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 third cabinet, October 1951–April 1955

• Winston Churchill – Prime Minister and Minister of Defence
• Lord Simonds – Lord Chancellor
• Lord Woolton – Lord President of the Council
• Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury – Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords
• Rab Butler – Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe – Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Anthony Eden – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Oliver Lyttelton – Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Lord Ismay – Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
• James Stuart – Secretary of State for Scotland
• Peter Thorneycroft – President of the Board of Trade
• Lord Cherwell – Paymaster-General
• Sir Walter Monckton – Minister of Labour
• Harry Crookshank – Minister of Health and Leader of the House of Commons
• Harold Macmillan – Minister of Housing and Local Government
• Lord Leathers – Minister for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel, and Power

Changes

• March 1952: Lord Salisbury succeeds Lord Ismay as Commonwealth Relations Secretary. Salisbury remains also Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. Lord Alexander of Tunis succeeds Churchill as Minister of Defence.
• May 1952: Harry Crookshank succeeds Lord Salisbury as Lord Privy Seal, remaining Leader of the House of Commons. Salisbury remains Commonwealth Relations Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords. Crookshank's successor as Minister of Health is not in the Cabinet.
• November 1952: Lord Woolton becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Salisbury succeeds Lord Woolton as Lord President. Lord Swinton succeeds Lord Salisbury as Commonwealth Relations Secretary.
• September 1953: Florence Horsbrugh, the Minister of Education, Sir Thomas Dugdale, the Minister of Agriculture, and Gwilym Lloyd George, the Minister of Food, enter the cabinet. The Ministry for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel, and Power, is abolished, and Lord Leathers leaves the Cabinet.
• October 1953: Lord Cherwell resigns as Paymaster General. His successor is not in the Cabinet.
• July 1954: Alan Lennox-Boyd succeeds Oliver Lyttelton as Colonial Secretary. Derick Heathcoat Amory succeeds Sir Thomas Dugdale as Minister of Agriculture.
• October 1954: Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, now Lord Kilmuir, succeeds Lord Simonds as Lord Chancellor. Gwilym Lloyd George succeeds him as Home Secretary. The Food Ministry is merged into the Ministry of Agriculture. Sir David Eccles succeeds Florence Horsbrugh as Minister of Education. Harold Macmillan succeeds Lord Alexander of Tunis as Minister of Defence. Duncan Sandys succeeds Macmillan as Minister of Housing and Local Government. Osbert Peake, the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, enters the Cabinet.