Lloyd George ministry

See also: History of the United Kingdom during the First World War § Lloyd George as Prime Minister

Lloyd George ministries
1916–1918 1918–1922
Lloyd George’s Imperial War Cabinet in 1918
Date formed	First: 6 December 1916 (1916-12-06) Second: 14 December 1918 (1918-12-14)
Date dissolved	First: 14 December 1918 (1918-12-14) Second: 19 October 1922 (1922-10-19)
People and organisations
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Prime Minister's history	1916–1922
Total no. of members	269 appointments
Member parties	Conservative Party Labour Party (1916–1918) Liberal Party
Status in legislature	Majority (coalition)
Opposition party	Independent Liberal Party
Opposition leaders	H. H. Asquith (1916–1918) Sir Donald Maclean (1918–1920) H. H. Asquith (1920–1922) in the House of Commons Lord Crewe in the House of Lords
History
Election	1918 general election
Legislature terms	30th UK Parliament 31st UK Parliament
Outgoing formation	Carlton Club meeting
Predecessor	Asquith coalition ministry
Successor	Law ministry

Liberal David Lloyd George formed a coalition government in the United Kingdom in December 1916, and was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George V. It replaced the earlier wartime coalition under H. H. Asquith, which had been held responsible for losses during the Great War. Those Liberals who continued to support Asquith served as the Official Opposition. The government continued in power after the end of the war in 1918, though Lloyd George was increasingly reliant on the Conservatives for support. After several scandals including allegations of the sale of honours, the Conservatives withdrew their support after a meeting at the Carlton Club in 1922, and Bonar Law formed a government.

Cabinets

War Cabinet, December 1916 – January 1919

The 1916 War Cabinet

• Lord Curzon of Kedleston – Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords
• Bonar Law – Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
• Arthur Henderson – Minister without Portfolio
• Lord Milner – Minister without Portfolio

Changes

The 1917 Imperial War Cabinet

• May – August 1917 – In temporary absence of Arthur Henderson, George Barnes, Minister of Pensions acts as a member of the War Cabinet.
• June 1917 – Jan Smuts enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio
• July 1917 – Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio
• August 1917 – George Barnes succeeds Arthur Henderson (resigned) as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party member of the War Cabinet.
• January 1918 – Carson resigns and is not replaced
• April 1918 – Austen Chamberlain succeeds Lord Milner as Minister without Portfolio.
• January 1919 – Law becomes Lord Privy Seal, remaining Leader of the House of Commons, and is succeeded as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Chamberlain; both remaining in the War Cabinet. Smuts is succeeded by Sir Eric Geddes as Minister without Portfolio.

Peacetime Cabinet, January 1919 – October 1922

Note: The War Cabinet was formally maintained for much of 1919, but as Lloyd George was out of the country for many months this made little difference; in October 1919 a formal Cabinet was reinstated.

• David Lloyd George – Prime Minister
• Lord Birkenhead – Lord Chancellor
• Lord Curzon of Kedleston – Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords
• Bonar Law – Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons
• Austen Chamberlain – Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Edward Shortt – Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Arthur Balfour – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Lord Milner – Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Winston Churchill – Secretary of State for War and Air
• Edwin Montagu – Secretary of State for India
• Walter Long – First Lord of the Admiralty
• Sir Albert Stanley – President of the Board of Trade
• Robert Munro – Secretary for Scotland
• Ian Macpherson – Chief Secretary for Ireland
• Lord French – Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
• Christopher Addison – President of the Local Government Board
• Rowland Prothero – President of the Board of Agriculture
• H. A. L. Fisher – President of the Board of Education
• Lord Inverforth – Minister of Munitions
• Sir Robert Horne – Minister of Labour
• George Barnes – Minister without Portfolio
• Sir Eric Geddes – Minister without Portfolio

