Second_Peel_ministry

Second Peel ministry

Sir Robert Peel, Bt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1834-1835, 1841-1846.

The Cabinet


OFFICE	NAME	TERM

First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Commons	Sir Robert Peel, Bt	September 1841–July 1846

Lord Chancellor	The Lord Lyndhurst	September 1841–July 1846
Lord President of the Council	The Lord Wharncliffe	September 1841–December 1845
	The Duke of Buccleuch	December 1845–July 1846
Lord Privy Seal	The Duke of Buckingham	September 1841–February 1842
	The Duke of Buccleuch	February 1842–January 1846
	The Earl of Haddington	January–July 1846
Home Secretary	Sir James Graham, Bt	September 1841–July 1846
Foreign Secretary	The Earl of Aberdeen	September 1841–July 1846
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	Lord Stanley	September 1841–December 1845
	William Ewart Gladstone	December 1845–July 1846
First Lord of the Admiralty	The Earl of Haddington	September 1841–January 1846
	The Earl of Ellenborough	January–July 1846
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Henry Goulburn	September 1841–July 1846
President of the Board of Control	The Earl of Ellenborough	September–October 1841
	The Lord FitzGerald	October 1841–May 1843
	The Earl of Ripon	May 1843–July 1846
President of the Board of Trade	The Earl of Ripon	September 1841–May 1843
	William Ewart Gladstone	May 1843–January 1845
First Commissioner of Woods and Forests	Earl of Lincoln	February 1845–January 1846
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Lord Granville Somerset	May 1844–July 1846
Secretary at War	Sir Henry Hardinge	September 1841–January 1845
	Sidney Herbert	January 1845–July 1846
Paymaster-General	Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt	September 1841–January 1845
Chief Secretary for Ireland	Earl of Lincoln	January–July 1846
Minister without Portfolio Leader of the House of Lords	The Duke of Wellington	September 1841–July 1846

Changes

October, 1841: Lord FitzGerald succeeds Lord Ellenborough as President of the Board of Control.
February, 1842: The Duke of Buccleuch succeeds the Duke of Buckingham as Lord Privy Seal.
May, 1843: Lord Ripon succeeds FitzGerald as President of the Board of Control. William Ewart Gladstone succeeds Ripon at the Board of Trade.
May, 1844: Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, enters the Cabinet. Sir Henry Hardinge leaves the cabinet. His successor as Secretary at War is not in the Cabinet.
February, 1845: William Gladstone resigns as President of the Board of Trade. His successor in that post is not in the Cabinet. The First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, Lord Lincoln, enters the Cabinet, while Sir Edward Knatchbull, the Paymaster, leaves it.
May, 1845: Sidney Herbert, the Secretary at War, enters the Cabinet.
December, 1845: Gladstone succeeds Lord Stanley as Secretary for War and the Colonies.
January, 1846—The Duke of Buccleuch succeeds Lord Wharnecliffe as Lord President. Lord Haddington succeeds Buccleuch as Lord Privy Seal. Ellenborough succeeds Haddington as First Lord of the Admiralty. Lincoln becomes Chief Secretary for Ireland. His successor as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests is not in the Cabinet.

Preceded by Third Melbourne Ministry	British ministries 1841–1846	Succeeded by First Russell Ministry

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The Cabinet

See also