Arthur Balfour

The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848–19 March 1930) was a British statesman and the thirty-third Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Arthur James Balfour's Government, July 1902 - December 1905

• Arthur James Balfour - First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons
• Lord Halsbury - Lord Chancellor
• The Duke of Devonshire - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords
• Lord Londonderry - Lord Privy Seal and President of the Board of Education
• Aretas Akers-Douglas - Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Lord Lansdowne - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Joseph Chamberlain - Secretary of State for the Colonies
• William St John Brodrick - Secretary of State for War
• Lord George Hamilton - Secretary of State for India
• Lord Selborne - First Lord of the Admiralty
• Charles Thomson Ritchie - Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Gerald William Balfour - President of the Board of Trade
• Sir William Hood Walrond - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Lord Balfour of Burleigh - Secretary for Scotland
• George Wyndham - Chief Secretary for Ireland
• Walter Hume Long - President of the Local Government Board
• Robert William Hanbury - President of the Board of Agriculture
• Lord Ashbourne - Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• Lord Windsor - First Commissioner of Public Works
• Austen Chamberlain - Postmaster-General

Changes

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• May 1903 - Lord Onslow succeeds R.W. Hanbury at the Board of Agriculture.
• September-October 1903 - Lord Londonderry succeeds the Duke of Devonshire as Lord President, while remaining also President of the Board of Education. Lord Lansdowne succeeds Devonshire as Leader of the House of Lords, remaining also Foreign Secretary. Lord Salisbury succeeds Londonderry as Lord Privy Seal. Austen Chamberlain succeeds Ritchie at the Exchequer. Chamberlain's successor as Postmaster-General is not in the Cabinet. Alfred Lyttelton succeeds Joseph Chamberlain as Colonial Secretary. William St John Brodrick succeeds Lord George Hamilton as Secretary for India. Hugh Arnold-Forster succeeds Brodrick as Secretary for War. Andrew Graham-Murray succeeds Lord Balfour of Burleigh as Secretary for Scotland.
• March 1905 - Walter Hume Long succeeds George Wyndham as Irish Secretary. Gerald William Balfour succeeds Long at the Local Government Board. Lord Salisbury, remaining Lord Privy Seal, succeeds Balfour at the Board of Trade. Lord Cawdor succeeds Lord Selborne at the Admiralty. Ailwyn Fellowes succeeds Lord Onslow at the Board of Agriculture.