Office | Name | Dates | Notes |
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury | Winston Churchill | 26 October 1951 – 5 April 1955 | Knighted 1953 |
Lord Chancellor | The Lord Simonds | 30 October 1951 | |
The Viscount Kilmuir | 18 October 1954 | |
Lord President of the Council | The Lord Woolton | 28 October 1951 | |
The Marquess of Salisbury | 24 November 1952 | also Leader of the House of Lords |
Lord Privy Seal | The Marquess of Salisbury | 28 October 1951 | also Leader of the House of Lords |
Harry Crookshank | 7 May 1952 | also Leader of the House of Commons |
Chancellor of the Exchequer | Rab Butler | 28 October 1951 | |
Minister of Economic Affairs | Sir James Salter | 31 October 1951 | Office abolished 24 November 1952 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | Patrick Buchan-Hepburn | 30 October 1951 | |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | John Boyd-Carpenter | 31 October 1951 | |
Henry Brooke | 28 July 1954 | |
Economic Secretary to the Treasury | Reginald Maudling | 24 November 1952 | |
Lords of the Treasury | Harry Mackeson | 7 November 1951 – 28 May 1952 | |
Herbert Butcher | 7 November 1951 – 3 July 1953 | Knighted |
Edward Heath | 7 November 1951 – April 1955 | |
Tam Galbraith | 7 November 1951 – 4 June 1954 | |
Dennis Vosper | 7 November 1951 – 4 June 1954 | |
Hendrie Oakshott | 28 May 1952 – April 1955 | |
Martin Redmayne | 3 July 1953 – April 1955 | |
Richard Thompson | 28 July 1954 – April 1955 | |
Gerard Wills | 26 October 1954 – April 1955 | |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Anthony Eden | 28 October 1951 | Knighted 1954 |
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs | Selwyn Lloyd | 30 October 1951 – 18 October 1954 | |
Marquess of Reading | 11 November 1953 – April 1955 | |
Anthony Nutting | 18 October 1954 – April 1955 | |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | The Marquess of Reading | 31 October 1951 – 11 November 1953 | |
Anthony Nutting | 31 October 1951 – 18 October 1954 | |
Douglas Dodds-Parker | 11 November 1953 – 18 October 1954 | |
Robin Turton | 18 October 1954 – April 1955 | |
Secretary of State for the Home Department and Welsh Affairs | Sir David Maxwell Fyfe | 28 October 1951 | |
Hon. Gwilym Lloyd-George | 18 October 1954 | |
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | David Llewellyn | 5 November 1951 – 14 October 1952 | |
Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth | 3 February 1952 – April 1955 | |
The Lord Lloyd | 24 November 1952 – 18 October 1954 | |
The Lord Mancroft | 18 October 1954 – April 1955 | |
First Lord of the Admiralty | James Thomas | 31 October 1951 | Viscount Cilcennin |
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty | Allan Noble | 5 November 1951 | |
Civil Lord of the Admiralty | Simon Wingfield Digby | 5 November 1951 | |
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries | Sir Thomas Dugdale | 31 October 1951 | Post in Cabinet from 3 September 1953 |
Derick Heathcoat-Amory | 28 July 1954 | Combined with Minister of Food 18 October 1954 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | The Lord Carrington | 5 November 1951 – 18 October 1954 | |
Richard Nugent | 5 November 1951 – April 1955 | |
The Earl St Aldwyn | 18 October 1954 – April 1955 | |
Secretary of State for Air | The Lord de L'Isle and Dudley | 31 October 1951 | |
Under-Secretary of State for Air | Nigel Birch | 3 November 1951 | |
Hon. George Ward | 29 February 1952 | |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | Oliver Lyttelton | 28 October 1951 | |
Alan Lennox-Boyd | 28 July 1954 | |
Minister of State for the Colonies | Alan Lennox-Boyd | 2 November 1951 | |
Henry Hopkinson | 7 May 1952 | |
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | The Earl of Munster | 5 November 1951 | |
The Lord Lloyd | 18 October 1954 | |
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | The Lord Ismay | 28 October 1951 | |
The Marquess of Salisbury | 12 March 1952 | also Leader of the House of Lords |
The Viscount Swinton | 24 November 1952 | |
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | John Foster | 3 November 1951 | |
Douglas Dodds-Parker | 18 October 1954 | |
Minister for Coordination of Transport, Fuel and Power | The Lord Leathers | 30 October 1951 | Office abolished 3 September 1953 |
Minister of Defence | Winston Churchill | 28 October 1951 | As Prime Minister |
The Earl Alexander of Tunis | 1 March 1952 | |
Harold Macmillan | 18 October 1954 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence | Nigel Birch | 28 February 1952 | |
The Lord Carrington | 18 October 1954 | |
Minister of Education | Florence Horsbrugh | 2 November 1951 | Office in Cabinet from 3 September 1953 |
Sir David Eccles | 18 October 1954 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education | Kenneth Pickthorn | 5 November 1951 |
Dennis Vosper | 18 October 1954 | |
Minister of Food | Gwilym Lloyd-George | 31 October 1951 | Office in Cabinet from 3 September 1953 |
Derick Heathcoat-Amory | 18 October 1954 | Combined with Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food | Charles Hill | 31 October 1951 | |
Minister of Fuel and Power | Geoffrey Lloyd | 31 October 1951 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power | Lancelot Joynson-Hicks | 5 November 1951 | |
