Liberal Government 1886

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Preceded by Conservative Government 1885-1886

British Government 1886

Succeeded by Conservative Government 1886-1892

Office	Name	Date	Notes
Prime Minister	William Gladstone	1 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Sir William Harcourt	6 February 1886
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	Arnold Morley	6 February 1886
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	Henry Hartley Fowler	6 February 1886
Junior Lords of the Treasury	Sir Edward James Reed	13 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
	Cyril Flower	13 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
	George Granville Leveson-Gower	13 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
Lord Chancellor	Sir Farrer Herschell	6 February 1886	created Lord Herschell 8 February 1886
Lord President of the Council	The Earl Spencer	6 February 1886
Lord Privy Seal	William Gladstone	17 February 1886
Secretary of State for the Home Department	Hugh Childers	6 February 1886
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	Henry Broadhurst	6 February 1886
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	The Earl of Rosebery	6 February 1886
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	James Bryce	7 February 1886
Secretary of State for War	Henry Campbell-Bannerman	6 February 1886
Under-Secretary of State for War	The Lord Sandhurst	6 February 1886
Financial Secretary to the War Office	Herbert Gladstone	6 February 1886
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance	William Woodall	6 February 1886
Secretary of State for the Colonies	The Earl Granville	6 February 1886
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies	George Osborne Morgan	6 February 1886
Secretary of State for India	The Earl of Kimberley	6 February 1886
Under-Secretary of State for India	Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth	7 February 1886
	Edward Stafford Howard	12 April 1886
First Lord of the Admiralty	The Marquess of Ripon	9 February 1886
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty	John Tomlinson Hibbert	9 February 1886
Civil Lord of the Admiralty	Robert William Duff	15 February 1886
Chief Secretary for Ireland	John Morley	6 February 1886
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	The Earl of Aberdeen	8 February 1886
President of the Local Government Board	Joseph Chamberlain	6 February 1886
	James Stansfeld	3 April 1886
Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board	Jesse Collings	6 February 1886
	William Copeland Borlase	3 April 1886
Secretary for Scotland	George Otto Trevelyan	8 February 1886
	The Earl of Dalhousie	5 April 1886
President of the Board of Trade	Anthony John Mundella	17 February 1886
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade	Charles Thomas Dyke Acland	6 February 1886
Vice-President of the Committee on Education	Sir Lyon Playfair	13 February 1886
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Edward Heneage	6 February 1886
	Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth	16 April 1886
Paymaster-General	The Lord Thurlow	3 April 1886
Postmaster-General	The Lord Wolverton	17 February 1886
First Commissioner of Works	The Earl of Morley	17 February 1886
	The Earl of Elgin	16 April 1886
Attorney General	Sir Charles Russell	9 February 1886
Solicitor General	Sir Horace Davey	16 February 1886
Judge Advocate General	John William Mellor	22 February 1886
Lord Advocate	John Blair Balfour	13 February 1886
Solicitor General for Scotland	Alexander Asher	13 February 1886
Attorney General for Ireland	Samuel Walker	February 1886
Solicitor General for Ireland	The Macdermot	February 1886
Lord Steward of the Household	The Earl Sydney	10 February 1886
Lord Chamberlain of the Household	The Earl of Kenmare	10 February 1886
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	Viscount Kilcoursie	19 February 1886
Master of the Horse	The Earl of Cork	10 February 1886
Treasurer of the Household	The Earl of Elgin	17 February 1886
Comptroller of the Household	Edward Marjoribanks	10 February 1886
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms	The Lord Sudeley	10 February 1886
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	The Lord Monson	10 February 1886
Master of the Buckhounds	The Lord Suffield	17 February 1886
Mistress of the Robes	vacant	—
Lords in Waiting	The Lord Methuen	16 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
	The Lord Thurlow	16 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
	The Lord Camoys	16 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
	The Lord Houghton	16 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
	The Lord Kensington	1 March 1886 – 20 July 1886
	The Lord Hothfield	1 March 1886 – 20 July 1886
	The Lord Ribblesdale	1 March 1886 – 27 March 1886
Extra Lord in Waiting	The Lord Sackville	1 October 1876 – 1 October 1888

Source: C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts 1830-1900