Changes

• May 1919 – Sir Auckland Geddes succeeds Sir Albert Stanley as President of the Board of Trade. Sir Eric Geddes becomes Minister of Transport.
• October 1919 – Lord Curzon of Kedleston succeeds Balfour as Foreign Secretary. Balfour succeeds Curzon as Lord President. The Local Government Board is abolished. Christopher Addison becomes Minister of Health. The Board of Agriculture is abolished. Lord Lee of Fareham becomes Minister of Agriculture. Sir Eric Geddes becomes Minister of Transport.
• January 1920 – George Barnes leaves the cabinet.
• March 1920 – Sir Robert Horne succeeds Sir Auckland Geddes as President of the Board of Trade. Thomas James McNamara succeeds Horne as Minister of Labour.
• April 1920 – Sir Hamar Greenwood succeeds Ian Macpherson as Chief Secretary for Ireland. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans joins the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio.
• February 1921 – Winston Churchill succeeds Lord Milner as Colonial Secretary. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans succeeds Churchill as War Secretary. Churchill's successor as Air Secretary was not in the Cabinet. Lord Lee of Fareham succeeds Walter Long at the Admiralty. Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen succeeds Lee as Minister of Agriculture.
• March 1921 – Austen Chamberlain succeeds Bonar Law as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Commons. Sir Robert Horne succeeds Chamberlain at the Exchequer. Stanley Baldwin succeeds Horne at the Board of Trade.
• April 1921 – Lord French resigns from the cabinet, remaining Lord Lieutenant. Christopher Addison becomes a Minister without Portfolio. Sir Alfred Mond succeeds him as Minister of Health. The Ministry of Munitions is abolished.
• November 1921 – Sir Eric Geddes resigns from the cabinet. His successor as Minister of Transport is not in the Cabinet. The Attorney General, Sir Gordon Hewart, enters the Cabinet.
• March 1922 – Lord Peel succeeds Edwin Montagu as India Secretary.
• April 1922 – The First Commissioner of Works, Lord Crawford, enters the Cabinet.

List of ministers

Members of the Cabinet are listed in boldface. Members of the War Cabinet, 6 December 1916 to 31 October 1919, are indicated.