Minister of Health | Harry Crookshank | 30 October 1951 | also Leader of the House of Commons |
Iain Macleod | 7 May 1952 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health | Patricia Hornsby-Smith | 3 November 1951 | |
Minister of Housing and Local Government | Harold Macmillan | 30 October 1951 | |
Duncan Sandys | 18 October 1954 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government | Ernest Marples | 3 November 1951 | |
William Deedes | 18 October 1954 | |
Minister of Labour and National Service | Sir Walter Monckton | 28 October 1951 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour | Sir Peter Bennett | 31 October 1951 | |
Harold Watkinson | 28 May 1952 | |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | The Viscount Swinton | 31 October 1951 | Also Minister of Materials |
The Lord Woolton | 24 November 1952 | Office in Cabinet |
Minister of Materials | The Viscount Swinton | 31 October 1951 | Also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
Sir James Salter | 24 November 1952 | |
The Lord Woolton | 1 September 1953 | Also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Office wound up 16 August 1954 |
Minister without Portfolio | The Earl of Munster | 18 October 1954 – April 1955 |
Minister of National Insurance | Osbert Peake | 31 October 1951 | Combined with Minister of Pensions 3 September 1953 |
Paymaster General | The Lord Cherwell | 30 October 1951 | |
Earl of Selkirk | 11 November 1953 | Office not in Cabinet |
Minister of Pensions | Derick Heathcoat-Amory | 5 November 1951 | Combined with Minister of National Insurance 1 September 1953 |
Osbert Peake | 3 September 1953 | Office in Cabinet from 18 October 1954 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Pensions | John George Smyth | 5 November 1951 – April 1955 | |
Robin Turton | 5 November 1951 – 18 October 1954 | |
Ernest Marples | 18 October 1954 – April 1955 | |
Postmaster-General | The Earl De La Warr | 5 November 1951 | |
Assistant Postmaster-General | David Gammans | 5 November 1951 | |
Secretary of State for Scotland | James Stuart | 30 October 1951 | |
Minister of State for Scotland | The Earl of Home | 2 November 1951 | |
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | Tom Galbraith | 2 November 1951 – 5 April 1955 | |
William McNair Snadden | 2 November 1951 – April 1955 | |
James Henderson Stewart | 4 February 1952 – April 1955 | |
Minister of Supply | Duncan Sandys | 31 October 1951 | |
Selwyn Lloyd | 18 October 1954 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply | Toby Low | 3 November 1951 | |
Sir Edward Boyle | 28 July 1954 | |
President of the Board of Trade | Peter Thorneycroft | 30 October 1951 | Office in Cabinet by 1955 |
Minister of State for Trade | Derick Heathcoat-Amory | 3 September 1953 | |
Derek Walker-Smith | 18 October 1954 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade | Henry Strauss | 3 November 1951 | |
Secretary for Overseas Trade | Henry Hopkinson | 3 November 1951 | |
Harry Mackeson | 28 May 1952 | Office replaced by Minister of State for Trade 3 September 1953 |
Minister of Transport | John Maclay | 31 October 1951 | |
Alan Lennox-Boyd | 7 May 1952 | Ministries of Transport and Civil Aviation merged 1 October 1953 |
John Boyd-Carpenter | 28 July 1954 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport | Joseph Gurney Braithwaite | 5 November 1951 – 1 November 1953 | |
Reginald Maudling | 18 April 1952 – 24 November 1952 | |
John Profumo | 24 November 1952 – April 1955 | |
High Molson | 11 November 1953 – April 1955 | |
Secretary of State for War | Anthony Head | 31 October 1951 | |
Under-Secretary of State and Financial Secretary for War | James Hutchison | 5 November 1951 | |
Fitzroy Maclean | 18 October 1954 | |
Minister of Works | Sir David Eccles | 1 November 1951 | |
Nigel Birch | 18 October 1954 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Works | Hugh Molson | 3 November 1951 | |
Reginald Bevins | 11 November 1953 | |
Attorney General | Sir Lionel Heald | 3 November 1951 | |
Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller | 18 October 1954 | |
Solicitor General | Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller | 3 November 1951 | |
Sir Harry Hylton-Foster | 18 October 1954 | |
Lord Advocate | James Clyde | 2 November 1951 | |
William Rankine Milligan | 30 December 1954 | |
Solicitor General for Scotland | William Rankine Milligan | 2 November 1951 | Not an MP |
William Grant | 10 January 1955 | |
Treasurer of the Household | Cedric Drewe | 7 November 1951 | Knighted |
Comptroller of the Household | Roger Conant | 7 November 1951 | |
Tam Galbraith | 7 June 1954 | |
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | Henry Studholme | 7 November 1951 | |
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms | The Earl Fortescue | 5 November 1951 | |
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | The Earl of Onslow | 5 November 1951 | |
Lords in Waiting | The Earl of Birkenhead | 5 November 1951 – 28 January 1955 | |
The Earl of Selkirk | 5 November 1951 – 11 November 1953 | |
The Lord Lloyd | 7 November 1951 – 24 November 1952 | |
The Lord Mancroft | 15 December 1952 – 18 October 1954 | |
The Lord Hawke | 11 November 1953 – April 1955 | |
The Lord Fairfax of Cameron | 18 October 1954 – April 1955 | |
The Lord Chesham | 28 January 1955 – April 1955 | |