Office | Name | Date | Notes |
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons | William Ewart Gladstone | 3 December 1868 – 17 February 1874 | the Government resigned 13 March 1873 and resumed 19 March 1873 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer | Robert Lowe | 9 December 1868 | |
William Ewart Gladstone | 11 August 1873 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | George Glyn | 9 December 1868 | |
Arthur Peel | 1 August 1873 |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | Acton Smee Ayrton | 9 December 1868 | |
James Stansfeld | 2 November 1869 |
William Edward Baxter | 17 March 1871 |
John George Dodson | 11 August 1873 |
Junior Lords of the Treasury | James Stansfeld | 16 December 1868 – 2 November 1869 | |
The Marquess of Lansdowne | 16 December 1868 – 25 April 1872 |
William Patrick Adam | 16 December 1868 – 8 August 1873 |
John Cranch Walker Vivian | 16 December 1868 – 4 August 1870 |
William Henry Gladstone | 2 November 1869 – 17 February 1874 |
Lord Frederick Cavendish | 8 August 1873 – 17 February 1874 |
Algernon Greville | 8 August 1873 – 17 February 1874 |
Lord Chancellor | The Lord Hatherley | 9 December 1868 | |
The Lord Selborne | 15 October 1872 |
Lord President of the Council | The Earl de Grey and Ripon | 9 December 1868 | created Marquess of Ripon 23 June 1871 |
Henry Bruce | 9 August 1873 | created Lord Aberdare 23 August 1873 |
Lord Privy Seal | The Earl of Kimberley | 9 December 1868 | |
The Viscount Halifax | 6 July 1870 |
Secretary of State for the Home Department | Henry Bruce | 9 December 1868 | |
Robert Lowe | 9 August 1873 |
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen | 10 December 1868 | |
George Shaw-Lefevre | 11 January 1871 |
Henry Winterbotham | 17 March 1871 |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | The Earl of Clarendon | 9 December 1868 | |
The Earl Granville | 6 July 1870 | also Leader of the House of Lords |
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Arthur Otway | 12 December 1868 | |
Viscount Enfield | 9 January 1871 |
Secretary of State for War | Edward Cardwell | 9 December 1868 | |
Under-Secretary of State for War | The Lord Northbrook | 10 December 1868 | |
The Marquess of Lansdowne | 26 April 1872 |
Financial Secretary to the War Office | John Cranch Walker Vivian | 5 August 1870 | |
Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 15 November 1871 |
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance | Sir Henry Storks | 5 August 1870 | |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | The Earl Granville | 9 December 1868 | also Leader of the House of Lords |
The Earl of Kimberley | 6 July 1870 |
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | William Monsell | 10 December 1868 | |
Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen | 14 January 1871 |
Secretary of State for India | The Duke of Argyll | 9 December 1868 | |
Under-Secretary of State for India | M. E. Grant Duff | 10 December 1868 | |
First Lord of the Admiralty | Hugh Childers | 9 December 1868 | |
George Goschen | 24 March 1871 |
First (later Parliamentary) Secretary to the Admiralty | William Edward Baxter | 18 December 1868 | |
George Shaw-Lefevre | 17 March 1871 |
Civil Lord of the Admiralty | George Trevelyan | 21 December 1868 | |
The Earl of Camperdown | 11 July 1870 |
Vice-President of the Committee on Education | William Edward Forster | 9 December 1868 | entered the Cabinet July 1870 |
Chief Secretary for Ireland | Chichester Fortescue | 16 December 1868 | |
Marquess of Hartington | 12 January 1871 |
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | The Earl Spencer | 18 December 1868 | |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye | 12 December 1868 | created Earl of Dufferin 13 November 1871 |
Hugh Childers | 9 August 1872 | |
John Bright | 30 September 1873 |
President of the Poor Law Board | George Goschen | 9 December 1868 | |
