Liverpool_ministry

Liverpool ministry

Liverpool ministry

UK cabinet


This is a list of members of the government of the United Kingdom in office under the leadership of Lord Liverpool from 1812 to 1827. He was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by the Prince Regent after the assassination of Spencer Perceval.

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Cabinet

1812–1827

Changes

  • Late 1812 – Lord Camden leaves the Cabinet
  • September 1814 – William Wellesley-Pole (Lord Maryborough from 1821), the Master of the Mint, enters the Cabinet
  • February 1816 – George Canning succeeds Lord Buckinghamshire at the Board of Control
  • January 1818 – Frederick John Robinson, the President of the Board of Trade, enters the Cabinet
  • January 1819 – The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Mulgrave as Master-General of the Ordnance. Lord Mulgrave becomes minister without portfolio
  • 1820 – Lord Mulgrave leaves the cabinet
  • January 1821 – Charles Bathurst succeeds Canning as President of the Board of Control, remaining also at the Duchy of Lancaster
  • January 1822 – Robert Peel succeeds Lord Sidmouth as Home Secretary
  • February 1822 – Charles Williams-Wynn succeeds Charles Bathurst at the Board of Control. Bathurst remains at the Duchy of Lancaster and in the Cabinet
  • September 1822 – Following the suicide of Lord Londonderry, George Canning becomes Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons
  • January 1823 – Vansittart, elevated to the peerage as Lord Bexley, succeeds Charles Bathurst as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. F.J. Robinson succeeds Vansittart as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is succeeded at the Board of Trade by William Huskisson
  • 1823 – Lord Maryborough, the Master of the Mint, leaves the Cabinet. His successor in the office is not a Cabinet member

Full list of ministers

Portrait of Lord Liverpool by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1820
Portrait of Lord Castlereagh, 1809.
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, 1815.
Portrait of George Canning, 1822
Portrait of Frederick Robinson, c. 1824

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.

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Notes
  1. Created Earl of Eldon in July 1821.
  2. Succeeded as Marquess of Londonderry, 6 April 1821.
  3. Styled as Earl of Mount Charles after 1824.
  4. Became Sir John Osborn, Bt, in 1818.
  5. Created Baron Bexley 1 March 1823.
  6. Succeeded as Baron Downes, 3 March 1826.
  7. Created Baron Maryborough 17 July 1821.
  8. Created Marquess Camden in September 1812.

References

  • Chris Cook and John Stevenson, British Historical Facts 1760–1830
  • Joseph Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities
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1812–1827
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