Conservative government, 1922–1924
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The government was led by Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, appointed respectively as Prime Minister by King George V.
Cabinets
Law's Cabinet, October 1922 – May 1923
- Bonar Law – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
- The Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
- The Marquess of Salisbury – Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Stanley Baldwin – Chancellor of the Exchequer
- William Clive Bridgeman – Secretary of State for the Home Department
- The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
- The Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
- The Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War
- The Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India
- The Viscount Novar – Secretary for Scotland
- Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty
- Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the Board of Trade
- Sir Robert Sanders – Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
- Edward Frederick Lindley Wood – President of the Board of Education
- Sir Anderson Barlow – Minister of Labour
- Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen – Minister of Health
Changes
- April 1923 – Griffith-Boscawen resigned as Minister of Health after losing his seat and was succeeded by Neville Chamberlain.
Baldwin's Cabinet, May 1923 – January 1924
- Stanley Baldwin – Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
- The Viscount Cave – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
- The Marquess of Salisbury – Lord President of the Council
- The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (Viscount Cecil of Chelwood from 28 December 1923)
- William Clive Bridgeman – Secretary of State for the Home Department
- The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
- The Duke of Devonshire – Secretary of State for the Colonies
- The Earl of Derby – Secretary of State for War
- The Earl Peel – Secretary of State for India
- Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for Air
- The Viscount Novar – Secretary for Scotland
- Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty
- Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the Board of Trade
- Sir Robert Sanders – Minister of Agriculture
- Edward Frederick Lindley Wood – President of the Board of Education
- Sir Anderson Barlow – Minister of Labour
- Neville Chamberlain – Minister of Health
- Sir William Joynson-Hicks – Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- Sir Laming Worthington-Evans – Postmaster-General
Changes
- August 1923 – Neville Chamberlain took over from Baldwin as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir William Joynson-Hicks succeeded Chamberlain as Minister of Health. Joynson-Hicks' successor as Financial Secretary to the Treasury was not in the Cabinet.
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List of ministers
Members of the Cabinet are shown in bold face.
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