Key

Conservative       Liberal       Labour

Office	Name		Date	Party	Notes
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury		David Lloyd George	6 December 1916 – 19 October 1922	Liberal	In the War Cabinet 6 December 1916 – 31 October 1919
Chancellor of the Exchequer		Bonar Law	10 December 1916	Conservative	Also Leader of the House of Commons; in the War Cabinet since 6 December 1916
		Austen Chamberlain	10 January 1919	Conservative	Left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919
		Sir Robert Horne	1 April 1921	Conservative
Financial Secretaries to the Treasury		Sir Hardman Lever	15 December 1916 – 19 May 1919	Liberal
		Stanley Baldwin	18 June 1917 – 1 April 1921	Conservative
		Hilton Young	21 April 1921 – 19 October 1922	Liberal
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury and Government Chief Whips in the House of Commons		Lord Edmund Talbot	14 December 1916 – 1 April 1921	Conservative
		Neil Primrose	14 December 1916 – 2 March 1917	Liberal
		Frederick Guest	2 March 1917 – 1 April 1921	Liberal
		Charles McCurdy	1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922	Liberal
		Leslie Orme Wilson	1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922	Conservative
Junior Lords of the Treasury		James Hope	14 December 1916 – 27 January 1919	Conservative
		John Pratt	14 December 1916 – 8 August 1919	Liberal
		Stanley Baldwin	29 January 1917 – 18 June 1917	Conservative
		James Parker	29 January 1917 – 19 October 1922	Labour
		Josiah Towyn Jones	29 January 1917 – 4 July 1922	Liberal
		Robert Sanders	5 February 1919 – 1 April 1921	Liberal	Created a Baronet 28 January 1920
		Sir Godfrey Collins	8 August 1919 – 10 February 1920	Liberal
		William Edge	18 August 1919 – 1 August 1922	Liberal
		Sir William Sutherland	15 February 1920 – 7 April 1922	Liberal
		Sir John Gilmour	1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922	Conservative
		Thomas Arthur Lewis	4 July 1922 – 26 July 1922	Liberal
Lord Chancellor		The Lord Finlay	10 December 1916	Conservative
		The Lord Birkenhead	10 January 1919	Conservative	Created Viscount Birkenhead 15 June 1921
Lord President of the Council		The Earl Curzon of Kedleston	10 December 1916	Conservative	Also Leader of the House of Lords; in the War Cabinet since 6 December 1916
		Arthur Balfour	23 October 1919	Conservative
Lord Privy Seal		The Earl of Crawford	15 December 1916	Conservative
		Bonar Law	10 January 1919	Conservative	Also Leader of the House of Commons; left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919
		Austen Chamberlain	23 March 1921	Conservative	Also Leader of the House of Commons
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs		Arthur Balfour	10 December 1916	Conservative
		The Earl Curzon of Kedleston	23 October 1919	Conservative	Also Leader of the House of Lords; left the War Cabinet 31 October 1919; created Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 28 June 1921
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs		Lord Robert Cecil	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Cecil Harmsworth	10 January 1919	Liberal
Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs		The Lord Newton	10 December 1916	Conservative	Post abolished 10 January 1919
Secretary of State for the Home Department		Sir George Cave	10 December 1916	Conservative	Created Viscount Cave 14 November 1918
		Edward Shortt	10 January 1919	Liberal
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department		William Brace	10 December 1916	Labour
		Sir Hamar Greenwood	10 January 1919	Liberal
		John Baird	29 April 1919	Conservative	Succeeded as 2nd Baronet 21 June 1920
First Lord of the Admiralty		Sir Edward Carson	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Sir Eric Geddes	17 July 1917	Conservative
		Walter Long	10 January 1919	Conservative
		The Lord Lee of Fareham	13 February 1921	Conservative
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty		Thomas James Macnamara	10 December 1916	Liberal
		Sir James Craig	2 April 1920	Conservative
		Leo Amery	1 April 1921	Conservative
Additional Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty		The Earl of Lytton	7 February 1917	Conservative	Post abolished 27 January 1919
Civil Lord of the Admiralty		E. G. Pretyman	14 December 1916	Conservative
		The Earl of Lytton	27 January 1919	Conservative
		The Earl of Onslow	26 October 1920	Conservative
		Bolton Eyres-Monsell	1 April 1921	Conservative
Second Civil Lord of the Admiralty		Arthur Pease	10 December 1916	Conservative	Post abolished 10 January 1919
President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries		Rowland Prothero	10 December 1916	Conservative	Board replaced with Ministry 15 August 1919
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries		Sir Richard Winfrey	14 December 1916 – 10 January 1919	Liberal
		The Duke of Marlborough	18 February 1917 – 21 March 1918	Conservative
		The Viscount Goschen	26 March 1918 – 18 June 1918	Conservative
		The Lord Clinton	18 June 1918 – 10 January 1919	Conservative
		Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	10 January 1919	Conservative	Board replaced with Ministry 15 August 1919
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries		The Lord Lee of Fareham	15 August 1919	Conservative
		Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	13 February 1921	Conservative
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries		Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	15 August 1919	Conservative	Also Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 18 November 1919
		vacant	13 February 1921
		The Earl of Onslow	5 April 1921	Conservative
		The Earl of Ancaster	7 April 1921	Conservative	Also Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 28 October 1921
President of the Air Board		The Viscount Cowdray	3 January 1917	Liberal	Air Board replaced with Air Council 26 November 1917
Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board		John Baird	14 December 1916	Conservative	Air Board replaced with Air Council 26 November 1917
President of the Air Council		The Lord Rothermere	26 November 1917	Liberal
		The Lord Weir	26 April 1918	Liberal	Post abolished 10 January 1919
Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Council		John Baird	26 November 1917	Conservative	Post abolished 10 January 1919
Secretary of State for Air		Winston Churchill	10 January 1919	Liberal
		Frederick Guest	1 April 1921	Liberal
Under-Secretary of State for Air		J. E. B. Seely	10 January 1919	Liberal
		George Tryon	22 December 1919	Conservative
		The Marquess of Londonderry	2 April 1920	Conservative
		The Lord Gorell	18 July 1921	Liberal
Minister of Blockade		Lord Robert Cecil	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Sir Laming Worthington-Evans	18 July 1918	Conservative	Office abolished 10 July 1919
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Blockade		Frederick Leverton Harris	22 December 1916	Conservative	Office abolished 10 January 1919
Secretary of State for the Colonies		Walter Long	10 December 1916	Conservative
		The Viscount Milner	10 January 1919	Conservative
		Winston Churchill	13 February 1921	Liberal
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies		Arthur Steel-Maitland	10 December 1916	Conservative	Created a Baronet 13 July 1917
		William Hewins	26 September 1917	Conservative
		Leo Amery	10 January 1919	Conservative
		E. F. L. Wood	1 April 1921	Conservative
President of the Board of Education		Herbert Fisher	10 December 1916	Liberal
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education		Herbert Lewis	10 December 1916	Liberal	Knighted in 1922
Minister of Food Control		The Lord Devonport	10 December 1916	Liberal
		The Lord Rhondda	19 June 1917	Liberal	Created Viscount Rhondda 19 June 1918
		J. R. Clynes	9 July 1918	Labour
		George Roberts	10 January 1919	Labour
		Charles McCurdy	19 March 1920	Liberal	Office abolished 31 March 1921
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control		Charles Bathurst	12 December 1916	Conservative	Knighted in 1917
		J. R. Clynes	2 July 1917	Labour
		Waldorf Astor	18 July 1918	Conservative
		Charles McCurdy	27 January 1919	Liberal
		Sir William Mitchell-Thomson	19 April 1920	Conservative	Office abolished 31 March 1921
President of the Local Government Board		The Lord Rhondda	10 December 1916	Liberal
		William Fisher	28 June 1917	Conservative
		Sir Auckland Geddes	4 November 1918	Conservative
		Christopher Addison	10 January 1919	Liberal	Board became Ministry of Health 24 June 1919
Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board		William Hayes Fisher	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Stephen Walsh	28 June 1917	Labour
		Waldorf Astor	27 January 1919	Conservative	Board became Ministry of Health 24 June 1919
Minister of Health		Christopher Addison	24 June 1919	Liberal
		Sir Alfred Mond	1 April 1921	Liberal
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health		Waldorf Astor	24 June 1919	Conservative	Succeeded as 2nd Viscount Astor 18 October 1919
		The Earl of Onslow	7 April 1921	Conservative
Secretary of State for India		Austen Chamberlain	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Edwin Samuel Montagu	17 July 1917	Liberal
		The Viscount Peel	19 March 1922	Conservative
Under-Secretary of State for India		The Lord Islington	10 December 1916	Liberal
		The Lord Sinha	10 January 1919	Liberal
		The Earl of Lytton	22 September 1920	Conservative
		The Earl Winterton	20 March 1922	Conservative
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland		The Viscount French of Ypres	6 May 1918 – 2 May 1921		Entered the Cabinet 28 October 1918; left the Cabinet 2 April 1921
Chief Secretary for Ireland		Henry Duke	10 December 1916	Conservative	Knighted in 1918
		Edward Shortt	5 May 1918	Liberal
		Ian Macpherson	10 January 1919	Liberal
		Sir Hamar Greenwood	2 April 1920	Liberal
Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture for Ireland		Thomas Wallace Russell	10 December 1916	Liberal	Created a Baronet 20 June 1917
		Hugh T. Barrie	15 January 1919	Conservative
Minister of Labour		John Hodge	10 December 1916	Labour
		George Roberts	17 August 1917	Labour
