Salisbury III cabinet

The Salisbury III Cabinet was formed on June 25, 1895 by Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , and served 2,574 days through June 11, 1902.

Cabinet formation and general elections in 1895 and 1900

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, served as Prime Minister for the third time between 1895 and 1902

After the general election in 1895 , a coalition of Conservative Party and Liberal Unionists was formed. Both parties won 1,894,772 votes and 411 of the 670 seats. The Liberal Party under the previous Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , won 1,765,266 votes, due to the current majority voting system, only 177 seats. The third strongest force was the Irish Parliamentary Party under Justin McCarthy , with 152,959 votes and 82 seats.

The chairman of the Conservative Tories , Marquess of Salisbury, assumed the office of Prime Minister for the third time, while his nephew Arthur Balfour , head of government in the House of Commons , became First Lord of the Treasury . Several important posts went to leaders of the Liberal Unionists, in particular to the leader of the Liberal Unionists in the House of Lords , Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire , the Lord President of the Council was. His party friend Joseph Chamberlain became Minister of Colonialism.

The Second Boer War , which lasted from 1899 to 1902, fell in Salisbury's tenure . The successful course of the war for the United Kingdom contributed to the victory of the coalition parties in the general election in 1900 . With 1,767,958 votes, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Unionists won 402 seats and lost only nine seats. The Liberal Party, now chaired by Henry Campbell-Bannerman , won 1,572,323 votes and got 183 seats in parliament.

On July 11, 1902, the Marquess of Salisbury joined as Prime Minister and Chairman of the Conservative Party and was then replaced by Arthur James Balfour.

Cabinet members 1895 to 1902

Office	Surname	Term of office	Remarks
prime minister	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury	June 25, 1895 - July 11, 1902	3rd term of office, also Leader of the House of Lords
First Lord of the Treasury	Arthur Balfour	June 29, 1895	also Leader of the House of Commons
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Michael Hicks Beach	June 29, 1895
Lord Chancellor	Hardinge Giffard	June 29, 1895	Elevation to Earl of Halsbury on January 19, 1898
Lord President of the Council	Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire	June 29, 1895
Lord Seal Keeper	Richard Cross, 1st Viscount Cross	June 29, 1895
	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury	November 12, 1900
Interior minister	Matthew White Ridley	June 29, 1895
	Charles Thomson Ritchie	November 12, 1900
Foreign minister	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury	June 29, 1895
Minister of War	Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne	4th July 1895
	St John Brodrick	November 12, 1900
Colonial minister	Joseph Chamberlain	June 29, 1895
Minister for India	George Francis Hamilton	4th July 1895
First Lord of the Admiralty	George Goschen	June 29, 1895
	William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne	November 12, 1900
Minister of Agriculture	Walter Long	4th July 1895
	Robert William Hanbury	November 16, 1900
Minister of Education	Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire	March 3, 1900
Chief Secretary for Ireland	Gerald Balfour	4th July 1895
	George Wyndham	November 9, 1900
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan	June 29, 1895
Lord Chancellor of Ireland	Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne	June 29, 1895
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Richard Cross, 1st Viscount Cross	June 29, 1895
	Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford	4th July 1895
Local minister	Henry Chaplin	June 29, 1895
	Walter Long	November 12, 1900
Postmaster General	Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk	July 6, 1895
	Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry	April 10, 1900	Cabinet Minister since November 7, 1900
Minister for Scotland	Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh	June 29, 1895
Minister of Commerce	Charles Ritchie	June 29, 1895
	Gerald Balfour	November 12, 1900
Minister for Public Works	Aretas Akers-Douglas	4th July 1895
Paymaster General	John Hope, Earl of Hopetoun	July 16, 1895
	Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough	1899
	Savile Crossley	March 11, 1902
Attorney General for England and Wales	Richard Webster	July 8, 1895
	Robert Bannatyne Finlay	May 11, 1900
Solicitor General for England and Wales	Robert Bannatyne Finlay	August 30, 1895
	Edward Carson	May 11, 1900
Lord Advocate	Charles Pearson	July 11, 1895
	Andrew Murray	May 14, 1896
Solicitor General for Scotland	Andrew Murray	July 11, 1895
	Charles Dickson	May 14, 1896
Attorney General for Ireland	John Atkinson	July 8, 1895
Solicitor General for Ireland	William Kenny	August 28, 1895
	Dunbar Plunket Barton	1897
	George Wright	January 30, 1900

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