First Asquith ministry

The Cabinet


OFFICE	NAME	TERM

Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury	H. H. Asquith	May 1908–May 1915

Lord Chancellor	The Lord Loreburn^[1]	April 1908–June 1912
	The Viscount Haldane	June 1912–May 1915
Lord President of the Council	The Lord Tweedmouth	April–September 1908
	The Viscount Wolverhampton	September 1908–June 1910
	The Earl Beauchamp	June–November 1910
	The Viscount Morley of Blackburn	November 1910–August 1914
	The Earl Beauchamp	August 1914–May 1915
Lord Privy Seal	The Marquess of Ripon	May–October 1908
	The Earl of Crewe^[2]	October 1908–October 1911
	The Earl Carrington	October 1911–February 1912
	The Earl of Crewe	February 1912–May 1915
Chancellor of the Exchequer	David Lloyd George	May 1908–May 1915
Home Secretary	Herbert Gladstone	May 1908–February 1910
	Winston Churchill	February 1910–October 1911
	Reginald McKenna	October 1911–May 1915
Foreign Secretary	Sir Edward Grey, Bt	May 1908–May 1915
Secretary of State for the Colonies	The Earl of Crewe	May 1908–November 1910
	Lewis Harcourt	November 1910–May 1915
Secretary of State for War	Richard Haldane^[3]	May 1908–June 1912
	John Seely	June 1912–March 1914
	H.H. Asquith	March–August 1914
	The Earl Kitchener	August 1914–May 1915
Secretary of State for India	The Viscount Morley of Blackburn	May 1908–November 1910
	The Earl of Crewe	November 1910–May 1915
First Lord of the Admiralty	Reginald McKenna	May 1908–October 1911
	Winston Churchill	October 1911–May 1915
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Viscount Wolverhampton	May–September 1908
	The Lord FitzMaurice	September 1908–June 1909
	Herbert Samuel	June 1909–May 1910
	Joseph Pease	May 1910–October 1911
	Sir Charles Hobhouse, Bt	October 1911–February 1914
	Charles Masterman	February 1914–January 1915
	Edwin Samuel Montagu	January–May 1915
President of the Board of Trade	Winston Churchill	May 1908–February 1910
	Sydney Buxton	February 1910–February 1914
	John Burns	February–August 1914
	Walter Runciman	August 1914–May 1915
Secretary for Scotland	John Sinclair^[4]	May 1908–February 1912
	Thomas McKinnon Wood	February 1912–May 1915
Chief Secretary for Ireland	Augustine Birrell	May 1908–May 1915
President of the Local Government Board	John Burns	May 1908–February 1914
	Herbert Samuel	February 1914–May 1915`
President of the Board of Agriculture	The Earl Carrington	May 1908–October 1911
	Walter Runciman	October 1911–August 1914
	The Lord Lucas	August 1914–May 1915
President of the Board of Education	Walter Runciman	May 1908–October 1911
	Joseph Pease	October 1911–May 1915
Postmaster General	Sydney Buxton	May 1908–February 1910
	Herbert Samuel	February 1910–February 1914
	Sir Charles Hobhouse, Bt	February 1914–May 1915
First Commissioner of Works	Lewis Harcourt	May 1908–November 1910
	The Earl Beauchamp	November 1910–August 1914
	The Lord Emmott	August 1914–May 1915
Attorney General	Sir Rufus Isaacs^[5]	June 1912–October 1913
	Sir John Simon	October 1913–May 1915

Changes

September 1908 - Lord Wolverhampton succeeds Lord Tweedmouth as Lord President. Lord FitzMaurice succeeds Lord Wolverhampton as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
October 1908 - Lord Crewe succeeds Lord Ripon as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, while remaining also Colonial Secretary.
June 1909 - Herbert Samuel succeeds Lord FitzMaurice at the Duchy of Lancaster.
February 1910 - Winston Churchill succeeds Herbert Gladstone as Home Secretary. Sydney Buxton succeeds Churchill at the Board of Trade. Herbert Samuel succeeds Buxton as Postmaster-General. Joseph Pease succeeds Samuel as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
June 1910 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lord Wolverhampton as Lord President.
November 1910 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lewis Vernon Harcourt as First Commissioner of Public Works. Lord Morley succeeds Beauchamp as Lord President. Lord Crewe succeeds Morley as India Secretary, remaining also Lord Privy Seal. Lewis Harcourt succeeds Crewe as Colonial Secretary.
October 1911 - Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna switch offices, Churchill taking the Admiralty and McKenna the Home Office. Lord Carrington succeeds Lord Crewe as Lord Privy Seal. Crewe remains India Secretary. Walter Runciman succeeds Lord Carrington at the Board of Agriculture. Joseph Albert Pease succeeds Runciman at the Board of Education. Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse succeeds Pease at the Duchy of Lancaster.
February 1912 - Lord Crewe succeeds Lord Carrington as Lord Privy Seal, remaining also India Secretary. Thomas MacKinnon Wood succeeds Lord Pentland as Secretary for Scotland.
June 1912 - The Attorney-General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, enters the Cabinet. Lord Haldane succeeds Lord Loreburn as Lord Chancellor. John Seely succeeds Haldane as Secretary for War.
October 1913 - Sir John Simon succeeds Sir Rufus Isaacs as Attorney-General.
February, 1914 - John Burns succeeds Sydney Buxton as President of the Board of Trade. Herbert Samuel succeeds Burns at the Local Government Board. Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse succeeds Samuel as Postmaster-General. Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman succeeds Hobhouse at the Duchy of Lancaster.
March, 1914 - Asquith temporarily succeeds John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone as Secretary for War.
August, 1914 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lord Morley as Lord President. Lord Emmott succeeds Beauchamp as First Commissioner of Public Works. Walter Runciman succeeds John Burns as President of the Board of Trade. Lord Lucas succeeds Runciman at the Board of Agriculture. Lord Kitchener succeeds Asquith as Secretary for War.
January, 1915 - Edwin Samuel Montagu succeeds Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Preceded by Campbell-Bannerman Ministry	British ministries 1908-1915	Succeeded by Second Asquith ministry

Notes

^ Earl Loreburn from 1911.
^ Marquess of Crewe from 1911
^ Viscount Haldane from 1911
^ Lord Pentland from 1909
^ Lord Reading from 1913.

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