		Sir Robert Horne	10 January 1919	Conservative
		Thomas James Macnamara	19 March 1920	Liberal
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour		William Bridgeman	22 December 1916	Conservative
		George James Wardle	10 January 1919	Labour
		Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow	2 April 1920	Conservative
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster		Sir Frederick Cawley	10 December 1916	Liberal
		The Lord Beaverbrook	10 February 1918	Conservative
		William Hayes Fisher	4 November 1918	Conservative	Created Baron Downham 16 November 1918
		The Earl of Crawford	10 January 1919	Conservative
		The Viscount Peel	1 April 1921	Conservative
		Sir William Sutherland	7 April 1922	Liberal
Minister of Information		The Lord Beaverbrook	10 February 1918	Conservative
		William Hayes Fisher	4 November 1918	Conservative	Created Baron Downham 16 November 1918; office abolished 10 January 1919
Minister of Munitions		Christopher Addison	10 December 1916	Liberal
		Winston Churchill	17 July 1917	Liberal
		The Lord Inverforth	10 January 1919	Conservative	Office abolished 21 March 1921
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Munitions		Sir Laming Worthington-Evans	14 December 1916 – 30 January 1918	Conservative
		F. G. Kellaway	14 December 1916 – 1 April 1920	Liberal
		J. E. B. Seely	10 July 1918 – 10 January 1919	Liberal
		John Baird	10 January 1919 – 29 April 1919	Liberal
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions		Sir Laming Worthington-Evans	30 January 1918 – 18 July 1918	Conservative
		James Hope	27 January 1919 – 31 March 1921	Conservative
Director of National Service		Neville Chamberlain	15 December 1916	Conservative
		Sir Auckland Geddes	17 August 1917	Conservative	Post abolished 19 December 1919
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of National Service		Stephen Walsh	17 March 1917 – 28 June 1917	Labour
		Cecil Beck	28 June 1917 – 19 December 1919	Liberal
		The Viscount Peel	15 April 1918 – 10 January 1919	Conservative
Paymaster General		Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett	15 December 1916	Liberal
		Sir Tudor Walters	26 October 1919	Liberal
Minister of Pensions		George Nicoll Barnes	10 December 1916	Labour	In the War Cabinet 29 May 1917 – 3 August 1917
		John Hodge	17 August 1917	Labour
		Sir Laming Worthington-Evans	10 January 1919	Conservative
		Ian Macpherson	2 April 1920	Liberal
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions		Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen	22 December 1916	Conservative
		Sir James Craig	10 January 1919	Conservative
		George Tryon	2 April 1920	Conservative
Postmaster General		Albert Illingworth	10 December 1916	Liberal
		F. G. Kellaway	1 April 1921	Liberal
Assistant Postmaster General		Herbert Pease	10 December 1916	Conservative
Minister without Portfolio		Arthur Henderson	10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917	Labour	In the War Cabinet 10 December 1916 – 12 August 1917
		The Viscount Milner	10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918	Conservative	In the War Cabinet 10 December 1916 – 18 April 1918
		Jan Smuts	22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919		In the War Cabinet 22 June 1917 – 10 January 1919
		Sir Edward Carson	17 July 1917 – 21 January 1918	Conservative
		George Nicoll Barnes	13 August 1917 – 27 January 1920	Labour	In the War Cabinet 13 August 1917 – 10 January 1919
		Austen Chamberlain	18 April 1918 – 10 January 1919	Conservative	Entered the War Cabinet 18 April 1918
		Sir Eric Geddes	10 January 1919 – 19 May 1919	Conservative	In the War Cabinet 10 January 1919 – 31 October 1919
		Sir Laming Worthington-Evans	10 January 1919 – 13 February 1921	Conservative
		Christopher Addison	1 April 1921 – 14 July 1921	Liberal
Minister of Reconstruction		Christopher Addison	17 July 1917	Liberal
		Sir Auckland Geddes	10 January 1919	Conservative	Office abolished 19 December 1919
Secretary for Scotland		Robert Munro	10 December 1916	Liberal
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health for Scotland		John Pratt	8 August 1919	Liberal	Knighted 1922
Minister of Shipping		Sir Joseph Maclay	10 December 1916	Liberal	Office abolished 31 March 1921
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping		Sir Leo Chiozza Money	22 December 1916	Liberal
		Leslie Orme Wilson	10 January 1919	Conservative
Minister of Supply		The Lord Inverforth	10 January 1919	Conservative	Office abolished 31 March 1921
President of the Board of Trade		Sir Albert Stanley	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Sir Auckland Geddes	26 May 1919	Conservative
		Sir Robert Horne	19 March 1920	Conservative
		Stanley Baldwin	1 April 1921	Conservative
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade		George Roberts	14 December 1916	Labour
		George Wardle	17 August 1917	Labour
		William Bridgeman	10 January 1919	Conservative
		Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame	22 August 1920	Conservative
		Sir William Mitchell-Thomson	1 April 1921	Conservative
