Liverpool ministry

"Liverpool government" redirects here. For the local government authority in England, see Liverpool City Council.

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool was invited by the Prince Regent to form a government on 8 June 1812.^[1] This is a list of members of the government of the United Kingdom in office under the leadership of Lord Liverpool from 1812 to 1827. He was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by the Prince Regent after the assassination of Spencer Perceval.

Liverpool ministry
1812–1827
Liverpool in 1823 by George Hayter
Date formed	8 June 1812 (1812-06-08)
Date dissolved	9 April 1827 (1827-04-09)
People and organisations
Monarch	George III (1812–1820) George IV (1820–1827)
Represented by	Prince Regent (1812–1820)
Prime Minister	Lord Liverpool
Member party	Tory Party
Status in legislature	Majority
Opposition party	Whig Party
Opposition leaders	George Ponsonby (1812–1818) George Tierney (1818–1821) Vacant (1821–1827) in the House of Commons Lord Grenville (1812–1817) Lord Grey (1817–1827) in the House of Lords
History
Elections	1812 general election 1818 general election 1820 general election 1826 general election
Legislature terms	5th UK Parliament 6th UK Parliament 7th UK Parliament 8th UK Parliament
Predecessor	Perceval ministry
Successor	Canning ministry

History

Main article: Premiership of Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

Cabinet

1812–1827

• Lord Liverpool – First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Lords
• Lord Eldon – Lord Chancellor
• Lord Harrowby – Lord President of the Council
• Lord Westmorland – Lord Privy Seal
• Lord Sidmouth – Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Lord Castlereagh (Lord Londonderry after 1821) – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Commons
• Lord Bathurst – Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
• Lord Melville – First Lord of the Admiralty
• Nicholas Vansittart – Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Lord Mulgrave – Master-General of the Ordnance
• Lord Buckinghamshire – President of the Board of Control
• Charles Bathurst – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Lord Camden – minister without portfolio

Changes

• Late 1812 – Lord Camden leaves the Cabinet
• September 1814 – William Wellesley-Pole (Lord Maryborough from 1821), the Master of the Mint, enters the Cabinet
• February 1816 – George Canning succeeds Lord Buckinghamshire at the Board of Control
• January 1818 – Frederick John Robinson, the President of the Board of Trade, enters the Cabinet
• January 1819 – The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Mulgrave as Master-General of the Ordnance. Lord Mulgrave becomes minister without portfolio
• 1820 – Lord Mulgrave leaves the cabinet
• January 1821 – Charles Bathurst succeeds Canning as President of the Board of Control, remaining also at the Duchy of Lancaster
• January 1822 – Robert Peel succeeds Lord Sidmouth as Home Secretary
• February 1822 – Charles Williams-Wynn succeeds Charles Bathurst at the Board of Control. Bathurst remains at the Duchy of Lancaster and in the Cabinet
• September 1822 – Following the suicide of Lord Londonderry, George Canning becomes Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons
• January 1823 – Vansittart, elevated to the peerage as Lord Bexley, succeeds Charles Bathurst as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. F.J. Robinson succeeds Vansittart as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is succeeded at the Board of Trade by William Huskisson
• 1823 – Lord Maryborough, the Master of the Mint, leaves the Cabinet. His successor in the office is not a Cabinet member

Full list of ministers

Portrait of Lord Liverpool by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1820

Portrait of Lord Castlereagh, 1809.

Duke of Wellington around the time he became Master-General of the Ordnance, 1820.

Portrait of George Canning, 1822

Portrait of Frederick Robinson, c. 1824

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.

