Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party formed the second Baldwin ministry upon his reappointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George V after the 1924 general election. His second ministry ended following the so-called "Flapper Election" of May 1929.

Cabinet

November 1924 – June 1929

  • Stanley Baldwin – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
  • George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
  • George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council
  • James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
  • Winston Churchill – Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Sir William Joynson-Hicks – Secretary of State for the Home Department
  • Sir Austen Chamberlain – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
  • Leo Amery – Secretary of State for the Colonies
  • Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet – Secretary of State for War
  • Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead – Secretary of State for India
  • Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for Air
  • Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet – Secretary for Scotland
  • William Clive Bridgeman – First Lord of the Admiralty
  • Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister – President of the Board of Trade
  • Edward Wood – Minister of Agriculture
  • Lord Eustace Percy – President of the Board of Education
  • William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel – First Commissioner of Works
  • Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland – Minister of Labour
  • Neville Chamberlain – Minister of Health
  • Sir Douglas Hogg – Attorney General for England and Wales

Changes

  • April 1925 – On Curzon's death, Lord Balfour succeeded him as Lord President. Lord Salisbury became the new Leader of the House of Lords, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.
  • June 1925 – The post of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was created, held by Leo Amery in tandem with Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • November 1925 – Walter Guinness succeeded E.F.L. Wood as Minister of Agriculture.
  • July 1926 – The post of Secretary of Scotland was upgraded to Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • October 1927 – Lord Cushendun succeeded Lord Cecil of Chelwood as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • March 1928 – Lord Hailsham (former Sir D. Hogg) succeeded Lord Cave as Lord Chancellor. Hailsham's successor as Attorney-General was not in the Cabinet.
  • October 1928 – Lord Peel succeeded Lord Birkenhead as Secretary of State for India. Lord Londonderry succeeded Peel as First Commissioner of Public Works

List of ministers

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

! Office

! Name

! Date

|-

! scope=row | Prime Minister <br />First Lord of the Treasury <br />Leader of the House of Commons

| Stanley Baldwin

| 4 November 19244 June 1929

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

| George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave

| 6 November 1924

|-

| Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham

| 28 March 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Lord President of the Council

| George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

| 6 November 1924

|-

| Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

| 27 April 1925

|-

! scope=row | Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

| James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Chancellor of the Exchequer

| Winston Churchill

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury

| Bolton Eyres-Monsell

| 7 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=3 | Financial Secretary to the Treasury

| Walter Guinness

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Ronald McNeill

| 5 November 1925

|-

| Arthur Samuel

| 1 November 1927

|-

! scope=row rowspan=10 | Junior Lords of the Treasury

| Sir George Hennessy

| 13 November 192410 December 1925

|-

| Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley

| 13 November 19249 November 1927

|-

| Frederick Thomson

| 13 November 192414 January 1928

|-

| William Cope

| 13 November 192414 January 1928

|-

| Francis Curzon

| 13 November 192415 January 1929

|-

| David Margesson

| 28 August 19264 June 1929

|-

| George Bowyer

| 28 December 19274 June 1929

|-

| George Penny

| 13 January 19284 June 1929

|-

| William Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield

| 13 January 19284 June 1929

|-

| Euan Wallace

| 1 January 19294 June 1929

|-

! scope=row | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs <br />Deputy Leader of the House of Commons

| Austen Chamberlain

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

| Ronald McNeill

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Godfrey Locker-Lampson

| 7 December 1925

|-

! scope=row | Secretary of State for the Home Department

| Sir William Joynson-Hicks

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=3 | Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

| Godfrey Locker-Lampson

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Douglas Hacking

| 8 December 1925

|-

| Sir Vivian Henderson

| 9 November 1927

|-

! scope=row | First Lord of the Admiralty

| William Bridgeman

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty

| J. C. C. Davidson

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Cuthbert Headlam

| 16 December 1926

|-

! scope=row | Civil Lord of the Admiralty

| James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries

| E. F. L. Wood

| 6 November 1924

|-

| Walter Guinness

| 4 November 1925

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

| Charles Bathurst, 1st Baron Bledisloe

| 11 November 1924

|-

| George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke

| 5 February 1928

|-

! scope=row | Secretary of State for Air

| Sir Samuel Hoare

| 6 November 1924

|-

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

| Sir Philip Sassoon

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Secretary of State for the Colonies