Secretary for Overseas Trade		Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland	14 September 1917	Conservative
		Sir Hamar Greenwood	29 April 1919	Liberal
		F. G. Kellaway	2 April 1920	Liberal
		Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame	1 April 1921	Conservative
Parliamentary Secretary for Mines		William Bridgeman	22 August 1920	Conservative
Minister of Transport		Sir Eric Geddes	19 May 1919	Conservative
		The Viscount Peel	7 November 1921	Conservative
		The Earl of Crawford	12 April 1922	Conservative
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport		Sir Rhys Williams	23 September 1919	Liberal
		Arthur Neal	28 November 1919	Liberal
Secretary of State for War		The Earl of Derby	10 December 1916	Conservative
		The Viscount Milner	18 April 1918	Conservative
		Winston Churchill	10 January 1919	Liberal
		Sir Laming Worthington-Evans	13 February 1921	Conservative
Under-Secretary of State for War		Ian Macpherson	14 December 1916	Liberal
		Viscount Peel	10 January 1919	Conservative
		Sir Robert Sanders	1 April 1921	Conservative
Financial Secretary to the War Office		Henry Forster	10 December 1916	Conservative	Created Baron Forster 12 December 1919
		Sir Archibald Williamson	18 December 1919	Liberal
		George Frederick Stanley	1 April 1921	Conservative
Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office		The Earl Stanhope	14 December 1916	Conservative	Post abolished 10 January 1919
First Commissioner of Works		Sir Alfred Mond	10 December 1916	Liberal
		The Earl of Crawford	1 April 1921	Conservative	Entered the Cabinet 7 April 1922
Attorney General		Sir F. E. Smith	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Sir Gordon Hewart	10 January 1919	Liberal	Entered the Cabinet 7 November 1921
		Sir Ernest Pollock	6 March 1922	Conservative
Solicitor General		Sir Gordon Hewart	10 December 1916	Liberal
		Sir Ernest Pollock	10 January 1919	Conservative
		Leslie Scott	6 March 1922	Conservative	Knighted in 1922
Lord Advocate		James Clyde	10 December 1916	Conservative
		Thomas Morison	25 March 1920	Liberal
		Charles David Murray	5 March 1922	Conservative
Solicitor General for Scotland		Thomas Morison	10 December 1916	Liberal
		Charles David Murray	25 March 1920	Conservative
		Andrew Briggs Constable	16 March 1922	Conservative
		William Watson	24 July 1922	Conservative
Lord Chancellor of Ireland		Sir John O'Brien	10 December 1916	Liberal
		Sir James Campbell	4 June 1918	Conservative
		Sir John Ross	27 June 1921	Conservative
Attorney General for Ireland		James O'Connor	8 January 1917
		Arthur Samuels	7 April 1918	Conservative
		Denis Henry	6 July 1919	Conservative
		Thomas Brown	5 August 1921	Conservative
		vacant	16 August 1921
Solicitor General for Ireland		James Chambers	19 March 1917	Conservative
		Arthur Samuels	12 September 1917	Conservative
		John Powell	7 April 1918	Conservative
		Denis Henry	27 November 1918	Conservative
		Daniel Wilson	6 July 1919	Conservative
		Thomas Brown	12 June 1921	Conservative
		vacant	5 August 1921
Lord Steward of the Household		The Lord Farquhar	14 December 1916	Conservative	Created Viscount Farquhar 21 June 1917
Lord Chamberlain of the Household		The Lord Sandhurst	14 December 1916	Liberal	Created Viscount Sandhurst 1 January 1917
		The Duke of Atholl	20 November 1921	Conservative
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household		Cecil Beck	14 December 1916	Liberal
		William Dudley Ward	9 December 1917	Liberal
Master of the Horse		The Earl of Chesterfield	14 December 1916	Liberal
Treasurer of the Household		James Craig	14 December 1916	Conservative	Created a Baronet 5 February 1918
		vacant	22 January 1918
		Robert Sanders	11 June 1918	Conservative
		Bolton Eyres-Monsell	5 February 1919	Conservative
		George Gibbs	1 April 1921	Conservative
Comptroller of the Household		Sir Edwin Cornwall	14 December 1916	Liberal
		George Frederick Stanley	28 February 1919	Conservative
		Harry Barnston	7 April 1921	Conservative
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms		The Lord Colebrooke	14 December 1916	Liberal	Also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard		The Lord Suffield	14 December 1916	Conservative
		The Lord Hylton	21 May 1918	Conservative	Also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords
Lords in Waiting		The Lord Herschell	14 December 1916 – 11 February 1919	Liberal
		The Lord Stanmore	14 December 1916 – 19 October 1922	Liberal
		The Lord Ranksborough	14 December 1916 – 4 April 1921	Liberal
		The Viscount Valentia	14 December 1916 – 19 October 1922	Conservative
		The Lord Hylton	14 December 1916 – 18 May 1918	Conservative	Also Joint Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords
		The Lord Somerleyton	18 May 1918 – 19 October 1922	Conservative
		The Earl of Jersey	11 January 1919 – 17 August 1919	Conservative
		The Earl of Bradford	11 February 1919 – 19 October 1922	Conservative
		The Earl of Onslow	17 August 1919 – 21 November 1920	Conservative
		The Earl of Lucan	12 November 1920 – 19 October 1922	Conservative
		The Earl of Clarendon	4 April 1921 – 19 October 1922	Conservative

