Anthony Eden

The Right Honourable Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (June 12, 1897– January 14, 1977), British politician, was Foreign Secretary during World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1950s. He is remembered mainly for his role in the disastrous Suez Crisis of 1956. In a 2004 poll of 139 political science academics organised by MORI, Eden was voted the least successful British Prime Minister of the 20th Century.

The Eden Government

• Anthony Eden: Prime Minister
• Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
• Lord Salisbury: Lord President of the Council
• Harry Crookshank: Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons
• Rab Butler: Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Harold Macmillan: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Gwilym Lloyd George: Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Alan Lennox-Boyd: Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Lord Home: Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
• Peter Thorneycroft: President of the Board of Trade
• Lord Woolton: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Sir David Eccles: Minister of Education
• James Stuart: Secretary of State for Scotland
• Derick Heathcoat Amory: Minister of Agriculture
• Sir Walter Turner Monckton: Minister of Labour and National Service
• Selwyn Lloyd: Minister of Defence
• Duncan Sandys: Minister of Housing and Local Government
• Osbert Peake: Minister of Pensions and National Insurance

Changes

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• December 1955 - Rab Butler succeeds Harry Crookshank as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons. Harold Macmillan succeeds Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Selwyn Lloyd succeeds Macmillan as Foreign Secretary. Sir Walter Monckton succeeds Lloyd as Minister of Defence. Iain Macleod succeeds Monckton as Minister of Labour and National Service. Lord Selkirk succeeds Lord Woolton as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Minister of Public Works, Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, enters the Cabinet. The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance leaves the Cabinet upon Peake's retirement.
• October 1956: Sir Walter Monckton becomes Paymaster-General. Anthony Henry Head succeeds Monckton as Minister of Defence.