Winston Churchill

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. At various times a soldier, journalist, author and politician, Churchill is generally regarded as one of the most important leaders in British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in literature.

Winston Churchill's caretaker cabinet, May–July 1945

• Winston Churchill – Prime Minister and Minister of Defence
• Lord Woolton – Lord President of the Council
• Lord Beaverbrook – Lord Privy Seal
• Sir John Anderson – Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir Donald Bradley Somervell – Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Anthony Eden – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Commons
• Oliver Stanley – Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Lord Cranborne – Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and Leader of the House of Lords
• Sir P.J. Grigg – Secretary of State for War
• Leo Amery – Secretary of State for India and Burma
• Lord Rosebery – Secretary of State for Scotland
• Harold Macmillan – Secretary of State for Air
• Brendan Bracken – First Lord of the Admiralty
• Oliver Lyttelton – President of the Board of Trade and Minister of Production
• Robert Hudson – Minister of Agriculture
• Rab Butler – Minister of Labour