Office	Name	Date
First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords	The Earl of Liverpool	8 June 1812 – 9 April 1827
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Nicholas Vansittart	9 June 1812
	F. J. Robinson	21 January 1823
Secretaries to the Treasury	Richard Wharton	Continued in office – 1814
	Charles Arbuthnot	Continued in office – 1823
	Stephen Rumbold Lushington	1814–1827
	John Charles Herries	1823–1827
Junior Lords of the Treasury	William Vesey-FitzGerald	16 June 1812 – 7 January 1817
	Berkeley Paget	16 June 1812 – 13 June 1826
	F. J. Robinson	16 June 1812 – 25 November 1813
	James Brogden	16 June 1812 – 20 December 1813
	Viscount Lowther	25 November 1813 – 30 April 1827
	Charles Grant	20 December 1813 – 25 March 1819
	John Maxwell-Barry	7 January 1817 – 3 May 1823
	William Odell	7 January 1817 – 25 March 1819
	Lord Granville Somerset	25 March 1819 – 30 April 1827
	Edmond Alexander Macnaghten	25 March 1819 – 30 April 1827
	Earl of Mount Charles	13 June 1826 – 30 April 1827
Lord Chancellor	The Lord Eldon[a]	Continued in office
Lord President of the Council	The Earl of Harrowby	11 June 1812
Lord Privy Seal	The Earl of Westmorland	Continued in office
Home Secretary	The Viscount Sidmouth	11 June 1812
	Robert Peel	17 January 1822
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	Henry Goulburn	Continued in office
	John Hiley Addington	August 1812
	Henry Clive	April 1818
	George Robert Dawson	January 1822
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Leader of the House of Commons	Viscount Castlereagh[b]	Continued in office
	George Canning	16 September 1822
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Edward Cooke	Continued in office
	Joseph Planta	25 July 1817
	The Earl of Clanwilliam	22 January 1822
	Lord Francis Conyngham[c]	January 1823 – January 1826
	The Lord Howard de Walden	July 1824 – April 1827
	The Marquess of Clanricarde	January 1826 – April 1827
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	The Earl Bathurst	11 June 1812
Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	Henry Bunbury	Continued in office – 1816
	Robert Peel	Continued in office – 1812
	Henry Goulburn	1812–1821
	Robert Wilmot Horton	1821
First Lord of the Admiralty	The Viscount Melville	Continued in office
First Secretary to the Admiralty	John Wilson Croker	Continued in office
Civil Lords of the Admiralty	F. J. Robinson	Continued in office – 5 October 1812
	Lord Walpole	Continued in office – 5 October 1812
	William Dundas	Continued in office – 23 August 1814
	Sir George Warrender	5 October 1812 – 8 February 1822
	John Osborn[d]	5 October 1812 – 16 February 1824
	The Marquess of Worcester	24 May 1816 – 15 March 1819
	Sir George Clerk	15 March 1819 – 2 May 1827
	Lord William Douglas	8 February – 23 March 1822 16 February 1824 – 2 May 1827
President of the Board of Trade	The Earl Bathurst	Continued in office
	The Earl of Clancarty	29 September 1812
	F. J. Robinson	24 January 1818
	William Huskisson	31 January 1823
Vice-President of the Board of Trade	George Rose	Continued in office
	F. J. Robinson	29 September 1812
	Thomas Wallace	24 January 1818
	Charles Grant	3 April 1823
President of the Board of Control	The Earl of Buckinghamshire	Continued in office
	George Canning	20 June 1816
	Charles Bragge Bathurst	16 January 1821
	Charles Williams-Wynn	8 February 1822
Secretary to the Board of Control	John Bruce	Continued in office
	Thomas Courtenay	20 August 1812
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Earl of Buckinghamshire	23 June 1812
	Charles Bathurst	23 August 1812
	Nicholas Vansittart[e]	13 February 1823
Master-General of the Ordnance	The Earl of Mulgrave	Continued in office
	The Duke of Wellington	1 January 1819
Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance	Sir Thomas Trigge	Continued in office – 11 January 1814
	Sir Hildebrand Oakes	9 March 1814 – 9 September 1822
	The Viscount Beresford	18 February 1823
	Sir George Murray	22 March 1824
	Sir William Henry Clinton	30 April 1825
Treasurer of the Ordnance	Thomas Alcock	Continued in office
	William Holmes	20 June 1818
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance	Robert Moorsom	Continued in office
	Sir Ulysses Burgh[f]	16 March 1820
Clerk of the Ordnance	Robert Plumer Ward	Continued in office
	Sir Henry Hardinge	29 April 1823
Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance	Thomas Thoroton	Continued in office
	Edmund Phipps	31 October 1812
Storekeeper of the Ordnance	Mark Singleton	Continued in office
Treasurer of the Navy	George Rose	Continued in office
	F. J. Robinson	12 February 1818
	William Huskisson	8 February 1823
Secretary at War	Viscount Palmerston	Continued in office
Master of the Mint	The Earl Bathurst	Continued in office
	The Earl of Clancarty	30 October 1812
	William Wellesley-Pole[g]	28 September 1814
	Thomas Wallace	9 October 1823
Paymaster of the Forces	Charles Long	Continued in office – 1826
	Lord Charles Henry Somerset	Continued in office – 1813
	F. J. Robinson	9 November 1813 – 1817
	William Vesey-FitzGerald	1826
Postmaster General	The Earl of Chichester	Continued in office – 1826
	The Earl of Sandwich	Continued in office – 1814
	The Earl of Clancarty	1814–1816
	The Marquess of Salisbury	1816–1823
	Lord Frederick Montagu	1826–1827
First Commissioner of Woods and Forests	The Lord Glenbervie	Continued in office
	William Huskisson	1814
	Charles Arbuthnot	1823
Minister without Portfolio	The Earl Camden[h]	June 1812 – December 1812
	The Earl of Mulgrave	January 1819 – May 1820
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	The Duke of Richmond	Continued in office
	The Earl Whitworth	June 1813
	The Earl Talbot	October 1817
	The Marquess Wellesley	December 1821
Chief Secretary for Ireland	William Wellesley-Pole	Continued in office
	Robert Peel	August 1812
	Charles Grant	August 1818
	Henry Goulburn	December 1821
Attorney General	Sir Thomas Plumer	26 June 1812
	Sir William Garrow	4 May 1813
	Sir Samuel Shepherd	7 May 1817
	Sir Robert Gifford	24 July 1819
	Sir John Singleton Copley	9 January 1824
	Sir Charles Wetherell	20 September 1826
Solicitor General	Sir William Garrow	26 June 1812
	Sir Robert Dallas	4 May 1813
	Sir Samuel Shepherd	22 December 1813
	Sir Robert Gifford	7 May 1817
	Sir John Singleton Copley	24 July 1819
	Sir Charles Wetherell	9 January 1824
	Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal	20 September 1826
Judge Advocate General	Charles Manners-Sutton	Continued in office
	Sir John Beckett	25 June 1817
Lord Advocate	Archibald Colquhoun	Continued in office
	Alexander Maconochie	1816
	Sir William Rae Bt	1819
Solicitor General for Scotland	David Monypenny	Continued in office
	Alexander Maconochie	1813
	James Wedderburn	1816
	John Hope	1822
Attorney General for Ireland	William Conyngham Plunket	1822
Solicitor General for Ireland	Charles Kendal Bushe	Continued in office
	Henry Joy	20 February 1822
Lord Steward of the Household	The Earl of Cholmondeley	Continued in office
	The Marquess Conyngham	11 December 1821
Treasurer of the Household	Viscount Jocelyn	Continued in office
	Lord Charles Bentinck	29 July 1812
	William Henry Fremantle	27 May 1826
Comptroller of the Household	Lord George Thynne	Continued in office
	Lord George Beresford	29 July 1812
Lord Chamberlain of the Household	The Marquess of Hertford	Continued in office
	The Duke of Montrose	14 December 1821
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	The Earl of Yarmouth	Continued in office
	Viscount Jocelyn	28 July 1812
	The Marquess of Graham	7 February 1821
Master of the Horse	The Duke of Montrose	Continued in office
	The Duke of Dorset	12 December 1821
Master of the Buckhounds	The Marquess Cornwallis	Continued in office
	The Lord Maryborough	22 August 1823
Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners	The Earl of Courtown	Continued in office
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	The Earl of Macclesfield	Continued in office

Notes

1. Created Earl of Eldon in July 1821.
2. Succeeded as Marquess of Londonderry, 6 April 1821.
3. Styled as Earl of Mount Charles after 1824.
4. Became Sir John Osborn, Bt, in 1818.
5. Created Baron Bexley 1 March 1823.
6. Succeeded as Baron Downes, 3 March 1826.
7. Created Baron Maryborough 17 July 1821.
8. Created Marquess Camden in September 1812.

References

1. "The reconstruction of Liverpool's ministry, 1822". www.historyhome.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2024.

• Chris Cook and John Stevenson, British Historical Facts 1760–1830
• Joseph Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities

Preceded by Perceval ministry	Government of the United Kingdom 1812–1827	Succeeded by Canning ministry