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Appendix: Selected ministerial posts in Conservative and Conservative-led governments, 1940-2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2022

Robert M. Page
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Period 1: The coalition (10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945) and national caretaker government (23 May 1945 to 26 July 1945) era

Prime Minister

Winston Churchill: 10 May 1940 to 26 July 1945

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Sir Kingsley Wood: 12 May 1940 to 21 September 1943

Sir John Anderson: 24 September 1943 to 26 July 1945

Education (Board of Education, 1940-44; Department of Education 1944-45)1

Hewald Ramsbottam: 3 April 1940 to 20 July 1941

R.A.Butler: 20 July 1941 to 3 August 1944

Richard Law: 3 August 1944 to 25 May 1945

Health

Malcolm MacDonald: (National Labour) 13 May 1940 to 8 February 1941

Ernest Brown: (National Liberal) 8 February 1941 to 11 November 1943

Henry Willink: 11 November 1943 to 26 July 1945

Social security

Ministry of Pensions

Sir Walter Womersley: 7 June 1939 to 26 July 1945

Ministry of Social/National Insurance

Sir William Jowitt: (Labour) 8 October 1944 to 23 May 1945

Leslie Hore-Belisha: (National Independent) 25 May 1945 to 26 July 1945

Period 2: From Churchill to Douglas Home (26 October 1951 to 16 October 1964)

Prime Minister

Winston Churchill: 26 October 1951 to 6 April 1955

Anthony Eden: 6 April 1955 to 10 January 1957

Harold Macmillan: 10 January 1957 to 19 October 1963

Alec Douglas-Home: 19 October 1963 to 16 October 1964

Chancellor of the Exchequer

R.A.Butler: 26 October 1951 to 20 December 1955

Harold Macmillan: 20 December 1955 to 13 January, 1957

Peter Thornycroft: 13 January 1957 to 6 January 1958

Derick Heathcoat-Amory: 6 January 1958 to 27 July 1960

Selwyn Lloyd: 27 July 1960 to 13 July 1962

Reginald Maudling: 13 July 1962 to16 October 1964

Education (Department of Education, 1951-64)

Florence Horsborugh: 2 November 1951 to 18 October 1954

David Eccles: 18 October 1954 to 13 January 1957

Lord Hailsham: 13 January 1957 to 17 September 1957

Geoffrey Lloyd: 17 September 1957 to 14 October 1959

David Eccles: 14 October, 1959 to 13 July 1962

Sir Edward Boyle: 13 July 1962 to 1 April 1964

Quintin Hogg: 1 April 1964 to 16 October 1964

Health

Harry Crookshank: 30 October 1951 to 7 May 1952

Iain Macleod: 7 May 1952 to 20 December 1955

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Clear Blue Water?
The Conservative Party and the Welfare State since 1940
 , pp. 151 - 156
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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