List of Ministers
Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.
| Office | Name | Party | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons |
Neville Chamberlain | Conservative | 28 May 1937 – 3 September 1939 | |
| Lord Chancellor | The Viscount Hailsham | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| The Lord Maugham | 9 March 1938 | |||
| Lord President of the Council | The Viscount Halifax | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | also Leader of the House of Lords |
| The Viscount Hailsham | Conservative | 9 March 1938 | ||
| The Viscount Runciman of Doxford | Liberal National | 31 October 1938 | ||
| Lord Privy Seal | The Earl De La Warr | National Labour | 28 May 1937 | |
| Sir John Anderson | National | 31 October 1938 | ||
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | Sir John Simon | Liberal National | 28 May 1937 | |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | David Margesson | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | John Colville | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Euan Wallace | Conservative | 16 May 1938 | ||
| Harry Crookshank | Conservative | 21 April 1939 | ||
| Lords of the Treasury | James Stuart | Conservative | May 1937 – September 1939 | |
| Charles Kerr | Liberal National | 28 May 1937 – 4 April 1939 | ||
| Thomas Dugdale | Conservative | 28 May 1937 – September 1939 | ||
| Charles Waterhouse | Conservative | 28 May 1937 – 18 October 1937 | ||
| Ronald Cross | Conservative | 28 May 1937 – 18 October 1937 | ||
| Patrick Munro | Conservative | 18 October 1937 – September 1939 | ||
| Robert Grimston | Conservative | 18 October 1937 – 18 May 1938 | ||
| Stephen Furness | Liberal National | 20 May 1938 – September 1939 | ||
| Sir James Edmondson | Conservative | 4 April 1939 – September 1939 | ||
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Anthony Eden | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| The Viscount Halifax | Conservative | 21 February 1938 | also Leader of the House of Lords until 27 October 1938 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Viscount Cranborne | Conservative | May 1937 – 20 February 1938 | |
| The Earl of Plymouth | Conservative | May 1937 – 12 May 1939 | ||
| R. A. Butler | 25 February 1938 – September 1939 | |||
| Secretary of State for the Home Department | Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | Geoffrey Lloyd | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Osbert Peake | Conservative | 29 June 1939 (?) | ||
| First Lord of the Admiralty | Duff Cooper | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| The Earl Stanhope | Conservative | 27 October 1938 | also Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty | Geoffrey Shakespeare | Liberal National | 28 May 1937 | |
| Civil Lord of the Admiralty | John Llewellin | 28 May 1937 | ||
| Sir Austin Hudson, Bt | Conservative | 14 July 1939 | ||
| Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries | William Morrison | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith | 29 January 1939 | |||
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | The Earl of Feversham | Conservative | May 1937 | also Deputy Minister of Fisheries |
| Secretary of State for Air | The Viscount Swinton | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Sir Kingsley Wood | Conservative | 16 May 1938 | ||
| Under-Secretary of State for Air | Anthony Muirhead | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Harold Balfour | Conservative | 16 May 1938 | ||
| Secretary of State for the Colonies | Hon. William Ormsby-Gore | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Malcolm MacDonald | National Labour | 16 May 1938 | ||
| Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | 28 May 1937 | ||
| Minister for Coordination of Defence | Sir Thomas Inskip | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| The Lord Chatfield | 29 January 1939 | |||
| Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs | Malcolm MacDonald | National Labour | May 1937 | |
| Lord Stanley | Conservative | 16 May 1938 | ||
| Malcolm MacDonald | National Labour | 31 October 1938 | ||
| Sir Thomas Inskip | Conservative | 29 January 1939 | Viscount Caldecote | |
| Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs | Marquess of Hartington | Conservative | May 1937 | succeeded as Duke of Devonshire 6 May 1938 |
| President of the Board of Education | The Earl Stanhope | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | also Leader of the House of Lords from 21 February 1938 |
| The Earl De La Warr | National Labour | 27 October 1938 | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education | Kenneth Lindsay | National Labour | 28 May 1937 | |
| Minister of Health | Sir Kingsley Wood | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Walter Elliot | 16 May 1938 | |||
