Herbert Henry Asquith

The Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC (12 September 1852–15 February 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

Second Government, May 1915 – December 1916

• H.H. Asquith - Prime Minister
• Lord Buckmaster - Lord Chancellor
• Lord Crewe - Lord President of the Council
• Lord Curzon - Lord Privy Seal
• Reginald McKenna - Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir John Allsebrook Simon - Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Sir Edward Grey - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Andrew Bonar Law - Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Lord Kitchener - Secretary of State for War
• Austen Chamberlain - Secretary of State for India
• Arthur James Balfour - First Lord of the Admiralty
• Winston Churchill - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Walter Runciman - President of the Board of Trade
• Thomas MacKinnon Wood - Secretary for Scotland
• Augustine Birrell - Chief Secretary for Ireland
• Walter Hume Long - President of the Local Government Board
• Lord Selborne - President of the Board of Agriculture
• Arthur Henderson - President of the Board of Education
• Lewis Vernon Harcourt - First Commissioner of Public Works
• David Lloyd George - Minister of Munitions
• Sir Edward Carson - Attorney-General
• Lord Robert Cecil - Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Lord Lansdowne - Minister without Portfolio

Changes

• October, 1915 - Sir Frederick Smith succeeds Sir Edward Carson as Attorney-General.
• November, 1915 - Edwin Stanley Montagu succeeds Churchill at the Duchy of Lancaster
• January, 1916 - Sir Herbert Samuel succeeds Sir John Simon as Home Secretary. Lord Robert Cecil becomes Minister of Blockade.
• June, 1916 -
• July, 1916 - On the death of Lord Kitchener, David Lloyd George succeeds him as Secretary for War. Edwin Samuel Montagu succeeds Lloyd George at the Ministry of Munitions. Thomas MacKinnon Wood succeeds Montagu at the Duchy of Lancaster. Harold John Tennant succeeds Wood as Scottish Secretary. Lord Crawford succeeds Lord Selborne at the Agriculture Board. Henry Edward Duke succeeds Augustine Birrell as Chief Secretary for Ireland.
• August, 1916 - Arthur Henderson becomes Paymaster General. Lord Crewe succeeds Arthur Henderson at the Education Board.
• October, 1916 - Sir Edward Carson resigns as Attorney General.