| Leo Amery

| 6 November 1924

|-

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

| William Ormsby-Gore

| 12 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

| Leo Amery

| 11 June 1925

|-

! scope=row rowspan=3 | Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

| George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon

| 5 August 1925

|-

| Simon Fraser, 16th Lord Lovat

| 5 May 1927

|-

| Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth

| 1 January 1929

|-

! scope=row | President of the Board of Education

| Lord Eustace Percy

| 6 November 1924

|-

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

| Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Minister of Health

| Neville Chamberlain

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health

| Sir Kingsley Wood

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Secretary of State for India

| F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

| 6 November 1924

|-

| William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel

| 18 October 1928

|-

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

| Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Minister of Labour

| Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour

| Henry Betterton

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

| Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

| 10 November 1924

|-

| Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun

| 19 October 1927

|-

! scope=row rowspan=3 | Paymaster General

|vacant

|

|-

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

| 28 January 1925

|-

| Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow

| 2 December 1928

|-

! scope=row | Minister of Pensions

| George Tryon

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions

| George Frederick Stanley

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Postmaster General

| Sir William Mitchell-Thomson

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Assistant Postmaster General

| Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Secretary for Scotland

| Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet

| 6 November 1924

|-

! scope=row | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland

| Walter Elliot

| 11 November 1924

|-

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

| Walter Elliot

| 26 July 1926

|-

! scope=row | President of the Board of Trade

| Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame

| 6 November 1924

|-

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

| Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Herbert Williams

| 13 January 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Secretary for Overseas Trade

| Arthur Samuel

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Douglas Hacking

| 9 November 1927

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Secretary for Mines

| George Lane-Fox

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Douglas King

| 13 January 1928

|-

! scope=row | Minister of Transport

| Wilfrid Ashley

| 11 November 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport

| John Moore-Brabazon

| 11 November 1924

|-

|vacant

| 14 January 1927

|-

! scope=row | Secretary of State for War

| Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet

| 6 November 1924

|-

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

| Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow

| 11 November 1924

|-

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

| 2 December 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Financial Secretary to the War Office

| Douglas King

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Duff Cooper

| 13 January 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | First Commissioner of Works

| William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel

| 10 November 1924

|-

| Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry

| 18 October 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Attorney General

| Sir Douglas Hogg

| 6 November 1924

|-

| Sir Thomas Inskip

| 28 March 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Solicitor General

| Sir Thomas Inskip

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Sir Frank Merriman

| 28 March 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Lord Advocate

| William Watson

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Alexander Munro MacRobert

| 23 April 1929

|-

! scope=row rowspan=3 | Solicitor General for Scotland

| David Pinkerton Fleming

| 11 November 1924

|-

| Alexander Munro MacRobert

| 30 December 1925

|-

| Wilfrid Normand

| 23 April 1929

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Treasurer of the Household

| George Gibbs

| 13 November 1924

|-

| Sir George Hennessy

| 13 January 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=2 | Comptroller of the Household

| Sir Harry Barnston

| 13 November 1924

|-

| Sir William Cope

| 13 January 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=3 | Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

| Douglas Hacking

| 13 November 1924

|-

| George Hennessy

| 10 December 1925

|-

| Frederick Thomson

| 13 January 1928

|-

! scope=row rowspan=6 | Assistant Whips

| David Margesson

| 13 November 192428 August 1926

|-

| George Bowyer

| 15 December 192428 December 1927

|-

| George Penny

| 22 February 192713 January 1928

|-

| William Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield

| 9 November 192713 January 1928

|-

| Euan Wallace

| 13 January 19281 January 1929

|-

| Sir Victor Warrender, 8th Baronet

| 13 January 19284 June 1929

|-

! scope=row rowspan=3 | Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

| George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon

| 1 December 1924

|-

| Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth

| 26 June 1925

|-

| George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan

| 1 January 1929

|-

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

| William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough

| 1 December 1924

|-

! scope=row rowspan=5 | Lords in Waiting

| Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage

| 1 December 19244 June 1929

|-

| Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers

| 1 December 192423 March 1926

|-

| George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan

| 1 December 19241 January 1929

|-

| David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie

| 1 April 19264 June 1929

|-

| Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore

| 1 January 19294 June 1929

|}

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