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The Conservative Government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ministries: the Law ministry (from 1922 to 1923) and then the first Baldwin ministry (from 1923 onwards).

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

Law ministry
1922-1923
Bonar Law
Date formed	23 October 1922 (1922-10-23)
Date dissolved	20 May 1923 (1923-05-20)
People and organisations
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Bonar Law
Member party	Conservative Party
Status in legislature	Majority 344 / 616 (56%)
Opposition party	Labour Party
Opposition leaders	Ramsay MacDonald
History
Election	1922 general election
Legislature terms	31st UK Parliament 32nd UK Parliament
Predecessor	Lloyd George ministry
Successor	First Baldwin ministry

• 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

First Baldwin ministry
1923-1924
Stanley Baldwin
Date formed	22 May 1923 (1923-05-22)
Date dissolved	22 January 1924 (1924-01-22)
People and organisations
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Member party	Conservative Party
Status in legislature	Majority 344 / 616 (56%)
Opposition party	Labour Party
Opposition leaders	Ramsay MacDonald
History
Election	1922 general election
Outgoing election	1923 general election
Legislature terms	32nd UK Parliament 33rd UK Parliament
Predecessor	Law ministry
Successor	First MacDonald ministry

• 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.

List of ministers

Members of the Cabinet are shown in bold face.

Notes

1. Also Deputy Minister of Fisheries.
2. Entered the Cabinet 25 May 1923

References

• D. Butler and G. Butler (ed.). Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000.

1. "No. 32892". The London Gazette. 28 December 1923. p. 9107.
2. "No. 32828". The London Gazette. 29 May 1923. p. 3741.
3. "No. 32835". The London Gazette. 19 June 1923. p. 4275.
4. J C Sainty 'Assistant Whips 1922-1964' in Parliamentary History Vol 4 (1985) pp 201-04

v t e British governments
Great Britain (1707–1801)	Godolphin–Marlborough Harley Townshend Stanhope–Sunderland I Stanhope–Sunderland II Walpole–Townshend Walpole Carteret Broad Bottom I and II Short-lived Newcastle I Pitt–Devonshire 1757 Caretaker Pitt–Newcastle (Newcastle II) Bute Grenville Rockingham I Chatham Grafton North Rockingham II Shelburne Fox–North (Portland I) Pitt I
UK (GB and Ire) (1801–1922)	Addington Pitt II All the Talents Portland II Perceval Liverpool Canning Goderich Wellington–Peel Grey Melbourne I Wellington Caretaker Peel I Melbourne II Peel II Russell I Who? Who? (Derby–Disraeli I) Aberdeen Palmerston I Derby–Disraeli II Palmerston II Russell II Derby–Disraeli III (Disraeli I) Gladstone I Disraeli II Gladstone II Salisbury I Gladstone III Salisbury II Gladstone IV Rosebery Salisbury III and IV Balfour Campbell-Bannerman Asquith I–III Asquith Coalition Lloyd George I and II
UK (GB and NI) (1922–present)	Law Baldwin I MacDonald I Baldwin II MacDonald II National Government I National Government II National Government III National Government IV Chamberlain War Churchill War Churchill Caretaker Attlee I and II Churchill III Eden Macmillan I and II Douglas-Home Wilson I and II Heath Wilson III and IV Callaghan Thatcher I Thatcher II Thatcher III Major I Major II Blair I Blair II Blair III Brown Cameron–Clegg (Cameron I) Cameron II May I May II Johnson I Johnson II Truss Sunak Starmer
Current ministry

v t e Stanley Baldwin
Premierships	1923–1924 1924–1929 1935–1937
General elections	1923 1924 1929 1931 1935
Constituency	Bewdley
Family	Alfred Baldwin (father) Lucy Baldwin (wife) Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (son) Arthur Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (son)
Career	Carlton Club meeting Power without responsibility speech National Government British Empire Economic Conference Appeasement Hoare–Laval Pact Abdication of Edward VIII Honours
Cultural depictions	The Gathering Storm (TV, 1974) Edward & Mrs. Simpson (TV, 1978) Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (TV, 1981) The Woman He Loved (TV, 1988) The Gathering Storm (TV, 2002) Wallis & Edward (TV, 2005) The King's Speech (Film, 2010) W.E. (Film, 2011)
See also	Astley Hall Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Wilden Ironworks 1908 Bewdley by-election 1921 Bewdley by-election 1924 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours

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• History of the Conservative Party (UK)
• 1920s in the United Kingdom
• 1922 establishments in the United Kingdom
• 1924 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
• Ministries of George V
• Stanley Baldwin
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• Interwar Britain
• 1922 in British politics
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