Second Asquith ministry

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H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1908-1915, 1915-1916.

[edit] The Cabinet


OFFICE	NAME	TERM

Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury	H. H. Asquith	May 1915–December 1916

Lord Chancellor	The Lord Buckmaster	May 1915–December 1916
Lord President of the Council	The Marquess of Crewe	May 1915–December 1916
Lord Privy Seal	The Earl Curzon	May 1915–December 1916
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Reginald McKenna	May 1915–December 1916
Home Secretary	Sir John Simon	May 1915–January 1916
	Sir Herbert Samuel	January 1916–December 1916
Foreign Secretary	Sir Edward Grey, Bt	May 1915–December 1916
Secretary of State for the Colonies	Andrew Bonar Law	May 1915–December 1916
Secretary of State for War	The Earl Kitchener	May 1915–July 1916
	David Lloyd George	July–December 1916
Secretary of State for India	Austen Chamberlain	May 1915–December 1916
First Lord of the Admiralty	Arthur Balfour	May 1915–December 1916
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Winston Churchill	May–November 1915
	Edwin Samuel Montagu	November 1915–July 1916
	Thomas McKinnon Wood	July–December 1916
President of the Board of Trade	Walter Runciman	May 1915–December 1916
Secretary for Scotland	Thomas McKinnon Wood	May 1915–July 1916
	Harold Tennant	July–December 1916
Chief Secretary for Ireland	Augustine Birrell	May 1915–July 1916
	Henry Duke	July–December 1916
President of the Local Government Board	Walter Hume Long	May 1915–December 1916
President of the Board of Agriculture	The Earl of Selborne	May 1915–July 1916
	The Earl of Crawford	July–December 1916
Minister of Blockade	The Lord Robert Cecil	February 1916–December 1916
President of the Board of Education	Arthur Henderson	May 1915–August 1916
	The Marquess of Crewe	August–December 1916
First Commissioner of Works	Lewis Harcourt	May 1915–December 1916
Minister of Munitions	David Lloyd George	May 1915–July 1916
	Edwin Samuel Montagu	July–December 1916
Paymaster-General	Arthur Henderson	August–December 1916
Attorney General	Sir Edward Carson	May–October 1915
	Sir F. E. Smith	October 1915–December 1916
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	The Lord Robert Cecil	May 1915–December 1916
Minister without Portfolio	The Marquess of Lansdowne	May 1915–December 1916

Changes

October, 1915 - Sir Frederick Smith succeeds Sir Edward Carson as Attorney-General.
November, 1915 - Edwin Samuel Montagu succeeds Churchill at the Duchy of Lancaster
January, 1916 - Sir Herbert Samuel succeeds Sir John Simon as Home Secretary. Lord Robert Cecil becomes Minister of Blockade.
July, 1916 - On the death of Lord Kitchener, David Lloyd George succeeds him as Secretary for War. Edwin Samuel Montagu succeeds Lloyd George at the Ministry of Munitions. Thomas MacKinnon Wood succeeds Montagu at the Duchy of Lancaster. Harold John Tennant succeeds Wood as Scottish Secretary. Lord Crawford succeeds Lord Selborne at the Agriculture Board. Henry Edward Duke succeeds Augustine Birrell as Chief Secretary for Ireland.
August, 1916 - Arthur Henderson becomes Paymaster General. Lord Crewe succeeds Arthur Henderson at the Education Board.

Preceded by First Asquith ministry	British ministries 1915-1916	Succeeded by Lloyd George ministry

[edit] See also

For a more detailed list, including ministers not in the Cabinet, see Coalition Government 1915-1916.

[edit] Notes

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