Further reading

• Burk. K. M. ed. War and the State: The Transformation of British Government 1914–1918 (1982).
• Burk. K. M. Britain, America and the Sinews of War 1914–1918 (1985).
• Butler, David, and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts (Macmillan, 2000).
• Cassar, George H. Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918 (2009) full text online at JSTOR; excerpts
• French, David. The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916–1918 (1995)
• Fry, Michael. "Political Change in Britain, August 1914 to December 1916: Lloyd George Replaces Asquith: The Issues Underlying the Drama." Historical Journal 31.03 (1988): 609–627.
• Gardner, Lloyd C. Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923 (1987) diplomatic history
• Grieves, Keith. The politics of manpower, 1914–18 (Manchester UP, 1988).
• Grigg, John. Lloyd George: From Peace to War 1912–1916 (1985)
• Grigg, John. Lloyd George: War Leader 1916–1918 (2002).
• Keohane, Nigel. The party of patriotism: the Conservative Party and the First World War (Routledge, 2016).
• McEwen, John M. "The Struggle for Mastery in Britain: Lloyd George versus Asquith, December 1916." Journal of British Studies 18#1 (1978): 131–156.
• Morgan, Kenneth O. Consensus and disunity: the Lloyd George coalition government, 1918–1922 (1979)
• Morgan, Kenneth O. "Lloyd George's Premiership: A Study in 'Prime Ministerial Government'." Historical Journal 13#1 (1970): 130–57. online.
• Morgan, Kenneth O. "George, David Lloyd, first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863–1945)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 accessed 11 Feb 2017 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34570
• Paxman, Jeremy. Great Britain's Great War (2013), based on TV series.
• Simmonds, Alan G.V. Britain and World War One (Routledge, 2013).
• Somervell, D.C. The Reign of King George V, (1936) pp 161–306. online free
• Taylor, A.J.P. English History: 1914–1945 (1965), pp 66–128
• Wrigley, Chris. Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: The Post-War Coalition 1918–1922 (1990).

Primary sources

• Lloyd George, David. War Memoirs (6 vols. 1933–36).
  • Egerton, George W. "The Lloyd George 'War Memoirs': A Study in the Politics of Memory." Journal of Modern History 60#1 (1988): 55–94. in JSTOR
• Stubbs, John O. "Beaverbrook As Historian: 'Politicians and the War, 1914–1916' Reconsidered." Albion 14#3 (1982): 235–253.