Second Derby–Disraeli ministry
Appearance
Second Derby–Disraeli ministry | |
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1858–1859 | |
Date formed | 20 February 1858 |
Date dissolved | 11 June 1859 |
People and organisations | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby |
Chancellor of the Exchequer | Benjamin Disraeli |
Total no. of members | 78 appointments |
Member party | Conservative Party |
Status in legislature | Minority |
Opposition party | Liberal Party |
Opposition leaders | |
History | |
Outgoing election | 1859 general election |
Legislature terms | 17th UK Parliament |
Predecessor | First Palmerston ministry |
Successor | Second Palmerston ministry |
The Conservative government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1858 and ended in 1859 was led by Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby in the House of Lords and Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons.
History
After the collapse of
second ministry
.
Cabinet
February 1858 – June 1859
Office | Name | Term |
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First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords |
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | February 1858 – June 1859 |
Lord Chancellor | Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford | February 1858 – June 1859 |
Lord President of the Council | James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury |
February 1858 – June 1859 |
Lord Privy Seal | Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke |
February 1858 – June 1859 |
Home Secretary |
Spencer Horatio Walpole | February 1858 – March 1859 |
T.H.S. Sotheron Estcourt |
March–June 1859 | |
Foreign Secretary |
James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury |
February 1858 – June 1859 |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | Lord Stanley | February–June 1858 |
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton | June 1858 – June 1859 | |
Secretary of State for War | General Jonathan Peel | February 1858 – June 1859 |
Secretary of State for India | Lord Stanley | September 1858 – June 1859 |
First Lord of the Admiralty | Sir John Pakington, Bt | February 1858 – June 1859 |
President of the Board of Control | Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough | February–June 1858 |
Lord Stanley | June–September 1858 | |
replaced by the India Office | ||
Chancellor of the Exchequer Leader of the House of Commons |
Benjamin Disraeli |
February 1858 – June 1859 |
President of the Board of Trade | J.W. Henley |
February 1858 – June 1859 |
First Commissioner of Works | Lord John Manners | February 1858 – June 1859 |
List of ministers
Cabinet members are listed in bold face.
Office | Name | Date |
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Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords |
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | 21 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer Leader of the House of Commons |
Benjamin Disraeli
|
26 February 1858 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | Sir William Jolliffe | 2 March 1858 |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | George Alexander Hamilton | 2 March 1858 |
Sir Stafford Northcote | 21 January 1859 | |
Junior Lords of the Treasury
|
Lord Henry Lennox | 1 March 1858 – 14 March 1859 |
Thomas Edward Taylor | 1 March 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
Henry Whitmore | 1 March 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
Peter Blackburn | 15 March 1859 – 11 June 1859 | |
Lord Chancellor | Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford | 26 February 1858 |
Lord President of the Council | James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury | 26 February 1858 |
Lord Privy Seal | Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke
|
26 February 1858 |
Secretary of State for the Home Department
|
Spencer Horatio Walpole | 26 February 1858 |
Thomas H. Sotheron-Estcourt
|
3 March 1859 | |
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
|
Gathorne Hardy | 26 February 1858 |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
|
James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury
|
26 February 1858 |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
|
William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald
|
26 February 1858 |
Secretary of State for War | Jonathan Peel | 26 February 1858 |
Under-Secretary of State for War | Charles Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge | 8 March 1858 |
James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn | 3 March 1859 | |
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance | vacant | — |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | Lord Stanley | 26 February 1858 |
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 5 June 1858 | |
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon | 26 February 1858 |
Secretary of State for India | Lord Stanley | 2 September 1858 |
Under-Secretary of State for India | Henry James Baillie
|
30 September 1858 |
First Lord of the Admiralty | Sir John Pakington | 8 March 1858 |
First Secretary of the Admiralty
|
Henry Thomas Lowry Corry
|
9 March 1858 |
Civil Lord of the Admiralty | Lord Lovaine
|
8 March 1858 |
Frederick Lygon | 9 March 1859 | |
President of the Board of Control | Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough | 6 March 1858 |
Lord Stanley[a] | 5 June 1858 | |
Joint Secretary to the Board of Control
|
Henry James Baillie
|
6 March 1858[a] |
President of the Board of Trade | Joseph Warner Henley
|
26 February 1858 |
Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore
|
3 March 1859 | |
Vice-President of the Board of Trade
|
Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore | 6 April 1858 |
Lord Lovaine | 3 March 1859 | |
First Commissioner of Works | Lord John Manners | 26 February 1858 |
Vice-President of the Committee on Education
|
Charles Bowyer Adderley
|
12 March 1858 |
President of the Board of Health
|
Charles Bowyer Adderley | 8 March 1858[b] |
Chief Secretary for Ireland | Lord Naas | 4 March 1858 |
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton
|
8 March 1858 |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose | 26 February 1858 |
Paymaster General | Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore | 6 April 1858 |
Lord Lovaine | 3 March 1859 | |
President of the Poor Law Board
|
T.H.S. Sotheron Estcourt | 6 March 1858 |
Earl of March
|
7 March 1859 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board
|
Frederick Winn Knight
|
12 March 1858 |
Postmaster-General
|
Charles Edward Abbott, 2nd Baron Colchester
|
13 March 1858 |
Attorney General | Sir Fitzroy Kelly | 26 February 1858 |
Solicitor General | Sir Hugh Cairns | 26 February 1858 |
Judge Advocate General
|
John Mowbray | 13 March 1858 |
Lord Advocate | John Inglis | 1 March 1858 |
Charles Baillie | 10 July 1858 | |
David Mure | 15 April 1859 | |
Solicitor General for Scotland | Charles Baillie | 17 March 1858 |
David Mure | 12 July 1858 | |
George Patton | 3 May 1859 | |
Attorney General for Ireland
|
James Whiteside | February 1858 |
Solicitor General for Ireland
|
Henry George Hughes | February 1858 |
Edmund Hayes | 1859 | |
Lord Steward of the Household
|
Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter | 26 February 1858 |
Lord Chamberlain of the Household
|
George John Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr
|
26 February 1858 |
Master of the Horse | Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
|
26 February 1858 |
Treasurer of the Household | Lord Claud Hamilton | 26 February 1858 |
Comptroller of the Household | George Weld-Forester | 26 February 1858 |
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
|
Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury
|
26 February 1858 |
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
|
17 March 1858 |
Master of the Buckhounds | John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich
|
26 February 1858 |
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal
|
Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross | 26 February 1858 |
Mistress of the Robes | The Duchess of Manchester
|
26 February 1858 |
Lords in Waiting | James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam | 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 |
George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield | 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
William Drummond, 7th Viscount Strathallan | 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
Henry Hepburne-Scott, 7th Lord Polwarth | 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton | 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
William Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman | 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan | 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 |
- Notes
References
- British Historical Facts 1830–1900, by Chris Cook and Brendon Keith (The Macmillan Press 1975) pp. 21–22 SBN 333 13220 3