James Stansfeld | 24 March 1871 | Board abolished 14 August 1871 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board | Arthur Peel | 10 December 1868 |
President of the Local Government Board | James Stansfeld | 19 August 1871 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board | John Tomlinson Hibbert | 19 August 1871 | |
Postmaster-General | Marquess of Hartington | 9 December 1868 | |
William Monsell | 14 January 1871 |
Lyon Playfair | 18 November 1873 |
President of the Board of Trade | John Bright | 9 December 1868 | |
Chichester Fortescue | 14 January 1871 |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade | George Shaw-Lefevre | 9 December 1868 | |
Arthur Peel | 14 January 1871 |
Paymaster-General | The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye | 12 December 1868 | created Earl of Dufferin 13 November 1871 |
Hugh Childers | 9 August 1872 | |
William Patrick Adam | 30 September 1873 |
First Commissioner of Works | Austen Henry Layard | 9 December 1868 | |
Acton Smee Ayrton | 26 October 1869 |
William Patrick Adam | 11 August 1873 |
Attorney General | Sir Robert Collier | 12 December 1868 | |
Sir John Coleridge | 10 November 1871 |
Sir Henry James | 20 November 1873 |
Solicitor General | Sir John Coleridge | 12 December 1868 | |
Sir George Jessel | 10 November 1871 |
Sir Henry James | 26 September 1873 |
Sir William Vernon Harcourt | 20 November 1873 |
Judge Advocate General | Sir Colman O'Loghlen | 16 December 1868 | |
John Robert Davison | 28 December 1870 |
Sir Robert Phillimore | 17 May 1871 |
Acton Smee Ayrton | 21 August 1873 |
Lord Advocate | James Moncreiff | 10 December 1868 | |
George Young | 14 October 1869 |
Solicitor General for Scotland | George Young | 14 December 1868 | |
Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark | 14 October 1869 |
Attorney General for Ireland | Edward Sullivan | 12 December 1868 | |
Charles Robert Barry | 26 January 1870 |
Richard Dowse | 13 January 1872 |
Christopher Palles | 5 November 1872 |
Solicitor General for Ireland | Charles Robert Barry | 12 December 1868 | |
Richard Dowse | 14 February 1870 |
Christopher Palles | 6 February 1872 |
Hugh Law | 18 November 1872 |
Lord Steward of the Household | The Earl of Bessborough | 12 December 1868 | |
Lord Chamberlain of the Household | The Viscount Sydney | 9 December 1868 | |
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | Viscount Castlerosse | 12 December 1868 | succeeded as 4th Earl of Kenmare 26 December 1871 |
Lord Richard Grosvenor | 25 February 1872 | |
Master of the Horse | The Marquess of Ailesbury | 12 December 1868 | |
Treasurer of the Household | The Lord de Tabley | 12 December 1868 | |
The Lord Poltimore | 1 March 1872 |
The Lord Monson | 1 January 1874 |
Comptroller of the Household | Lord Otho FitzGerald | 12 December 1868 | |
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms | The Lord Foley | 12 December 1868 | |
The Marquess of Normanby | 27 December 1869 |
The Earl Cowper | 20 April 1871 |
The Earl of Ilchester | 1 January 1874 |
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | The Duke of St Albans | 22 December 1868 | |
Master of the Buckhounds | The Earl of Cork | 12 December 1868 | |
Mistress of the Robes | The Duchess of Argyll | 17 December 1868 | |
The Duchess of Sutherland | 22 January 1870 |
Lords in Waiting | The Marquess of Normanby | 17 December 1868 – 27 December 1869 | |
The Earl of Camperdown | 17 December 1868 – 11 July 1870 |
The Lord Camoys | 17 December 1868 – 17 February 1874 |
The Lord Suffield | 17 December 1868 – 25 February 1872 |
The Lord Methuen | 17 December 1868 – 17 February 1874 |
The Earl of Morley | 22 December 1868 – 17 February 1874 |
The Lord Lurgan | 27 January 1869 – 17 February 1874 |
The Lord Wrottesley | 27 December 1869 – 17 February 1874 |
The Marquess of Huntly | 21 July 1870 – 1 March 1873 |
The Earl of Kenmare | 25 February 1872 – 17 February 1874 |
The Earl of Breadalbane | 1 March 1873 – 17 February 1874 |