Office |
Name |
Party |
Dates |
Notes |
Prime Minister,
First Lord of the Treasury
and Leader of the House of Commons |
Neville Chamberlain |
Conservative |
3 September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Lord Chancellor |
The Viscount Caldecote |
Conservative |
3 September 1939 |
|
Lord President of the Council
and Leader of the House of Lords |
The Earl Stanhope |
Conservative |
3 September 1939 |
|
Lord Privy Seal |
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt |
Conservative |
3 September 1939 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Sir Kingsley Wood |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer |
Sir John Simon |
National Liberal |
September 1939 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury |
David Margesson |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
Harry Crookshank |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Lords of the Treasury |
James Stuart |
Conservative |
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
Thomas Dugdale |
Conservative |
September 1939 – 12 February 1940 |
|
Patrick Munro |
Conservative |
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
Stephen Furness |
Liberal National |
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
Sir James Edmondson |
Conservative |
September 1939 – 13 November 1939 |
|
Patrick Buchan-Hepburn |
Conservative |
13 November 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
William Boulton |
Conservative |
12 February 1940 – 10 May 1940 |
|
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
The Viscount Halifax |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
R. A. Butler |
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
Secretary of State for the Home Department |
Sir John Anderson |
|
3 September 1939 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department |
Osbert Peake |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Minister for Home Security |
Alan Lennox-Boyd |
Conservative |
6 September 1939 |
|
William Mabane |
Liberal |
24 October 1939 |
|
First Lord of the Admiralty |
Winston Churchill |
Conservative |
3 September 1939 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty |
Geoffrey Shakespeare |
Liberal National |
September 1939 |
|
Sir Victor Warrender, Bt |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
|
Civil Lord of the Admiralty |
Sir Austin Hudson, Bt |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries |
Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith |
|
September 1939 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries |
The Lord Denham |
Conservative |
19 September 1939 |
|
Secretary of State for Air |
Sir Kingsley Wood |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Under-Secretary of State for Air |
Harold Balfour |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Secretary of State for the Colonies |
Malcolm MacDonald |
National Labour |
September 1939 |
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava |
|
September 1939 |
Minister for Coordination of Defence |
The Lord Chatfield |
|
September 1939 |
Member of War Cabinet until 3 April 1940; Office abolished 3 April 1940 |
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs |
Anthony Eden |
Conservative |
3 September 1939 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs |
The Duke of Devonshire |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Minister for Economic Warfare |
Ronald Cross |
Conservative |
3 September 1939 |
|
President of the Board of Education |
The Earl De La Warr |
National Labour |
September 1939 |
|
Herwald Ramsbotham |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education |
Kenneth Lindsay |
National Labour |
September 1939 |
|
Minister of Food |
William Morrison |
Conservative |
4 September 1939 |
Combined with Duchy of Lancaster |
The Lord Woolton |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food |
Alan Lennox-Boyd |
Conservative |
11 October 1939 |
|
Minister of Health |
Walter Elliot |
|
September 1939 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health |
Florence Horsbrugh |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
Secretary of State for India and Burma |
The Marquess of Zetland |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma |
Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill |
Ulster Unionist |
11 September 1939 |
Minister of Information |
The Lord Macmillan |
|
4 September 1939 |
|
Sir John Reith |
|
5 January 1940 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Information |
Sir Edward Grigg |
Conservative |
19 September 1939 |
Office vacant 3 April1940 |
Minister of Labour and National Service |
Ernest Brown |
National Liberal |
3 September 1939 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour and National Service |
Ralph Assheton |
Conservative |
6 September 1939 |
|
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
William Morrison |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
From 4 September 1939 – 3 April 1940 combined with Minister for Food |
George Tryon |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
Lord Tryon |
Paymaster General |
The Earl Winterton |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Vacant |
|
November 1939 |
|
Minister for Pensions |
Sir Walter Womersley |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Minister without Portfolio |
The Lord Hankey |
|
3 September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Postmaster-General |
George Tryon |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
William Morrison |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
|
Assistant Postmaster-General |
William Mabane |
Liberal |
September 1939 |
|
Charles Waterhouse |
Conservative |
24 October 1939 |
|
Secretary of State for Scotland |
John Colville |
|
September 1939 |
|
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland |
John McEwen |
|
6 September 1939 |
|
Minister of Shipping |
Sir John Gilmour, Bt |
Scottish Unionist |
13 October 1939 |
|
Robert Hudson |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Shipping |
Sir Arthur Salter |
Conservative |
13 November 1939 |
|
Minister of Supply |
Leslie Burgin |
Liberal National |
September 1939 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply |
John Llewellin |
|
September 1939 |
|
President of the Board of Trade |
Hon. Oliver Stanley |
|
September 1939 |
|
Sir Andrew Duncan |
|
5 January 1940 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade |
Gwilym Lloyd George |
Liberal National |
6 September 1939 |
|
Secretary for Overseas Trade |
Robert Hudson |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Geoffrey Shakespeare |
Liberal National |
3 April 1940 |
|
Secretary for Mines |
Geoffrey Lloyd |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Minister of Transport |
Euan Wallace |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport |
Robert Bernays |
Liberal National |
September 1939 |
|
Secretary of State for War |
Leslie Hore-Belisha |
Liberal National |
September 1939 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Hon. Oliver Stanley |
Conservative |
5 January 1940 |
Member of War Cabinet |
Under-Secretary of State for War |
The Viscount Cobham |
Conservative |
19 September 1939 |
|
Financial Secretary to the War Office |
Sir Victor Warrender, Bt |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Sir Edward Grigg |
Conservative |
3 April 1940 |
|
First Commissioner of Works |
Herwald Ramsbotham |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
The Earl De La Warr |
National Labour |
3 April 1940 |
|
Attorney General |
Sir Donald Somervell |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Solicitor General |
Sir Terence O'Connor |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Lord Advocate |
Thomas Cooper |
|
September 1939 |
|
Solicitor General for Scotland |
James Reid |
|
September 1939 |
|
Treasurer of the Household |
Charles Waterhouse |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Robert Grimston |
Conservative |
12 November 1939 |
|
Comptroller of the Household |
Charles Kerr |
Liberal National |
September 1939 |
|
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household |
Robert Grimston |
Conservative |
September 1939 |
|
Sir James Edmondson |
Conservative |
12 November 1939 |
|
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms |
The Earl of Lucan |
|
September 1939 |
|
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard |
The Lord Templemore |
|
September 1939 |
|
Lords-in-Waiting |
The Earl Fortescue |
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
The Earl of Birkenhead |
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
The Viscount Bridport |
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|
The Lord Ebury |
|
September 1939 – 10 May 1940 |
|