Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury formed his second ministry, in an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party, following the 1886 general election and his reappointment as the British prime minister by Queen Victoria.

Cabinet

Changes

  • January 1887 a Liberal Unionist, George Goschen, joined the ministry, succeeding Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer. On the death of Lord Iddesleigh, Lord Salisbury succeeds him as Foreign Secretary. W.H. Smith succeeds Salisbury as First Lord of the Treasury. Edward Stanhope succeeds Smith as Secretary for War. Sir Henry Holland succeeds Stanhope as Colonial Secretary.
  • February 1888Sir Michael Hicks Beach succeeds Lord Stanley of Preston as President of the Board of Trade.
  • September 1889Henry Chaplin enters the Cabinet as President of the Board of Agriculture.
  • October 1891Arthur Balfour succeeds the late William Henry Smith as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons. William Jackson succeeds him as Chief Secretary for Ireland.

List of ministers

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! Office

! Name

! Tenure

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! rowspan=2 scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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|rowspan=3 | First Lord of the Treasury

<!--Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury-->

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | William Henry Smith

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Arthur Balfour

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|rowspan=2 | Chancellor of the Exchequer

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Lord Randolph Churchill

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | George Goschen

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| Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury

! scope=row | Aretas Akers-Douglas

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|rowspan=2 | Financial Secretary to the Treasury

! scope=row | William Jackson

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! scope=row | John Eldon Gorst

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|rowspan=3 | Junior Lords of the Treasury

! scope=row | Sidney Herbert

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! scope=row | William Walrond

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! scope=row | Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet

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| Lord Chancellor

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury

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| Lord President of the Council

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook

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| Lord Privy Seal

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan

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| Secretary of State for the Home Department

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Henry Matthews

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| Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

! scope=row | Charles Stuart-Wortley

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|rowspan=2 | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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|rowspan=2 | Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

! scope=row | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet

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! scope=row | James Lowther

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|rowspan=2 | Secretary of State for War

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | William Henry Smith

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Edward Stanhope

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|rowspan=2 | Under-Secretary of State for War

! scope=row | George Harris, 4th Baron Harris

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! scope=row | Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow

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| Financial Secretary to the War Office

! scope=row | St John Brodrick

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| Surveyor-General of the Ordnance

! scope=row | Henry Northcote

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|rowspan=2 | Secretary of State for the Colonies

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Edward Stanhope

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Henry Holland

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|rowspan=3 | Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

! scope=row | Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

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! scope=row | William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

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! scope=row | Baron Henry de Worms

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| Secretary of State for India

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross

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|rowspan=2 | Under-Secretary of State for India

! scope=row | John Eldon Gorst

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! scope=row | George Curzon

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| First Lord of the Admiralty

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Lord George Hamilton

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| Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty

! scope=row | Arthur Forwood

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| Civil Lord of the Admiralty

! scope=row | Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett

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| President of the Board of Agriculture

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Henry Chaplin

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|rowspan=3 | Chief Secretary for Ireland

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Arthur Balfour

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! scope=row | William Jackson

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|rowspan=2 | Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

! scope=row | Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry

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! scope=row | Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Earl of Zetland

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| Lord Chancellor of Ireland

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne

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|rowspan=2 | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Lord John Manners

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| President of the Local Government Board

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Charles Ritchie

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| Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board

! scope=row | Walter Long

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| Minister without Portfolio

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet

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|rowspan=2 | Secretary for Scotland

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Arthur Balfour

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! scope=row | Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian

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|rowspan=2 | President of the Board of Trade

! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Frederick Stanley

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! scope=row style="font-weight:bold" | Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet

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|rowspan=3 | Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade

! scope=row | Baron Henry de Worms

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! scope=row | William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

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! scope=row | Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh

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|rowspan=2 | Vice-President of the Committee on Education

! scope=row | Henry Holland

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! scope=row | William Hart Dyke

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|rowspan=4 | Paymaster General

! scope=row | Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp

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! scope=row | Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow

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! scope=row | Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey

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! scope=row | Robert Windsor-Clive, Baron Windsor

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|rowspan=2 | Postmaster General

! scope=row | Henry Cecil Raikes

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! scope=row | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet

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| First Commissioner of Works

! scope=row | David Plunket

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| Attorney General

! scope=row | Richard Webster

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| Solicitor General

! scope=row | Edward Clarke

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| Judge Advocate General

! scope=row | William Thackeray Marriott

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|rowspan=4 | Lord Advocate

! scope=row | John Macdonald

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! scope=row | James Robertson

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! scope=row |vacant

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! scope=row | Charles Pearson

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|rowspan=4 | Solicitor General for Scotland

! scope=row | James Robertson

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! scope=row | Moir Tod Stormonth Darling

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! scope=row | Charles Pearson

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! scope=row | Andrew Murray

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|rowspan=4 | Attorney-General for Ireland

! scope=row | Hugh Holmes

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! scope=row | John George Gibson

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! scope=row | Peter O'Brien

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! scope=row | Dodgson Hamilton Madden

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|rowspan=4 | Solicitor-General for Ireland

! scope=row | John George Gibson

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! scope=row | Dodgson Hamilton Madden

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! scope=row | John Atkinson

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! scope=row | Edward Carson

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| Lord Steward of the Household

! scope=row | William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

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| Lord Chamberlain of the Household

! scope=row | Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom

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|rowspan=2 | Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

! scope=row | William Legge, Viscount Lewisham

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! scope=row | Brownlow Cecil, Baron Burghley

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| Master of the Horse

! scope=row | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

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|rowspan=2 | Treasurer of the Household

! scope=row | William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone

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! scope=row | Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox

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| Comptroller of the Household

! scope=row | Lord Arthur Hill

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|rowspan=3 | Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

! scope=row | George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington

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! scope=row | Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn

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! scope=row | Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough

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|rowspan=2 | Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

! scope=row | Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore

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! scope=row | William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick

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| Master of the Buckhounds

! scope=row | George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry

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| Mistress of the Robes

! scope=row | Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch

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|rowspan=12 | Lords-in-Waiting

! scope=row | William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

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! scope=row | William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick

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! scope=row | John Henniker-Major, 5th Baron Henniker

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! scope=row | John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun

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! scope=row | William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone

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! scope=row | Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros

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! scope=row | William Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave

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! scope=row | Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh

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! scope=row | Charles Marsham, 4th Earl of Romney

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! scope=row | George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington

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! scope=row | Victor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill

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! scope=row | Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron de Ramsey

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| Extra Lord in Waiting

! scope=row | Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville

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Notes

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