936
| Duke of Devonshire
|-
| President of the Board of Education
| Oliver Stanley
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education
| Herwald Ramsbotham
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 28 November 1935
|
|-
| Geoffrey Shakespeare
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 30 July 1936
|
|-
| Minister of Health
| Sir Kingsley Wood
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
| Geoffrey Shakespeare
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Robert Hudson
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 30 July 1936
|
|-
| Secretary of State for India
| Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
| For India and Burma from 1937
|-
| Under-Secretary of State for India
| R. A. Butler
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Minister of Labour
| Ernest Brown
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour
| Anthony Muirhead
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
| Sir J. C. C. Davidson
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Paymaster General
| Ernest Lamb, 1st Baron Rochester
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 6 December 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Minister for Pensions
| Robert Hudson
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Herwald Ramsbotham
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 30 July 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Minister without Portfolio
| Anthony Eden
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935 – 22 December 1935
| "Minister for League of Nations Affairs"
|-
| Lord Eustace Percy
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935 – 31 March 1936
|
|-
| Postmaster-General
| George Tryon
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Assistant Postmaster-General
| Sir Ernest Bennett
| style="background: " |
| National Labour
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Sir Walter Womersley
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 6 December 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Secretary of State for Scotland
| Sir Godfrey Collins
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Walter Elliot
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 29 October 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
| Noel Skelton
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| John Colville
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 November 1935
|
|-
| Henry Wedderburn
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 29 October 1936
|
|-
| President of the Board of Trade
| Walter Runciman
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
| Leslie Burgin
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Secretary for Overseas Trade
| John Colville
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Euan Wallace
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 November 1935
|
|-
| Secretary for Mines
| Harry Crookshank
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Minister of Transport
| Leslie Hore-Belisha
| style="background: " |
| Liberal National
| 18 June 1935
| In Cabinet from 29 October 1936
|-
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
| Austin Hudson <!-- baronetcy not created until 1938, so don't display title -->
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Secretary of State for War
| Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| Duff Cooper
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 22 November 1935
|
|-
| Under-Secretary of State for War
| Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Financial Secretary to the War Office
| Douglas Hacking
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Sir Victor Warrender 8th Baronet
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 28 November 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | First Commissioner of Works
| William Ormsby-Gore
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 7 June 1935
|
|-
| James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 16 June 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Attorney General
| Sir Thomas Inskip
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Sir Donald Somervell
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 March 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Solicitor General
| Sir Donald Somervell
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Sir Terence O'Connor
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 19 March 1936
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Lord Advocate
| Douglas Jamieson
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Thomas Cooper
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 25 October 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | Solicitor General for Scotland
| Thomas Cooper
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Albert Russell
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 29 November 1935
|
|-
| James Reid
| style="background: " |
| Unionist
| 25 June 1936
|
|-
| Treasurer of the Household
| Sir Frederick Penny
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Comptroller of the Household
| Sir George Bowyer
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 21 June 1935
|
|-
| Sir Lambert Ward
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 6 December 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
| Sir Lambert Ward
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| George Davies
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 6 December 1935
|
|-
| Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
| George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
| Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935
|
|-
| rowspan="5" | Lords in Waiting
| Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – May 1937
|
|-
| Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – May 1937
|
|-
| Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 18 June 1935 – 30 July 1936
|
|-
| Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 29 October 1936 – 28 May 1937
|
|-
| John Crichton, 5th Earl Erne
| style="background: " |
| Conservative
| 29 October 1936 – May 1937
|
|}
References
- Butler, David, and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000
- Hyde, H. Montgomery. Baldwin: The Unexpected Prime Minister (1973)
- Jenkins, Roy. Baldwin (1987) excerpt and text search
- Mowat, Charles Loch. Britain Between the Wars, 1918–1940 (1955). online pp 413–79
- Raymond, John, ed. The Baldwin Age (1960), essays by scholars 252 pages; online
- Smart, Nick. The National Government. 1931–40 (Macmillan 1999)
- Taylor, A.J.P. English History 1914–1945 (1965) pp 321–88
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