First Palmerston ministry
The Viscount Palmerston, of the Whigs, first formed a government by popular demand in 1855, after the resignation of the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen. He was heavily criticised by Parliament in 1857 over the conduct of the Second Opium War and called a dissolution, but the nation voiced its support in the resulting general election and he remained in power. In 1858 he resigned when defeated "on a measure for removing conspiracies to murder abroad from the class of misdemeanour to that of felony", and was succeeded by another short-lived Conservative government under Lord Derby.
Cabinet
February 1855 – February 1858
Changes
- Later in February 1855 – Sir George Cornewall Lewis succeeds Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord John Russell succeeds Herbert as Colonial Secretary. Sir Charles Wood succeeds Sir James Graham as First Lord of the Admiralty. R.V. Smith succeeds Wood as President of the Board of Control
- July 1855 – Sir William Molesworth succeeds Russell as Colonial Secretary. Molesworth's successor as First Commissioner of Public Works is not in the Cabinet.
- November 1855 – Henry Labouchere succeeds Molesworth as Colonial Secretary
- December 1855 – The Duke of Argyll succeeds Lord Canning as Postmaster-General. Lord Harrowby succeeds Argyll as Lord Privy Seal. Harrowby's successor as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is not in the Cabinet
- 1857 – M.T. Baines, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, enters the Cabinet.
- February 1858 – Lord Clanricarde succeeds Harrowby as Lord Privy Seal.
List of Ministers
Members of the Cabinet are indicated by bold face.
References
- C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts 1830–1900
- Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition
Preceded by Aberdeen ministry |
Government of the United Kingdom 1855–1858 |
Succeeded by Second Derby–Disraeli ministry |
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