Churchill III cabinet
The Churchill Third Cabinet was formed on October 27, 1951 by Prime Minister Winston Churchill . He succeeded Prime Minister Clement Attlee of the Labor Party and was in office for 1,258 days until he was replaced by Anthony Eden on April 5, 1955.
General election 1951 and cabinet formation
The Cabinet was Churchill after the victory of the Conservative Party in the general election of October 25, 1951 formed. Although the Labor Party received 13,948,883 (48.8 percent) of the vote, it lost 20 of its 315 seats in the House of Commons and a majority in the House of Commons due to the prevailing majority vote. The Conservative Party got 12,660,061 votes (44.3 percent) and gained 20 seats, leaving it with 302 seats in the lower house. Churchill became Prime Minister for the second time and formed the first all-Conservative Party cabinet since Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's term ended on June 4, 1929.
The government consisted of numerous prominent members of the conservative Tories as well as some young politicians from the party. Rab Butler was named Chancellor of the Exchequer , while Anthony Eden was again appointed Foreign Minister . The well-known Scottish attorney David Maxwell Fyfe , who had made merits as a prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals , became Minister of the Interior. He held this office until 1954, before he was raised to the rank of nobility as Earl of Kilmuir and took over the office of Lord Chancellor . The later Prime Minister Harold Macmillan took over his first significant cabinet office as Minister of Defense in 1954 as part of a cabinet reshuffle.
Gwilym Lloyd George , younger son of the former head of the Liberal Party , David Lloyd George , took over in 1954 by David Maxwell Fyfe the post of interior minister. Florence Horsbrugh became the first woman to serve in cabinet office in a Conservative government when she was appointed Minister of Education in 1951. Numerous other personalities who later held high offices took over their first government posts. These included the future Prime Minister Edward Heath , the future Chancellors of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling , Peter Thorneycroft and Iain Macleod , as well as the future Secretary of State Peter Carrington . Other prominent government figures included John Profumo , Bill Deedes , David Ormsby-Gore, and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury .
The term of office of Churchill's third cabinet was largely shaped by foreign policy issues such as the expansion of the Cold War , the decolonization of Africa , the Mau Mau War and the guerrilla war on the Malay Peninsula .
Although Churchill suffered a stroke in 1953 , he held the post of Prime Minister until he resigned at the age of 80 on April 5, 1955. His successor was then Anthony Eden, whom he had promoted over many years.
Cabinet members 1951 to 1955
| Office | Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury |
Winston Churchill | October 26, 1951 - April 5, 1955 | Knight of the Order of the Garter 1953 |
| Lord Chancellor | Gavin Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds | October 30, 1951 | |
| David Maxwell Fyfe | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Lord President of the Council | Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton | October 28, 1951 | |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury | November 24, 1952 | at the same time Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Lord Seal Keeper | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury | October 28, 1951 | at the same time Leader of the House of Lords |
| Harry Crookshank | May 7, 1952 | also Leader of the House of Commons | |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | Rab butler | October 26, 1951 | |
| Economics Minister | James Salter | October 31, 1951 | Abolished on November 24, 1952 |
| Foreign minister | Anthony Eden | October 28, 1951 | Knight of the Order of the Garter 1954 |
| Home Secretary and Minister for Wales |
David Maxwell Fyfe | October 28, 1951 | |
| Gwilym Lloyd George | October 18, 1954 | ||
| First Lord of the Admiralty | James Thomas | October 31, 1951 | Elevation to the Viscount Cilcennin 1955 |
| Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries | Sir Thomas Dugdale | October 31, 1951 | Cabinet minister since September 3, 1953 |
| Derick Heathcoat-Amory | July 28, 1954 | Merged with the Ministry of Food on October 18, 1954 | |
| Aviation Minister | William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle | October 31, 1951 | |
| Colonial minister | Oliver Lyttelton | October 28, 1951 | |
| Alan Lennox-Boyd | July 28, 1954 | ||
| Minister for Commonwealth Relations | Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay | October 28, 1951 | |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury | March 12, 1952 | at the same time Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Viscount Swinton | November 24, 1952 | ||
| Minister for the Coordination of Transport, Fuel and Energy | Frederick James Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers | October 30, 1951 | Abolished on September 3, 1953 |
| Defense Minister | Winston Churchill | October 28, 1951 | at the same time prime minister |
| Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis | March 1, 1952 | ||
| Harold Macmillan | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Minister of Education | Florence Horsbrugh | November 2, 1951 | Cabinet Minister since September 3, 1953 |
| David Eccles | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Minister of Food | Gwilym Lloyd-George | October 31, 1951 | Cabinet minister since September 3, 1953 |
| Derick Heathcoat-Amory | October 18, 1954 | Amalgamated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on October 18, 1954 | |
| Minister for Fuel and Energy | Geoffrey Lloyd | October 31, 1951 | |
| Minister of Health | Harry Crookshank | October 30, 1951 | also Leader of the House of Commons |
| Iain Macleod | May 7, 1952 | ||
| Minister for Housing and Local Government | Harold Macmillan | October 30, 1951 | |
| Duncan Sandys | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Minister of Labor and the National Service | Walter Monckton | October 28, 1951 | |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton | October 31, 1951 | At the same time Minister for Materials |
| Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton | November 24, 1952 | Cabinet Minister | |
| Minister for Materials | Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton | October 31, 1951 | At the same time Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
| James Salter | November 24, 1952 | ||
| Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton | September 1, 1953 | At the same time Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . Dissolution of the office on August 16, 1954 | |
| Minister with no portfolio | Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster | October 18, 1954 - April 5, 1955 | |
| Minister for National Insurance | Osbert Peake | October 31, 1951 | Merged with the Ministry of Pensions on September 3, 1953 |
| Paymaster General | Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell | October 30, 1951 | |
| George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk | November 11, 1953 | No cabinet office | |
| Pension Minister | Derick Heathcoat-Amory | 5th November 1951 | Amalgamated with the Ministry of National Insurance on September 1, 1953 |
| Osbert Peake | 3rd September 1953 | Cabinet minister since October 18, 1954 | |
| Postmaster General | Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr | 5th November 1951 | |
| Minister for Scotland | James Stuart | October 30, 1951 | |
| Minister of Supply | Duncan Sandys | October 31, 1951 | |
| Selwyn Lloyd | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Minister of Commerce | Peter Thorneycroft | October 30, 1951 | 1955 cabinet minister |
| Transport Minister | John Maclay | October 31, 1951 | |
| Alan Lennox-Boyd | May 7, 1952 | Merger of the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Civil Aviation on October 1, 1953 | |
| John Boyd-Carpenter | July 28, 1954 | ||
| Minister of War | Anthony Head | October 31, 1951 | |
| Minister for Public Works | David Eccles | November 1, 1951 | |
| Nigel Birch | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Attorney General for England and Wales | Lionel Heald | November 3, 1951 | |
| Reginald Manningham-Buller | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Solicitor General for England and Wales | Reginald Manningham-Buller | November 3, 1951 | |
| Harry Hylton-Foster | October 18, 1954 | ||
| Lord Advocate | James Clyde | November 2, 1951 | |
| William Rankine Milligan | December 30, 1954 | ||
| Solicitor General for Scotland | William Rankine Milligan | November 2, 1951 | Not a member of the House of Commons |
| William Grant | January 10, 1955 |
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