The Cabinet

OFFICE	NAME	TERM
First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords	The Earl of Derby	February 1858–June 1859
Lord Chancellor	The Lord Chelmsford	February 1858–June 1859
Lord President of the Council	The Marquess of Salisbury	February 1858–June 1859
Lord Privy Seal	The Earl of Hardwicke	February 1858–June 1859
Home Secretary	Spencer H. Walpole	February 1858–March 1859
	Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt	March–June 1859
Foreign Secretary	The Earl of Malmesbury	February 1858–June 1859
Secretary of State for the Colonies	Lord Stanley	February–June 1858
	Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton	June 1858–June 1859
Secretary of State for War	General Jonathan Peel	February 1858–June 1859
Secretary of State for India	Lord Stanley	September 1858–June 1859
First Lord of the Admiralty	Sir John Pakington, Bt	February 1858–June 1859
President of the Board of Control	The Earl of Ellenborough	February–May 1858
	Lord Stanley	June–September 1858
	replaced by the India Office
Chancellor of the Exchequer Leader of the House of Commons	Benjamin Disraeli	February 1858–June 1859
President of the Board of Trade	J.W. Henley	February 1858–March 1859
	The Earl of Donoughmore	March–June 1859
First Commissioner of Works	The Lord John Manners	February 1858–June 1859

• See here for a more detailed list, including those not in the Cabinet.

Changes

• May 1858: Lord Ellenborough resigns as President of the Board of Control.
• June 1858: Lord Stanley becomes President of the Board of Control. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton enters the cabinet and replaces Stanley as Colonial Secretary.
• September 1858: The Board of Control is abolished and replaced by the India Office. Stanley becomes Secretary of State for India.
• March 1859: Spencer Walpole and J.W. Henley resign over the proposed Reform Bill, and are replaced by Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt and Lord Donoughmore, respectively.

Preceded by: First Palmerston Ministry

British ministries 1858–1859

Succeeded by: Second Palmerston Ministry