David Lloyd George

The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM , PC (January 17, 1863 – March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Lloyd George's war cabinet, December 1916–January 1919

• David Lloyd George - Prime Minister
• Lord Curzon - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords
• Andrew Bonar Law - Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
• Arthur Henderson - Minister without Portfolio
• Lord Milner - Minister without Portfolio

Changes

• May - August 1917 - In temporary absence of Arthur Henderson, George Barnes, Minister of Pensions acts as a member of the War Cabinet.
• June 1917 - Jan Smuts enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio
• July 1917 - Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio
• August 1917 - George Barnes succeeds Arthur Henderson (resigned) as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party member of the War Cabinet.
• January 1918 - Carson resigns and is not replaced
• April 1918 - Austen Chamberlain succeeds Lord Milner as Minister without Portfolio.
• January 1919 Law becomes Lord Privy Seal and is succeeded as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Chamberlain; both remaining in the War Cabinet. Smuts is succeeded by Sir Eric Geddes as Minister without Portfolio.

Some other members of Lloyd George's war Government, not in the cabinet

• Lord Finlay - Lord Chancellor
• Lord Crawford - Lord Privy Seal
• Sir George Cave - Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Arthur James Balfour - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Walter Hume Long - Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Lord Derby, and then (after April, 1918), Lord Milner - Secretary of State for War
• Austen Chamberlain (to 1917), and then Edwin Samuel Montagu - Secretary of State for India
• Sir Edward Carson, and then (from 1917) Sir Eric Geddes - First Lord of the Admiralty
• Sir Frederick Cawley (to 1918), and then Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Downham - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Sir Albert Stanley - President of the Board of Trade
• H.E. Duke and then Edward Shortt - Chief Secretary for Ireland
• William Hayes Fisher - President of the Local Government Board (to 1918)
• Sir Auckland Geddes - President of the Local Government Board (to 1919)
• Neville Chamberlain, and then (from 1917) Sir Auckland Geddes - Director of National Service