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health | Robert Bernays | Liberal National | 28 May 1937 | |
| Florence Horsbrugh | Conservative | 14 July 1939 | ||
| Secretary of State for India and Burma | The Marquess of Zetland | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for India | Lord Stanley | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Anthony Muirhead | Conservative | 16 May 1938 | ||
| Minister of Labour | Ernest Brown | Liberal National | May 1937 | |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour | R. A. Butler | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Alan Lennox-Boyd | Conservative | 25 February 1938 | ||
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | The Earl Winterton | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | Office in Cabinet from 11 March 1938 |
| William Morrison | Conservative | 29 January 1939 | ||
| Paymaster General | The Lord Hutchison of Montrose | Liberal National | May 1937 | |
| The Earl of Munster | Conservative | 2 June 1938 | ||
| The Earl Winterton | Conservative | 29 January 1939 | ||
| Minister for Pensions | Herwald Ramsbotham | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Sir Walter Womersley | Conservative | 7 June 1939 | ||
| Minister without Portfolio | Leslie Burgin | Liberal National | 21 April 1939 – 14 July 1939 | |
| Postmaster-General | George Tryon | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Assistant Postmaster-General | Sir Walter Womersley | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| William Mabane | Liberal | 7 June 1939 | ||
| Secretary of State for Scotland | Walter Elliot | May 1937 | ||
| John Colville | 16 May 1938 | |||
| Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | Henry Wedderburn | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Minister of Supply | Leslie Burgin | Liberal National | 14 July 1939 | |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply | John Llewellin | 14 July 1939 | ||
| President of the Board of Trade | Oliver Stanley | 28 May 1937 | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade | Euan Wallace | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Ronald Cross | Conservative | 16 May 1938 | ||
| Secretary for Overseas Trade | Robert Hudson | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Secretary for Mines | Harry Crookshank | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Geoffrey Lloyd | Conservative | 21 April 1939 | ||
| Minister of Transport | Leslie Burgin | Liberal National | 28 May 1937 | |
| Euan Wallace | Conservative | 21 April 1939 | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport | Sir Austin Hudson, Bt | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Robert Bernays | Liberal National | 14 July 1939 | ||
| Secretary of State for War | Leslie Hore-Belisha | Liberal National | 28 May 1937 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for War | The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| The Earl of Munster | Conservative | 29 January 1939 | ||
| Financial Secretary to the War Office | Sir Victor Warrender, Bt | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| First Commissioner of Works | Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Herwald Ramsbotham | Conservative | 7 June 1939 | ||
| Attorney General | Sir Donald Somervell | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Solicitor General | Sir Terence O'Connor | Conservative | May 1937 | |
| Lord Advocate | Thomas Cooper | May 1937 | ||
| Solicitor General for Scotland | James Reid | May 1937 | ||
| Treasurer of the Household | Sir Lambert Ward | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Hon. Arthur Hope | Conservative | 18 October 1937 | ||
| Charles Waterhouse | Conservative | 4 April 1939 | ||
| Comptroller of the Household | Sir George Davies | 28 May 1937 | ||
| Charles Waterhouse | Conservative | 18 October 1937 | ||
| Charles Kerr | Liberal National | 4 April 1939 | ||
| Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | Hon. Arthur Hope | Conservative | 28 May 1937 | |
| Ronald Cross | Conservative | 18 October 1937 | ||
| Robert Grimston | Conservative | 4 April 1939 | ||
| Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms | The Earl of Lucan | May 1937 | ||
| Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | The Lord Templemore | May 1937 | ||
| Lords in Waiting | The Viscount Gage | May 1937 – 11 April 1939 | ||
| The Earl of Munster | Conservative | May 1937 – 2 June 1938 | ||
| The Earl Erne | May 1937 – 25 July 1939 | |||
| The Earl Fortescue | 26 August 1937 – September 1939 | |||
| The Earl of Birkenhead | 12 July 1938 – September 1939 | |||
| The Viscount Bridport | 11 April 1939 – September 1939 | |||
| The Lord Ebury | 25 July 1939 – September 1939 |
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